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23 JAN – 13 FEB 2022
midsumma.org.au LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural festival
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Welcome Summer in Melbourne wouldn’t be the same
without the Midsumma Festival bringing the city
As is tradition, the festival will kick off with the
famous Midsumma Carnival at Alexandra Gardens
to life with pride, creativity and cheer. followed by three weeks of queer arts and vivid
cultural festivities.
Midsumma is about celebrating LGBTQIA+
communities, embracing diversity and difference, and Keep an eye out for must see events including
connecting us through artistic expression and culture. readings from shortlisted plays as part of the
national LGBTQIA+ playwright competition and the
The Victorian Government is proud once again to
finalist exhibition for the Midsumma and Australia
partner with Midsumma in 2022 as it celebrates its
Post Award.
34th birthday.
Congratulations to the Midsumma team, and all
In this milestone year, the festival will also play
the artists and volunteers involved, on another
About Midsumma Judy Small AM The Hon Danny an important part in reactivating our vibrant city,
fabulous and inclusive program.
bringing us back together and reconnecting us
Chair of Management Board Pearson MP with the creative experiences we love. Here’s to a happy Midsumma ahead.
Midsumma Festival is Australia’s premier queer arts
Midsumma Festival Minister for Creative Industries
and cultural festival, bringing together a diverse mix of
LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, communities and audiences. On behalf of the Board of Midsumma Festival Inc –
welcome back to Midsumma in mid-summer!
Midsumma Festival expands over 22-days of summer,
with an explosion of queer events that highlight hidden We were very lucky with our 2020 festival, which was Every year the City of Melbourne is proud to Midsumma Festival attracts record crowds of up
and mainstream LGBTQIA+ culture. The Midsumma completed just before COVID-19 exploded around the support the Midsumma Festival, a joyful celebration to 280,000, making it one of Victoria’s largest
Festival program shares with you the lived experiences world, and in 2021, our amazing CEO and her indefatigable of our city’s talent and diversity. Events such as festivals. Importantly, Midsumma’s spirit of
of those voices on the margins, the importance of queer team were able to produce a festival later in the year than this are crucial to Melbourne’s social, cultural and inclusion encourages respect for all, and echoes
history, and the celebration of new ideas that come to usual, but no less fabulously creative and celebratory of economic recovery from the pandemic. the City of Melbourne’s commitment to be a
our Queer Arts communities. welcoming and accessible city.
life through world-class art and performance. Melburnians take great pride in our creative
And so to 2022. At the time of writing, preparations are in community and Midsumma showcases dazzling I congratulate the organisers and wish all involved
Our festival program is made up of diverse art forms
full swing for a Midsumma Festival which will again include performances, together with a full program of film, a successful Midsumma in 2022.
and genres, including visual arts, live music, theatre, Midsumma Carnival, so sorely missed in 2021, and which talks and sports designed to captivate, inform
spoken word, cabaret, film, parties, sport, social events promises to be the best and biggest Festival yet. and engage. Artists’ audacious and exuberant
and public forums. Featuring over 95 events in 2022, work is what makes Melbourne so distinctive and
with involvement by over 500 culture-makers in over 119 “And/Or”, 2022’s wonderful signature project produced
different venues across Melbourne and wider Victoria. and curated by Midsumma, will celebrate artists with Sally Capp Midsumma so successful.
disability in all their rainbow glory, and there will be the Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Although the primary three-week festival is held in usual amazing curated and open access program of visual
summer each year, we work year-round to provide artists, arts, live music, theatre, spoken word, cabaret, film, parties,
social-changers and culture-makers with support and sport, social events, and public forums that send us rushing
tools to create, present and promote their work. to our calendars to juggle dates in order to fit in the
Welcome back to Midsumma 2022! We’re proud festival sponsors and we passionately
maximum number of events possible.
believe that everyone, no matter how they identify,
For over 34 years we have evolved with our communities There’s no better time to be more out and proud.
So, get those calendars out and fill them in, because has the right to be their true selves. The NAB Pride
and repositioned ourselves as a relevant cultural After a challenging 2021, we’re looking forward to
Midsumma Festival is back in town! I’ll see you there team and our wider community look forward to
influencer and thought leader, while keeping learning experiencing everything that Midsumma festival
- learning, laughing, crying and excitedly celebrating joining the festivities and celebrating being out
and diversity at our heart. We have experienced rapid has to offer in 2022. This is the tenth year that NAB
and proud.
our unique LGBTQIA+ culture through the creative and
growth in audiences, breadth and scope of artist performing arts.
have sponsored the festival, and each year we’re
and community engagement, and depth of artistic excited to participate and attend the many events Congratulations to the Midsumma team for putting
partnerships. on offer. Midsumma festival is always a great together such a diverse and exciting program of
time of year to connect and celebrate with our events for the 2022 festival. Each year the team
While we stay committed to our roots, we have LGBTIQA+ community. brings new and exciting activities and events,
matured to become one of Australia’s most significant enabling our wonderfully diverse community the
queer arts organisations, supporting generations of Rachel Slade Whilst it was disappointing not to be able to
physically connect in the usual Midsumma way in
opportunity to share their true selves.
LGBTQIA+ cultural voices, discovering artists and starting Group Executive, 2021, it was wonderful to be able to welcome an To all the volunteers and artists, thank you for injecting
conversations that shape queer art and culture forever. Personal Banking & Executive even wider audience from across the country and the festival with energy and passion. Midsumma
Co-Sponsor NAB Pride overseas in a digital format. Midsumma presented simply would not happen without your support and
Welcome to Midsumma Festival 2022.
the best of Melbourne’s community to a much wider commitment to the community. Finally, to everyone
Drew Bradford audience, connecting individuals and communities attending, whether it’s your first time or if you’ve lost
Executive, Markets & Executive with the rich stories and experiences being shared. count, we hope that you join us in being more out and
Co-Sponsor NAB Pride proud at Midsumma 2022. Happy Midsumma!
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CEO Welcome About This Guide
Acknowledgement of Country Navigating Event Listings
Midsumma acknowledges that Indigenous Australians are the first
peoples of these lands. We pay our respects to all Indigenous Subgenre Music Access
Australians past and present, and we recognise their continuing
spiritual and cultural connection to the land. Midsumma takes
place between High Summer and Late Summer according to
the Wurundjeri calendar of seasons, on whose land much of this
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festival is taking place.
A One-Night-Only Celebration
of David Bowie
Karen Bryant Cover Image
CEO Midsumma Festival Gonketa (Jaycob Campbell), is a Description Bowie Ball is back! Glam it up and
Welcome to Midsumma 2022!
visual artist based in Melbourne who get ready for an anything-goes
was born Deaf. There is a consistent
The journey to get here, much like last year, has taken us far theme of hands and gestures extravaganza bringing together
away from the well-worn paths of previous years. It has been combined with bold colour pallates the best in music, art, fashion, and
a rocky, mountainous climb at times, inching along narrow that runs throughout his work, Location The Night Cat, Melbourne
winding paths and many abyss. paying homage to his first language
entertainment. Douse yourself in
Date 28 Jan Duration 6hrs
– Auslan (Australian Sign Language). glitter at our makeover stand, take
So why is it that we do festivals? His artwork aims to raise awareness Time Fri 8pm in the creation of Bowie-inspired art
Because they bring people together, tell important stories of Auslan and the Deaf community.
and share vital perspectives. They open us up to new realities Midsumma commissioned Gonketa Tickets $40 full | $30 conc pieces, stop by the other-worldly
to design the imagery for
and previously unknown possibilities. Often at the very times
Midsumma Festival 2022. Warnings Strobe lights | Smoke/haze | Long
photo booth, win a prize for best
we need it the most.
periods of standing | Limited seating dressed, and dance along to the full
Midsumma has always been about diverse communities
available Bowie catalogue performed live. Let
celebrating inclusion in the most meaningful of ways. The Stay in Touch
last few years have isolated, and drawn focus to the many
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Thanks to everyone who has helped bring this program to
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you, especially of course to all the artists and event producers
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who share with you their creativity, talent and passion despite
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the immense barriers they continue to face to do so.
