Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide
Cost per workshop:$190 (+ booking fee)
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Bob Window for a screen printing workshop where you’ll learn to print on fabric!
This beginner-level workshop will explore Bob’s signature styles with shapes, layers and stunning colours.
What to expect:
In this 3-hour session you will learn the basics of screen printing and learn two different techniques for creating amazing prints! Master screen printer Bob Window will share his expertise and guide participants through the process of printing using pre-exposed screens, followed by printing with blank screens and butchers paper.
Bob will provide participants with 1m of fabric, but you are welcome to bring along additional fabric, t-shirts or totes - natural fibres only.
This can be a messy process, so please wear covered shoes and studio clothes or an apron.
At the end of the day, you will get to take home your amazing screen-printed artworks!
Robert Viner Jones (AKA Bob Window) is a contemporary printer/painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Robert’s works offer bold, uncompromising graphics - stark and confident in their nature. Trained in Sydney, obsessed with design and colour, Robert’s works draw heavily on fearlessness of mid 20th century design plus an unbridled willingness to simply paint and print things that make him smile.
Where: The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $45 (+ booking fee)
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Oriana Julie for a beading workshop where you’ll learn about Oriana’s approach to art-making while creating a unique beaded object.
This workshop is presented as part of Oriana's solo exhibition Head in the Clouds, currently showing in Gallery II, presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.
What to expect:
Seated within Oriana's exhibition, guests will spend two hours learning basic techniques and creating their own small-scale beaded fruit object. All materials provided, participants can take their fruit home on the day.
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.
Situated on Kaurna Land in Adelaide, Oriana pioneers a visual language rooted in Afro-surrealism, leveraging imagination to embrace empowering diasporic narratives. She blends bold visual and performance artistry to spark dialogue on time, identity, and culture, transforming personal narratives into spaces of sublime escape informed by personal mythos. Her work is characterized by a fusion of African American and Italian heritage, shaped by her upbringing on an Air Force base in Woomera and the lush landscapes of the Adelaide Hills. These diverse influences create a unique exploration of cultural identity.
Oriana’s creative process is deeply connected to the sensory experiences of the body. Utilizing various mediums such as oil paint, beads, and resins, she creates immersive environments that translate embodied sensations into material expression. Inspired by Rococo, Surrealist, and Neoclassical aesthetics, her work blends symbols and motifs into a harmonious chaos.Through her innovative approach, Oriana contributes significantly to the academic and artistic discourse on Afro-surrealism and its relevance in contemporary art culture
In 2022, Oriana graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art, earning an invitation to pursue Honours. Over the past few years, she has secured various commissions and residencies. In 2021, she participated in the Nexus Arts Studio residency, held her first solo exhibition, and engaged in a mentorship with Faye Blanche of the Unbound Collective, which enriched her artistic perspective and earned her a nomination for the Don Dunstan Foundation Award. In 2024, she was awarded the Mill Visual Arts Residency, with a solo show planned for 2025, and participated in the Post Ofiice Project’s Studio residency. She was also invited to partake in the Post Office Projects Performance Program, supported by the Creative Industries Grant from the City of PAE and the Kick Start Graduate Grant from Adelaide Central School of Art.
Oriana continues to push the boundaries of Afro-surrealism, contributing to its discourse and evolution within the contemporary art world. Her work not only reflects her unique cultural heritage and personal experiences but also serves as a powerful commentary on the complexities of identity and the human condition.
Informed by my childhood experience of always "having my head in the clouds" and being "off with the fairies," this body of work seeks to reframe this personal narrative into a space of sublime escape through spontaneous method-making, depicting a personal mythos.These moments of sublime escape explore the function of fantasy as an intrinsic tool for imagination, deeply connected to embodied feelings. In this realm of sublime escapism, I grant myself permission to delve into the depths of my being and emotions. The works can be viewed as an internal dialogue, manifesting in tactile forms.
The exhibition unfolds as an internal conversation, guided by personal mythos and translated into the tactile and material expression of embodied sensation. The sensory processes of the body are integrated into the art-making, forming an intrinsically connected environment through various mediums. In this space, distinctions between worlds and categories dissolve. Soft hues articulate a union between the characters and the spaces they inhabit. During these moments of sublime escape, the characters find solace in transcending societal constraints, becoming unapologetically empowered.
This program has support from
The Visual Arts Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Liliana Pasalic for a tufting workshop where you’ll learn to make your own tufted tapestry artwork.
