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Hobsons Bay Performing Arts Program 2019
Welcome to Arts at Your Doorstep, presented by Hobsons Bay City Council as its annual performing arts program. In 2019, Arts at Your Doorstep brings a really exciting range of dynamic performances to the west. This is a great way to immerse yourself into your creative city and enjoy professional theatre that you don’t have to travel too far to see.
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A word from
the Mayor
The much-loved, annual classic, Hobsons
Voice, returns as teachers and local school
choirs create a joyful, midwinter community
concert Williamstown Town Hall style. Next,
at Altona Theatre, The Space Company’s
Stardust/The Mission offers a double bill of
two unique and important Australian stories.
It is my pleasure to present the 2019 Arts School holidays are taken care of in
at Your Doorstep performing arts program. September with FoRT by Asking for Trouble.
There is surely something for everyone in The whole family can enjoy a live music and
this year’s program, which includes circus, cinema event with the Sounds of Silent in
comedy, drama, music and cinema, telling the beautiful Old Laverton School in Altona
important Australian stories along the way. Meadows. This will also be the venue for our
We are proud of Arts at Your Doorstep. It very own family favourites the Mudcakes,
brings high quality theatre experiences performing to help celebrate National
to Council’s cultural venues, providing Children’s Day 2019 with Singing for
opportunities for people who live in the Little Monkeys.
west to experience the best in Australian
performance, close to home. During 2018, Council endorsed the Hobsons
Bay Creative City Arts and Culture Plan.
The 2019 program starts at the Williamstown Programs such as Arts at Your Doorstep
Town Hall against a backdrop of high help to reinforce our city as being a place
calibre circus, a rocking ‘90s soundtrack and where the arts are valued, which can be
genuine belly laughs with Children are Stinky experienced through its cultural venues,
by Circus Trick Tease before turning our heritage, community connection, and
attention to the adults with a comedy wine creativity. I truly hope you enjoy planning
masterclass, featuring Damian Callinan your Arts at Your Doorstep program and
and Paul Calleja in Wine Bluffs. attending the productions and shows
Next, Shift Theatre’s Hallowed Ground coming our way in the year ahead.
brings to the stage the heroic tales of multi-
generational women who have served with Cr Jonathon Marsden,
our military over the past century before, Mayor of Hobsons Bay
Jessie Lloyd Music presents The Mission
Songs Project to coincide with NAIDOC Week.
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How to book
tickets
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How to get to
the venues
Old Laverton School Altona Theatre Williamstown Town Hall
Corner Kiora Street 115 Civic Parade, Altona 104 Ferguson Street,
and Cameron Avenue, Williamstown
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Children are Stinky
by Circus Trick Tease
All children are stinky, right?
Against a backdrop of high calibre circus, a rocking ‘90s soundtrack
and genuine belly laughs, this acrobatic duo’s attempts to prove kids
STINK are met with messy, ridiculous and hysterical twists. They only
succeed in proving that children are awesome…and they know it!
Expect daredevil stunts, incredible acrobatics, lightning fast hula
hoops, loads of laughs and mischievous fun.
Off the back of five star sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe, this
action-packed circus extravaganza will have your jaws on the floor
hooting for more!
Join us for some school holiday fun!
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Friday
12 April
11am and 2pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
All tickets $12 50 minutes
no interval
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Circus, physical
theatre for children
Suitable for children aged 3 to 12 years
SCHOOL
HOLIDAY
SHOW
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The Wine Bluffs
by Hey Boss
A comedy wine masterclass with
Damian Callinan & Paul Calleja
Ever wondered what wine goes best with fairy bread? Why hasn’t
the ‘Champagne Spider’ caught on? These questions and many
more will be inadequately answered by the self-styled sommeliers
of comedy, Damian Callinan and Paul Calleja.
After intoxicating sold out audiences across the country, The Wine
Bluffs are here to do what they do best: bullsh*t about wine. Laying
spurious claim to a reputation as renowned wine consultants, the duo,
fresh from judging the Fruit Wine Section at The Rockhampton Show,
will take you through the cellar door experience with a comedic twist.
The union of Callinan [Melbourne Fringe Comedy winner & three time
Barry Award Nominee] and Calleja [stand up and writer on Before the
Game & countless other TV shows] has everyone’s palate salivating as
they prepare to uncork their latest vintage and let the comedy breathe.
10Saturday
11 May
7.30pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
Adult $35 60 minutes
Concession $25 no interval
Groups (10+) $25
Seating at tables, bring your own
drinks and nibbles.
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Comedy
Strong language and adult themes
including use of alcohol. Recommended 18+
Image: James Penlidis
11Hallowed Ground -
Women Doctors in War
by The Shift Theatre
Four Women. Many Stories.
