AU T U MN / W IN T E R 2021
Art About Town A snapshot of arts activity happening around the Maitland community.
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Space Junk!
Things go from bad to worse as he is soon moved on by coppers and starts seeing visions of aliens everywhere he goes. Is it real or is it a dream? With casting sessions held at MRAG; local twins starring as tap dancing aliens; and backdrops to scenes including the Indian Root Pills signage on Morpeth Road, the Metropolitan Hotel on Maitland’s High Street and 2CHR radio in the old Cessnock School of Arts building, this was a true local production inspiring creativity during COVID times.
Maitland has been on an incredible Super 8 sci-fi adventure in the past year. Julien Poulson from The Cambodian Space Project, local artist Helen Hopcroft and Western Australian filmmaker Mark Roy came together in Maitland in mid2020 to lead a community arts project, developing the short 50s style film Space Junk! Bringing together local creatives for acting, set design and music production roles, and a star from further afield, Steve Kilbey (from the rock band The Church) for the lead role as the “The Prophet”, Space Junk! loosely tells the story of a man on the run whose car (number plate: COVID-19) breaks down in Maitland.
Space Junk! starring Steve Kilbey (The Church) will be screened at mini-festival Space Funk Disco Dystopia – a carnival of masks, art, poetry, music and film – on Sat 27 February, Coffin Lane, Maitland. 32