You’ll not only experience hand tufting and machine tufting, you’ll also learn about what materials can be used and non-traditional mediums that can engage your creativity.
What to expect:
This 2.5 hour session will combine hand tufting, machine (gun) tufting and painting. You’ll create a stretched, ready-to-hang, mixed-media artwork that you will take home!
Hear from Liliana about the techniques she uses when creating her stunning tapestry artworks. You will learn how to make your own tufting frame from reclaimed materials and gain knowledge about which fabrics can be used for tufting. Participants will talk about the possibilities of combining non-traditional mediums, boosting creativity and the benefits of a regular creative output.
Additionally, participants will contribute to a collaborative machine-tufted piece that will stay in the gallery and be exhibited as part of a future event in the gallery.
All materials included.
Liliana Pasalic has lived in Zagreb, London, and now Adelaide, working primarily with painting and tapestry.
Her practice explores themes of home and identity, frequently referencing archetypal women’s roles and stereotypical suburban depictions.
Utilizing contemporary and historical textile and tapestry techniques and drawing from her formal background in industrial design, Pasalic pushes the boundaries of her mediums, blurring and combining individual disciplines and newly incorporating LED lighting directly into the works.
“I have collected a lot of photographic source materials of pasted-up posters in the urban environments of the cities where I have lived, and within these photographs I find and extract motifs and remnant graphic elements. These refer, like a woven visual history, of my familiar psychologically mapped home environments.”
Pasalic has exhibited in solo and group shows around the world, including in Zagreb, Ljubljana, New York, Brussels, Vienna, Adelaide, Jerusalem, and Canberra. She had a solo exhibition "Multiverse" at The Mill Adelaide at the beginning of 2024.
Pasalic will be exhibiting with Kolbusz Space gallery in Perth later in 2024 with a solo in 2025. Her solo opens in Our Neon Foe in Sydney in September 2024. She is currently a finalist in the prestigious Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize.
The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta
$35 (+ booking fee)
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join Deaf artist Chisato Minamimura for a workshop that will explore your movement and senses.
What to expect:
Drawing on improvisation and her unique way of exploring sound and movement as a Deaf artist, Chisato Minamimura will lead participants through an exploration to focus and use their senses to create movements that are unique to them. The group will also investigate the importance of personal space and relationships with others, using patterns and geometric shapes.
Chisato speaks in British Sign Language and will be accompanied by two interpreters.
Experience level:
All ages and all people who are comfortable with movement, as the workshop will involve a lot of moving around. Wear relaxed clothing and be prepared to move barefoot.
Chisato Minamimura is a Deaf performance artist, choreographer and BSL art guide.
Born in Japan, now based in London, Chisato has created, performed and taught internationally and is currently a Work Place artist at The Place.
Chisato trained at Trinity Laban in London and holds a BA in Japanese Painting and MA from Yokohama National University. Chisato approaches choreography and performance making from her unique perspective as a Deaf artist, experimenting with and exploring the visualisation of sound and music.
By using dance and technology, Chisato aims to share her experiences of sensory perception and human encounters.
Scored in Silence is showing as part of OzAsia Festival 2024 and is supported by the Playking Foundation.
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Bob Window for a screen printing workshop where you’ll learn to print on fabric!
This beginner level workshop will explore Bob’s signature styles with shapes, layers and stunning colours.
What to expect:
In this 3 hour session you will learn the basics of screen printing, and learn two different techniques for creating amazing prints! Master screen printer Bob Window will share his expertise, and guide participants through the process of printing using pre-exposed screens, followed by printing with blank screens and butchers paper.
Bob will provide participants with 1m of fabric, but you are welcome to bring along additional fabric, tshirts or totes - natural fibers only please.
This can be a messy process, so please wear covered shoes and studio clothes or an apron.
At the end of the day you will get to take home your amazing screen printed artworks!
Robert Viner Jones (AKA Bob Window) is a contemporary printer/painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Robert’s works offer bold, uncompromising graphics - stark and confident in their nature. Trained in Sydney, obsessed with design and colour, Robert’s works draw heavily on fearlessness of mid 20th century design plus an unbridled willingness to simply paint and print things that make him smile.
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Alyssa Powell-Ascura for a relaxed lunch gathering where you’ll learn about Alyssa’s approach to art-making through the lens of food, family and culture.
Experience making your own halo-halo, learning about Filipino food through the act of kamayan (eating with hands) and feast through a curated menu featuring iconic Filipino food favourites.
