You Are Here Festival 2014 program by New Best Friend

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THE MONEY BIN (YAH HQ) GORMAN ARTS CENTRE (GAC) CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE (GAC) CANBERRA YOUTH THEATRE (C BLOCK THEATRE, GAC) THE PHOENIX PUB SMITHS ALTERNATIVE BOOKSHOP AINSLIE PLACE PETRIE PLAZA NEWACTON PRECINCT CANBERRA MUSEUM AND GALLERY 2XX 98.3 FM TRANSIT BAR GAREMA PLACE ANU FOOD CO-OP LONSDALE ST ROASTERS 23 LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN CITY WALK THE STATION AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS (ANCA) 1 ROSEVEAR PLACE DICKSON

FORE WOR In 2014, You Are Here is proud to be back as absurd and delightful as ever, with yet another program brimming over with events encompassing theatre, music, dance, poetry, visual arts, creative communities and everything in between. In our short life, You Are Here has drawn together diverse and extremely talented artists, uniting them with unusual locations and enthusiastic audiences ready to explore the unknown. Renewal and transformation are at the heart of the festival year after year, and we are grateful to be able to continue to develop and further the momentum behind You Are Here with funding from the ACT Government, as well as ongoing support provided by Canberra CBD Ltd. This year marks a big change for the festival as we farewell the brilliant team that was David Finnigan, Yolande Norris and Adam Hadley. In 2014, producers Nick Delatovic, Sarah Kaur and Vanessa Wright take charge, joined by Adelaide Rief and Andrew Galan. Even though there have been some changes, You Are Here continues to be a festival inspired by Canberra’s artistic community, as much as it is conceived in the mind of the producers. And we do what we do so that artists can experiment with ideas, take risks and create work that challenges our conceptions of what art can be (and who it’s for). Taking risks is a significant act in this world, and we’re ready to let You Are Here swerve into the traffic of life and continue to foster a community that is ready to take chances, create and observe new work, explore new ideas and new ways of defining Canberra.

And we can’t do any of this without the aces up our sleeve; the staff, artists and audiences willing to take a leap with us, to trust us and to continually turn up with open and inquiring minds, no matter what crazy ideas we throw at you. Without your support this wouldn’t be a festival, it wouldn’t be a thing at all, so thank you.

Vanessa, Nick, Sarah, Adelaide & Andrew

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I am delighted the ACT Government is once again supporting the You Are Here festival in 2014. You Are Here is an energetic and dynamic event that supports emerging and independent artists and invites the community to participate in its activities, which are held throughout the city. The ACT is fortunate to be home to a vibrant arts community which brings our city to life with colour, movement, music and incredible talent. The ACT Government recognises that the You Are Here festival, now in its fourth year, is an important part of our artistic landscape and is pleased to continue its support.

The You Are Here Festival has become a significant highlight of Canberra’s cultural calendar and a key fixture of the Canberra arts scene. The festival is fast emerging as a pre-eminent experimental annual celebration, providing opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their arts and cultural talent.

Working with Canberra CBD Limited, You Are Here presents arts activity in non-traditional venues, revitalising city spaces and showcasing Canberra as a youthful and vibrant city.

The festival has received significant support from the ACT Arts Fund, through its Program category, to continue to stage the event. My thanks also goes to Canberra CBD Ltd, which is a strong supporter of the event and will once again assist with funding and offering street front shops and unused offices in the city for performances and events. The enthusiastic and dedicated team of You Are Here producers have curated a program of diverse and experimental arts activities that is sure to attract a strong live audience and interactive social media exchange across Australia.

The ACT Government is proud to support You Are Here through the ACT Event Fund, which assists local festivals and events that enrich our community’s experience of living in and visiting Canberra.

Launching at this year’s festival, through the support of the ACT Arts Fund, is Canberra Zine Emporium Zine Vending Machine, which will showcase the fabulous works of Canberra’s zine and comic makers. Following the festival, the ‘Zine Machine’ will tour to several locations in the ACT region.

I warmly welcome interstate visitors to our beautiful city, to immerse themselves in You Are Here 2014 and I encourage Canberrans to explore the novel and unique aspects of this exciting cultural celebration.

I encourage all Canberrans to show your support for our local artists and join in the celebrations, performances and activities the 2014 You Are Here festival has to offer. There is sure to be an exciting event offering for everyone.

Minister Andrew Barr

Minister Joy Burch

WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL The You Are Here festival is one of the most exciting events in Canberra’s strong 2014 artistic programme. The festival brings together Canberra’s safest performers with some special national and international guests that have been stringently screened for your protection. I would like to commend the tireless work of our Chief of Public Relations, Ms X, who has gone well above the call of duty to personally investigate the private lives of each and every individual associated with the festival. For far too long the Canberra arts scene has been challenged by artistic terrorists, holding innocent audiences to ransom with their radical ideas of ‘art’. It would be better that the shameful scenes of the three previous indulgent and debauched You Are Here festivals be expunged from the pages of history. But let us not dwell on the former administration’s mistakes. The content of this year’s festival is rich, vibrant and most of all, Acceptable. As you will no doubt be aware, the Benevolent Ministry of Art recently released the updated Doctrines of Acceptable Art. I personally lead the development of the updated Doctrines. Happily they have already enabled the exclusion of several risky and unsavoury items from this festival. The remaining performances are therefore Scientifically Proven to be entirely Acceptable Art. I hope you will take the time to enjoy this You Are Here festival, in moderation. Mr B Chairman, Benevolent Ministry of Art bmoa.net.au @Real_Mister_B

ACK NOWLEDGE MENTS Producers Vanessa Wright Nick Delatovic Sarah Kaur Adelaide Rief Andrew Galan Operations Manager Karmin Cooper Production Manager Nikki Kennedy Technical Manager  Nick McCorriston Festival Space Design George Rose Festival Coordinators  Nathan Harrison Lucy Nelson Rachel Roberts Photography and Videography Adam Thomas Erica Hurrell Shane Parsons Sound and Lighting Dirty Deeds Event Sound Graphic & Web Design New Best Friend

You Are Here is presented with support from the ACT Government through Arts ACT, Events ACT and with sponsorship from Canberra CBD Limited. You Are Here is supported by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, which are ACT Government Arts Facilities managed by Gorman Arts Centre Inc. a not-for-profit association. Thank you to all our artists, venues and supporters, particularly: Robyn Archer Beverly Growden Minister Andrew Barr Minister Joy Burch Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres The Childers Group Canberra Museum and Gallery Jones Lang LaSalle Smith’s Alternative The Phoenix BMA Magazine 2XX FM NewActon The ANU Food Co-op Canberra Contemporary Art Space Lonsdale St Roasters 23

Australian National Capital Art Gallery Canberra Theatre Centre National Capital Authority ACT Government Territory and Municipal Services Jane Easthope Shane Breynard Michael Bailey Manny Notaras Nigel Featherstone Ian Pidd Gemma Pepper Bea Brickhill David Whitney Anne Robinson Robert Piani Victor Violante Kurt Steele Luke Robinson Peter Barclay Karen Noad Bianca Jones Special thanks goes out to our secret weapon, Alicia Doherty, of Canberra CBD Limited; without her tireless venue wrangling none of this would be possible. Last but not least, thank you to our amazing audiences; it’s a total pleasure having you along for this wild ride.

Attribution for a collection of images used within our illustrations goes to: National Archives of Australia via photos.naa.gov.au, Drregor via Flickr, fivequinns via Flickr, crimfants via Flickr, Greg Wass via Flickr, _motormouse_ via Flickr.

THROUGH THE FEST ZINE VENDING MACHINE When: 12pm–late Where: The Money Bin

THE MONEY BIN When: Everyday of the festival from 12pm til late Where: Petrie Plaza, next door to Cube and Smoque, opposite the Labor Club and near the Merry-goround. The Money Bin is You Are Here’s new home for 2014. Previously the ANZ Bank, You Are Here has transformed this once money filled vault into a prosperous artistic hub (sadly all the money is gone though). Drop by for a wealth of events, including lucrative theatre, profitable poetry, cost-effective installations and money-making music. Whether you are after a cash prize or just a rewarding experience, The Money Bin has you covered.

ARTIST OLYMPICS When: Daily from 6pm–7pm Where: Check the website and Facebook for more details Five artforms. 10 days. 10 challenges. One winner. You Are Here, Applespiel and the International Olympic Committee bring you exclusive coverage of the Canberra 2014 Artist Olympic Games, featuring live event commentary and interviews with our nation’s best artists. Every day of the festival a select and highly trained squad of artists compete in a challenging multidisciplinary arts event for points, with one winner and plenty of glory. You can get all the updates about your favourite competitor as the results of each challenge are reported on our website, send fan messages through social media; form your own cheer squad and attend the challenges as they happen!

