Girly Hour @ Audible Edge Perth
Apr
4
10:00 PM22:00

Girly Hour @ Audible Edge Perth

Friday, April 4

10pm–11:30pm

Bookings

$13.50. Limited capacity - bookings essential. Included in Festival Pass ($125) and I ❤️ AE ($250).

Boudoir to be revealed

In central Walyalup/Fremantle - to be announced closer to the date.

Whadjuk Noongar boodja

About
A kind of experimental kick-ons and pres in one, we invite keen beans and freaks to join us in the boudoir for something special and strange.

Experimental wind player Solomon Frank and comedian Rose KB invite you to a late night immersive experimental music/live GRWM* video combining elements of foley, electroacoustic sound, movement and girly preening. Building upon their past collaborations as part of Queer Woodchop (MONA FOMA 2023) and Forever Bistro (Natty Waves 2023), the two performers are building on their united love of the silly and the sacred by creating a performance on the eternal task of getting ready. They aim to pay homage to Fluxus in the TikTok attention economy. The performance follows week of creative development supported by the Audible Edge Seed Fund, with a focus on blending their artforms and co-constructing a shared physical and sonic lore that blurs the line between nonsense and the profound.

*GRWM stands for Get Ready With Me — we didn’t know either.

Donate to support this project via the Audible Edge Seed Fund.

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Power Botany 13: Boorloo (WA) Edition
Apr
5
11:00 AM11:00

Power Botany 13: Boorloo (WA) Edition

POWER BOTANY 13: Boorloo Edition (WA)

Queer Bushwalking Club with Solly AND West Australian guest curator Emilie Perez

Power Botany goes West in a special touring edition with guest host local ecologist Emilie Perez!

Meet at 11:00am on Spring Road at the entrance to the Rocky Pool Trail in Kalamunda. The trail is a 5km loop and will take about 2-3 hours as we go slow to stop and smell the flowers :)

Please bring plenty of water (at least 2 L) and some lunch. Wear sturdy closed toed shoes and a hat!

We will be walking on Whadjuk Nyoongar land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples' ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

Any other questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Solo @ House of Bok's ballBOK
Apr
5
7:00 PM19:00

Solo @ House of Bok's ballBOK

Brush off your Kit, BOK returns for another hit

Apps and bing bongs have replaced our curiosity for the courts. Feeld has taken over the field! We need your help to take on the anti-doping committee's racqueteering efforts and free Bird Oval from the tyranny of the timeline! 🏟️📱

The theme is allsorts of ballsports, so be a sport and grab your balls on the way in to the Bird! 👅👅👅

Our opening ceremony spectacular kicks things off at 7PM with special appearances from some very special critters MASC-ots 🦔 Then selectors run through to close, littered with GoalGoal dancers and a guest performance of interstate acclaim. 🎺🎉

/ Trophy WAGS / Snatch Point / hole4pole / WINDMOLES!? / Glam Fancam / Challengers triplets /

Don your favourite hoops, unfurl your tennisnet stockings and lace up your footy boots. No hat no play on this here day. 👠

⚽ Best Kit prizes

🏀 GoGo Dancers

⚾ DJs on DJs on DJs on DJs

🏈 Away team performance

🏉 Drink specials TBA

🎱 4 Square Tournament

🏐 $10 online season pass / $15 on door

🎾 EASTER HAMPER RAFFLE

Wet your umpire's whistle on themed drinks available from the Bird Oval canteen. 🚰🥂

This event is taking place on Aboriginal sportsgrounds. We pay our respects to elder coaches past and present and all rising stars. We acknowledge that sponsorship has never been endorsed - Always was, Always will be Aboriginal grounds. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

ballBOK policy dictates all players treat each other with respect. No tolerance to transphobia, racism, bigotry and mean comments about Elijah's nudity. Red carding applies! ⛳

$10 online tix serving soon, $15 on the door. Ball's in your court. 🏓😘

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Power Botany 12: Birdwatching Edition Mt Ku-ring-gai
Mar
14
7:00 PM19:00

Power Botany 12: Birdwatching Edition Mt Ku-ring-gai

POWER BOTANY 12: Birdwatching Edition

Queer Bushwalking Club with Solly AND Twilight Twitching with guest curator Henry Coleman

Meet at 3:00pm on the Eastern side of Mt Ku-ring-gai station.

