Mudfest11

Festival Club: How to get involved

The Student Union Arts Department is seeking volunteers, designers and expressions of interest from clubs and student groups for nights in the Mudfest Club. Find out more and get involved!

1 June 2009. Bookmark & Share.

Applications Are In! What’s Next?

This year looks like its going to be the most diverse Mudfest on record. No longer just a drama festival, we’ve got applications for crazy happenings all over campus—come August there will be space invasions, clowns, talking books and creatures in raincoats popping up all over campus.

For applicants, all will be revealed by next Friday.

Now that applications for the Main Program of the Festival have closed all the other little tidbits are going to swing into action.

Firstly, we are interested in YOUR PARTICIPATION

Creative teams looking for extra help

We have many challenging and creative ideas brewing, and now we need the technicians to come in and figure out the logistics of it all. Many groups have writers but no performers, directors but no producers or stage managers. There are gaps everywhere and now’s the time to put your hand up and be counted

If you would like to be involved in Mudfest11 but don’t know how or in what capacity, please drop us a line and introduce yourself. A simple email saying what sort of things you are interested in doing and then we can create a database of people.

Email curators@union.unimelb.edu.au with what you are interested in doing as part of Mudfest11.

Muddy Shorts

Mudfest’s flagship event is back for Mudfest11!

Muddy Shorts will showcase new and innovative short works in a one night extravaganza. Whether they are performance, film, comedy, puppetry, visual arts or anything in between, Muddy Shorts will be an evening of short live artistic events. Mudfest11 especially encourages new works and collaborations between artists of different mediums.

The only real guideline is acts need to be less than ten minutes and can be as short as one minute.

Muddy shorts will be Saturday 23 August.

Interested in being a Muddy Short act email David at d.ryding@union.unimleb.edu.au

12 May 2009. Bookmark & Share.

Hidden Spaces

Hidden Spaces will be lurking in Melbourne Universities alleys, laneways, corners, cul de sacs and in the forgotten and rarely visited places, creating an equal parts surprising and discrete web of installations, artworks and objects that will lead students and visitors alike on a walking tour through the more unusual nooks of Melbourne University.

Hidden Spaces is a Campus wide installation, within which students display temporary artworks using found materials that will meld with the outside of the Universities architecture. ‘Mould’ will grow from pipes, bins will become ‘statues’ and walls will sprout new growths as the Universities buildings becomes both gallery and art work

Hidden Spaces needs you

To be a part of Hidden Spaces you need to send a maximum one page application describing

1. What your art work will be, including the starting point for your creation and what it will be made out of. Remember the key term for the art work is temporary
2. Where it will be. Draw us a map, give us a location, heck even send us a picture. We want to be inspired by your hidden space that you have discovered.

Also remember to send in all your contact details. Deadline is Friday 13 June.

Any questions, about anything (preferably about Mudfest11 though) come in and see Festival Director David Ryding. Either on the third floor of Union House on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays to chat ideas or email him at david.ryding@union.unimelb.edu.au or use the phone: 8344 0027.

11 May 2009. Bookmark & Share.