hillsceneLIVE updates

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2018 Program Launch
Art Safari - 7pm Saturday 15 September
Burrinja Gallery
hillsceneLIVE meets the Wild Awards at the launch of the 2018 festival program.
More info here
RSVP here
Come get launchy at ART Safari!
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Come work with us!

Are you interested in developing a bold marketing strategy for a risk taking live art program? Do you have creativity and flair for experimentation and play within a marketing/arts context?
If this sounds like you, hillsceneLIVE is currently on the look out for a Marketing & Publicity Coordinator with these attributes.

For details, head to our Opportunities page or click here.
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Announcing the 2018 theme

As artists we question ourselves and the world deeply. We look in any and all spaces to find the potential seeds of what is to come. We remain curious, open to the possibilities - we consider ideas that are as yet unformed, raw concepts to be distilled, slowly turning, filtering what rains down and bubbles up.
In selecting our theme for 2018, we are interested in the idea of a radical shifting space. The feeling of something dark, heavy, murky. Grace, and malice. The brutality of nature. Immersion, in something uncategorized, unknown, nuanced… listening in, deeply, so we can interpret it. Together.

So we make art. Find ways to connect the nodes, and build resilience. The surface is not satisfactory - it is more interesting underneath. Subterranean activity. We dig down to draw it up. What is concealed, buried? What is this culture, society, landscape, ecology that is growing? How do we do this?

hillsceneLIVE 2018: Our Hidden Catalyst
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hillsceneLIVE brought to you in partnership with Creative Victoria

We are so excited to tell you that this year's program is now bolstered by state funding. We will be putting the funds to good use, increasing our ability to deliver professional development and presentation opportunities for artists in the program and beyond.
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Expressions of Interest are NOW OPEN for hillsceneLIVE 2018!

Are you a performer who has a bold idea you want to test out? Are you an emerging artist, or have a discipline and are looking to try new live forms? We are now accepting expressions of interest for interdisciplinary / emerging / experimental / boundary-pushing live and time-based art works at the 2018 festival, to be held 17th & 18th November at the spectacularly beautiful Birdsland Reserve in the Dandenong Ranges.
We want new work, bold work, curious and challenging work, playful, ridiculous, risky, timely, transformative work.

That creative itch that you've been yearning to scratch... that brewing idea you know has to find a way into the world... here is a place to dig deep, collaborate, develop, explore.

You will receive professional development opportunities, networking and collaboration opportunities, site visits, production and technical support, marketing and publicity support, a small stipend and of course presentation at the festival. Find full info sheet for artists here.

Click here to apply! Applications close April 1st 2018. 
For more information / if you have any questions or just want to run an idea by us, email us here. 

We can't wait to hear from you!
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Keep your eyes peeled...!
We are bubbling over with excitement. Artist expressions of interest are about to open, and the program of artistic development, critical engagement and site activation is already looking incredible. 
Watch this space.
2018 is juicy. Unprecedented. Curious. Challenging.  We can't wait to uncover it with you...
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Did you attend #hillscenelive2017 ?
Would you like to win a $50 gift voucher for #indigenousplants from Southern Dandenong Community Nursery? Fill out our quick 5min survey and go in the draw 
 #hillscenelive #audiencefeedback #liveartfestival #dandenongranges
Click here to give your feedback
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Reflections on 2017

What a wild ride! hillsceneLIVE festival 2017 saw us inhabit the most challenging venue yet, with multiple outdoor and site specific works. We journeyed and listened and celebrated, we talked and laughed and made it up, and we discovered more questions than answers... we are continually discovering what it is...
​17 new works. Over 30 artists. Conversations, workshops, pizza and sunshine. 
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Keep posted for photos and videos - coming soon!!
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DAILY SCHEDULES ARE NOW AVAILABLE

Check out which artist is on when here!
Many of the performances have limited capacity and you will need to sign up at the info desk to ensure your spot, luckily all performances are presented more than once. We recommend you check out the schedule and design your own dance card for the day!
Gates open 10:00am on Saturday & Sunday so come early so you don't miss out.
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TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Are you are planning on driving to hillsceneLIVE? Have you considered the alternatives?
This year, hillsceneLIVE is striving to be an environmentally sustainable festival and we want you to consider this too. So for that reason, we are offering free shuttles between Upwey train station and Birdsland Reserve throughout the day. If you are interested in taking up our offer, please email as hello@hillscenelive.com for instructions.
City to Belgrave train timetable here
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TICKETS ON SALE!

Holy moly!! We are barely containing our excitement. It's seriously exploding out everywhere... do you see the amount of exclamation marks happening here?! 2017's festival is shaping up to be something utterly exceptional, extraordinary and extravagant! Why haven't you got your tickets yet??
​hillsceneLIVE 2017 is NOT TO BE MISSED.

Unique. Bold. Brave. 

Experience the extraordinary... and get your tickets NOW!! 
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Are you interested in volunteering at the hillsceneLIVE Festival 2017?

By volunteering with the festival, you will be helping us to present this amazing weekend of live art, supporting the presentation of 17 new works in an underused venue in the Dandenong Ranges. In return, you get to attend the festival for free, meet and network with the hillsceneLIVE Festival team and all the inspiring artists.
If this sounds like you, then go ahead and contact us here
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land we live, work and play, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.