We will walk down to Bobbin Head and do the boardwalk amongst the mangroves bringing us back to our starting point by about 7:30pm. 

Bring binoculars if you have them. Please bring plenty of water (at least 2 L) and an afternoon snack.

Expect vibrant sandstone heath, deep estuarine valleys, secluded mangroves, and sweeping views up the Hawkesbury.

Henry Coleman is a lifelong birdwatcher and bird enthusiast. He's got an encyclopaedic knowledge of all our native birds and he loves to share that knowledge!

We will be walking on Darug land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples' ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

Any other questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Power Botany 11: Many Dam
Feb
23
9:30 AM09:30

Power Botany 11: Many Dam

POWER BOTANY 11: Manly Dam

Queer Bushwalking Club with Solly

DOGS PERMITTED ON LEASH FOR THIS ONE

RSVP : https://events.humanitix.com/power-botany-11-manly-dam

Meet at 9:30am at the entrance to Manly Dam next to the bridge across the dam in Manly-Warringah War Memorial Park here. Let me know via Instagram or email if you'd like a lift! Meeting point is a short walk away from Manly Vale bus stop for people coming via public transport. 

The Manly Dam loop is about 7.5km. Details about the track here. Bring your swimmers for a swim if you feel like it. Please bring plenty of water (at least 2 L) and food.

Expect majestic Angophoras, low heath-mallee, coastal swamp heath and a waterfall!

We will be walking on Gayamagal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples' ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

Any other questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Power Botany 9: Werrong Beach
Dec
29
9:45 AM09:45

Power Botany 9: Werrong Beach

POWER BOTANY 9: Werrong Beach (gooch week) 

Queer bushwalking club with Solly AND
special guest curator Alix Higgins (Otford local and friend of the pod)

Meet at Otford station at 9:45am. 

Because it’s summer and it’s hot, this will be a reasonably short walk, about 5 km. We will walk from Otford to Werrong beach lookout then down to the beach (it’s a clothing optional beach FYI). Bring your swimmers for a dip. Please bring plenty of water (at least 2L) and some lunch. 

Expect a secluded wild beach wedged between towering shale cliffs and lush headland bush. 

We will be walking on Dharawal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples' ongoing care and connection to this land and waters.

Any other questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Heaven @ The Flying Nun
Dec
13
to Dec 14

Heaven @ The Flying Nun

Marc is out of high school. He can be gay and free. Then he bumps into his bully, Harry. An exploration of male friendship and the Catholic imagination, Heaven follows the pair as they become unlikely friends. It all goes pretty well until Marc falls in love with him.

Dates: Friday 13, 7pm & 9pm
& Saturday 14, 7pm (December)

Running time: 60mins

Price: $25 or $20 with an Artist Pass (contact access@brandx.org.au for financial hardship and Mob Tickets)

Cast & Creatives:

  • Writer, Actor & Producer: Domenic Anthony

  • Director, Dramaturg & Producer: 'Ana Ika

  • Actor: Conor Merrigan-Turner 

  • Composer & Sound Designer: Solomon Frank

  • Intimacy Coordinator: Shondelle Pratt 

  • Stage Manager: Thomas Hamilton

  • Lighting Designer: Poppy Townsend

     

Additional Credits: This work was supported by bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company through their Residency Program at KXT on Broadway

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Solo @ Peggy Mini-Festival
Dec
7
6:30 PM18:30

Solo @ Peggy Mini-Festival

Matthias Schack-Arnott writes: The year is almost at an end and so is my time at Peggy's. To celebrate the residency and the beautiful community that it exists within, we're presenting a mini-festival of concerts across two evenings. It's very exciting to have the opportunity to hear all of these amazing musicians under one roof. 