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If this is your first Midsumma, welcome and Happy
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Contents
Signature Events
Midsumma Carnival
Midsumma Pride March
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ELEPHANT
Evie's One Night Stand-Up
Finucane & Smith's Travelling Dance Hall
Footscray Laughs ft. Beastie Girls & Friends
From All Who Came Before
Fun Home 28 32 34 Do Black Boys
Go To Heaven?
Image by
Gideon D. Wilonja
& Wani
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Gay as in Happy (and Homosexual)
Melbourne Pride 16 .CHURCH. BROAD by
Get Bent Fest! Image by Bodie Strain Geraldine Quinn
AND/OR 18
Goddess Grooves @ The Wesley Anne
Midsumma Presents 20
Honcho Disko: The Documentary: The Film 57 Kids & Families 58–59 Parties 71–74
Midsumma Hubs Lecture: The Musical Galentine's Under the Stars Big Business Time Band A Gay On The Lawn 2022
Theatre Works Hub 22 Kassandra
MQFF @ The Drive-In Mini Beast Disco ADAM
Gasworks Arts Park Hub 23 Lemon Comedy - Pride Edition Preserving Queer Histories on Film: Musical Stories: Introducing Teddy Carlton Baths Pride Party
Immigration Museum Hub 23 Line Up, Sign Up, Muck Up About Vivien and A Big Life
Rainbow Community Picnic CLOSET Convent Party
Abbotsfor Convent Hub 24 Long Live the King Why Did She Have to Tell the World:
Continuity and Change in LGBTQIA+ Activism Rainbow Family Picnic CLOSET Midsumma Carnival After Party
The Hare Hole Hub 24 Magic Men of Summer Risqué Review Sing-a-long Dragtime with Miss Jay and
Comedy Republic Music 46–47 Deviants
26 Maybe Later
Talks, Tours & Workshops 67–69 Frock Hudson
Dykes on Bikes 10 Year Club Party
Fringe Common Rooms Hub 26 Menace Ridge Homophonic!
Midsumma Westside 27 MKA: The Monster's Kind ‘MARY! It's time.’
AND/OR Panel Discussion
Youth 60 Girls at Sea
Artmaking for Zines Homo Erotica
Pride of our Footscray Community Hub 27 MKA: Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise Out Proud & Country Night at the Museum: Minus18 Youth Party
Clothes Revival Workshop JIZZ [Midsumma Carnival] After Party
‘Off The Page’ Lesbian Literary Afternoon Picnic at Forest Glade Queer Youth Clothes Swap and Artists' Market
Expressions of Interest: Queer Gestures -
Performance 28–45 On a Bridge North From Here Pride and Joy where is the queer body in dance, now? Stepping Out With Pride LadyLike Summer Pool Party
.CHURCH. Queen Beaver presents Beavers Behaving Badly Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
Park Lounge Fabulous Fiction
4Play & First Nations Drag People Who Throw Themselves In Front Of Trains Queer, Trans, and Gender Diverse From the Club to the Theatre: Panel Talk Community & Culture 62–65 Perversion
Inclusive Choir @ RMIT Pride Pool Party in the Sunshine
4Play Royale - Kings, Queens & Drag Betweens! Performing the Monster Impact Play A Summer Mass
Seamen! The Sea Shanty Spectacular
5 STARS by Kissing Booth promiscuous/cities Becoming You Queer Pool Party
Impress or Revolt
Trans Pride Concert
50 Years: Queers & Pioneers Queer Comedy Gala Fast Fashun Queer Summer Pool Party
WCB: Sigil Making Art, Words and Stories
A Composting Cabaret Queer Playwriting Award Showcase Gay Stuff Markets Queer-aoke
Queer My Head Workshops
A Night of Comedy with Tom Ballard Sundaylicious RnB
QueersofJoy
Visual Arts 49–56 Queers in Science - on First Nations' Knowledge GLOBE Community Awards
A Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Incredible Odds Run by Stephen Laughton Growing Up Queer The Coming Back Out Tea Dance
Across the Bridge Queers in Science - on Neurodiversity
A Space is Held SICK Queertech.io Youth Workshop Magical Mystery Tour with the Motafrenz Car Club Wet Summer Pool Party
Colours of the Rainbow in a Diverse Community
ACEtravaganza Sit on My Face: An Intimate Night with Melbourne Pride
Ropetimes
All-Star Drag Bingo Party! The Harry Morrissey Official Dioramas - Ross Watson Exhibition
St Kilda Queer History Walk Midsumma Carnival Sports 76–77
SLUTNIK™ Every Word We Write Is Panacea
An Intimate Evening With Granny Bingo Tsekouras Arts - 'Identity' Collage Workshops Midsumma Pride March AO Glam Slam
SMASH: the Drag Show Fabulous & Impossible: The Cult of Leigh Bowery
And She Would Stand Like This What we found when we went looking for Pride Cup Trivia LIVE AO Pride Day
SOLID Flying the Flag
Artemis: Utter Mess Victoria's queer heritage… Queer Pasifika: The Rebirth Of The Cool Nomads Cycling by the Bay
South East Soiree Freedom Is Mine
Ballads & Ballgowns Queer Sporting Alliance Basketball Jam & Roller Disco Nomads Outdoors - Yarra Bend Explorer
SPICE BABES Hey, I have something to say
Belligerent Queer x Midsumma RUBC Lawn Bowls Pride Cup
Sweet Hindsight Impossible Dance (iii)
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Benched by Jamila Main Reconstruct (the) Normative Serve It, Smash It, Love It - 2022
Sweet SixDEAN Impossible Dance (iv) - Matto Lucas
Beyond Rainbows The Art Hunter presents, Twilight Salon
The (Sour Glitch) Two Step Refusal Into the Wild
Bottom by Willy Hudson The Seven Gins of Pride Ticketing
The Book Club Looking for Adam
Bowie Ball Tranz Talkz Access Events & Information 54–55
The Burlesque of Bathsheba Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award
BROAD Ticketing Information 85
The Defiant Miss First Nation Exhibition
Cab Suave Information
The Demographic Dance OFF: Face-to-Face O UT
Closet Drama An Intimate Our People & Patrons 87
The Pageant Pleasure Project Evening With
CLUB NITE Our Valued Partners 89
The Shy Manifesto by Michael Ross Pride on the Pavement Granny Bingo
Cockatiel Venue Maps
The Story Keepers Progression
Cold-Blooded CBD 91
Therapy Is Expensive (So I Wrote A Cabaret Instead) Proud Home
Coming Out North 92
Thrive: Queer voices, out loud Queer My Head
Diana: An Original Cabaret South 93
Trans Showgirls Summer Spectacular QueerTech.io IRL Screening & Discussion
Divas Live West/East
Rapid Eye Movement 94
Two Queers Walk Into A Bar
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Do Black Boys Go To Heaven?
