Full Festival Program and Information

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Full Festival Program and Information
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About The Container Festival
The 2015 Container Festival is a bold enterprise from Monash Uni Student Theatre - a dynamic multi-artform, multi-venue
arts festival presented at Monash Clayton this August!
Shipping containers set up as performance venues, a vibrant “Hub” and lounge bar located in the MUST theatre and other
surprising spaces will be filled with innovative new work of all shapes and sizes. You’ll experience music, dance, theatre, visual
art, games, burlesque, interactive performances, poetry, talks, exhibitions and more!
The festival launches Friday 31st July in The Hub from 6pm until late with free entry. Featuring an impressive line-up of festival
artists, guests will get a sneak preview of the diverse work on offer, meet the artists, and enjoy a sensational party!
There are a number of ways to enjoy festival events:
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By purchasing a Festival Pass, which allows entry into any festival event - that’s over 300 options - with a booking ($59).
By purchasing a Night Pass, which allows entry into any festival event on one specific date, with a booking ($15).
By purchasing one-off tickets for individual events ($2 - $10).
By attending Free Events and relaxing in The Hub.
To book tickets:
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In Person: Anyone may book for any Festival Pass or individual event using cash, EFTPOS or credit at the Box Office,
located just outside the front of The Festival Hub. Box Office hours during the festival are generally 5pm – 10pm.
Online: Festival Passes, Night Passes and one-off tickets may be purchased online at www.containerfestival.com.au using
a valid Australian credit card.
 Purchasing a one-off ticket automatically books and guarantees you entry into the single event you have nominated,
as long as you attend on time.
 Purchasing a Festival Pass will not automatically book you into any shows. After your purchase you will be emailed a
code that you can enter online to book any festival event at no cost. The Festival Pass is for use by a single person.
 Purchasing a Night Pass will similarly not automatically book you into any shows. After your purchase you will be
emailed a code that you can enter online to book any festival event on the night you have purchased the pass for, at
no cost. The Night Pass is for use by a single person only.
Please be aware when booking online that a separate event page exists for separate dates and times of a show. Make
sure you are purchasing for the correct time and date prior to submitting you payment details.
Once you have booked your ticket (either individually or via a pass) you’re all good to go! All shows will start promptly at their
designated time, just ensure you are inside at The Hub no later than 5 minutes before the scheduled start time. One of our
wonderful Front of House volunteers with a green bandana will collect you and take you to your venue, easy as that!
Monash – the place to experience art and entertainment this August!
Program updates available via containerfestival.com.au & msa.monash.edu.au/must
facebook.com/musttheatre facebook.com/TheContainerFestival
Enquiries: MUST 9905 8173 [email protected]
The Hub is located in The MUST Space: Ground Floor, West, Campus Centre, 21 Chancellors Walk, Monash University, Clayton
With a festival that encourages the creation of new challenging work, there may be content that some viewers could find
challenging. We encourage audiences to read the blurbs in the program and online carefully and use their discretion when
booking for events. If you have any enquiries please call or email using the details above.
If you are interested in bringing children along to the festival, please check with MUST about the family friendliness of the
shows you are thinking of attending.
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What to do when you arrive:
All shows will start promptly at their designated time, so if you need to purchase a ticket from our lovely Box Office
volunteers (located at the entrance to The Hub) please arrive with plenty of time to spare. Peak periods can get very busy so
we recommend arriving more than 20 minutes before the commencement of the show.
Once you buy your ticket (or if you have pre-purchased a ticket online) make yourself comfortable, check-in your coat if
you're warm and have a drink and some food - just ensure that by 5 minutes before the scheduled starting time of your
performance all food is eaten, drinks are drunk and you are inside The Hub. One of our wonderful Front of House Volunteers
with a green bandana will collect you from there and take you to your venue, easy as that! Please don't head directly to the
performance venue, our ushers will check you in from The Hub and take you to the venue as a group. If you head straight to
the venue then our ushers will be confused and looking for you in The Hub. Please note some food (e.g. pizzas) take time to
cook so, as food is ordered through the bar, ask one of our friendly bar vollies what the expected waiting time is before
ordering prior to a show. Other than bottled water, no food or drinks should be consumed in the containers or The Garland.
Feel lost? Have a Question? Want someone to chat to?
This year for The MUST Container Festival we are introducing a helpful uniform for all our volunteers. If you’re looking for
help and not too sure who to ask, look for the staff wearing bandanas! Staff bandanas are an easy way to know who is doing
what, seeing as they’re all colour-coded, not to mention stylish.
- Those wearing a black bandana are our Technical Volunteers for the evening. They’re very busy and while they can answer
your question, they have their hands full. But do report to them if you are an artist with an issue!
- If you have a general question or need help with anything at the festival, look for our team in the white bandanas. They are
our Hub Managers and Assistants for the evening and are there to make sure everything is running smoothly in The Hub and
everyone is having a good time. They want you to talk to them and ask as many questions as you need!
- The Bar Volunteers will be wearing red bandanas. Food is ordered from the bar.
- The Food Volunteers will be wearing blue bandanas.
- And finally, our Ticketing and Ushering Volunteers will be wearing green bandanas, which should be easy enough to
remember because when you see green, you go! To your show!
With our now extremely easily identifiable staff members, all your 2015 MUST Container Festival needs should be well and
truly satisfied.
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The inaugural ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival is a unique creative experience within The Container Festival, designed to artistically
engage the Monash community and foster an environment of collaboration. Through this event, we’re hoping to spark the
beginnings of a thriving film culture at Monash, to inspire Monash students with a passion for film and to facilitate new
artistic connections and friendships.
What is it?
Ever wanted to create your own short film? Now’s your chance! The ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival is The 2015 Container
Festival’s very own short film-making competition. Over one crazy week, you and a team have the chance to create your own
bite-sized movie using only the magic of your smartphone! Android, iPhone, other? It doesn’t matter! The finished films will
be shown in a special showcase screening for an audience of filmmakers and friends on Friday 14 August. There’s even a
chance to be crowned The Best of The Phone-It-In Film Festival!
What does it involve?
For creative inspiration, registered teams will be assigned a genre at random, ranging from drama to comedy, horror and
beyond! Films must also include a special ‘Mystery Object’. This object will be announced at the Kick -Off Event on Monday 3
August, as well as on the official ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival Facebook page.
Films must be shot using only a smartphone, and must run between 45 seconds and 4 minutes. Films must be submitted to
the MUST Office on DVD/flash drive or digitally via a Dropbox link to the official ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival e-mail by 7:30pm
Monday 10 August. Late submissions cannot be accepted.
When and where?
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Kick-Off Event in The Hub on Monday 3 August, 6.30pm
Registrations close on Monday 3 August, 11.59pm
Completed films must be submitted by Monday 10 August, 7.30pm
Showcase Screening in The Garland on Friday 14 August, 7:15pm
How do I get involved?
If you’re interested in being part of ‘The Phone-It-In’ Film Festival or have any questions, please contact Festival Curator,
Harrison Packer via: [email protected]
You will be sent a registration form along with the rules of the festival. Forms will also be available for completion at the KickOff Event on Monday 3 August. They are due on Monday 3/8 at 11.59pm via the official email, or in person at the Kick-Off.
Festival rules and guidelines are also available on the official Festival Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/phoneitinfestival2015
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THE MUST CONTAINER FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Pieces listed by title, in alphabetical order, disregarding “The”
Digital copy available via msa.monash.edu/must
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Festival Launch Showcase and Opening Night Party!
Date & time: Fri 31/7, 6pm until late
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Featuring an impressive line-up of festival artists, guests will get a sneak preview of the diverse work on offer,
meet the artists and enjoy a sensational party!
The festival bar will be open and we'll also be serving freshly made pizzas, nachos and other delicious treats.
Doors will open at 6pm and the festivities will kick off soon after.
Get excited for our dazzling hosts Jordan Broadway & Imogen Walsh; visitations from glowing jellyfish; rock/pop
band PIKNIC, featuring Tara Leigh Dowler; magic from Hugo Ménard; stand up from Michael Shafar; burlesque
artiste Ira Luxuria; devilish ditties from Gale Force; soulful tunes from Chloë Violette, Mama Alto and Baby
Drivers; The PhilosoRAPtors and some special surprises.
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Said My Muse to Me, “Look in thy Heart, and Write.”
Dates & Times: Throughout the festival
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Jarryd Redwood
Every word in the English language, every book written in English, every play, every poster, every poem, is
fashioned from but 26 letters used in a series of different patterns.
How can one possibly express the depths of the soul, the abstraction of the mind, or the yearnings of the heart
with but 26 letters? Placed in The Festival Hub, a number of journals containing various writing experiments will
assist in the releasing the words within. We invite you to engage at your will.
--------A Saw Spot
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9.25pm | Tues 11/8, 9.35pm| Thurs 13/8, 6pm |Fri 14/8, 8.45pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
Performed by Rohan Dimsey
Experience a night of music like you never have before. A night where you will see and hear music transform in
front of your eyes and ears. It will become something you never thought you'd encounter, and may never
encounter again!
Rohan shows off his musical talent in weird, strange, and beautifully bizarre ways that only he knows how.
Featuring Yann the Accordion, Amiina the Musical Saw, Billy and the Joels, The Harmonicas and many others.
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A Study of Cotton in Clouds
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Daphne Ng
A series of fine art photographs that explore surrealism in daily life, embracing a play between cotton, clouds, and
other elements; often blurring the line between real life and what we would expect to see in a fantasy world.
Drawing on her personal life, Daphne is more prone to using friends or herself rather than models as the subjects
of her pieces while obstructing faces for a sense of anonymity. A Study of Cotton in Clouds is an ongoing project.
--------Achording to Script
Dates & Times: Wed 12/8, 9.25pm | Thurs 13/8, 7.45pm & 9.15pm | Fri 14/8, 7.55pm & 9.25pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Aislinn Murray, Oliver Bailey & Rhian Wilson
Whether it’s Bob Dylan’s Hurricane or Billy Joel’s lonely Piano Man, the worlds of storytelling and song writing are
forever inextricably linked. Join Aislinn, Oliver and Rhian for a session of storytelling through song, as they perform a
collection of familiar tunes and lesser known gems. Using their own raw voices, supported by the musical sounds of
selected household objects, this is a performance that will evoke your imagination, get your feet tapping, and leave
you thirsting for more!
--------Acoustic Sessions with Carl the Traveller
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 7.55pm | Tues 11/8, 8.10pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
and
Date & Time: Fri 14/8, 6.10pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Performed by Carl Wu
Do you know what it feels like to be out of place? Do you know what it feels like to live a double life? Do you know
what it’s like when your loved ones don’t understand you at all because you’re in two different worlds?
Carl Wu (aka Carl the Traveller) is not just an artist, singers or musician. He is like every single one of you - real
flesh and blood. Come and listen to his tales, shared through unique personal songs.
