RISING Unveils Epic 2024 Program of New Music, Art and Performance to Ignite Melbourne in June
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*105 events and more than 480 artists set to take the city as a stage as winter begins from June 1-16*
*MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA / ACCESSWIRE / March 11, 2024 / *RISING, Melbourne's premiere festival of new music, art and performance, today unleashes its sweeping 2024 program, featuring *105 events*, more than* 480 artists*, *23 new commissions*, *six* *world premieres,* and *eight Australian premieres*, set to take the city as a stage as winter begins from June 1-16.
*RISING 2024*
Across 16 nights, spanning three epic weekends, RISING will stretch down the spine of the city and beyond as large-scale installations, free public events and world-class contemporary music, theatre and dance ignite the city's streets, venues and hidden spaces.
"RISING 2024 is a festival that belongs to Naarm, Melbourne. Some of the most exciting voices in art, music and performance offer moments of catharsis and reflection with mass music making in a church or summoning the cosmos in our town square," said *RISING co-artistic directors Hannah Fox and Gideon Obarzanek*. "The most important part is coming together to be thrilled, bemused, shaken or delighted."
Presented in partnership with *MAPCO*, and curated by* Kimberley Moulton (Yorta Yorta) *(Shadow Spirit, 2023) and *Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung)*, *Federation Square* will transform into a vibrant forum of First Peoples' art, politics, and cosmic connections with *The Blak Infinite* - an expansive free exhibition and public program at the heart of the festival.
Along the Birrarung, First Nations soprano and composer *Deborah Cheetham AO* and audio artists *Byron Scullin* and *Thomas Supple*'s monumental sound work *The Rivers Sing* will echo through the city each night at dusk. Immersive nighttime projections share stories of Sky Country and the cosmos - lit up each evening in the square.
In a free, Australian-exclusive world-premiere, international dance-floor phenomena *SHOUSE* invites over a thousand participants to form beneath the hallowed vaulted ceilings of St Paul's Cathedral.
Tentpoling the festival's mammoth middle long weekend, *Day Tripper* is RISING's day party takeover of Melbourne Town Hall and surrounding venues.
From Melbourne icons *The Dirty Three *in their first hometown shows in 14 years, to Western Sydney drill trailblazers *OneFour*, U.S. hip hop icon *Yasiin Bey* (formerly known as Mos Def) performing two sets, and the singular Swedish electro-pop singer and producer *Fever Ray *in Australia for the first time, RISING's contemporary music program will take over the CBD's most iconic venues, weaving together a diverse lineup of the best musical talents from across Australia and the globe.
Highlights of the performance program include *ILBIJERRI Theatre Company*'s rock 'n' roll narrative *Big Name No Blankets*, inspired by the Warumpi Band: *FOOD* by Geoff Sobelle, an absurdist take on human consumption at MTC Lawler, and direct from Europe the first chapter of the* Cadela Força Trilogy* by *Carolina Bianchi.*
Early access tickets are on sale from March 12. Explore the full program at www.rising.melbourne.
*Contact Information*
Jadan Carroll
RISING PR Manager
jadan@commonstate.co
+61 405 818 120
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*SOURCE:* RISING Festival
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