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Cash savage and the last drinks

EMMA DONOVAN AND THE PUTBACKS + KEE’AHN

+ THE SLINGERS

FRIDAY 12 AUGUST 8PM - The Mech Hall

In an era when the world is falling apart with such a deafening roar, Cash Savage’s voice rings loud over the cacophony. Songs of politics, grief, songs of rage - this is weighty music that cuts through the noise. Savage’s band The Last Drinks are a powerhouse of fierce and brooding energy, every bit as committed to her songs and message. Every performance by this band is as epic as it is honest, raw and human.

‘One of the most powerful bands in the country’ - The Guardian

“Emma’s voice is everything you’d want in a soul singer. She’s the real deal.” – Wax Poetics
"Donovan can front a well-oiled soul band in her sleep” – Rolling Stone AU
“A tour de force of funk and soul hailing from the land down under” – Pop Matters

“Kee’ahn has the ability to floor you with her spectacular voice, and as a song writer she brings intimate moments to the surface like she’s lifting a feather to the sky – it’s mystifying and gracious.”  –  Nkechi Anele , Roots ‘N’ All presenter – triple j

This event is assisted by On the Road Again, a Victorian Government initiative to bring live music back across the state.

WW COMEDY

FRI 12 AUGUST 9pm + SAT 13 AUGUST 2pm - Apollo Bay Hotel

“The confidence of a title fighter who has won before she’s even set foot in the ring.” ★★★★ The Age on Lizzy Hoo

“Seth Rogen meets Woody Allen” ★★★★ The Herald Sun on Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall

“..a total joy to watch”  Up Next Comedy on Dan Crowley

“gives hope for the future of comedy”  Squirrel Comedy on Isabelle Knight

Warm pub, mulled wine, great stand-up.

Our second annual WW Comedy with a fab format - 3 comedians and 1MC. See ABC podcaster, TV personality and Melbourne comedy scene favourite, the hilarious Lizzy Hoo, along with the talented Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall, international performer, podcaster and joke writer for TV shows including Mad as Hell and The Project. And emerging talent, Dan Crowley, will forever affect your view of a PowerPoint presentation.

MC, Isabelle Knight, is a screenwriter who likes to occasionally talk at people – and Apollo Bay’s own semi local.

This event is proudly sponsored by Apollo Bay Hotel.

EXHIBITION OPENING: "Face to Face" by Ramdaddy

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 6PM - 8PM

EXHIBITION RUNS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST
& open Late on WW Wkd Evenings with food and coffee available from JUNGLE DRIFTER

The Project Space presents its monthly art exhibition… This month AUGUST brings the solo work of new Apollo Bay Local/Old Lorne Local James Ramsay with his exhibition “Face to Face”.

The works consist of Original Paintings on Canvas and paper.

LIVE MUSIC

Art & Conversation - everyone of all ages welcome

FREE ENTRY

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You are cordially invited to attend this opening…

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Our second Winter Wild artist in residence, Bridget Chappell (aka Hextape) is an artist trying to contextualise a lot of trespass and nostalgia through raves, dance music, custom sound systems, pirate radio stations, poetry, contemporary and classical cello, doom metal, podcasts, and essays. Their albums ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’ (Anterograde, 2019) and ‘Undertow’ (Heavy Machinery Records, 2020) received critical acclaim. Chappell is an artist larping as a scientist; data sonification, 3D sound modelling, live coding, siren phase cancellation, etc. Chappell is the founder of the award-winning Sound School (Narrm\Melbourne), current co-director of artist-run initiative Watch This Space (Mparntwe\Alice Springs), and tries to leave a trail of rave breadcrumbs wherever they go.

Project Summary

During my Winter Wild residency with The Development Lab I’ll be using the Arts Inc. gallery as a space to produce my new album, which explores the musicality of MRI scans and their relationship to raves and oral culture. Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanners create incredible sounds while they work, that cannot be recorded – like a microwave, the machines do not accept metal. It’s a rave for one, that you cannot dance or listen back to – you just have to lie there in the tube and, hopefully, enjoy it.

Ill at ease in an often injured body trying to lead a “full life”, I’ve become kind of obsessed with MRIs, and look forward to them during treatment processes. Their ephemeral music challenges our screenshot-trigger fingered, archival-obsessed mode of experiencing the world that has made our capacity for memorisation go slack. If I want to re-live an MRI scan and the techno its magnets generate from hitting my own body, it’s asking me to relearn an oral tradition.

The Melbourne Brain Centre has kindly agreed to take me on as a visiting artist, where I’ll be able to learn more about MRI machines and their music as both a subject and researcher. Immediately thereafter I’ll travel to my residency in Apollo Bay to record these recitations and craft them into an album using electronic hardware, Ableton Live, and cello. Through this, I hope I can communicate some of the magic of MRIs to those who haven’t had to get one.