--------An Evening with Chris & Jess
Date & Time: Mon 10/8, 6.15pm - 10.15pm (Durational piece. Stay as long as you wish, entry and exit every 15
mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $3 tokens for entry throughout the evening via the box office
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Created and performed by Chris Edwards & Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty
Joan Rivers is gone, Letterman is retiring, and Oprah… Well she’s still great, but all three of them live on in the
hearts of their worthy children: Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty & Chris Edwards. They may be young, but boy have
they got what it takes to give you a good time - cue slightly tanned wink emoji. Off the back of their much-lauded
triumph as hosts of the 2014 MUST Wrap Party, they return to give the people what they want - four straight
hours of glamour, debauchery, pizazz and razzmatazz. Gird your loins, friends.
--------Animals
Dates & Times: Mon 10/8, 7.05pm | Tues 11/8, 7.30pm | Fri 14/8, 8.40pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Oliver Coleman
Most of us have some idea about the facts of animal agriculture. Most of us are naturally sympathetic to the
suffering of animals. We cringe when we see someone kick their dog. We admonish zoos that keep their bears in
small concrete cages. So, if all of this is true, why do we still participate in the exploitation of animals for our
food? It can’t be as simple as “because it tastes good.” There must be something else at play.
--------Baby Drivers
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8.15pm (30 mins) | Wed 12/8, 5.45pm (50 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Rhys Auteri & Monica White
Rhys Auteri is a musician, writer and jack of all trades. With an ear for a great melody, his influences include The
Kinks, Neil Finn and Jens Lekman. He recently toured New Zealand in Sarah Collins’ award-winning show Bucket’s
List (directed by one of the festival co-curators!) as a singing possum with a penchant for classic love songs. Rhys
and Monica White have been performing as the Baby Drivers for over a decade in numerous alleyways and bars
across Melbourne.
--------Bedtime Stories for Girls
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8.45pm | Tues 4/8, 9.35pm | Fri 7/8, 6.20pm & 9.40pm | Wed 12/8, 7.20pm| Fri 14/8,
6.15pm (30mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
Written by Genevieve Atkins, Directed by Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty, Performed by Emily Stokes, Hayley Foster,
Imogen Walsh & Aislinn Murray
Concerned parents, pubescent boys, young girls: tonight your dreams come true, you can be a fly on the wall at a
real sleepover club. Who knows what will happen behind these walls? Gossip? Makeovers? Sexy pillow fights?
Every little girl wants to be a good little girl. And every girl loves a good sleepover. Hanging out in your jim-jams
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with your gal pals. What fun. Come along and join in. Hunker down, it’s going to be a long night.
Content warning: body shaming, gendered and general violence, explicit sexual references. 18+
--------Between the Lines
Dates & Times: Throughout the Festival
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Ryan Pola
This ensemble of works explores what can be created with line. Through deliberation and repetition, Ryan has
brought to life the discrepancies that can occur when one tries to clasp control of something not designed to be
controlled. Ryan finds beauty in the aesthetically pleasing and has tried to replicate this through figure and form.
--------BJ’s Bingo Bonanza
Date & Time: Mon 3/8, 7pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created and presented by Brendan Jellie
What do ‘Two Little Ducks’, ‘A Baker’s Dozen’ and ‘A Knock at the Door’ have in common? BINGO of course! Come
along and join the fun as The Hub hosts a session of classic Bingo games. Stay for a few games or just pop in
between shows. Genuine $2-shop-quality prizes to be won!
--------Blessed - Reading & Forum
Date & Time: Mon 3/8, 7.20pm (1hr 40 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Written by Fleur Kilpatrick, Directed by Danny Delahunty, Performed by Olivia Monticciolo & Kevin KiernanMolloy
“You’re blessed.”
“You serious?” “Deadly.” “Fuck.”
In a shitty flat sit two shitty people, shitty lives hanging out all over the place. And something is moving in the
cosmos. Fate or God, or some shit. The world needs saving. Someone to switch the power back on and light up
the whole fucking mess. Epic, yeah? A reading of a new work followed by a panel discussion on adapting
mythology and collaboration between writers and directors.
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Brandis Your Artrage - Interactive Collage
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
The George Brandis Live Art Experience Facebook page was launched following the minister's announcement that
$104 million in funding would be cut from the Australia Council of the Arts. That money, Brandis said, would be
used to establish a National Programme for Excellence in the Arts, overseen by a committee hand-picked by
himself, in place of the peer-reviewed, non-partisan system employed by the Australia Council. Following a
national campaign to #FreeTheArts, people have been photoshopping Brandis onto famous artworks.
Join in and make your own low-fi collage version in The Hub. We’ve got the materials ready for you!
--------The Business We Call Show
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 8.40pm | Thurs 6/8, 9.35pm | Fri 7/8, 6.05pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Daniel Lodder
It’s a design for living, this business. The good stuff has a bit of blithe spirit, but really it’s just a cavalcade of
private lives and brief encounters, all made to have us waiting in the wings. Not a bad thing; I was no different. I
felt those hands from across the sea, Hollywood’s loud, heavy intoxicating touch, from the youngest of ages. I
never wanted anything else. Which is why I’m not going to tell you why Noel Coward was called the master. I’m
going to show you, by ways and means, exactly why Noel Coward is not just another still life. He had a much
simpler, and altogether easier, virtue.
--------Cabaret Fortune Cookie
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9.15pm | Tues 4/8, 9.30pm | Fri 7/8, 9.25pm | Mon 10/8, 9.20pm | Thurs 13/8, 9.25pm
(45 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $8
Curated by Sophie Jevons with Jack Beeby, Hosted by Jack Beeby
A crowd favourite of previous festivals, the variety show Cabaret Fortune Cookie returns to The Garland for more
spectacular performances. Hosted once more by notorious cabaret provocateur Jack Beeby, we have a new array
of rotating acts. Enjoy a selection of the best music, burlesque, comedy, dance and cabaret from in and around
the festival: the pick of the bunch, plus a few very special guests. Come taste the cookie!
--------Change
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 7.05pm| Fri 7/8, 8.10pm| Wed 12/8 6.10pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $8
Directed by John Preston, Written by Zoe Brinnand, Written and performed by Carolyn Davies, Jordan Dennis,
Terence Grainger, Joseph Lai, Charlotte Righetti & Mike Wetzel, Image by Lilli Fender
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In this performance you’ll experience a menagerie of short stories relating to the theme 'change'. The pieces vary
from comedy to drama; they are honest, funny and absurd. Change will take you on a journey from a dog’s
nightmarish trip to the vet, to the overwhelming options faced on a visit to the supermarket, and even the secret
life of an opera-singing janitor.
--------Channon and the Dale
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 8pm | Thurs 6/8, 6.45pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Callum Dale & Lyndsay Channon
Accomplished vocalist Lyndsay Channon (Mackay Carols by Candlelight and other prestigious events) joins rock ‘n’
roll legend Callum Dale for a night of acoustic covers and easy listening music your mum would enjoy. With her
country twang and his love of anything prior to 1979, this unlikely couple is sure to set your hearts and ears on
fire. The perfect accompaniment to a glass of shiraz or ice cold beer, this is pub-style music at its best…ish.
--------Chloë Violette Acoustic Sessions
Up Close and Personal:
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 6.20pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.50pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
In Concert:
Date & Time: Tues 11/8, 6.50pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Chloë Violette Smith
Come join folk singer-songwriter, Chloë Violette, on a whimsical and heartfelt journey told through original songs
and covers. Inspired by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Ben Howard, London Grammar and Angus & Julia Stone, Chloë’s
unique and engaging music appeals to a vast range of enthusiasts. She creates a captivating, unique sound
through her combination of delicate, finger-picked acoustic guitar and mystifying vocals. Escape reality for a little
while- you MUST.
--------Close Up Wonders
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8.45pm & 9.10pm | Tues 4/8, 9.30pm & 9.55pm | Wed 5/8, 9.10pm & 9.35pm | Tues
11/8, 7.30pm & 7.55pm (15 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $3
Created and performed by Hugo Ménard
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Come and experience intimate close-up magic. Be present when wonders transpire centimetres away from your
eyes. No camera tricks, no big illusions, no fancy contraptions, just pure magic. Suspend your disbelief, if only for a
few minutes, and be part of the impossible. You get to touch the magic and be in conversation as the impossible
unfolds before you.
--------Closing Gala Extravaganza
Date & Time: Sat 15/8, 6.30pm - late (doors open at 6pm)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: $10
Curated by Sophie Jevons & Jack Beeby, Hosted by Luis Viota & Jack Beeby
To finish off the 2015 Container Festival with pizazz, we proudly present to you the Closing Gala Extravaganza - an
evening of cabaret, burlesque, music, dance, comedy and other such goodies from in and around the festival!
Join hosts-with-the-mosts devilish Jack Beeby and delightful Luis Viota for a variety show with bells on and drinks
at the festival bar for the final night. See out this year’s festival in style and come celebrate MUST in the best
possible way!
--------Colossal Impro (Funny on the Inside)
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 8.05pm | Wed 5/8, 6.15pm | Fri 7/8, 7.55pm | Wed 12/8, 8.30pm | Fri 14/8, 6.55pm (45
mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Patrick Collins & Sean Tyssen
After a series of sell out shows at last year’s Container Festival, Colossal Impro is back with their funniest show
yet… possibly. Completely improvised and based on audience suggestions, Colossal Impro (Funny on the Inside)
promises a night of true hilarity (we can’t actually promise that, but hey, we’re improvising). With all your
favourite impro games and some brand new creations, Pat and Tyssen will present the funniest show you’ve seen
in your life. All claims made in this blurb aren’t based on fact, and thus, do not constitue grounds for legal action.
--------Comedy at Clayton
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $10
Curated by Michael Shafar & David Rose
Comedy at Clayton is a 90-minute showcase of some of the best up-and-coming comedians of the Melbourne
comedy scene. These comics have performed at comedy and fringe festivals around the country to sell-out
audiences. For one night only, the future of the Melbourne comedy scene is all in one place.
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Coming and Going
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Natasha Brennfleck & Luka Janicijevic
These photographic works present the exploration of environments that symbolise adulthood and independence
for these two young artists, Natasha Brennfleck and Luka Janicijevic. Natasha has moved into suburbia for the first
time and her images capture the stillness of living in such close quarters. Luka explores the urbanised
environment of Melbourne, experienced as a young independent adult. While each artist responds to their
environment differently, both capture the feeling of newly-acquired adulthood through their explorations.