Dates: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th of December

Time: 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Address: 45 Ormond Street, Paddington 

Saturday:

Sumn Conduit (Sonya Holowell: voice & Ben Carey: modular synthesis)

Solly Frank: clarinet etc (solo)

Clayton Thomas: bass, Niki Johnson: percussion & Lauren Tsamouras: piano (trio)

Sunday:

Monica Brooks: piano (solo)

Peter Farrar: alto saxophone etc (solo)

Ben Ward: bass, Freya Schack-Arnott: cello & Matthias Schack-Arnott: percussion (trio)

Some vegetarian food and wine will be provided. The event is free but generous donations are encouraged to support the artists for their amazing work. ($15-30 suggested, cash only).

Please RSVP by 4 December, specifying whether you'll be coming to both or just one of the two nights. 

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Power Botany 8: Ku-ring-gai Chase NP
Nov
24
10:00 AM10:00

Power Botany 8: Ku-ring-gai Chase NP

POWER BOTANY 8: Ku-ring-gai Chase NP

with Solly

Free RSVP registration here

Meet at Duckholes picnic area at 10:00am. We can consolidate cars there to go past the boom gate to do the America Bay Walking track 

This will be a reasonably short walk, about 4 km if we walk down to the water. Bring your swimmers for a dip. Please bring plenty of water and food.

Expect views up the Hawkesbury, sandstone heath and plenty of wildflowers.

We will be walking on Darug land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples' ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

Let me know if you’d like to hitch a lift!

Any other questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Princess Diana Rhea @ Ruby Teys' ALT GRL WRLD 29 September
Sep
29
9:15 PM21:15

Princess Diana Rhea @ Ruby Teys' ALT GRL WRLD 29 September

Let’s face it... Even the drama club had rejects!

From the stake to the stage, Ruby Teys presents ALT GIRLS! The Variety show where the word ‘quirky’ is a slur! Showcasing the genius freaky geeks of the festival and absolutely no one who peaked in high school.

A late night full frontal-lob frenzy packed with acts that were way too risky for the primetime slots~ Live, Laugh, Lobotomy!

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Power Botany 7
Sep
28
9:30 AM09:30

Power Botany 7

POWER BOTANY 7: Faulconbridge Ridge to Grose River

with Solly

Meet at Faulconbridge ridge trail head at 9:30am. We will walk along Faulconbridge Ridge Trail and descend into the Grose River valley. 

This will be a reasonably challenging walk at 15km in distance. Bring your swimmers for a dip in the Grose river. Please bring plenty of water and food.

Expect stunning views of the lower Blue mountains, wild rugged river terrain and plenty of wildflowers.

We will be walking on Dharug land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

If you have any questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Princess Diana Rhea @ Ruby Teys' ALT GRL WRLD 21 September
Sep
21
9:15 PM21:15

Princess Diana Rhea @ Ruby Teys' ALT GRL WRLD 21 September

Let’s face it... Even the drama club had rejects!

From the stake to the stage, Ruby Teys presents ALT GIRLS! The Variety show where the word ‘quirky’ is a slur! Showcasing the genius freaky geeks of the festival and absolutely no one who peaked in high school.

A late night full frontal-lob frenzy packed with acts that were way too risky for the primetime slots~ Live, Laugh, Lobotomy!

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Solo performance @ Queerbourhood
Sep
11
8:30 PM20:30

Solo performance @ Queerbourhood

This Wednesday we have a treat for you, 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌(@sollyfrank) is a composer performer 🎭 His practice includes clarinet playing, cross-species musical collaboration, condoms, and time travel 🚀Solomon thinks of his music as “dystopian nostalgia for the present”; it reflects upon art music’s precarious place in a world dictated by corporate technocrats, tiktok algorithms and celebrity deification.

𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑹𝑩𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑯𝑶𝑶𝑫
@queerbourhood_
❣️Bar opens at 4 PM
❣️jonny from 7 PM
❣️Show at 8:30 PM
❣️Free event

✨𝘞𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 @creative.australia 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 ✨

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Solo performance @ Make It Up Club Melbourne
Sep
10
8:00 PM20:00

Solo performance @ Make It Up Club Melbourne

THIS WEEK:
+ Genevieve Fullerton

+ Solly Frank [NSW]

+ Eugene Pascal

TICKETS: $15 / $10 (conc.). No Presales.

______________________


The Make It Up Club

Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance

Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

Subscribe to the mail out here:

http://eepurl.com/g1Rr-9

MIUC merch is available here:

https://makeitupclub.bandcamp.com/

The Make It Up Club is supported by the City of Yarra. 

@yarracityarts

This event is being held on stolen land. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. MIUC will support paying the rent by donating a portion of the door sales to Blak Pearl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creative Studio

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New New Fire Island @ Adhocracy
Sep
6
to Sep 8

New New Fire Island @ Adhocracy

  • Waterside Workers Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Experimental live art duo and Adhocracy frequent flyers Pony Express are pivoting from arts raconteurs to real estate entrepreneurs. 

Taking inspiration from a real-life scam/plan to gentrify an island community into unregulated fabulousness, New New Fire Island takes the form of a firebrand timeshare pitch meeting, to capture that ‘pink dollar’ for the Port before it trickles off the turtle’s back entirely. 

Tuesday-Friday Office Hours: 3pm-5pm for drop in visits
Friday Extended Trade Hours: 7pm-8pm
Saturday: office closed
Sunday 8th September, 6pm: Sunday Sundowner

CREATIVE TEAM

Loren Kronemyer

Ian Sinclair

Donovan Miller

Solomon Frank

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Power Botany 6: North Head
Aug
25
11:00 AM11:00

Power Botany 6: North Head

POWER BOTANY 5: NORTH HEAD

Queer bushwalking club with Solly

We will walk from Manly Wharf to shelly beach, then up to North Head and loop back via the quarantine station. Meet at Manly Wharf at 11am.

This one will be about a 10 km loop with plenty of spots to swim along the way. Bring your swimmers and your binoculars for any whales we may see! As we go into August, the wildflower girlies will be out! 

Expect pristine harbour beaches, wind swept coastal headland heath, flannel flowers and dramatic sandstone cliffs.

We will be walking on Guringai land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

If you have any questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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Power Botany 5: Royal National Park
Aug
3
10:00 AM10:00

Power Botany 5: Royal National Park

POWER BOTANY 5: ROYAL NATIONAL PARK

Queer Bushwalking Club with Solly

We will walk from Heathcote station to Waterfall station via Karloo pools Meet at Heathcote Station at 10am.

This one will be a biggish one (about 11 km) and will take most of the day. Bring your swimmers for a winter dip at Karloo pools! As we go into August, the wildflower girlies will be out! 

Expect steep forested creek gullies, vivid pink boronia against golden wattle in flower and fast flowing crystalline streams.

We will be walking on Dharawal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

If you have any questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

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DOG CHOIR
Jul
21
4:00 PM16:00

DOG CHOIR

DOG CHOIR is a musical workshop-performance for dogs and people facilitated and created by Solomon Frank as part of his PhD research at University of Sydney. The event will feature performances by human-dog duos presenting musical pieces that showcase their unique interspecies musical practices. Solomon will also perform his work Dog Choir, a participatory group improvisation for dogs and their people. Just as we walk with, sleep with and play with our dogs, maybe we could sing with our dogs?

Event kicks off at 4pm in the upstairs garden courtyard at 107 projects (venue is wheelchair accessible via lift)

Dogs welcome and encouraged. There will be some loud noises and other dogs. Please get in contact (solly.frank@hotmail.com) if you have any questions.

