monday 24 may 2010

The final week!

Some of you might remember the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and how it flew by faster than a Justin Bieber promo tour. Now, as we face the end of this Festival, and stare with uncomfortable wonder at another two years before the next NWF, a mad scramble has begun to see as much as we can. Almost all ticketed shows have sold out, there's queues for (Nelson) beers at the Festival Club, and it's hard to see the doggies through the hordes outside Melbourne Museum.

Do not waste this week! Start at the NGV tonight and hear Deborah Kelly talk (details below), visit our website and get the last few remaining tickets, get along to the last Comfort Zones at Witches in Britches on Tuesday, and block out next Saturday for the MONUMENTAL Sports Club 2 at the MCG. Oh, and there's Great Heights 2, on the top of Melbourne Central, no less, opening this Wednesday.

GO NUTS!
Next Wave

TONIGHT: KEYNOTE LECTURE 2, at the NGV

Next Wave's programme of public talks and workshops continues tonight with Deborah Kelly's EVEN MY BEST WORKS DASH THEIR HEARTS ON ROCKS, at NGV International.

Deborah Kelly is a celebrated Sydney-based artist who will tonight take audiences through the ways she has tried to fight useful struggles and the dumb, lost, scratched and weeping battles with titans and midges. Kelly will show audiences where she has been, and why, and how. She will share her secrets, throw the gauntlet down, and demand we all improve upon the work she has done, take up her slack, and run with the wind.

Tonight, 6:30pm, 24 May
At the Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Enter North Entrance, via Arts Centre forecourt
FREE

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IMAGE: Deborah Kelly, Untitled at Botany Bay, boat-people.org, 2006

LAST TICKETS, for NEW SHOWS

Next Wave has a few remaining tickets for the following shows, all of which open this week.

Notable in this week's roster are three major dance works: Bromance, Alisdair Macindoe's new Festival dance work about the antics of men's relationships; Thousands where Matthew Day literally slows dance down, 'challenging the tendency for audiences to consume entertainment at a speed that allows no possibility for reflection'; and The Lost Living, Cobie Orger's work that features a performance installation work that weaves sound, image, movement and sculpture.

And, there are still tickets left for Zoe Combes Marr's hilarious debut solo show And that was the Summer that Changed My Life at the Arts Centre, running Wednesday through Saturday.

For the full list of what's on every day visit our Calendar page on our site.

IMAGES: TOP: Zoe Coombs Marr, And that was the Summer that Changed My Life, 2010. Image by James Brown. BOTTOM: Bromance, by Heidrun Lohr.

monday 24 may

Deborah Kelly
Risk Talkers
NGV International
Keynote Lecture 6.30-8pm

tuesday 25 may

Comfort Zones
Witches in Britches Theatre Restaurant
Final Performance 8pm

Thousands
Northcote Town Hall
Opening night 8pm

wednesday 26 may

Great Heights 2
The Rooftop
6-10pm

The Folding Wife
Arts House
Opening night 7pm

And That Was The Summer That Changed My Life
Black Box
Opening night 7.30pm

The Lost Living
Donkey Wheel House
Opening night 8pm

Bromance
Arts House Meat Market
Opening night 8.30pm