The Soul Rebels lean into their foundational brass makeup while infusing hip-hop and other sounds from across the musical universe. With an expansive and ambitious ethos, they conjugate an audible energy that thrills audiences whether listening live or streaming at home.
Summer Camp launches in Sydney and Melbourne over the first two weekends in November. In development for over two years, the festival swings an irresistible lineup canvassed with diverse local and international talent.
Set in the Victorian goldfields of the 1850s, New Gold Mountain breaks new ground in its dramatic rendition of the power dynamics, racism and violence of this time and place, as seen from the perspective of Chinese migrant miners. Considering the SBS series in the context of the western genre it seeks to emulate and the Australian history it attempts to do justice to, Tahney Fosdike finds the show more willing to confront some myths than others.
More tame than ground-breaking, New Australian Printmaking has a present – although introverted – mindset. Grand notions aside, it subtly composes an evergreen appreciation of an ancient medium – future-proofing printmaking through the process, collaboration, and experimentation of producing something new.
Groundwork exists with both humble and dynamic energy, a duality owing to Mark Galea’s spatial and colour awareness transfixing his work with a presence open to the viewer’s approach.
No Ball Games Allowed scratches at the insides of our bodies, irresistibly, but without reaching the spot of sensitivity, as it leans away from us and, instead, fully into itself.