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MINTO:LIVE 2011
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MINTO:LIVE
Campbelltown Arts Centre
The streets of Minto and the Minto Amphitheatre
January 20, 21, 22
With performances by: Lone Twin (UK), Gwendoline Robin (BEL), Hetain Patel (IND/UK), Nicole Barakat (AUS), Caitlin Newton Broad (AUS), Blood & Thunder Press (AUS), Freddie Hill (AUS), Sweet Tonic Choir (AUS), Minto Tongan Tapa Group, students from Sarah Redfern Primary School and Minto residents.
How did a suburban arts centre become one of the hottest contemporary arts destinations?
– Sydney Morning Herald
For three nights in January, the streets of the Western Sydney suburb of Minto will become the backdrop for MINTO:LIVE, a landmark cultural event presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre. Minto is a unique suburb of Campbelltown that is currently undergoing significant urban renewal and demographic change, with many new and diverse communities moving into the area. Over the next few months, Minto is set to become a fully master-planned community with the development of 800 new private and 230 new public homes, new streetscapes, parks and community facilities, all of which will be springing to life for this huge site-specific Sydney Festival event – the first of its kind in NSW.
Audiences walk a 1km route through the suburban streets of Minto to experience contemporary Australian stories, site-specific installation and intimate everyday choreographies in eight new contemporary performance works. The people of Minto are working in collaboration with a selection of critically acclaimed national and international contemporary artists, including UK’s Lone Twin, Belgium’s Gwendoline Robin, Indian artist Hetain Patel and Australia’s Nicole Bakarat.
Collaboration is key to MINTO:LIVE with each new work made in direct consultation with local residents, including school children from Sarah Redfern Primary School, women from the local embroidery guild, the Minto Tongan Tapa Group and members of the local senior citizen choir Sweet Tonic.
Renowned UK Company Lone Twin (Melbourne International Arts Festival 2007 and 2008) will collaborate with eight Minto households to create Street Dance – a playful and moving act of storytelling, presented through contemporary dance. In a series of personal and everyday stories about life on their street, this community of ‘non-dancers’ welcomes audiences to their doorstep stage.
Australian artist Nicole Barakat has invited local residents to donate a piece of fabric or clothing, all of which are being transformed onsite into a large-scale textiles installation.
Camden-based composer and jazz musician Freddie Hill is collaborating with 9 local trumpeters to create a site-specific orchestra work performed along Minto’s Guernsey Ave.
Somewhere between Bolton, Samoa, Tonga and India, three men make a journey of discovery. Taking music and the Indian rhythm cycle of ten as a starting point, Indian/UK artists Hetain Patel, in collaboration with two local Pacific Islander drummers, will create TEN, a performance that delves with endearing honesty and humour into the much-discussed (and typically dry) question of cultural identity. Stand-up humour meets spoken text and strong physical movement, all set to the intoxicating backdrop of Indian rhythm.
And every night MINTO:LIVE closes with a spectacular pyrotechnic performance by Belgian artist, Gwendoline Robin.
MINTO:LIVE further contributes to Campbelltown City Council’s ongoing commitment to delivering an arts and cultural program with meaning and relevance to its local communities.
Campbelltown Arts Centre: MINTO:LIVE 2011 