The event will be filmed, please notify me if you do not wished to be filmed. By registering for this event, you consent to be filmed. The footage will not be published without the further consent of participants.

About the project:

Solomon Frank's PhD explores canine musicality and interspecies collaboration. He has been documenting, creating and writing about canine-human musical practices that challenge the human uniqueness of music. Dog choir is the culmination of his fieldwork, and will feature some of the dogs and people he has worked with, interviewed and written about.

This event will take place on unceded Gadigal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/dog-choir

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Power Botany 4
Jul
13
11:00 AM11:00

Power Botany 4

  • 36 Rembrandt Drive, Middle Cove (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

POWER BOTANY 4

with Solly

Meet at 36 Rembrandt Drive, Middle Cove at 11am. Message me if you'd like a lift (I have limited spots).

This one will be a nice short one, 5ish km and less approximately 2 hours.

Beautiful Sydney sandstone harbour bushland: expect towering Angophora costata, glittering harbour views, sandstone and mangroves. 

We will be walking on Cammeraygal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

If you have any questions or accessibility needs that you would like to discuss please message me on instagram @sollyfrank or email me!

https://events.humanitix.com/power-botany-4

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Power Botany 3: Whale Watching Edition
Jun
30
9:00 AM09:00

Power Botany 3: Whale Watching Edition

POWER BOTANY 3: Whale Watching Edition 

With Solly AND Ben

We are very lucky Ben Parangi, whale expert and researcher, is joining us on June 30th for a wildflowers and whales queer bushwalk. June 30th is also whale census day!

Meet at 1 Captain Cook Drive in Kurnell at 9am. Message me if you'd like a lift (I have limited spots), best to carpool as parking might be tricky on whale census day.

We will be walking up to Cape Solander from Kurnell and then along the cliffs to find a spot to watch whales! The walk will be about 8km return. Bring binoculars if you have them!

We will be walking on Gweagal land. This is and always will be Aboriginal land. Please be respectful of this land and think about indigenous peoples ongoing care and connection to this land and waters. 

If you have any questions please message me on instagram @sollyfrank

Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/power-botany-whale-watching-edition

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Throat Pleats @ Mince Openair
Mar
31
3:00 PM15:00

Throat Pleats @ Mince Openair

MINCE OPENAIR 🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️

Our biggest Mince OpenAir yet, with a three level takeover of the newly refurbished Jacksons on George aaaaand its free.

Aaron Manhattan
Baschoe
Bertie (Naarm/Melb)
Byron Spencer
Deepa
Gaff E
Isa
Jason de Cox
Lalita Conquest
Peace
Sarah Jessica Carpark
Simon Caldwell
Sveta
Throat Pleats
+ House of Mince Angels

꧁༒☬Presented by The House of Don Julio☬༒꧂

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Live at Art Farm - Vol 1 - Hollis Taylor & Solomon Frank
Mar
24
3:00 PM15:00

Live at Art Farm - Vol 1 - Hollis Taylor & Solomon Frank

Join us for an interspecies musical experience at Art Farm Birchs Bay, featuring the extraordinary talents of Hollis Taylor and Solomon Frank.

Live At Art Farm Vol 1. This new series showcases performances spanning music, DJ sets, and experimental live arts that embrace the landscape. Hosted at Art Farm Birchs Bay, each event in the series is designed to offer a unique experience, presenting a mix of local and interstate artists' talents in a stunning natural setting. Volume 1 is the gateway to this ongoing series of creative exploration in our region. Your ticket to this event grants you access to performances from two renowned artists experimenting with animal musicality.

Hollis Taylor (NT): Absolute Bird. Hollis Taylor is a renowned violinist, composer, and zoömusicologist. Her project, "Absolute Bird," is a mesmerising blend of musicianship and science, where avian songs are not just imitated but celebrated for their inherent musicality. Taylor's unique approach, deeply rooted in her extensive research as a Research Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and beyond, brings a fresh perspective to birdsong. Experience this auditory journey into the sophisticated melodies of our avian friends, played in dialogue with the wild birds of Art Farm.

