Horizon Festival - Online for 2020 - Dance

Blak Social

kaitlyn.black — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 03:13:59 +0000

Blak Social celebrates the cultural resurgence of Indigenous peoples with a line-up as varied and constellated as our identities.

From dance tunes to mesmerising movement to heart-stopping melodics, Blak Social is a celebration of Indigenous artists and the future they create.

Featuring:
Diimpa
Elisapie
Katina Olsen
The Merindas
Paula Delaney-Nazarski

Blak Social premiered at Horizon Festival 2019 as an event created by our outgoing First Nations Producer, Alethea Beetson. Since then, Blak Social has transformed into her flagship arts company that works across music, performing arts and apparel.

Horizon Festival is honoured to partner with a sovereign-led space like Blak Social and we continue to support Alethea’s work in decolonisation, cultural resurgence and ancestral connection.

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Aug 27 2020

Thur 27 Aug

Online

Is this event free or ticketed?

Free

Dance

First Nations

Free

Music

Visual Art

7pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

DIIMPA
Eclectic and esoteric, Diimpa is an avant composer, soundscape weaver and sonic wizard. He is a proud mixed Kabi Kabi autistic queer man who works with keyboard instruments to create worlds of effortless magic and sound journey. Filled with electric pulses or ambient textures, Diimpa’s unique brand of contemporary minimalism is, at its heart, transcendent.

ELISAPIE
Ambassador for Inuit culture, Elisapie represents the wild and rough beauty of the Canadian North. Her new album, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, is the musical tale of an expatriate Inuk. On June 19th, 2020, Elisapie returned with a new single called Asuguuq. This song is a gift to Inuit communities in the wake of National Indigenous Peoples Day.

KATINA OLSEN
Katina is a proud Wakka Wakka Kombumerri choreographer and also has Norwegian, German and English Ancestry. Katina’s choreographic interests interrogate her Indigenous cultural dance and story through various forms including theatre, moving sculpture, film and installation.

THE MERINDAS
The Merindas are the collective force of Ballardong Whadjuk and Nyoongar woman Kristel Kickett (from Tammin, WA) and Candice Lorrae of Jawoyn and Thursday Island heritage (born in Darwin, NT). Based in Melbourne, these soul sisters are trail-blazing their innovative style of Indigenous music. They describe their unique sound as “electronic pop with a dance-hall feel, alongside hip hop and R&B influences."

PAULA DELANEY NAZARSKI
Paula Delaney Nazarski is a Ngugi Woman from North Stradbroke Island. She is an esteemed actor and writer who frequently works with Queensland Theatre Company. She has written, performed and toured in theatre shows all around Queensland. Paula is passionate about the arts and the role of storytelling in the contemporary world

Visual Art

Presented by Blak Social

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Transience

kaitlyn.black — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 02:50:31 +0000

Transience, created by artists Glen Manning and Kathy Daly, is a short-film of their signature etchings on the sand of our spectacular Sunshine Coast Beaches, exploring our connection with the marine and coastal landscapes through the synergy of art and movement.

Thematically, the work is a response to both Covid-19 and climate change; the virus resulting in wide-spread community focus on microscopic organisms, and an acknowledgement that we are experiencing a rapid period of global climate change.

Massive ephemeral drawings of microscopic phytoplankton will be inscribed on the sand by artists Glen and Kathy and augmented by a solo performer, Reina Takeuchi, allowing the viewer to enter an unseen world of interconnected ecosystems.

Captured by local filmmakers and storytellers, Pluggas, this beautiful short film will showcase this ephemeral, multidisciplinary artwork, allowing us to see the sand inscriptions unfold and then be swept away by the incoming tides at First Bay in Coolum.

Images by ben vos productions.

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Aug 26 2020

Wed 26 Aug

Online

Is this event free or ticketed?

Free

5pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Glen Manning and Kathy Daly are a collaborative and creative partnership seeking to extend the imaginative scope and significance of art in public spaces. Their art practice explores the way we intersect with and interact with the natural landscape and the way art is integral to the creation of meaningful spaces.

Reina Takeuchi is an Australian-Japanese artist-researcher interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and facilitating embodied experiences of contemporary art.