WOE S/He
DRAG A THON
Woah, Alyssa! 3 Solace
Drag Trivia Bonanza with Abril La Trene
Woah, Alyssa! and Besties Tea and Bikkies Bowie Ball.
Dragstrology and the Crystal Ball
Womyn of Comedy WHOLE SELF Image by
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Zoom-Zoom Professional Intercourse Online
Signature Events #midsumma
Midsumma EVERY PURCHASE OF PRIDELWEISS ENABLES
Carnival STOMPING GROUND TO SUPPORT THE
Kick-start the celebrations MIDSUMMA FUTURES MENTORING PROGRAM
for Midsumma Festival 2022
A whole (fabulous) day celebrating the start of our 22-day festival!
Midsumma Carnival showcases an array of artists, performers,
FOR EMERGING LGBTQIA+ ARTISTS.
things to do, eat, see, and immerse yourself into.
As you wander around the 55,250 square metres of Midsumma Carnival,
you will experience three performance stages highlighting Midsumma artists,
two food zones with a variety of choices, pop-up bars, and multiple stalls
made up of queer friendly businesses, core community organisations and
services for you to browse and even grab a free giveaway!
With pavilions equipped to entertain everyone (Yes, including a parade
for your pooch!), you will find something fab to keep you entertained
all day. We have safe and fun spaces for families, friendlies, queer
kinds and groupies to lead us into the evening of T Dance, featuring
a fantastic line-up of sassy sounds and DJs.
Midsumma Carnival is a glass-free event and we’re conscious
of our footprint on the environment (and the grass).
So, bring your sustainable vessels and reusable straws.
Slap on the sunscreen, sashay into your Sunday best
and get ready for a full day of festivities.
No BYO alcohol.
Alexandra Gardens
St Kilda Rd
Melbourne
Sun 23 Jan
Midsumma
Carnival
11am – 6pm
T Dance
6 – 10pm
FREE
No BYO alcohol
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Image: Midsumma Carnival by Suzanne balding
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Signature Events #midsumma
Midsumma
Pride March
LOUD & PROUD
Fluff up those feather boas and put out your rainbow flags as we march with
pride and solidarity through the streets of St Kilda! Midsumma Pride March
brings us together to stand tall, be proud, and revel in the celebrations with
family, friends, and allies.
This year, Midsumma Pride March will highlight the diverse humans,
personalities, groups, sexualities, and experiences that make our queer
communities so beautifully colourful. Everyone deserves to march, and
everyone deserves to be heard, to feel safe, and to belong. We will
remember that we are stronger as one and greater together!
Dykes on Bikes precede the marching contingent as per tradition,
with the march itself led by Boon Wurrung Elders and a Rainbow
Aboriginal Float, LGBTQIA+ youth and followed by the Premier
of Victoria, Minister for Equality and the Creative Industries and
Commissioner for Gender and Sexuality.
Rock up, frock up and fly your flags from 11am,
as we embark on the kilometre-long fanfare along
Fitzroy St, waving to the new Victorian
Pride Centre, and into Catani Gardens for an
afternoon of post-Pride festivities.
Midsumma
Pride March
Fitzroy St
St Kilda
March starts 11am
Post-Pride
Celebrations
Catani Gardens
St Kilda
11am – 4pm
Sun 6 Feb
FREE
No BYO alcohol
Image: Midsumma Pride March by J Forsyth
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Signature Events #midsumma
Melbourne Pride
Image by Tanya McCulloch
A Road to Pride
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the
decriminalisation of homosexuality in Victoria
Melbourne Pride is a State Government initiative, delivered by festival partner
Midsumma (of course!), to commemorate 40 years since the decriminalisation
of homosexuality in Victoria. Melbourne Pride will be a full day of celebrations,
with the streets of Fitzroy flickering in rainbow as we acknowledge the
courage and resilience of our LGBTQIA+ community, celebrate the
history, and build on the momentum for equality.
Melbourne Pride will showcase live performances, music,
circus, speakers, activities, community stalls and interactive
demonstrations. Street traders and local businesses will
welcome us all with open arms and showcase all the
fabulous things Yarra has to offer!
This commemorative event is intended to have a
significant statewide impact with a livestream of the event
celebrations. Celebrated far and wide, the statewide event
will include activations and events across regional areas and
every corner of Victoria leading up to the Melbourne Pride
city-based street party event with contributions also
captured and shared across the digital platform
(see website for regional event details).
Melbourne Pride
Smith St and
Gertrude St
precinct
Melbourne Inner
North
Livestream and
Regional event info
midsumma.org.au/
melbpride
11am – 9pm
Sun 13 Feb
FREE
No BYO alcohol
Melbourne Pride is a State
Government initiative, delivered
by festival partner Midsumma
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Queer Unsettled #midsumma midsumma.org.au
AND/OR Queertech.io Queertech.io
Pg 67 Pg 56 Pg 69
IRL Screening & Discussion Youth Workshop
Presented by Midsumma Festival and Presented by Midsumma Festival
Produced and presented Queertech.io and Queertech.io
5 Feb | ACMI Gandel Digital 24 Jan | ACMI Gandel Digital
by Midsumma Future Lab 1 (and online) Future Lab 1
AND/OR Program Intersections, overlaps and pluralities; Curated by the Queertech.io Make some AI art in this workshop
artist collective, works by artists with Melbourne AI artist J.
contradiction, syncretism and complexity. There is so
identifying as both queer and Rosenbaum. Learn about Style
much variety within the broad umbrellas of “queer” disabled will be premiered online via Transfer, GANs and Generating
and “disabled”. AND/OR is a platform for artists the queertech.io website and offline image from text by working with
who are queer (and/or LGBTQIA+) and disabled Consent Festival 2019. Image by Alexis D.Lea Photography at a special screening at ACMI. Join Artificial Intelligence art generation
(and/or Deaf/hard-of-hearing, and/or Blind/low the Queertech.io artist collective tools directly from your browser.
following the screening, as they No experience required.
vision, and/or neurodiverse, and/or autistic,
and/or living with chronic illness, and/or…). AND/OR Panel Discussion speak to some of the artists from
the exhibition about their practice,
The program of works are disability-led and Presented by Midsumma Festival and Immigration Museum
current and future.
from multiple perspectives, ranging from
29 Jan | Immigration Museum
unapologetic to vulnerable, celebratory
to questioning, reflective to riotous.
And/or; these are words we are often offered in forms, surveys, legal
documents. It’s amazing how two words are meant to summarise the
Pg 53
Queer My Head Image by Jaye Hayes Pg 68
Queer My Head
complexities of intersectional identities. Join artists from the AND/ Presented by Midsumma Festival Workshops
OR Program to expand on those complexities, discussing some of the and The Dax Centre
Presented by Midsumma Festival
strengths and challenges of ‘and/or’. 27 Jan – 11 Mar and The Dax Centre
Tickets include entry to the museum and exhibition The Dax Centre 4,11 Feb
‘Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide’.
Celebrating the power of queer The Dax Centre
art-making to clear our heads of
These workshops offer LGBTIQA+
the pervasive cis-hetero-normative
people an opportunity to
expectations and biases that
participate in their own creative
Pg 30 Pg 32 Pg 34 contribute to mental health issues
head queering. No art experience
for LGBTIQA+ folk. This exhibition
necessary! The art-making
features LGBTIQA+ artists who
processes offered will be fun,
have utilised their creativity to
accessible and empowering. Enjoy
resist, repair, critique, subvert,
an afternoon of art-making in a
survive and queerly thrive in
safe and accessible space for queer
Image by Jaye Hayes non-normative ways.
and gender diverse humans.
A Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Benched by Jamila Main.
Incredible Odds. Image by Sarah Walker Image by Ren Williams Pg 69 Pg 43 Pg 56
Resourceful Hero Struggling Benched by ELEPHANT
Against Incredible Odds
Jamila Main Presented by Midsumma Festival
and Back to Back Theatre
Queers in Science - The Demographic
by Rawcus Theatre
Presented by Midsumma Festival and Rawcus
Presented by Midsumma Festival and
Pillow Fight in association with Footscray 6 Feb on Neurodiversity Dance OFF: Face-to-Face WHOLE SELF
in partnership with St Martins Community Arts ACMI Gandel Digital future Lab 1
Presented by Midsumma Festival, Queers in Presented by Midsumma Festival in association Presented by Midsumma Festival
5 - 6, 12 – 13 Feb 10 – 12 Feb An experiment in liveness and embodiment, Science, Royal Society of Victoria & The Florey with Footscray Community Arts and Incinerator Gallery
playing with projection, reflection, multiplicity Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Malthouse Outdoor Stage Footscray Community Arts 12 Feb | Footscray Community Arts – 28 Jan – 6 Mar | Incinerator Gallery
and disappearance. Devised and performed by
Rawcus unites with a group of queer and allied A one-on-one performance that ruminates on Sarah Mainwaring, created in collaboration with 27 Jan | The Florey Institute of Neuroscience Basement Theatre WHOLE SELF is an exhibition that illuminates
young people to explode the word ‘hero’ athleticism within a disabled body. Even the Ingrid Voorendt and Alana Hoggart, ELEPHANT The brain of every individual is unique, meaning Led by a collective of Deaf and Disabled artists. the over-lapping spheres of queerness
into a thousand pieces and save you from it. players on the bench get an orange slice. Pick explores the space between life and death. Part not everyone learns or thinks the same way. Face to Face invites you into an immersive and disability as an intersection of infinite
Using verbatim text from 90s action films, ‘A the ball, shoe, or frisbee and take a seat. Jamila installation, part dance performance, part film This exciting lecture about neurodiversity will be dance experience exploring identity, stigma and possibilities. WHOLE SELF articulates a
Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Incredible Main invites you to join them on the bench for experiment, ELEPHANT fuses and confuses live presented by a queer scientist with expertise in isolation. Touch, Auslan, film and silhouettes multi-verse of senses enriched through the
Odds’ is a simultaneous homage to and an intimate moment of one-on-one storytelling, and screen presences – shrinking and expanding, neuroscience. A panel discussion spotlighting weave together reflecting experiences of isolation exploration of mythology, lore, sex, magic,
lambasting of Hollywood blockbusters. ruminating on athleticism, childhood, and disability. emerging and dissolving. the day-to-day experience of neurodivergent prior to Covid 19 and the common threads now ceremony and dreaming.
individuals will follow. experienced by most during the pandemic.
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Midsumma Galentine’s Midsumma and Pg 51
Under the Stars Australia Post
Presents
13 Feb Art Award
Grab your besties for a twilight
film screening celebrating the 1 – 5 Feb
magical bonds of friendship Australia’s leading
Pg 57 and chosen family. queer visual arts award. Pg 51
Experience fresh collaborations
between Midsumma Festival and Get Bent Fest! Mini Beast Miss First Nation
some of Victoria’s outstanding 12 Feb Disco Exhibition
cultural institutions. A Composting Cabaret Return of the smash-hit
4 – 5 Feb 23 Jan – 28 Feb
festivalette hosted by award
4 Feb
winning comedian Lou Wall! Mini Beast Disco is a Joseph Mayers exhibition at Metro Tunnel
A party for grown-ups inspired by Mini Beast big-hearted, community- hoardings of the 2020 Miss First Nation
Disco’s research play, with Betty Grumble, minded intergenerational contestants.
Dandrogyny & Andreas Lohmeyer Pg 33 Pg 37 Pg 59 eco-disco extravaganza.
Pg 67
Coming Pg 60
Pride and Joy
Out 29 Jan
8 – 12 Feb
As poignant as
it is funny, this
play explores the
relationships between
queer women and
their straight friends.
Becoming You Clothes Revival Musical Stories: Night at the Museum:
23 – 29 Jan, 5 – 13 Feb Workshop Introducing Teddy Minus18 Youth Party
Relive the highs and lows of growing up 5 Feb
at Becoming You: An incomplete guide, 10 – 12 Feb 29 Jan
Get ready for Pride and learn sustainable ways to
an immersive new exhibition at the re-vitalise your wardrobe with artist Abbey Rich. Introduce your children to the magic Get ready for Pride and learn sustainable ways to A celebration of queer composers
Immigration Museum. Pg 63 Pg 33 of live music with Orchestra Victoria! Pg 59 re-vitalise your wardrobe with artist Abbey Rich. Pg 47 across time and place.
Flying the Flag From the Fun Home Queer Playwriting Queers in Science Tranz Talkz
23 Jan – 27 Feb Club to the 7 Feb – 5 Mar
Award Showcase on First Nations’ 25 Jan
Contemporary British artist Annabel McCourt Music by Jeanine Tesori. A structured conversation
is ‘Flying the Flag’ for queer history. Theatre: Book and Lyrics by 24 – 25 Jan Knowledge held online about public
Lisa Kron. Based on Witness the first staged harassment for trans and
Panel Talk the graphic novel by readings of brand new queer 3 Feb gender non-conforming
Alison Bechdel. focused theatre works. This lecture features two Indigenous people led by artist
27 Jan Pg 40 queer scientists, who will present their exciting Travis Alabanza.
Theatre artist Travis research from their unique standpoint.
Alabanza is joined by
an award winning panel Queer x
of guests who all made
their names on the Midsumma
queer club scene.
19 – 20 Mar, 26 – 27 Mar
Across two weekends explore
queer histories, experiences
and ideas within and beyond
Pg 50 Pg 68 Pg 36 the museum walls.
Pg 65 Pg 68 Pg 65
20 21Gasworks
BROAD
#midsumma Image: The Defiant
Pg 32
27 – 29 Jan
Midsumma
Cab Suave
Arts Park
Pg 32
3 – 5 Feb, 10 – 12 Feb
Hubs
Coming Out
Hub
Pg 33
8 – 12 Feb
Maybe Later
Pg 38
We are proud to introduce Gasworks Arts Park has been the south side 1 – 5 Feb
to you our Midsumma Hubs hub for Midsumma Festival and a summer
Progression
destination for high quality theatre,
for the 2022 Festival. provocative art and fun nights out with
Pg 53
24 Jan – 13 Feb
These Midsumma Hub venues are dedicated friends for over a decade. Midsumma at
Queer Playwriting
to providing you with a diverse showcase of Gasworks is characterised by a diverse
Award Showcase
events, across the 22-day festival, to enrich and inclusive program spanning visual Pg 40
your Midsumma Festival experience. Never art, drama, comedy, circus, music, 24 – 25 Jan
miss a beat, with Midsumma Hubs there is cabaret and performance art. Support
The Defiant
something to see or do every day or night independent artists as they bring our Pg 43
of the week. two theatres and gallery spaces to 27 – 29 Jan, 1 – 5 Feb
life, and enjoy a drink on our outdoor
Terrace nestled in our beautiful park.