Solomon Frank (NSW): Concert For Dogs. Solomon Frank is a performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator who reimagines wind instruments through queer play and experimentation. His innovative use of the clarinet, merged with unconventional objects like vacuum cleaners and hoses, creates a soundscape that challenges and delights. In "Concert For Dogs," Frank explores the possibility of cross-species musical collaboration, tailoring his composition to the preferences of his intended audience: dogs. Friendly and supervised dogs on leads are welcome to attend!

This activity was supported by Arts Tasmania.

Tickets

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Human's Got Talent Backstage Music
Mar
9
7:30 PM19:30

Human's Got Talent Backstage Music

Solomon Frank curates a music and performance program exploring uncanny convergences of queerness, pop culture, commercialisation and music. Including Solomon's major work, Human's Got Talent (naughty girlies unite XD), a new commission by local composer, Liz Yung Cheung and performance by Shahmen Suku. The program is simultaneously silly and sacred. Laugh, cry, dance, pound your fists against the wall, we don't care, we just want you there to witness this eclectic mix of art music and queer performance.

7.30pm, Saturday 9 March 2024, Woodburn Creatives Redfern

Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/human-s-got-talent

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The MacroPlastic Workout
Feb
16
to Feb 17

The MacroPlastic Workout

  • The Flying Nun by Brand X (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A SOUNDTRACK FOR YOUR CARDIO WORKOUT IN THE YEAR 3000

What does it mean to exercise as a cyborg who has consumed three tonnes of microplastic? 
Do devolved former human Neanderthals still go to the gym? 
What’s the soundtrack to your cardio workout in the year 3000?
Ready to sweat the BIG, global stuff?

Join The MacroPlastic Workout! A ‘fitness’ class for posthuman ecologies, made and performed by Throat Pleats.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Throat Pleats is the musical collaborative output of Solomon Frank and Niki Johnson. They have performed at Liveworks 2020, as part of the Dots+Loops (2021 Brisbane), at Cementa (2022 Kandos), and at the Canberra International Music Festival (2022). They have also released a full length album titled the Lizard (2021).
Throat Pleats is a vehicle for navigating the intricacies of Solomon and Niki’s queer platonic relationship amidst impending environmental doom. Historically, Throat Pleats has been a musical collaboration involving extended clarinet and percussion, with performances in nightlife and music spaces. In The MacroPlastic Workout, they come together with costume and props designer Rachael Guinness, as well as producer Malcolm Whittaker to develop a show length ‘opera’.

SOLOMON FRANK is a queer performer-composer. He creates 'dystopian nostalgia for the present’ in order to navigate the precarious place of art music in a world dictated by corporate technocrats, TikTok algorithms and celebrity deification.

NIKI JOHNSON is a queer percussionist and composer-performer whose experimental musical practice incorporates interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation, contemporary classical repertoire, sculptural musical instruments, and performance art. 

RACHAEL GUINNESS is a creative whose career spans the corporate and creative sectors, evolving from the playful nature of installation art to pursuing complex problems within our society.
MALCOLM WHITTAKER is an artist, writer, researcher and performer. He does this in both solo pursuits and in collaborations with other artists and non-artists. His work is mostly made and executed through the engagement of participants and collaborators in the framing of play spaces that adopt social forms and rituals from popular culture and the everyday. His projects have taken the form of theatre and gallery situations, site-specific and public interventions, performance lectures, film shoots, phone calls, support groups, radio programs, elevator rides, teeth-brushing services, walks in the park, games of chess, gift shops, letters in the mail, library book borrowing, and the digging of holes in the dirt. He has made and presented work extensively across Australia, as well as in the UK and Finland.

