19 Apr 2023

Crit Club

Description

All School is a new platform by Next Wave exploring new artist-led learning experiences; a new space to share, swap ideas and cast a constellation of connections through in-person and online gatherings led by/for artists across the continent. This year’s All School program kicks off with a special event: Crit Club, co-curated by Next Wave and You Are Here. Happily coinciding with Cahoots Lab 2023, Crit Club is being hosted in Canberra by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres, at the Ralph Wilson Theatre.

Crit Club will happen simultaneously online and across territories, we’ll peel back the layers of artistic practice, diving deep into experimental methodologies of collaboration. This event brings together four artists who will share new/works in development alongside a facilitated ‘crit’ conversation considering what it means to embrace hybridity and collaborate across platforms, states, and ideas.

Artists will be sharing practice across live and digital spaces hosted online and in person at Brunswick Mechanics (VIC) and at Gorman Arts Centre (ACT). Sharing from their home states and beamed online and to our IRL audiences, join the artists as four new works-in-progress are presented, followed by facilitated conversations that consider what it means to embrace hybridity, working locally, by distance, and digitally.

Both in-person events will close with a mini Radical Hospitality, offering a site to converge, share food and make new connections.

WEDNESDAY 19 APRIL | 6:00PM – 8:00PM | RALPH WILSON THEATRE, GORMAN ARTS CENTRE | FREE EVENT | REGISTRATION REQUIRED

OR – join online! Link coming soon.

OR – join at the Brunswick Mechanics, if you’re in Melbourne.

REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON

In Canberra, the event will be facilitated by Cahoots alumni Saskia Morris & Emma McManus. Emma is the Creative Producer of Public Programs at Next Wave.

The artists sharing their work from Ngunnawal country / Canberra will be Cahoots alumni Tom Campbell (aka Ricky Pampang) and Zhi.

The artists sharing from Naarm / Melbourne will be announced soon!

Next Wave is an engine room for art making and experimentation, dreaming and doing, exchange and connection. Next Wave support artists from across this continent, amplifying ambitious ideas, experimental practice and critical storytelling that reflects the zeitgeist of our times. They present, advocate, develop and collaborate.

The Canberra event will take place in Ralph Wilson Theatre at Gorman Arts Centre in Braddon.
There is parking on Batman Street, which is free after 5:30pm. There are two disabled parking spots.
The closest bus stop is on Ainslie Avenue.

You Are Here and Next Wave are grateful to Ainslie & Gorman Arts Centre for their support of Crit Club. All School is generously funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. Cahoots Lab is funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and Events ACT. You Are Here is supported by artsACT.