Gasworks Arts Park
21 Graham St,
Albert Park
Cocoa Butter Club, by Alexis D.Lea
Theatre Immigration
5 STARS by Kissing Booth AND/OR Panel
Pg 28 Discussion
25 – 29 Jan Pg 67
29 Jan
Works Hub
ACEtravaganza
Museum Hub
Becoming You
Pg 30
Pg 63
5 – 6 Feb
23 – 29 Jan, 5 – 13 Feb
Closet Drama Clothes Revival
Pg 32 Workshop
In 2022, Theatre Works’ Midsumma Hub Immigration Museum, in the historic Old Customs House,
8 – 12 Feb Pg 67
will be bigger than ever with 9 shows is a vibrant living multicultural centre for the exploration of
5 Feb
across 3 performance spaces. A truly queer Long Live the King identity, history and multicultural life in Melbourne and Victoria.
program that embraces and celebrates Pg 38 Through rich collections, exhibitions, events, education Galentine’s Under
the whole rainbow. A year of risk taking, 25 – 29 Jan programs and digital content, Immigration Museum explores the Stars
Pg 57
tenacity and rebellion. A non-binary the histories, stories, and contemporary issues of Victoria’s
promiscuous/cities 13 Feb
pantomime escape room, lesbians in space, Pg 39 diverse communities, and what connects us all as humans.
drag kings, asexual variety shows, the trans 9 – 13 Feb Night at the Museum:
Immigration Museum’s current major exhibition Becoming Minus 18 Youth Party
masculine experience and so much more!
SLUTNIK You: An incomplete guide and new series of large-scale Pg 60
Theatre Works Pg 42 photographic works, Atong Atem: To be real, continue to 29 Jan
14 Acland St, 1 – 4 Feb explore themes of identity, community and belonging.
St Kilda
SOLID Immigration Museum
Pg 42 400 Flinders St,
25 – 29 Feb
Melbourne
The (Sour Glitch)
Two Step Refusal
Pg 43
10 – 13 Feb
WOE
Pg 45
Image: Immigration Museum
2 – 5 Feb
23Abbotsford
A Composting Cabaret
Pg 33
4 Feb
CLOSET Convent Party
Convent Hub
Pg 72
30 Jan
Flying the Flag
Pg 50
Just four kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD, and spread Tue – Sat, 24 Jan – 26 Feb
over 16 acres, Abbotsford Convent is Australia’s largest
Into the Wild
18 M A R – 21 A U G 2022
multi-arts precinct. We work collaboratively with artists
and arts organisations across all art forms to present a
Pg 51 FREE ENTRY
Tue – Sun, 1 – 20 Feb
year-round program of contemporary work that engages,
Mini Beast Disco
surprises and delights audiences, encourages investigation Pg 59
and learning, and sparks important new conversations. 4 – 5 Feb
In 2022, we’re very much looking forward to offering up Ropetimes
a spectrum of creative output for Midsumma audiences, Pg 69
30 Jan
ranging from dance parties to creative rope workshops to
sculptures to lip-syncing wrestlers. Children and families SMASH: the Drag Show
can get involved with the microscopic playground that is Pg 42
Mini Beast Disco, or anyone 18+ can hang around until a 29 Jan, 5 Feb
QU E E R
little later before diving into the world of the Composting
Cabaret, presented by Dandrogyny, Betty Grumble and
Andreas Lohmeyer. We can’t wait to see you!
Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St,
Abbotsford
Image: Supplied by Abbotsford Convent
The Hare
Fabulous Fiction
Pg 68
12 Feb
Honcho Disko: The
Hole Hub
Documentary: The
Lecture: The Musical
Pg 37
1 Feb, 3 – 4 Feb STORIES FROM THE NGV COLLECTION
The Hare Hole is Melbourne’s home of emerging Line Up, Sign Up, Muck Up
artists, hybrid art forms and queer ideas. For 30 years Pg 37
Hares & Hyenas has embodied queer community 5 Feb
engagement, giving a platform to intersectional Performing the Monster
communities and artists to provoke, question and Pg 39
be heard. Its open content policy combined with its 10 – 11 Feb
values of providing a welcoming space encourages
Sing-a-long Dragtime
work that is fresh, relevant and vitally important. Our with Miss Jay and Frock
2022 Midsumma program brings together speakers, Hudson
artists and performers from multiple disciplines Pg 59
and numerous identities—from the emerging to the 2 Feb, 5 Feb
familiar and established, from those embedded in the PRINCIPAL PARTNER SUPPORTERS
queer community to those who defy classification.
Supported by the Victorian state government’s
Revitalising the LGBTIQ+ Sector fund; City of Yarra
annual grants program; Hares & Hyenas; and Koorie
Pride Victoria.
MEDIA PARTNERS TOURISM PARTNER
Hares & Hyenas
63 Johnston St,
Fitzroy
Image: Maude Davey by Suzanne Phoenix
24Comedy
An Intimate Evening Growing Up Queer Bottom by Willy Hudson Why Did She Have
With Granny Bingo Pg 63 | 9 Feb Pg 32 | 1 – 5, 7 – 12 Feb to Tell the World:
Pg 31 Continuity and Change
Park Lounge The Demographic Dance
27 Jan, 30 Jan in LGBTQIA+ Activism
Pg 39 | 12 Feb Off: Face-to-Face
Republic
Pg 57 | 30 Jan
Cockatiel Pg 43 | 12 Feb
Rainbow Family Picnic
Pg 33 Thrive: Queer voices,
Pg 59 | 5 Feb Impossible Dance (iii)
11 – 12 Feb out loud
Pg 50 | 19 Jan – 15 Feb Pg 44 | 10 – 13 Feb
Stepping Out With Pride
Cold-Blooded
Pg 60 | 25 Jan
After a hugely successful inaugural program, Pg 33 Every Word We A Space is Held
Comedy Republic returns to Midsumma as 9 Feb Pride Pool Party in the Write Is Panacea Pg 30 | 29 Jan
a festival hub, presenting eight fabulously Sunshine Pg 50
Gay as in Happy Out Proud & Country
queer shows. For standup fans, there’s stellar Pg 73 | 30 Jan Mon–Fri, 24 Jan – 11 Feb
(and Homosexual) Pg 46 | 6, 9 Feb
MIDSUMMA
shows from Charlie Lewin, John Robles and Pg 36 Rapid Eye Movement Impossible Dance (iv) -
10 Feb Footscray Laughs ft.
Granny Bingo as well as jam-packed lineups Pg 56 | 20 Jan – 13 Mar Matto Lucas
Beastie Girls & Friends
presented by Two Queers Walk Into A Bar Lemon Comedy - Pg 50 | 24 Jan – 14 Feb
Impress or Revolt Pg 36 | 28 Jan
and Lemon Comedy. If scintillating sketch is Pride Edition
WESTSIDE
Pg 68 | 4 Feb Making Art, Words and
Pg 37 Big Business Time Band
your thing, there’s Sydney’s Snake Pit improv Stories
Pg 59 | 13 Feb
30 Jan Run by Stephen
duo, double act Woah, Alyssa!, and cracking Pg 68 | 29 Jan
Laughton
character comedy courtesy of The Pageant. The Pageant Fabulous & Impossible:
Pg 40 | 1 – 5, 8 – 12 Feb The Shy Manifesto by
Pg 44 The Cult of Leigh Bowery
Michael Ross
4 – 5 Feb Midsumma Westside is a collaboration of Melbourne’s western Benched by Jamila Main Pg 50
Pg 44 | 1 – 5 Feb
region Councils in partnership with Midsumma. It is a sumptuous Pg 32 | 10 – 12 Feb Mon–Fri, 28 Jan – 19 Mar
Two Queers Walk Into Colours of the Rainbow
slice of Midsumma Festival that programs the wonderful array of Do Black Boys Go To
A Bar in a Diverse Community Supported by: drummond
Pg 45 events taking place in the west. With exhibitions, tea parties, live Heaven? street services, queerspace
Pg 49 | 29 Jan – 10 Feb
4 – 5 Feb music, performances, storytelling, picnics and even a pageant Pg 34 | 3 – 5 Feb
show, the west is set to come alive. Midsumma Westside invites
Woah, Alyssa! and
Besties A Bar
you to GO WEST this summer!
