Rising Festival 2023
Rising Festival brings together theatre, dance, music, art, and everything in between. Here’s a peek into the program.
What would you do if you found the last thylacine? First, build a boat ...
This wrap of Rising festival shows includes Hide the Dog, Identity, The Dan Daw Show, Buŋgul, THIS, Ethel Cain, Thundercat, Weyes Blood, Tanz, and Tracker.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Mahmood Fazal, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Rebecca Harkins-Cross
How twin artists broke reality to create surreal new world
In the heart of the city, brothers Efrain and Pablo Del Hierro have created a vibrant, art-filled world to bring about “a colourful stain on grey reality”.
- by Nadia Bailey
How a funeral and a song called Squid led to a breakthrough for this local band
RVG’s third album is their finest – and riskiest – yet. ‘The best-case scenario is we make a great record, the worst case is we have a very expensive holiday.’
- by Mikey Cahill
Kink was the vehicle that let me get to grips with my body: Dan Daw
Disabled performer Dan Daw, who performs at RISING Festival this month, says the two places he feels truly free are in the bedroom and on stage as a dancer.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
It’s Cate Blanchett as you’ve never seen her before - as a tiger
Melbourne will be home to a new 360-degree video spectacular from German artist Julian Rosefeldt featuring Cate Blanchett as a talking tiger.
- by Karl Quinn
The show portraying the decline of western civilisation, in mud
THIS is an absurdist work staged in a sea of mud in a former power station that skewers the cosy relationship between politics, real estate and big business.
- by Karl Quinn
Where the wild things are: Spot the wallabies along Birrarung Marr
It’s not often you see marsupials in the heart of Melbourne, but now’s your chance, thanks to artist Matthew Clarke and the Rising Festival.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
‘We can’t be afraid of truth’: Curator brings Indigenous stories into the light
Kimberley Moulton’s years of work have come to fruition in what will be the biggest exhibition of Indigenous art ever mounted in Victoria.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Flinders Street Station an iconic space to host stories from the spirit world
One of Melbourne’s most famous locations will become home to the largest commission of contemporary First Nations art in Victoria’s history.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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