Group SOMATIC SOUND WALKS

SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 8AM & SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 8AM

Our surroundings are constantly telling stories of their evolution, cultures and futures through sound. Using our whole bodies to listen closely, we can begin to hear the songs, whispers and warnings of the Land we are guests on.
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Go on a guided walk through diverse and wild soundscapes with Winter Wild ’21 Artists in Residence, Claire Lefebvre and Zoltan Fecso. These walks are an opportunity to experience a unique perspective of The Otways, through the practices of focused listening and somatic movement.
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Groups will be led along specially created routes that highlight the sonic richness and variety of their environment. There will be prompts along the way to explore different ways of listening and moving through space.
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Meeting Point The Project Space.

Walks will go ahead rain hail or shine.
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Participants should have transport and are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring warm, waterproof clothing.

QIGONG

SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 10AM - Uniting Church Hall

Unravel, release and restore. 

Wake up your body, nourish your qi (life force energy) and drop into presence, connection and peace.  

Join Apollo Bay's own Dani Cullen, as she guides you through a mindful, movement meditation using qigong practices.  Then surrender into deep rest as she bathes you in sounds to soothe the soul.

TIRAKUNA SOUNDS

SATURDAY 13 August 11:30am - Uniting Church Hall

Tirakuna's Daniel Correa and Elysia Bartlett will immerse you in deep sound and high-frequency energy healing during this session. Skilled Reiki Practitioners and Sound Healers, they bring you a profound yet balanced approach to healing.

They guide the body and mind into an optimal state by regulating the nervous system. Brainwaves move from a normal waking state to one of deep relaxation. Experience powerful frequencies from gongs, singing bowls, shamanic drums, ocean drum, chimes and more.

At the end of the session you are invited to stay for delicious chai.

Contentious buffet

SATURDAY 13 August 12:30pm - Apollo Bay Community Hall

Part-performance lecture, part-intervention, part-lunch - Contentious Buffet is an experimental community hall buffet investigating food neophobia, bugs in popular culture (think Bugs Bunny, Jiminy Cricket, The Beatles, Y2k) and low carbon alternatives to food consumption.

Bringing together local Otways producers alongside some of Melbourne’s most experimental artists, food designers and thinkers, this event will get you thinking about how it was that Apollo Bay’s famous rock lobster shifted from being a ‘sea cockroach’ into one of the world’s most expensive and sought after delicacies. 

Fusing APHIDS’ future-focused politics with Long Prawn’s divergent food thinking, the result is an unpredictable and invigorating afternoon of performance, participation and surprising bug-snacks.

Each ticket includes:

• A special door prize

• Tea, snacks and a hot lunch by Furrmien

• It's not a bug, it's a feature performance lecture by Catherine Ryan

• Waggle Dance - A multi-anthropod video assemblage by Sarah Aiken

• Food Muses, Neophobia & Entomophagy presentation by Quiggi

• Cooking prawns of the sky workshop by Long Prawn

• Fly Away with Contentious Buffet take home pack

• ++ Bonus community talent & produce

Please note: Due to the experimental nature of this event and the limited resources on-site, unfortunately, we are unable to offer alternative menu items for vegan or vegetarian dietary. Please inform us of any allergies you may have prior to the event, in particular shellfish allergies.

Image: Ben Clement This event is assisted by Creative Victoria + Regional Arts Victoria + Australian Council of the Arts

Wild Feast

SATURDAY 13 & SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 4PM - Festival Brazier

Roaring fire-pits and char-grills, bubbling cauldrons and giant smokehouse barbeques… this is how we celebrate the end of the deep, wild dark of winter on the Otways coast!

Food tastes so much better cooked in the great outdoors so rug up and join us for a Wild Feast around the fires, featuring cauldrons of local seafood bouillabaisse, giant paella pans, smokehouse style meats, fresh caught char-grilled seafood on the hibachi, and seasonal local veggies buried in the coals. Warm your hearts and hands with a mug of mulled wine, a range of Prickly Moses dark ales, and an Apollo Bay Distillery whisky in a hot toddy or gin cocktail. Designed by Long Prawn.

You need to book your free place through the website link bellow.

WinterWild Festival is committed to being as environmentally responsible as possible. This year we have engaged B-Alternative who will be providing reusable crockery to all food vendors resulting in a 95% decrease in rubbish heading to landfill. Each person attending The Wild Feast will pay a $5 refundable deposit to contribute to this important environmental initiative, refunds will be available directly after the event upon return of crockery. In addition to this, Winterwild will be making a donation to The Southern Otway Landcare Network who are a grassroots community organisation dedicated to protecting and restoring our environment so that we can live, work and find joy in a healthy, productive and balanced environment. Ticketholders who would like their $5 registration fee refunded should write to info@winterwild.com.au by 3pm Monday 29 August.

This event is assisted by the Australian Government’s Festivals Australia, The Cultural Tourism Accelerator Fund + Regional Arts Victoria and proudly sponsored by Glow Heating and Great Ocean Road Real Estate