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Welcome to WEEK 1 Midsumma Festival 2021
Hi friend,
We're in Week 1 of Midsumma Festival 2021 - can you believe it?! If you've attended any events, we hope you're already having a ball. If you haven't yet, lucky we're in early days! There's still plenty of time to grab tickets to all of the fantastic LGBTQIA+ events we've got on until 5 May. Check out some of the highlights coming up this week in this email, or peruse our whole program here!
Happy Midsumma Festival 😎✨🌈
Photo: Rainbow Families Cabaret, 1 May, Sidney Myer Music Bowl
What's on this week at Midsumma Festival
The Will To Be
An award-winning solo show exploring homosexuality in 1960s Australia, laced with the words of Shakespeare.
The Will To Be is an exploration of Australia’s queer history, societal shame, and a defiant cry to speak truth to power.
19 - 23 April, La Mama Courthouse. Tickets from $20
Moist
An adults only circus 💦 This racy and hilarious physical theatre for adults, is sopping wet as it takes you deep into our neon fuelled dystopia. Where we hunt for a glass of water in a world where the rich splash about and the working class toil in the soil. It’s comedy circus, it’s queer, it's surprising, it celebrates a diverse range of thirst traps.
20 April - 1 May, Mission to Seafarers. Tickets from $20
Dolly Diamond - Star for a Night
The incomparable Dolly Diamond is back!
She’ll be rescuing contestants from their mundane lives, transforming them into their idols and making them stars for a night. Which stars will be unveiled? And who will win?
21 - 24 April, Chapel off Chapel. Tickets from $32.50
Free Art Exhibitions at Midsumma Festival
We have plenty of exciting art exhibitions happening over the course of Midsumma Festival 2021. So grab a wine or a tea, put on your best arty outfit and get ready to view some seriously great, seriously queer art. The best thing is, most are entirely free!
🎨 Creating Community in Melbourne’s West, 19 April - 14 May, Laverton Community Hub
🎨 Memory Lane, 19 April - 5 May, alongside Melbourne City Baths
🎨 Ross Watson Exhibition, 24 May - 9 April, Ross Watson Gallery
🎨 Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award, 28 April - 8 May, No Vacancy Gallery
🎨 Fluid, 18 March - 25 April, Wyndham Art Gallery
🎨 PINK 2021, 14 - 30 April, Tacit Art
🎨 On Screen, In The Flesh, 21 April - 1 May, Trocadero Artspace
Pictured: Displays of Affection, 28 April - 2 May, Temperance Hall
Celebrate queer women in music! Goddess Grooves showcases some of our community’s finest singer/songwriter musicians in one evening of scintillating entertainment. Goddesses of Jazz will be a jazzy, sultry celebration of powerful female talent.
29 April & 2 May, Chapel off Chapel. Tickets from $25
The Pier Festival
Tickets are selling fast to The Pier Festival - don't miss out! The ultimate Queer Women's Music Festival. Immerse yourself in the festival vibes and enjoy market stalls, drinks & food trucks, community group activations, roving entertainment, and much, much more.
24 April, Seaworks. Tickets from $27
More program highlights on this week
Duets with a Shapeshifter
A drag fusion project by award winning choreographer James Welsby (Valerie Hex). Lush landscapes, breath-taking costumes, intricate choreography, and striking digital effects in a 10-minute video. Join the premiere 23 April, 8pm to see the film and hear about the process - register free HERE.
10 April - 5 May, Bowery Theatre. Free entry
Electric Fence - The Gathering
Watch the film, then contribute your own experiences to become part of the artwork. Electric Fence is a thought-provoking and confrontational piece. It encourages viewers to examine the perceptions and challenges that impact us all in modern life, and compels us to turn to face them.
19 April - 5 May, Digital project, free to watch and contribute.
Shopping and F*cking
Drugs, sex and microwave meals. With black humour and bleak philosophy, the play shows the lives of disconnected youth reduced to transactions by a dysfunctional consumerist society. Mark Ravenhill's bold tragi-comedy.
20 - 25 April, The MC Showroom. Tickets from $35
Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide Exhibition
Immigration Museum’s new exhibition Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide celebrates pivotal coming-of-age moments through the real-life stories from 72 contributors. The exhibition will be open 19 April - 5 May, entry from $10.
Join us at one of these special events, which includes free entry to the exhibit!
Becoming Us talk with Nevo Zisin, Adolfo Aranjuez, Frances Cannon + Jax Jacki Brown, 24 April, 3:15pm. $5 entry or free to stream from home.
Story in Motion Workshop with Adolfo Aranjuez, 24 April 10:30am, free to stream from home, bookings required!
Self-portrait Workshop with Frances Cannon, 24 April 1pm, $5 tickets
Yvette Turnbull creates beautiful designs to help support Midsumma Futures
To celebrate Midsumma Festival and the release of Stomping Ground’s limited edition PRIDElweiss beer, Stomping Ground has teamed up with Midsumma Futures artist, Yvette Turnbull, to create a range of merchandise as a visual representation of her time in the Midsumma Futures program. All profits from the sales of the merchandise will be donated back to Midsumma Futures.
Taking colour cues from the rainbow PRIDElweiss can, Yvette’s design represents a beautiful blossoming flower to signify the natural growth and personal development gained throughout the Futures program. Yvette’s design features across a limited edition can cosy and tote bag, available to purchase now for Midsumma Festival. Find out more.
19 April - 5 May 2021
Midsumma Pride March - 23 May 2021
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