--------Crooked Corners
Up Close and Personal:
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 9.30pm| Tues 11/8, 9.30pm | Fri 14/8, 9.30pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Performed by Daniel Cooper
In Concert:
Date & Time: Wed 5/8, 7.50pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Daniel Cooper, featuring Thomas Waltrich
Crafty singer-songwriter material with an experimental edge: guitar, vocals, kalimba, harmonica, loops and effects
all included. It’s solo music extraordinaire, both innovative and entertaining. Born of a love for a wide spectrum of
music, Crooked Corners operates under the strong influence of post-rock, folk, jazz and West African music.
Expect tunes that will simultaneously transport you to your fondest childhood memories, ignite your passion and
confront your darkest fears.
--------Descent
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 7.55pm| Thurs 6/8, 8.40pm | Fri 7/8, 8.55pm | Tues 11/8, 9.25pm| Fri 14/8, 7pm (40
mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Written and directed by James O’Donoghue, Sound Design by Matt Alden, Performed by Angus Attwood, Image
by Piper Huynh
When Orpheus' wife died he was understandably pretty upset. Eurydice, not so much, and not just because dead
people don’t have feelings. Orpheus got mad at the world and stuff, so he sung a bit. His songs were nasty, his
songs were angry, his songs were hella angsty. It takes a particular type of music to change the world. Then, like
the plot of a poorly written action film, he can have her back now if he can make it to hell and back again.
Don’t Look Back.
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--------Disney Night Extravaganza!
Date & Time: Sat 1/8, 6.30pm - 10pm or later (doors open at 6pm)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: $10
Curated by Monash Disney Society members including Lucinda Walravens, Kirsten Hood, Josh Owies & Sian
Halloran
Do you like Disney?? TRICK QUESTION! THE ANSWER IS YES!
Coming to The Container Festival for one night only: a chance to dwell on and enjoy all things Disney. Think Disney
and think big! This Saturday evening is going to be a shining, shimmering, magical event, larger than Pride Rock,
and deeper than the Beautiful Briny Sea featuring a Disney Quiz Show, Karaoke, Dance, and more! Be prepared to
Get Down to Business and have a ball!
--------The Don Tango Trio
Date & Time: Thurs 13/8, 9.20 (45 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Natasha Broadstock, Dario Ogrin & Maurizio Gulina
The Don Tango Trio evokes the fire and the flavour of Argentine street music, with a contemporary Australian
twist. Three classically trained Melbourne musicians - Dario Ogrin (saxophone), Maurizio Gulina (guitar) and
Natasha Broadstock (bassoon) - channel the pulsing energy and driving rhythms of the tango: that dramatic,
passionate yet earthy music which grew out of the slums of Buenos Aires. The trio’s repertoire contains vibrant
original works by Ogrin and Gulina, who have also crafted striking new arrangements of classic tango pieces.
--------Doodle Wall
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Conceived by Jack Beeby
Constantly drawing pictures throughout your day? Always find yourself with a pencil in your hand? Come and add
to our Wall of Doodles at The Container Festival Hub, and create your own beautifully framed doodle artwork. NB:
Phallic imagery may provoke censorship.
--------Drag///Strip
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 8.20pm | Wed 5/8, 6.25pm | Tues 11/8, 6.50pm | Wed 12/8, 8.15pm (25 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
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Created by Genevieve Atkins, Performed by Emily Stokes & Genevieve Atkins
Drag///Strip is a double bill drag and strip show. In some senses it’s exactly what the title suggests, in others, not
so much. But rest assured, it’ll be raunchy, sexy and provocative. These girls plan to knock your socks off. Or at the
very least, strip them off, place them in their teeth and marvel at your exposed, naked ankles. Be gentle, it’s their
first time.
Content warning: the subject matter of this show may offend or shock some audience members.
--------Drums Are Music Too
Date & Time: Tues 11/8, 8.20pm | (50 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Performed by Thomas Waltrich
In this solo performance, drummer and now apparently avid recycler, Thomas Waltrich, wants to prove that
drums are music too. Combining a drum kit with metal plates, brake pads, a suspension spring, bottle caps,
Mardis Gras beads and a plastic bag (seriously... a plastic bag) Thomas intends to create sounds and rhythmic
motion to form a narrative. The narrative is dependent on the listener's own attention and imagination to define
the significance of each sound.
--------Equilibrium
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9.40pm | Thurs 6/8, 9.40pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Alternative Rock band featuring Brett Larner, Patrick Tanner, Jack McDonald, Daniel Xue & Krshna Moriani
What happens when you smash five extremely talented musicians together? Something out of Simon Cowell's
dreams. But what happens when a band of friends collide to realise that they all play the same musical note? The
story starts with three new friends who discovered a shared love of music. After a few sessions of pure rocking
out, they met two others who followed suit and thus, Equilibrium was born. Equilibrium is five friends who only
know one thing when together - music.
--------Everything is for Sale
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Mimi Petrakis
Everything is for Sale is a series of visual works dealing with the marketability of women’s bodies. The work
questions whether it is possible to form an organic identity in a visual society where the depiction of the female
form is almost indistinguishable from advertising material. By intermingling aesthetically appealing art-nouveau
style imagery with subtle suggestions of the disturbing, Everything is for Sale attempts to perturb viewers into
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questioning the presence of female figures. In aiming to expose objectification, the work also raises questions
about the practice of the artist who is ultimately still exploiting the female figure to make a point.
--------Five Hundred Moving Pieces
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 7.30pm | Wed 5/8, 9.55pm | Thurs 6/8, 6.20pm | Tues 11/8, 6.30pm (15 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $3
Written and directed by James O’Donoghue, Performed by Eliza Quinn & Aislinn Murray, Image by Mimi Petrakis
Alex washes the hair on the body Alex’s consciousness occupies by lathering it in conditioner, then washing it out.
Alex then puts shampoo in it, and washes that out. Pretty weird right? An angel tried to come down to Earth to
correct Alex’s hair washing misconception, but the angel got their dates totally confused and completely missed
Alex. So now the world is going to end. Oh well.
--------Gale Force Wins!!! Hubba-Hubba Edition
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 7.40pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.45pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created and performed by Jack Beeby
Turn off your TV. This shit is reality.
Back by ‘popular’ demand, Six Inches Uncut proudly presents the return of everyone’s favourite game show
nightmare!
Hosted by zero-time Australian TV Week Gold Logie nominee Gale Force, and promising more excitement, thrills
and violence than ever before. Get ready to do away with reason and put your cunning, creativity, wit and
emotional endurance to the test as you desperately scrabble for your chance at fame, fortune and delicious,
delicious glory!
--------The Gentlemen in the Back
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8.55pm | Tues 4/8, 7.15pm | Fri 14/8, 8.30pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Featuring Eamon Coughlan, Jarrad Whitaker & Rumesh Gnanaseelan
Once the rhythm section of a fiery Celtic quintet, the loss of both melody players to greener shores left this trio to
pick up the pieces, and learn to play them. Testing the old adage that limitation breeds creativity, they have found
their voices and made full use of their talents as multi-instrumentalists, also taking the opportunity to build on
their Celtic roots with a diverse array of influences, from broader folk traditions to jazz, rock and metal.
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Hub Vinyl Party
Date & Time: Fri 14/8, 9pm - late (2 hrs max.)
Venue: The Hub
DJed by Brendan Jellie
Love vinyl records? Did you buy anything on Record Store Day? You should bring it along and dance the night
away after two weeks of Container Festival madness! Why not finish off the madness with DJ BJ as he gets back
behind the decks and revives the art of spinning LPs. Listen to your favourite tracks the way they were originally
recorded and dance the night away!
--------InDOCtrination!
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 8.45pm| Wed 12/8, 9.20pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Films and a short Q & A by Harrison Packer
Harrison Packer presents two short documentaries to challenge your perceptions. Play Dead introduces Jason
Beks, a man who has turned his obsession with zombies into a real living. It is a film about imagination,
performance and mortality. Sondr (screened at both the 2015 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and St. Kilda Film
Festival) shares the stories of four young gay men to unravel the phenomenon of Grindr, the world’s largest gay
hook-up app. What follows is an absurd, touching journey through the world of online hook-up culture. Get
inDOCtrinated!
--------James Cerche (Solo)
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 6.20pm | Wed 12/8, 7.25pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by James Cerche
James takes some time off the boards to furnish you with incidental instrumental noodling and solo covers of
some of his favourite artists, past and present. Expect meandering, minimal arrangements for voice, guitar and
drum machine to take the chill off a brisk winter night. Embrace the classics, experience the contemporary, sing
along, and don’t think too much. For fans of Rowland Howard, Bowie and anything that sounds like something.
--------Jewish-ish
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9pm | Fri 7/8, 8.45pm | Mon 10/8, 8.20pm | Wed 12/8, 8.50pm | Thurs 13/8, 9.40pm
(25 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Michael Shafar
Jewish-ish is Michael Shafar’s debut stand-up comedy show exploring his life growing up Jewish on the mean
streets of North Caulfield, canvassing the themes of religion, politics and not being allowed to eat bacon.
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--------Jordan Broadway Has It Covered
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 6.15pm | Wed 12/8, 6.45pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Jordan Broadway
Waiting for that show you really want to see? Waiting for your friends to see that show that they really want to
see? Do just need a bit of a drink break or a wind-down? Or maybe you’re just admiring the statue of Sir John
Monash and you hear something that catches your ear? Well! Come on into The Hub and join Jordan Broadway as
he plays literally none of your favourite songs.
--------Just Try Something
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 7.05pm | Thurs 6/8, 7.20pm | Thurs 13/8, 7.35pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Anthony Jeannot
Following a successful Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut, Anthony Jeannot is running work-inprogress performances of his second show. He’s not sure how to be a better person, fix the world or write a
second show, but he thinks that perhaps the first step is to just try something.
--------Komorebi
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Eddie Harb & colleagues
Komorebi is the enigmatic alternative RnB project of Melbourne singer/producer Eddie Harb. Komorebi mixes dark
electronic atmospheres with grimy 808 kick drums and vulnerable RnB vocals. Reminiscent of artists such as The
Weeknd and Frank Ocean, Komorebi brings much-needed rawness to the genre with intimate, yet powerful vocal
performances. In the midst of recording his debut release, this one-off performance provides a rare opportunity
to experience Komorebi live.
--------Landscapes: Alone
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $3
Created and performed by Conor Misson
Landscapes applies a sensory, reflective storytelling technique to highlight the universality of the human
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experience through significant events from one individual’s life.
Alone: In the wake of the revelations of Rage (see below), the narrator comes face to face with the shattering
reality of all that he aims to hide from. Dreams convey the depths of his isolation and he is now presented at his
most honest and vulnerable.
--------Landscapes: Bliss/Love*
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.50pm | Wed 12/8, 7.05pm (20 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Bliss/Love* is an attempt to understand the word ‘love’ in its many forms. The story of how one bright and sundrenched afternoon delineates, for our narrator, the application of happiness as both a gateway for and a veil of
love.
