This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
Friday 12 August CANCELLED. Sadly, this performance has been cancelled. Apologises for any inconvenience. Risa Ray + Georgia Shine 9.00pm – 9.30pm In front of the Peacock Theatre
Saturday 13 August Risa Ray + Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine 9.00pm – 9.30pm In front of the Peacock Theatre
Friday 19 August Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine 10.00pm – 10.30pm Long Gallery
Saturday 20 August Jem Nicholas + Georgia Shine + Risa Ray 10.00pm – 10.30pm Long Gallery
Random Acts of Weirdness – where the strange and beautiful meet. Short form performances with extreme undertakings.
Not to be missed.
Artists
Photo: supplied by the artist
Georgia Shine
Georgia Shine is a cellist, vocalist, improviser, and multi-disciplinary artist. A University of Queensland graduate in Music Performance (Hons) and an Alexander Technique practitioner and teacher, she is the founder of Moving Connections, which uses live music and improvised dance to build community with therapeutic arts practices.
Georgia has performed around Australia with the Southern Cross Soloists, the Armilla Quartet, Nessi Gomes and most recently with the Tasmanian folk duo, Yyan and Emily. Her festival appearances include Dark MOFO, Bangalow Music Festival, Beaker St Festival, The Unconformity, Cygnet Folk Festival, Mt Roland Folk Festival and Woodford Folk Festival. Georgia has performed regularly as a solo cellist at MONA for the Ladies’ Lounge, Faro Restaurant and Salon Sunday.
Being also an improvisational dancer and award-winning visual artist, Georgia is currently working on her own body of performance art that is inspired by the connection between the diversity of the Tasmanian landscape and her own ecology of artistic practices with an Arts Tasmania funded Artist in Residency Program at Cradle Mountain.
Photo: Marie Nosaka
Risa Ray
I’m a dancer from Japan. I have family there and here, and who exist in both worlds. I grew up around Tokyo, the direct opposite of Tasmania. I’ve been Tasmania for over six years and I love here. My connections are varied and contrasting. I’m not a native speaker and still studying English, but I can communicate. Dance is possibly my best way of communicating. It helps me form bridges between my worlds.
Photo: supplied by the artist
Jem Nicholas
Jem Nicholas has worked as an actor in Australia, New Zealand and New York. Jem holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Monash University, and has since further her studies at the Susan Batson Studio NY, 16TH Street Actors Studio and The Melbourne Actors Lab. Jem has also trained with Hollywood Director and coach Kim Farrant. Some of her notable theatre credits include playing Carrie in ‘Rules for Living’ (Red Stitch Theatre), Sylvia in ‘You Are the Blood’ (Spinning Plates Co.), various lead roles in ‘Song Contest, Almost Eurovision Experience’ (Glynn Nicholas Group), Vendla in ‘Spring Awakening’ (Monash University), and many more. Jem has also appeared in ABC’s ‘Dr Blake Murder Mysteries,’ directed by Diana Reid, and as Elizabeth in ‘The spirit of the Game’ (Shearwater Entertainment). Jem is an independent play write and physical theatre performer and puppeteer and has received a Green Room Nomination for Best Actress in an Ensemble for her role as Rose in ‘Love, Love, Love’ with Red Stitch. She is currently training in the Alexander Technique in Hobart and will graduate as a teacher in 2014.
Photo: video still from Lachy Hamill
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
For the entire second week of Winter Light, we’ll be screening music videos made by Tasmanians in The Courtyard at Salamanca Arts Centre on the giant Optus screen! The music scene in Tasmania is going through a creative surge that is increasingly being recognised and appreciated by audiences here and beyond.
At the end of the festival, we will have a special screening of 12 shortlisted music videos that will be competing for two prizes:
Best Tasmanian Music Video
This award is sponsored by Wide Angle Tasmania and Salamanca Arts Centre. With the winner receiving $500 of free equipment hire from Wide Angle Tasmania and free use of a Salamanca Arts Centre venue for filming. This award will be judged by Industry experts.
The People’s Choice Award
The winner will receive $500 cash from MyState Bank. This award will be voted by you, the makers, the players, and the audience.
Award Presentation Night 19 August 2022 Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre 7-9pm Free event
Winners
Congratulations EWAH who took out the ‘Best Tasmanian Music Video’ for their work ‘Walk the Night (Dark Room Version)’ shot by Ursula Woods . You can view the film clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jbgHoApk9w
A big congratulations to all of the entrants to the Winter Light Music Video Showcase. Salamanca Arts Centre is a proud supporter of Tasmanian Music and creatives.
We’d like to thank our sponsors of these Awards, MyState, WideAngle and Optus in conjunction with Salamanca Arts Centre.
Shortlisted Videos
Absinthe – Tai Harlii – filmmaker Dameza Walsh Arcadia – EWAH & The Vision of Paradise – filmmaker Joseph Shrimpton Ausberg – Sissysocks – filmmakers Ursula Woods and Jacob Collings Calculated Lies – Bailey Jaxxon, filmmaker Will Joseph Fireworx – Bailey Jaxxon – filmmaker Callum Ball Front Row – Morgan’s Sandpit – filmmaker Scott Lleonart Man with a Silhouette – The Sign, filmmaker Paul Volta Out of Love – Robotikus – filmmaker Cal Young Parachute – Morgan’s Sandpit, filmmaker Scott Lleonart Strongest Mob – DENNI (feat Craig Everett) filmmaker Lachy Hamill Vanishing Point – EWAH & The Vision Of Paradise – filmmaker Joseph Shrimpton Walk the Night (Dark Room Version) – EWAH and Charles Donnelly, filmmaker Ursula Woods
The Entries
Walk the Night (Dark Room Version)| EWAH & The Vision of Paradise | Ursula Woods
EWAH (vocals) and Charles Donnelly (piano) first arranged a collection of songs for piano and voice from critically acclaimed album Everything Fades to Blue (independent release, 2017) for a series of curated shows in 2019. Walk the Night was one of them. In a bid to not let these exquisite versions entirely disappear into the ether, they recorded Walk the Night (Dark Room Version) at the Donnelly family home in the middle of winter in Tasmania, 2021.
