Arts Bundaberg 2020 Season Program Summer Edition by Moncrieff Entertainment Centre

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Tim Gruchy, Baosteel (detail), 2019, from Imminence - Kronenberg Mais Wright.

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DOTTIE DAYS WITH DOTTIE LOTTIE

Join Dottie Lottie, the Gallery’s resident storyteller and art maker, with her friends as they take our littlest art lovers on many art adventures.

WEDNESDAY ART WALK This guided exhibition tour gives visitors the opportunity to interact more closely with the exhibition, and find out unique information about the artworks on exhibit. The tour finishes with morning tea served in the Gallery’s collection of vintage tea cups.

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10AM 10AM 10AM 10AM 10AM

@ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY FREE AGES 16+ 60 minutes

EXHIBITION CHILDERS ARTS SPACE

8 FE B  11AM - 1PM

EXHIBITIONS

6 FE B - 2 9 M AR

EXHIBITION OPENING CHILDERS ARTS SPACE

STRUCTURES IN A LANDSCAPE The landscape of inland Australia is harsh, hot and often very flat so the rare clusters of mining equipment, agricultural buildings, silos and storage tanks are conspicuous and stand out like gigantic sculptures. In contrast, the Antarctic is mountainous, cold and threatening. However the stations’ built structures are remarkably similar consisting of utilitarian buildings and storage tanks.

REPRESENTED BY MAYSPACE

Image: Sybil Curtis, Modules (detail), 2016, oil on linen, 125 x 125cm

Among the artists I most admire is Cezanne and, in his mature years, he attempted to give underlying structure to his landscapes by rendering them in terms of cones, cylinders and spheres. As a pale homage to the master, instead of copying his style or even attempting to apply his theory, I have found industrial, agricultural and mining structures that are mostly made from simple geometric forms.

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BY SYBIL CURTIS

EXHIBITIONS

14 F E B - 26 A PR EXHIBITION  GALLERY ONE @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

14 F E B  5. 3 0 - 7 . 3 0 P M EXHIBITION OPENING  GALLERY ONE @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

THE BROTHERS GRUCHY The Brothers Gruchy, Tim and Mic grew up in Bundaberg through the sixties and seventies. Five years apart, it wasn’t until the mideighties that they began working together extensively. Most of their collaborative undertakings are in the performative arts. Together they pioneered the use of video and multimedia in theatre, opera, contemporary dance, musicals and commercial projects. Tim has gradually moved increasingly into the world of exhibitions and

installations, whilst Mic works mainly in theatre along with editing and producing film and television. Across an enormous range of activities they continue to work together and separately, informing each others practice and indeed the creative use of technology. Together The Brothers Gruchy continue their creative journey from Bundaberg into the world using digital media and technology to inform our past and future.

TIM GRUCHY REPRESENTED BY KRONENBERG MAIS WRIGHT GALLERY (SYDNEY)

Tim Gruchy, Baosteel (detail), 2019, from Imminence - Kronenberg Mais Wright.

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BY TIM + MIC GRUCHY

Image courtesy of The Brothers Gruchy, 16_KC-Anam-A573-012 (detail).

Image courtesy of The Brothers Gruchy, 19_BUb-A206-046-300dpi (detail).

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SUNDAY SESSION

Join Internationally renowned digital artist Tim Gruchy, as he leads you through the use of Isadora Software (troikatronix.com) for the creation of interactive multimedia artworks. Isadora is an object oriented programming environment designed by artists for artists. This workshop will be well suited to artists wishing to explore a digital platform for creating multimedia projects. It is very easy to learn and the workshop will be suited for beginners through to experienced users.

Celebrate the success of The Brothers Gruchy with an exciting live performance by internationally renowned artist, Tim Gruchy.

ISADORA – INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA MADE EASY

2 8 - 2 9 M A R  9 AM - 5 PM CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY

WITH THE BROTHERS GRUCHY

Gruchy, and his musical partner, John Story, will transform the exhibition space with music and interactive digital imagery throughout this relaxed Sunday afternoon session. The gallery bar will be open, and patrons can sit back and wile away their afternoon, enjoying this high calibre event.

26 APR  3 - 5PM

GALLERY ONE @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY FREE

ALL AGES

SINGLE PASS $250.00 (16 hours workshop) AGES 16+ | Bookings required Participants will need their own laptop with a webcam.

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DIGITAL ART WORKSHOP

EXHIBITIONS

14 FEB - 1 6 APR EXH IBITION  GALLERY TWO @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

14 FEB  5. 3 0 - 7 . 3 0 P M EXH IBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

FINDING VERA:

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THE VERA SCARTH-JOHNSON EXHIBITION Vera Scarth-Johnson was a horticulturalist and botanical painter. She lived in Bundaberg from the early 1950’s until 1972, growing tobacco and sugar cane and honing her artistic skills. She was only the second woman in the area to obtain a cane assignment. In the mid 1960’s she began a long association with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England; sending them paintings and drawings and seeds of the plants and flowers of our region.

In her lifetime she published two books of her botanical paintings and in 1995 was awarded the Order of Australia for her contribution to art and the environment.

She donated 93 hectares of heathland to be maintained as a wildlife reserve in the Coonarr area and this was named the Vera Scarth-Johnson Wildlife Reserve in 2006. Her contribution to Australian botany is as significant as Bert Hinkler’s contribution to aviation yet very few of the current generation have ever heard of her. Many of her paintings can be found in the homes (and garages) of Bundaberg residents who may not be aware of their artistic, scientific and historical significance. Around fifty paintings, plus photographs and memorabilia have already been located and permission granted by their owners to be loaned for the exhibition.

ANNET TE TYSON AND STEFANIE STORY

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DRAWING FROM NATURE Join artist Adrienne Williams on this early morning sketching trip to the Bundaberg Botanical Gardens. Using watercolour, gouache and charcoal, beginners will learn easy and practical tips for sketching and painting outdoors, while more experienced artists can wade right into the surrounding botanical landscape. Working ‘en plein air’, or ‘in the open air’, allows us to observe and edit the subject, make colour notes, enjoy and experience the site, and it brings a notable freshness to our art making.

7 MAR  8 - 10.30AM

BUNDABERG BOTANIC GARDENS TICKET $40.00 AGES 16+ TO BOOK 4130 4750 Ticket includes tuition and all drawing materials. Participants to bring own sketch book, umbrella, sun protection and lightweight chair.

Image: Ray Peek, Portrait of Vera. Image courtesy of Patricia Peek.

PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

BOTANICALS COCKTAIL NIGHT

Inspired by local environmentalist Vera Scarth-Johnson, this special International Women’s Day event will shine the spotlight on women’s unique role in safeguarding our environment.

Join us for a lavish, roaring 20’s cocktail and art event. Bert’s bartenders will delight the senses with specially designed native botanical cocktails paired with delicious nibbles. Enjoy a private viewing of the ‘Finding Vera’ exhibition with live entertainment in the background.

With guest speakers, live entertainment, and the opportunity to enjoy high tea in the beautiful surrounds of the historic Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, this is an event not to be missed.

8 MA R  3 - 5 P M

Party on after the event at Bert’s, where you can sample more special botanical cocktails designed especially for the evening.

2 0 M AR  6 .30 - 8PM

BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

GALLERY TWO @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

SINGLE PASS $30.00 AGES 16+ | TO BOOK 4130 4750 Includes high tea + glass of sparkling

SINGLE PASS $35.00 AGES 18+ | TO BOOK 4130 4750 Includes 2 cocktails + nibbles

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LANEWAY ARTISAN MARKET

Experience BRAG after hours at Fridays Up Late. This event gives a new spin to art tours, with Millennial Musings, a fun, tongue in cheek way to experience art, led by the highly talented Rhys Williams. Learn why Picasso thinks his spirit animal is a bull, or which artist refused to marry the village himbo and much more, while you relax with some light refreshments and some DJ beats.

The Laneway Artisan Market brings together an exciting collective of emerging and established artists, designers, makers, gourmet food producers and street food purveyors.

