NYE Camp Wollemi
Strange and interactive burlesque
Thursday / 31 December / 7.00 pm / $40
Camp Wollemi / Wiseman’s Ferry / St Albans / Australia
Facemeat and Friends Xmas Special
Rock, roll, and some debaucherous Christmas cabaret
Sunday / 13 December / 7.00 pm / FREE
Town Hall Hotel / 326 King Street / Newtown / Australia
People Soup
A no holds barred character based impro jam
Wednesday / 9 December / 7.30 pm / $5-16
107 Projects / 107 Redfern St / Redfern / Australia
Big One, Small One
A mini festival of performance installations
Sunday / 6 December / 4 pm
Secret location, Stanmore, Sydney
Stoneleigh No. 50
Immersive wine tasting in an overgrown historic mansion
Various / 11-27 November / Refer to website for time slots / FREE Bookings essential
Stoneleigh No 50 / 50 Argyle Place / the Rocks / Australia
Glebe Street Fair
An annual community celebration, I’ll be mc-ing a discussion in Foley Park with Love Parade founder Dr Motte & introducing multicultural bands at the LaToosh stage
Sunday / 15 November / 10am-4pm / FREE
Glebe Point Road / Glebe / Australia
A Cabinet of Curiosities
Science, comedy and performance in a nightclub
Friday / 13 November / 7-11 pm / $30
World Bar / 24 Bayswater Road / Kings Cross / Australia
www.centenary.org.au/event/ycf-cabinet-of-curiosities
Norton St Festa
Sunday / 25 October / 10am-1pm / FREE
Roving Norton St / Leichhardt / Australia
PACT Vacant Room
Residency: 21 September – 9 October
Showing: 9 October / 8pm
PACT Centre / 107 Railway Parade / Erskineville / Australia
Burning Man
Monday – Sunday / 31 August – 6 September / Anytime
On playa / Black Rock City / Nevada / USA
Title Point’s Salon – Special 1st Saloniversary Edition!
Thursday / 20 August / 8 pm / $7-10
Silent Barn / 603 Bushwick Avenue / Brooklyn / New York 11206 / USA
Bushwick Burlesque
Tuesday / 18 August / By donation
Bizarre Bushwick / 12 Jefferson Street / Brooklyn / NY 11206
Community Puppet Parade
Saturday / 15 August / FREE
2132 Hillside Rd / Storrs / CT 06268 / USA
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National Puppetry Festival Fringe
Wednesday / 12 August / 10.30 & 11.30pm (two shows)
Room ART 116 / University of Connecticut / 2132 Hillside Rd / Storrs / CT 06268 / USA
nationalpuppetryfestival2015.com
Bread & Puppet Theater’s Captain Boycott
Monday / 10 August / 8 pm / FREE
Jorgensen Performing Arts Center / 2132 Hillside Rd / Storrs / CT 06268 / USA
nationalpuppetryfestival2015.com
NOoSPHERE Arts
Saturday / 25 July / Entry 7pm / Sets 8.30 & 10.15pm / $5 Donation
252 Green Street / Greenpoint / NYC / USA
Les ClochArts Célestes
16 May 2015 / 4pm
Studio Albatross / 52 rue du sergent bobillot / 93100 / Montreuil / France
Spoken Word Paris
Feature artist – puppetry & poems
1 May 2015 / 8pm / by donation
Au Chat Noir / 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud / 75011 / France
Bad Deep: The Last Resort
burlesque / go go dancing
13 March 2015 / 8pm
Sly Fox Hotel /199 Enmore Rd / Sydney / Australia
FREE!
Secret Garden Festival
burlesque / puppetry / weird stuff
28 February / various stages / all day
SOLD OUT
Church of Sly
7 February 2015 / 8pm
Sly Fox Hotel /199 Enmore Rd / Sydney / Australia
FREE!
2014
Strange Love
Thursday 11 December 7.30pm onwards
A/C Art Space, Marrickville – Private message the host for the address
This is one of my absolute favourite Marrickville arts nights. They’ve had everything from sea shanties to yodellers. Its always surprising and stimulating with large, warm audiences and lots of cozy couches. I’ll be alongside some fantastic acts, the very interesting experiemental technological artist Pia Van Geldler, and a choir singing Renaissance choral music.
More info:
Subsonic Festival
If you will be doofing at Subsonic Festival this year, come and say hello to Geronimo and I in the Village space. We might be dancing on podiums bedecked in gold or performing some cheeky burlesque in the dark night. There will be snakes, sacred geometry and lots of gold.
We’re also contributing to the fabulous recycled decor by the good folks at Milkcrate Events.
5-7 December
Riverwood Downs Resort, Barrington Tops
Enough Said Wollongong
Saturday 29 November 6.30pm
Studio 19
157 Crown St, Wollongong
$5 / More details.