The song is based on a true story about a mother who goes to a party, but never makes it back home to her children. The song imagines her walking the streets, caught between life and death, making the journey through the night to be reunited with them.
The album Everything Fades to Blue is a eulogy to women victims of violent crime; telling stories imagined from the female point of view, rather than focusing on violence from the point of view of the perpetrator, a position popular culture takes all too often.
The video for Walk the Night (Dark Room Version) was filmed live as EWAH and Donnelly performed, set in a grand room veiled in white sheets and lace. A ghostly liminal space for a ghost story.
EWAH/Emma Waters
Best known for her work with noir post punk band, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, EWAH is a published writer, award winning musician and sometime actor. Her music is often cited as cinematic. Influenced heavily by film, it was only a matter of time before she ventured into filmmaking after collaborations in music video making.
Ursula Woods Ursula Woods is a filmmaker with a visual art and music background. Her 16mm video artwork has been exhibited, and a number of film and video works screened, at various film festivals throughout Australia and Europe.
Based in southern Tasmania, Ursula has experience working on various productions such as short narrative drama, music video, TVC, installation and documentary.
Hole in the Sky | EWAH & The Vision of Paradise | Ursula Woods
Hole in the Sky is the lead single from EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’ second album The Warning Birds. This song serves as the centrepiece of the album, a cinematically tense exploration of the band’s home state of lutruwita/Tasmania; the perils of its geographical isolation and perceived idyllic reputation. Tasmania is often seen as a pristine wilderness; however, it has a pocked history of environmental crisis and degradation. Think Franklin River, Lake Pedder, mining, deforestation and salmon farming. It is a place of brutal beauty, harsh weather and moments of political and community divide.
The video for Hole in the Sky sees the enigmatic band playing live, as Ursula zooms in and chases after their performance, both capturing it within and escaping the frame.
Director Ursula Woods and artist EWAH have collaborated previously on small scale music videos. This time the video brings together a team of local videographers and lighting talents to film at Moonah Arts Centre, located on muwinina country in the outskirts of nipaluna/Hobart suburbia. Drawing inspiration from 60s French pop and girl band videos like that of The Ronettes, the band’s strong live performance and dark post punk sound is echoed by the deep inky blacks and stark noir lighting.
EWAH/Emma Waters
Best known for her work with noir post punk band, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, EWAH is a published writer, award winning musician and sometime actor. Her music is often cited as cinematic. Influenced heavily by film, it was only a matter of time before she ventured into filmmaking after collaborations in music video making.
Ursula Woods
Ursula Woods is a filmmaker with a visual art and music background. Her 16mm video artwork has been exhibited, and a number of film and video works screened, at various film festivals throughout Australia and Europe.
Based in southern Tasmania, Ursula has experience working on various productions such as short narrative drama, music video, TVC, installation and documentary.
Arcadia| EWAH & The Vision of Paradise | Joseph Shrimpton + Tess Campbell
Arcadia is inspired by the idea of the ancient garden, an idyll, a place of innocence and abundance. This vision is skewed with the concept of fire being introduced to earth dwellers by the god Prometheus in ancient Greek mythology. The introduction of fire to civilisation may be seen as the beginning of harnessing energy, creating tools, weapons and industrialisation. Fire, in its natural state when running wild can be destructive and global warming sees these patterns of fire threat and its ferocity increasing.
Thinking also of the story of Pandora’s jar, the song reflects on this repetitious theme in history of curiosity, of playing with fire, playing with nature and unleashing uncontrollable energies into the world.
EWAH on the video, We riffed on the idea of The Man Who Fell to Earth (by Nicolas Roeg, who also directed another favourite reference point, Walkabout). With this in mind we both referenced and reimagined the idea of an alien in the landscape with a mission to complete.
EWAH/Emma Waters
Best known for her work with noir post punk band, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, EWAH is a published writer, award winning musician and sometime actor. Her music is often cited as cinematic. Influenced heavily by film, it was only a matter of time before she ventured into filmmaking after collaborations in music video making.
Tess Campbell
An award winning artist, and active proponent of her local arts scene, Campbell has exhibited at festivals, ARIs and notable galleries in Hobart and Melbourne, Australia.
Joseph Shrimpton
A tech creative and uber film boffin, Shrimpton’s main game is videography, but he’s also a dab hand at kinetics and electronics, creating installations for indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Vanishing Point| EWAH & The Vision of Paradise | Joseph Shrimpton + Tess Campbell
The video for Vanishing Point was filmed in the wilds of turbunna/Ben Lomond, a craggy and imposing mountain in lutrawita/Tasmania.
This music video is an extract from a larger project, a movie Finding Paradise: a film set to the music of EWAH & The Vision of Paradise.
In the movie EWAH plays a lone explorer traversing a new world with the hope of finding a safe haven to start new life. Playing with the idea of early colonists, EWAH is equipped with a handful of cumbersome devices and tools in a perhaps foolhardy attempt to understand the strange world she is trying to survive in.
EWAH on the video, We riffed on the idea of The Man Who Fell to Earth (by Nicolas Roeg, who also directed another favourite reference point, Walkabout). With this in mind we both referenced and reimagined the idea of an alien in the landscape with a mission to complete.
