Judith Greenaway

ARTSLAB: UNCANNED. A FESTIVAL OF EMERGING ARTISTS TO CHALLENGE AND INSPIRE

SHORTCUTS

Shopfront Arts Co-op presents  ArtsLab: UNCANNED, their 2019 Festival of New Work.

Now in its 12th year, Shopfront’s flagship emerging artist-in-residence program, ArtsLab, continues in its commitment to supporting emerging artists by providing a safe space in which artists are invited to trial, test, fail, succeed and learn as they create powerful new work.

“These explosive works will challenge traditional theatrical form, question our perceptions, and incite conversation around the social and political.”

The 2018/19 artists-in-residence include Harry McGee, Nicole Pingon, Madeleine Stedman, and Socks in Jocks who Shopfront has supported through a six-month residency to develop an original
work offering them access to free space, support and mentorship from industry leaders such as Zoe Coombs Marr, Tessa Leong, Malcolm Whittaker, Martyn Coutts and Matt Prest, alongside Jane
Phegan as season dramaturg.

INGLE by Harry McGee
Hello citizen! You are invited to come to the Ingle Council Meeting. Don’t worry, everything is absolutely fine and nothing is wrong in our glorious town. This is just an ordinary council meeting to discuss
completely ordinary things…
INGLE
SPIDER IN MY SOUP by Nicole Pingon
Spiders are our future selves dropping in to check on us. Spider In My Soup is an intimate sensory experience exploring memory. Enter a dreamscape of performance and live music that questions how we
remember, why we forget and what changes over time.
SPIDER IN MY SOUP
SHORTCUTS by Madeleine Stedman
How do you grow up without your other half? One woman pays to relive her own memories, hoping to uncover clues to her best friend’s disappearance over 30 years ago. Shortcuts is a new work from Snatched Collective about grieving, growing up, and being a teenager
in the late 2000s.
RETURN OF KINGS
RETURN OF KINGS by Socks in Jocks
SAUSAGE SIZZLE! TINNIES! RECLAIM THE KINGDOM! What if one night could shift your destiny? Drag meets gospel in Return of Kings, a service for masculinity hosted by contemporary drag collective Socks in Jocks, who will expose toxic masculinity for the good of humanity.

In addition to their performances, Shopfront will host an Industry Night featuring panels, discussions and networking opportunities for other young and emerging artists.  Shopfront will host three free arts panels on Saturday February 2nd  for artists to come along and share in discussions with some of the country’s leading artists, arts collectives and organisations.
• 3:20PM – Panel 1: The Mentors. Join us for a discussion with the 2019 ArtsLab: Uncanned mentors, to find out the twists and turns of their artistic journeys.
• 5:20PM – Panel 2: The Organisations. Leading arts organisations will come together to discuss the access and entry points for independent and emerging artists into their community.
• 6:50PM – Panel 3: Indie Collectives. Come along to hear tips, advice, and the hard truth from independent collectives who have paved the way for themselves in the arts industry.

ArtsLab: UNCANNED from  Shopfront Arts Co-op [Facebook]will be performed across five days, from 30 January – 3 February at Shopfront,  88 Carlton Parade, Carlton NSW 2218 Australia.