1 3 MAR + 1 2 JU N  6 . 3 0 - 8 .3 0PM

9 M AY  4 - 8PM

FREE

BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

Popping up in Gallery Park and quirky Post Office Lane, this market offers the opportunity to shop local while enjoying an evening of live performance and great street food.

GALLERY PARK & POST OFFICE LANE 10

Drinks and light refreshments included

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FRIDAYS UP LATE

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7, 9, 14 + 16 APR REGUL A R O P E N I N G H OU R S REGIONAL TOURING PROJECT

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery is delighted to present ‘Island Fashion on Tour’, a Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) regional touring project for children and families. ‘Island Fashion on Tour’ features a range of free, hands-on art making activities created by QAGOMA in collaboration with Australian and Pacific artists Grace Lillian Lee, Maryann Talia Pau and Ranu James and Letila Mitchell.

Grace Lillian Lee’s activity GET YOUR WEAVE ON 2019 encourages audiences to use simple folding techniques

with strips of brightly coloured paper to create wearable accessories such as paper bracelets, neckpieces and headpieces. While Maryann Talia Pau and Ranu James’ activity ULA TAIM 2019 encourages the creation of elaborate neckpieces, wristbands and anklets using hand-drawn patterns and weaving with paper. Letila Mitchell’s activity SASI, PERA, LAGI – OF THE OCEAN, LAND AND SKY invites children to create their own textile design using patterns created by the artist.

Image: ‘Island Fashion’ at the Children’s Art Centre, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Photograph: Josef Ruckli, QAGOMA.

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BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY + CHILDERS ARTS SPACE

EXHIBITIONS

3 APR - 18 JU N EXHIBITION CHILDERS ARTS SPACE

3 APR  5PM EXHIBITION OPENING CHILDERS ARTS SPACE

TALK OF THE TOWN For Sue, this exhibition offers an opportunity to revisit early works on paper, created with the red dirt of the Cordalba region, and to reimagine them using encaustic techniques. The whimsical nature that forms a thread through Sue’s arts practice is once again celebrated in these new artworks. In contrast, Nita’s works play on her strong drawing and painting technique and observation of life in the Cordalba region. The artworks are a joyous celebration of people and events, and like Sue’s, extend from the literal to the emotional.

SUSAN HUT TON AND NITA ROSHER

Image: Nita Rosher, Treasured Memories.

The diverse artworks that form this exhibition showcase each artist’s unique style and preferred media, while also maintaining a connectedness, in the same way these two women connected and forged a friendship over

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Turning east off the Isis Highway, crossing over the rise towards the cane rail crossing, the picture postcard image of the township of Cordalba unfolds. This small rural community provides the fertile ground for Talk of the Town, an exhibition celebrating the individual stories of respected artists, Sue Hutton and Nita Rosher, who both settled in the area over twenty years ago.

EXHIBITIONS

1 MAY - 2 1 JU N EXHIBITION  THE VAULT @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

1 MAY  5 . 3 0 - 7 .3 0PM

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EXHIBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

DEMENTIA IS A PERSON: THE LEAF PROJECT What is the symbolism of leaves and people living with Dementia? In the process of change when the leaf turns into a different colour and character it may still hold onto the tree before finally drifting down to the ground to rest. The life cycle is a process of growth and rebirth. The leaves remind us that people living with

dementia leave behind a rich tapestry of colour and character that forms an indelible imprint on the family and friends to serve as a foundation for new growth and fuel for renewal. Even at this stage of the life cycle we recognize the beauty in fallen leaves as much as the beauty and story of everyone throughout their stages of dementia.

CYNTHIA HOOGSTRATEN, JOSEPHINA BECKERS + KAY SHELTON

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MINDFULNESS MORNINGS

14 MAY + 11 JU N ï&#x201A;&#x; 7 - 8AM

GALLERY ONE @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY TICKET $5.00

TO BOOK 4130 4750

Image courtesy of Cynthia Hoogstraten.

Start your day in a mindful way! Led by experienced instructor, Cynthia Hoogstraten, these sessions will assist participants to be more centred and mindful in their daily life, a skill understood to be beneficial to good mental health and overall wellbeing. This program is being held in conjunction with Dementia is a Person: The Leaf Project, and will be held in the peaceful surrounds of Gallery One.

EXHIBITION  GALLERY ONE @ BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

1 MAY  5 . 3 0 - 7 . 3 0 P M EXHIBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

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BOSS DROVERS This touring installation of 200 drawings is only a fragment of the 2400 individual sheets Robert MacPherson made over two decades that together form the single huge work ‘BOSS DROVERS’ 1996–2014.

Boss Drovers demonstrates several aspects of MacPherson’s practice, especially the way he plays with ‘traditional’ aspects of art, such as landscape, portraiture and the authority of an artist’s signature. Each sheet includes the portrait and

name of a boss drover responsible for moving livestock and teams of stockmen along the great pastoral stock routes of Australia. MacPherson’s collected pages reveal poetic markers of places and people whose identities and life in the country are in danger of fading from view. The droving occupation itself is now almost a relic, as generations of horseriding ringers are replaced by trucks on our highways, and families move off the land.

I mage: Robert MacPherson, 1000 Frog Poems: 1000 Boss Drovers (“Yellow Leaf Falling”) For H.S. (detail) 1996-2014, graphite, ink and stain on paper, 2400 sheets: 30 x 42.5cm.

EXHIBITIONS

1 MAY - 2 1 JU N

EXHIBITION GALLERY TWO @ BRAG

1 MAY ï&#x201A;&#x; 5.30 - 7.30PM

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1 MAY - 17 JU N

EXHIBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

Encompassing painting, drawing, photography,

sculpture and digital works, the artworks in this exhibition have been chosen by a guest curator to ultimately reflect the ongoing relationships between these artists and the cultural landscape of the region.

Image: Sabrina Lauriston, Ego #7 Reflection,2017, pin hole photograph.

Celebrating the strong and vibrant visual arts practices that exist in the Bundaberg region, Here + Now 2020 provides an annual snapshot of our creative community.

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HERE + NOW 2020

EXHIBITIONS

26 JUN - 2 3 AU G EXHIBITION GALLERY ONE @ BRAG

26 JUN  5 .3 0 - 7 .3 0PM EXHIBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

Brickman Awesome Aniamls includes 9 amazing LEGO® brick animals built by Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught and his expert team, totalling more than 105,000 bricks and clocking up more than 400 hours of build-time! Ryan is the only LEGO® Certified Professional in the Southern Hemisphere and one of only 14 in the world.

The exhibition showcases a full-sized LEGO® Australian saltwater crocodile, weighing over 60kgs and built using more than 40,000 LEGO® bricks!

#BRICKMANAWESOME

If that’s not awesome enough, visitors will be forgiven for thinking they have stepped inside a zoo as they find themselves surrounded by a LEGO® brick Kangaroo, Koala and even a giant Redback Spider! LEGO® fanatics will have opportunities to show off their building skills at Brickman Awesome too – visitors can help the Brickman team expand their LEGO® colony of Emperor Penguins, build their very own crocodiles and even put them on display next to Ryan’s LEGO® models!

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BRICKMAN AWESOME ANIMALS

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EXHIBITION THE VAULT @ BRAG

4 JU L  10AM

EXHIBITIONS

26 JU N - 2 3 AU G

EXHIBITION OPENING THE VAULT @ BRAG

REEF GEMS + CORAL ROSES

Check out the fascinating tools display and pots, both crocheted and clay, to store the crochet threads & wool. Much of the inspiration for this installation has

HADIE MACLEOD

The artist, Hadie Macleod, has also been inspired by the Crochet Coral Reef (crochetcoralreef.org) which is a lovely collaboration of Mathematics Biology and Fibre Arts. If you like what you see and are a crochet enthusiast talk to the Gallery staff about a possible future collaboration to crochet a reef for display in Bundaberg.

Image: Hadie MacLeod, Reef Gems and Coral Roses, 2019, crocheted various yarn.

