Neighbourhood Gathering Season 2, 2024

Warm up with a cuppa and conversation at Arts House

Presented in Season 2 2024

Hosted by Arts House

Wednesday, 24 July 2024
10.30am – 12:00pm

Families welcome.

Tickets
Free event. Bookings encouraged. Walk-ups welcome.

Interpreted by Auslan Stage Left

Relaxed space
Audience members are welcome to come and go as they please, be themselves, make noise, stim, and respond to the work for the duration

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Assistance Animal

Aural Rating 50%

Audio description

Auslan Interpreting

Quiet Space Available

Visual Rating 50%

Wheelchair Accessible

North and West Melbourne residents and local community are invited to warm-up at Arts House this July with a free morning tea and conversation about what’s coming up in your local town hall.

Meet our team, spend time with your neighbours and view a behind the scenes rehearsal excerpt from APHIDS’ new performance work, EDGING ahead of its premiere season in November.

You’ll also have the chance to hear more about our Season 2, 2024 program as our Acting Artistic Director Olivia Anderson and Acting Creative Producer Varsha Ramesh join in conversation with North Melbourne resident and historian Lorna Hannan and Warehouse Residency artist behind Specials! Kath Duncan to take you through what we have coming up.

Catering will be provided by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

See you there.

About the hosts

Kath Duncan is writer, researcher, SuperFreak with a background in electronic journalism. Kath has written news, unusual features, live comedy, nude disability and amputee fetish performance, made videos, starred in live group shows with confessional and erotic rants. Kath has degrees in Arts Communications (UTS), Sound Extension (AFTRS), BA. Hons Creative Writing (SCU), and Master in Writing (Theatre) (VCA). Kath produced her one woman show Hi Heartbreak in 2016; led the Australian Research Council project, The Last Avant Garde – Deaf/disability performance around Australia (2018-20). Kath won the 2020 Creative Australia Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.

Lorna Hannan has lived in North Melbourne for over 50 years and watched the many changes that have made it a distinctive place to live in. From 2015-2022, Lorna was a leading contributor to Arts House’s Refuge project: it has given her the opportunity to harvest these local stories and to savour the art of conversation. Lorna is currently a member of Arts House Creative Advisory Group, founding chair of the Hotham History Project and Deputy Chair of The Centre’s board.