Still art to see and music to hear, until 19 December - and it all starts again with Midsumma from 17 January 2011.
Gallery: RMIT Fine Art Photography Graduate Exhibition
RMIT Photography
Until Saturday 18 December
25 emerging young photographers in a top quality show, with intriguing video works, light installations, and photographs ranging from exquisitely beautiful to visually and intellectually challenging (you’ll have to come and see for yourself). This exhibition follows immediately in the steps of the RMIT Textile Design graduates, and both have shown us young artists of outstanding talent and imagination.
Performance: The Mountain
The Click Clack Project
Until Saturday 18 December
Pianist and composer extraordinaire, James Hullick, returns to fortyfivedownstairs with an amazing group of performers. It’s always hard to describe a Hullick creative extravaganza, but we know from past experience that this will be a cutting edge sound art event, with extraordinary sound making machines, orchestral music making, a dazzling collage of sound sources. The Click Clack Project is a new not for profit organisation created by James, and set up to provide mentoring to people with varying abilities.
Featuring: The Amplified Elephants, Noise Scavengers, BOLT Ensemble and JOLT Creatives
Dates: 15 - 18 December
Time: Wed - Fri 7:30pm & 9pm, Sat 5:00pm
Tickets: Full $20, Concession $15
Bookings: book online here or call 03 9662 9966
Coming in 2011
The year begins on 17 January with the Midsumma Festival in the gallery and the theatre.
Gallery : Identity
Identity is a Midsumma produced exhibition, curated by Rat Simpson, featuring artwork by 9 visual artists who look at who we are, who we have been and where we are going. Identity is supported by the City of Melbourne.
Performance: Prodigal
Bryant
& Frank
Wed 19 - Fri 28 Jan 2011
Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank (Once We Lived Here, 2009) return to fortyfivedownstairs with Prodiga,l their first musical, which premiered in Midsumma 11 years ago. Now another generation of audiences have a chance to see this award winning musical which tells the story of a boy who runs away to Sydney, rather than work in the family fishing business. Forced to return home after coming out, his family struggles to reconcile the golden boy who left with the son who has returned.
Dates: Wed 19 - Fri 21, Mon 24 - Fri 28 Jan
Time: Mon - Thu 7:30pm, Fri 6:30pm
Tickets: Full $35, Concession $28
Bookings: book online here or call 03 9662 9966
Performance: The Book of Spells - A Love Story
2 Women Production
Saturday 22 Jan
A Midsumma premier event, this is a special opening performance of a raw and honest love story, woven around two tales of magic realism by British writer Sara Maitland. It’s a production that will speak to all who have struggled to find a way to live together, whatever their orientation. It provokes thought, laughter, empathy; it leaves audiences deeply moved.
Time: 6:30pm
Tickets: Full $25, Conc $20, Group (10+) $18
Bookings: book online here or call 03 9662 9966
Performance: Diamond & Gallagher - Getting Down and Brassy
Diamond & Gallagher
Fri 21 - 29 January 2011
Dolly Diamond and Luke Gallagher who created a storm last week with A Very Dolly Christmas, return with a 14 piece band, which might blow the roof off if we weren’t three floors further down….
Featuring some disturbing fashions from decades past and some equally horrifying wigs, step back in time with Diamond & Gallagher in their latest take-no-prisoners comedy cabaret.
Cabaret tables or General admission seats available.
Dates: Fri 21 - Sun 23, Fri 28 - Sat 29 January
Time: Fri & Sat 8:30pm, Sunday 7pm
Tickets: Cabaret Seating $39, Full $35, Concession $28
Bookings: book online here for general admission or here for Cabaret Seating or call 03 9662 9966.
fortyfivedownstairs news:
Café Scheherazade reopens in March 2011
Following the fantastic success of our 2010 production do not go gentle… by Patricia Cornelius, fortyfivedownstairs is working to produce another major theatre production – Café Scheherazade written by Therese Radic, and based on the best selling book by Arnold Zable.
Directed by Bagryana Popov, the production will feature Melbourne actors Jacob Allen, Richard Bligh, Jim Daly, Jan Friedl, Bruce Kerr and George Werther and klezmer musicians led by Ernie Gruner under the musical direction of Elissa Goodrich.
Discounted early bird tickets for limited performances are on sale now.
Book online here or call 03 9662 9966.
We are still trying to raise the funds to present Café Scheherazade, and if any of you is a frustrated theatrical entrepreneur, and would like to help us, please email Mary Lou on info@fortyfivedownstairs.com All donations will be acknowledged, and gratefully received. Donations to fortyfivedownstairs are tax deductible.
Coming Up: Skin Tight
SaySIX Theatre
4 - 20 February 2011
Electrifying, personal, fierce and passionate, Skin Tight is a modern theatrical classic...In their final moments together, Tom and Elizabeth re-count the joys and anguish of a lifetime of enduring love…
Early bird tickets available from Friday 17 Dec 2010
Call for applications: fortyfivedownstairs gallery
Artist, curators and galleries are invited to submit proposals for two and four week exhibition projects in the second half of 2011.
Detailed information regarding the two gallery spaces, application process and costs can be found here or you can contact our curator, Martina Copley on martina@fortyfivedownstairs.com. Applications close 11 March 2011.
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Since 2002 fortyfivedownstairs, a not-for-profit organisation, has offered an evocative urban space and a personalised service to an eclectic mix of artists for theatre, visual arts, forum, music and dance .
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Image credits (from top to
bottom); RMIT FINE ART PHOTOGRPAHY GRADUATE EXHIBITION,In situe image;THE MOUNTAIN, promotional image; IDENTITY, New Gold Jeans by Michael Brady; PRODIGAL, promotional image; THE BOOK OF SPELLS, promotional image, DIAMOND & GALLAGHER, promotional image; CAFE SCHEHERAZADE, promotional image; SKIN TIGHT, promotional image; FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS, logo,
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