Small World Festival
Saturday September 20
Jabez Street, Marrickville
$59 / All day
Cut & Paste
Date: Saturday, 26 July 2014Time: 8:00 pm – 9:30 pmVenue: The Big Theatre, Bondi Pavilion
Sydney Writers’ Festival
10am-12pm Sunday 25 May 2014
Pier 2/3 Big Top, Walsh Bay
FREE!
A family friendly puppet show brings poetry and puppetry to the Writers’ Festival big top!
Fracas: Puppetry Slam
7.30pm Tuesday 27 May 2014
Delmar Gallery
144 Victoria St, Ashfield
$20 including drinks
I’ll be debuting a new show in Sydney’s first ever puppetry slam!
Smart Arts Festival Launch Party
6-9pm Friday 04 April 2014
Smart Arts Festival Launch Party
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre
Chippendale
FREE!
With Umbrella Theatre we’ll bring you some seriously paranoid puppets.
Saturday 05 April 2014
I’ll be adding to the tropical mix with some messy burlesque
7pm till late
Manning Bar – Level Two, Manning House
Manning Road, University of Sydney
31 December
Sky Village – Epic NYE Festival
Keep an eye on the main stage for me as your burlesque entertainment and MC!
Sunday 1 December
Django Bar – 7.30pm
We will be supporting the incredible Slovenian pupeteer and musician! A rare treat!
6.45-9.45pm Playfair St, the Rocks
Friday 6 December
Friday 13 December
Friday 20 December
Every Friday November – December
The Rocks Village Bizarre 6.45-9.45pm
Playfair Street, the Rocks
I’ll be featured in Umbrella Theatre’s twisted puppet shows!
Tuesday 5 November
Jurassic Lounge 6.30-10pm
The Australian Museum
Extinction night at Jurassic Lounge and Umbrella Theatre will bring you our classic choose your own adventure tale – Save Me.
We also have an exciting residency lined up for November-December but its all hush hush for now! More details coming soon!
Friday 8 November
The Rocks Village Bizarre 6.45-9.45pm
Playfair Street, the Rocks
Sunday 10 November
Bogan Yoga
Vocal Local Village – Newtown Festival – from 9.30am
One night’s brainchild, the LaToosh gang will be conducting a relaxing session of bogan yogan in the morning to kick off the festivities at Newtown Festival.
6.45-9.45pm Playfair St, the Rocks
Friday 15 November
Friday 22 November
Friday 29 November
Friday 13 September
First up, our favourite puppets, Old Mate, Dobby and a few other culprits will appear in a multimedia installation by Tolmie Rogue Simian as part of the Night Garden. The Night Garden is always a real treat with dozens of talented light, sound and visual installation artists creating a street party playground along Hutchinson Street from Tortuga to Index Gallery.
Sunday 15 September
A new experimental performance night, On The Edge, will launch this Sunday at a new Inner West studio space dedicated to radical thinking and experimentation. There’ll be a diverse range of experiences and performances, plus a puppet or two, of course!
Friday 20 September
I’ll be hosting the Emerald City variety night for the Sydney Fringe Festival. The Seymour Centre forecourt looks simply lovely draped with green crystals and fairy lights hanging from the trees. If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by the program, come along from 6pm and you can sample a range of fringe festivally goodness.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSslMZS6vA&feature=player_embedded]
11-13 October
Word Travels Festival will bring you three days of live literary mayhem. Australia’s first spoken word festival, there will be workshops, panels, spoken word walking tours, a poetry bordello and of course the Australian Poetry Slam. I’ll be buzzing about behind the scenes helping to make it all happen!
Tuesday 22 October
Umbrella Theatre present ‘Jurassic Therapy’ at Jurassic Lounge. Always guaranteed to be live, interactive fun, we have a range of therapies to help you with your troubles. Expect prehistoric prescriptions, massages and laugh workshops.
Wednesday 3 July 2013
7.30-10.00pm The Spice Cellar
Martin Place, Sydney
Teaming up with Such & Such & Gypsy La La Land, we’ll be bringing you a night of classic burlesque with sardonic commentary from our fabulous puppet host, Ms Peggy Taylor
Saturday 22 June 2013
10.30am Katoomba St Big Top
Our lovable puppet Old Mate will give advice to the young fellas
Friday 5 April 2013
6.30-9.30pm Pine Street Creative Arts Centre
Smart Art Mini Festival Launch
Umbrella brings you ‘Save Me’, a choose your own adventure puppet tragedy.
