GRIFFIN ARTIST BLOG

Griffin Artist Card membership is an initiative to increase access to our theatre. This program facilitates the coming together of artists across different disciplines and at different stages of their career. It supports and strengthens a vibrant emerging artist community, as well as acknowledging this community as an important part of the Griffin family and the wider theatre world.

How does it work? We want to offer a place where artists can see work, discuss work and make work.

To see work, we will continue to offer heavily discounted $15 tickets, which can be booked in the first fortnight of all Griffin and Griffin Independent shows, Performance Space shows at members' rates and ticket deals and giveaways to other theatre companies.

To discuss work, we are introducing regular Artist Card events where the community can come together for a drink.

And finally, we are supporting emerging artists in their making of new, bold and exciting work. Griffringe will continue to be a great avenue for artist card holders to display their work. We will also be offering (where possible!) free use of our space for readings and developments.

The Artist Card is a community. It is the glitter glue that brings all the cool amazing arty people together and helps them sparkle. So it's almost like glitter glue squared. If you are interested in joining the artist card outfit, please email artist@griffintheatre.com.au or come along to our next shindig….Hope to see you there!

Feb 21

GRIFFRINGE: FREAKS AND LOVERS

OK, things are heating up for a totally rad first Griffringe for 2012. Our theme is going to be ‘Freaks and Lovers’, which we thought broadly outlined the five very different performances that are going to grace the bare boards of the Stables stage.

In no particular order, the following artists will be showing us what bees are buzzing around in their creative bonnets right now:

1. Melita Rowston - Melita is going to present us with a TED talk/corporate keynote/holiday slideshow on her search for Gippsland’s Giant Earth Worm.

2. Jess Tuckwell - Jess is directing be the assassin by David Finnigan, using it as the starting point for a performance piece rather than any sort of conventional monologue.

3. Travis Green - A Discourse presented by The Lovers. This has performers Charles Purcell and Sophie Mathisen putting a physical language to Roland Barthes’ masterpiece.

4. Erica Brennan and Lucy Watson - Dig it: Word!/This Hour will have audiences digging into the Common Ground Dirt Mound with two lost 1940s archaeologists.

5. Alice Cooper - Alice’s training in clowning allows her to explore the death of a friend in early childhood in The Bears of Willington.

This is going to be a damn fine evening. Starting from 4pm on Saturday 11th March (doors open at 3). Buy tickets off the Griffin website - they’re only $15.

There will be music. There will be drinks and food. And there will be theatre from some of the brightest young things around. Doesn’t get much better.