A vending machine for... zines? The Canberra Zine Emporium collective, with support from ArtsACT invite you to drop some coins at the Canberra Zine Vending Machine! Touring the ACT throughout 2014, the Canberra Zine Vending Machine will be stocked with zines by ACT practitioners – it will be your one stop zine vending shop! Artists: Canberra Zine Emporium

HEXIDECIBEL When: 12pm–late Where: The Money Bin Music just isn’t music unless it’s coming out of 16 independently programmable speakers set up in a circle with accompanying LED strips. There, we said it. Artists: Sam King, Adam Thomas, Reuben Ingall, Paul Heslin, Charles Martin

Artists: Applespiel and competitors

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

HEART HAND HOME When: 12pm–late Where: The Money Bin Heart Hand Home is a group of Canberra women of all ages and cultural backgrounds working together; to create meaningful and beautiful art and installations as a means to provoke and encourage the public to explore ideas of interculturalism and the meaning of community in our society today. Artist Nicola Lambert coordinates and supports the group’s activities. Find Heart Hand Home’s interactive installation in the Money Bin. Artists: Nicola Lambert and Heart Hand Home

PAPERCUTS When: Throughout the festival Where: scissorspaperpen. wordpress.com A small yet daring team of Papercutters has been assembled by the Scissors Paper Pen team. Charged with the challenge of slicing up the You Are Here festival program with their biting wit, keen eye for quality and deft words of opinion. Keep an eye out for their reviews on the Scissors Paper Pen website and @scissorpaperpen (note the singular scissor). Artists: Scissors Paper Pen

IMAGE CREDIT: NICOLA LAMBERT

THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL

HOUT TIVAL

IMAGE CREDIT: NEWSPAPER CLUB VIA FLICKR

LETTERS TO A SUBURB When: Daily Where: YAH website and at Blurred Lines

YOU THERE!

POP UP TRIKE

When: Available during the festival Where: The Money Bin and other festival venues

When: Wherever it pops up! Where: Check our website for details

If this here finely printed program is not enough to satisfy your need for words on our many-splendoured festival then roll up for the very first, hot off the press edition of You There! With interviews, reflections, pre-emptive reviews, personals ads, quizzes, crosswords and a fold out poster – You There! is your perfect guide to the kookier, slightly left of centre side of the festival (and the perfect thing for the back of your toilet door). Pick up a copy at the festival spaces or find the digital version on our website.

Do you want your art all of the time, in all of the places? Of course you do. The Pop Up Trike is a roaming gallery space that features the work of local artists and conveniently packs down onto the back of a trike. Operating throughout the festival you can catch the Trike at events such as Neon Night Rider, Free Music for Rich Kids and Blurred Lines. Keep an eye on our website and social media for more updates about where and when the trike will be popping up.

You Are Here has invited writers and artists with a connection to Canberra to compose a letter to a Canberra suburb. We asked for poetry, short stories and artistic collaborations, all composed with a memory or an experience of Canberra in mind. In the lead up to the festival the resulting works have been posted to randomly selected addresses across Canberra – so you might just find one in your letterbox. But, if the postman doesn’t deliver you a letter then you can find these works on our website or pick one up from the You Are Here Letter Box at Blurred Lines, on Sunday 23 March at Gorman Arts Centre. Artists: Pascalle Burton, Duncan Felton, Good Ghost Bill with Paul Summerfield, Adam Hadley, Matt Hetherington, Raphael Kabo with Zoe Anderson, Aaron Kirby with Fiona McLeod, Tessa Rose

Curated by George Rose

Artists: Chiara Grassia and Lucy Nelson

IMAGE CREDIT: GEORGE ROSE

IMAGE CREDIT: SARAH KAUR AND PASCALLE BURTON

When: Tuesday to Saturday 11am–5pm Where: Canberra Contemporary Art Space

IMAGE CREDIT: WALRUS

PASTE UP ACROSS CONTINENTS When: Daily Where: The Internet Canberra’s alleys and city corners feature a diverse array of paste-ups; DIY street art with localism at its heart. This year, You Are Here is going to flip this on its head and take Canberra paste ups out into the world! We have created an online repository of paste up templates from Canberra artists, which can be downloaded, printed and pasted up in the world. So call your friends overseas and at home and get them pasting, it’s time to spread the art.

Blaze is said by some to symbolically open the art year in Canberra, and this year it will go off with a bang. The artists included in Blaze 8 are making work that is bigger, bolder and punchier than they have previously dared. From Alex Lewis’ gigantic labyrinthine staircase to S.A. Adair’s massive felt drawing installation, from Martin James’ poignant and political large-scale prints to Katy Mutton’s cloudscape ink drawings of World War II aircraft in flight, Blaze 8 will take viewers to new heights. Artists: S.A. Adair, Katherine Griffiths, Martin James, Alex Lewis, Hardy Lohse, Katy Mutton, Jemima Parker, Timothy Phillips

Artists: to be announced, check the website for more details

IMAGE CREDIT: ALEX LEWIS

THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL

BLAZE 8

THU 13 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

10am–4pm

The Filth Residency

The Station

6pm–7.30pm

Zine Vending Machine Launch

The Money Bin

6.15pm–6.45pm

Maitland Schnaars with Emma Kelly

Gorman Arts Centre

7pm–8pm

Cut Snake

C Block Theatre at Gorman Arts Centre

8pm–9.30pm

She’s Lost Control

The Money Bin

MAITLAND SCHNAARS WITH EMMA KELLY When: 6.15pm–6.45pm Where: Gorman Arts Centre Maitland Schnaars and Emma Kelly collaborate to bring you a hybrid performance work incorporating music and poetry.

THE FILTH RESIDENCY When: 10am–4pm Where: The Station 1972. Australia’s capital city. No, Canberra. No, not Melbourne either. Detective Glyn Roberts and Defective Tobias M-G are the Governor General’s Finest, newly appointed special constables. Diplomacy! High-level governance! Sheep! MKA are researching and creating the script for the pilot cult-stage show that precedes the hit TV show that Aunty will buy. SBS TWO? Each day using the exciting new formerly defence force only technology of ‘the internet’, The Filth, will share short recordings of their investigations and on the final night present the text for you the people who’ll buy the t-shirts. Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

IMAGE CREDIT: CARAGH BROOKS

ZINE VENDING MACHINE LAUNCH When: 6pm–7.30pm Where: The Money Bin A vending machine for... zines? The Canberra Zine Emporium collective, with support from ArtsACT invite you to drop some coins at the launch of the Canberra Zine Vending Machine! Touring the ACT throughout 2014, the Canberra Zine Vending Machine will be stocked with zines by ACT practitioners it will be your one stop zine vending shop! Join the CZE collective as they launch, vend... and read from zines stocked from within. The Canberra Zine Vending Machine will be located in The Money Bin for the duration of festival.

Maitland Schnaars creates hybrid performance pieces combining poetry, multimedia, visual art, movement and sound. A graduate of Theatre and Acting for Camera at the Western Australian Academy Performing Arts, he also studied Contemporary Performance at Edith Cowan University. In 2003 he won the Western Mining Corp award for Best Indigenous Male Artist and in 2005 co-founded the international theatre company Corazon de Vaca who were commissioned to create a brand new work to be premiered at the World EXPO in Zaragoza, Spain. Maitland continues to develop his skills as a writer, performer and creator. Violinist, composer and vocalist, Emma Kelly has written and performed in some of Canberra’s most well-regarded bands, including The Ellis Collective, Mr Fibby, Fun Machine and Cracked Actor, and is becoming an increasing presence on the electronic music scene. Artists: Maitland Schnaars and Emma Kelly

Artists: Canberra Zine Emporium

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

THU13

CUT SNAKE When: 7pm–8pm Where: C Block Theatre at Gorman Arts Centre Kiki, Bob and Jumper are best friends with extravagant and idiosyncratic dreams. Kiki wants to dance the tango on Mount Kilimanjaro with a bearded lady, Jumper is in love with a snake called Trix and Bob’s an ordinary bloke who might just hold the secret to time travel. A comedy about growing up, dying young and being extraordinary no matter what. Following sell-out seasons at the Melbourne and Sydney Fringe Festivals, Brisbane Festival and Theatreworks St Kilda, plus heaps of awards and nominations, Canberra Youth Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre and YAH are proud to co-present the first ACT production of Arthur Productions’ Cut Snake.

SHE’S LOST CONTROL When: 8pm–9.30pm Where: The Money Bin All-girl art collective, Hissy Fit present She’s Lost Control, a lecture performance exploring the action of headbanging through its dual somatic relationship to the performance of hysteria and the contemporary rock, punk and heavy metal music culture of the MTV generation.

Please note Cut Snake is a ticketed event – bookings @ www.cytc.net

Within She’s Lost Control, Hissy Fit tie together live performance, video, queer theory and psychoanalysis in this lecture spectacle.

Written by: Amelia Evans, Dan Giovannoni and Paige Rattray.

Artists: Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor and Nat Randall IMAGE CREDIT: HEIDRUN LOHR

FRI 14 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

10am–4pm

The Filth Residency

The Station

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Olivia Monticciolo and Matty Ellis, Amelia Filmer-Sankey

The Money Bin

5pm–8pm

Admit-one

The Money Bin

7pm–8pm

Cut Snake

Gorman Arts Centre, C Block Theatre

7pm–8pm

She’s Lost Control

The Money Bin

8pm–12am

Free Music for Rich Kids

Ainslie Place, Gorman Arts Centre, The Phoenix, The Money Bin

7, 2, 5, 1

THE FILTH RESIDENCY When: 10am–4pm Where: The Station Residency Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Café But how did that You Are Here event really go? Join our festival artists in the CMAG foyer for a facilitated discussion about their practice and the event they’ve just presented. We’ll be nice, we promise.