Walk inside to discover a treasure trove of crocheted jewellery – brooches, necklaces, rings, plus other flotsam and jetsam - all inspired by the reef and its treasures. However, it’s no normal jewellery shop - the shelving and cabinets are made from nets of recovered plastic.

been from snorkelling in some of our amazing local areas like Bargara, Lady Elliot Island and Lady Musgrave Island, as well as Byron Bay’s Julian Rocks and Krakatoa.

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In a very special exhibition, the Vault is transformed into a jewellery shop.

EXHIBITIONS

28 A UG - 1 8 O C T EXHIBITION GALLERY ONE + THE VAULT @ BRAG

28 A UG  5 .3 0 - 7 .3 0PM EXHIBITION OPENING BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY

Curated by local artist, Adrienne Williams, FOUND! Studio Dog | Exhibition & Art Trail will explore the solitary working practices of local and invited artists and their lovable studio companions.

Based in Gallery One and The Vault, and popping up across the region in more than 30 cafes, businesses and wall space, FOUND! creates

a community art trail in Bundaberg and beyond. With satellite venues in Gatakers Arts Space in Maryborough, Red Hill Gallery and Side Gallery in Brisbane, plus special dog-walking trail events and an online story map – there will be something in FOUND! for everyone. Keep in touch on social media as the project builds @foundwoofwoof as we fill the toy box with fun public programs.

CURATED BY ADRIENNE WILLIAMS

Image: Adrienne Williams, Zee Zee, 2013, collagraph print.

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FOUND!

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ceramic, pottery, leadlight, woodwork and jewellery. We also stock a wide selection of artisan gift cards. If you are looking for something different, you are sure to find it in our Gift Shops.

G A L L E RY G I F T SH OP

The Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery and Childers Arts Space feature locally handcrafted, boutique wares in our Gift Shops. Unique one-off pieces are available in a range of mediums including

L I B R A R I ES

EVENTS LIBRARIES

BOOK CLUB

KIDS’ BOOK CLUB

Read and discuss books with other book lovers. New members welcome, no bookings required.

Share what you are reading and participate in fun activities. Not run during school holidays.

Dates and times may change, please contact the Gin Gin Library on 07 4130 4620 for the date of the next meeting.

Bookings not required.

GIN GIN LIBRARY

EV ERY 2 ND T H U R S D AY  1 0.3 0AM

1S T THU RS DAY OF THE MON TH 3PM

AGES 18+

AGES 5 - 14

FREE

60 minutes

FREE

60 minutes

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STORY PLAY GIN GIN LIBRARY

Activities, stories, play and fun designed for children from 0 - 5 years of age and their guardians. Not run during school holidays. Bookings not required.

LIVE LOCAL & LEARN GIN GIN LIBRARY

A program showcasing local individuals and community groups. There is a wide range of community groups and talented individuals in the Gin Gin area. This is your chance to come and meet with them to engage in a hands on activity or presentation. Dates may change. Contact the Gin Gin Library if you would like to share your skills or promote your group.

4TH THU RS DAY OF THE MON TH 4.30PM

AGES 0 - 5

FREE

60 minutes

1 ST & 3RD M O N D AY OF T H E M ON T H 9.3 0A M

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REGULAR KID’S PROGRAMS

TECHNOLOGY SESSIONS

Regular programs for 0 - 5 year olds such as Story Time, Toddler Rock n Rhyme, and Baby Giggle and Wiggle run weekly during school terms (starting from the 2nd week).

Technology sessions are offered regularly in our branches. Topics include Virtual Reality (VR), 3D printing, Library eServices (eBooks, etc), basic technology skills, and more.

Days and times are subject to change. Please contact your library branch or check out the library’s website for further information. Bookings not required.

Bookings essential. Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

VARIO US D AT ES  VAR I OU S T I MES

VARIOU S DATES  VARIOU S T I MES

AGES 0 - 5

ALL AGES

BUNDABERG LIBRARY

FREE

ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES

FREE

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YOUTH WEEK CHILDERS LIBRARY

Join the Childers Library in celebrating Youth Week with a digital challenge for ages 12 - 18 years. Bookings essential. Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

EASTER EGG POM POM PAINTING CHILDERS LIBRARY

You don’t need a paint brush to decorate your Easter artwork! Create an Easter egg inspired masterpiece using paint & pom poms. Bookings essential. To book, please contact Childers Library on 4130 4650 or see the Childers Library staff.

8 APR  10.30AM

AGES 12 - 18

AGES 3 - 8

FREE

60 minutes

1 - 9 A P R  VA R I OU S T I M ES

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SOCK BUNNY CHILDERS LIBRARY

Make your own adorable no-sew sock bunny. All materials are supplied.

AUTUMN CRAFT LEAF PAINTING CHILDERS LIBRARY

Bookings essential. To book, please contact Childers Library on 4130 4650 or see the Childers Library staff.

Nature provides the perfect print to create an autumn-inspired work of art. All materials are supplied.

Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

Bookings essential. To book, please contact Childers Library on 4130 4650 or see the Childers Library staff. Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

9 AP R  1 0 . 3 0AM

15 APR  10.30AM

AGES 8 - 13

FREE

60 minutes

AGES 3 - 9

FREE

60 minutes

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AUTUMN CRAFT LEAF PASTELS

EARTHRISE MOVIE SHOWING

Create an autumn-inspired leaf art with pastels and chalk. This activity can be messy so please wear something you don’t mind getting stained. All materials supplied.

Watch the movie Earthrise – a documentary that tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968. The story is told by the Apollo 8 astronauts and recounts the grandeur and awe of Earth from a perspective that transcends the boundaries of nation, religion and politics. The film reflects the need to see the Earth as a shared home for all living things. Bookings essential.

CHILDERS LIBRARY

Bookings essential. To book, please contact Childers Library on 4130 4650 or see the Childers Library staff. Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

BUNDABERG LIBRARY

22 APR  10 - 11AM

AGES 9 - 13

AGES 18+

FREE

60 minutes

FREE

60 minutes

1 6 AP R  10 . 3 0AM

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EXPLORE GOOGLE NATIONAL EARTH - VR SIMULTANEOUS BUNDABERG LIBRARY STORYTIME

Take part in an exploration of the Earth using Virtual Reality (VR). Participants will use Google Earth to explore any part of the world that they can imagine.

ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES

Bookings essential. To book your place, check the library Facebook page or phone the library on 4130 4140. Watch What’s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

Join us at any of our library branches during Library and Information Week, for a special reading of Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas by Lucinda Gifford – the 2020 National Simultaneous Storytime title. Bookings not required.

22 A P R  3. 3 0 P M

2 5 - 2 9 M AY  VARIOU S TIMES

AGES 18+

AGES 0 - 5

FREE

60 minutes

FREE

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SCHOOL HOLIDAY LIBRARY 24/7 ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES ACTIVITIES ALL LIBRARY BRANCHES

School holidays are always fun at the library! Book into a scheduled activity or simply come and enjoy the many free resources, including puzzles, board games, and wi-fi.

All you need is your library card and the internet to have free access to electronic books, movies, music, magazines and more from the comfort of your own home. Perfect way to enjoy the library wherever you are! More information about our online resources can be found on artsbundaberg.com.au/libraries or chat to one of our friendly staff.

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ON LIN E 24 / 7!

Watch Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On and the Library Facebook page for details and bookings.

IMAGE Tristram Kenton

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SE ASON 2020

19 F E B 6PM B UF FET  7 .3 0PM S H OW SING L E PA S S

$65.00

SUBS CR I B ER

$45.00

Tickets include show + themed buffet

UNDE R 2 5’ S

$20.00

180 minutes

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Joseph Tawadros AM is a virtuoso player of the oud - the Egyptian lute. He is also a composer, a 4 time ARIA award winner and a great storyteller. Born in Cairo, his family came to Australia when he was three and he is currently based in London.

Last year Joseph presented his Concerto for Oud with Sydney

Symphony at the Opera House - but his brilliant duo show gives the audience a more intimate and personal glimpse of his colorful personality, with moments of great beauty alongside hilarious banter. Joseph’s brother will be performing too. James is a worldclass percussionist specialising on the Req, an Egyptian tambourine.