Fisch Rasy is a local professional storyteller and filmmaker with experience as a director, producer, and director of photography. His work with his company, Pluggas, has been internationally recognised in film festivals and across multiple social media platforms. Fisch along with the Pluggas team are committed to continuing to build the screen industry on the Sunshine Coast.

HOMEGROWN

Presented by Manning Daly Art with Reina Takeuchi + Pluggas

Visual Art

This Homegrown project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

HOMEGROWN

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Dawn Awakening

kaitlyn.black — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 02:32:28 +0000

Join us as we REWIND to Horizon Festival 2018 for Dawn Awakening.

Dawn Awakening is a special First Nation-focused event that has won a place in the hearts and minds of the Sunshine Coast community.

On the final day of Horizon Festival, our community gathers before dawn at Stumers Creek, Coolum Beach to witness a beautiful multi-arts celebration of remembrance, dreaming and ritual.

Our 2018 Dawn Awakening was an ode to the Glossy Black Cockatoo; its spirit of collective strength honoured through music, dance and spoken word alongside stunning visual art installations and projections.

The 2018 performance was produced by Angie Dunbavan of Red Chair and featured an incredible line-up of artists including Lyndon Davis and Gubbi Gubbi Dance, multi-award winning singer/songwriter Shellie Morris, traditional Yolngu song-man Djakapurra Munyarryun, vocalist Kacey Patrick, dancer Soraya Fewquandie Scott, guitarists Robbie James and Andrew Veivers, cellist Louise King, Cool Harmonies, Coolum State School choirs and projection artist James Muller.

Join featured artist Lyndon Davis to reminisce on this beautiful performance with stories, insights and never-before seen footage from the event.

Images: ben vos productions.

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Aug 03 2020 to Aug 31 2020

Mon 3 Aug

Online

Is this event free or ticketed?

Free

9am

REWIND

Music

Dawn Awakening was produced by Red Chair in partnership with Coolum HeARTs. The event was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

REWIND

REWIND TO DAWN AWAKENING

Plastic Belly

kaitlyn.black — Tue, 26 May 2020 05:13:49 +0000

Plastic Belly is a contemporary dance performance by Sunshine Coast-based choreographer Courtney Scheu and visual artist Itamar Freed, created with the support of dramaturge Liesel Zink.

Set to an original sound score by Harel Tsemah, and filmed on the beautiful secluded beach at Third Bay in Coolum, this work is both visually captivating and deeply sensitive to the current times.

Plastic Belly explores human connection, at a point in history when this topic is more relevant than ever. Recent experiences due to the COVID-19 pandemic have traversed the emotional and mental impact of isolation, the fear of the unknown, and a deep desire for connection.

Plastic Belly will explore the artists’ lived experience of this extraordinary time, navigating the boundaries of a new future and capturing the ever-present tension between the desire for intimacy and the primal need for self-protection. Plastic Belly is contemporary dance at its best.

Choreographer & Performer: Courtney Scheu
Visual Artist: Itamar Freed:
Performer: Nadia Milford
Film Director: Rainer Scheu (Create Right)
Cinematographer: Shane Keeffe
Dramaturge: Liesel Zink
Collaborating Artist: Chloe Lanham

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Jun 21 2020 to Jun 30 2020

Sun 21 Jun

Online

Is this event free or ticketed?

Free

Dance

Free

Visual Art

5pm

About the Artists

Itamar Freed and Courtney Scheu are a visual artist and dance artist who collaborate and create work that proposes a certain narrative or fantasy that emerges from a specific site. Freed and Scheu play between reality and its artistic portrayal to create a dream like space. They are creating work across forms in dance, sculpture, video and photography. Their dance work has been presented through Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance. In 2019, Scheu and Freed were Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) within the UNESCO World Heritage Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. They were recently Artists in Residence in The Crow’s Nest on Chamber’s Island, Australia through the Sunshine Coast Regional Arts Development Fund.

HOMEGROWN

Presented by Courtney Scheu + Itamar Freed

..a large blue tarpaulin... covers both completely, creating evocative, sometimes amoebic-like shapes, revealing one, then the other dancer, as they clamber in and out of its folds… Plastic Belly was very engaging

Denise Richardson, Dance Australia 2020

Theatre

HOMEGROWN

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Horizon Festival - Online for 2020 - Dance

Blak Social

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Transience

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dawn Awakening

Elements

A Galaxy of Suns

Plastic Belly

About the Artists