ADMIT-ONE When: 5pm–8pm Where: The Money Bin Admit-one is an intimate, site specific, interactive performance work combining dance, theatre and installation. Personal, reactive and responsive, a single audience member is invited to uncover something of themselves directing and guiding the experience that unfolds. Independent solo artists Tanya and Alison are concerned with the impact of solitary and oneon-one creative practice, both process and performance, and blur the line between performer and audience member. Artists: Alison Plevey and Tanya Voges

When do we pull our head out of the sand and face the music? Melbourne theatre maker Olivia Monticciolo teams up with Canberra singer/songwriter Matty Ellis in this exploration of love, and hardship. Come down to the beach and be washed away by the Black Words. Also featured, poet-at-large Amelia Filmer-Sankey. Artists: Olivia Monticciolo and Matty Ellis, Amelia FilmerSankey

IMAGE CREDIT: SARAH WALKER

CUT SNAKE When: 7pm–8pm Where: C Block Theatre at Gorman Arts Centre Repeat Performance See Thursday 13 Written by: Amelia Evans, Dan Giovannoni and Paige Rattray.

FRI14 FREE MUSIC FOR RICH KIDS

SHE’S LOST CONTROL When: 7pm–8pm Where: The Money Bin Repeat Performance See Thursday 13 Artists: Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor and Nat Randall

When: 8pm–12am Where: Ainslie Place, Gorman Arts Centre, The Phoenix, The Money Bin You Are Here is taking one of the ACT’s most precious resources – our wealth of musical talent – and giving it away for nothing! It’s a multistage music festival in the heart of the city, without the ticket prices or the food and bathroom lines. 18 bands across four stages in four hours, presented by You Are Here, Cinnamon Records, The Canberra Musicians Club and Subsequence Radio. How many bands can you see? Artists: Sex Noises, Spartak, Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens, Waterford, Burrows, Cracked Actor, Faux Faux Ami, Schoolgirl Report, Orlando Furious, Yard Duty, Territory, Spindrift Saga, Suede Merit and more!

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

SAT 15 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

10am–4pm

The Filth Residency

The Station

1pm–7pm

Art, Not Apart

NewActon Precinct

12pm–1pm

Boogie Battalion

Garema Place

2pm–3pm

How to survive an attack of the Internet troll

The Money Bin

5pm–6pm

FINDING S___ T____

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

The Circular City

The Money Bin

6pm

A KREWD Night

Petrie Plaza Merry-Go-Round

7pm–8.30pm

gRage: Chris and Pete Huet

The Money Bin

7.30pm

A KREWD Night

Petrie Plaza Merry-Go-Round

7.30pm–8.30pm

The Exorcism of Megan Clune and Angela Goh

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

7.30pm–9.30pm

Word Co-op

ANU Food Co-op

9pm

A KREWD Night

Petrie Plaza Merry-Go-Round

9pm–12am

in case of sound: round one

Canberra Museum and Gallery

12am–7am Sunday

The Night Fort

Canberra Museum and Gallery

THE FILTH BOOGIE RESIDENCY BATTALION When: 10am–4pm Where: The Station

When: 12pm–1pm Where: Garema Place

Residency

In a once-off You Are Here event, a battalion of tiny disco soldiers (your children) will make their noisy way from one end of Garema Place to the other by dancing/marching their hearts out to a dazzling and dance-able array of songs without swear words.

Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

ART, NOT APART When: 1pm–7pm and after party 7pm–late Where: NewActon Canberra is a fish bowl. We have a unique vision looking out, we see the world differently and so do our poets, musicians, painters, street artists, writers, sculptors and performers. Canberrans dip out. The collaborations and inspirations we bring back are on show at Art, Not Apart. Interstate leaders, local legends and emerging young guns will spread across laneways, courtyards, gardens and 20 indoor venues (exhibitions, concrete shells, cafes) across NewActon. Art, Not Apart – jump in. Festival program at newacton. com.au/ana

Bring the lovely little person in your life to Garema Place and help them dance their way to our final destination, Funky Town! Silly costumes and home made instruments optional, but heartily encouraged. Artists: No Lights No Lycra

IMAGE CREDIT: PAUL PHILLIPSON

HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATTACK OF THE INTERNET TROLL When: 2pm–3pm Where: The Money Bin Writing on the Internet is not easy – as the walls between reader and writer dissolve, criticism is no longer limited to Letters to the Editor, and can instead result in comments telling you that you are a meaningless piece of shit at all hours of the day and night. With some writers even being driven to attempted suicide from internet trolling, it’s time to talk survival tips and coping mechanisms. Lip Magazine has assembled three experienced troll–survivors who will talk the ethics of Internet commentary, how to cope with nasty comments, and consider the question, at what point we accept trolling as part of the new media landscape? Artists: Zoya Patel (Lip Magazine), Joel Barcham (formerly of RiotACT), Melissa Wellham (Mamamia), Samantha Bradley (Woroni)

IMAGE CREDIT: PRUE STENT

IMAGE CREDIT: CALI4BEACH VIA FLICKR

When: 5pm–6pm Where: The Money Bin Finding S___ T____ is morally questionable, theatrically simple and profoundly moving. A work of pure non-fiction it provides an unparalleled opportunity to experience firsthand the thoughts, emotions and innermost secrets of a young man searching for himself and his place in the world from the confines of his prison cell through the reading of his private handwritten journal. Artists: Dean Cross

THE CIRCULAR CITY

SAT15

FINDING S___ T____

When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Description: Remember the first time you arrived? You’d always spoken the language of overpasses, skyscrapers and tram tracks, and in this new place you had no phrasebook or map, bell or key or candle. And someone said you shouldn’t have come in the first place, but here you are, trying to blend into the architecture just to belong.

IMAGE CREDIT: ZOË ANDERSON AND RAPHAEL KABO

Zoë Anderson and Raphael Kabo remember. They’ve been writing words about cities, and somehow this happened: part myth, part play, part storytelling, it’s an ode to what cities are, what cities could be, and what happens when you try to blend into the architecture but the architecture doesn’t like you. Artists: Zoë Anderson and Raphael Kabo.

A KREWD NIGHT When: 6pm, 7.30pm, 9pm Where: Petrie Plaza Merry-GoRound A KREWD Night is a live-art gallery performance. It takes you into the lost childhood dreams of a KREWD imagination. Artists: Max Barker, KREWD Sisters, Lucy Matthews, Harley Quinn, Tammy Pax and Andrew Eddey, Luminary Performances, Dirt Baby.

IMAGE CREDIT: ELLA WILKES PHOTOGRAPHY

gRAGE When: 7pm–8.30pm Where: The Money Bin Join us as we recreate the experience of sprawling on the couch watching music videos on Rage, LIVE in The Money Bin. Over the festival, You Are Here will feature a selection of artists guest-programming a selection of their favourite video clips, complete with interviews, discussion and live performances. This year gRage will be presented by Yen Eriksen, one of the hosts of Friday Night Lip Service on 2XX FM. Chris ‘CJ Bowerbird’ is a performance poet and former Australian Poetry Slam champion. His brother Pete plays bass in beloved indierock band Waterford. They’ve never shared a stage, let alone negotiated their individual tastes in music in front of a live audience – until now!

THE EXORCISM OF MEGAN CLUNE AND ANGELA GOH

WORD CO-OP

When: 7.30pm–8.30pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

Word Co-op is Canberra’s most feel-good bi-monthly evening dedicated to showcasing poetry. It provides a forum for extended poetry performances and is an opportunity for poets to define the space with their words. Curated and hosted by Amelia Filmer-Sankey and Andrew Galan at the Australian National University Food Coop, this You Are Here edition brings together distinct voices from Canberra, Brisbane and Austin, Texas.

The Exorcism of Megan Clune and Angela Goh is a performance which simultaneously reproduces and annihilates itself, becoming possessed in order to save itself. All of the music which has ever been learnt by the musician Megan Clune, and all the dance which has ever been learnt by the dancer Angela Goh, is transformed through the ceremony of exorcism. It interrogates ideas of authenticity and authorship, and reveals the work of the performer and the expectation of the audience. It steals from everywhere and owns everything, in order to conjure up history and channel a new future. Artists: Angela Goh and Megan Clune

Artists: Chris and Pete Huet

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

IMAGE CREDIT: ANGELA GOH

When: 7.30pm–9.30pm Where: ANU Food Co-op

Artists: Dr P. S. Cottier, Ma Ya Ga Ng Re Ne, Good Ghost Bill and Roshelle Fong

SAT15

IN CASE OF SOUND: ROUND ONE When: 9pm–12am Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Two sessions showing what Canberra’s sonic experiments are sounding like right now: a bliss of reverb, piercing glitches, bleeps and luscious beats, microwave drones and live coding. Round one injects the difficult stuff to get you magic eyed and introspective, ready for The Night Fort. Details will be in transmission to where you are already. Tune in, be with. Artists: to be announced, check the website for more details