--------Landscapes: Rage
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 7.05pm | Mon 10/8, 6.30pm (15 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $3
Rage explores the depths of one man’s suppression of Earth’s most (self) destructive force. When faced with the
expectation of calm calculation in the face of everyday life, it may just be that the repetitive nature of life and the
humans that ‘populate it’ are the straw to break the camel’s back.
--------Legends
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 9.15pm | Fri 7/8, 7pm | (60 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $8
Directed by Harley Hefford, Performed by Tom McLean, Elliot Roberts, Carly Milroy & Chris Chosich
Hercules. Eurydice. Gary from Accounts. The mythical names you know and love meet on stage for 60 minutes of
high-concept sketch in the debut comedy: Legends.
Four of Melbourne’s promising stand-ups, improvisers and theatre makers have whipped out their parchment and
quills to bring you a new breed of sketch comedy. They explore myths, fables and folklore in a uniquely absurd
and fast-paced format.
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Love, Sex & Tinder
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 8.40pm | Wed 5/8, 6.20pm | Fri 7/8, 6.55pm | Mon 10/8, 8.35pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Sarah McCormick
Love, Sex & Tinder, friends-with-benefits, pick-up lines, long-distance Skype calls and more. The modern dating
world is a crazy, huge, fun, scary and complicated place. You could say it’s kind of (REALLY) confusing. Come share
in an exploration of the good, the bad and the ugly of today’s dating scene, where together we will try to figure
out exactly what we, our friends, relatives and peers are trying to navigate through.
--------MACHO - Monash A cappella Choir
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 5.45pm | Fri 7/8, 5.45pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Monash A cappella Choir (MACHO) is a free, unauditioned, student-run choir that takes inspiration from a wide
range of genres and artists. We are always looking for new singers, beat-boxers, composers and arrangers, no
experience required. All you need is to enjoy making music and hopefully, learning some new skills. Our repertoire
includes songs like Crazy in Love, Uptown Funk, and a Daft Punk medley.
--------Mama Alto: Behind the Sequins
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 8.05pm | Thurs 6/8, 6.20pm & 9.25pm | Fri 7/8, 6.45pm & 9.25pm (50 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $8
Created and performed by Mama Alto (Benny Dimas), Directed by Alex Beyer
Mama Alto: sequins, glamour, sparkles. Or is she? For her loving, tender farewell performance to Monash Uni
Student Theatre, the cabaret artiste deconstructs and strips back the layers of diva in an intimate, raw and
vulnerable act of storytelling. No costumes. No make-up. No glamour. No illusions. Just her. Just him. Just you.
One last time.
--------Mannix Mystery Night - The Griffin, The Pigeon and The Container
Variety Showcase
Date & Time: Fri 7/8, 6.30pm (3 hours)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Curated by Niamh Hassett, Featuring loads of diverse performers!
A first year, a griffin and a pigeon walk into a container and say, “I’ll have some food, wine and non-stop
entertainment please.” For the second year in a row, Mannix College sends their best and brightest to take to the
MUST stage and entertain us with their talent, wit and devilishly good looks. Performing a variety of acts from a
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variety of genres, this will be a night of good old fashioned beers, food and musical magic.
--------Matt Portelli and Adam Gardner
Dates & Times: Mon 10/8, 6pm | Tues 11/8, 6pm | (45 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by Matthew Portelli & Adam Gardner
If you imagine the Australian, less talented version of Simon & Garfunkel, it would probably be Matt Portelli and
Adam Gardner. But don’t be fooled, these guys are keen to prove otherwise and that must be worth something. In a
marriage of earthy acoustic and sparkly electric guitars, Matt and Adam will play through a variety of catchy covers
ranging from the alternatively cool and obscure, to the downright popular. Sit back, relax, or do whatever feels good
as these gents rip out the harmonies!
--------MCJAF Fire and Light Show!
Dates & Times: Launch Party Fri 31/7, 5.45pm | Mon 3/8, 6pm | Tues 11/8, 6pm (75 mins)
Venue: The Satellites - Outside The Hub
Cost: Free
Performed by members of MCJAF - Monash Club of Juggling and Firetwirling, featuring Bella - Isabella Octigan
Here’s a burning question for you, do you think you can stand the heat? If you do then come and be entertained
by MCJAF. The Monash Club of Juggling and Firetwirling will demonstrate skills in dragon staff, poi, fire-eating,
hula hoops, nunchucks, fire clubs and fire swords. Don’t try these tricks at home, they’re too hot to handle.
--------MoJO Jazz Night
Date & Time: Tues 11/8, 8.15pm (2 hours)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
The Monash Jazz Orchestra (MoJO) is the Monash Philharmonic Society's classy, jazzy stage band. MoJO is fast
developing a name for itself as one of the best big bands around, with regular performances on campus and off.
Featuring two sets of music, including funk, ballads and blues, MoJO promises to keep the music going long after the
other ensembles have stopped!
--------Monorail!
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 6.30pm | Fri 7/8, 8:15pm & 9:30pm | Mon 10/8, 9.35pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Performed by Tara Dowler and Genevieve Atkins
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It’s 6pm on a weeknight and you settle in on the couch with your Maggi 2-Minute Noodles, flicking to
Channel 10 for your daily fix of that cherished dysfunctional, yellow, American family. Monorail! is a
musical tribute to the delightful tunes that made The Simpsons great, including such classics as ‘See
My Vest’, ‘Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?’, and ‘Dr. Zaius, Dr Zaius.’ You are cordially invited to eat our
shorts.
--------MUST Lip Sync Battle
Date & Time: Tues 4/8, 9pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Curated and presented by Charlotte Armstrong with Grace Ulrich, Performed by Patrick Collins, Alex Beyer, Justin
Li, Elly D’arcy, Shamita Sivabalan, Sean Tyssen, Stephen Amos, Samantha Hafey-Bagg… and maybe even you!
You've seen it online, you've seen it on TV, now MUST presents Lip Sync Battle. Watch MUST's stars go head-tohead. Who will walk away victorious? Each person must lip sync the lyrics to two well-known songs to see who is
the best at faking it sincerely.
--------Neon Projections
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Sophia Blackburn
Neon Projections is a group of works that highlight the rich culture, style and background of different individuals.
The artist, Sophia Blackburn, is inspired by the fascinating people she has seen around her Fitzroy neighbourhood:
from burlesque dancers to baristas, bartenders and jazz musicians. She seeks to capture a sort of an essence of
these individuals through colour, shape and expression. Sophia strives to delve further, accentuating the hidden
secrets, sadness, confusion, confidence, vulnerability and complexity of the human mind.
--------OPEN DAY Activites
Date & Time: Sun 2/8, 10am - 4pm
Venues: The Hub, The Helix, The Muse & The Quirk
Cost: Free. Today, unlike the rest of the festival, go straight to the venues
NB: Not in program timetable
In the containers: A selection of Container Festival open performances and rehearsals – feel free to drop by.
In The Hub: An open rehearsal of BARE: A Pop Opera
Directed by David Kral, Musical Direction by William Yates, Book by Jon Hartmere & Damon Intrabartolo, Music by
Damon Intrabartolo, Lyrics by Jon Hartmere
A contemporary pop opera that follows a group of high school students wrestling with issues of identity, sexuality
and religion at a Catholic boarding school.
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Performing Aug 27 – Sept 12 at MUST
By arrangement with Origin™ Theatrical on behalf of Theatrical Rights Worldwide, New York.
--------Patrick Collins: Overexposed
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 7.10pm | Tues 11/8, 6.10pm | Wed 12/8, 9.25pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Patrick Collins
It’s a hilarious stand-up show by Patrick Collins. Boy oh boy, there isn’t really much else to say. So to fill the space
in this blurb I’m just going to write out the lyrics to Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever. “Lucky you were born that far
away so we could both make fun of distance. Lucky that I love a foreign land for the lucky fact of your existence.
Whenever, wherever, we’re meant to be together. I’ll be there and you’ll be near, and that’s the deal my dear.”
--------Paul Culliver - Stand Up Comedy
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9.35pm | Tues 4/8, 6pm | Mon 10/8, 9.35pm | Tues 11/8, 8.55pm | Wed 12/8, 6.30pm
| Thurs 13/8, 8.30pm (20 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Paul Culliver
Following a hugely successful debut season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year, Paul
Culliver returns to MUST for a limited run of his witty and insightful stand-up comedy.
"Culliver is a bright, bouncy, sharp-minded young comic."★★★★ Herald Sun
"Culliver’s comedic timing is brilliant." ★★★★½ Theatre Press
--------The PhilosoRAPtors: RAP Reloaded
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 7.05pm | Tues 11/8, 9.25pm | Fri 14/8, 6.10pm (50 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Alana Coventry & Lucinda Walravens
After their successful 2014 Container Festival season, and subsequent arrest for cultural appropriation, the
PhilosoRAPtors are back! Incarcerated for 11 months, they’ve broken out of prison. They contested the crime,
they’ve done (a small portion) of their time and now they’re ready to bust some rhymes. On the run and alone,
they’re confronting all the issues present in society - issues they thought would have been fixed while they were
on the inside. After this show, you’ll realise Jay and Bey aren’t the only ones on the run.
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We communicate beyond words. How we interact is based on how we feel. What we feel is dependent on who
we’re with. What occurs are moments that we share.
But what is in these moments? What exists in the simplicity of a look? An embrace? Or a laugh?
Seven writers delve into the dense and complicated frame of human relations, examining how we exist with one
another on a basic level. It’s all here: love, loss, laughter, friendship, family, break-ups, intimacy, lunacy, light.
Everything. Take a closer look.
Directed by Joseph Brown, Assistant Direction by Chris Edwards
Dramaturgy by Tennessee Mynott-Rudland
Production Manager Sian Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota
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Don’t Say by Elizabeth Brennan
Drift by James O’Donoghue
Gone Bird by Natesha Somasundaram
Make Me a Melody: The Songs Of Ilana Charnelle by Ilana Charnelle
Mould by Poppy Akers
Obstacle by John Collopy
Q & A by Chris Edwards
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--------The ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival: Kick - Off
Date & Time: Mon 3/8, 6.30pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
The ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival: Screenings
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and curated by Harrison Packer, Production support from Krystal Gayton
Lights! Camera! Action! The Phone-It-In Film Festival is a crazy week-long filmmaking experience where you and a
team create your own short movie using only a video phone. Android, iPhone, other? It doesn’t matter! Starting
with the kick-off event on the first Monday of The Container Festival, teams will write, shoot and edit their own
films. Sent off within a week, the finished films will be screened on the final Friday of The Container Festival for an
audience of filmmakers and friends alike.