Artist Bio:
EWAH/Emma Waters
Best known for her work with noir post punk band, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, EWAH is a published writer, award winning musician and sometime actor. Her music is often cited as cinematic. Influenced heavily by film, it was only a matter of time before she ventured into filmmaking after collaborations in music video making.
Tess Campbell
An award winning artist, and active proponent of her local arts scene, Campbell has exhibited at festivals, ARIs and notable galleries in Hobart and Melbourne, Australia.
Joseph Shrimpton
A tech creative and uber film boffin, Shrimpton’s main game is videography, but he’s also a dab hand at kinetics and electronics, creating installations for indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Deep Blue | All India Radio | Helena Papageorgiou
The video for All India Radio’s song Deep Blue is created by award winning Queensland animator Helena Papageorgiou, created in the spirit of animation greats Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle) and René Laloux (La Planète sauvage, Gandahar).
The song features Tasmanian singer Sasquin.
All India Radio
Hobart based cosmic sonic architects All India Radio have created shimmering aural edifices that cross genres and defy easy definition across a staggering 30+ releases since the late 1990s. A fusion of psychedelia, prog rock, ambience, and pure dreamy pop creates something greater than the sum of its parts: a monument to the creativity and vision of songwriter Martin Kennedy in the control room of the band since its inception.
Helena Papageorgiou, creates in the spirit of animation greats Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle) and René Laloux (La Planète sauvage, Gandahar). Her projects include working with clients such Snap, Google, Apple, Nike, Qantas, EyeJack, Gallery of NSW, Warner Music, Sunshine Coast Council as well as live visuals created for festival events such as Splendour in the Grass, Laneway, Groovin’ the Moo, Commonwealth Games Festival 2018, Geelong After Dark and BIGSOUND.
California Dreaming | The Sign |Bobby + Media
All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey. Our interpretation of a Mamas and Papas song we thought it should sound like. Thanks to POT Productions for camera and editing work.
Bobby + Media
Bobby + Media focuses on the journey involved with the creation of media. Each task is more than the final product, it’s the experience.
Man With A Silhouette| The Sign
Man With A Silhouette takes you on a journey of mystery and intrigue. This film was animated using Reallusion iClone animation software and edited using Davinci Resolve. Characters were created using Reallusion Character Creator.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
Robot Romance | The Sign
Do robots love? These robots are certainly having a great time chatting and dancing and seem to be loving it. Animated with iClone animation software and edited in Davinci Resolve. Actual footage of band was filmed in front of green screen and put back into iClone along with female character created with Character Creator.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
Lifegarden | The Sign
Lifegarden is a song written by JoAnne Volta and animated by Paul Volta using Reallusion iClone animation software. Characters created with Reallusion Character Creator and edited with Davinci Resolve.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
I Remember | The Sign
I remember a time when the air and water were clean. Filmed in front of a green screen and edited in Davinci Resolve.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
Cages| The Sign
Please don’t keep children in cages. This film is about the problems of keeping children in cages who were separated from their families only looking for a better place to live. Filmed live in front of a green screen and edited in Davinci Resolve.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
Ain’t Necessarily So| The Sign
Cover of a Gershwin brothers song. Animated by Paul using Cartoon Animator 4 and edited in Davinci Resolve. The tings that you libel to read in the bible Ain’t Necessarily So.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
War Pigs | The Sign
Our cover of a Black Sabbath song. Played in front of a green screen and edited in Davinci Resolve. War Pig video is a sign of the times.
The Sign
If when you hear the term ‘acoustic duo’ you imagine two people sitting on stools, lightly strumming guitars singing folk songs, think again. With a combination of 6 string and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, The Sign are dynamic, uplifting, and fun, while their music is a harmonic combination of artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.
Pills and Wine | The DK Effect | David Johnstone+ Lizzie Johnstone
Pills and Wine is a song about making bad decisions for the wrong reasons and finding yourself in a dark and seemingly inescapable place. It’s also about realising you’ve become the very person you’ve been running from. While wanting the video to echo the feel and meaning of the track we also wanted it to be a stand-alone video art / contemporary screen dance piece. With no budget we set about light-proofing a shed, hanging black material from the rafters and using two homemade lights on mic stands. The dancer / choreographer (Lizzie Johnstone – a recent graduate of contemporary dance from VCA) listened to the track just once before performing to the brief “feel the music, but stay on the chair”. So the video is a one-take recording of her improvised and powerfully hypnotic performance.
David Johnstone is the writer, arranger, producer and engineer of the 10-song album Moving Time by The DK Effect which spent two months in the top 10 of the Australian Blues and Roots Airplay Chart in May / June 2021. He also wrote and played bass on the 10 songs for the album Blind released by Mama K and the Big Love (2017) and has songs published through Sony Music and Acuff-Rose Opryland Music (UK). David also conceived, filmed and edited the music videos Pills and Wine by The DK Effect, Moth to the Flame by Mama K and the Big Love and conceived and edited / added animation and graphics to Moving Time by The DK Effect.
Lizzie Johnstone is an emerging Australian dance artist and maker, currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Her practice mainly focuses on screen based works and performance.
Lizzie began her dance training at four years old and has trained in classical ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and contemporary. She began her formal contemporary dance training at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2018 and graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance). It was there that Lizzie’s passion for movement and film was nurtured, which encouraged her to explore and experiment within these two artforms. This led to the creation of her two short screen dance works, Checkmate and Chaos, baby, which was curated by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, as part of their online exhibition Inside Out in 2020.
Moving Time| The DK Effect | David Johnstone+ Lizzie Johnstone
Moving Time was the first single released from The DK Effect’s 2021 debut album of the same name. The music video was filmed on an iPhone and features a static, single-shot, improvised, first-take performance by three graduate contemporary dancers, Lizzie Johnstone (VCA), Bethany Reece (WAAPA) and Sarah Saxon (VCA). It was filmed near the Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park, produced by Lizzie Johnstone and graphics / animation were added by David Johnstone.
