Category: Shopfront Theatre

ARTSLAB: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is Shopfront’s annual emerging artists festival. It offered a 6 month long residency, an industry mentor, professional masterclasses and a week long season to showcase their art works. Five emerging artists were chosen from a large set of applications. This presentation was the fruition of that creative opportunity. There were two foyer works. 1. AMPLIFIER by Tall Jan, is a video work by Brendan Donnellan aka Tall Jan. It consists of a series of edited self-interviews concerning a sexual transition. The mentor was Bhenji Ra. It is, frankly, a work that is not well executed either…

ArtsLab 11 Performance season SLOW REVEAL – Six New Works In a Timely Fashion. The Shopfront Contemporary Arts and Performance program at Shopfront Theatre, Carlton, Sydney. SLOW REVEAL – Six New Works In a Timely Fashion are part of this year’s Shopfront’s 5th Artslab season. The new Artistic Director, Caitlin Newton-Broad tells us “from ArtsLab’s pilot residency in 2007, this is an intensive program for emerging artists to engage with their own work and also to practice within a community arts co-operative, at every level. I was lucky to work closely with these six young artists this year on Shopfront’s…

  Shopfront: Contemporary Arts and Performance presents TOGETHER ALONE ALONE TOGETHER at Shopfront Theatre, Carlton, Sydney. “Shopfront is an innovative contemporary arts centre – a not-for-profit co-operative started in 1976 by young people eager to have a place to turn their ideas into realities.” TOGETHER ALONE ALONE TOGETHER is the showing of the work of one of the many programs conducted by Shopfront: “ARTSLAB is an intensive arts laboratory and six month residency from May to November at Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre. It gives emerging artists (aged 18-25) from across Australia the space, resources, training, guidance and connections they need…

  SUPERPERFECT. An international collaboration between Shopfront, Nibroll (Yokohama, Japan) & Keio SFC University (Fujisawa, Japan) at the Shopfront Theatre, Carlton, Sydney. Shopfront has been a theatre organisation out in south-east Sydney, Carlton for a very long time. It works with young performers from very wide ranging backgrounds from the community. In the Shopfront Annual Report for 2008 there is an encouraging and amazing breadth of work that this company covered in that year. The major work was a site specific work in the shopping street/area of Hurstville called (lost toy story). (The photographs of the event look quite fun.)…