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets here

Dates: Friday 16 February and Saturday 17 February @ 8pm

Location: The Flying Nun by Brand X, 34-40 Burton Street, Darlinghurst NSW, 2010

Price: $25 or $20 with an Artist Pass (contact access@brandx.org.au for financial hardship and Mob Tickets)

Running time: 60mins

https://www.brandx.org.au/Event/the-macroplastic-workout

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Solo performance @ MCA Artbar
Dec
15
7:00 PM19:00

Solo performance @ MCA Artbar

Enter realms of friction and desire.

Curated by artist JD Reforma, the summer edition of Artbar is intimate, slippery, and disruptive. Featuring live music, artworks, performances, and installations responding to the theme of 'sweat', Artbar Summer invites you to experience the Museum with all of your senses. 

18+ only

Artbar Summer will be a space of encounter, where audiences enter realms of friction and desire inhabited by artists. The Museum is a body, both solid and porous – a formation from which to balance, perch, and hang; but also formless, a void through which to move, seep, and spill. Sweat is intimate and slippery – it bids and it repels. This Artbar is an invitation to intervene in our expectations and disrupt our experience of space. Artists create moments and expressions inextricable from their bodies – crisp images that both sting and blur, like sweat in your eye. Sweat is a provocation – for artists and audiences – to linger, drip, and slip through the Museum.

– MCA Artbar Summer curator, JD Reforma

Tickets and more info

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Solo performance @ Volume AGNSW
Sep
27
10:30 AM10:30

Solo performance @ Volume AGNSW

Solomon Frank is an Australian queer composer whose inter-disciplinary and improvisational practice expands upon the clarinet, replacing parts of the instrument with  objects like homemade aluminium and plastic reeds, hoses, vacuum cleaners, watering cans and water. His performances are both playful and experiential.  

For Volume, Solomon Frank will perform as part of the Tones program.

Schedule

Wed 27 Sep, 10.30–11.15am

South Building
Ground level, Grand Courts

Live music

Free

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Throat Pleats' The MacroPlastic Workout @ Adhocracy 2023
Aug
31
to Sep 3

Throat Pleats' The MacroPlastic Workout @ Adhocracy 2023

  • Waterside Workers Hall & Hart’s Mill 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta (map)
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The MacroPlastic Workout imagines a world overtaken by micro and macro plastics, speculating on how human binaries, biology, culture, and daily life will blur and change. Using live music and foley, electroacoustic soundscapes, costume, and whimsical choreography, this is a fitness class for posthuman ecologies. It’s Waterworld meets Jane Fonda, performed in the style of Jacques Tati with clarinets and percussion.

Throat Pleats (Niki Johnson and Solomon Frank) are a musical collaboration who create performances for nightlife and music spaces. Using scavenged cultural objects from the Western musical canon, these two creatures engage in a series of elaborate courting rituals, powerplays and displays of queer kinship. During Adhocracy, with designer Rachael Guinness, they will prototype and activate new inflatable-percussive-wearable musical instruments for this new work, using mass-produced plastic instruments and recontextualised household objects. 

Creative team
Creators and performers – Solomon Frank and Niki Johnson
Designer – Rachael Guinness

1 SEPTEMBER

showing/artist talk, 8pm

2 SEPTEMBER

Adhocracy in-conversation, 5pm

showing/artist talk, 10pm

3 SEPTEMBER

showing, 7pm

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The Birth of Kashtan Concert
Jul
14
7:30 PM19:30

The Birth of Kashtan Concert

THE BIRTH OF KASHTAN CONCERT celebrates the first solo performance of KASHTAN, a new double bass built with Australian woods by luthier MATTHEW TUCKER and played by double bassist WILL HANSEN.

Join us for an intimate performance at GREENHOUSE STUDIOS SYDNEY on Friday 14th July at 7:30PM (BYO drinks).

This concert will feature the world premieres of several new solo pieces written specifically for KASHTAN, alongside “Schemes and Variations”, a new ensemble piece by Will featuring his composer and performer friends.

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