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The Midsumma Festival 2021 Program is here! 🎉
Hi friend,
Every year, Midsumma Festival strives to be a space where audiences can come together, build connections and celebrate. A space where we can see and experience the wonderful and diverse stories of our LGBTQIA+ communities. This year, after being apart for so long, more than ever we are feeling the significance of community connection.
It's with great pride that we're officially present to you the Midsumma Festival 2021 Program.
After a wonderful Program Launch hosted at the Malthouse Outdoor Stage last night, we've released our 17-day program for Midsumma Festival 2021, which features an explosion of LGBTQIA+ excellence across a wide variety of art forms, performance styles and event types.
Although Midsumma Festival 2021 might look a bit different this year, rest assured that we're dedicated as always to bring you an exciting, diverse and safe festival that celebrates the resilience and creativity of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Please enjoy looking through the fantastic Midsumma Festival 2021 Program and we'll see you soon.
Stay safe,
Karen
Bryant,
CEO, Midsumma
Header image: Midsumma Festival 2021 Artwork designed by XR Artist Marc-O-Matic.
Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl tickets available now!
We've just released the first round of free tickets for Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl.
Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl will host a soirée of FREE queer live entertainment across the two nights, in the second week of the 17-day festival. Hosted at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday 30 April and Saturday 1 May, this event will celebrate diverse journeys and communities through a spectacular line-up of live performance, comedy and music.
The concert will also be live-streamed from the Midsumma Festival Facebook page, so you can soak up the queer excellence no matter where you are.
We will release a second round of tickets on 9 April!
Tickets are FREE but strictly limited, so make sure you grab yours now.
Your Midsumma Presents Events for 2021
Midsumma Presents is Midsumma's producing arm of the festival, where we collaborate with outstanding artists and cultural institutions from Victoria and around the world. It's intersectional, it's vibrant and it brings people together.
PRISM, part of the Midsumma Presents series, is this year's focused highlight - designed especially for queer families.
Image: Miss First Nations, Australia’s only national competition for First Nations drag entertainers. Malthouse Outdoor Stage, 4-7 May. Tickets here.
Discover Midsumma Presents Events
Bent
Created as a response to the ongoing political debate on LGBTQIA+ lives, ‘Bent’ is a stirring exploration of what it means to be queer in today’s world.
19-22 April, Theatre Works
Love You Bitch
Whip-smart underachievers side-eyeing their late twenties, their friendship is fuelled by pop music, gay meme accounts and healthy cynicism.
24-28 April, Theatre Works
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Join Queen Jesus for a queer ritual in which bread is shared, wine is drunk, and stories are reimagined by a transgender Jesus.
29 April - 8 May, Theatre Works
Drag Storytime - Online Series
A comedy TV show sure to make little and big kids giggle - celebrating individuality, rainbow families and reflecting the ever-changing performativity of gender.
19 April - 5 May, free digital event
This is Grayson
This is Grayson, the story of a little girl who lives between worlds. She wants to show you who she meets and what she sees. She wants you to know what it’s like to live in the in-between. An immersive performance.
20 - 24 April, The Substation
Disco Instamatic
You’re invited to step inside an innovative, glittering and glamorous reimagining of a music video. Disco Instamatic is a large-scale, hyper-colour immersive experience.
29 April - 1 May, Abbotsford Convent
Want discounted tickets?
If you've got your sights already set on a few events, have a look through the shows that are offering a 15% earlybird discount. There is also a three-show package available with 10% discount so you can squeeze as much queer excellence into 17 days as possible.
Parties, social events and galas galore
If you're itching for a dance, the Midsumma Festival 2021 Program has a whole section for parties and social events.
Don't miss out on Blankë Pop, a neon caba-rave day party for the freaks, the geeks, the misfits and the queers. Happening 2 May.
More program highlights
Richmond Lawn Bowls
Celebrating Pride in Sport! The Richmond Union Bowling Club (RUBC) is partnering with Pride Cup and several local lawn bowls clubs to put together a day of bowls, food, and fun!
RUBC welcomes bowlers and non bowlers of all ages to the club so this will be a family friendly event. The day will consist of exhibition matches, a trophy presentation and a sausage with all proceeds going to an LGBTQIA+ charity.
2 May, Richmond Union Bowling Club, free entry
Low Brows and High Hopes
An online exhibition, zine and outdoor projection by artist Willow Franklin and poet Zoe Kingsley, in collaboration with Queer in Kingston and Connect, two social support service groups for LGBTQIA+ young people living in Kingston.
Over a series of workshops, the artists and young people have come together to explore the idea of ‘lowbrow art’, inspired by key social and pop-culture movements in visual arts and literature.
21 April - 29 May, online digital event 24 hrs
19 April - 5 May 2021
Midsumma Pride March - 23 May 2021
Midsumma Festival Office
Ground Level
77 Southbank Blvd
Southbank VIC 3006
Thank you for reading. You have received this eNews as you have connected with Midsumma Festival in the past and we hope to see you again in the future.
