WEEK 3: Monday 5 February – Sunday 11 February - Midsumma Festival 2024
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A highlight from Midsumma’s Brave(R) Space program is Midsummica. Presented by Midsumma Festival and La Mama Theatre and held on Monday 5 February at La Mama Courthouse. Midsummica is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ identities, disability, and neurodiversity through performance, presented by alumni from the Midsumma Pathways Program. This performance includes embedded self-descriptions, and describer guides will be available on the night to offer 1:1 descriptions to any audience members who would like to engage this service. Midsummica is also livestreamed.
There will be a relaxed performance of Creating Rainbow Families on 6th February at 6.30pm. This event is an information session for the LGBTIQA+ community.
Homophonic! An event with new music by queer composers, performed by the Homophonic! Chamber Ensemble and The Consort of Melbourne. Featuring the winner of the Midsumma Homophonic! Pride Prize for 2024, by Sophie Rose, performed by Judith Dodsworth. Homophonic is Audio Described on 9th February at 7.30pm.
An original theatre work, ALTAR. Presented by Midsumma Festival, Abbotsford Convent and Pathways alumni, Em Tambree at Abbotsford Convent – in the Rosina Courtyard. This outdoor performance will offer a tactile tour on Saturday 10 Feb at 4pm.
Finally, we will close out Midsumma Festival with Victoria’s Pride on Sunday 11 Feb, an all-day street party in Gertrude and Smith St in Collingwood and Fitzroy. There will be a Tactile Tour of this event that you can register for. Details will be available via Midsumma website. You can also listen to the 3CR broadcast that will happen live from the event site.
Many events are free entry, and some are Audio Described, Auslan interpreted, captioned, offer relaxed performances or tactile tours. You can check out the full program on the Midsumma website at midsumma.org.au and search for events by using the accessibility filter to find events by name, date and time, location or genre – you can also filter events by audio or visual rating.