#mfringe

[thatmansplayinggalaga]

[jaclapham]

Much happier with the second show! Woo 👍🏻 And the first show was good too, now I've listened back to it. Too hard on myself... hehe. Terrifically warm audience again, and I got to meet Aardvark, after we connected via my page a while back. I LOVE sharing my stories of finding my way through this life, and I'm so chuffed people enjoy hearing them. It's a genuine pleasure doing this 💙🙏🏻 . #melbfringe #storytelling #storyteller #love #marriage #divorce #comedy #comedian #mfringe @melbfringe @courthousecomedy #melbourne #everythingisart (at The Courthouse Hotel North Melbourne)

[davidmaney]

Po Po Mo Co Pho To Shoo To #melbfringe #mfringe #popomoco #comedy #haresandhyenas

[skyegellmann]

Artist Profile One: Naomi Francis

Naomi's thought's in the leadup to our September Melbourne Fringe season:

Bodies over Bitumen takes place on the street – a public realm of rules, codes and unforgiving surfaces. When Skye first suggested the street as a focus for this piece I’d just returned from working in PNG and Timor-Leste where streets – both their physicality and social rules – differ in many ways from those in Melbourne’s urban centre. There are myriad ways to interpret the differences but what stuck out for me was the position of women in the street, specifically in terms of vulnerability and visibility.

My approach to this work is not about comparing cultures, or presuming to speak for the experiences of every woman on every street. But being a woman on streets with different social codes and rules inspired me to investigate the themes of vulnerability and visibility in the context of my own hood more deeply.

What are the rules for women specifically on the street?

Is it ok that they are on the street?

Where can they be on the street?

Who can they be with?

Can they be alone? When can they be alone?

Who can they look at? Can they look people in the eye…or not?

What can they wear?

How can they move?

What can they say?

What can they do?

What are other people allowed to do to them/say to them?

Who polices these rules?

Who can look at them? In what ways can other people look at them?

The notion of looking or watching ties in with circus quite well – in the sense that circus involves the visual consumption of the body. Whilst in circus, this consumption is usually connected to an appreciation of a person’s strength whilst being pushed to the limits of vulnerability, the general gaze upon women is quite different.

So what happens when we mash all this up?! Who knows. Probably some kids mucking around in the gutter. Come see for yourself in a couple of weeks:

https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/8ce8663b-8156-454b-a3d4-bc91949ecfd6

[mattharveystuff]

Thanks and love.

Its been a few days since I finished my Melbourne Fringe festival show Matt harvey: the sperm that made it but life, work and Fringe have seen me slightly overwhelmed in the follow up so this message is late, but none the less heartfelt.

To everyone who came out to support the show, friends, strangers, early arrivers or late comers. I truly do appreciate you coming out and taking a chance at spending some time with me. Its very often I feel I am a lone voice shouting into the empty darkness but at times it is a pleasure to see your faces in the dark looking back at me, listening, and on occasion smiling with appreciation or even laughing. These are the good times. You've made all the hard work that went into this years festival completely worth it. This show has been a true pleasure. I look forward to seeing you all again at some point, in some audience in the back of some dingy bar somewhere, or at a festival in the heart of a strange city.