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The Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl line-up is HERE!
Celebrating diverse journeys and communities, Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl will host a soirée of FREE queer live entertainment and a spectacular line-up of live performance, comedy and music at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Fri 30 April and Sat 1 May.
Just take a look at our incredible line-up!
HOSTS
FEATURED ARTISTS
Midsumma Festival gems to check out
That Which Was Once Familiar
TWOFF investigates how culture inscribes gender and sexuality onto us. It engages choreography and sculpture to ascribe agency to performing bodies by rebelling against the way society often objectifies women.
28 April - 1 May, Dancehouse - Sylvia Staehli Theatre
The Breathwork Sessions
A musical journey through conscious connected breath. Come and discover this natural remedy for disconnection and imbalance, while expanding to experience a renewed sense of clarity, connection and wellbeing.
20 -24 April, Mission to Seafarers
Take It From Me: Archer Launch Edition
The much-loved sex and relationships advice series, Take It From Me, is back – and badder than ever, gleefully tossing up handfuls of laughter, love and stardust. Join us to celebrate queerness and launch the new edition of Archer Magazine: the Friendship Issue.
24 April, Malthouse Outdoor Stage
Midsumma Festival Hub: Chapel Off Chapel
For over 21 years Chapel Off Chapel has established itself as an iconic Australian live theatre and music venue. Consisting of three performance spaces and Melbourne’s most welcoming foyer. Come and experience Midsumma Festival in all its glory – live, intimate and iconic.
DOLLY DIAMOND'S STAR FOR A NIGHT
Dolly Diamond is making dreams come true this Midsumma Festival! She’ll be rescuing contestants from their mundane lives, transforming them into their idols and making them stars for a night!
21 - 24 April, tickets from $32.90 available here.
GODDESS GROOVES @ CHAPEL PRESENTS LOVE REWIND
A showcase and a celebration of some of our community’s finest singer/songwriter musicians brought together in one evening of scintillating musical entertainment.
29 April, tickets from $25 available here.
GODDESSES OF JAZZ @ CHAPEL OFF CHAPEL
Join talented local performers Maude Davey and Ruth Katerelos as they again join forces, and take over Chapel off Chapel for one glorious Sunday, and two performances of their Goddesses of Jazz Cabaret. 2 May, tickets from $30 available here.
SCOUNDRELS: A BOYLESQUE MUSICAL
‘Scoundrels’ is a boylesque revue that delves into a world of love, jealousy, betrayal, lust and infidelity - all those deadly sins that we hold near and dear to our hearts. 29 April - 1 May, tickets from $36 available here.
Come to the Cabaret!
This year's program is jam-packed with brilliant cabaret. If you're looking for an evening of intimacy with LGBTIQA+ icons, we've got All out of Pride, the kinky To Sir With Glove and People of Cabaret, a kaleidoscopic explosion of diversity.
Photo: After Dark, 1-3 May, Chasers
Sporty social events
For all the sporty folks in our communities, we've got a few events at Midsumma Festival just for you! We've got two events from The Nomads Outdoor Group, an all-ages day at Richmond Lawn Bowls and Serve It, Smash It, Love It, a free Badminton intro course!
Visual Art Exhibitions at Midsumma Festival
If you're hoping to see some visual art this Midsumma Festival, you're in luck! We have plenty of exciting art exhibitions happening over the course of the festival. So grab a wine or a tea, put on your best arty outfit and get ready to view some seriously great, seriously queer art.
Check out PINK 2021 - a group exhibition celebrating bodies, objects and urges at Tacit Art Gallery. There's Realness, which will be queering the digital photographic medium at Bunjil Place. You could see Cleave, a video artwork that question issues of agency, pleasure and autonomy at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Or even Contemporary AF, exploring queer dreams and desires at Mission to Seafarers.
The best thing is that most of these exhibitions are completely free! Check them out here.
Photo: Clitopatra, O UT Group Exhibition, 22 April - 9 May, Brunswick Street Gallery.
More program highlights
Sam I Am
Sam is your typical deaf gay millennial.
Sam I Am explores the experiences, memories, and unknowns that a boy from the inner Western suburbs of Sydney must learn to embrace as he accepts and defines his identity.
Written and performed by Sam Martin, one of our wonderful Midsumma Pathways participants.
20 - 22 April, La Mama Courthouse
F*ck Fabulous
This is a Protest Party!
Serving post-punk, anti-glamour realness, F*ck Fabulous is a radical, multi-artform, variety show with it’s tongue firmly planted in it’s cheeks.
Bringing together fierce queers, femmes and rebels in a show that celebrates female-masculinity, rejoices in gender-queer visibility and celebrates femme identities in diverse bodies.
20 April - 2 May, Arts Centre Melbourne
19 April - 5 May 2021
Midsumma Pride March - 23 May 2021
Midsumma Festival Office
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77 Southbank Blvd
Southbank VIC 3006
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