A Century of Service
Follow the personal journeys of four women, Lilian, Mary, Tam and
Catherine, united in their determination to utilise their skills in the
field of medicine on active service within the military. From the
pioneers of World War One, first denied military service, throughout
the battles of World War Two - through contemporary conflicts, and
as peacekeepers in times of humanitarian crisis; these and other
stories come to life in vivid accounts of revelation, loss, struggle
and kinship. Together they share moments of hope and humour that
punctuate the otherwise harrowing task of conflict medicine.
Written and researched over two years by Carolyn Bock and Helen
Hopkins, The Shift Theatre brings together a fine ensemble cast and
creative team under the direction of Catherine Hill.
12Wednesday
19 June
7.30pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
Adult $35 80 minutes
Concession $25 no interval
Groups (10+) $25
Seating at tables, bring your own
drinks and nibbles.
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Documentary
theatre, drama
Contains adult themes. Suitable for ages 15+
Image: Nancy Flammea
13Mission Songs Project
by Jessie Lloyd Music
Songs from back home
Presented by Jessie Lloyd, Mission Songs Project is performed
as a quartet with a range of Indigenous performers from around
Australia. Profoundly moving, Mission Songs Project reveals what
daily life was like for Indigenous Australians on Christian missions
and state-run settlements.
Searching for the family songs that were sung around the kitchen
table, Jessie Lloyd explores the day to day life on the missions,
settlements and reserves through music. From cultural identity to
love and loss, these rare songs consist of almost forgotten stories
that can now shed light into the history of our Indigenous elders,
families and communities.
Mission Songs Project faithfully explores the musical journey of
Indigenous Australian music as the Mission Songs Quartet connects
the traditional with contemporary, revealing the continuation of
cultural practice and song traditions into the 21st Century.
14Wednesday
10 July
7.30pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
Adult $35 60 minutes
Concession $25 no interval
Groups (10+) $25
Seating at tables, bring your own
drinks and nibbles.
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Music, drama
15Hobsons Voice
An afternoon of delightful singing
by our local school choirs
Presented by Hobsons Bay City Council since 2006, Hobsons
Voice has encouraged over 2000 young singers across the
municipality. Teachers and school choirs work with musical director
Doug Heywood OAM, in a series of workshops that culminate in a
joyful community concert at the historic Williamstown Town Hall.
Doug brings a wealth of experience to his role of Musical Director
through many years of singing and performing, and as an
orchestral and choral conductor.
16Sunday
25 August
2pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
Tickets free, 120 mins with
bookings Interval
essential
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Music, children
and families
17Stardust & The Mission:
Double Bill (two shows in one)
by The Space Company
Two stories about love, music and war
and all the things that people leave behind
For 25 years, a locked cupboard sat in a family garage.
So what was inside?
A “Fighting Gunditjmara” man returns home from war only to be
forced from his traditional lands. What drove him to fight for a
country that didn’t even recognise him?
The Space Company presents a double bill of documentary theatre:
Stardust & The Mission starring multi-award winning ABC presenter
and performer, Joel Carnegie, and award winning actor, Tom Molyneux.
Two stories about love, music and war, and all the things that
people leave behind...
18Saturday
31 August
7pm
Altona Theatre
115 Civic Parade, Altona
Tickets Running time
Adult $40 120 minutes
Concession $35 with interval
Groups (10+) $25
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Music, drama
Adult themes, occasional coarse language,
smoke, scenes depicting war/ violence. ‘The
Mission’ contains depictions of, and reference to,
Indigenous people who have passed away. It also
describes confronting content in relation to the
massacre, dispossession and mistreatment of
Indigenous peoples.
Image: Sarah Walker
19FoRT
by Asking for Trouble
Spectacular acrobatics and poetic
visual imagery, celebrating imagination
and adventure
Have you ever built a... FoRT?
A show for cubby creators and den dwellers.
Asking for Trouble presents FoRT, a circus/physical theatre
production, which delves into the art of play and the creation of
worlds from everyday objects.
Two strange characters appear hunting for whispers of adventure. In
a series of vignettes, a couch, table, cushions, sheets and broomsticks
transform into rockets, trampolines, cliffs and tents, places to explore.
Images appear and disappear. FoRT is full of ridiculous clowning,
spectacular acrobatics, and poetic visual imagery and celebrates the
kind of creative genius that has been known to turn lounge rooms into
volcanoes, trees into castles and cardboard boxes into racing cars.