David Johnstone is the writer, arranger, producer and engineer of the 10-song album Moving Time by The DK Effect which spent two months in the top 10 of the Australian Blues and Roots Airplay Chart in May / June 2021. He also wrote and played bass on the 10 songs for the album Blind released by Mama K and the Big Love (2017) and has songs published through Sony Music and Acuff-Rose Opryland Music (UK). David also conceived, filmed and edited the music videos Pills and Wine by The DK Effect, Moth to the Flame by Mama K and the Big Love and conceived and edited / added animation and graphics to Moving Time by The DK Effect.
Lizzie Johnstone is an emerging Australian dance artist and maker, currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Her practice mainly focuses on screen based works and performance.
Lizzie began her dance training at four years old and has trained in classical ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and contemporary. She began her formal contemporary dance training at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2018 and graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance). It was there that Lizzie’s passion for movement and film was nurtured, which encouraged her to explore and experiment within these two artforms. This led to the creation of her two short screen dance works, Checkmate and Chaos, baby, which was curated by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, as part of their online exhibition Inside Out in 2020.
Fallout – Premonition Part 1 | Kudu Joy | Sebine Bester, Jacob Collings + Takani Clark
Premonition is a tale of self-healing performed by Kudu Joy, directed by Takani Clark and shot by Jacob Collings. The subtle story unfolds as Kudu Joy delves into the world of tarot iconography and the telling of fate. The narrative is experienced through a feminine lens, traversing the mystique of true love, in the form of friendship, connection and self love.
Sabine Bester is a freelance musician based in Hobart. She works in a range of contemporary styles as well as having a diverse understanding and appreciation for music from the Balkan region, performing with and teaching voice, trumpet, piano and guitar, setting her place in the core of Tasmania’s music scene. She has completed a Bachelor of music at UTAS, with further training in Jazz vocals from Berklee University. Sabine has been working as an associate artist with BIGhART since 2019, delivering music workshops for young people in the North West of Tasmania, and being part of the creative team towards various music events. She has taken a leading role in the running of Bonzaki, and has come to understand the importance of bringing community together to create a meaningful experience like this event.
Jacob Collings Jacob Collings is a nipaluna based filmmaker and Director. His work has an honesty and identity that has developed over time. Upon leaving College, he quickly acquainted himself with local filmmakers and began freelancing, then making his way to London for a 6 month internship with production company The Narrative which took him on filmmaking expeditions to France, Germany and America. In 2019 he met a Props Standby by the name of Dean Sullivan and began working on The Gloaming as a props assistant. This connection has led Jacob to work on productions for the likes of National Geographic, ABC, Channel 7 and IMAX.
Takani Clark Takani Clark is a professional dabbler and multidisciplinary creative from lutruwita, exploring and engaging with mediums of filmmaking, visual art and performance.
As a First Nations woman, Takani draws inspiration from her Aboriginal and Pacifika communities. Feeling a deep responsibility to protect and document the island and its cultural identity and diversity, both environmentally and socially. As a storyteller she strives to use her creative voice to explore the natural world and our relationship with it, using documentational and fantastical lenses. Takani believes that diversity is an integral part of her creative practice, striving to collaborate with people from different artistic practices, any background and all walks of life.
Parachute| Morgan’s Sandpit
Parachute by Morgan’s Sandpit showcases several locations around Hobart Tasmania, with a melody designed to make listeners want to dance like there’s no one watching. This music video was the recipient of the ‘Best Original Song’ award at the 2021 Mystate Student Film Festival and is the first track on the bands debut album Tuesday Night Lies.
Scott Lleonart Scott Lleonart is a local Tasmanian Film maker who is in his 3rd Year at UTAS, undergoing a Bachelor of Media. Scott has been making films since 2017 and has produced three music videos for local band Morgan’s Sandpit for which he participates as the Lead Singer/Bassist. In 2021 Morgans Sandpit released their first album ‘Tuesday Night Lies’ where a featured track ‘Parachute’ won the 2021 Best Original Song category for the Mystate Film Festival.
Luke Pettit Luke Pettit is a local musician and media producer. He has been working as a chief editor and videographer for Hobart based company Beetleblack Media for four years and is the lead guitarist for band Morgan’s Sandpit. Luke is passionate about all things film, music and Sonic the Hedgehog so he was thrilled to work on the bands music video for their song Front Row as well as being the starring actor in their video for Parachute. Luke is hopeful for the future of Morgan’s Sandpit as they embark on recording their 2nd album later this year.
Front Row| Morgan’s Sandpit
A featured single from Morgan’s Sandpit’s debut album, Front Row is drenched with multi-layered guitar tracks, an infectious melody and a distain for parking tickets. The music video follows a masked individual (with a clear Sonic the Hedgehog fixation) out on the town, but they are soon to find that the streets of Hobart isn’t the safest place for a hedgehog to spend a night out. Morgan’s Sandpit would like to thank local venues Twisted Lime, Grand Poohbah and Replay Bar for allowing access to film, as well as Town-goers who were willing to participate 🙂
Scott Lleonart Scott Lleonart is a local Tasmanian Film maker who is in his 3rd Year at UTAS, undergoing a Bachelor of Media. Scott has been making films since 2017 and has produced three music videos for local band Morgan’s Sandpit for which he participates as the Lead Singer/Bassist. In 2021 Morgans Sandpit released their first album ‘Tuesday Night Lies’ where a featured track ‘Parachute’ won the 2021 Best Original Song category for the Mystate Film Festival.
