13 Mar 2022
Good CompanyROAR! at Wanderlust
Description
ROAR invited audience members into a genre-blending, fringe flirting spectacular and a peek into the taboo held at Wanderlust in Mitchell.
Marlene Caludine Radice and Miriam Slater conceptualised the show as a contemporary homage to the performance origins of Butoh dance in Japan and in partnership with Wanderlust hired TJ and Zsa LaFine to perform.
After ROAR finished, 41 patrons had purchased a full night ticket allowing them access to Wanderlust as a club.
“There was a wonderful sense of excitement and curiosity amongst the audience having permission to access such a venue, many for the first time.”
Image credit: Andrew Sikorski
Good Company was a small grants program (part of artsACT’s Creative Recovery and Resilience Program) designed to turn businesses all over Canberra into places where art happens.
Artists were able to apply for a $5000 grant which supported them to produce an in-person arts event, situated in a Canberra venue or business between January – April 2022.
The goals of Good Company were to put money into the pockets of artists and arts workers, support arts events to happen in the ACT, to foster creative relationships between artists and businesses and to bring people and activity back into businesses that continue to be affected by COVID.
A total of 12 events were funded through the grant program with $60,000 delivered to the arts community.