--------PIKNIC
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 8.35pm | Wed 12/8, 9.25pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Featuring Tara Leigh Dowler, Nicholas Van Niel & Gavin Corben
PIKNIC are a powerhouse, pop-rock trio set to get your feet tapping and your elders enraged. The band owes its
unique rock edge to the varying and unique influences of its members, Tara Leigh Dowler (vocals), Gavin Corben
(Drums) and Nick Van Niel (bass). The band appeared in The 2013 Container Festival with their previous project,
Catcher Kite, and has since been bubbling with new tunes to melt your faces.
--------Poetrymachine
Dates & Times: Fri 31/7 - Fri 7/8 (one week)
Venue: The Hub and surrounds
Cost: Free
Created by Harley Hefford
It is said that our lives are becoming overrun by machines. We play with our machine, stopped at the traffic-light
machine, while driving a machine towards our machine-building job, all within the gigantic machine named
society- (man!). Amidst these machines with their steely gazes, various functions and apparent desire to control
us all, is the Poetrymachine - a humble machine which will guide the inquisitive, the imaginative and even the selfdubbed “incapable” to produce a poem. Also, at some point, it will control us all.
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Poems from a Machine
Dates & Times: Tues 11/8, 8.15pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $3
Created and presented by Harley Hefford
A box of poems written by a bunch of strangers during the first half of The Container Festival shall be read aloud
by a battalion of performance poets. They may bring laughter to our bellies, nourishment to our stomachs, tears
to our eyes, warmth to our hearts or direction to our journeys through this wild world. Alternatively, the box may
be empty and this piece might become more of an exploration of stressed performance poets trying to fill time,
desperately trying to create content through articulating their own tortured souls.
--------Pugad
Dates & Times: Throughout the festival, early on weeknights
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
A sculpture and audio visual display created by Piper Huynh
Pugad [Tagalog - noun]: a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young; a
place of rest, retreat or lodging.
Throughout the festival, The Hub and Pugad will be your home. Your centre. A place to be open, reflect and be
taken on a journey. Pugad will come alive when you need it, when you least expect it and when you have
patience.
Sometimes you don’t know what or where your pugad is. This is an offering.
--------The Pursuit of Trivia: With a Gale Force Warning!
Date & Time: Thurs 13/8, 7.35pm (90 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created by Brendan Jellie, Presented by Brendan Jellie & Jack Beeby
Did you know trivium is the singular of trivia? Do you know the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Do you
have random knowledge in your head that only a trivia night finds use for? Did you love watching Gale Force
Wins!!! at last year’s festival? Well this year Gale Force is teaming up with Quizmaster Brendan Jellie to bring you
a trivia spectacular! Come for the questions, come for the laughs and come for the grand prize! Register your
team early to guarantee a spot.
--------RAP Monologues
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 9.10pm | Thurs 6/8, 8.50pm | Wed 12/8, 7pm | Thurs 13/8, 7pm (25 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Lucinda Walravens & Bethany Walravens
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Everyone knows rappers are saying words to go with their fast-paced beats, but WHAT? Oh golly, WHAT ARE THEY
SAYING? DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING? RAP Monologues answers these questions by taking away the music, slowing
the words down, and placing all the emotion necessary behind the words. Come along to these performances to
get a true understanding of rap the only way the middle class can - through the dramatic art form of the
monologue.
--------Recondite
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.20pm | Tues 4/8, 7.40pm | Mon 10/8, 8.10pm | Tues 11/8, 8.55pm | Fri 14/8, 6.30pm
(15 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Stephanie Zolis & Tommy Lawton
I do not show the world my real self. It’s just not appropriate.
But now I walk in, I take off my shoes, I walk up the stairs, I dump my bag in my room, I walk into the bathroom, I
take off my make-up, I get undressed, I become myself.
And dance.
You are my witness. I can only know myself once no one is around
Up until now, I am recondite.
--------Red Lantern Colony
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 8.35pm | Wed 12/8, 8.15pm (45 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Featuring Thomas Waltrich & colleagues
Red Lantern Colony re-emerges from the musical realm of Monash this year after adding a permanent four piece
horn section to their line-up last year. They have fresh new arrangements of their compositions plus four times
the improvising power with each new member. You'll hear a deformed child of noise, parented by post-rock,
electronica, jazz, progressive metal and improvisation. Also featuring stripped back acoustic shows with no effects
pedals, tabla and glockenspiel. Red Lantern Colony offer shows of extreme intensity - ethereal atmospheres
journeying through emotional peaks and troughs.
--------RES: Residential Entertainment Showcase
Date & Time: Mon 10/8, 7pm - 10pm (3 hrs)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Curated by Edan Goodall, Alanah Allen, Molly Forshaw & Amy Jones
Following last year’s enormous success, RES: Residential Entertainment Showcase returns for an even bigger night
of live music, dance and performance. Created by, with, and for the students of MRS - Monash Residential
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Services, this night will celebrate the talent hiding amongst those living on campus. This free evening will be
located in The MUST Hub, equipped with bar, pizza oven and a fantastic atmosphere. Come along and enjoy our
local talent!
--------Second Shelter: Up Close and Personal
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8pm | Tues 4/8, 6.30pm | Mon 10/8, 8.55pm | Wed 12/8, 7.35pm |Thurs 13/8, 9pm (30
mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Second Shelter: Live in The Hub
Date & Time: Tues 11/8, 7.30pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Created and performed by John Dore
John Dore has been a stand-up comic for four years. A finalist in comedy competitions Raw Comedy 2012 and
Green Faces 2013, he has performed at the Perth Fringe Festival and headlined at the 2013 Melbourne Fringe
Festival. He also performed at and headlined the 2014 & 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festivals and
appeared on the community television show Live on Bowen, for which he was a writer. Now, he is in a sea
container. Get in the sea container with him.
--------Secret Czar
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 9.40pm | Fri 7/8, 9.45pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Alternative rock band featuring Michael Perks, Eddy Moulton, Josh Gatt & Matt Botterill
Secret Czar is an Alternative Rock band from Melbourne. Formed in early 2015, this four-piece group take
influences from Punk, Garage, and Britpop to create a devastatingly energetic rock sound with grungy lyrics and
the occasional slow down that’ll keep you up all night. With a Demo already accepted onto Triple J Unearthed,
these guys are set to make waves when they release their debut EP in early 2016. Secret Czar are; Eddy Moulton
on drums; Michael Perks on Bass; Josh Gatt on lead, and Matt Botterill on rhythm.
--------Shakespearean Monologue Workshop
Venue: The Satellites - The Conference Rm, First Floor, Campus Centre
Cost: $5
Facilitated by Tom Molyneux, Image by Sarah Walker
If you’ve ever wanted to unlock the complexities of Shakespearean monologues in performance, for audition
purposes or even just to assist in your reading, then this is the workshop for you! Conducted by the President of
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the Monash Shakespeare Company, Tom Molyneux, participants will bring along a semi-prepared Shakespearean
monologue of their choice to develop, tinker with and (hopefully) improve during the course of this informative
and fun-filled workshop. Numbers are strictly capped, so bookings are essential!
--------Shakespeare’s Star Wars
Dates & Times: Mon 10/8, 8.40pm | Wed 12/8, 8.30pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.10pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Tom Molyneux as Luke Skywalker, Kevin Turner as Han Solo & Sophie Jevons as
Princess Leia Organa, Dramaturgy by Angus Attwood
Over three performances, watch the Original Trilogy unfold in fast-paced, three-handed Elizabethan dialogue!
Returning after last year’s success, this time we are going bigger and better, faster and more intense. FEEL the
emotional verse! SEE the mediocre props! BE AMAZED by the occasional effect provided by the good folks at ILM!
DELIGHT in the blatant copyright infringement!
--------So I Hear
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 9pm | Wed 5/8, 8.05pm | Thurs 6/8, 6.45pm | Tues 11/8, 9pm | Thurs 13/8, 7.30pm (25
mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
Created and performed by David Rose
Two decades of misunderstandings and a family holiday gone wrong. Direct from a sold-out season at the
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, David Rose will make you laugh until you cry or the show ends.
RAW Comedy State Finalist 2015.
★★★★ ‘absolutely hilarious’ - The Music
‘It is comedy where he really excels’ - The Leader
‘Do you have a back-up plan?’ - Dad
As seen on: Cracked.com, Melbourne Comedy’s Rising Stars, The Law Revue (MICF) and Channel 31’s Live on
Bowen.
--------Songs for Parties and Other Bleak Affairs
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 6pm | Thurs 13/8, 6pm | Fri 14/8, 7pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Featuring Harry Vincent & Grace McKinnon
When Sister Rosetta Tharpe met God, no one knows what song she sang, but we like to think it goes something
like this. Introducing Songs for Parties and Other Bleak Affairs, a morose cocktail of whiskey-soaked electric blues
and piano runs dripping with gin. Harry Vincent and Grace McKinnon combine to bring you a variety of covers and
original songs. Both Monash students, but hailing from the thick bush of the highlands; they are very happy to be
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here.
--------Sophia Blackburn - Acoustic
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Sophia Blackburn
Sophia Blackburn is a down to earth singer/songwriter from Melbourne who enjoys not only performing to, but
having a laugh with, her audience. Sophia loves to tell stories through song, performing her folksy, rootsy and
whimsical originals throughout Darebin and the city, appearing in festivals, music venues and competitions. She
explores intensity, vulnerability, emotion and honesty within her songs, but is still able to produce a relaxed, light
and welcoming atmosphere.
--------Statue
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.35pm | Tues 4/8, 8.55pm | Fri 7/8, 6.15pm | Fri 14/8, 8.05pm (15 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $3
Written and directed by Georgie Mitchell, Assistant Direction by Amy Jones, Performed by Beth Paterson &
Kathryn Yates.
When a statue is dug out of a box, it brings a stack of secrets along with it.
Statue is a short play that explores guilt and grief as one girl fights to uncover the truth while another girl’s hidden
motives begin to unravel. How much will be exposed before someone breaks?
--------Stormy Weather: The Gale Force Story
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 6.45pm | Thurs 6/8, 9.35pm | Tues 11/8, 6.55pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
A new cabaret by Six Inches Uncut, Created and performed by Jack Beeby
“We are all in the gutter… but some of us are on Dancing With The Stars…”
For the first time since rehab, zero-time Australian TV Week Gold Logie nominee Gale Force speaks publicly about
her sunniest days and stormiest nights in the whirlwind of the Australian entertainment industry. From smalltown beginnings to David Koch’s jacuzzi, Gale shares her story of hope, hardship and the price of success. And
sings a selection of golden oldies.