Luke Pettit Luke Pettit is a local musician and media producer. He has been working as a chief editor and videographer for Hobart based company Beetleblack Media for four years and is the lead guitarist for band Morgan’s Sandpit. Luke is passionate about all things film, music and Sonic the Hedgehog so he was thrilled to work on the bands music video for their song Front Row as well as being the starring actor in their video for Parachute. Luke is hopeful for the future of Morgan’s Sandpit as they embark on recording their 2nd album later this year.
You and I | The DK Effect | Sarah Louise Badcock + Isabella von Lichtan
You and I was created for the Tasmanian band The DK Effect to accompany the release of their album Moving Time. It tells the story of a love that isn’t quite as it seems and focuses on the themes of blame, projected expectations, and lack of communication within a relationship. The film was shot on location at St David’s Park, Hobart, and uses this familiar backdrop to tell the story of a conflict between the two central characters.
Sarah Louise Badcock Sarah Louise Badcock is a Tasmanian multimedia artist with a background in creative writing, many types of visual art, and independent film making. She is interested in telling stories using archetypes and symbolism. She enjoys working with musicians to create blends of sound and image that explore both inner emotional experience and imaginary dream-like worlds. When she’s not making art, Sarah’s other interests include classical dance, beekeeping, and dressing up in costume for charity events.
Isabella von Lichtan Isabella von Lichtan is an artist who works in a range of mediums from photography and film to puppetry, painting, drawing, and mixed media. Art continues to be essential part of her life even though she works part-time as a geology curator and lecturer. She tries to spend much of her free time involved with creative projects. The most notable project has been building three 18ft scientifically accurate replicas of the Tasmanian cave spider as part of the Bookend Trust’s Sixteen Legs film and exhibition program. The touring exhibition that featured these spiders has been across Australia, including at Dark Mofo and the Australia Museum, and has also visited the USA.
Augsburg | Sissysocks | Ursula Woods + Jacob Collings + Tom Briglia
Music video for Melbourne electronic musician Sissysocks. This video for the song Augsburg, tells the story of Gill, a unique being in a messed up world. They don’t fit in. They are outcast. Their one connection is to the music which sparks a dance and beautiful moment of connection against the disconnect with the world they live in. Inspired by a real life scream into the phone hotline, this story is set in a future of despair.
Ursula Woods Ursula Woods is an artist and filmmaker with a visual art and music background. Based in southern Tasmania, Ursula has experience working on productions such as music video, narrative drama, documentary and installation. In 2021, Ursula directed and shot 6 recreation stories for Roar Film as part of their documentary on dementia. She also was the DoP for a pilot dramedy for Beyond International Productions. In 2022, Ursula was the camera attachment on Amazon Prime’s Deadloch production in Tasmania and as a result, worked on the ABC show, Bay of Fires. Ursula’s videos have been screened on RAGE, her short film at Cinema Nova, and an experimental work at ACMI Melbourne. Two of her experimental film artworks are currently showing in the Tasmanian Women’s Art Prize. Ursula writes, directs and shoots, working on productions in collaboration with others.
Jacob Collings Jacob Collings is a nipaluna based filmmaker and Director. His work has an honesty and identity that has developed over time. Upon leaving College, he quickly acquainted himself with local filmmakers and began freelancing, then making his way to London for a 6 month internship with production company The Narrative which took him on filmmaking expeditions to France, Germany and America. In 2019 he met a Props Standby by the name of Dean Sullivan and began working on The Gloaming as a props assistant. This connection has led Jacob to work on productions for the likes of National Geographic, ABC, Channel 7 and IMAX.
Tom Briglia Melbourne/Naarm-based electronic producer Sissysocks trawls vocal and instrumental textures to create easy-listening goth meditations; soundtracks for the best moments of a bad dream, or a world making the same mistakes over and over again.
Sissysocks recently released their third album, Slink Away, an exploration of fallibility via oblivion pop, produced and mixed by Architecture in Helsinki alumni James Cecil and mastered by David Walker. The album charts the artist’s evolution from harsh tones and vacuum drone towards lush textures, cinematic pop melodies, and apocalyptic atmospherics. Futuristic, doomy, but above all, human.
A Piano of Tasmania at Gordon | Mark Thomson + Kelvin Smith
It’s a short, poetic video of Kelvin performing a piece he composed called My Beautiful Home, on a rocky outcrop near Gordon in the channel area south of Hobart. The short film aims to capture some of the mood and feel of the place on a bracing winter’s day with ominous clouds looming in the background but gentle waves lapping against the surrounding rocky shoreline.
Mark Thomson Mark Thomson is a part-time videographer and photographer, who has been involved in production of numerous short films, including a short documentary called Sidelines currently available on SBS On Demand. He has been filming videos with Kelvin playing piano in different Tasmania locations since early 2020.
Kelvin Smith Kelvin Smith had the idea to bring music to people in covid lockdown in 2020 and started playing his piano in unusual locations, filming it and sharing on social media. It soon attracted widespread attention and following and his A Piano of Tasmania project has featured on ABC 7.30 Report and also NZ TV.
Calculated Lies | Bailey Jaxxon | Will Joseph
When you think you’re being cheated on, every conversation turns into an investigation. This is Calculated Lies.
Will Joseph Taroona High School Alumnus Will Joseph is a cinematographer who works under the moniker “ISHIKI” and is currently working as the tour videographer for Baker Boy and Allday.
Bailey Jaxxon Bailey Jaxxon is a singer/songwriter who is very lucky to have friends around like Mr. Ball. Fortunately for Bailey, Mr. Ball can work with very little information to somehow give artist’s exactly what they were after. Bailey prides himself on humming melodies, writing lyrics and little more.
Fireworxx | Bailey Jaxxon | Callum Ball
I thought it would be a bigger deal when you left, I pictured a marching band sending you off down the street or that there’d be fireworks to mark the end of a chapter so important to me. But they didn’t. It just fizzled.. and that was that.