THE NIGHT FORT When: 12am–7am Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Commencing with round one of in case of sound, featuring performances from the best of Canberra’s experimental electronic musicians and slowly seguing into a durational sleep experiment, You Are Here is very proud to present our second overnight event in partnership with the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Inhabiting the foyer of CMAG, constructed from blankets, sheets and the varied contrivances of peaceful slumber, The Night Fort is your very own midnight kingdom. Tuck yourself into your sleeping bag for an evening of mysterious storytelling, blissful projection, subtle screenings and ambient performance that will lull you into a state that exists somewhere between reality and fiction. Limited capacity, be there by 12.30am to secure your sleeping spot. Artists: Danny Wild, Robbie Karmel, Emma Gibson, Maitland Schnaars and Thomas Day, Finnigan and Brother, Shoeb Ahmad, Beau Anthony Deurwaarder and more special guests

IMAGE CREDIT: SARAH WALKER

SUN 16 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

10am–4pm

The Filth Residency

The Station

4.30pm–5.30pm

Pretext

The Money Bin

5.30pm–6.30pm

FINDING S___ T____

The Money Bin

7pm–9pm

Lip-readings

Smith’s Alternative

7pm–8.30pm

gRage: Burrows

The Money Bin

7.30pm–8.30pm

The Exorcism of Megan Clune and Angela Goh

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

8.30pm–9pm

I Gave My Soul To Rock'n'Roll and Didn't Charge Anything

The Money Bin

9pm–9.05pm

The Grownups

Smith’s Alternative

9pm–10.30pm

The Chronic-Ills of Robert Zimmerman, AKA Bob Dylan (A Lie): A Theatrical Talking Blues & Glissendorf

The Money Bin

THE FILTH FINDING RESIDENCY S___ T____ When: 10am–4pm Where: The Station

When: 5.30pm–6.30pm Where: The Money Bin

Residency

Repeat Performance See Saturday 15

Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

Artists: Dean Cross

PRETEXT

LIP-READINGS

When: 4.30pm–5.30pm Where: The Money Bin

When: 7pm–9pm Where: Smith’s Alternative

In an elegant bar, she walked in. She looked great. And I was moved to write her a poem that didn’t rhyme. And we danced through love letters that defined relationships from the 1990’s to forever.

Lip Magazine’s successful feminist readings night is ready to take on You Are Here! Featuring four women reading to a theme, we’ll make you laugh, make you cry, and hopefully make you FEMINIST. Lipreadings showcases Canberra women from across industries, backgrounds and areas of expertise; everyone has a story, and we want to hear them!

With all our face-spaces and tweeties, it is easy to see how advances in technology have affected the way we communicate and connect with each other. Pretext traces a love affair that spans multiple modes of communication – from love letters through to emails and eyephones of the imagined future. But how does the transformative nature of communication affect the language of love? Does technology make us colder, more distant or does ‘I love you’ mean the same thing in any font? Artists: Written by Phil Setren, presented by Deviant Theatre

The theme for this special edition of Lip-readings is Suddenly, a Knock: Stories of Change. You’re sitting at a home when you hear it: a knock at the door. A phone call. A sudden exchange of words. Change can come quickly. All-of-a-sudden you’re hurtling down different roads, re-imagining your life with a different lens. Artists: Lip Magazine, Cathy McGowan, Helen Baxendale, Nicky Grigg

IMAGE CREDIT: ALAN WEEDON

gRAGE When: 7pm–8.30pm Where: The Money Bin Join us as we recreate the experience of sprawling on the couch watching music videos on Rage, LIVE in The Money Bin. Over the festival, You Are Here will feature a selection of artists guest-programming a selection of their favourite video clips, complete with interviews, discussion and live performances. This year gRage will be presented by Yen Eriksen, one of the hosts of Friday Night Lip Service on 2XX FM. Which famous songs and videos were formative on the brains of everyone’s favorite heart-rending acoustic songstrels Burrows? Come along to find out, plus see them perform! Artists: Burrows

SUN16

THE EXORCISM OF MEGAN CLUNE AND ANGELA GOH When: 7:30pm–8.30pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 Repeat Performance See Saturday 15 Artists: Angela Goh and Megan Clune

I GAVE MY SOUL TO ROCK’N’ROLL AND DIDN’T CHARGE ANYTHING When: 8.30pm–9pm Where: The Money Bin Following on from 2011’s Tom, Bob and Me and 2013’s Max Barker Sings the Blues, Melbourne theatre maker Max Barker is proud to present the third in his series of solo shows exploring the many facets of his one true love – rock’n’roll. With punk aesthetic, the swagger of Jagger, the everyman appeal of the E Street band and the egomania of the Gallagher brothers, Max waxes lyrical about the many ways that the music he loves inspires, amazes and amuses him. Rock’n’roll will never die, and if it does, Max Barker is sure as hell going down with it. Artists: Max Barker

THE GROWNUPS When: 9pm–9.05pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Bookstore NEWSFLASH! Observe a brand new scientific and theatrical curiosity! Pablo Kq Latona (Funsmith and Purveyor Of Odd Happenings) has performed the world’s first speech transplant. Taking the iridescent words of small children, and successfully transplanting them into the mouths of fully-grown adults. The results are interesting and entertaining to behold. www.thegrownups.com.au Artists: Pablo Latona

THE CHRONICILLS OF ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, AKA BOB DYLAN (A LIE): A THEATRICAL TALKING BLUES & GLISSENDORF When: 9pm–10.30pm Where: The Money Bin After three Sydney seasons and success across Australia, Zimmerman hits the ACT. The Sydney Morning Herald says: ‘... this 75-minute tribute takes its audience on a twisted walk through the many phases of Dylan’s life in song and jive-talk. Fact, fiction and apocrypha are cleverly and confusingly blended.’ Artists: Andrew Henry, Lenore Munro, Daniel O’Leary, Matt Ralph and Simon Rippingale. Written by Benito Di Fonzo. Directed by Lucinda Gleeson

MON 17 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

10am–4pm

The Filth Residency

The Station

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

12pm–5pm

Zonk Vision residency

The Money Bin

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Tom Woodward

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Loner Sessions: Ensemble Metatone

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

6pm–7pm

The Filth

The Money Bin

7pm–8.30pm

gRage: Anja Loughhead

The Money Bin

7.30pm–8pm

Square Nebula

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

8pm–12am

The Secret Bootlegs

The Phoenix

9pm–10pm

Glitoris

The Money Bin

10pm–11pm

Canberra, a utopian ideal

The Money Bin

THE FILTH RESIDENCY When: 10am–4pm Where: The Station Residency Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

LONER SESSIONS

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Cafe Repeat Event See Friday 14

ZONK VISION RESIDENCY When: 12pm–5pm Where: The Money Bin During their residency, Zonk Vision will be creating an interactive and immersive multimedia, multi-room cubby house. The exterior of the cubby house will be stitched together by various sculpture, textile and installation artists whilst the interior will house video, animation and sound works. The space will also be host to events during the festival. This creation is a peaceful protest about Canberra’s lack of spontaneous creative spaces whilst praising the tight and supportive community that exists here. This event is open to the public to join in, BYO everything. Artists: Zonk Vision and friends

When: 6pm–7pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

LUNCHBOX LISTENING When: 1pm–2pm Where: The Money Bin This is the section of the You Are Here program that you’re allowed to bring food to. Music! Poetry! Dance! The food that you bring! Every weekday at The Money Bin. Beloved ACT singing and songwriting addict Tom Woodward supplies heartbreaking balladry for the modern gentleman and lady. Artists: Tom Woodward

The Loner Sessions are five after-work concerts taking place in front of Gallery 4, featuring contemporary classical musicians. These sessions are designed to bring classical and jazz music back into the contemporary public eye, redefined by the musicians who play it as living and evolving genres. Ensemble Metatone performs improvised and experimental music using Charles Martin’s iPad-instruments and percussion. Immersing the audience in their sonic palette of sampled sounds and field recordings, the group presents unique performances where reactive instruments change under their fingertips. Artists: Ensemble Metatone

MON17

THE FILTH RESIDENCY When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Residency Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

gRAGE When: 7pm–8.30pm Where: The Money Bin Join us as we recreate the experience of sprawling on the couch watching music videos on Rage, LIVE in the You Are Here Hub space, The Money Bin. Over the festival, You Are Here will feature a selection of artists guest-programming a selection of their favourite video clips, complete with interviews, discussion and live performances. This year gRage will be presented by Yen Eriksen, one of the hosts of Friday Night Lip Service on 2XX FM. Anja Loughhead of Sweet Shoppe and Sex Noises fame takes you through her fave vids, then Sweet Shoppe will split your mind with their tunes. Artists: Anja Loughhead

IMAGE CREDIT: ASHLEE BYE

SQUARE NEBULA When: 7.30pm–8pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 Square Nebula is a tribute to our old friends the circle, the square and everything in-between. Viewing our appreciation of the order that comes from geometric shapes and our excitement in the chaos when the structures lose their stability. Kathleen Lott and Jake Kuzma are the Square and Circle as they perform in front of a colourful moving projection creating a dance and multimedia journey from a simple circular cell to the edge of the universe. Artists: Jake Kuzma and Kathleen Lott

THE SECRET BOOTLEGS When: 8pm–12am Where: The Phoenix A special You Are Here edition of the weekly live music institution, featuring a secret line-up of YAH favourites, past present and future! Artists: (it’s a secret)

IMAGE CREDIT: JULIA JOHNSON

GLITORIS When: 9pm–10pm Where: The Money Bin Think skin glitter. Think screaming bodies. Combine these thoughts. Yes, Glitoris is Canberra’s Pussy Riot without the political oppression. In one sweaty punk night, Glitoris will prove to you that there is no ‘man’ in woman but there is ‘dust’ in the music industry. Note: there may be a male backup-singing-tambourine-player. There will be actual nudity in this performance. It may not be suitable for humans who aren’t grown up yet. Artists: Glitoris

