Arts House Melbourne Announces New Season

Maintaining its reputation as Melbourne's home of all things experimental and contemporary, Arts House launches a brave and bold new season featuring a diverse program of events, installations, performances and conversations.

Chair of Arts, Culture and Heritage at City of Melbourne, Councillor Rohan Leppert, said Arts House Season 2 is a fascinating series of works.

"The works and events as part of Arts House Season 2 will challenge, provoke and entertain," Cr Leppert said.

"From world premieres by International Artists to incredible local works by some of Melbourne's best, Season 2 at Arts House is not to be missed."

Arts House Artistic Director, Angharad Wynne- Jones said: "Works that explore urgent social issues and experiment with form can take us to unfamiliar places but combined with each other and the energy of our audiences, they also offer new, inspiring worlds of thinking, feeling and acting."

Season 2 2017 begins with a clutch of works that explore the always complex, sometimes divisive concept of place and displacement head on m featuring local and International Artists including Nástio Mosquito (Respectable Thief), wani (Tales of an Afronaut), Sethembile Msezane (Excerpts from the past), PYT Fairfield (TRIBUNAL) and Samara Hersch and Lara Thoms (We All Know What's Happening).

Midway though the season, Arts House will present the premiere of new works by Melbourne-based artists Stephanie Lake (Pile of Bones), Melanie Lane (Nightdance) and Speak Percussion (Assembly Operation).

A collaboration with Melbourne Fringe on The Children's Party aims to critically empower young people, while Survival Skills for Desperate Times, is a collaboration with Melbourne Festival, highlighting 18 artists as the ultimate survivalists.

In November, Arts House will join with the community and emergency services partners to present the second instalment of Refuge - a five-year investigation into the role of artists and cultural institutions in preparing for, and building resilience to, climate change.

As part of Refuge, Arts House will investigate and rehearse the impacts of extreme heat and collaborate with emergency management professionals, artists, local and international communities to prepare and transform the North Melbourne Town Hall into a designated emergency relief centre for 24 hours.
Arts House audiences will dream a little with multidisciplinary artist Fleur Elise Noble's ROOMAN, before ending the year in song with Sam Halmarack and JOF's WE ARE LIGHTNING!

Tickets to Arts House Season 2, 2017 are on sale now at artshouse.com.au.

Photo credit: Bryony Jackson

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