“…ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT MUSICIANS IN AUSTRALIA” MURRAY BLACK RICHARD GLOVER SHOW ABC SYDNEY 2019

IMAGE Joseph Tawadros

THEATRE

JOSEPH TAWADROS

ADULT $55.00 CONCESSION $49.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $40.00 130 minutes (including interval)

SE ASON 2020

14 MAR  8PM

THE SAPPHIRES

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TONI BRIGGS

Four young women from regional Australia, who like singing country music, suddenly get the chance to change their tune and their lives.

The Sapphires is a funny, heart-warming tale inspired by the true story of four Yorta Yorta Women, who sing classic soul hits against the backdrop of personal change and massive social upheaval. It is an energetic, fun and engaging play that affirms life and the realisation of dreams.

“ENERGETIC, PASSIONATE, HEART WRENCHING, UPLIFTING, HILARIOU S AND ENGAGING” ANNA LOCKE AUSTRALIAN STAGE

IMAGE Jodie Hutchinson

Wearing sequins, armed only with microphones they find themselves

trying to spread joy in the hell that is the Vietnam War.

THEATRE

The Sapphires is a multiple award winning musical play and film that is coming to the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre stage…. for the first time.

SING L E PA S S

$65.00

SUBS CR I B ER

$45.00

Tickets include show + themed buffet

UNDE R 2 5’ S

$20.00

180 minutes

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LAURA FRATICELLI Argentinian guitarist Laura Fraticelli’s emotionally charged performances have seen her take to stages – and television stations, and radio channels – across the world. A love for music led her to continue

her studies at the Royal College of Music in London, then later at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She has been praised for her beautiful tone and passionate interpretations.

“WH EN LAURA PLAYS THE GUITAR IT SOUNDS AS IF THE STRINGS ARE MADE OF VELVET. ” VIMMERBY TIDNING SWEDEN

IMAGE Laura Fraticelli

SE ASON 2020 THEATRE 35

1 AP R 6PM B UF FET  7 .3 0PM S H OW

SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 60 minutes | Ages 12+

SE ASON 2020

2 MAY  7.30PM

MISSION SONGS PROJECT From cultural identity to love and loss, these rare songs performed by an extraordinary trio of Indigenous musicians consist of almost forgotten stories that illuminate the history of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait elders, families and communities.

Mission Songs Project is produced by Performing Lines and supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Indigenous Languages and Arts program.

“…PROFOUNDLY MOVING… THE ENTIRE COLLECTION IS SUBLIME.” STEPHEN FITZPATRICK THE AUSTRALIAN 2017

IMAGE Jessie Lloyd

Presented as an acoustic trio, Jessie Lloyd takes audiences on a musical journey across Australia. She engages through intimate storytelling, moving harmonies and historical insights. Using humour and truth to

share the voices of elders as they would around a warm campfire or kitchen table.

THEATRE

Searching for the secular songs that were sung after church, Jessie Lloyd explores the day to day life on the missions, settlements and reserves through music.

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2020

THE YEAR AHEAD  Sat 8 Feb  14 Feb   14 Feb - 16 Apr  14 Feb - 26 Apr  Sat 15 Feb   Sun 16 Feb  Wed 19 Feb  Sun 23 Feb  Wed 26 Feb   Fri 28 Feb  Sat 29 Feb  Sun 1 Mar  Wed 4 Mar  Sat 7 Mar  Sun 8 Mar   Fri 13 Mar  Sat 14 Mar  Fri 20 Mar  Sat 21 Mar  Sun 22 Mar  Wed 25 Mar  Fri 27 Mar  Sat 28 Mar  28 - 29 Mar 

ARTS BUNDABERG

6 Feb - 29 Mar

KEY  GALLERIES

Structures in a Landscape

Wed 1 Apr

Exhibition Opening - Structures in a Landscape

1 Apr - 9 Apr

Exhibition Opening - Finding Vera

Fri 3 Apr

Exhibition Opening - The Brothers Gruchy

3 Apr - 18 Jun

Finding Vera: The Vera Scarth-Johnson Exhibition

Sat 4 Apr

The Brothers Gruchy

Sun 5 Apr

SEASON LAUNCH - MEL LATHOURAS

Tue 7 Apr

André Rieu: 70 Years Young

Wed 8 Apr

Turandot

MEV

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Joseph Tawadros Shoplifters

Thu 9 Apr

2020

MCS

Wednesday Art Walk The Peanut Butter Falcon

Tue 14 Apr MEV

Thu 16 Apr

Dottie Days Marina Prior & David Hobson Manon Judy

Wed 15 Apr

MEV

Fri 17 Apr

MET

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Drawing from Nature: Plein Air Workshop

Sat 18 Apr

Maiden

Sun 19 Apr

MCS

International Women’s Day Event

Wed 22 Apr

Fridays Up Late The Sapphires

2020

Botanicals Cocktail Night

Sun 26 Apr

Bones of Women

Fri 1 May

Madama Butterfly

MEV MET

Wednesday Art Walk Dottie Days

1 May - 17 Jun

The Brothers Gruchy Symposium

1 May 21 Jun

Digital Art Workshop

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 LIBRARIES Laura Fraticelli

 THEATRE

2020

Youth Week Exhibition Opening - Talk of the Town Talk of the Town Dr Seuss’s the Cat in the Hat

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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

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Island Fashion on Tour Easter Egg Pom Pom Painting Mary Poppins Returns

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Island Fashion on Tour Sock Bunny Island Fashion on Tour Autumn Craft Leaf Painting Island Fashion on Tour Autumn Craft Leaf Art Pastels Dottie Days The Robertson Brothers 1960s Variety TV Show MEV

David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet Akhnaten

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Wednesday Art Walk Earthrise - Movie Showing Explore Google Earth - VR Experience Sunday Session with The Brothers Gruchy Exhibition Opening - Here + Now 2020 Exhibition Opening - Dementia is a Person Exhibition Opening - Boss Drovers Here + Now 2020 Dementia is a Person: The Leaf Project Boss Drovers by Robert MacPherson

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Brickman Awesome Animals

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Ladies in Black All My Sons

Sat 4 Jul

2020

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Mirusia ‘A Salute to the Seekers & Classics’

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Laneway Artisan Market Lisa Budin - The Carpenters Show The Realm / El Reino

2020

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The World of Musicals

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Mindfullness Mornings Agro Up Late! With Jamie Dunn Wozzeck

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National Simultaneous Storytime Charmaine Wilson: The Australian Medium

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Wednesday Art Walk Dottie Days Owl & Pussycat Animal Farm

2020

Mindfullness Mornings Fridays Up Late The Australian Dream

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Wednesday Art Walk Dottie Days The Tap Pack

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The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

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Exhibition Opening - Brickman Awesome Animals

Edward the Emu

2020

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

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Exhibition Opening - Reef Gems and Coral Roses A Boy Called Sailboat Top End Wedding Agrippina

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The Flying Dutchman Emu Runner Yas Queen

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Kursk / The Command

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Time of Their Lives Tosca

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FOUND! Exhibition Opening FOUND! Exhibition Dogman

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By a Thread

2020

Maria Stuarda

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I've Been Meaning to Ask You Aladdin

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Travelling Film Festival Downton Abbey Rovers

2020

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2020

Birth and Death of Stars - Mzaza

2020

John Williamson – The Winding Back Tour Cold War / Zimna Wojna

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

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Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase 2020

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MCS Moncrieff Cinema Society

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Moncrieff Events

MOV Free Community Movie

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The Metropolitan Opera

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National Theatre Live

Wed 1 July

Reef Gems and Coral Roses

 Sun 5 Jul  Wed 8 Jul  Sun 19 Jul  Sun 2 Aug  Wed 5 Aug  Sat 8 Aug  Sun 9 Aug  Thu 13 Aug  Wed 19 Aug  Sun 23 Aug  Fri 28 Aug  28 Aug - 18 Oct  Sun 6 Sep  Tue 8 Sep  Sun 13 Sep  Sat 26 Sep  Wed 30 Sep  9 Oct - 11 Oct  Wed 14 Oct  Sat 17 Oct  Thu 22 Oct  Fri 23 Oct  Sun 22 Nov  Wed 9 Dec  Fri 11 Dec 

Mission Songs Project

ARTS BUNDABERG

25 - 29 May

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PERFECT FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES

03 JUN

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

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ANIMAL FARM

08 SEP

BY A THREAD

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EDWARD THE EMU

26 SEP

I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU

SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 140 minutes

SE ASON 2020

9 M AY  2PM

REMEMBERING THE CARPENTERS

Lisa Budin was born in London Ontario

Lisa’s detail in recreating the sound of Karen’s velvet voice is perfect and if you close your eyes, you would think that you were listening to Karen herself. Lisa recaptures those old memories of the past and delights you with the happy and sad times of Karen and Richard’s journey through their wonderful short but prolific music careers.

