Western Sydney rap group OneFour are set to perform their first headline show in Melbourne as part of the RISING festival in June.
Rising is “a festival that you do,in a city that does it best:music,food,art and culture under moonlight”. That’s not a purpose,it’s a hopelessly vague marketing slogan.
This wrap of Rising festival shows includes Hide the Dog,Identity,The Dan Daw Show,Buŋgul,THIS,Ethel Cain,Thundercat,Weyes Blood,Tanz,and Tracker.
RVG’s third album is their finest – and riskiest – yet. ‘The best-case scenario is we make a great record,the worst case is we have a very expensive holiday.’
Disabled performer Dan Daw,who performs at RISING Festival this month,says the two places he feels truly free are in the bedroom and on stage as a dancer.
In the heart of the city,brothers Efrain and Pablo Del Hierro have created a vibrant,art-filled world to bring about “a colourful stain on grey reality”.
Rising Festival brings together theatre,dance,music,art,and everything in between. Here’s a peek into the program.
It’s not often you see marsupials in the heart of Melbourne,but now’s your chance,thanks to artist Matthew Clarke and the Rising Festival.
THIS is an absurdist work staged in a sea of mud in a former power station that skewers the cosy relationship between politics,real estate and big business.
Kimberley Moulton’s years of work have come to fruition in what will be the biggest exhibition of Indigenous art ever mounted in Victoria.
Bambi and Batman bring a fairytale framework to a playful exploration of loss.