Callum Ball Located in Lutana, Callum Ball is Hobart’s most in demand music producer and he has now become a one-stop shop for music and music video services.
Bailey Jaxxon Bailey Jaxxon is a singer/songwriter who is very lucky to have friends around like Mr. Ball. Fortunately for Bailey, Mr. Ball can work with very little information to somehow give artist’s exactly what they were after. Bailey prides himself on humming melodies, writing lyrics and little more.
Machine Driven| Fenella Edwards
A rap music video
Fenella Edwards is a Palawa rapper
Strongest Mob | DENNI | Lachy Hamill
Strongest Mob is a song and film clip that stands as a proud celebration of Tasmanian Aboriginal culture. It showcases a wide array of cultural practices and the lyrics reflect an unflinching and steadfast sense of identity in the fact of adversity and a lack of acknowledgement.
Lachy Hamill I’m a hip-hop producer, recordist, mix engineer and videographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. I have been a very active and passionate member of the Tasmania hip-hop scene for around 10 years and have recently started taking an even greater and more active role. I run a large music platform for Tasmanian hip-hop music alongside my colleague Andrew Greeley. We have released over 260 music videos on our YouTube channel and have amassed over 18,500 subscribers. Recently we have been focusing more on providing a platform to a multicultural and diverse array of artists, working on and releasing music in both palawa kani and Hindi.
Locked Down | Boil Up
Film clip for Boilup’s song Locked Down, written 2010
Boil Up Boil Up are a ten piece band based in Hobart. A melting pot of contemporary Australia, their roots stretch from the traditional owners of Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, to as far away as Ireland, England and Croatia; celebrating the coming together of different cultures into one family. Featuring rich harmonies blended together with traditional reggae, funk and R&B.
Sending You A Rainbow | The Pits | Peter Charles Macpherson
This is a video from The Pits’ lockdown LP 1.0, Sending You A Rainbow
Peter Charles Macpherson Peter Charles Macpherson videos local bands and plays in a band called The Pits.
Out of Love | Scott Targett + KOWL + Calypso
The idea for Out of Love stemmed from an old Instagram clip I made for another track of mine where my good friend Kyle played a character called Gary but he wore a green suit out at the pub which I keyed out. Basically he was a silhouette acting like a bit of a di*k. A few years go by and I’d been toying with videography and wanted to make a clip all on my own and Out of Love was the perfect opportunity to slap something together which was (in my mind) kinda dodgy but with a bit of charm.
The narrative came about after my partner and I broke up and I wanted to express something that was similar. Donning the green suits, it represents an ex couples struggles, one more than the other. Having the keyed out green suits was meant to let the audience know that their situation is unique to them but also something that we all go through with love lost. Also green screens are so much fun to play around with!
Scott Targett Scott has been professionally playing music most of his life. As a musical director, he has curated shows for festivals and worked alongside iconic Australian artists such as Shane Howard (Goanna), Mike Noga (The Drones) and Glenn Richards (Augie March). As a studio session musician, Scott has worked on a variety of records ranging in style from Afro-beat, Country, Lo-fi-Instrumental, Folk, Country and Soul. He is also a member of Tasmanian indie-rock band Lennon Wells and a touring member of Golden Guitar winning band the Wolfe Brothers.
KOWL KOWL aka Cal Young is an artist and producer from Hobart, whose music has been described as “Disco-Tinged House,” though he habitually self-describes it as “Beach House House.” Outside of Robotikus and Calypso, Cal has produced tracks for such notable Australian artists as Asta and Hugo Bladel, and in 2017 released his collaborative hit single ‘Just Words’ with Juno Award-winning Canadian, Guyanese, Indian artist Anjulie.
Calypso Melbourne-via-Tassie artist Calypso is a singer songwriter and producer. After finishing her study at Hobart’s Conservatorium of Music and delving into the eclectic world of folk music in Edinburgh, Calypso returned to Australia to pursue electronic music and now releases her own unique blend of subdued electronic/acoustic sounds where her voice is the captivating centrepiece. Together with KOWL, Calypso is also one half of electronic duo S L O W who have played major festivals including Falls Festival, Party in the Paddock, Dark Mofo, Bigsound and A Festival Called Panama.
Truth | The Blue Water Bandits | Steven Pecl
On the day the song and film clip Truth was released by The Blue Water Bandits, the writer and band member Ben Corrigan shared the following:
The last couple of years have been quite the journey, and I made a deal with myself: if I was to get through my illness and out the other side, I would get back into my music…I am lucky enough to also be working with some very talented friends of mine, who have helped this creation come together…This name came about after having to face my situation and redefine what I thought was important and what was not; I had to be brutally true with myself about what was going on and face it head on – to be true to myself and my family and friends and just be the real me without the bullshit. From this feeling then came the song…
The Blue Water Bandits (Ben Corrigan, Helen Crowther, Bede Crowley, and Jeremy Price) From the South of lutruwita (Tasmania), The Bluewater Bandits are a blend of ambience, alternative rock, and indie/soul. Growing up near the beaches surrounding The Southern Coast, our music is infused with the tales of The Island, sea & land.
Steven Pecl, Filmmaker With a day job as a nurse, in his spare time, Steven Pecl has dabbled over the years in writing, acting, stand-up comedy, filmmaking, and photography – a self-proclaimed jack of all trades, master of none.
Absinthe | Tai Harlii | Dameza Walsh
The Absinthe video clip was a DIY project filmed by Dameza Walsh and edited by Tai Harlii. The video centres around water and contains liquid imagery which were compiled by manipulating dyes with water, milk and movement and filmed on an iphone. A GoPro, lights and projectors were also used to create scenes under and above water and the visuals escalate to flow with the emotions and dynamics of the song. Absinthe has a definite lo-fi aesthetic but the clips were very slowly and meticulously gathered over nine months of sessions to create a visual that reflected the songs sentiment.
