• Australian Government / Australia Council for the Arts
  • Brisbane Powerhouse Arts
  • 18 February

    Day 1:

    The opening day of APAM 2014 featuring the welcome lunch, keynote event, opening ceremony and showcases not to be missed

  • 19 February

    Day 2:

    A jam-packed day of showcases and the first half of the pitch sessions, rounded up with an APAM first - the Curated Cabaret

  • 20 February

    Day 3:

    Meet the makers over breakfast, explore works on offer at mobile booths, listen to pitches and attend showcases in various locations

  • 21 February

    Day 4:

    Explore Brisbane's South Bank precinct as showcases take over QPAC, The Conservatorium and QUT Gardens Theatre

  • 22 February

    Day 5:

    A day not to be missed featuring showcases of large-scale works in dance, theatre and interdisciplinary arts and a very special closing event

Pitch

Daily Schedule

19 February

10:00am - 10:15am

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Theatre

Crawl Me Blood

My Darling Patricia and Aphids

Inspired by the writing of Dominican author Jean Rhys, Crawl Me Blood is an immersive installation featuring audio-documentary and music.

19 February

10:15am - 10:30am

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Theatre

Endings

Tamara Saulwick

Part chamber concert and part performance work, Endings uses portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance to explore the ending of things.

19 February

10:30am - 10:45am

Music, Theatre

Buried Country (working title) by Reg Cribb, original concept by Michael Tuahine

Queensland Theatre Company

In the style of The Sapphires, 'Buried Country (working title)' is an irreverent, joyous musical celebration of the history of Indigenous Australian Country and Western music.

19 February

3:45pm - 4:00pm

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor

black market

pvi collective

black market is a participatory experience that blends game play with live performance for a real world taste of an underground exchange economy.

19 February

4:00pm - 4:15pm

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts

Miss Universe

Tristan Meecham

Miss Universe is an outrageous battle between Grace Jones and Tristan Meecham inspired by aspirational culture, the fame monster and the myth of achieving your ultimate dreams.

19 February

4:15pm - 4:30pm

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts

Since I Suppose

one step at a time like this

Since I Suppose takes you on an immersive journey through the city and its places of power and pleasure incorporating digital technologies, intimate interactions and (some of) Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure.

19 February

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Music

The Painted Ladies: Selections from The Loner

Luke Peacock, Vic Simms, The Medics, Plus One Records, Carbon Media and others

The Painted Ladies project sees the next generation of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists take Australia’s first black protest album and make it their own.

20 February

11:45am - 12:00pm

Theatre

Butterfly Man

Humphrey Bower / Night Train Productions

The Butterfly Man is a virtuoso one-man performance, a thrilling whodunit and a profound inquiry into the nature of the self.

20 February

12:00pm - 12:15pm

Theatre

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jeff Stein and Chiara Guidi

A new version of Jack and the Beanstalk that takes children on a wondrous adventure with theatrical storytelling, live music and puppetry.

20 February

12:15pm - 12:30pm

Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Theatre

Separation Street

Polyglot Theatre and The Suitcase Royale

Separation Street is a daring new experience where adults and children each undertake a separate theatrical journey within the one performance.

20 February

12:30pm - 12:45pm

Theatre

The Trouble with Harry

MKA: Theatre of New Writing

The Trouble with Harry rips back the curtains on the notorious 'Man-Woman’ murderer case of 1920s Sydney in a playful new work about secret lives and secret deaths.

20 February

3:45pm - 4:00pm

Dance

Live Movie

Lucy Guerin Inc

Live Movie is a cinematically inspired dance work that uses the medium of film as a choreographic score

20 February

4:00pm - 4:15pm

Dance

Long Grass

Vicki Van Hout

Long Grass is a dynamic new dance work that looks at the consequences of government intervention and at life in the margins.

20 February

4:15pm - 4:30pm

Physical Theatre, Circus, Puppetry

SEA (NZ)

Red Leap Theatre

SEA is a gripping cautionary tale told through dynamic physical theatre, striking sea creature imagery and the power of imagination.

20 February

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Physical Theatre, Circus

The Tale of Samulnori

Legs On The Wall and AsiaNow

An exhilarating cross-cultural collaboration, The Tale of Samulnori is a modern fable that celebrates and plays with ideas about what theatre can be.