--------Sweethearts & Villainelles
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.15pm | Wed 5/8, 9.15 | Wed 12/8, 6.10pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.50pm (30 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
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Cost: $5
Created and performed by Audrey El-Osta
Explore the world of a young romantic through poetry. Find yourself in a lounge of red velvet walls and zig-zagged
floors, watching and listening to words that were too painful to say at sixteen and now are at least understood at
twenty. Audrey El-Osta is a poet and student at Monash, and former Artist in Residence at the Cowwarr Arts
Space. She examines mental illness, sexuality, and the sexualisation of young women through poetry which is
written in order to sound, feel and be beautiful - and she highlights exactly why it isn’t. --------Tensions: Curated Works - Don’t Say
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 8pm | Tues 4/8, 7pm & 7.45pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.30pm | Fri 14/8, 6.40pm (15 mins)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Written by Elizabeth Brennan, Performed by Jordan Broadway & Amy Jones, Directed by Joseph Brown, Assistant
Direction by Chris Edwards, Dramaturgy by Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Production Manager Sian Halloran, Stage
Manager Luis Viota
A. What kind of words do you put in a blurb?
B. Sincere...
A. Opaque...
B. Nothing too literal...
A. More wispy, dreamy suggestion than blow by blow...
B. With the subtle implication that the reader’s life will be worthless unless they book their damn tickets as soon
as possible!
(Pause)
But with subtlety.
--------Tensions: Curated Works presents - Drift
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.50pm | Tues 4/8, 8.10pm | Thurs 6/8, 8.10pm | Mon 10/8, 6pm |Thurs 13/8, 8.20pm
(20 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Written by James O’Donoghue, Performed by Rebecca Catalano, Alasdair Huggett, John Kelly, Alice Fitzgerald,
Sam Nix & Piper Huynh, Directed by Joseph Brown, Assistant Direction by Chris Edwards, Dramaturgy by
Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Production Manager Sian Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota
“I wish I could set my brain on fire. That way everything that’s going on up there would have to run out of my
mouth screaming, run out of my mouth screaming, escaping into the world, or would just get burnt alive. That
might make talking easier. I mean, wouldn’t really give me a choice anymore would it?
Um….”
crush date break up repeat
crush date break up repeat.
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Tensions: Curated Works - Gone Bird
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 7.10pm | Wed 5/8, 7.10pm | Thurs 6/8, 9.30pm | Mon 10/8, 7pm | Wed 12/8, 8.10pm
(20 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Written by Natesha Somasundaram, Performed by Emily O’Connor & Eliza Quinn, Directed by Joseph Brown,
Assistant Direction by Chris Edwards, Dramaturgy by Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Production Manager Sian
Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota
Kylie Minogue has disappeared.
Kylie Minogue, the one-legged blue budgie that Nicky found in her bush (her plant bush not her bush bush) has
completely vanished.
With mounting pressure from the local authorities (Tuckshop Jan and Community Centre Colin), sisters Nicky and
Reema are catapulted into a daunting quest to find out what happened to the town’s favourite bird (bird bird not ‘promiscuous girl’ bird).
--------Tensions: Curated Works - Make Me a Melody: The Songs Of Ilana Charnelle
Venue: The Hub
Cost: Free
Songs written by Ilana Charnelle, Performed by Kristiane Burri & Jordan Broadway, Directed by Joseph Brown,
Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota.
'Make me a melody,
Turn me into a tune
With four chords and an upbeat tempo...'
Love, loss and everything that comes in between. Singer/songwriter Ilana Charnelle responds to the works of
Tensions with six original songs, full to the brim with her trademark wit and flare.
It's time to feel things.
--------Tensions: Curated Works - Mould
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 6.20pm & 7.10pm & 8pm | Thurs 6/8 7.40pm & 8.30pm | Thurs 13/8, 8pm & 8.50pm (40
mins with walking)
Venue: The Satellites - Halls of Residence display room
Cost: $3
Written by Poppy Akers, Performed by Edan Goodall, Livv Bishop, Claire Macallister & Imogen Walsh, Directed by
Joseph Brown, Assistant Direction by Chris Edwards, Dramaturgy by Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Production
Manager Sian Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota
Before. During. After.
Have you ever changed your mind?
The interactions between past, present, and future, recording an event in four different ways, with four different
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voices. We do not know when we are going to be irrevocably changed by something, or someone - not until after
it happens. The confusion during, and the moment after, when we pause, shiver, and wonder if we made that bad
choice ourselves, or if it was made for us.
--------Tensions: Curated Works - Obstacle
Dates & Times: Tues 4/8, 6.20pm | Wed 5/8, 7.10pm | Fri 7/8, 7pm | Tues 11/8, 7.45pm | Wed 12/8, 6.50pm (15
mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $3
Written by John Collopy, Performed by Kristiane Burri, Patrick Cook & Sasha Chong, Directed by Joseph Brown,
Halloran, Stage Manager Luis Viota
Imagine forming an interpersonal romantic relationship where there are no obstacles between you and your
partner. Imagine this relationship free from all types of societal pressure. Imagine the story of this relationship
ending with a ‘happily ever after.’ Good. You’re familiar with this story.
Now…imagine this relationship turned entirely on its head by theatrical convention.
It’s exactly like every heteronormative rom-com you’ve ever seen, and yet, it’s absolutely nothing of the sort.
Don’t worry.
--------Tensions: Curated Works - Q & A
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.45pm | Wed 5/8, 6.40pm | Fri 7/8, 8pm | Tues 11/8, 8.30pm | Wed 12/8, 6.30pm (20
mins)
Venue: The Satellites - Outdoors, undercover in a secret location
Cost: $5
Written by Chris Edwards, Performed by Mark Paguio & Thomas Little, Directed by Joseph Brown, Assistant
Direction by Chris Edwards, Dramaturgy by Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Production Manager Sian Halloran, Stage
Manager Luis Viota
Will and Sean are waiting for their lift. They don’t really know each other. Friends-of-friends, y’know? So, um, the
conversation is not a-flowing. But Will has a plan, an idea, a game that might be fun? I guess? Kinda vague, not
seedy, promise. I mean Sean doesn’t have to go along with it or whatever, it’s pretty dumb, so like only if he
wants to but - oh? He does? Oh. Great.
Shit’s gonna get real awkward real soon.
--------Theatresports™ Deathmatch
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 8.15pm | Mon 10/8, 6.30pm (50 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $8
Curated by Haydyn Jones, Coached by Haydyn Jones & Hill Kuttner
Do you like Theatresports™? Do you even know what it is? Well, that question and more will be answered if you
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come on down to the Theatresports™ Deathmatch, the throwdown of a lifetime! Laugh! Cry! Support your team*
in the arena as they battle it out to see who is the funniest. This is an evening of riotous comedy unlike any other!
*Teams are assigned on entry and are not the actual property of the audience. Competition may or may not be
facetious in nature.
--------This One Time…
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 7.55pm | Thurs 6/8, 8.45pm | Fri 7/8, 8.50pm | Wed 12/8, 9.25pm | Thurs 13/8, 9.35pm
| Fri 14/8, 9.35pm (40 mins)
Venue: The Quirk
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Josephine Burford & Fraser Mitchell
Do you remember how you felt before your first primary school concert? Or before your first job interview? How
you felt as you were walking into school on the way to ask out the girl of your dreams? What about that night in
year 9, dancing with your friends to ‘Whatcha Say’ and wanting to cry because you felt so free? We remember.
Two performers who play each other explore the formative experiences of disappointment, heartache and
heartbreak as examples of what it means to be alive.
--------The Triple F Bombs
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 6.05pm | Thurs 6/8, 6.15pm | Tues 11/8, 7.25pm (35 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created & performed by Haydyn Jones, Vincent Brown and Maddy Kennedy, Special thanks to Carla Scotto
Daryl and Davo are identical twins with a dream. A dream to be world famous opera singers. But their forkliftdriving dad won’t have a bar of it. After being discovered by a sleazy talent agent, they finally achieve their goals.
However, the boys soon discover that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and lose their way. Come and enjoy the
story of two boys following a dream with a night of laughing, weeping, and obnoxiously loud singing.
--------Turning the Ordinary into Extraordinary – Storytelling Workshop with Sarah Collins
Dates & Times: Thurs 6/8, 6.05pm | Tues 11/8, 6.20pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Created and presented by Sarah Collins
Waiting for inspiration to strike before putting pen to paper? Learn how the most mundane moments in life are
actually the perfect starting point with award winning theatre maker Sarah Collins (CHOIR GIRL, Bucket's List,
Donna & Damo: An Asexual Love Story). Sarah has based a storytelling career around super boring things like
buckets, skipping ropes, Mickey Mouse ears and telemarketing. Come learn what all the lack of fuss is about.
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What A Drag! Variety Night
Date & Time: Sat 8/8 6.30pm - 10pm or later (doors open at 6pm)
Venue: The Hub
Cost: $10
Curated by Alex Beyer
Drag is an art form grounded in pure entertainment that transcends the boundaries of gender to take both the
audience and the performer to a new world entirely. What A Drag! is a variety night filled with performances,
showcases and audience interaction, that all centre around that funny little word - drag. Come in your best
gender-defying attire and celebrate the extravaganza with us. Because as RuPaul says, “We're all born naked and
the rest is drag”.
--------Who Gives a FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)?
Forum and Discussion Topic: Are We In the Death Throes of Australian Democracy?
Date & Time: Thurs 6/8, 7pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Curated and facilitated by Jarryd Redwood & Stephanie Dimitriou
Our Australian democracy has seemingly been under threat ever since its inception - Nazis, communists,
terrorists, all the bogeymen of the world have tried to destroy the freedom that our population cherishes. But is
the greatest threat to Australian democracy within our borders, roaming the halls of parliament? Metadata
retention, anti-whistleblower laws, secretive border protection; are we in the death throes of Australian
democracy? Join our panel as we discuss what threatens our democracy and whether it is worth saving in the first
place.
Forum and Discussion Topic: The Death of the Playwright?
Date & Time: Mon 10/8, 7.30pm (60 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
When Roland Barthes announced the 'Death of the Author' in 1967, his words became literal for one group of
writers: playwrights. As the image supersedes text and the director asserts dominance over the writer, is there
any room in contemporary theatre for the playwright? Or should theatre bow to the whims of the director and
the impulses of the actor? Is there any call for a 'well-made play' today? Join our panel as we discuss whether the
playwright is doomed for extinction, or perhaps already dead and buried.
Forum and Discussion Topic: Blood and Other Bodily Fluids Onstage: Sex, Violence and Theatre
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Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Gore and genitalia are hardly uncommon sights on the contemporary stage: blood gushes, bodies writhe, and
groans echo throughout the theatres of the world. But should there be a limit to the violence and sexuality
portrayed onstage? Are there topics, acts, images that should never be shown to an audience? Does the drawing
of a line in the sand require someone to cross it? And when does the drawing of a line become censorship? Join
our panel as we discuss blood and other bodily fluids onstage.
