Join accomplished Tasmanian composer Maria Grenfell as she chats with prominent Australian composers of choral music, Sandra Milliken (QLD), Paul Jarman (NSW) and Quin Thomson (TAS), in an informal and informative setting. Our featured composers will share the inspirations behind their commissions, thoughts about composing for specific ensembles and the importance of connecting with other composers.
Following the panel discussion, participants will have the opportunity for Q&A and networking with our featured composers.
The bar will be open to enjoy refreshments while spending time with these fine musicians.
What so you get when you combine trivia and singing?
Vicky Jacobs
Combine your love of trivia and singing at Song Trivia! The popular event is back, hosted by the energetic Vicky Jacobs from Glee Club along with her choir, Glee Plus.
It’s not just about music trivia – we’ve got questions about history, culture, travel, and science, too, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy. What makes our trivia night special is the choir, who will sing some of the questions, answers, and even bits in between! And, of course, it wouldn’t be a Festival of Voices event without the opportunity for a singalong. So, if you feel like joining in, be sure to warm up your vocal cords!
Glee Plus
Everyone is welcome at this all-ages event, and drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. Whether you’re flying solo or coming with a crew (teams must be 8 or fewer people), grab your individual tickets below and join the fun!
With something for everyone at Song Trivia, don’t miss out on this event that sells out every year.
A short Workshop with the talented Jen Lush, turning poetry into song
Jen Lush
In this fun, explorative and inclusive workshop, experience the myriad ways that words can fly off a page and transform into song, with a room full of open minds and willing voices.
Is there a poem you love and would like to transform into a song? Have you always wanted to sing your favourite poem? Would you like to delve into poetry and discover its possibilities for music?
When crafting a song, music often precedes words – or words become malleable to the musical structure. However, what if the process is flipped? What if the words are fixed within the structure of poetry, challenging the music to adapt and complement them?
Led by Jen Lush, this workshop will guide participants through the fascinating process of transforming contemporary poetry into song, fostering collaboration and creative exploration. Participants will have the opportunity to select a poem—either their own or from a curated collection—and delve into the process of turning it into a song. From there, we’ll discover how musical interpretations can convey the essence of a poem and resonate with a broader audience.
Joyful and totally unscary Workshop with Rose Wilson
Rose Wilson
Part group singing lesson, part choir session and all joyful and totally unscary, The Unscary Sing Thing is filled with practical tips, beautiful songs and ideas to take with you into your life.
We’ll pull apart singing baggage and learn useful and impactful vocal techniques for both solo and ensemble singing. We’ll learn effective and enjoyable warm-ups, little songs to weave into your day, harmony choir songs and some singalong moments as we explore simple and practical vocal techniques to help you understand and develop your voice.
The workshop is for all humans of any experience level, from absolute beginners to those who just can’t seem to stop themselves from singing.
Friday 28 – Sunday 30 June 2024 + Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 July 2024
nightly from 7:30pm – late
TICKETS : $15 at the door
Often described as the heart and soul of the Festival of Voices, the bustling Singers’ Lounge is one of our most beloved features! Here, you can reconnect with old friends and meet new ones while enjoying a mix of scheduled and impromptu performances into the evening.
Audiences may be treated to spontaneous performances by some of our big-name artists, and the evenings will be hosted by the wonderful Paul Jarman. These talented professionals encourage anxious altos and timid tenors to overcome performing fears and enjoy a safe, welcoming environment with our audience. The experience is always fun, surprising, and unique – truly an ultimate singers’ gathering filled with community spirit and support!
Paul Jarman. Photo credit :KiPhotomedia
Sat 22nd June 2024 7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm) Live @ The Founders Room Salamanca Arts Centre 65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard
$27 +bf each $50 +bf for 2 x tickets $88 +bf for 4 x tickets
‘Salamanca Jazz’ is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with an enchanting evening as Charlie McCarthy brings the music of the legendary Stéphane Grappelli to life. Experience the magic of jazz violin with classics and hidden gems that celebrate Grappelli’s legacy. Don’t miss this unique tribute!
Prepare for a captivating musical journey as Charlie McCarthy pays homage to the iconic Stéphane Grappelli in a special concert dedicated to the jazz violin maestro. Grappelli, known for his virtuosity and lyrical improvisation, co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France and left an indelible mark on the world of jazz. Charlie McCarthy, a renowned violinist in his own right, will bring Grappelli’s timeless compositions and beloved standards to life, weaving through a tapestry of melodies that showcase the brilliance and elegance of Grappelli’s music.
Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with soulful interpretations, vibrant rhythms, and a celebration of jazz’s rich heritage.
This is a tribute you won’t want to miss!
Doors & Bar open at 7pm
Tickets are only $27 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $50 +BF, or for buy four tix for only $88 +BF.
Music begins at 7.30pm The Founders Room Salamanca Arts Centre {Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane}
Please note that the Courtyard Lift is NOT Operating. Salamanca Arts Centre understands that this will cause great inconvenience to some people, and we are awaiting an update from the Dept Natural Resources and Energy as to when the Lift will be operating again. Until the Lift is repaired, please enter via the stairs off Wooby’s lane.
Sat 27th July 2024 7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm) Live @ The Founders Room Salamanca Arts Centre 65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard
Please note – Tickets have now sold out, but there will be a small number of door sales on the evening.
$27 +bf each $50 +bf for 2 x tickets $88 +bf for 4 x tickets
‘Salamanca Jazz’ is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with Vibración, the newest Latin Sextet, featuring Louise Denson + Kelly Ottaway + Tom Robb + Maggie Abraham + Elias Solis + Hamish Houston.
Louise Denson (piano), Kelly Ottaway (vibes), Hamish Houston (double bass) Tom Robb (drums), Maggie Abraham (congas) & Elias Solis (perc) pay tribute to the classic Cal Tjader recording Live at the Funky Quarters, and cook up some spicy original recipes on the side.
For your musical delectation – and dancing pleasure! Multi-instrumentalist/composer/arranger Cal Tjader played a big part in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s and ‘60s, working with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz and Vince Guarladi, among many others. His album ‘La Onda va Bien’ earned a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording. His compositions form an important body of work in the vast cannon of ‘Latin jazz’ repertoire.
Doors & Bar open at 7pm
Tickets are only $27 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $50 +BF, or for buy four tix for only $88 +BF.
Please note – Tickets have now sold out, but there will be a small number of door sales on the evening.
Music begins at 7.30pm The Founders Room Salamanca Arts Centre [ Enter via the stairs off Woobys lane}
Please note lift in currently undergoing repairs and is not available for use.
Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.
Flickerfest screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January, with selected highlights of the most entertaining and innovative short films from Australia & around the world touring the country on a 40 venue national tour from Feb – Oct 2024.
Flickerfest returns with this annual one-off chance to see the Best of Australian Shorts programme officially selected for Flickerfest National Tour, before these films continue their journey around the world.
TICKETS : Single Session : General Admission $18 (+BF) Concession $15 (+BF)
of BOTH SESSIONS : General Admission $32 (+BF) Concession $27 (+BF)
Lee returns to Darwin from London when her mum is taken ill. After a chance encounter, there’s an opportunity to reflect on the past, but is she ready to think differently about the beautiful place she calls home? AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Natasha Tonkin | Writer: Natasha Tonkin | Producer: Yeshen Venema, Eero Heinonen | Runtime: 9min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Brandon is visited by his recently deceased girlfriend and discovers that haunting can have its advantages. Brandon and his sheet ghost girlfriend dive into domestic bliss and Brandon’s life improves with the unconditional support of his sheet ghost love. But ghosts become stuck in the In-Between for a reason and while Brandon thinks that his sheet ghost bae’s remaining duty is to lift him up, this sheet ghost honey has other ideas about crossing over to the afterlife. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Hamish Macgregor | Writer: Lewis Mullholland | Producer: Grace Sarah Quinn, Hamish Roderick Macgregor, Lewis Mullholland | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
18 year old Gray is in love with his best friend Angelo, but his desire for social media stardom complicates things. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Greta Nash | Writer: Greta Nash | Producer: Gillian Crosby, Gabrielle McLeod | Runtime: 15min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Moral-abiding feminist comedian, Rach, receives a massive blow after a show when she is rejected by the agent she was so hungry for. Rach’s brother Benny takes her out to his work Christmas drinks as a means to cheer her up. But in his world of sales bro’s Rach is pushed to see if she’s got the “tenacity” to survive in their world. Will she flip on her morals and throw her integrity to the wind to step up to their plate? WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Lucy Coleman | Writer: Lucy Coleman | Producer: Lucy Coleman, Lucy Hayes, Deanne Weir, Alice Willison, Kartanya Maynard | Runtime: 17min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip turns deadly. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Nick Russell | Writer: Nick Russell, Nick Musgrove | Producer: Nick Russell | Runtime: 5min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Finding Home tells the extraordinary story of Yousef Mohammadi, who as a young Afghani boy was forced to flee from his home country to avoid the dangers of war. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Lester Jones | Writer: Lester Jones | Runtime: 11min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Single-mother Helen and her son Jordan embark on an afternoon drive, things soon spiral out of control, tension builds between the two as they fight to live their own lives as part of their codependent relationship. WORLD PREMIERE| Director: Max Pollard | Writer: Max Pollard | Producer: Naomi Mendoza | Runtime: 13min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Inspired by true events. Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby. Director: Jay Perry, Shaun Perry | Writer: Jay Perry, Shaun Perry | Producer: Brayden Alden | Runtime: 20min | Year: 2023 } Country: Australia
Yeah the Boys follows six young Aussie men as they sink beers over an afternoon and well into the night. Emoting only through movement; lewd gestures, chokeholds, crowd surfs, and chugging shoeys, they somehow say everything without uttering a single word. Equal parts larrikin, brutal, and tender, this choreographic short film scored by The Avalanches is an observation of Australian masculine identity and our nation’s relationship with drinking culture. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Stefan Hunt | Writer: Vanessa Marian Varghese | Producer: Alex Taussig | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Bereft after the loss of her beloved Dad James, Frances misses the appointment to pick up his ashes. Through a bizarre posthumous prank, can James rectify his daughter’s habitual lateness, even after he’s gone? A darkly comedic story about grief, tough love, and the unexpected ways those who have passed continue to influence us. Director: Georgina Haig | Writer: Georgina Haig | Producer: Georgina Haig, Dean Francis, Daisy Betts-Miller, Charmaine Kuhn | Runtime: 13min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia
Film Screening : Friday 12 July 2024 @ 8:00pm Doors & Cafe from 7:00pm | Screening from 8:00pm
Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.
Flickerfest screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January, with selected highlights of the most entertaining and innovative short films from Australia & around the world touring the country on a 40 venue national tour from Feb – Oct 2024.
TICKETS : Single Session : General Admission $18 (+BF) Concession $15 (+BF)
of BOTH SESSIONS : General Admission $32 (+BF) Concession $27 (+BF)
It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois | Writer: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois | Producer: Carlos De Carvalho | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: France
A lonely priest’s housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Portia A. Buckley | Writer: Michael Lindley | Producer: Serena Armitage, Michael Lindley | Runtime: 17min | Year: 2023 | Country: Ireland
Stella is out for a special date with her husband Stanley, whose health and mind are failing. She yearns for connection, capturing brief moments of lucidity before he slips away, again. One final dance recalls memories of their first, and Stella accepts that their life together is ending. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Alison Titulaer | Writer: Alison Titulaer | Producer: Emma Mortimer | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: New Zealand
Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Àlex Lora | Writer: Lluis Quilez, Alfonso Amador | Producer: Sandra Trave, Lluis Quilez | Runtime: 20min | Year: 2023 | Country: Spain
While a large painting of a naked woman is being transported from the studio to the exhibition, she seems to fall victim to a harsh and masculine outside world. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Ilke Paddenburg | Writer: Ilke Paddenburg | Producer: Rachel van Bommel, Ivo Siebum, Hanna van Vliet, Hannah van Helden, Hannah Schwarz | Runtime: 7min | Year: 2023 | Country: Netherlands
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Filip DIVIAK | Producer: Bara Prikaska, Zuzana Mistrikova | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: Czech Republic
Mrs Foster, a retired, middle-class Daily Mail reader, whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs is to have to share the treatment room with a ‘know-it-all child’ who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Mika Simmons | Writer: Mark Oxtoby | Producer: Georgina French | Runtime: 18min| Year: 2023 | Country: United Kingdom
A recurring mysterious sound from mountains in the Himalaya is heard only by two curious young shepherds. Unable to convince the villagers of the scary nature of such sound, they journey into the unknown to unravel the mystery. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Stenzin Tankong | Writer: Stenzin Tankong, Jigmet Wangchuk | Producer: Flore Cavigneaux, Jérôme Blesson, Stenzin Tankong, Urgain Phuntsog | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: India
A final feedback meeting is being held before the release of an art school’s new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting suddenly escalates into a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved, and above all – whose fault it is. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Sebastian Johansson Micci | Writer: Sebastian Johansson Micci, Manne Indahl | Producer: Manne Indahl, Sebastian Johansson Micci | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: Sweden