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Consistently sold out and always with rave reviews, an intimate version of the show is about to hit the road to Bundaberg.

Canada and has been singing since she was 4 years old. She grew up loving the music of The Carpenters and has been paying tribute to the music for the last 20 years in her show, Remembering The Carpenters.

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Remembering The Carpenters features the richly talented Lisa Budin, who, along with her top class band, bring to life the songs of The Carpenters. As well as performing much loved Carpenters songs like Top Of The World, Close To You, Superstar and We’ve Only Just Begun, Lisa tells the story of The Carpenters, transporting audiences back in time on a memorable musical journey.

SE ASON 2020

3 J UN  6. 3 0PM [PUBLIC] 10.30 A M + 1P M [SCHOOLS] SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 45 minutes

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT THEATRE

BY LISA CHENEY AND KATHRYN MARQUET In a pea green boat, an owl and a pussycat sail across the sea for a year and a day to fair Bongtree Bay. Adventure calls, new encounters await and love conquers all in a nostalgic musical journey with an irresistible blend of romance and nonsense.

intimate theatrical experience for families. Be swept away in this allnew opera with stunning vocals, interactive theatre and a troupe of musical Puffins. Aboard a magical pea green boat, this charming work explores the universal themes of love, harmony and acceptance.

The Owl & The Pussycat is supported by APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund and Creative Sparks, a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Tour supported by The Playing Queensland Fund and arTour, initiatives of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

“…A CREATIVE GEM OF HOMEGROWN TALENT” STAGE WHISPERS

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The Owl and the Pussycat is an enchanting and

SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 90 minutes

SE ASON 2020

6 JU N  7.30PM

Ages 12+ (Smoke, haze/fog, strobe lighting)

ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL

CREATED BY SHAKE & STIR THEATRE CO

Created by shake & stir and directed by Michael Futcher, Animal Farm promises to be one of the most shocking, relevant and wickedly funny theatre events of 2020.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Tour supported by arTour an initiative of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

“DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO GET A TICKET” THE COURIER MAIL

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Revolution has taken place at Manor Farm. The pigs have assumed control and all the

animals, fueled by enthusiastic camaraderie and guided by a set of self-imposed rules, are promised a better life free from the selfserving greed of humans. However, it is not long until the rules that promised equality and freedom become the shackles that bind the animals once again.

THEATRE

Animal Farm, one of the most enduring political commentaries returns in a multi-award winning, critically-acclaimed theatre production. George Orwell’s intensely powerful fairy tale allegorizes and satirizes communist governments while illustrating with stunning simplicity how greed and power corrupts with devastating consequences to all who yield.

SE ASON 2020

27 JUN  1 0 . 3 0 A M + 2 .3 0PM SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 50 minutes | Ages 4 - 9

A MONKEY BAA THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION

EDWARD THE EMU

Edward is bored with his lot. Being the only emu at the zoo has left him feeling glum and under the impression that the grass is greener in everyone else’s enclosure. Maybe being a seal, or a lion, or a snake might be a better option in life for a lonely bird? Convinced that the other creatures are more popular, Edward breaks ranks and goes to find the fun.

Meanwhile the Keepers are in hot pursuit, hunting high and low to relocate their crowd-pleasing, much-loved feathered attraction. Edward stays one step ahead until he’s ready to head home; concluding that being an emu might be just right after all. Back at his pen, a very shocking but welcome surprise awaits... he’s been replaced by the rather wonderful Edwina the Emu!

BASED ON THE PICTURE BOOKS BY SHEENA KNOWLES AND ROD CLEMENT

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THEATRE

WRITTEN FOR THE STAGE AND DIRECTED BY EVA DI CESARE

E LI K E SOMEON U O Y

8 AU G 6 PM BU FFE T  7.30PM SH O W SI NGLE PA SS

$65.00

SU B SC RI B E R

$45.00

U ND E R 2 5’ S

$20.00

Tickets include show + themed buffet

SE ASON 2020

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YAS QUEEN Yas Queen is fronted by trained musicians Paula Girvan, Mel Lathouras and Tenille West. Described by their fans as the ultimate jazz party band, Yas Queen perform a stompin’ set of big band classics and popular jazz standardsinterwoven with humorous stage banter and storytelling. Their female leads also have a penchant for Boswell and Andrew Sister-like harmonies- delivering with sass and originality.

“ULTIMATE JAZZ PARTY BAND” BRISBANE FESTIVAL

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Since their debut performance in 2017, Yas Queen have performed onstage at Brisbane Festival’s Spiegeltent, The Wonderland Festival and the Brisbane International Jazz Festival; as well as prominent venues such as the Brisbane Jazz Club, Doo Bop Jazz Bar, JMI Live and the Brisbane Powerhouse. Yas Queen have also appeared

regularly on radio stations ABC Brisbane and 4ZZZ.

THEATRE

Yas Queen is a celebration of women in music. This female led jazz band - is the yin to the yang of Brisbane’s jazz scene.

SE ASON 2020

8 S EP T  7 . 3 0PM SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 50 minutes (Haze/fog)

BY A THREAD Long spools of white rope run through pulley sheaves and wrap around bodies, explicitly connecting the artists’ movements above and off the ground. Like the booms and sheets of a sailing ship the performers are hoisted and swung by one another to create striking tableaux and breathtaking dynamics.

The actions of one acrobat affect and implicate the movements of others in a precise

negotiation of cause and effect. By a Thread offers rich visuals of inventive aerial acrobatics from some of Australia’s best circus artists. With intense training in a breadth of contemporary circus disciplines, the performers have pooled their knowledge and skills, and then exploded the traditional boundaries of these disciplines to create a show where classic techniques are used in expansive ways.

“INTRICATE AND MESMERISING PIECE OF ART” ARTSHUB

IMAGE Aaron Walker

THEATRE

ONE FELL SWOOP CIRCUS

SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 60 minutes

Ages 9+ (Adult themes, smoke, haze/fog, strobe lighting)

SE ASON 2020

26 S E P  2 .30PM + 6 .30PM

CRITICAL STAGES TOURING

I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU CREATED BY THE GOOD ROOM

How come adults drink to have fun? What was life like before the Internet? This is a show full of questions asked by young people and answered by adults. Watch as age collides

with experience as audiences young and old come together in a revealing one-hour-tellall.

THEATRE

Why do you have to go to work?

Adults take a back seat as a powerful panel of 9-13 year olds direct from your community (or family!) tackle the answers they receive to the questions they’ve always wanted to know.

DIRECTOR Daniel Evans

Originally commissioned by Brisbane Festival and produced in association with QUT Creative Industries at La Boite Theatre in 2018.

“WHERE DO I BEGIN? I LOVED ALL OF IT.” BROADWAY WORLD

IMAGE Stephen Henry

KEY CREATIVES Amy Ingram and Nathan Sibthorpe

SE ASON 2020

9 - 11 O CT  VA R I OU S T I M ES SINGLE PASSES

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THEATRE

TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL The Travelling Film Festival (TFF), Australia’s longest running travelling film festival, showcases Australian and international features, documentaries and short films in regional Australia. TFF currently tours to 18 locations annually, screening in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. Founded by David Stratton in 1974, the TFF is committed to

providing audiences in regional Australia with access to films they would otherwise not have the opportunity to see on the big screen. The TFF facilitates a direct and invaluable dialogue between regional audiences, local film practitioners and Australia’s wider film community, an opportunity enthusiastically embraced by all parties.