CANBERRA, A UTOPIAN IDEAL When: 10pm–11pm Where: The Money Bin Zonk Vision aim to bring to light the lack of easy access spaces in Canberra, spaces where the art community can spontaneously collaborate, exhibit and perform. Their first event explores utopian ideals of Canberra, where this collaborative space exists and it is flourishing. To celebrate this glorious occasion we are hosting a multi-performance event happening throughout the whole space. Useless, repetitive tasks, absurdity and playful improvisation. Artists: Sarah NathanTruesdale, Oscar Capezio, Naomi Xeros, Verity Mackey, Nicola Frew, Danny Wild

TUE 18 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

12pm–5pm

Zonk Vision residency

The Money Bin

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Marianne Scholem, Bela Farkas

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Loner Sessions: Veronica Bailey

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

6pm–7pm

Opening Nights: Arrival / Departure

The Money Bin

7pm–8.30pm

gRage: Christie Thompson

The Money Bin

7pm–7.30pm

I Gave My Soul To Rock'n'Roll and Didn't Charge Anything

Smith’s Alternative

7.30pm–8pm

Square Nebula

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

7.45pm – 8.15pm

The Throne Rules

Smith’s Alternative

8pm–9.30pm

The Triplets of Belleville

Lonsdale St Roasters 23

8.30pm–9.30pm

The Mayfly Project

Smith’s Alternative

8.30pm–10pm

The Film Remains the Same

The Money Bin

9.30pm–10.30pm

Unsex Me

Smith’s Alternative

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Café Repeat Event See Friday 14

ZONK VISION RESIDENCY When: 12pm–5pm Where: The Money Bin Residency Artists: Zonk Vision and friends

LUNCHBOX LISTENING When: 1pm–2pm Where: The Money Bin This is the section of the You Are Here program that you’re allowed to bring food to. Music! Poetry! Dance! The food that you bring! Every weekday at The Money Bin. Today’s nutritious artistic selections are indie-popster Marianne Scholem and Bela ‘100Bees’ Farkas. Artists: Marianne Scholem, Bela Farkas

LONER SESSIONS When: 6pm–7pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 The Loner Sessions are five after-work concerts taking place in front of Gallery 4, featuring contemporary classical musicians. These sessions are designed to bring classical and jazz music back into the contemporary public eye, redefined by the musicians who play it as living and evolving genres. Exploring the nuances of vibration is percussionist Veronica Bailey, a graduate of the ANU School of Music. Veronica has performed with the Griffyn Ensemble and is a member of the Parillax Trio and Nomad Percussion, a collective of musicians who explore the potential of percussion as a medium of sound-art. Artists: Veronica Bailey

OPENING NIGHTS: ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Opening Nights is You Are Here’s first ever 24-hour exhibition series. Over five days, artists have access to our gallery space for 24 short hours. In that time they must install their exhibition, have an opening with all the pomp and ceremony they can handle, then pack down while someone else is trying to install and the festival keeps on happening. It is insanity. The only way to see it is to be there, every night for Opening Nights. First up are Shellaine Godbold and Dan Edwards, with new works in response to recent and future travels through Asia. Investigating traditional Art and Craft techniques and cultural practices Arrival/Departure focuses on creative moments of cultural collaboration undertaken in overseas art residencies. Artists: Shellaine Godbold and Dan Edwards

TUE18

gRAGE When: 7pm–8.30pm Where: The Money Bin Join us as we recreate the experience of sprawling on the couch watching music videos on Rage, LIVE in the You Are Here Hub space, The Money Bin. Over the festival, You Are Here will feature a selection of artists guest-programming a selection of their favourite video clips, complete with interviews, discussion and live performances. This year gRage will be presented by Yen Eriksen, one of the hosts of Friday Night Lip Service on 2XX FM. Christie Thompson’s debut novel, Snake Bite, was released by Allen and Unwin in 2013 to considerable critical acclaim. In her other lives Christie is also a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, teacher of creative writing, community worker and apprentice tattoo artist. She’s rad, and that’s why we’ve asked her to program this edition of gRage.

SQUARE NEBULA When: 7.30pm–8pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 Repeat Performance See Monday 17 IMAGE CREDIT: HOLLY GRANVILLE EDGE

Artists: Jake Kuzma and Kathleen Lott

Artists: Christie Thompson

I GAVE MY SOUL TO ROCK’N’ROLL AND DIDN’T CHARGE ANYTHING When: 7pm–7.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Repeat Performance See Sunday 16 Artists: Max Barker

THE THRONE RULES When: 7.45pm – 8.15pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Meg’s finally got a date; smart, funny, handsome - the whole package. He even picked a nice restaurant. All she’s gotta do is overcome her obsessions and fears, and leave the bathroom. The world won’t come to an end if she breaks a few rules, will it? Artists: Shatter Collective

THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE When: 8pm–9.30pm Where: Lonsdale St Roasters 23 Journeys across oceans, car chases, fat dogs, French mafia, kidnapping, jaunty music, and of course the Tour de France. The Triplets of Belleville covers all your bases. A charming, hilarious and surreal film, perfect for a Tuesday night in the city. Pedalling projectionists and passive pedestrian pendants both welcome. Presented by Make Hack Void’s Pedal Powered Cinema. Artists: Pedal Powered Cinema

THE MAYFLY PROJECT When: 8.30pm–9.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative A speculative and informative performance lecture that explores our perception of time and our place within history. Through conversations around psychology, biology and environmental sustainability, audiences are encouraged to consider the implications of long-term thinking. With a combination of storytelling, visual depictions, and interactive music and sound elements, Nathan and Jake create a meditative space in which to contemplate some very big ideas. Artists: Nathan Harrison and Jake Pember

IMAGE CREDIT: SARAH WALKER

When: 8.30pm–10pm Where: The Money Bin Have you noticed that when you watch a film over, the way you experience it is never the same twice? This evening explores what happens when you see one film, played three times with performances by three different bands.

UNSEX ME When: 9.30pm–10.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Daughter of a theatre legend and a prima ballerina, awardwinning actress Mark Wilson dissects her own story and next job: being directed by her father as Lady Macbeth. Grand performances and whispered confessions combine as she prepares, promotes and performs the role of her life. Mark Wilson is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London and it shows. Like Bill Hicks, In-Yer-Face 90s playwrights and a night out at the RSC. Post-dramatic drag-theatre steeped in dark, controversial comedy. Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

Louise Curham’s films are made for improvising musicians – the opposite of story films, these are living paintings. Featuring abstract imagery that’s cracked, heavily inked, bleached, deteriorated in every way possible, they are a wash of colour and texture. Fleeting photographic images appear in the odd hand-processed frame. This is bare bones cinema in extremis where narrative is a strange old firebird that won’t be killed off even by crazy sounds and every visual attempt to obliterate it. Artists: Louise Curham, Richard Johnson, Alister Spence, Shoeb Ahmad, Danny Wild

TUE18

THE FILM REMAINS THE SAME

WED 19 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

12pm–5pm

Zonk Vision residency

The Money Bin

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Lydia Monzo

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Loner Sessions: Sally Greenaway

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

6pm–7pm

Opening Nights: Stop, Hama time

The Money Bin

6pm–8pm

Lumen

Australian National Capital Artists Gallery

7pm–8.30pm

gRage: Dave Howe

The Money Bin

7pm–8pm

Elevate

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

7.30pm–11.30pm

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

The Phoenix

8.30pm–10pm

City Symphonies

The Money Bin

10pm–11pm

One-Minute Film Festival

The Money Bin

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Café Repeat Event See Friday 14

ZONK VISION RESIDENCY When: 12pm–5pm Where: The Money Bin Residency Artists: Zonk Vision and friends

LUNCHBOX LISTENING When: 1pm–2pm Where: The Money Bin This is the section of the You Are Here program that you’re allowed to bring food to. Music! Poetry! Dance! The food that you bring! Every weekday at The Money Bin. Come along and let Lydia Monzo float you through the mid-week hump with her delightful acoustic pop. Artists: Lydia Monzo

LONER SESSIONS When: 6pm–7pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 The Loner Sessions are five after-work concerts taking place in front of Gallery 4, featuring contemporary classical musicians. These sessions are designed to bring classical and jazz music back into the contemporary public eye, redefined by the musicians who play it as living and evolving genres. Pianist Sally Greenaway once played for a private party on Liberace’s rhinestone grand piano at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair. We haven’t got Liberace’s piano, but join us as Sally regales us with her favourite European-style jazz, film tunes and classical pieces. Artists: Sally Greenaway

WED19

IMAGE CREDIT: ALEXANDER BOYNES

OPENING NIGHTS: STOP, HAMA TIME When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Opening Nights is You Are Here’s first ever 24-hour exhibition series. Over five days, artists have access to our gallery space for 24 short hours. In that time they must install their exhibition, have an opening with all the pomp and ceremony they can handle, then pack down while someone else is trying to install and the festival keeps on happening. It is insanity. The only way to see it is to be there, every night for Opening Nights. THE REALITY IS return to their 90s roots to bring you an exhibition celebrating the kitsch icon of primary school craft the hama bead. Stop, Hama Time features works by local artists. Want to get involved? Come along to the opening and make your own hama masterpiece – yours to keep to forever! Artists: Sabrina Baker, Maddy Bishop, Aaron Garlick, Anja Loughhead, Deirdre Pearce, Anna Sutherland and Caitlin Jolly. Curated by Yasmin Masri

