RUNT | Return Season
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaRUNT to return to our theatre after a sold-out premiere season
Events List
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Emerging Artist Award 2021
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2021 submissions open!
Still by Jen Silverman
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWritten by one of the hottest young playwrights from New York City, Jen Silverman’s award-winning play will make you laugh, cry and reflect, often all at the same time.
King & Wood Mallesons Contemporary First Nations Art Award
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaIn its second season, the Award is a biennial competition established by KWM to promote and encourage the highest standard of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practice in Australia.
Fantastique! The Life and Loves of Hector Berlioz
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
Created using journal entries, letters and articles from Berlioz’s life, combined with a selection of his songs, and transcriptions of his orchestral works
HERE again
fortyfivedownstairs online gallery VIC, AustraliaHERE again is part of fortyfivedownstairs' Fragments online series. The exhibition brings together artists from the fortyfivedownstairs community, many who have had exhibitions affected by Melbourne’s six lockdowns to date. This is a chance to experience new work created in these challenging times, as well as sneak peeks into forthcoming exhibitions.
Step. Float. Fly
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaStep. Float. Fly has been formed through a warm and sometimes mysterious observation of people and animals as they engage within everyday activities and moments of contemplation.
Silence #1.6: The Beauty in Death
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaSilence #1.6 is a philosophical study of mindfulness that all metaphysical conditions co-exist, and that death can provide a beautiful insight to understand and appreciate life.
Capturing Moments – People and Places
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAn exhibition of sketches, paintings and drawings capturing people and places.
King Lear Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA moving contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy
Duo Eclettico Online: Solicitude
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch the recording of Duo Eclettico's 'Solstice' concert, filmed during a live Zoom broadcast in January 2021.
Coady Green & Christopher Smith Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch the recording of a rare virtuosic event - Liszt's complete Hungarian Rhapsodies, arranged for piano four hands.
Solstice Trio Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Solstice Trio at home. A program of New York-based composers at the boundaries of contemporary classical, jazz and electronic music.
Collide Online: Unity
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Collide at home, sharing with you their blend of colour, fervour, and spirit with works of Mozart, Glinka, Milhaud
Rathdowne Quartet & Tamara Smolyar Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Rathdowne Quartet with Tamara Smolyar at home as they perform one of the greatest chamber works ever written.
Voyage Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA new Australian musical written by Helen Begley.
Zoe Knighton/Pia Johnson Bach Project Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTwo iconic Melbourne artists join forces for a unique and magical collaboration.
Kavisha Mazzella Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA moving online concert with ARIA Award-winner Kavisha Mazella filled with storytelling and music.
Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts 2021
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us live online for an afternoon of poetry and music celebrating Barry Jones' 89th birthday
Luke Severn & Elyane Laussade Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaExperience the full spectrum of emotion and intimacy that the cello and piano execute so well.
Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts 2021
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWatch the recording of the live online poetry and music event celebrating the 89th birthday of Barry Jones at home.
The Long Pigs Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaIn a surreal world that could have been created by Jean-Pierre Jeunet or Tim Burton, this very black comedy pushes the boundaries of physical theatre - watch it online at home!
White Day Dream Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA unique fusion between Butoh and physical theatre performed by dancers with and without disability, White Day Dream moves between the surreal and absurd exploring universal human themes of memory and dreams.
Tales from the Greek: Myth, Beauty and Brutality
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaTales from the Greek is a new exhibition and book launch by award winning international artist Marco Luccio who has once again united with award winning and Miles Franklin shortlisted author John Hughes.
Kefi
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaTaxithi Project invites you to welcome summer with party songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The New Impromptu Quartet
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaThe New Impromptu Quartet is thrilled to return to fortyfivedownstairs this November!
Hell Ship: The Journey of the Ticonderoga
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaIn 1852, Michael Veitch’s great-great grandfather confronted a deadly epidemic head-on, as the ship’s surgeon on the emigrant clipper Ticonderoga’s nighmare voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. Resonating powerfully with today’s world, Hell Ship is a story of hope, love and survival.
Alter Edith
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaAlter Edith is a cycle of almost performances amongst extra-terrestrial environments. Edith is an alien trying earthly sentiments. Her curiosity of Earthly delights creates mobile museums in real-time.
Coastline
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaA series of paper cuts, collages and paintings depicting the Victorian southern coastline in the context of climate change and rising sea levels.
Entering the Subconscious: The COVID Works
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaEntering the Subconscious is a series of ink paintings that began at the beginning of COVID-19 in March 2020 and continued during the ongoing lockdowns in Melbourne in the intervening months. These works in sequence chart a journey as time in lockdown progressed.
Jane Hammond’s ‘Songs of the Helmeted Honeyeater’ and Ross Edwards’ ‘Full Moon Dances’
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
The world premiere of Jane Hammond's homage to the Helmeted Honeyeater; and a new arrangement of Ross Edwards’ vibrant saxophone concerto
Eight Hands
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
A rare and spectacular event performed by four popular Melbourne pianists
he/r
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australiahe/r is cutting edge. It asks big questions about self, belonging, and the sickening notion that we should all be woke.
monumentum
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaA series of conceptually abstract paintings based on the physicality of movement of his performance artist subjects, including acrobats and professional dancers.
Things Fall Apart
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe works in this exhibition by Mike Lutz rise out of the disquieting period from which we are emerging. Each painting considers an aspect of confinement and release.