20Wednesday
25 September
2pm and 6pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown
Tickets Running time
All tickets $12 50 minutes
no interval
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Children’s
physical theatre
SCHOOL
HOLIDAY
SHOW
21Sounds of Silent
Screening Charlie Chaplin’s
The Circus
The Sounds of Silent is a hilarious live music and cinema event for
the whole family. Travel back in time to the heyday of silent movies
and experience the comic genius of Charlie Chaplin in the iconic silent
movie “The Circus” to a live musical accompaniment by hot jazz band,
Sounds of Silent.
The Sounds of Silent are a 5 piece band that recreates the movie
going experience of the silent movie era when many bands performed
in Melbourne theatres to accompany silent movies.
This will be a great fun evening for all ages, having been performed
all over Victoria and interstate to sell out audiences. Get in early since
seating is limited in this charming heritage venue.
22Monday
14 October
7pm
Old Laverton School
Corner of Kiora Street and
Cameron Avenue, Altona Meadows
Tickets Running time
All tickets $10 70 minutes
Limited seating no interval
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
History, cinema
and live music
CELEBRATING
HISTORY
WEEK 2019
23Singing for Little Monkeys
by The Mudcakes
Delicious family music for mums, dads,
grandparents and kids aged 3 to 6 years
Join early childhood music specialists Rick and Sherry from the
Mudcakes for a lovely group singalong that includes vocal warm
ups and yoga exercises, age appropriate action songs, nursery
rhymes and rounds accompanied by quirky instruments…and our
friend the flying monkey!
Singing is a whole body experience that is relaxing and fun for all
ages. This workshop is perfect for mums, dads and grandparents to
do with their little monkeys.
Children at this stage are busy learning language and when they
explore and enjoy their natural singing voices at the same time,
it will reap lifelong benefits.
24Wednesday
23 October
10am and 11.15am
Old Laverton School
Corner of Kiora Street and
Cameron Avenue, Altona Meadows
Tickets Running time
Adult $10 45 minutes
Children $5 no interval
Limited seating
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Mums, dads,
grandparents
and kids
CELEBRATING
NATIONAL
CHILDREN’S
DAY 2019
25This is Eden
by Emily Goddard
Sit back, relax and be transported...
1839. Cascades Female Factory, Hobart Town. In a solitary cell, on the
edge of survival, a ‘sleek little savage’ waits alone in the darkness.
Left for dead, ten thousand miles from home, she plots escape and
reveals, with biting mockery, the untold tales of her captors. In a
Green Room Award nominated performance described as ‘fearless’
and ‘nauseatingly exquisite’, Emily Goddard and acclaimed theatre
director Susie Dee bring to life a dark, humorous and provocative
‘anti-bonnet drama’ inspired by the rebellion and resistance of the
female convicts of Van Diemen’s Land.
Using the French clowning technique of bouffon, where outcasts
ridicule and provoke those in power, Goddard and Dee tread a
fine line between the grotesque and charming to uncover an
extraordinary chapter of rebellion and survival that has seemingly
escaped our nation’s history lesson. Harrowing and hilarious,
This is Eden is at once an examination of our dark past, a parody
of the way we perceive it and a vital call to arms.
26Thursday
24 October
7.30pm
Altona Theatre
115 Civic Parade, Altona
Tickets Running time
Adult $35 75 minutes
Concession $25 no interval
Groups (10+) $25
Bookings
www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
Historic Drama
Coarse language, adult themes.
Suitable for ages 16+
Image: Sarah Walker
27Community theatre
in Hobsons Bay
Williamstown Musical Altona City
Theatre Company Theatre
Formed in 1956, WMTC is administered by a Altona City Theatre (ACT) is a community
volunteer committee of management who theatre company which resides in the
aim to establish and develop, nurture and Council’s Altona Theatre. ACT produces
encourage the performing arts and musical high quality musical theatre to audiences
theatre within the City of Hobsons Bay and throughout the western suburbs and has
the broader community. been active for over 40 years. ACT also runs
The next couple of years will form exciting a very successful junior theatre program
times for our very own award winning ACTion Youth Theatre which has been
Williamstown Musical Theatre Company educating children in the performing arts
(WMTC) and the much loved Williamstown for over 20 years.
