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SHORE presented by Arts House

  • Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall 521 Queensberry Street North Melbourne, VIC, 3051 Australia (map)

In SHORE: Performance Emily Johnson takes you by the hand and leads you through the city.

Starting in Narrm Melbourne’s iconic Royal Park and winding its way through North Melbourne to Arts House, SHORE: Performance merges the powerful pull of place and history with movement, installation, sound and voice to create a dreamlike, immersive, and multi-sensory experience of connection and yearning.

Johnson, joined by a 40-strong local choir and a large group of professional and community dancers, joyfully jolts us into the moment and asks us to both grapple with, and give ourselves over to, the ever-shifting, uncertain and essentially communal process of identity-making. On an open, unmasked stage, the performance moves between the intimate and mythical, contemplative and frenetic, individual and communal, offering new ways of seeing, being and connecting.

Artist, shaman, trickster, creature – Johnson and her collaborators take on many forms. Dream, memory and history meet in this transcendent, mysteriously beautiful, and fiercely alive performance.

SHORE in Narrm is presented by ArtsHouse in partnership with Yirramboi, a First Nations Arts Festival. There is so much beautiful work happening in Yirramboi - please visit their webpage for program streams: Ngulu, Yingadha Buluk, Yulendj, Bullarto Wonthaggi, Nganga Burnbunak: http://www.yirramboi.net.au/

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Earlier Event: May 11
The Violence of Denial Public Talks
Later Event: May 14
SHORE: Feast
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Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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