--------The Wiggle: A One-Man Tribute to the Best Band of the Nineties
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 6.30pm | Tues 11/8, 6.50pm | Thurs 13/8, 8.50pm (25 mins)
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Jordan Broadway
Toot toot, chugga chugga. Four little words jam-packed with nostalgia. In this one man tribute to the best band in
the world, prepare to travel back in time to the 90s as you sing and dance along to such classic hits as “Wake Up
Jeff!”, “D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)” and "Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo"! Buckle up those seatbelts, start
your Big Red Cars, and come along on a Wiggly journey with Greg, Murray, Anthony and … oh no! Jeff’s fallen
asleep again!
--------Yep. We’re Related
Venue: The Garland
Cost: $5
Created and performed by Maxwell John Chappell & Tess Elizabeth Chappell
Tess and Max Chappell (in no particular order), present an ethereal, subversive deconstruction of an expansive
canvas of social, political, cultural and personal issues framed through their unique upbringing. Through Tess’
sharp wit, intelligence and fierce determination, ‘in collaboration with’ Max’s blunt tact and lack of selfawareness, this piece aims to entertain, challenge, and remind mum that “always use protection, initially” is not
appropriate sexual education for a 14 year old.
--------Yours or Mine Series - 4 Weeks
Dates & Times: Mon 3/8, 9.40pm | Wed 5/8, 8.25pm | Wed 12/8, 8.45pm | Thurs 13/8, 7pm (25 mins)
Venue: The Helix
Cost: $5
Co-creators and performers Amy Jones & Hayley Foster, Dramaturgy by Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty
Time is a healer. Yet what remains after a heartbreak can transform your heart into something unrecognisable.
How long does it take? The cycle is endless as we constantly strive to find a new love to fix the old. This
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performance art piece is a visual exploration of the heart’s manipulation.
Content warning: contains adult themes, images, and actions that audiences may find disturbing. May be
unsuitable for younger audiences.
--------Yours or Mine Series - The Other One
Dates & Times: Wed 5/8, 9.50pm | Fri 7/8, 7.45pm | Thurs 13/8, 6.30pm | Fri 14/8, 7pm (20 mins)
Venue: The Muse
Cost: $5
Written and directed by Hayley Foster, Assistant Direction by Amy Jones, Performed by Alice Fitzgerald & Edan
Goodall
They hold me close. For the next six hours we’ll breathe each other in, quenching that thirst for one another as
well as the false expectation that when the morning breaks through his blurred and saturated mind, he won’t
even recognise ”her”. “Her”, the one they want to see, the one they might see, and the one they will see. I am not
her. I am not the one. I am the other.
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Plan your festival with our abridged timetable:
FRIDAY 31 JULY – OPENING NIGHT!
THE HUB
THE SATELLITES
6pm until late
Festival Launch Showcase and Opening Night Party!
Featuring an impressive line-up of festival artists, guests will get a sneak preview of the diverse work on
offer, meet the artists and enjoy a sensational party!
5.45pm MCJAF Fire and Light Show! - Outside The Hub (75 mins)
SAT 1 AUGUST
THE HUB
6.30pm - 10pm or later Disney Night Extravaganza! (doors open at 6pm)
SUN 2 AUGUST – MONASH OPEN DAY!
THE HUB
10am - 4pm Open Rehearsal for MUST’s BARE: A Pop Opera
THE HELIX
10am - 4pm A selection of open Container Festival performances
THE QUIRK
THE MUSE
MON 3 AUGUST
THE HUB
THE GARLAND
THE HELIX
5pm Good Vibes, Music, Art and Pugad (45 mins)
5.45pm MACHO - Monash A cappella Choir (30 mins)
6.30pm The 'Phone-It-In' Film Festival Kick-Off (30 mins)
7pm BJ's Bingo Bonanza (60 mins)
8pm Don’t Say - Tensions: Curated Works (15 mins)
8.15pm Baby Drivers (30 mins)
8.55pm The Gentlemen in the Back (30 mins)
9.40pm Equilibrium (30 mins)
6.05pm The Triple F Bombs (35 mins)
6.50pm Drift - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
7.20pm Blessed - Reading & Forum (1h 40 mins)
9.15pm Cabaret Fortune Cookie (45 mins)
6.20pm Recondite (15 mins)
6.50pm Bliss/Love* - Landscapes (20 mins)
7.55pm Descent (40 mins)
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8.45pm Close Up Wonders (15 mins)
9.10 Close Up Wonders (15 mins)
9.40pm 4 weeks - Yours or Mine Series (25 mins)
THE QUIRK
6.15pm Sweethearts & Villainelles (30 mins)
7.30pm Five Hundred Moving Pieces (15 mins)
7.55pm This One Time… (40 mins)
8.45pm Bedtime Stories for Girls (30 mins)
9.25pm A Saw Spot (40 mins)
THE MUSE
6.35pm Statue (15 mins)
7.05pm Just Try Something (45 mins)
8pm Second Shelter: Up Close and Personal (30 mins)
9pm Jewish-ish (25 mins)
9.35pm Paul Culliver - Stand Up Comedy (20 mins)
THE SATELLITES
6pm MCJAF Fire and Light Show! - Outside The Hub (75mins)
6.45pm Q & A - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
TUES 4 AUGUST
THE HUB
5pm Good Vibes, Music, Art and Pugad (1h 15 mins)
6.15pm Jordan Broadway Has It Covered (30 mins)
7pm Don’t Say - Tensions: Curated Works (15 mins)
7.45pm Don’t Say - Tensions: Curated Works (15 mins)
8pm Channon and the Dale (45 mins)
9pm MUST Lip Sync Battle (60 mins)
THE GARLAND
6.20pm Chloë Violette Acoustic Session: Up Close and Personal (30 mins)
7.05pm The PhilosoRAPtors: Rap Reloaded (50 mins)
8.40pm The Business We Call Show (40 mins)
THE HELIX
THE QUIRK
6.30pm Monorail! (30 mins)
7.10pm Gone Bird - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
8.40pm Love, Sex & Tinder (40 mins)
6.20pm Obstacle - Tensions: Curated Works (15 mins)
6.45pm Stormy Weather: The Gale Force Story (40 mins)
8.05pm Colossal Impro (Funny on the Inside) (45 mins)
9pm So I Hear (25 mins)
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THE MUSE
THE SATELLITES
6pm Paul Culliver - Stand Up Comedy (20 mins)
6.30pm Second Shelter: Up Close and Personal (30 mins)
7.10pm Patrick Collins: Overexposed (30 mins)
8.20pm Drag///Strip (25 mins)
9.30pm Crooked Corners: Up Close and Personal (45 mins)
7pm Shakespearean Monologue Workshop (90 mins)
WED 5 AUGUST
THE HUB
THE GARLAND
5pm Good Vibes, Music, Art and Pugad (1h 20 mins)
6.20pm James Cerche (Solo) (30 mins)
7.05pm Komorebi (25 mins)
7.50pm Crooked Corners, In Concert, featuring Tom Waltrich (30 mins)
8.35pm Red Lantern Colony (45 mins)
9.40pm Secret Czar (30 mins)
6.30pm The Wiggle: A One-Man Tribute to the Best Band of the Nineties (25 mins)
7.05pm Change (60 mins)
8.15pm Theatresports ™ Deathmatch (50 mins)
9.15pm Legends (60 mins)
THE HELIX
8.25pm 4 Weeks - Yours or Mine Series (25 mins)
THE QUIRK
8.05pm So I Hear (25 mins)
THE MUSE
7.05pm Rage - Landscapes (15 mins)
8.05pm Mama Alto: Behind the Sequins (50 mins)
9.10pm RAP Monologues (25 mins)
9.50pm The Other One - Yours or Mine Series (20 mins)
6.20pm Mould - Tensions: Curated Works (40 mins)
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THE SATELLITES
8pm Mould - Tensions: Curated Works (40 mins)
THURS 6 AUGUST
THE HUB
THE GARLAND
THE HELIX
6pm Songs for Parties and Other Bleak Affairs (30 mins)
6.45pm Channon and the Dale (45 mins)
7.40pm Gale Force Wins!!! Hubba-Hubba Edition (40 mins)
8.35pm PIKNIC (45 mins)
9.40pm Equilibrium (30 mins)
7pm Who gives a FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)?
'Are We In the Death Throes of Australian Democracy?' (60 mins)
8.45pm InDOCtrination! (40 mins)
6.05pm Turning the Ordinary into Extraordinary - Storytelling Workshop (60 mins)
7.15pm Sophia Blackburn - Acoustic (30 mins)
THE QUIRK
7.25pm Alone - Landscapes (15 mins)
7.55pm Acoustic Session with Carl the Traveller (40 mins)
THE MUSE
8.50pm RAP Monologues (25 mins)
THE SATELLITES
FRI 7 AUGUST
THE HUB
5.45pm MACHO - Monash A cappella Choir (30 mins)
6.30pm Mannix Mystery Night - The Griffin, The Pigeon and The Container (3 hours)
9.45pm Secret Czar (30 mins)
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THE GARLAND
THE HELIX
7pm Legends (60 mins)
THE QUIRK
7pm Obstacle - Tensions: Curated Works (15 mins)
THE MUSE
8.45pm Jewish-ish (25 mins)
THE SATELLITES
8pm Q & A - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
SAT 8 AUGUST
THE HUB
6.30pm - 10pm or later What a Drag! Variety Night (doors open at 6pm)
MON 10 AUGUST
THE HUB
6pm Matt Portelli and Adam Gardner (45 mins)
7pm RES: Residential Entertainment Showcase (3 hrs)
THE GARLAND
6pm Drift - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
6.30pm Theatresports™ Deathmatch (50 mins)
7.30pm Who gives a FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)? 'The Death of the Playwright?' (60 mins)
8.40pm Shakespeare’s Star Wars (30 mins)
THE HELIX
7pm Gone Bird - Tensions: Curated Works (20 mins)
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THE QUIRK
THE MUSE
6.15pm An Evening with Chris & Jess (4 hours, durational work audiences can come and go every 15mins)
6.30pm Rage - Landscapes (15 mins)
7.05pm Animals (30 mins)
TUES 11 AUGUST
THE HUB
6pm Matt Portelli and Adam Gardner(45 mins)
6.50pm Chloë Violette Acoustic Session: In Concert (30 mins)
7.30pm Second Shelter: Live in The Hub (30 mins)
8.15pm MoJO Jazz Night (2 hours)
THE GARLAND
6pm Yep. We’re Related (40 mins)
8.20pm Drums Are Music Too (50 mins)
THE HELIX
6.20pm Turning the Ordinary into Extraordinary - Storytelling Workshop (60 mins)
THE QUIRK
THE MUSE
9pm So I Hear (25 mins)
8.15pm Poems from a Machine (30 mins)
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THE SATELLITES
6pm MCJAF Fire and Light Show! - Outside The Hub (75 mins)
WED 12 AUGUST
THE HUB
THE GARLAND
THE HELIX
THE QUIRK
THE MUSE
THE SATELLITES
5.45pm Baby Drivers (50 mins)
6.45pm Jordan Broadway Has It Covered (30 mins)
7.25pm James Cerche (Solo) (30 mins)
8.15pm Red Lantern Colony (45 mins)
9.25pm PIKNIC (45 mins)
7.20pm Who gives an FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)?