Comedy Republic Pg 45
231 Bourke St, 11 – 12 Feb Image: Park Lounge - Artificial Studios featuring Bec Reid and
Melbourne Image: Charlie Lewin Tristan Meecham of All the Queens Men
Fringe Common Pride of our
Get Bent Fest! 4Play & First Nations Drag
Pg 37 Pg 28 | 28 Jan
12 Feb
4Play Royale - Kings,
Let Me Get Something Queens & Drag Betweens!
Rooms Hub Footscray
Off My Chest Pg 28 | 4 Feb
Pg 73 A Night of Comedy with
9 Feb Tom Ballard
Community Bar
MARY! It’s time. Pg 30 | 12 Feb
Late night arty parties where you leave covered in Pg 43 All-Star Drag Bingo Party!
glitter. Delectably queer, totally inclusive nights to 22 – 26 Jan4 Feb Pg 30 | 29 Jan
let go and be nothing but yourself. A safe, creative
Queer-aoke Dragstrology and the
space to share ideas, explore and play. Where is this Pg 74 Pride of our Footscray is the most colourful and diverse Crystal Ball
wonderland? It’s Fringe Common Rooms at Trades 3 Feb, 10 Feb
venue in Melbourne, famous for its mixed crowd, Pg 34 | 10 Feb
Hall, your brand new home(o)!
friendly crew and fabulous live entertainment. Magic Men of Summer
Located in Melbourne’s iconic Trades Hall in Carlton, Risqué Review
Pride’s Midsumma Festival 2022 program is similarly
the fully accessible Fringe Common Rooms is Pg 38 | 11 Feb
exciting, something for absolutely everybody, there’s
Melbourne Fringe’s year-round home for independent
camp drag, modern drag, cabaret, burlesque, queer Queer Comedy Gala
artists and people who like to party (that’s everyone, Pg 40 | 27 Jan
comedy, a steamy male dance revue and even astrology!
right?)! This Midsumma, the venue is packed with diva
The Burlesque of Bathsheba
disco dance parties from the crew at MARY!, karaoke All up, it’s ten original shows that Pride’s presenting
Pg 43 | 3 Feb
celebrating our queer icons (Queer-aoke) and one across the Midsumma Festival 2022, a fabulous line-up
night gala extravaganzas like Get Bent Fest. We invite for an iconic festival, see you there! Trans Showgirls Summer
you to come and enjoy this Midsumma and beyond – Spectacular
Pg 44 | 5 Feb
Festival vibes all year round, darling!
Womyn of Comedy
Pg 45 | 1 Feb
Fringe Common Rooms Pride of our Footscray Community Bar
Corner Lygon and Victoria St, 1/86-88 Hopkins St,
Carlton Image: BLUNDERLAND – Will Hamilton-Coates Footscray Image: Pride Of Our Footscray
27Performance #midsumma Performance midsumma.org.au
Performance
Image: A Composting Cabaret.
Photo by Liz Ham
Cabaret Cabaret
.CHURCH. 4Play & First Nations
The stage is holy and this is Drag
how we pray Fierce Friday fun
Queerly beloved! We've prepared
Joining the sistas of Pride's sexy
a service that will have you feeling
4PLAY, are three of Naarm's finest
born again, and leave you gagging
First Nations drag artists for a night
for more. A service that will leave
The Toff in Town, Melbourne CBD Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, of camp chaos, fierce fantasy &
you dripping with sin, because let's
3-6 Feb 1hr 30m Footscray sparkly sass. Miss First Nation 2021
face it, sin is in. As always our show
28 Jan 2hrs Cerulean will rain excitement, Mora
Thu-Sun 7:30pm | Auslan: 3 Feb 7:30pm is backed by our live choir, with
Fri 8pm
Money gives us their best sugar
$35 full | $30 conc | $25 standing room offerings from Australia's queerest &
baby fantasy and Ms Carmel Latte is
dearest cabaret, circus & burlesque $29 full | $20 conc
Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe simply not your regular caffeinated
lights treats! .CHURCH. is nothing short of Presented by Pride of our Footscray beverage.
a spiritual experience. Community Bar and 4PLAY
Presented by Highway Robbery
(On Cerulean) 'It was fierce, it was bold,
Productions "World class wwwww "- What did she Image: featuring Cerulean, Mora Money
it was everything you ever wanted... we
Image: by Bodie Strain think and Ms Carmel Latte
want more!' - Blak Critics
Cabaret Theatre
4Play Royale - Kings, 5 STARS by Kissing
Queens & Drag Booth
Betweens!
Blurring the binary A lovesick playwright and the
beautiful actor who rejected him
Joining a couple of the cast of
attempt to make art from the
slaying sistas 4PLAY, are three of
Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, Theatre Works, St Kilda dismay. An officially fascinating
Melbourne's kings, queens & drag
Footscray 25-29 Jan 1hr 30m trans artist makes his theatrical
between stars. Alexander McQueen
4 Feb 2hrs debut. The most handsome guy
is your technicolour dreamboat in Tue-Sat 7pm
Fri 8pm | Your ticket will also give you
in your year twelve drama class
peach fuzz, Jet Stir has a passion $30 full | $25 conc
access to the late night Pride event just got cast in something absurd.
to burn and the hardest working Nudity | Violence | Coarse language Applause attempts to prove its
$29 full | $23 conc eyebrows in drag and Belial B'Zarr
Presented by Theatre Works and Kissing value. Theatre might be the worst
Strobe lights | Smoke/haze is the psychedelic lizard wizard of
Booth thing you've ever done to yourself.
Presented by Pride of our Footscray & the absurd and surreal that you
Image: by Cynthia Sobraty
4Play didn't know you needed. "Hilarious and thoughtful, brutal and
sensitive." - Theatre Travels
28 29Performance #midsumma Performance midsumma.org.au
Theatre Cabaret Interactive Performance Comedy
50 Years: Queers & A Composting All-Star Drag Bingo An Intimate Evening
Pioneers Cabaret Party! With Granny Bingo
Cracked Actors Theatre (CAT) with Betty Grumble, Balls will drop as four stars Melbourne's nastiest nans are
presents Dandrogyny & Andreas unite for one big bingo night! back, and they're not happy.
Lohmeyer
2023 will mark fifty years since Footscray's Famous Adult Bingo Edith Vale and Maureen
PM John Gorton put forward a A party for grown-ups inspired by is a phenomenon of the west. For McGillicuddy are bringing their
Cracked Actors Theatre, Albert Park motion in Canberra that "in the Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School, Mini Beast Disco's research play. Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, one night only it's an all-star bingo Comedy Republic, Melbourne hilarious Comedy Festival show
opinion of this House, homosexual Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Footscray stellar line up. All stops will be back for two nights only.