Tuesday 9 April 2013
5.30-9.30pm Australian Museum
Umbrella brings you the Global Voodoo Fondue Party – tasty revenge
Peats Ridge Festival
30 December 11.00 & 3.30pm
31st December 11.00 & 3.00pm
We’ll be harassing & entertaining passers by with the tales and ramblings of Old Mate
Saturday 8 December 2012
9pm Global Village Dome
Subsonic FestivalGeronimo and I will appear in a burlesque/dj/vj collaboration – a mash up of messed up rabbit visuals, samples and dancing
Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, Hunter Region[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXCWR9fUGw&feature=player_embedded]
Sunday 9 December 2012 7.30-8.30pm
Gallery Burlesque: A Merry Potter Christmas Show
Dobby the Christmas Elf will be there dishing out pain and pleasure to punters
383 Bourke Street, Surry Hills
Fridays 14 & 21 in December 2012 – Every 15 mins 6.45-9.45pm
Umbrella Theatre will be presenting a range of fun mini puppet performances from our repertoire
The Rocks, Sydney[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHIDspGbLrM&feature=player_embedded
Fridays 2, 16, 23, 30 in November 2012
Umbrella Theatre will be presenting a range of fun mini puppet performances from our repertoire
The Rocks, Sydney
10 & 11 November 2012
A new burlesque show with a cutie little wabbit and a scary farmer!
La Toosh Stage, Werribee Park, Melbourne
17 November 2012
A new burlesque show with a cutie little wabbit and a scary farmer!
La Toosh Stage, Parramatta Park, Sydney
Saturday 29 & 30 September
Crack Theatre Festival (as part of TINA)
The debut of a new puppetry installation called ‘Old Mate’. Now in creative development!
Newcastle, NSW
September 2012
Watch this space! Both Mystery Bus and Umbrella Theatre will be appearing as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival in a big way!
Sunday 22 July 2012
Harry Potter and the Curse of the Tassel Twirl
The debut of ‘Dobby’s Punishment Parlour’ a twisted puppet installation at this epic, Harry Potter themed burlesque event!
The Standard, Level 3, 383 Bourke Street, Sydney
Saturday 23 June 2012
I’ll be performing in my puppet show ‘Encounter with a Monster’
Katoomba Street, Katoomba, Blue Mountains
Sunday April 2012
Timania – A burlesque tribute to Tim Burton
‘Encounter with a Monster’ features as a burton-esque dark fairy tale/poem
The Standard, Level 3, 383 Bourke Street, Sydney
2012
Pin Up Kittens Magazine Launch
Saucy burlesque routine ‘Banana Split’
City Hotel, Kent Street, Sydney CBD
Fridays in November & December 2011
6.30-10pm (every 15 minutes)
I’ll be performing in an extremely twisted puppet show entitled ‘A Preview to Murder’
The Rocks, Sydney
Saturday 3 December
5.00-7.00pm
I’ll be performing in a trippy installation
Barrington Tops, NSW
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XDGdgOs5Jp0]Sunday 13 November
I’ll be performing in a freaky puppet show about death, and choices
Parramatta Park, Parramatta
Friday 28 October – 8-10pm
Private Corporate Haloween Party
Spooky puppet death for Haloween
Thursday 22 October – 9-10pm
Caravan Slam at Art & About Sydney
I’ll be performing a stupendous piece of Dadaist Poetry
Surry Hills Library 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills
Sunday 16 October
I’ll be roving as a life sized dragon body puppet for Erth
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney
Sunday 2 October
Nationwide Jelly Clash as part of TINA – This is Not Art Festival
I’ll be jelly wrestling – Thunderkat vs the Disco Diva
The Great Northern Hotel, 89 Scott Street, Newcastle
Saturday 1 October
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ve been busy co-producing this series of secret events!
Saturday 1 October – 4-6pm
Crack Theatre Festival (as part of TINA)
I’ll be presenting an intimate solo puppet show
Hunter Street Mall, Newcastle City Centre
Thursday 29 September
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ve been busy co-producing this series of secret events!
Sunday 25 September
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ve been busy co-producing this series of secret events!
Friday 23 September
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ve been busy co-producing this series of secret events!
Thursday 22 September
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ll be doing a burlesque routine for this show only!
Tuesday 20 September
Jurassic Lounge – Australian Museum
I’ll be hosting for Sam Hickey & Aesha Henderson’s new show ‘Captain, My Captain’
Friday 16 September
Fringe event
Inner West Mystery Bus – Sydney Fringe Festival
I’ve been busy co-producing this series of secret events!
Wednesday 31 August 7pm
Poetry Slam
Tone Nightclub, 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills
Sunday 31 July 1 – 5pm
Works in progress
10-14 Kensington Street, Chippendale
Wednesday 27 July 7 – 10.30pm
Dadist Poetry Performance
‘Caravan’ 5 Handley Street, Marrickville
Sunday 15 May 12 – 2pm
“Save Me” with Umbrella Theatre Company
Pirrama Park Pyrmont
Saturday 2 & 4 April 7 – 10pm
Private Function
Wednesday 30 March 7 – 10pm
Dadist Poetry Performance
At The Vanishing Point Gallery Newtown
Sunday 6 February 7.30 – 8.30pm
Thunderkat is the tail of a giant rabbit!
Chinese New Year Twilight Parade
Sydney CBD, Town Hall to China Town