'Blood and Other Bodily Fluids Onstage: Sex, Violence and Theatre' (60 mins)
9.20pm InDOCtrination! (40 mins)
7.05pm Bliss/Love* - Landscapes (20 mins)
8.45pm 4 weeks - Yours or Mine Series (25 mins)
9.25pm Achording to Script (45 mins)
7pm RAP monologues (25 mins)
THURS 13 AUGUST
THE HUB
6.45pm Gale Force Wins!!! Hubba-Hubba Edition (40 mins)
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7.35pm The Pursuit of Trivia: With a Gale Force Warning! (90 mins)
9.20pm The Don Tango Trio (45 mins)
THE GARLAND
THE HELIX
THE QUIRK
THE MUSE
THE SATELLITES
6.50pm Chloë Violette Acoustic Session: Up Close and Personal (30 mins)
7.30pm Yep. We’re Related (40 mins)
6.15pm Sophia Blackburn - Acoustic (30 mins)
7pm 4 weeks - Yours or Mine Series (25 mins)
6pm A Saw Spot (40 mins)
8.40pm Alone - Landscapes (15 mins)
7pm RAP monologues (25 mins)
9pm Second Shelter: Up Close and Personal (30 mins)
7.30pm Shakespearean Monologue Workshop (90 mins)
8pm Mould - Tensions: Curated Works (40 mins)
FRI 14 AUGUST
THE HUB
THE GARLAND
5pm Good Vibes, Music, Art and Pugad (1 hour, 40 mins)
7.45pm Make Me a Melody - Tensions: Curated Works (30 mins)
9pm Hub Vinyl Party (2 hours)
7.15pm The ‘Phone-It-In’ Film Festival Screenings (60 mins)
8.30pm Comedy at Clayton (90 mins)
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7pm Descent (40 mins)
THE HELIX
THE QUIRK
7pm The Other One - Yours or Mine Series (20 mins)
THE MUSE
SAT 15 AUGUST – CLOSING NIGHT!
THE HUB
6.30pm - 10.30pm or later Closing Gala Extravaganza (doors open at 6pm)
Featuring a brilliant selection of cabaret, burlesque, music, dance and comedy from across The
Container Festival and beyond
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THE MUST CONTAINER FESTIVAL TEAM
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Festival Coordinator
Danny Delahunty
Festival Co Curators
Tess Chappell and Yvonne Virsik (MUST Artistic Director)
Festival Technical Manager
Jason Lehane (MUST Technical Manager)
Festival Co Evening Technical Managers
James O’Donoghue and John Collopy
Festival Food Manager
Zoe Dove
Festival Bar Manager
Sian Halloran
Festival Front of House Manager
Oliver Bailey
Festival Hub Managers
Tennessee Mynott-Rudland and Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty
Festival Branding and Artwork
Elizaveta Dilanyan
Festival Marketing and PR
Yvonne Virsik, Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty and Tess Chappell
Festival Technical and Bump in Support
Brendan Jellie, James O’Donoghue, Max Chappell, Tennessee MynottRudland and Lindsay Templeton
Venue Stage Managers
Brenna Dixon, Amber Bock, Jasmine Duff,
Justin Gardam, Matt Alden, Matt di Petta, Nicholas Beith, Siksha
Sivaramakrishnan, Tom Middleditch and Max Chappell
Hub Assistant Stage Managers
Admin Support
Front of House, Hospitality & General Volunteers
Max Chappell, Callum Dale, Chris Chosich, Christopher Edwards, Liam
Tomlinson, Lindsay Templeton, Mark Paguio, Nathan Burmeister, Krystal
Gayton, Siksha Sivaramakrishnan, Rachel Skelton and Claire Macallister
Tricia Ong, Tess Chappell, Jessica McLaughlin Cafferty and Krystal
Gayton
Callum John Dale, Adie Hourigan, Ariel Feng, Caroline Tam, Cassie Spry,
Catherine Leigh, Charlotte Armstrong, Charmian Sim, Christine Ng,
Darren Uch, Helen Nguyen, Jianrong Qiu, Jonathan Tan, Jonny Liaw,
Lauren Dreyar, Lucy Rosenblum, Marty Shlansky, Patcharin Chen, Rohan
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Dimsey, Beth Paterson, Liam Tomlinson, Catriona Cowie, Claire
Macallister, Corinne Driscoll, Kirsten Hood, Dinesh Gamage, Rahul
Kaemra, Emma Liao, Harry Liu, Emma Simpkin, Florence Goh, Hashini
Ratnayake, Emma Telford and Tanmeet Kaur
And hundreds of wonderful artists!
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SPECIAL THANKS
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Monash University: Marcus Spencer, Nick Stewart, David Copolov, Catherine Goodman, Terry Hogan, Vlad Prpich, Diana
Vivian, the Campus Centre stewards, Wayne Brundell, Arthur Brent, Trevor Smith, Leo Hussey and Monash Security, Monash
Venues, Stuart Lees, Peter Condon, Andrew Foster; Trisha Prpich and Jonathan Brown from MRS; MSA: Stefanie Maccar and
Jacqui Burchell from MSA Volunteering, Tamsyn Cadd and Sir John’s Bar, The John Medley Library, Will Wilsmore; Elizaveta
Dilanyan and Kate Pullen from MSA Marketing; Sie Kerr, Sylvia Francisca, Kevin Eng, Joanne Breslin and Sara Lee from MSA
Finance; Sinéad Colee, Dan King and Abigail Stapleton; MSA Short Courses; Artichoke and Whitebait; Sarah Walker; MUST
Interns: Tennessee Mynott-Rudland, Max Chappell, Krystal Gayton, Jessica McLaughlin Cafftery and Enise Tatlidil; Helen
Nguyen, Tricia Ong, Brendan Jellie, Lindsay Templeton, Chris Chosich; proofreaders extraordinaire: Chava Apfelbaum, Emma
Simpkin, Anchal Patha, Hasara Tennakeen, Josephine Burford, Tricia Ong, Charmian Sim & Avanti
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GETTING TO AND FROM THE MONASH CLAYTON CAMPUS
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By Public Transport
Any of the Dandenong, Pakenham or Cranbourne line trains will take you to Huntingdale station where you can catch the
601, 630 or 900 bus to the campus bus loop. The 601 bus service from/to Huntingdale Station operates every four minutes
between the hours of 7am to 7pm between Huntingdale/Clayton campus.
These buses travel direct to the Clayton campus bus loop:
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601: Huntingdale Station to Monash
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630: Elwood - Clayton campus
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631: Waverly Gardens - Southland Shopping Centre
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691: Bayswater - Waverley Gardens
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703: Blackburn - Middle Brighton
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733: Box Hill - Oakleigh stations
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737: Croydon - Clayton campus
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802/804/862: Dandenong - Chadstone Shopping Centre (different routes)
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900: Rowville - Caulfield Station, via Clayton campus
For details on bus routes, frequencies, and train connections please visit:
www.monash.edu.au/people/transport-parking/public/
Metlink's journey planner has lots of useful information for planning your trip: www.ptv.vic.gov.au/
Inter-campus travel by shuttle
The University provides shuttle buses between Clayton and the Peninsula, Berwick and Caulfield campuses. The buses are
free and the timetable is available online - www.fsd.monash.edu.au/travel-parking/travel/inter-campus-shuttle-bus
By car
From the city via the Monash Freeway or Eastlink or Dandenong Rd. or North / Wellington Rd.; main entrance is via
Wellington Rd. Google Maps search term is “Monash University Clayton campus”.
Parking
You can park without a permit in the blue, red and yellow zones after 5pm on weekdays and all weekend. A map of Monash
Clayton is available online to locate specific parking areas: www.monash.edu.au/pubs/maps/3-Claytoncolour.pdf
The Container Festival Hub is at the bottom left of The Campus Centre, 21 Chancellors Walk
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
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Please note: THE QUIRK does not have wheelchair access. All other Container Festival venues do have wheelchair access.
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BOOKINGS – TERMS & CONDITIONS
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With some noted exclusions (please consult The Container Festival program) audience members must book for all events
they wish to attend, even if they have purchased a Festival Pass or Night Pass. Bookings close five minutes before an event's
start time.
General Terms and Conditions
- Audience members must be present in The Festival Hub at least five minutes before the event's start time. Please DO NOT
go directly to any other venue.
- Refunds for individual ticket purchases will only be issued if an event has been cancelled. No exchanges are possible for
individual ticket purchases.
- No refunds are available for pass purchases, but ticket exchanges on passes are possible (see below).
- Please read event descriptions carefully and make enquiries as outlined above if you would like further information on
sensitive content. Audience members are asked to use discretion when booking for and attending events.
- Intoxicated patrons may be refused entry to any part of the festival.
- Food and beverages are not permitted inside the containers.
- Late entry is not possible into any venues other than The Hub
Pass Booking Process and Additional Terms
- If a Festival Pass or Night Pass has been used to book, the pass holder must carry photo ID with them at all times.
- Online booking of passes will automatically generate two emails: one is a receipt for your purchase and the other one
contains your pass code. If you order multiple passes at once you will receive a different code for each pass you ordered (if
you are booking in with more than one pass please ensure you enter all codes during checkout).
- Your Festival Pass code will be valid for the duration of the festival and you may log in and book shows at any time. Each
Festival Pass is for one person only. You may not book shows on at the same time or shows that overlap in time.
- Your Night Pass code will be valid to book online for one use only so you must book all shows in a single transaction. Each
Night Pass is for one person only and you may not book shows on at the same time or shows that overlap in time.
- Night Pass or Festival Pass holders may exchange their booked show(s) more than 24 hours prior to the event, by emailing
[email protected] (subject to availability).
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FOR YOUR COMFORT
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Keeping warm
There will be heaters and a few blankets in each container to help keep you warm and a few spares at The Hub should you
need them. We recommend wearing layers to The Container Festival, particularly if you will be attending a few venues. A
warm coat that you can wear in a container and remove in The Festival Hub while you have a dance, would be ideal. We will
be providing a free coat-check service at The Festival Hub, just to your left as you enter.
Monash University’s new smoking policy – designated areas only
You cannot smoke on any Monash campus, except for at designated smoking points. Smoking is also prohibited in all Monash
buildings and vehicles. We’ve included a map so you can check out the point closest to The Hub. It’s near the permaculture
garden, west of the campus centre.
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We hope you are inspired and ignited by The 2015 MUST Container Festival.
We’ll be enjoying ourselves alongside you!
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