LUMEN

gRAGE

When: 6pm–8pm Where: Australian National Capital Artists Gallery

When: 7pm–8.30pm Where: The Money Bin

Lumen is an exhibition of new video, multimedia installation and works on aluminium by Canberra-based artist Alexander Boynes. It explores human adaptation, the boundaries set by our environment, and the ephemeral nature of existence. The exhibition aims to reveal immediate glimpses into the present-day human condition and imagination, and to address contemporary culture and its fears, challenges and the hope for a positive future for Australia. Artists: Alexander Boynes

Join us as we recreate the experience of sprawling on the couch watching music videos on Rage, LIVE in the You Are Here Hub space, The Money Bin. Over the festival, You Are Here will feature a selection of artists guest-programming a selection of their favourite video clips, complete with interviews, discussion and live performances. This year gRage will be presented by Yen Eriksen, one of the hosts of Friday Night Lip Service on 2XX FM. As an extra-special finale to our gRage series we present Dave Howe, Dirty Deeds Sound supremo and YAH Festival sound guy extraordinaire, shares his top video picks. Artists: Dave Howe

ELEVATE When: 7pm–8pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 Elevate lifts you up, shakes you up a little, and leaves you wondering whether yesterday’s normal could be tomorrow’s insane. This interactive dance performance stretches the space of social expectations through tactile exchange and shifting modes of interaction. The three performers meet you with their toolkit of subtle – and if you’re up for it, less subtle – methods to unlock physical boundaries, expand your perception of reality, and create a greater sense of connection. Artists: Amelia McQueen, Natalie Abbott, Janine Proost

BAD!SLAM!NO! BISCUIT! When: 7.30pm–11:30pm Where: The Phoenix The Australian Capital Territory’s first, last, only and longest running poetry slam at the Phoenix Pub returns to You Are Here as your place for your words on stage for first prizes. That’s right! We want your two minutes of original material with no props and no music for prizes. Guaranteed to have more first prizes than any other poetry slam across all time and space! Be there to join the Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, Andrew Gayland and The Sacrificial Poet for poetry, feature acts, first prizes, glory and yelling, all inside The Phoenix Pub, all for you. Artists: Finnigan and Brother, Good Ghost Bill, Ma Ya Ga Ng Re Ne, Ellie Malbon, Joel Barcham, Amanda Coghlan, Bela Farkas and Andrew Galan

WED19

CITY SYMPHONIES When: 8.30pm–10pm Where: The Money Bin Melbourne AV collective The Spheres present their critical colloquy City Symphonies as a reflection on the ‘Opus’ films of the silent cinematic era. Providing a creative context for their new sound and filmic work, The Spheres City Symphonies is a meditation on the modern metropolis and it’s symbolic function in the dominant narratives of the 20th century. Artists: The Spheres

ONEMINUTE FILM FESTIVAL When: 10pm–11pm Where: The Money Bin Zonk Vision have asked their favorite Australian video artists to make a new oneminute video. The videos will be presented in the form of a micro-festival, hosted by a 3D character somewhat reminiscent of cult TV-show Max Headroom. A celebration of Australia’s rich and diverse video community. Artists: Danny Wild, Jason Galea, Greg Holden, Sarah Byrne, Ben Jones, Rob McDougall, Tara Cook, Kate Geck, Sara Wurker and Tim Guthrie, Kat Martin, Merl Beauregard, Luke Penders, Riley Post, Tara Cook, John Carolan, Angela Garrick, Raw Nature Films, Steven Pennington, Timothy D, David Lobb, Rat Boy, Travis Heinrich

THU 20 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

12pm–5pm

Zonk Vision residency

The Money Bin

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Ensemble Metatone

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Loner Sessions: Matt Withers

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

6pm–7pm

Opening Nights: Play Nice

The Money Bin

7pm–10:30pm

In Canberra Tonight

The Money Bin

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Café Repeat Event See Friday 14

ZONK VISION RESIDENCY When: 12pm–5pm Where: The Money Bin Residency Artists: Zonk Vision and friends

LUNCHBOX LISTENING When: 1pm–2pm Where: The Money Bin This is the section of the You Are Here program that you’re allowed to bring food to. Music! Poetry! Dance! The food that you bring! Every weekday at The Money Bin. Ensemble Metatone performs improvised and experimental music using Charles Martin’s iPad-instruments and percussion. Immersing the audience in their sonic palette of sampled sounds and field recordings, the group presents unique performances where reactive instrument change under their fingertips. Artists: Ensemble Metatone

LONER SESSIONS When: 6pm–7pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 The Loner Sessions are five after-work concerts taking place in front of Gallery 4, featuring contemporary classical musicians. These sessions are designed to bring classical and jazz music back into the contemporary public eye, redefined by the musicians who play it as living and evolving genres. Award-winning classical guitarist Matt Withers is Head of Guitar at the University of Canberra Music as well as a Director of the Canberra Classical Guitar Society. He is a member of Guitar Trek, one of Australia’s greatest guitar quartets which has performed music from across the globe, many historical periods and popular traditions, and Australia’s own phenomenally inventive contemporary composers. In this edition of the Loner Sessions Matt invites you to share in some of his favourite pieces. Artists: Matt Withers

THU 20

OPENING NIGHTS: PLAY NICE When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Opening Nights is You Are Here’s first ever 24-hour exhibition series. Over five days, artists have access to our gallery space for 24 short hours. In that time they must install their exhibition, have an opening with all the pomp and ceremony they can handle, then pack down while someone else is trying to install and the festival keeps on happening. It is insanity. The only way to see it is to be there, every night for Opening Nights. We’re in this game whether we like it or not. Always already. With rules that are not our own. Take appearances as appearances. Apparently so it lies. This real world of surface images. If you follow the rules you will not have any problems. Obligatory frames set the field of play. You’re in or you’re out. But I would prefer not to pick. Are you on top of your game? Or just a subject in it? What could make it yours? Only a little cost. Take my word. We have perpetual potentials. So now’s the time to plan. Play nice. Note: Live animals feature in this performance Artists: Curated by Oscar Capezio

IN CANBERRA TONIGHT When: 7pm–10:30pm Where: The Money Bin In Canberra Tonight is a searingly popular variety show – it would be remiss of them not to put on a You Are Here special. They are nothing if not remiss of themselves, and will invite YAH’s finest acts and producers to dissect and celebrate the festival in its home stretch. Produced by mega-celebrities Meg O’Connell and Chris Endrey. Has fame gone to their heads? How does art hold true when it is produced in the context of expectation? Find out the answers to none of these questions, and less, at this event – the best in an already brilliant festival. Artists: In Canberra Tonight

IMAGE CREDIT: MARTIN OLLMAN

FRI 21 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

12pm–1pm

You Are Here Postmortems

Canberra Museum and Gallery Café

12pm–5pm

Zonk Vision residency

The Money Bin

1pm–2pm

Lunchbox Listening: Lunch Beat

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Loner Sessions: Reuben Lewis, Jenny Barnes

Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4

6pm–7pm

Opening Nights: One Night Stand

The Money Bin

6pm–7.30pm

The Hundred Swords Battle

Garema Place

6.30pm–7pm

Carrying Capacity

City Walk

7pm–9pm

Neon Night Rider

Lake Burley Griffin

7pm–7.30pm

Who is Dani Cabs?

The Money Bin

7pm–7.30pm

The Throne Rules

Smith’s Alternative

7.30pm–9pm

Zonk Vision OGx3

The Money Bin

7.45pm–8.15pm

The Circular City

Smith’s Alternative

8.30pm–9.30pm

The Mayfly Project

Smith’s Alternative

9.30pm–10.30pm

Unsex Me

Smith’s Alternative

9.30pm–11pm

No Lights No Lycra

The Money Bin

YOU ARE HERE POSTMORTEMS When: 12pm–1pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery Café Repeat Event See Friday 14

LUNCHBOX LISTENING When: 1pm–2pm Where: The Money Bin This is the section of the You Are Here program that you’re allowed to bring food to. Music! Poetry! Dance! The food that you bring! Every weekday at The Money Bin. Its Friday, lunchtime is approaching, you need to wash off the first half of the day, take off your lanyard and shake your tail feather to the underwater disco, low-tide tropicana and euphoric bliss that is Lunch Beat. A global trend that began in Europe, has now spread its wings to the hard working city of Canberra. Don’t you think you’ve earned a dance? Artists: Danny Wild

LONER SESSIONS When: 6pm–7.30pm Where: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Gallery 4 The Loner Sessions are five after-work concerts taking place in front of Gallery 4, featuring contemporary classical musicians. These sessions are designed to bring classical and jazz music back into the contemporary public eye, redefined by the musicians who play it as living and evolving genres. It’s back-to-back Loner Sessions as trumpeter, Reuben Lewis captivates you with his ardent jazz inspired originals, followed by a experimental jazz vocalist Jenny Barnes. Reuben Lewis is a trumpeter, composer, improviser, and a new driving force in the Australian jazz and experimental music community. Reuben has written for short film, classical ensembles, pop/alternative bands, reggae/roots/folk outfits and jazz/experimental/ improvising ensembles ranging from solo to big band. His third album, featuring a Berlinbased free improvised trio and electronic post-production artist, will be released in early 2014. Jenny Barnes trained as a jazz vocalist and her current work explores the intersections between jazz and experimental vocal techniques within varied acoustic spaces. In her work, Jenny has investigated the relationships between sound and environment, releasing a collection of these improvisations in the release Secret Trees (2011).

