The Liberal Agenda – Basement Theatre

This outdoor movement installation invites you into a nostalgic dreamscape of softening and breaking- slowly, mentally, cellularly.

Pageant Moon extends Presley’s continued exploration of death and dying from a queer Māori perspective. It holds close the slow, small, and sometimes unnoticed losses we experience as humans, and the indistinct but vital impacts of these mundane grievances upon the way that we move through the world.

A stunning audio experience reminding us to find joy and wonder in the small things. Accompanied by the recorded voices of children from across Australia and Aotearoa, the rainfall will become your own private theatre, a space in which to observe, imagine and play. Whether in a drizzle or a deluge, we invite you to step outside, feel the rain on your face, and think about your place in a world that is changing so swiftly around you.

NOTE: This is an audio experience that requires a smartphone. When you register your ticket you will need to pick up a small box with instructions from Basement Theatre. This work can take place anytime but best enjoyed in the rain.

Photo: Jemima Yong

Produced by Unfunded Empathy. This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

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A variety of liquids, compounds, tools, and techniques are used to create art inspired by the psychedelic movement of the 60s and beyond.

Liquid Light will light up the entire Festival Hearth (outside Basement) for 2 nights with all creations projected on the garden walls. Plates will be available to interact with and you are invited to participate in designing your very own liquid existence.

Binding three tempos of Ahi (fire), Wai (water) & Whenua (earth), this procession and ceremony reflect the Te Ao Maori approach to BELONGING – Ahakoa te Ahi, No matter the Fire.

Melding fire and warmth with the cool and sacred waters of Waihorotiu, running beneath Myers Park, this moment of communion unfolds through sound, bodies and voice, lifting the veil, dissolving the everyday and stepping through to the artistic underground of Tāmaki Makaurau.

“As a Mataawaka (Urbanised) practitioner & Whanau Rerenga (Refugee family), together we embrace our troubling realities, lived experiences & adversity as a form of resistance and as opportunities for growth, conceptualizing through sound and movement; spirit of whenua, resonance of belonging and calls of home.”

The sounds of this ritual will be captured and played each day of the festival at Moonrise, keeping the fire burning. Thursday 12 June at 5:31pm, Friday 13 June at 6.30pm & Saturday 14 June at 7:34pm.

This outdoor movement installation invites you into a nostalgic dreamscape of softening and breaking- slowly, mentally, cellularly.

Pageant Moon extends Presley’s continued exploration of death and dying from a queer Māori perspective. It holds close the slow, small, and sometimes unnoticed losses we experience as humans, and the indistinct but vital impacts of these mundane grievances upon the way that we move through the world.

Fetū x Fetu’u, evokes a journey through the celestial and the terrestrial, the sacred and the profane. Through this evocative performance, Laga invites the audience to explore the interplay between light and shadow.

Delving into queer identity through raw, embodied expression, Park intertwines the physicality of clay-making with the emotional release of song.

Tāmaki’s two most beloved rats pick through the wreckage of this iconic film to create their own chaotic masterpiece. Nothing’s sacred, nobody’s safe. It’s grim, it’s glorious, it’s falling apart at the seams — and you’re front row for the mess. If you like your art cooked and your heroes feral, grab a mulled wine, hop under a heater and get in the gutter with us.

(medium density fantasy) is the second work in SOFT.co’s performance research series MDF, in collaboration with lighting artist Elekis Poblete-Tierney. MDF looks at the elation and problematics of self-representation and branding in the making of work and the making of oneself. Flags and banners, statements of intent, frames-within-a-frame. SOFT.co works with a process of rigorous confusion to query the performativity of performance in personal and political arenas.

Wear comfy shoes. Move it like you mean it. Expect to sweat.

Full DJ lineup announced soon.

Audiences move freely through the space alongside performers, experiencing the metamorphosis firsthand, soundtracked by Grecco Romank and Copper MaeSteal’s transgressive movement work.

Mixing metallurgy and dramaturgy, the artists will attempt to reverse-mine community e-waste for copper, preparing it to shoot back from whence it came. Along the way, they explosively collide with the intersecting laws, ethics, and regulations that guide the lifespan of risky objects: as raw matter, as tools, and as waste.

The word “Materiel”, as used in the title, is the military definition for equipment and munitions: non-human inventory managed by the armed forces. From swords, to plowshares, and back again.

In Materiel World, artist Loren Kronemyer is seeking E-Waste from the community – to be collaboratively dismantled and transmuted. Visitors can contribute their discarded tech – from tangled cords to dead devices – which will be mined for copper and lovingly re-cast for an eventual return to the earth.

What kind of e-waste can you bring?
We’re looking for small, dismantle-able items – especially things with copper inside.

– Audio and USB cables (any length, any condition – the more tangled, the better)
– Power cords and chargers
– Old headphones or earbuds
– Broken remote controls
– Dead phones, MP3 players, or portable electronics
– Computer mice, keyboards, or hard drives
– Small electronic toys or gadgets
– Miscellaneous e-waste bits from the bottom of your drawer

NOTE: We can’t accept Large Household, Kitchen or Laundry Appliances. If you can carry it in one hand & If it once had a working wire, plug, or beep – we’ll take it.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. This project has been developed with support from SPACED and Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Please note that the 20th June performance starts at 6.30PM.

Hoani Hotene hosts, while two teams of comedians know their knowledge and improv skills to show that they’re more than just punchlines and the rule of threes. If you enjoy shows like QI and Thank God You’re Here this is the show for you!

Featuring Daughters of Ally (Jessie & Georgina Matthews), Liana Frangipani, DJ Ayesha and Bonnie Hurunui from White Chapel Jak.

– ESCAPING, a gay exposé about living, loving, losing and learning. Written and performed by Adam Burrell. A development season of this show was presented at BATS Wellington in April.

– PRAY, a gay exposé about faith, fa’ataupati, fellas and fellatio. Written and performed by Vincent Farane.

– LADY SINGS THE OOO’S, a gay exposé with oooh’s and aaah’s, and ew’s and nah’s. Written and performed by Nan