A unique festival presented by Arts Mildura – curated by Maya Hodge and Daria Healy as a love letter to Mildura. Featuring a multitude of inter-disciplinary artists and musicians over three days.
FRIDAY 24 MARCH
Mildura Arts Centre, Cureton Avenue
The inaugural SUN-TIDE Festival will kick off at the Mildura Arts Centre theatre with the Kiilalaana Tiddas dancers followed by two of Australia’s most exciting artists – Mildura-raised Wemba Wemba rapper Philly followed by Wergaia singer-songwriter Alice Skye. It will be a night of staunch lyrics, soulful melodies and punchy beats.
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SATURDAY 25 MARCH
Arts Mildura Hub, 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura
I am Root
Olenka Toroshenko is a Ukrainian Canadian artist, writer and producer whose life is in service to a saner, meaningful existence. She is a multidisciplinary performer whose mediums include spoken word poetry, dance, clown, song, storytelling, butoh and ritual performance art. Issues of cultural preservation and death are common themes of her work.
Performing her theater show ‘I am Root’, an exploration of Toroshenko’s Ukrainian and Canadian ancestry through an eclectic mix of Ukrainian poetry, storytelling, dance, comedy and even cooking. It’s a deep and playful ritual performance piece that explores life, death, Ukrainian culture and Vegemite.
Spoken Word, Farhan Shah & Sufi Oz, MUD IMPROV
Triple threat event, spoken word, live music and a community minded event.
Kicking off our spoken word and performance night, come thruuuu to the Arts Mildura Hub with a spoken word session from Maaori (Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Ahuru, Tainui/Waikato) performer Kori [FKA Sean Miles], Luritja DJ and storyteller Jenna Rain Warwick, sound bath performance duo flautist Molly Jenkins and Lardil Yangkaal violinist Maya Hodge.
Farhan Shah & Sufi Oz
Led by Farhan Shah “The Pakistani Pavarotti”, Australia’s Sufi music super-group has created a mesmerising global sound that both celebrates and innovates the rich traditions and modern appeal of qawwali and Sufi music from South Asia and the Middle East.
Farhan has gathered around him a team of experienced musical souls that have this same affinity. Together they have created a new brand of global music. They come from Syria, France, Japan, Ireland, Fiji and call Australia home. Under the banner of ‘SufiOz’ they present a musical entry into the world of Sufi music and it’s powerful mystical message of peace, tolerance and the search for meaning.
MUD Improv
MUD Improvisation and Extended Domains is an Adelaide-based arts initiative that promotes the work of emerging and experimental performance-based artists across music, dance, sound art, and multimedia. MUD will be hosting artists from across the Sun-Tide program to collaborate through improvised techniques. Expect graphic scores (shapes making sounds), wild harmonic extravagance, rhythmic modulations and a good dose of crowd participation. MUD will also be hosting discussions with the artists and audience, exploring the specifics of creative, improvised, and experimental arts practice. Giving us all a chance to investigate what the bloody hell improvisation is anyway?!
Mini Music Fest
SUNDAY 26 MARCH
Arts Mildura Hub, 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura
An afternoon and evening of dance, music and energetic performances who will transport you to another realm. Come along to witness the smooth sounds of Tandarnya-based artists Aidan ‘J’ Jones, Kazimierz Collective, Plastiq, and Nu-article followed by staunch Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjantjara (APY) Lands collective Dem Mob, mercenary instrumentalist producer, composer, and engineer Pataphysics and Tokyo-born Naarm-based violinist, producer, curator, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Elle Shimada and her outstanding collective. Live chaos and long form performance work from the ever-strange hyper coloured characters of The Bait Fridge. What are they doing? No one ever really knows.
Sun-Tide Festival is a diverse combination of performance sure to whet your appetite!