THE HUNDRED SWORDS BATTLE When: 6pm–7.30pm Where: Garema Place Local medieval and fantasy battle sports group The Hundred Swords is running a specially scripted demonstration battle just for you! No clue about latex sword etiquette? No problem! Every Hundred Swords event is beginner friendly and the rules can be picked up in 5 minutes. Weapons will be available for loan on the day - but you must bring some sort of eye protection to participate (goggles are perfect, cheap sunglasses are okay too). Artists: The Hundred Swords

Artist: Reuben Lewis, Jenny Barnes

IMAGE CREDIT: DR STEPHEN DANN

FRI 21

OPENING NIGHTS: ONE NIGHT STAND When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Opening Nights is You Are Here’s first ever 24-hour exhibition series. Over five days, artists have access to our gallery space for 24 short hours. In that time they must install their exhibition, have an opening with all the pomp and ceremony they can handle, then pack down while someone else is trying to install and the festival keeps on happening. It is insanity. The only way to see it is to be there, every night for Opening Nights. You may not quite know this group of hot artists yet but One Night Stand promises to be much more than a brief encounter with strangers. For one night only the 2014 Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s Studio Residents strut their stuff for You Are Here. Sabrina Baker, Anja Loughhead, Jacob Potter, Daniel Savage, Chris Sutevski, and Danny Wild represent a sample of Canberra’s most exciting emerging artists and this will be their first group outing. One Night Stand is an eclectic exhibition that occupies the front lines of experimental media. All six artists dare to side step traditional notions of art form and as a result, audiences can expect the unexpected. One Night Stand is the beginning of a long and meaningful relationship. Artists: Sabrina Baker, Anja Loughhead, Jacob Potter, Daniel Savage, Chris Sutevski, and Danny Wild

IMAGE CREDIT: DANIEL SAVAGE

CARRYING CAPACITY When: 6.30pm–7pm Where: City Walk An urban processional performance by an ensemble of dancers known for their mix of movement, music and voice in public spaces. This dance work thematically explores both our planet’s capacity to support life and our capacity to support our planet. Accompanied by Canberra composer–musician Helen Way. Artists: Somebody’s Aunt

NEON NIGHT RIDER When: 7pm–9pm Where: Lake Burley Griffin, meet at corner Albert St and Barrine Drive Join You Are Here on the banks of Lake Burley Griffin, for our first ever incandescent community bike ride. As the sun sets, bring yourself and your bike (and your friends), covered in as much illumination as you can handle and become part of the glowing cavalcade that will stream from bridge to bridge. We’re not expecting Guinness Book of World Records winning Christmas lights, you’re welcome if it’s just you and a torch strapped to your helmet and a smile on your dial. Along the way there will be cause for pause at checkpoints where performers will entertain you with their glimmering talents and installations will put stars in your eyes. Meet us at the marshalling point or join in anytime along the bike path that runs from Commonwealth Bridge to Kings Way Bridge.

WHO IS DANI CABS? When: 7pm–7.30pm Where: The Money Bin Since its creation the photograph has had a longstanding romance with the portrait, ideally setting out to capture a sitter’s ‘real’ identity. However, the idealised notion that the photograph has the ability to capture the essence of an individual is a flawed idea. Through the medium of performative video portraits and driven by the need to understand my own identity, this project experiments with how the photographic portrait is a tool that constructs, rather than documents, a person’s identity. Who is Dani Cabs? is a series of short videos reenacting and delivering past experiences, and exploring perceived stereotypes. It works as a vehicle for self-exploration but also as an introduction of myself to you, the viewer.

THE THRONE RULES When: 7pm–7.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Repeat Performance See Tuesday 18 Artists: Shatter Collective

Artists: Daniel Cabrera

P.S. You have to have lights and a helmet to ride. So says the law. Artists: Featuring installations and performances by No Lights No Lycra, Doubting Thomas, Patrick Stein, with more to be announced

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

IMAGE CREDIT: DANIEL CABRERA

FRI 21

ZONK VISION OGX3 When: 7.30pm–9pm Where: The Money Bin Zonk Vision unofficially began in 2009, it was Jason Galea, Greg Holden and Danny Wild. The final night of the Zonk Vision residency brings the three original members together to present a showcase of old and new video works, AV performances and of course a playful good time.

THE MAYFLY PROJECT

NO LIGHTS NO LYCRA

Artists: Danny Wild, Jason Galea, Holden Hands (Greg Holden)

When: 8.30pm–9.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative

When: 9.30pm–11pm Where: The Money Bin

Repeat Performance See Tuesday 18

No Lights No Lycra is a global community dedicated to dancing in the dark and we warmly invite you and your groove thang to don your finest tracky dacks and dance like no one’s watching.

Artists: Nathan Harrison and Jake Pember.

UNSEX ME When: 9.30pm–10.30pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Repeat Performance See Tuesday 18 Artists: MKA | Theatre of New Writing

All the joy of shaking your cake off without the sticky floors or scary mirrors. There is no light, no lycra, no steps to learn, no teachers, NO JUDGMENT. Just get loose and get dancin’! Grapevine? Air guitar? Grapevine guitar? Anything goes.

THE CIRCULAR CITY

Want a little preview? NLNL happens every single Tuesday from 7:45 in Corroborree Park, Ainslie.

When: 7.45pm–8.15pm Where: Smith’s Alternative

Artists: No Lights No Lycra

You should be dancin’. Yeah

Repeat Performance See Saturday 15 Artists: Zoë Anderson and Raphael Kabo.

IMAGE CREDIT: PAUL PHILLIPSON

SAT 22 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

2pm–3pm

Will and Charlotte: The future is a foreign country

The Money Bin

3pm–4pm

Class Roll

The Money Bin

3pm–4pm

Should You Art for Free?

Smith’s Alternative

3.55pm–4pm

The Grownups

Smith’s Alternative

4pm–5pm

Animorphed

The Money Bin

4pm–5pm

Page versus Stage: A Fistful of Money Bin

Smith’s Alternative

5pm–6pm

Pretext

The Money Bin

6pm–7pm

Opening Nights: Junctions

The Money Bin

6.55pm–7pm

The Grownups

The Money Bin

7pm–8pm

Carly and Troy Do 'A Doll's House'

The Money Bin

8pm–9pm

Lady Lolz

Smith’s Alternative

8pm–9.30pm

The Spheres AV Show

The Money Bin

9:30pm–12am

in case of sound: round two (the You Are Here After Party)

The Money Bin

WILL AND CHARLOTTE: THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY When: 2pm–3pm Where: The Money Bin When we think about The Future we think of not one, but many, possibilities. Will our problems get bigger? Smaller? Morph into others? Will our solutions work? What is a solution anyway? Join us for a conversationsbased performance about The Future. “Will and Charlotte” will be a set of activities and performances grounded in scientific thought, artistic imaginings and your own philosophy, specifically designed to get us talking. There will be contested ideas and there will be pop music. Artists: Ellie Malbon

CLASS ROLL When: 3pm–4pm Where: The Money Bin Dani Cabs invites the viewer into his classroom (or living room) in the interactive performance Class Roll (or Mi Casa es Tu Casa). A mixture of question and answer lead to an eventual unravelling of stories from Dani’s past, some very true and others simply based on fact, yet exaggerated for impact. Artists: Daniel Cabrera

IMAGE CREDIT: DANIEL CABRERA

SHOULD YOU ART FOR FREE? When: 3pm–4pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Do you do art? Maybe you play music, or take photos, or write articles and fiction. Do you like doing it? Well, then you should do it for FREE right? Increasingly, creatives are experiencing pressure to work for free. Writers are expected to undertake endless unpaid internships with organisations as big as Crikey and major newspapers are not paying for articles. Musicians are regularly asked to play for free, photographers expected to shoot gigs and events for free, and all of this is often done in the name of ‘exposure’. Lip Magazine brings you three panelists from various creative backgrounds to dissect this issue. Should we art for free? Or should we demand payment? Should we turn down free work out of solidarity for the industry? Where do we draw the line? Artists: Farz Edraki (Lip Magazine), Nigel McRae (Canberra Musicians Club), Rosanna Stevens (Scissors Paper Pen) and Luke McGrath (independent filmmaker)

SAT 22

THE GROWNUPS When: 3.55pm–4pm Where: Smith’s Alternative Repeat Performance See Sunday 16 Artists: Pablo Latona

ANIMORPHED When: 4pm–5pm Where: The Money Bin In the late 90s, Simon Binns was obsessed with Animorphs by K.A. Applegate. This young adult sci-fi book series was about a cohort of American teens who discovered a silent alien invasion and were given the power to fight back through the ability to morph into animals. It provided much fodder for Simon’s prepubescent imagination. Animorphed is a one-man show centred around the reading of excerpts from Animorphs. Interspersed throughout are personal stories about Simon’s connection to the books. Whilst focusing on Animorphs, the show will also look more broadly at the theme of breaking the rose coloured glass through which we view childhood experiences. Simon will also attempt to morph into an adorable rabbit. Note: Live animals feature in this performance Artists: Simon Binns

PAGE VERSUS STAGE: A FISTFUL OF MONEY BIN When: 4pm–5pm Where: Smith’s Alternative In its annual mission to battle words on page versus words on stage this You Are Here brings together two Canberra poets, Doctor P. S. Cottier and Mister C. J. Bowerbird. Between them there are books, recordings, journals, a PhD on Charles Dickens, victory in the Australian Poetry Slam, and feature appearances in Australia and internationally. Both are poets, both have initials rather than whole names, both fight it out in Page versus Stage. Curated and hosted by poet Andrew Galan. Who will win? Artists: Dr P. S. Cottier and C. J. Bowerbird

PRETEXT When: 5pm–6pm Where: The Money Bin Repeat Performance See Sunday 16 Artists: Written by Phil Setren, presented by Deviant Theatre.