SELECTIONS FROM THE 2020 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

SINGLE PASS $25.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 80 minutes

SE ASON 2020

17 OCT  7.30PM

BELLOO CREATIVE & CRITICAL STAGES TOURING

ROVERS

WRITTEN BY KATHERINE LYALL-WATSON DIRECTED BY CAROLINE DUNPHY

Intrepid performers Roxanne McDonald and Barbara Lowing get behind the wheel and navigate audiences into risky terrain, journeying through the heart-lines of their lives and into the hilarious misadventures of the women who made them who they are today. Join us for an epic adventure with two of Australia’s finest actors.

“SINCERE AND COMPLETELY CHARMING” XS ENTERTAINMENT

IMAGE Kate Holmes

If you’ve ever faced a seemingly insurmountable obstacle, had to keep a family secret or said yes to a crazy dare in a bar, then this funny, heart-

warming and crackling ode to Australia, and the tough women she breeds, will be just your cup of tea.

THEATRE

Rovers is a delightful and modern comedy-drama that has audiences laughing, crying and celebrating the grit and daring of Australia’s trailblazing women. Woven from true stories and wild machinations, this is a fast-paced & poetic night at the theatre that everyone will love.

SEASON 2020

22 O CT 6PM B UF FET  7 .3 0PM S H OW SINGLE PASS $65.00 SUBSCRIBER $45.00 UNDER 25’S $20.00

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Tickets include show + themed buffet 190 minutes

E LI K E SOMEON U O Y

World music favourites Mzaza bring you their brand new show, The Birth and Death of Stars. After a successful Queensland tour in 2017, these warm and consummate performers return with a show that encourages us to take a step away from our daily lives to contemplate our place in the universe. The Birth and Death of Stars draws inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers, leading us on a wonderful voyage through the ether to explore what links us to each other and the world around us in ways that are poetic, moving and at times funny.

Driven by their eclectic backgrounds and European influences the members of Mzaza will take you on a musical ride built on exotic rhythms that make you smile and melodies that tap into the beating heart of humankind. Led by enchanting French vocalist Pauline Maudy, this group of talented musicians and songwriters from Bosnia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, France and Australia will mesmerise you with inspired performances on accordion, violin, shah kaman, percussion, double-bass and guitar.

“MZAZA HAVE BEEN A REAL REVELATION …THEY ARE JUST AMAZING!” MURRAY BLACK RICHARD GLOVER SHOW ABC SYDNEY 2019

IMAGE Juanita Broderick

THEATRE

MZAZA

SEASON E VENTS 2020

T H E AT R E

E V E N TS MEV MET THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

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ANDRÉ RIEU 70 YEARS YOUNG

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André Rieu is celebrating a landmark birthday and is inviting cinema audiences all over the world to his party! This unique anniversary celebration will take you on an unbelievable journey around the world, with some of Andre’s most memorable and beloved concert performances including Schönbrunn Vienna, Radio City Music Hall New York and the Coronation Concert in Amsterdam in their full glory on the cinema screen.

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SINGLE PASS $44

150 minutes (inc interval)

FREE COMMUNITY MOVIE

15 FE B  10AM

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TURANDOT

SHOPLIFTERS

Two of opera’s most thrilling dramatic sopranos, Christine Goerke and Nina Stemme, reprise their fierce portrayals of the title princess.

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces.

Puccini’s opera about a brutal princess and an impossibly brave suitor, who will make any sacrifice to win her love. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them. Japanese with English subtitles.

16 F EB  1 PM ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

2 3 FE B  3PM GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 202 minutes (inc interval)

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

Includes finger food + live entertainment 121 minutes | M

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CARINBUNDI FOUNDATION FUNDRAISING EVENT

The Peanut Butter Falcon is an adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain. After running away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, a man who has Down syndrome befriends an outlaw who becomes his coach and ally.

26 FEB  6P M SINGLE PASS $12.50

‘THE 2 OF US’ FINAL TOUR

After three back to back years of selling out 130 shows around the country, Tenor and Soprano powerhouse legends of Opera and Musical Theatre, David Hobson & Marina Prior embark on their final tour. Accompanied by renowned pianist David Cameron, in a twohour intimate performance, Marina and David will perform their classics, as well as favourites from their award-winning albums.

2 9 FE B  8PM Light refreshments from 5.30pm 97 minutes | M

ADULT $69.95 CONCESSION $64.95 CHILD U16 $34.95

GROUP 6+

$64.95

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MARINA PRIOR + DAVID HOBSON

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THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

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JUDY

Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production.

Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown.

Tenor Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score. Sung in French with English subtitles.

As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians, and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood; gripped by a desire to be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to go on?

1 MAR  1PM ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 252 minutes (inc interval)

4 MAR  10AM FREE

118 minutes | M

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Maiden is the inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first-ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. Tracy’s dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make it, the chauvinistic yachting press took bets on her failure, and potential sponsors rejected her, fearing they would die at sea and generate bad publicity.

BONES OF WOMEN

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MAIDEN

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Filmed at Oodies cafe, with a live, yet blind audience, two brave strangers, Liana Allison and Noni Croft, share their stories from trauma to triumph. Aimed to inspire, empower, educate, heal and create connections towards personal transformation. Throughout the documentary, you’ll hear how their trauma has now transformed into a triumphant life.

8 MAR  3P M Includes finger food + live entertainment

21 M AR  3PM

97 minutes | M

SINGLE PASS $20

60 minutes

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY The tragic romance of a young U.S. Navy lieutenant and his arranged a marriage to a fifteen-year-old Japanese bride, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly). He is warned not to treat the marriage lightly, as his bride-to-be is truly in love with him. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

DR SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT Two bored kids. One rainy day. And one crazy cat wearing a red-striped hat. A Dr. Seuss classic adapted for the stage, Cat in The Hat interrupts this rainy afternoon with his unexpected visit to Sally and her brother’s cosy home. Young and old alike will delight in this faithful adaptation of a classic book come to life before our very eyes. Spoiler alert: Things run amuck, and quickly!

22 M A R  1P M ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U8 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 212 minutes (inc interval)

4 APR  10.30AM + 1PM SINGLE PASS $27.50 FAMILY 4+ $25.00

GROUP 10+ 50 minutes

$22.50

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DANGER CLOSE

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN

An emotional and visceral exploration of a key battle in the Vietnam war – pitting 108 young Australian soldiers against 2500. The Battle of Long Tan is one of the most savage and decisive engagements in ANZAC history, earning both the United States and South Vietnamese Presidential Unit citations for gallantry along with many individual awards.

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Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives following a personal loss. Emily Blunt stars as the practically-perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any ordinary task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure and Lin-Manual Miranda plays her friend Jack, and optimistic street lamplighter who helps bring light - and life - to the streets of London.

5 APR  3P M Includes finger food + live entertainment

8 APR  11AM

118 minutes | MA15+

FREE

130 minutes | G

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

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THE ROBERTSON DAVID ATTENBOROUGH BROTHERS 1960s VARIETY TV SHOW

A LIFE ON OUR PLANET

Do you dream of reliving the good old days? Well don’t miss The Robertson Brothers 1960’s TV Variety Show with special guest Simon Brook McLachlan from the original cast of the hit musical Jersey Boys. With a rockin’ live band and an amazing multimedia presentation, expect to be entertained by many of the Classic Hits from the 60’s. Through the prism of the Variety TV show format you’ll travel back in time to embrace and celebrate all the hits of these 60’s Music Legends.

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Honest, revealing and urgent, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, is a powerful first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations.

