Be Bold Festival 2021 Full Program Announced

Celebrating Brimbank’s Bold and Creative Arts Community

Daring to be different - the Be Bold Festival returns in 2021 with a dynamic program of arts, culture, music and performance by and for our community in Melbourne’s west. On Friday 9 April we present Be Bold Blakout – a dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program and Saturday 10 April is a full day community Arts and Culture program for all ages.

Be Bold Festival
9 & 10 April 2021
Location: Bowery Theatre and St Albans Community Centre, 33 Princess Street, St Albans and surrounding areas.

A global pandemic has not hindered the determination and creativity of our community! Be Bold is a jam-packed two-day festival and everyone is welcome to join in the all-ages celebrations.

We’re excited to unveil the 2021 program:

Day 1: Friday 9 April, 6-9pm / Be Bold Blakout

MC and Be Bold Blakout Program Curator: Lisa Maza

Be Bold Stage Performances by:

• The Merindas (Pop / Dance)
• Pirritu (First Nations / Folk / Roots)
• Kalyani Mumtaz (DJ set)
• Shauntai Baztke (Classical / Opera)

Featured events:

• Welcome to Country
• Unveil Aunty Joyce and Uncle Boots Mural + Artist Talk with Artists Mike Maka, Mandi Barton and Lee-Anne Clarke.
• Blakout Market Stalls
• Art Installation - Fibonacci by Dave Murphy
• MABU MABU Food Stall

Day 2: Saturday 10 April, 10am – 4pm / Arts and Culture Program

Be Bold Stage featured performances:

• Ajak Kwai (Soul / Funk)
• KVYNL (Hip-hop / Electronic)
• Lavinia Tosev (Folk / Pop )
• FReeZA Youth Special feat. Levz, Vava'u Brothers and Mercii Makepeace supported by DJ Julz and DJ Spell

Featured events:

• Duets with a Shapeshifter Exhibition and Films by James Welsby aka Valerie Hex
• Western Edge Youth Art Film
• Our Kitchen Stories with Jennifer Tran
• Dance Zone with L2R Dance and Dagogo Obogo
• Kontiki Fashion Show
• Art Tours + Demonstrations of St Albans Public Art (Book now)
• Markets and Food

Children’s Program:

• Child Nation – Digital Art Play presented by Artist Jessica Wlison
• Family Art Workshop with Artists Jo Mott and Aida Azin
• Little Tadpoles Looking for Mama Installation and art workshop with Dan Wei
• Children’s Short Films presented by Sunshine Short Film Festival
• Giant Puppets by Snuff Puppets
• Roving Entertainment

Bowery Theatre Program by Be Bold Performance Residency Artists

• Ipu Ti Film Preview + Artist Talk presented by Fipe Preuss and Irihipeti Waretini (Friday)
  A film excerpt of contemporary and classical Pacific/Māori performance art and storytelling followed by an artist talk.
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• Tahlilah (Lullabies) presented by Aseel Tayah* (Saturday)
  In this participatory performance, Aboriginal and Palestinian artists share lullabies their cultures in a twilight inspired installation space. Suitable for under 6s.
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Plus more!

No charge to attend festival, bookings required for Bowery Theatre program and artist tours.

*Option to pay what you can $20, $10, $5, $0

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This is a COVID safe, accessible, smoke-free and alcohol-free event