The opening day of APAM 2014 featuring the welcome lunch, keynote event, opening ceremony and showcases not to be missed
A jam-packed day of showcases and the first half of the pitch sessions, rounded up with an APAM first - the Curated Cabaret
Meet the makers over breakfast, explore works on offer at mobile booths, listen to pitches and attend showcases in various locations
Explore Brisbane's South Bank precinct as showcases take over QPAC, The Conservatorium and QUT Gardens Theatre
A day not to be missed featuring showcases of large-scale works in dance, theatre and interdisciplinary arts and a very special closing event
Day 2 of APAM 2014 will play host to the first half of the pitch sessions held at Brisbane Powerhouse. Showcases will take place at Brisbane Powerhouse, the Judith Wright Centre, QUT Gardens Theatre and Brisbane's Goodwill Bridge throughout the day. Finish the day back at Brisbane Powerhouse and experience the brand new curated cabaret at the APAM Hub featuring four exciting new Cabaret, Interdisciplinary, Hybrid Arts and Music Theatre works.
8:00am - 9:30am
Conversation
Start the day with breakfast and a chat at one of two moderated breakfast sessions that offer a platform for sharing ideas, stories and passions.
9:30am - 3:30pm
Conversation
To celebrate its new location in Brisbane and the number of partner venues involved, APAM 2014 features on-display booths that allow artists, companies, collectives and funding agencies to promote their work alongside APAM as it happens around the city.
10:00am - 10:15am
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Theatre
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.
10:15am - 10:30am
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Theatre
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.
10:30am - 10:45am
Music, Theatre
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.
11:30am - 1:00pm
Theatre
Taki Rua Productions
Twenty years after it first stunned audiences, this powerful story of a man returning from war to an unrecognisable world remains a must-see.
11:30am -
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Dan Koop & Co
See familiar places from new perspectives with The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, a live public artwork along and across a river.
12:00pm - 8:00pm
Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
Become a miniature puppet and experience life in a tiny world in the interactive installation I Think I Can.
12:00pm - 12:25pm
Physical Theatre, Theatre
Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
Hypnotic and exhilarating, Whelping Box is like a dog fight, a pageant, a rave and a meditation.
12:30pm -
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Dan Koop & Co
See familiar places from new perspectives with The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, a live public artwork along and across a river.
1:00pm - 2:35pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts
Contact Inc / Lenine Bourke
See and experience places and spaces in a whole new way as you take a tour with The Walking Neighbourhood
1:30pm - 1:55pm
Dance, Physical Theatre, Circus
KAGE
Boasting KAGE’s trademark vigorous physicality, atmospherics and sense of play, FORKLIFT is a display of the human body at its most impressive.
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Conversation
Join local and international delegates for two dynamic panel sessions designed to further explore the themes of artistic collaboration and co-creation raised at the Keynote Event.
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Conversation
Brisbane Powerhouse Artistic Director Kris Stewart hosts a series of 20 minute sessions that offer opportunities to discover more about specifics regions, countries and networks.
1:30pm -
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Dan Koop & Co
See familiar places from new perspectives with The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, a live public artwork along and across a river.
2:00pm - 2:25pm
Theatre
Nicola Gunn / Sans Hotel
Hello my name is is a highly original performance that immerses you in the action and puts a smile on your face.
3:15pm - 3:40pm
Dance, Physical Theatre, Circus
KAGE
Boasting KAGE’s trademark vigorous physicality, atmospherics and sense of play, FORKLIFT is a display of the human body at its most impressive.
3:30pm - 3:55pm
Theatre
Nicola Gunn / Sans Hotel
Hello my name is is a highly original performance that immerses you in the action and puts a smile on your face.
3:30pm -
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Dan Koop & Co
See familiar places from new perspectives with The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, a live public artwork along and across a river.
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
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.
4:00pm - 4:15pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts
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.
4:15pm - 4:30pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts
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.
4:30pm - 4:45pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Music
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.
4:30pm -
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Large Scale, Site Specific and/or Outdoor
Dan Koop & Co
See familiar places from new perspectives with The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge, a live public artwork along and across a river.
5:30pm - 5:55pm
Physical Theatre, Circus, Puppetry, Theatre
Erth Visual & Theatre Inc.
A stunning family theatre show incorporating myth and fact with life-like puppets to imagine the lost memories of the Tasmanian tiger.
7:45pm - 8:10pm
Music Theatre, Opera, Cabaret
Maude Davey
My Life in the Nude is a retrospective in which Maude Davey bares all for the very last time.
8:30pm - 9:05pm
Dance
Antony Hamilton Projects
Extreme sensory reduction and distillation lie at the core of this exploration of the chaos and instability of matter, time and space.
8:30pm - 8:55pm
Theatre
Nicola Gunn / Sans Hotel
Hello my name is is a highly original performance that immerses you in the action and puts a smile on your face.
8:30pm - 8:55pm
Physical Theatre, Theatre
Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
Hypnotic and exhilarating, Whelping Box is like a dog fight, a pageant, a rave and a meditation.
9:30pm - 9:55pm
Music Theatre, Opera, Cabaret
Yana Alana and The Paranas
Incisive, hilarious, confronting, revealing an, most of all, musically divine, Between the Cracks is cabaret at its very best!
9:55pm - 10:10pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Music
Synergy Percussion
In City Jungle, Synergy Percussion’s virtuosic live percussion thrashes it out with digital programming, pitting DJ breakbeat culture against futuristic percussion gadgets.
10:10pm - 10:25pm
Interdisciplinary / Hybrid Arts, Music Theatre, Opera, Cabaret
Justin Shoulder & Collaborators with Performance Space
In The River Eats, urban mythmaker Justin Shoulder creates a unique fusion of handmade craft with live performance, for a visually spectacular theatrical ceremony.
10:25pm - 10:40pm
Music Theatre, Opera, Cabaret
Die Roten Punkte
Die Roten Punkte are truly unique, with their ridiculously infectious songs and a live show that is one of the most irreverent and hilarious gigs you’ll ever see.
