A heartfelt journey about the gift of life
by Ben Graetz
Gift of Life is a heartfelt and informative story of an Indigenous woman who is struggling with end stage kidney disease, that follows her journey through the difficult process of dialysis to receiving a kidney transplant. It is a story about family, loss and love and the extraordinary gift of giving through organ and tissue donation.
Piloted in 2012, Gift of Life will tour in June 2013.
Photos courtesy of Kara Burns
More information about the project in this great little video production.
360 ALLSTARS is a phenomenal theatrical performance exploring all forms of rotation. Boasting a stellar cast, including world champion athletes, world class dancers and world renowned musicians, the production connects the street with the elite to deliver a radical urban circus!
A performance like no other, 360 ALLSTARS reinvents the traditional circus by presenting contemporary performance styles instead of conventional circus art forms. Replace acrobats with breakdancers, substitute a basketball freestyler in place of a juggler, swap the unicyclist for a BMX flatlander, and throw in a Roue Cyr artist and you get an exhilarating circus performance, like nothing you have seen before! And with live looping plus live music from master musician, Gene Peterson, 360 ALLSTARS is as aurally exciting as it is visually astounding.
Showcasing some of Australia’s best performers, alongside celebrated international artists from UK, Europe & USA, 360 ALLSTARS is a revolutionary production that will leave you dizzy with excitement!
Touring June 2013 - tour dates here.
Photos courtesy of Onyx Productions
A small taste of what you can expect...
The Australian Government is proud to be associated with this tour through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia, which gives Australians across the country the opportunity to see some of our
best performing arts.
KEYIM BA presents the African Caravan
Kultour is proud to present Keyim Ba’s African Caravan, a collection of world class West African musicians who are bringing the rhythm, dance and music of West Africa to Australian audiences. Diverse and innovative, African Caravan explores melody, song, rhythm and movement across culture and time, taking audiences on an extraordinary musical journey into West Africa. Embracing percussive as well as melodic pieces, African Caravan offers a show of explosive and powerful African drumming and high energy dance while capturing the alluring sounds of West African melodies accompanied by the Kora (West African harp), Guitar and Balafon.
Their hands were drumming before their feet were walking, and what I wouldn't give to be able to dance like that! With their outstanding musicianship and harnessing the explosive power of Guinean drumming, dance and song, Keyim Ba infuses the audience with an undeniable urge to move your body!
- Anna Georgia, CEO, Free World Films
Touring August-September 2013
The 2013 National Tour of African Caravan is proudly presented by Kultour – mobilising the arts in multicultural Australia. Kultour is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, as an initiative of the Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy.
The Australian Government is proud to be associated with this tour through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia, which gives Australians across the country the opportunity to see some of our best performing arts.
The Northern Territory leg of the tour is being presented in partnership with
Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring.
MIKELANGO AND THE BLACK SEA GENTLEMEN
Dripping with romance, adventure and desire, Dead Men Tell A Thousand Tales is a collection of darkly humorous, highly emotive songs and stories exploring death as a vital and essential celebration of life.
With the charming crooner Mikelangelo at their helm, the Black Sea Gentlemen plunge headlong into a netherworld of intrigue and imagination. Swoon to the tune of Rufino the Catalan Casanova, thrill to the tale of The Great Muldavio, witness Guido Libido - master of a thousand faces, and delight in Little Ivan the song and dance man.
Dead Men Tell A Thousand Tales is a deliciously macabre ‘Kabaret Noir’ with breathtakingly beautiful theatrical vision. Through songs, stories and theatrical vignettes a fantastical world is mapped out and populated with a cast of gargoyles and demons, angels and crows, doomed sailors and spectral gunfighters, whistling soldiers and dancing skeletons.
The vision behind the show comes from Croatian/Australian songwriter and cabaret luminary Mikelangelo. His ability to weave complex and confronting ideas into accessible and highly entertaining shows has garnered critical acclaim nationally and internationally. The Black Sea Gentlemen are his formidable musical ensemble. In their ten years collaborating together they have created a uniquely compelling body of work and built a widespread and devoted following. This amazing musical adventure has entertained and beguiled audiences and critics throughout Australia and the UK, playing major arts festivals and theatres including the Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Opera House and London’s West End.
Touring September 2013
www.mikelangeloandtheblackseagentlemen.com
A sneak peek below...
The Australian Government is proud to be associated with this tour through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia, which gives Australians across the country the opportunity to see some of our best performing arts.
Photo of courtesy of Little Big Shots.
Perfect for families and kids aged 2 to 15, Little Big Shots is Australia’s major annual and travelling children’s film festival.
An inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival, Little Big Shots features the best in local and international children’s shorts, animations, documentaries and, amazingly, child-produced films. The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, different languages, cultural diversity, emotional intelligence and human values. Better still, we guarantee they will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create.
Little Big Shots took to the road taking great films from around the globe to cities and towns across the NT in March 2013.
Screenings were accompanied by animation workshops for young people. You can watch a short compilation of those workshops below (be patient please folks, it takes a few moments to start).
Little Big Shots 2013 Tour Itinerary
Check out the trailer below for Little Big Shots - a small taste of what audiences were treated to this year...
Territory Tucker - Little Big Shots Claymation workshops 2013 from ArtbackNT on Vimeo.
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Artback NT acknowledges the Aboriginal Traditional Custodians of the Country on which we perform.