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MEMBER SIGNUPBorn from the 2018 Documentary Always Amazing, Australian Joel Ozborn's new show The Madman & Me is a comedic personal account of his relationship with genre defying and world- renowned comedy magician, The Amazing Johnathan. It is an explosive exploration of an utterly improbable friendship, and some highly outrageous comedy. The Madman & Me promises a marriage of narrative, humour and heart, while compounding a personal recount of Ozborn's audacious exploits.
12 zodiac animals are depicted in a collaboration between ten Japanese artists, 1 german and 1 italian artist. Each artist has chosen one of the Jyunishi animals to depict in their chosen medium (acrylic on canvas or paper, watercolour, digital art, marker pen etc.).
Kitty Flanagan and Glenn Robbins take to the stage to discuss Kitty's best-selling book, 488 Rules for Life. Appearing in a pair of comfortable armchairs, the duo will humorously dissect the acerbic reference book, creating an on-stage book club, where the audience don't actually need to read the book. The show will address the dos and don'ts of modern day-to-day living, and the habits that disrupt the social equilibrium - with rules for language, food, dating, travel and more.
Award-winning and boundary obliterating comedy show, SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE returns to Australia to present an intoxicated interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The play will be a traditional depiction of Hamlet, with one genuinely inebriated cast member, introduced to challenge the other actors to improvise and incorporate their drunken theatrics. With a different drunken actor for each show, required to start drinking four hours beforehand, Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare promises a unique, one-off experience for audiences.
Simon Taylor is bringing his new show Simon Taylor is a Super Funny Boy to the Australian festival circuit. Simon Taylor is a Super Funny Boy voices the struggles of his generation, as he tried to work out where he fits in a rapidly changing world. Aren't we all?
Award winning comedian Steph Tisdell (The Project, ABC, Triple J) is touring the Australian festival circuit with her brand new show Baby Beryl. Have you ever met a baby named Beryl in the last decade? Because Steph sure hasn't! Names come in and out of fashion and Steph thinks that's pretty weird. Would your life be different if you had a nickname? Even naming structures vary from country to country. So, really, what's in a name?! Steph reckons we should find out. And that's why you're invited to come up on stage for an interview in this interactive and surreal show where stand-up meets chat show!
With a broadly appealing and charmingly observational style, Tahir embodies what it is to be an Australian. Of Turkish decent, his comedy celebrates the idiosyncratic quirks of living in a multicultural society, as well as the commonalities that bond us all together.
NOTE: We have had to cancel our upcoming event "ADC Makers Market" due to the new health recommendations relating to COVID19.
An Absurdist Cabaret Show *Melbourne Premiere*
Following a highly successful first season that saw D2 Productions donate a staggering $8.000 to Dementia Australia, they are delighted to present the musical, Tell Me on a Sunday' as the first production of their 2020 season.
Gelareh Pour's Garden will feature an ensemble of talented musicians performing unique Iranian-Australian music at the historic Kew Court House on Saturday 21 March. Gelareh and her band will perform a contemporary blend of both old and new music for a night of blissfully diverse sounds.
One of Australia's leading Latin music bands, Quarter Street will take audiences at Hawthorn Arts Centre back to the heart of classic salsa on Friday 3 April.
Fresh from the state finals of RAW Comedy, Melbourne's favourite gay comedy power couple, Colwyn Buckland and Filip Lescaut are back with the third instalment of their sketch extravaganza, Woah, Alyssa! 3, premiering as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Woah, Alyssa! 2 was the smash hit of MICF 2019, and this year Col and Fil have taken their sketch game to a new level, working with director Mark Bonanno (of award winning comedy collective Aunty Donna) to fine tune their funnies.
Breaking down long-established boundaries, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion exhibition is set to arrive at Bunjil Place Gallery from 21 March “ 7 June as part of the PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography. Travelling from New York's Aperture Foundation and curated by Antwaun Sargent, the exhibition presents fifteen artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images challenge the idea that blackness is homogenous, with works serving as a form of visual activism.
We are proud to announce the exhibitors of the 6th Murwillumbah Arts Trail, MAT20. Ninety artists, creatives and collectives will present their works and engage with the public at various venues across Murwillumbah, 1-3 May 2020.
Breaking down long-established boundaries, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion exhibition is set to arrive at Bunjil Place Gallery from 21 March “ 7 June as part of the PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography. Travelling from New York's Aperture Foundation and curated by Antwaun Sargent, the exhibition presents fifteen artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images challenge the idea that blackness is homogenous, with works serving as a form of visual activism.
After internationally touring their award-winning show TOUPÉ, Australia's queens of character comedy return to Melbourne as three blokes with a dream. Daryl, Vinnie and Berrick are self-proclaimed thespians with mullets and mummy issues.
