Mystery Bus Debrief – Week 2

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Mystery Bus Week 2 was a big ramp up on energy levels with a smörgåsbord of three different themed events. Thursday 22 September A rowdy crowd dolled up to the nines rocked up to the bus stop and were in for a night of dancing, drinking and debauchery and a camel bedecked lounge bar. The dance floor was always full …

Mystery Bus Debrief – Week #1

Duckie Art & Event Reviews, Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Time to recap on the awesomeness that was Mystery Bus. After 7 nights, 4 newspaper articles, 1 radio interview, 36 artists, hundreds of audience members, and one bus, Mystery Bus 2011 is finally over. It has been an incredible, exhausting,chaotic and extremely rewarding experience to participate in the Sydney Fringe Festival with such an awesome show and awesome team. Thank …

One Hell of a Crazy Month..

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Its a big week for gigs and  its been a big couple of weeks of media coverage for Mystery Bus! We got a couple of modest mentions in Sydney Morning Herald’s  Spectrum A feature in the Inner West Courier An article in Alternative Media An interview on Eastside FM An article in Drum Media and to top it off… FRONT …

Mystery Bus Promotional Shoot

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Below are the promotional images we’re using for the upcoming Sydney Fringe Festival show, the Inner West Mystery Bus. Models are myself and Miss Reese Geronimo. All images by David Haworth Photography. “Oh no! Don’t miss the bus! Tickets from Sydney Fringe Festival“ “Oh I do love this route. What a fine day for a ride.” “Mystery Bus – get …

Caravan Poetry Slam in Concrete Playground

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Photo: Jon Mann Nice little promo for our Caravan Poetry Slam featuring yours truly in Concrete Playground this month! Our last slam was on Wednesday 31 August at Tone in Surry Hills. It was another great success with over 150 people through the door, 15 slammers, 5 emergency poets, 5 Old Men of Moss Mountain, 1 beat boxer and countless glasses of wine. The next …

Mystery Bus is Back Baby!

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

I’m co-producing a show for the Sydney Fringe Festival this year called the Inner-West Mystery Bus. The premise is simple: seven themed events showcasing the best fringe venues and arts that Sydney has to offer! The Mystery Bus will pick up  punters each night and take them to a secret location for a night of fun filled mayhem! Clues have …

Fraser Studios Open Day & Residency

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations, Puppetry

As previously mentioned, I participated in the Fraser Studios open day with the talented multi-disciplinary artist Aesha Henderson (Her work is exhibiting NOW at Gaffa Gallery). Below are a series of images show casing the day. Social snaps of the day were taken by the beauteous Caroline Garcia (You can also check out her Dancehall classes – she’s got amazing …

Psychic Octopus Installation

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations

Umbrella Theatre have been very lucky to score a residency at Fraser Studios with the brilliant visual artist Aesha Henderson. (You can check out her work exhibiting NOW at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney CBD) Fraser Studios are a series of beautiful antique warehouses donated temporarily for use as multidisciplinary artist spaces and studios. We have been busily working away here on …

Thunderkat at Pyrmont Festival

Duckie Blog, Performance Art & Installations, Puppetry

We were fortunate enough to be graced with fine warm weather recently for the Pyrmont Festival. The event was part Food & Wine fair, and part fine art competition. The food and wine was all on display from Mudgee in regional NSW and was absolutely mouth watering.  As for the art, the theme this year was ‘small is beautiful’ and …