Lighting the Sails at 'Songlines'
For the first time in Vivid's eight year history the sails of the Sydney Opera House will be lit exclusively with contemporary art from Australia's First Peoples! Featuring renowned artists Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu the works explore Indigenous spirituality and culture through the songlines of our land and sky and run until the 18 June.
AFTRS Black Talk- A Double Bill; Indigeneity and Australian Screen Storytelling
Vivid ideas and the Sydney Film Festival present this back to back panel of on 12 June. The first panel will showcase leading creative voices: producers David Jowsey, Louise Gough and Ned Lander. The second panel features leading Indigenous auteurs & filmmakers discussing their craft and storytelling approach: filmmakers Ivan Sen (), Sterlin Harjo () and Dylan River ().
Dylan River, Ivan Sen and Sterlin Harjo will feature in the second Black Talk panel. Source: Sydney Film Festival
Black, Yellow and Red Dwarf: Erotic Fan Fiction
Join Sydney's finest for with new stories from Nakkiah Lui, Bjorn Stewart, Rowdie Allen, Shari Sebbans and a few more talents yet to be announced. Capping off Giant Dwarf's week of Indigenous programming this event is sure to leave you laughing your socks off!
An Indigenous take on Giant Dwarf's classic show: Story Club Erotic Fan Fiction. Source: Vivid Sydney
Ivan Sen's Goldstone premiers at the Sydney Film Festival
For the second time in four years, acclaimed Indigenous director Ivan Sen will open the . The protagonist of Mystery Road detective Jay Swan, played by Aaron Pedersen, returns in the world premiere of this outback noir film screening on 8 June at 7.30pm.
Opening night attraction ... Alex Russell and Aaron Pedersen in Goldstone. Source: Sydney Film Festival
Indigenous Women in the Arts Panel
Join dancer and activist Anita Hepi in with trans-disciplinary artist Nicole Monks and conceptual artist Amala Groom. The speakers will be engaging critically with issues relating to race and gender in the arts and talking about their experiences as Aboriginal women, focusing on practical methods for institutions and individuals to act as allies of Indigenous women in the creative industries.
Bundjulung and Ngapuhi woman, Amrita Hepi is interested in movement as manifested by all bodies, Source: Vivid Sydney
Black Chook, short film at the Sydney Film Festival
They were Australia's bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember – if they had the strength.
Black Chook screens on the 13th and 19th of June. Source: Sydney Film Festival
EORA - The Land, Bangarra Dance Theatre
Inspired by the creation stories of the waratah and cockatoo, this animated projection depicts how the Eora people lived with the natural elements, showing their vital relationship with flora and fauna. The Bangarra dancers will be projected onto the South Pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the duration of the .
The athleticism and grace of Bangarra's dancers will be on display during Vivid Sydney. Source: Vivid Sydney
Mekko, feature film at the Sydney Film Festival
Native American ex-con, Mekko, becomes embroiled in a fateful conflict with a local thug, in this intriguing fusion of gritty realism and Indigenous legend. Sterlin Harjo’s haunting begins with a voiceover in the language of Mekko’s tribe, the Muscogee and is a surprising and exceptional work that will wholly immerse you in its myths, mystery and unique setting.
Veteran Hollywood stuntman Rod Rondeaux plays ex-con Mekko. Source: Sydney Film Festival