5-6 Feb 1hr 30m This Composting Cabaret is a joyful 27 Jan, 30 Jan 1hr
Sat, Sun Midday, 2:30pm & 5pm acts... should not be subject to the 4 Feb 3hrs landscape of performance offerings 29 Jan 2hrs pulled. It's the campest, draggiest Thu 7pm | Sun 5:30pm
criminal law". '50 Years: Queers and most ridiculous drag bingo 2021 was a difficult year for these
Fri 7pm sprung from the collaborative Sat 8pm
$15 full
& Pioneers' will showcase artists night you'll have. Hostess Aurora
$29 full | $27 conc darling old dames, and it gave them
$25 full critterdom of children's vision and $25 full | $20 conc
Violence | Coarse language | who will present their work for Arsenic will be joined by Abril La Coarse language | References to drug time to think about everything they
wisdom. A reflection, rekindling
References to drug use
the chance to be selected for a
Presented by Midsumma Festival, Coarse language
Trene, Tequila Mockingbird and use hate about the world. Join them
Abbotsford Convent and Unfunded and re-wilding for our grown-up
Presented by Cracked Actors Theatre fully produced season at CAT Presented by Pride of our Footscray Freddie Merkin. Win prizes. Get Presented by Thomas Jaspers & Kyle as they vent their feelings about
Empathy and maybe worn-out hearts. Dance
for Midsumma Festival 2023 to Community Bar pulled up on stage. Eyes up and Minall politics, millennials, the Country
Image: by Sarah Yeung floor, deep dive, disco destiny!
celebrate this milestone!
Image: by Liz Ham
have a party with us! Women's Association and lint.
Comedy Theatre Theatre Cabaret
A Night of Comedy A Resourceful Hero And She Would Artemis: Utter Mess
with Tom Ballard Struggling Against Stand Like This Non-binary, Asexual, Biracial
AND Neurodivergent? Utter
"Unrelenting and Incredible Odds Queer Ball Culture meets
Mess!
uproarious.wwww½ " - Chortle Greek Tragedy
[UK] What happens when every
A fierce and fabulous play that
Rawcus unites with a group of document, bathroom and
One of Australia's sizzling hot, mixes 'The Trojan Women' with
queer and allied young people community seems to want you
Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, politically outraged comic talents & Malthouse Outdoor Stage, Southbank Meat Market - Stables, North Melbourne house/ballroom culture. Set in a La Mama HQ, Carlton
Footscray
to explode the word 'hero' into to decide, and nothing seems to
new westside resident, Tom Ballard 5-6 Feb, 12-13 Feb 45m 3-5 Feb, 7-12 Feb 1hr 30m hospital waiting room during a 8-13 Feb 1hr
a thousand pieces and save fit? A show about labels and the
12 Feb 1hr 30m takes to the Pride stage for one mysterious plague, this modern
Sat 4pm | Sat, Sun 6pm you from it. [epic music] Using Mon-Sat 7:30pm | Sat 3pm | Auslan: 11 Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun 6:30pm | Wed, Fri difference between the words
Sat 8pm night only. Mic drop right?! The Feb 7:30pm | Audio Described: 12 Feb adaptation reimagines the Greek 8:30pm | Auslan: 10 Feb 6:30pm, 11 Feb
FREE booking required verbatim text from 90s action that confine us and the words that
revolution comes to Footscray. Too 3pm | Tactile Tour: 12 Feb 3pm characters as queer bodies of 8:30pm | Audio Described: 9 Feb 8:30pm
$30 full | $24 conc Presented by Midsumma Festival and films, 'A Resourceful Hero set us free. A one-hour, one-enby
hot for TV means he is just right for $30 preview | $40 full | $30 conc colour fighting for survival. | Tactile Tour: Upon request | Relaxed: 9
Coarse language | References to drug Rawcus in partnership with St Martins Struggling Against Incredible show featuring nine original songs.
Midsumma Festival. Feb 8:30pm, 10 Feb & 13 Feb 6:30pm
use Odds' is a simultaneous homage Coarse language | Reference to sexual "Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Artemis looks over their journey to
Image: by Sarah Walker $30 full | $20 conc
Presented by Pride of our Footscray "Ballard delivers an absolute comedy to and lambasting of Hollywood violence | Suicide references Fantastic!" - RuPaul self discovery through song story
Community Bar and Footscray Comedy masterclass.wwwww" - Beat blockbusters. Presented by Antipodes Theatre Presented by La Mama Theatre and several excellent puns.
Interactive Performance Theatre Cabaret Comedy
A Space is Held ACEtravaganza Ballads & Ballgowns Belligerent
A variety show featuring Feelings dressed up in couture!
asexual and aspec artists.
'A Space is Held' is a series of Following a sell-out Midsumma Jaxson & Carmelo have been
performance artworks presented 'ACEtravaganza' is variety show Festival premiere in 2021, Isis Avis described as Belligerent by past
live by multidisciplinary artists. featuring Melbourne's best asexual Loren returns to bring a bolder and lovers, come find out why. In their
The direct nature of performance and aspec artists curated by brighter 'Ballads & Ballgowns' to debut show, this brand-new stand-
will elevate ideas of queer bodies, comedienne and poet Nikki Viveca Midsumma Festival 2022. Witness up duo will explore sex (the gay
Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray displacement and anticolonialism Theatre Works, St Kilda The MC Showroom, Prahran once more the sheer glamour of The Butterfly Club - Downstairs, kind), mental health (mostly gay)
(Asexual Healing) and theatre
Melbourne CBD
29 Jan to a common knowledge better 5-6 Feb 2hrs and cabaret artist Artemis Muñoz 4-13 Feb 1hr 10m a lone drag queen, hiding in the and relationships (super gay).
understood by many. This afternoon spotlight, encrusted in a few more 9-10 Feb, 12 Feb 55m
Sat 2-6pm Sat 7:30pm | Sun 5pm (Asexy: Proud To Be Me). This show Mon-Sun 8:30pm | Meet and Greet
of performance from artists living experience following each show | Auslan: rhinestones and sequins. Pining Wed, Thu, Sat 10pm
Belligerent will lure out the absolute
FREE $35 full | $27 conc | $20 group (min 6) puts the "invisible orientation"
in Naarm aims to highlight the 7 Feb 8:30pm to the cardboard cut out moon worst version of yourself or, at the
Nudity | Coarse language Nudity | Coarse language | Adult
centre stage in a joyful celebration $35 full | $31 conc
complexity of the queer narrative never looked so mesmerising. One very least, help you embrace it.
Themes full of story, song and more! $35.50 full | $28 conc References to drug use | Suicide
Presented by Trocadero Art Space as well as the broad scope of a question remains; do you wanna see
Presented by Nikki Viveca and Artemis Strobe lights | Smoke/haze references
Image: by Sean Miles and Damien Laing performative practice. "Earnest, engaging and informative - as another numbah?!
Muñoz well as absolutely hilarious." The Music Presented by Isis Avis Loren Presented by Jaxson Garni & Carmelo
Image: by Cynthia Sobraty Image: by Suzanne Balding Instagram: @balladsandballgowns Costa
30 31Performance #midsumma Performance midsumma.org.au
Interactive Performance Variety Theatre Theatre
Benched by Jamila Beyond Rainbows Closet Drama CLUB NITE
Main www New show in town www Exploring trans masculinity This show is for the girls, the
A one-on-one performance and sexuality through gays, the thems, and the theys.
A spectacular that has never before
that ruminates on athleticism been seen under a Bigtop Marquee, patchworked Shakespeare. Bring your vape and meet us
within a disabled body. by combining cirque, cabaret, front left. SHABLAM.