17 A P R  8PM ADULT $69.00 CONCESSION $65.00 CHILD U16 $60.00

GROUP 6+ $65.00 FAMILY ( 2a , 2c) $250.00 150 minutes (inc interval)

18 APR  3PM ADULT $25.00 CONCESSION $20.00

140 minutes

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Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Divine ruler of Egypt, husband to Nefertiti, father of a new religion. Akhnaten decrees that the sun god rules supreme, and the old gods must be banished from their temples. But instead, his people turn upon their Pharaoh as a traitor. Presented in various languages.

LADIES IN BLACK

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AKHNATEN

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Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, a shy schoolgirl takes a summer job at the prestigious Sydney department store, Goode’s. There she meets the “ladies in black”, who will change her life forever. Beguiled and influenced by Magda, the vivacious manager of the high-fashion floor, and befriended by fellow sales ladies Patty and Fay, Lisa is awakened to a world of possibilities.

1 9 AP R  1P M GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 236 minutes (inc interval)

6 M AY  10AM FREE

109 minutes | PG

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

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ALL MY SONS

MIRUSIA

A National Theatre Live Cinema Presentation broadcast live from The Old Vic in London. Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama. America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter.

7 M AY  6. 3 0PM ADULT $25.00 CONCESSION $20.00 CHILD U8 $15.00

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A SALUTE TO THE SEEKERS & CLASSICS She’s known to millions around the world as the Angel of Australia - the name given to her by the famous Dutch violinist, André Rieu. This concert is part of Mirusia’s National Tour in 2020 saluting the music of The Seekers, performing the charttopping hits including I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over, Georgy Girl and more in a 2 hour show with band that will also include the classics she has performed with André Rieu around the world and her original songs.

8 MAY  7.30PM GROUP 10+ 165 minutes

$15.00

ADULT $64.95 CONCESSION $59.95 CHILD U16 $34.95

GROUP 6+ $59.95 120 minutes (inc interval)

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THE WORLD OF MUSICALS

Manuel Lopez-Vidal is a regional Spanish politician whose loyalty to his party has been rewarded with a place at the table and an extravagant lifestyle. When a newspaper threatens to expose the party’s corruption, Manuel finds himself the scapegoat. Faced with destruction, he fights back by whistleblowing to the press. A clever, twisting plot and rapidfire dialogue create a rollercoaster ride in which the political old school is pitted against a young pretender brought in to try and clean things up from Madrid. Sorogoyen’s high-speed political thriller will leave you barely drawing breath.

The World of Musicals …., colorful, inspiring and memorable musical classics, all performed by an International starstudded cast, presenting the audience with nightly entertainment at the highest level. Whether a soloist - duet or the entire ensemble, the performers of this musical event will inspire in this Musical Whirlwind. Direct from their USA tour, this select cast of Highly Talented and Accomplished Performers have featured in worldwide smash hits such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray, West side Story, Titanic, Les Miserables, Wizard of OZ, Musical Star Nights, Mary Poppins, Me and my girl, Evita, the king of Narnia, Rent, Avenue “Q”.

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THE REALM / EL REINO

Spanish with English subtitles.

1 0 MAY  3P M Includes finger food + live entertainment 132 minutes | M

ADULT $79.90 CONCESSION $74.90 CHILD U15 $59.90

GROUP 10+ $74.90 140 minutes (inc interval) 62

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

12 MAY  7.30PM

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AGRO UP LATE! WITH JAMIE DUNN

After 30 years in the business, Agro and the bald man under the table, Jamie Dunn are back together and live on stage! Hosted by Ben from Brisbane, get ready to stroll down memory lane and hear the naughtiest and funniest Aussie showbiz stories behind an accidental puppet that became an Aussie icon.

Wozzeck – a good man, who just wants to live his life. But the world around him strikes him down. It preys on his thoughts and triggers horrible anxieties in his soul. He struggles for words to explain himself, until his own utterance falls apart. Not even the woman he loves can understand him and becomes more and more alienated from him. Driven by the struggle to exist and unspeakable fear, pursued by the violence of his perverse fellow humans who feast on his terror, this Wozzeck hustles through life like a hunted animal until he can no longer endure the pressure and destroys his beloved and himself. Sung in German with English subtitles.

16 MAY  8PM

17 MAY  1PM

Grab your Samboy Chips, Tazos, Troll Dolls and your favourite Goosebumps book - Australia’s naughtiest puppet is back!

WOZZECK

ADULT $49.95 CONCESSION $40.00 FAMILY ( 2 a, 2 c) $110.00

UNEMPLOYED $40.00 80 minutes

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 117 minutes (inc interval)

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THE AUSTRALIAN MEDIUM Charmaine Wilson is a world-renowned Australian medium, who has been consistently recognised for her skill and compassion since awakening to her gift in 1999. She has lived through a lot of heartache in her life, including the death of her brother and her four-year-old daughter, both to tragic accidents. Her mother passed in late 2006. These deaths have made her a most compassionate and understanding reader, especially in relating to how her clients may be feeling. Please note: Children under 16yrs and babes in arms are not permitted at this event.

THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM

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CHARMAINE WILSON

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The Australian Dream is a documentary that uses the remarkable and inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes as the prism through which to tell a deep and powerful story about race, identity and belonging. For the first time Adam reveals his profoundly emotional journey in his own words, and asks fundamental questions about the nature of racism and discrimination in society today. A remarkable story of one of the most decorated & celebrated players in AFL history. A man who remains a cultural hero; the very epitome of resilience & survival, who continues to fight for equality and reconciliation.

14 JU N ď&#x201A;&#x; 3PM 26 MAY ď&#x201A;&#x; 7. 30PM 150 minutes (inc interval)

Includes finger food + live entertainment 105 minutes | MA15+

SINGLE PASS $48.00

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

EVENTS THEATRE

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THE TAP PACK With successes in Edinburgh, Beijing, Berlin and London, The Tap Pack is a high energy, tap comedy show. Inspired by the infamous Rat Pack which included the famous talents of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. With dazzling performances on stage, dressed in slick suits and equipped with sharp wit, The Tap Pack is a modern twist on the classic Rat Pack. They infuse tap dance with swing music and witty banter. They sing. They dance. They joke, bringing a new, invigorating energy to a timeless style.

20 JUN  7 . 3 0 P M ADULT $69.90 CONCESSION $64.90 GROUP 8+ $64.90

VIP EXPERIENCE $89.90 120 minutes (inc interval)

MET

THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY + BESS The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s folk opera, as the 1935 creators described it, tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black street-beggar living in the slums of Charleston. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin’ Life, her drug dealer. Sung in English.

2 1 JU N  1PM ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 220 minutes (inc interval)

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WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game’s jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they’ll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they’ll be stuck in the game forever.

A BOY CALLED SAILBOAT

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JUMANJI

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In a slanted dwelling beyond the outskirts of a drought-ridden town, a close Hispanic family accept an impossible blessing and name their only son Sailboat. One fine day, Sailboat brings with him a musical instrument which changes his life forever: a “little guitar”. From this moment, Sailboat and his ukulele are inseparable, and when his gravely ill grandmother instructs him to write a song for her, Sailboat meanders through adversity to deliver the unimaginable – the greatest song ever written.

5 JU L  3PM 1 J UL  6P M 119 minutes | PG

Includes finger food + live entertainment 92 minutes | PG

FREE

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

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TOP END WEDDING A celebration of love, family and belonging, set against the spectacular natural beauty of the Northern Territory. This heart-warming romantic comedy tells the story of successful Sydney lawyer Lauren and her fiancé Ned. Engaged and in love, they have just ten days to pull off their dream Top End Wedding. First though, they need track down Lauren’s mother, who has gone AWOL somewhere in the Northern Territory.

MET

AGRIPPINA In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society, the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

19 JU L  1PM

8 J UL  6P M FREE

113 minutes | M

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 250 minutes (inc interval)

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MET

Inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman, the Captain of a ghostly ship who has been condemned to sail the seas for eternity, is offered a chance of redemption by true love. Director François Girard, whose mesmerizing production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork. Sung in German with English subtitles.