IMAGE CREDIT: ROBBIE KARMEL

THE GROWNUPS When: 6.55pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Repeat Performance See Sunday 16 Artists: Pablo Latona

CARLY AND TROY DO ‘A DOLL’S HOUSE’ OPENING NIGHTS: JUNCTIONS When: 6pm–7pm Where: The Money Bin Opening Nights is You Are Here’s first ever 24-hour exhibition series. Over five days, artists have access to our gallery space for 24 short hours. In that time they must install their exhibition, have an opening with all the pomp and ceremony they can handle, then pack down while someone else is trying to install and the festival keeps on happening. It is insanity. The only way to see it is to be there, every night for Opening Nights. By working intimately with participants Robbie Karmel creates drawings of tactile, visual, and haptic interactions. This is an open invitation to experience first hand the act and process of drawing. This exhibition explores the possibilities of non-verbal and non-visual communication, engaging both the participant and artist in an exchange through sensory experiences. Artists: Robbie Karmel

When: 7pm–8pm Where: The Money Bin A work which explores gender, sexuality, power, personal desire and nineteenth century Norway… maybe. Carly and Troy do ‘A Doll’s House’ is a show about theatre, about how we view and revere classics, about what we want, what the audience wants but mainly what Carly and Troy want. In just one hour, Carly and Troy will show you their own, personal adaptation of the Ibsen classic A Doll’s House. The realist masterwork will be dissected, torn apart and inhabited, culminating in a mash-up of pop-culture, drag, feminist analysis and a lot of butcher’s paper. After sell out seasons in Sydney, Adelaide and at Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle, Carly and Troy are donning their heels and strutting to Canberra for one weekend only. Artists: Carly Young and Troy Reid

LADY LOLZ When: 8pm–9pm Where: Smith’s Alternative There are more men than women on the stage at most stand up comedy nights. This is a problem. There’s also never enough comedy tomfoolery at serious arts festivals. So we’re stamping down hard on the other end of the seesaw and putting on stage for your most excellent comic relief, four very hilarious, very funny people who just happen to be ladies. Stand up, storytelling and all that comes in between. With added lolz. This event may contain language that is for adult humans only. Artists: Meg O’Connell, Chris Ryan, Julia Johnson and special guests.

When: 9:30pm–12am Where: The Money Bin

IMAGE CREDIT: ZDENADEL VIA FLICKR

Two sessions showing what Canberra’s sonic experiments are sounding like right now: a bliss of reverb, piercing glitches, bleeps and luscious beats, microwave drones and live coding. Round two farewells your whole indexical happening with a micro-fest for the You Are Here After Party. Details will be in transmission to where you are already. Tune in, be with. Artists: to be announced, check the website for more

THE SPHERES AV SHOW When: 8pm–9.30pm Where: The Money Bin The Spheres are a cadre of experimental musicians and filmmakers who soundtrack the light thrown from projectors with their distinctive brand of cadence, noise and melody. Drawing from the disparate tropes of silent cinema, video installation, sound art and post rock, the AV collective’s current creative preoccupations include the melancholy of memory, capitalism and the sea. Artists: The Spheres

SAT 22

IN CASE OF SOUND: ROUND TWO (THE YOU ARE HERE AFTER PARTY)

SUN 23 WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

MAP

11am–4pm

Blurred Lines

Gorman Arts Centre

11am–2pm

DIY in a Day

Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre

11am–12:30pm

Poncho Circus Presents…

The Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

12.00pm–12.30pm

Carrying Capacity

Gorman Arts Centre

1pm–2pm

Carly and Troy Do 'A Doll's House'

The Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

2pm–3pm

Canberra: We make our own fun

Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre

2:30pm–4pm

Poncho Circus Presents…

The Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

3pm–3.30pm

Writing for the Comic Book Page

Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre

3.30pm–4pm

Drawing Short Comics

Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre

CANBERRA PONCHO CIRCUS ZINE EMPORIUM PRESENTS… ZINE FAIR When: 11am–4pm Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

IMAGE CREDIT: ADAM THOMAS

BLURRED LINES When: 11am–4pm Where: Gorman Arts Centre Join us for the inaugural edition of Blurred Lines, You Are Here’s first independent publishing fair. For the last day of the 2014 festival we will be packing up The Money Bin and moving everything and everyone to Gorman Arts Centre. There will be zines aplenty with the Canberra Zine Emporium bringing in zinesters from all over the country, small press publishers will be touting their wares and local independent record labels will be wooing you with their tunes. As well as a fair to browse and words to buy, there will be theatre, circus, workshops and panels running all day as well as food and coffee to keep you going. Plus, if that weren’t enough you can also catch the closing ceremony of the Canberra 2014 Artist Olympic Games. * Robin Thicke will not be appearing at Blurred Lines, but we’re pretty sure Robin Thicke loves independent literature This event is supported by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, which are ACT Government Arts Facilities managed by Gorman Arts Centre Inc. a not-for-profit association.

CZE are looking forward to getting all ZINEY with you, as they present their 2nd annual Canberra Zine Emporium Zine Fair! Held in the lush surrounds of the Gorman Arts Centre, be tempted by local, national and international zinesters, as they spruik their cut and paste wares. The CZE collective invite you to drop a little change and connect to your ZINE side! Artists: Canberra Zine Emporium

DIY IN A DAY When: 11am–2pm Where: Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre In Canberra? Come by the rip stall at Blurred Lines. We’ll give you paper and pens (and if you’re lucky, stickers). You’ll have between 11am and 1pm to write/ draw/ create something on the theme of ‘Where Are You?’ We’ll then take your submissions and collate it into a chapbook which will be ready that afternoon! Not in Canberra? Not to worry! We’ll also be taking submissions from writers wherever they are. If you’re interested in joining in, you must register your interest on the Writers Bloc forum (http://thewritersbloc.net) by 16 March. All submissions are due at 1pm on 23 March by e-mail to info@thewritersbloc.net and rippublishing@gmail.com.

When: 11am–12:30pm and 2:30pm–4pm Where: The Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre This year Poncho Circus will be performing like you have never seen them before. With all new costumes and never before seen acts Poncho Circus aim to explore a series of new ideas during this, their third You Are Here. What to expect? The usual wall to wall insane acrobatics, mind-blowing manipulations, hilarious performers and an exciting new show that will be determined based on decisions of you, the audience! Who knows what will happen!? Artists: Poncho Circus

CARRYING CAPACITY When: 12.00pm–12.30pm Where: Gorman Arts Centre Repeat Performance See Friday 21 Artists: Somebody’s Aunt

Artists: rip publishing and Writers Bloc

IMAGE CREDIT: YASMIN MASRI

SUN 23

WRITING FOR THE COMIC BOOK PAGE

IMAGE CREDIT: MARK TURNER

CARLY AND TROY CANBERRA: DO ‘A DOLL’S WE MAKE OUR HOUSE’ OWN FUN When: 1pm–2pm Where: Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

When: 2pm–3pm Where: Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre

Repeat Performance See Saturday 22

Canberra... it’s so boring! NOT! Presented by the Canberra Zine Emporium collective, the Canberra - We Make Our Own Fun! discussion debunks the myth that Canberra is boring! Hosted by Rosie Stevens (Scissors Paper Pen), artists from a range of art forms discuss what exactly makes Canberra’s diverse artistic community bubble despite all the (usually interstate) bad vibes.

Artists: Carly Young and Troy Rei

Artists: Zoya Patel (Lip Magazine), Paul Summerfield (artist), Duncan Felton (Grapple Publishing), Emma Stewart (ACT Comic Meet), Shoeb Ahmad (HellosQuare), Chiara Grassia (Canberra Zine Emporium)

When: 3pm–3.30pm Where: Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre Ryan K Lindsay will read one of his comics, giving an insight into his writing process. In the workshop that follows, Ryan will discuss the basic terms and tenets of a comic page, and guide participants in beginning their own comic script. Artists: ACT Comic Meet

DRAWING SHORT COMICS When: 3.30pm–4pm Where: Fireplace Room, Gorman Arts Centre No matter your art style or favourite comic genre, there are elements that appear in all books and strips. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to translate a script onto the page, by planning layouts and thumbnailing a one-page comic. Artists: ACT Comic Meet

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