"Would you have me false to my
stage, performers and dance into nature? Rather say I play the man After 112 days in lockdown, three
Even the players on the bench get one almighty and fierce world class
Footscray Community Arts, Footscray Coburg RSL, Coburg - Theatre Works - Blackbox Outdoor
I am." The Toff in Town, Melbourne CBD old friends reunite for a TGIF night
an orange slice. Pick the ball, shoe, entertainment show.
Stage, St Kilda of hilarity and chaos. A piercing
10-12 Feb 15m or frisbee and take a seat. Jamila 24, 25, 27, 29, 30 Jan 4hrs Drawing from Twelfth Night, 28-29 Jan, 9-10 Feb, 13 Feb 50m
Performers from all walks of life, 8-12 Feb 50m analysis of Melbourne's party
Thu-Sat 1:30-4:15pm, every 15 mins Main invites you to join them on the Tue-Sun 6:30pm | Fri-Sun 2pm Coriolanus and the broader Fri 9:30pm | Wed, Sat 7pm | Thu 8:30pm
locally and internationally. Such a scenes, CLUB NITE is a live-action
Access services: advance request required bench for an intimate moment of $64.50 full | $59.50 conc Tue-Sat 7:30pm Shakespeare canon, Closet Drama | Sun 6pm & 7:30pm | Club Nite, VIP After
diversified line up: drag queens, meme. Think lip syncs at Yah Yah's,
$15 full one-on-one storytelling, ruminating $35 full | $27 conc is part queer reading, part dating Party: 10 Feb
Strobe lights | Smoke/haze comedians, dancers, cirque artists, poorly rolled cigarettes at a house
on athleticism, childhood, and sim, inspired by the process of $25 full | $27 door sale
Presented by Midsumma Festival and Presented by Andrew Wheeler & Damian DJs (accompanied bar and snacks). Coarse language party, and frenetic dancing at an
Pillow Fight in association with Footscray
disability. adaptation and the balancing act of Strobe lights | References to drug use |
Syred Presented by Theatre Works. Co-Created underground park rave. Full of
Community Arts Limited shows, seats & door sales. visibility and privacy. Smoking on Stage | Sustained loud noises
"Jamila Main is a delightfully fresh by Dan Graham and Oliver Ross self-exploration and social politics,
Image: by Ren Williams powerhouse of talent" - The Advertiser Image: by Cynthia Sobraty Presented by Club Nite Company CLUB NITE is where you wanna be.
Theatre Music Comedy Comedy
Bottom by Willy Bowie Ball Cockatiel Cold-Blooded
Hudson A one-night-only celebration The award-winning debut of Australia's favourite queer
Bums, Beyoncé and burnt fish of David Bowie. Best Newcomer Charlie Lewin improv duo.
fingers. (MICF 2021).
Bowie Ball is back! Glam it up and Cold Blooded is an hour of
get ready for an anything-goes Charlie never felt like a magpie. flawlessly improvised sketches,
Locked in his bathroom during
extravaganza bringing together Which is probably a good thing, characters, and monologues
a tragic third date, Willy asks if
the best in music, art, fashion, and because they're all full of shit. completely made up on the spot
Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray | 'bottom' in the bedroom means The Night Cat, Melbourne Comedy Republic, Melbourne Comedy Republic, Melbourne
entertainment. Douse yourself in and inspired by the audience and a
The Butterfly Club - Upstairs, Melbourne 'bottom' in life. 28 Jan 6hrs glitter at our makeover stand, take 11-12 Feb 1hr From Catholic boy's school all 9 Feb 1hr special guest comedian. Come see
CBD
Fri 8pm in the creation of Bowie-inspired art Fri, Sat 7pm the way to Grindr, Cockatiel is a Wed 7pm Snake Pit deliver their signature
Bluestone Church: 1-5 Feb 9:30pm 1hr This is for anyone who hates making
pieces, stop by the other-worldly hilarious and heartfelt snapshot of brand of balls-to-the-wall comedy
$25 full | $20 conc | $20 group (min 6) the first move. Anyone who thinks $40 full | $30 conc $25 full $22 full | $18 conc
photo booth, win a prize for best the life of a queer kid trying to find that will have you rolling in your
The Butterfly Club: 7-12 Feb 8:30pm 1hr
they are unlovable. Anyone that's Strobe lights | Smoke/haze | Long Image: by Emma Holland Photography Coarse language
dressed, and dance along to the full his flock. grave.
$35 full | $31 conc | $28 group (min 6) ever tried to be someone they're periods of standing | Limited seating Presented by Snake Pit
not. available Bowie catalogue performed live. Let "He's here. He's queer. Snap up a ticket,
Image: by Ali Choudry Image: by Lyn Taylor "True improv comedy - hilarious and
Presented by Brooklyn Runaways your inner lightning bolt fly! quick!" - The Age chaotic" - Theatre Travels
Presented by Gavin Roach
Image: by Junior Deluise
Cabaret Circus Theatre Cabaret
BROAD Cab Suave Coming Out Diana: An Original
Aunty Gerry's back. A little party never killed Powerful award winning Cabaret
nobody... comedy.
Agnes Moorehead. Rhonda
Burchmore. Vivienne Westwood Dick Johnson investigates Cabaret As poignant as it is funny, this play
In his latest cabaret work, through
with a tit out. 5-star rock cabaret Suave, a questionable establishment explores the relationships between
original songs and tributes by the
veteran Geraldine Quinn (Spicks run by four scandalous dames. queer women and their straight
likes of Elton John, Jack Lynch
& Specks) grew up idolising bold, Spectacular acts and live music will friends.
Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park - Studio Theatre, The Butterfly Club - Upstairs, Melbourne shines a new light on one of the
brassy (mostly ginger) older transport you back in time in this
Albert Park Albert Park Albert Park Winner of the 2020 Queer CBD most important figures of the 20th
women. Now she's becoming one. Film Noir circus show.
27-29 Jan 1hr 3-5 Feb, 10-12 Feb 1hr 8-12 Feb 1hr Playwriting Award and the 2019 24-29 Jan 1hr century: Diana, Princess of Wales.
Accompanied by Cameron Thomas,
Bringing everything you love about Mudfest Emerging Artist Award, He hopes to capture through heart
Thu-Sat 9:30pm Quinn's back to help us all find our Thu-Sat 9:30pm | Auslan: 10 Feb 9:30 pm Tue-Sat 6:30pm | Sat 2:30pm Mon-Sat 7pm
vintage aesthetics, but with less 'Coming Out' delves into the and humour, the remarkable legacy
$35 full | $30 conc | $25 group (min 6) DGAF Dame. ALL are welcome in $26 preview | $32 full | $28 conc | $24 $25 preview | $32 full | $28 conc | $24 $35 full | $31 conc
misogyny and more polycules. A complexity of being an ally and the of the 'People's Princess': the glitz,
The Broad Church. group (min 6) group (min 6)
Coarse language | Smoke/haze Presented by The Butterfly Club the glamour, the heartbreak, the
story told by strong queer women, formidable task of coming out.
Presented by Geraldine Quinn "Hugely entertaining" - Daily Review Presented by Sparkle Society Coarse language Image: by Melinda Moulden tragedy and most importantly, the
and one token straight white man
wwwww Image: by EmmelineD Photography & Image: Lucy Holz "An entertaining and enriching audience love and profound impact she had
Image: by Geraldine Quinn (but don't worry, he has bi-wife
KTB Media experience" - Gasworks Arts Park
energy). and continues to have on the world.
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