When does art begin? Is it a significant event or series of events that changes the course of one's life journey? For Stephen Mills, creativity really began for him in 2006 after a major life jolt from a motor vehicle accident [MVA]. A fractured vertebrae from the impact was the direct result to his body, but an artist was born at this pivotal time. Unplanned occurrences can have unexpected results, and for Stephen, the ebb and flow of life has been artistically documented. Stephen's upcoming exhibition is titled OUTPOURING.
You're invited to Jim and Barb's golden wedding anniversary! After 50 years of marriage these Baby Boomers from Balwyn annoy one another so much they literally want to kill each other. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg is on the TV telling them that the world is on fire and it's all their fault. This dissent into the disappointing abyss of toenail cuttings, stray hairs, sleep apnoea and unfulfilled dreams is layered with precision timing, nonsensical absurdity and deadpan delivery. Multi-award-winning creators of Die Roten Punkte, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are back with a brand-new murderously funny physical farce.
At the end of 2019, much of Australia's east coast (NSW and Victoria) and the Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island (SA) went up in flames. The Black Summer collapsed the tyranny of distance: the far from here became intimate as smoke crawled into every set of lungs, near or far, as particulate-matter, particles that are small enough to enter and damage human lung tissue. For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. Climate emergency is now a thing that envelopes and entraps us all.
Actor and Activist Janie Gibson began rehearsals for her Adelaide Fringe debut Voices Of Joan, whilst locked in a prison cell in Collinsville Queensland. Janie staged a theatrical blockade last Friday to protest the Adani Carmichael coal mine. Dressed as a mermaid, Gibson chained herself to a cattle grid to stop work on the mine and send a message to Adani and the Australian government that this mine is a carbon bomb that will accelerate catastrophic climate change. Her placard read: Mythical Creatures: Mermaids & Honest Coal Barons. Be it a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, Janie's new theatre work Voices Of Joan calls on the courage of rebel icon Joan of Arc to aid us in these dark times.
Known for his incredible ability to deal with hot topics in a hilarious and slightly offensive way, Akmal promises this year to deliver a show that is punctual and jam-packed with words...some of which he will be using for the first time. @akmalsaleh #akmalsaleh @OfficialAkmal #OfficialAkmal
An Australian comedic favourite, no stranger to stages down under and an all-round likeable rogue, Jimeoin effortlessly delivers his idiosyncratic observations on everyday suburban life with his trademark devil-may-care style and humorous ramblings in his new show... Ramble On! @jimeoin #jimeoin
Insightful and brutally honest, stand-up comedian Lawrence Mooney returns to the stage in 2020 for his new show, Beauty. Emerging from his guise of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Beauty will be a veracious culmination of Lawrence's comedic brilliance.
Manchester born and proud Australian comic, Nurse Georgie Carroll is set to return to the stage in 2020 for her show, Off the Charts. Drawing humour from her unique role as mother, wife, comedian and nurse, Georgie's combination of nationalities, home life and hospital has provided a 24/7 training ground that has nurtured her naturally funny bones. #NurseGeorgieCarroll @NurseGeorgieCarroll
Randomist cult comedian Ross Noble is set to return to the stage in 2020 for his new show Humournoid. The show will visit 27 regional and metropolitan locations throughout Australia, while promising a truly unique stand-up experience. @realrossnoble #realrossnoble
Sydney's biggest annual comedy festival returns to take over the city from April 20 to May 17. @sydneycomedyfestival @Syd_Comedy_Fest #sydneycomedyfestival
Opening 27 March 6-8pm. Exhibiting in the PROJECT SPACE, Altar'd Lament examines migration, diaspora culture and history. It is produced by Masonik, a multi-disciplinary art collective, and features live music, video projection, and spoken-word performance alongside an immersive art installation.
A solo exhibition by Ann Thomson, one of Australia's iconic female artists is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane from March 25th. Ann Thomson's new exhibition draws from a multitude of residencies and painting expeditions around the world. Brisbane is where I grew up and where my inspiration and influences began, says Thomson My painting has always moved between representation and abstraction which I continue to explore today. @mitchellfineartgallery #artexhibition #brisbaneartgallery #abstractart #contemporaryart
Justin Miller Art have announced the first Australian Exhibition by, international fine art photographer Matt Draper with the exhibition Art Science opening March 20th as part of the Ocean Lovers Festival. Drapers incredible images are acquired from hundreds of hours free diving with magnificent creatures from the ocean and are rarely exhibited to the public as private collections attain his work often before public display. In his first exhibition on home soil, after achieving notoriety throughout the United States, Draper, with the Ocean Lovers Festival will bring Californian Ocean Alliance pioneering scientist Dr. Ari Freidlaender to Australia to deliver talks. Donations from the exhibition proceeds will support Antarctic whale research.
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