Mungangga Garlagula
Sitting Around the Fire at Night
Wednesday, November 27 @ 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Created by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim. Presented by Tura.
Mungangga Garlagula is a collaboration in music, sound and story by legendary Indigenous performer Mark Atkins and renowned Australian/Finnish composer and performer Erkki Veltheim.
Audiences are invited to join Mark by the “campfire”, and to travel with him as he takes us across the border between day and night, dream and reality, the reverberating past and the emerging future.
Together with a company of exceptional Australian musicians who have created a shifting bed of sound for the work, Mark and Erkki lead us into a nocturnal world of memories, echoes, spirits and dreams. Conjuring country through words and breath, the snapping of branches and the play of shadows between the listener by the fire and the impenetrable darkness beyond.
Intimate and epic, playful and piercing, Mungangga Garlagula is an evening of rich story telling and virtuosic didjeridu that restores the experience of listening with the whole body. It draws us together with new attention on a deeply human journey of disorientation, reorientation and homecoming.
Venue
Main TheatreAge Restriction
General (G). Children under the age of 18 years must be accompanied by an adult as the bar will be open.Consumer Advice
Recommended for audiences 15+. Smoke/hazeRun-Time
70-75 minutes, no intervalTicket Prices
Adults $43 / Conc (pension/health care card holders) $33 / ArtsMR Members $33 / Youth (<16) $28 / Group 10+ $28 / MobTix $10
The Mungangga Garlagula Tour has been made possible with the support of the Western Australian State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries’ Regional Arts and Cultural Investment Program and the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Mungangga Garlagula was commissioned by Tura with the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia and Ulrike Klein AO.
The development of Mungangga Garlagula was supported by Ukaria Arts Centre and Finding Our Voice Festival.
Photo by Kristian Gehradte.