Tai Harlii Tasmania/Lutruwita based Tai Harlii was visualised into reality by singer and songwriter Jamie Taylor and the project has been performed solo and with a live band since late 2018 in both Tasmania and on the mainland. Tai Harlii songs lean towards futuristic R&B and progressive soul and with influences ranging anywhere from metal to jazz the project has been dubbed as sporting a “Jazz-Goth” vibe.
Faded Memories | Koh-Dee | Kevin Gintzburger
Faded Memories. A song created by Jarin White and I, with the video created by Kevin Gintzburger.
Cody Webberley Cody Webberley or better known by his stage name of ‘Koh-Dee’ is an electronic music producer / DJ from Sorell, Tasmania. Cody operates from his personal music production studio, where he releases a mixture of indie electronica songs – a sonic blend of lo-fi, hip hop and trap / bass music. Koh-Dee has released one full-length album, two EP albums, many many single releases, and one video game soundtrack.
Photo: Liam Dunn
These events are part of Winter Light 2022 and are presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
Get ready for high energy classic Bollywood dance from nipaluna (Hobart) bollywood dance institution, Rhythmz Bollywood. Workshop participants have the opportunity to perform during Winter Light opening night event!
Whilst the wearing of masks is not mandatory it is recommended in certain situations by Tasmanian Public Health. Masks will be available upon entering the venue for those patrons who would like one.
If you’re unwell, it is recommended that you stay at home, and we look forward to welcoming you at Salamanca Arts Centre another time.
Photo: Karen Brown
Ehsan Zabihi and Sina Tarkesh Esfahani – Classical Iranian Music
This performance of Iranian classical music will be presented in two parts. The music will be improvised throughout. There will be sensory perceptions of the musicians in the performance of some pieces. Intertwined with the music the poems of great Persian poets such as Rumi, Khayyam and Hafez will be showcased.
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Ipshita Pratap – Classical Indian Music
Ipshita hails from the picturesque northeastern state of Assam, India. She specialises in Indian classical music which is uniquely known for its emphasis on improvisation and intricate microtones. Because of its contemplative and spiritual nature, Indian classical music is usually a solitary pursuit that focuses on melodic development that gives texture, sensuality and a sense of purpose to the melody. Music has always been a sanctuary for Ipshita.
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Levanya De Zoysa
The spectacle and intricate costuming of the most prominent form of traditional Sri Lankan dance, Kandyan, is extraordinary – Levanya’s powerful footwork and gestures bring the richness of Kandyan dance to Hobart stages.
Levanya De Zoysa has been dancing for almost her whole life and has been focussing on traditional forms of Sri Lankan dance for the past 10 years. She is a third year bachelor student at UTAS and takes great pleasure in sharing her culture with new people.
Join Eri and Yumemi to learn the traditional Japanese community dance, bon odori – which is danced at Obon festivals across the country. Attend the first workshop to learn the dance 5.30 – 6.30pm Sunday 7 Aug and then perform as a group as part of the opening night on August 11 where everyone will be invited to gather beneath the Obon lanterns to dance bon odori with the community.
Eri is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and an inclusive movement artist who moves/dances with diverse communities. Currently Eri works for Second Echo Ensemble, an inclusive local performance company, oers dance sessions at a day care centre for people with learning diculties, and performs at Faro restaurant at MONA. She also offers workshops and classes to general public. Eri has always been a believer of the power of dance that arises from within and connects us all beyond our perceived differences.
Photo: Will Nicolson
Yumemi Hiraki Yumemi Hiraki is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Nipaluna. Her practice delves into the interactions between memory, nostalgia, history and connection to place, while re-examining the relationship to her Japanese heritage. Viewing herself as a resident of cultural gaps, her works evokes a familiar yet foreign sense of longing, belonging and holding on, while hinting at life’s inevitable continuity and ephemerality.
Yumemi is originally from Hiroshima, Japan. She completed her BFA(Sculpture and Spatial Practice) at the Victorian College of the Arts and has been an active Arts Worker while exhibiting and developing her practice in both Naarm and Nipaluna. Yumemi has a growing interest in community-based arts, mentorship and education, and currently also works as a Youth Arts Officer at the Youth Arts and Recreation Centre.
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
Witness the power of fusion with two of Hobart’s up and coming rappers blending language, culture and classic hip hop beats to tell stories in a new way.
RC40 RC40 is Tasmania’s first Hindi rapper. Drawing on his personal stories and challenges in life, RC40 collaborates with local artists producers in Hobart and in June 2022 his song “I.M BORN” became the first Hindi rap song releaser by Tasmanian Hip Hop Collective.
Adonay Tsegezeab (marra dona) Blending his mother tongue, Tigrinya, and English, Adonay makes powerful music that maps his journey to lutruwita (Tasmania) from Eritrea, through Ethiopia and lifts people up with strong messages.
Curated by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie
Friday 19 August 2022 6pm – 7pm
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Raj Chopra (RC40)
RC40 – Hindi Rapper based in Hobart is involved in music since 2020. The name RC40 is initials derived from his full name Raj Chopra. His rap is inspired by his own stories and challenges in life. Raj writes his own songs and composes them after finding local producers. Few months back Raj collaborated with another local rapper Zeke to release the first Hindi-English collab song in the history of Tasmania – “Guilty”.
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Adonay Tsegezeab (marra dona) Blending his mother tongue, Tigrinya, and English, Adonay makes powerful music that maps his journey to lutruwita (Tasmania) from Eritrea, through Ethiopia and lifts people up with strong messages.