Mechanics Institute, WMTC’s home. Council 2019 Season
is undertaking works to the Williamstown Please keep an eye on their website for
Mechanics Institute and the venue will be programming information.
closed throughout 2019 to 2020. WMTC will
be running their performance seasons from For more information about the company
The Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, and to purchase tickets for any of their shows,
Williamstown. please visit www.altonacitytheatre.com.au
or call 0425 705 550
2019 Season
Rock of Ages – 3 to 18 May 2019
Aladdin Junior – 2 to 11 August 2019
A Chorus Line – 8 to 16 November 2019 Williamstown Little Theatre
For more information about the company Hobsons Bay is also home to Williamstown
and to purchase tickets to any of their Little Theatre who are located at 2/4 Albert
shows, please visit www.wmtc.org.au Street, Williamstown. Their program is
or call 1300 881 545 available at www.wlt.org.au
28Venues for hire
Altona Theatre Old Laverton School Williamstown Williamstown
115 Civic Parade, Altona Corner of Kiora Town Hall Mechanics Institute
(Mel Ref: Page 54 H10) Street and 104 Ferguson Street, Corner of Melbourne
Cameron Avenue, Williamstown Road and Electra
Altona Theatre is a Altona Meadows (Mel Ref: Page 56 C8) Street, Williamstown
244 seat proscenium (Mel Ref: Page 53 E1) (Mel Ref: Page 56 C9)
arch theatre. It offers The Williamstown
a large green room, Old Laverton School Town Hall is one of Williamstown
two dressing rooms is a single room the most significant Mechanics Institute
and ample parking. school house built heritage buildings is one of a small
The theatre also in 1888 and is one of in Melbourne’s west. number of Mechanics
includes unrestricted the last of its kind It is the home to Institute buildings
viewing from raked in the Melbourne many prestigious in Victoria, with the
seating and a metropolitan area. events including rear hall built in 1860,
kiosk to purchase The venue offers the acclaimed making it one of
refreshments. This heritage character, Williamstown Melbourne’s oldest.
venue is available a quiet street, huge Literary Festival, Mobil
for hire as a theatre windows affording Night at the Opera, The Williamstown
for performing arts, natural light and Art & Industry and Mechanic’s Institute is
cinema screenings, excellent on site Arts at Your Doorstep! closed for restoration.
lectures, seminars amenities. Whether
and graduation you are looking for There are three
ceremonies. a classy rehearsal/ premier settings which
drama read-through include the Ballroom,
space, or a quiet the Supper Room
dedicated meeting and the Chamber.
room, Old Laverton Each is suitable
School could be the for conferences,
perfect venue. weddings, cocktail
parties with varying
capacity. The Chamber
and Supper Room
are ideally suited to
traditional intimate
occasions, while
the Ballroom suits
larger scale functions
including receptions,
stage productions,
weddings and balls.
There are also meeting
rooms available for hire.
29Hobsons Bay is truly
a creative city. With
arts, exhibitions, events
and culture happening
around the city all year
round, locals and visitors
aren’t short of wonderful
things to see and do.
Sign up to our Arts and Events eNews:
www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/artsenews
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updates and information about all the
exciting things coming up in Hobsons Bay:
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30Places to visit
The Substation Woods Street Seaworks
1 Market Street, Newport Arts Space 82 Nelson Place,
substation.org.au 44 Woods Street, Laverton Williamstown
facebook.com/ www.seaworks.com.au
The Joel Gallery woodsstreetarts
5 Sargood Street, Altona Scienceworks
Public Art 2 Booker Street,
ljac.com.au
Various locations Spotswood
hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/ musuemvictoria.com.au/
publicart scienceworks
Events and Festivals 2019
Check out some of the events taking place in Hobsons Bay
this year, lots of great ways to explore our city
SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
Summer Sounds and Eat Drink Westside Williamstown
Movies By The Bay Various locations Literary Festival
Various locations melbournefood Williamstown Town
hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au andwine.com.au Hall and Library
willylitfest.org.au
Midsumma Westside OzAct Shakespeare
Various locations Williamstown Newport Folk Festival
sunsetcinema.com.au Botanic Gardens Various locations
ozact.com newportfolkfestival.org.au
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Williamstown Newport Lakes Bush Dance Eid Festival
Botanic Gardens Newport Lakes Seaworks
essentialtheatre.com.au Amphitheatre seaworks.com.au
nffc.org.au
Laverton Festival Altona Beach Film Festival
Epsom Street, Laverton Block Party Screening Altona
facebook.com/ Woods and Lohse Streets, altonabeach
LavertonFestival Laverton filmfestival.com.au
hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
Vernon Street Festival
Vernon Street, Heritage Hobsons Bay
South Kingsville Various locations *Dates and details
facebook.com/ hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au subject to change
vernonstreet3015
Altona Truck
and Trade Show
Melbourne Ball Park
truckandtradeshow.com.au
Paint The Gardens
Williamstown
Botanic Gardens
31Register today Register to receive the Hobsons Bay Arts and Events e-newsletter. www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/artsenews Telephone bookings (03) 9932 4074 www.hobsonsbaytickets.com.au
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