Hundreds of non-essential businesses have been barred from trading since midnight and will not be allowed to reopen until restrictions are lifted on Thursday.
The festival got underway last night and is scheduled to conclude on Sunday June 6. RISING festival has been put on pause due to the recent COVID outbreak which has seen Victoria enter lockdown for seven days, commencing from midnight tonight. As a result of this, any RISING events from 5pm today (Thursday May 27) […]
The inaugural RISING festival – a multi-disciplinary art and cultural extravaganza - is set to descend on Naarm (Melbourne) Wednesday, and is being billed as the biggest artistic event hosted in Naarm since the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning Naarm-based Gamilaroi artist Reko Rennie will premiere commissioned work Initiation OA , a large-scale three channel video work that speaks to the practice of initiation from an urban Aboriginal context.’
This deeply reflective and visually stunning multi-disciplinary work sees Rennie present modern-day men s initiation, returning to his place of birth in the west of Naarm, ‘making his mark, then leaving again.’