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre and is curated by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie
The Beginning of Spring – Tea and Qin Experience Guided by the ancient time system of China – solar terms – this nurturing event is a farewell to winter and welcome to spring. Explore the serenity, precision and ritual of tea brewing while melodic tunes of traditional Chinese instrument, Qin, soundtrack your experience.
Lineage is a series of skill exchanges and performances centring the practices of local lutruwita-based artists with global perspectives and influences. This program explores the music, dance and art forms of culturally diverse artists, spanning the traditional to the contemporary and everything that happens in between.
Lineage creates a platform for culturally and linguistically diverse artists to share their art forms in a mainstream festival, rather than in a specific event focussed on multiculturalism. This is significant as it creates space for culturally diverse art forms to be included as part of the creative landscape in lutruwita. Over three nights, Lineage is a platform for local artists with world influences. Experience this unique series of showcases that explore the classical, contemporary and fusion of sounds and dance which draw from rich heritages.
Whilst the wearing of masks is not mandatory it is recommended in certain situations by Tasmanian Public Health. Masks will be available upon entering the venue for those patrons who would like one.
If you’re unwell, it is recommended that you stay at home, and we look forward to welcoming you at Salamanca Arts Centre another time.
Photo: Supplied by the artist
Tea brewing is hosted by Joanne Gao. Joanne is a specialist in Chinese tea and also the founder of the tea bar ” A Moment of Tea” located in Salamanca Arts Centre. She has a passion for sharing the charm of tea culture and co-create moments with people to enjoy the pleasure of taste and spirits through the Kungfu tradition.
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Guqin mediation is presented by Sally Chen. Guqin is the oldest Chinese stringed instrument, with a history of more than 3,000 years. The particular performance style and sound will offer the listener a feeling of inner peace and mindfulness. Sally hopes participants could feel the conversation with the time and space, the nature and the surroundings, and the aesthetics and philosophy while listening to the sound of Quqin.
These events are part of Winter Light 2022 and are presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
August is a special time for Japanese people as they celebrate ‘Obon’, a cultural tradition where ancestors come back from the other world. Lanterns are displayed as guides for them to find their way home to their families.
Obon is a time to remember and honour family members that have passed away, while gathering with the ones that are still with you. Participants in the lantern workshops (held in late July) were welcomed to dedicate their lantern to someone. They were invited to place a picture, writing or artwork on their lanterns in honour of them, if they felt comfortable to.
Workshops participant learnt how to make a paper Obon lantern with Japanese contemporary artist Yumemi Hiraki.
Sadly, the lanterns which were created were destroyed by the weather. A reminder of impermanence. We would like to thank all the people who created a lantern as part of this project. They looked beautiful during the Opening Event for Winter Light.
Photo: Will Nicolson
Yumemi Hiraki Yumemi Hiraki is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Nipaluna. Her practice delves into the interactions between memory, nostalgia, history and connection to place, while re-examining the relationship to her Japanese heritage. Viewing herself as a resident of cultural gaps, her works evokes a familiar yet foreign sense of longing, belonging and holding on, while hinting at life’s inevitable continuity and ephemerality.
Yumemi is originally from Hiroshima, Japan. She completed her BFA(Sculpture and Spatial Practice) at the Victorian College of the Arts and has been an active Arts Worker while exhibiting and developing her practice in both Naarm and Nipaluna. Yumemi has a growing interest in community-based arts, mentorship and education, and currently also works as a Youth Arts Officer at the Youth Arts and Recreation Centre.
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
This concert pays homage to the likes of Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Bobby Timmons, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul and more!
Artists
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The Ted Vining Trio
Ted Vining is renowned as perhaps the most assertive, hardest swinging drummer/bandleader in Australian Jazz. His style is based on idols such as ‘Philly’ Joe Jones, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Australia’s Stewart Speer.
In 1970 Ted formed a partnership with pianist Bob Sedergreen and bassist Barry Buckley, which lasted a phenomenal 37 years until Barry’s death in 2006. Current bass player, Gareth Hill, has filled the gap beautifully and contributes enormously to the distinctive sound of the Trio; a sound heavily and delightfully dominated by the pianistic artistry of the great Bob Sedergreen.
Photo: Amy Brown
This event is part of Winter Light 2022 and is presented by Salamanca Arts Centre
QT kids is an afternoon of Tasmanian (well Hobart) LGBTQIA+ youth showcasing their performative gifts, formulated in a series of workshops curated by Hera, the queen bee of QT.
Come and enjoy a welcoming environment, and listen, watch, and love the offers given that reflect the way these kids are moving through the world.
Thursday 11 August 2022 1.30pm – 2.15pm Friday 12 August 2022 1.30pm – 2.15pm Times includes Q & A
Whilst the wearing of masks is not mandatory it is recommended in certain situations by Tasmanian Public Health. Masks will be available upon entering the venue for those patrons who would like one.
If you’re unwell, it is recommended that you stay at home, and we look forward to welcoming you at Salamanca Arts Centre another time.
Artist
Photo: Bodie Strain
Hera Fox
Hera is a playwright, and circus & cabaret creator based in nipaluna (Hobart). Having grown up in the Huon Valley starting in community musicals, they have had a varied career in burlesque and drag to circus and acrobatics. Now they have found their voice as a transgender woman returning to song and cabaret creating work for and by transgender people. Her plays have endeavored to assist in changing the culture of the live performing arts, to be more inclusive, and to not take itself too seriously. She has a tendency to write about love, lust, and loss, with a style reflecting reactions of your various ex partners.
They are the founder and artistic director of QT Cabaret, a space for transgender and gender queer performers to trial new cabaret and circus work, which won Artfully Queers unifying voice award 2019. Hera is also the winner of 2020’s Out For Australia Community Champion award.