Emu Runner is seen through the eyes of Gem, a 9-year-old girl growing up in the isolated community of Brewarrina. When Gem’s young mother dies unexpectedly, she copes with the loss by bonding with a wild emu, while her father struggles to keep his family of three children together.

THEATRE

EMU RUNNER

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

As Gem connects with her ancestors’ totem animal – a male emu rearing its chicks – her behaviour attracts the attention of an over-eager social worker who may misinterpret grief for parental neglect. Emu Runner is a tale of sorrow and redemption, but its central message is about respecting difference. The film explores underlying racial tensions in regional Australia and the importance of traditional customs in contemporary Aboriginal culture.

2 AU G  1P M GROUP 10+ MET PASS 164 minutes

$15.00 $22.00

5 AU G  10AM FREE

95 minutes | PG

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

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KURSK / THE COMMAND

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

An explosion on a nuclear-powered Russian submarine kills most of the men aboard and causes the few survivors to huddle in waterlogged and oxygen deficient rear compartments, where they anxiously await rescue.

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play.

It is a race against time with oxygen levels running low as the Russian government plans the best course of action, before finally accepting help from the British and Norwegian governments.

9 A UG  3PM

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SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.

13 AU G  10.30AM + 6 .30PM Includes finger food + live entertainment 117 minutes | M

ADULT $25.00 CONCESSION $20.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ 160 minutes

$15.00

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MOV

A feel-good character-driven comedy starring Golden Globewinner Dame Joan Collins, BAFTA-winner Pauline Collins, and Italian heartthrob Franco Nero. A former Hollywood star (Collins) leaves her London retirement home with a friend to go to her ex-husband’s funeral in France. On the way, the two women get romantically involved with a Frenchman.

TOSCA Rome, June 1800. Cesare Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, rushes into the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle.

THEATRE

THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES

MET

After finding the key his sister has hidden for him, he hides in his family’s private chapel. Soon, the painter Mario Cavaradossi arrives to work on his portrait of Mary Magdalene. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

23 AU G  1PM 1 9 AUG  1 0 A M 105 minutes | M

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 197 minutes (inc interval)

FREE

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

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DOGMAN

MARIA STUARDA

In a dilapidated Neapolitan suburb, the pint-sized, mildmannered Marcello (Marcello Fonte) runs the dog-grooming business of the film’s title, caring for the neighbourhood pooches, and raising his young daughter, Alida, for whom he’d do anything to spoil.

In 1587, Maria Stuarda, Queen of Scotland, has been held prisoner for several years by her cousin Elisabetta, Queen of England.

But he’s domineered by one of his customers, Simone (Edoardo Pesce), a petty criminal and former boxer who throws his substantial bulk around this tight-knit community at every opportunity. Marcello soon becomes swept up in a criminal plan he wants nothing to do with.

Roberto, Earl of Leicester, with whom Elisabetta is secretly in love, wants to help Maria, to whom he declares his love and proposes marriage to her. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Italian with English subtitles.

6 SEP  3P M SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

13 S E P  1PM Includes finger food + live entertainment 103 minutes | MA15+

ADULT $28.00 CONCESSION $24.00 CHILD U18 $15.00

GROUP 10+ $15.00 MET PASS $22.00 186 minutes (inc interval)

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DOWNTON ABBEY

An exciting tale of the charming, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine, a power-hungry Grand Vizier, a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true and the Genie who may be the key to their future.

Excitement is high at Downton Abbey when the Crawley family learns that King George V and Queen Mary are coming to visit.

It is a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1992 animated film of the same name, which is in turn based on the Arabic folktale of the same name from One Thousand and One Nights.

3 0 SE P  1 1 A M 128 minutes | PG

But trouble soon arises when Mrs. Patmore, Daisy and the rest of the servants learn that the king and queen travel with their own chefs and attendants - setting the stage for an impromptu scheme and other shenanigans.

14 OCT  10AM FREE

120 minutes | PG

FREE

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ALADDIN

EVENTS THEATRE

MEV

JOHN WILLIAMSON

THE WINDING BACK TOUR The year 2020 will see Australian music icon John Williamson celebrate his 75th birthday, his 50th Anniversary in the entertainment industry and also a final big year on the road. Mallee Boy, True Blue, Fair Dinkum, or whatever you call him, there is no other performer who stirs the Aussie spirit as he does and 2020 could be the final time you get to experience his inspiring concert in your town or city.

$64.00 $59.00

COLD WAR / ZIMNA WOJNA Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times. Polish with English subtitles.

2 2 N OV  3PM

23 O CT  8PM ADULT PENSIONER

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CHILD U14 $35.00 150 minutes (inc interval)

SINGLE PASS $20.00 5 PACK PASS $75.00 9 PACK PASS $99.00

Includes finger food + live entertainment 89 minutes | M

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Young Clara needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift. A golden thread leads her to the coveted key, but it soon disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world.

The Festival’s funniest in one hilarious night! The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase Tour will be tearing up the freeways of Australia for the eighth year in a row to bring the best of the 2020 Festival to Bundaberg.

In that world, she meets a soldier named Phillip, a group of mice and the regents who preside over three realms. Clara and Phillip must now enter a fourth realm to retrieve the key and restore harmony to the unstable land.

Expertly curated and lovingly presented, the Showcase will feature some of the Festival’s hottest acts live on stage for an incredible two hours of hard-hitting laughter. Boasting a line-up of veteran favourites, international stars, and some of the freshest emerging talents, this jam-packed night of pure entertainment will leave you sore from belly laughs.

9 DEC  6P M 99 minutes | PG

11 DEC  8 - 10PM ADULT $35.00 CONCESSION $30.00

GROUP 4+ Ages 15+

$30.00 74

FREE

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THE NUTCRACKER SYDNEY COMEDY AND THE FOUR FESTIVAL REALMS SHOWCASE 2020

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IN DEVELOPMENT As well as being a venue for hire for touring companies and a presenter of performing arts work of state and national significance, the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre is actively involved in commissioning and development of new work with a specific connection to the Bundaberg Region. This is about investing in the future of our industry and of Australian artists. Work in development is listed below.

BLAKDANCE PERFORMING COUNTRY BlakDance’s Performing Country is a purposefully crafted on Country residency for contemporary Indigenous choreographers to develop new dance works and engage with local Indigenous communities in regional Queensland. The Moncrieff Entertainment Centre is a partner in the state-wide consortium of Performing Country, investing in the creative development of a new work by Wakka Wakka and Kombumerri choreographer and dancer Katina Olsen. Katina will be in Bundaberg from 16 – 20 March, working with local community as part of the development of a work about Indigenous cosmology where the dancer is the link between Country and the stars. Katina has said, “I’ve spent my career as a dancer dancing other people’s stories. This is my chance to come back to country and tell my own story.” Katina is in the early stage of development and her time in the Bundaberg Region will be spent in community-based research.

Performing Country is made possible through the generous contributions of our partners Gympie Regional Council, Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre, Moncrieff Entertainment Centre and Rockhampton Regional Council. Performing Country has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through the Arts Queensland Backing Indigenous Arts initiative.

FLORENCE BROADHURST Those who know Florence Broadhurst’s story know she was born and raised in Mt Perry and had her first singing and music lessons in Bundaberg. She had a rich and complex life and ended up being one of the world’s most sought-after designers. You will see one of her more iconic designs on the façade of the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery as a nod to her work and her heritage. The Galleries team are developing a new exhibition based on Broadhurst’s work and Council has commissioned well-known Australian playwright, Katherine Thomson, to write a new play about the life of the famous design icon. Both the exhibition and play will be launched in Bundaberg in 2021 – two world premieres all at once.

THE ARK Through the Regional Arts Development Fund Artist in Residence fund, a strategic initiative overseen by Council, a team of artists are being supported in their initial creative development of a new work focused on a retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark. Rather than biblical times, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian era, with a quest to save the Reef from extinction. Among the main characters is the Loggerhead turtle, Bundaberg’s icon. This new work, aimed for a 2022 launch, is being imagined as a large scale public performance with the potential as a festival piece. Lead artists are Toni Houston, writer, and Richard Todd, producer.

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