This workshop is presented as part of Alyssa's solo exhibition Halo-halo, currently showing at The Mill in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.
What to expect:
Seated within Alyssa's exhibition, guests will be served traditional Filipino dishes and learn about Kamayan (eating with hands). All food provided, and the bar will be available to purchase wines from Hither & Yon and take home a complimentary Mama Sita’s package to recreate Filipino dishes at home.
Dietary note:
Vegan options available.
A self titled “slashie”, Alyssa Powell-Ascura is a multi-hyphenated creative. Proud to have grown up in Bundjalung country in a Filipino-Italian-Australian household, she has a background that has given her an interesting, layered perspective on the world.
Alyssa works across a variety of artistic mediums including: writing, conceptual art, immersive installation, traditional and mixed digital media, just to name a few.
Her personal belief in the interconnected relationship of humans to nature drives her to pursue advocating better care of ourselves and our Earth. A finalist of the inaugural SA Environment Awards 2023, she is nominated for her environmental advocacy and using her platform as an emerging creative to promote sustainability and inspire young people.
Motivated to bridge a deeper understanding and connection of Indigenous Philippines and pre colonial Indigenous Australia, Alyssa aims to be actively involved in the intersections she is a part of.
Her creative work has been featured in a variety of local and international publications such as: Local Brown Baby (US), Kindling and Sage magazine (AU), Blank Street Press (AU) and The Philippine Times (AU). She has been published in The Entree.Pinays' anthology "The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia".
If she’s not talking to the local Aunties and writing about food and culture, she can be found by the beach patting puppies who stop by to say hello.
This workshop will include walking around Adelaide CBD.
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join artist Chris Siu for a walking photography workshop. Learn about Chris’s approach to crafting narratives through sequences of photographs, focusing on the development of a visual language rather than individual images. Bring your own digital camera (camera phone, digital camera) and take a walk along Angas Street to the iconic Central Markets, collecting images and building a narrative.
What to expect:
The workshop will start at The Mill on Angas Street with an introduction from Chris and an opportunity to view his exhibition Riot on an Empty Street. Participants will be given the opportunity to devise a ‘mood’ or ‘theme’ for their series before walking with the group along Angas Street to the Central Markets on Gouger Street.
Participants will spend some time taking photos on their own devices, focusing on everyday life and following intuition. We will then return to The Mill for refreshments and to share with the group. The workshop will include an opportunity to chat about the photographs taken and to share the stories and narratives created through the photographic series.
Experience level:
No experience necessary. Participants must bring their own digital camera and must know how to operate it (no technical support will be provided about camera settings etc.) Some walking is required, please get in touch if you have any accessibility questions.
Chris Siu is a Hong Kong-born photographic artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta in Tarntanya Adelaide. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence.
Chris has exhibited throughout Australia, beginning with his feature at the 2019 Head On Photo Festival. Subsequently, he has exhibited at venues including Nexus Arts, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta
$30 (+ booking fee)
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Work with actor and mask performer, Jacob Rajan, to discover what it is to act at the level of mask.
What to expect:
Participants will work with Indian Ink’s own mask collection of Balinese Topeng masks to enable them to experience, through exercises, games and improvisation, the truth of the actor’s actions and the essence of theatricality. Participants should wear comfortable clothes they can move in.
Experience level:
Ideal for acting/theatre students and/or professionals wanting to develop mask work skills.
Jacob is a founding partner of Indian Ink and co-wrote all of Indian Ink’s plays as well as performing in many of them.
He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama school, Otago University (B.Sc Microbiology) and Wellington Teacher’s College. Jacob is an Arts Foundation Laureate and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to theatre.
Indian Ink is one of New Zealand’s most successful theatre companies. Founded by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan (MNZM) over 25 years ago, it has generated 13 national and international awards, critical acclaim, standing ovations and sell out seasons. Since 1997 over 510,000 people have had their lives enriched by their original plays.
Alongside a whānau of multi-talented artists, Indian Ink creates vibrant, fresh, culturally diverse theatre that combines artful storytelling, mischievous wit and theatrical magic in a way that celebrates our differences but connects us through our shared humanity. This truly unique style promotes community and fosters empathy in audiences across cultures.
Led by Kuik Swee Boon, Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company, the workshop will include improvisational prompts and tools to guide participants to arrive at nuanced states of physical and physiological connectedness.
About HollowBody:
HollowBody™️ is the signature methodology and movement philosophy advocated by founding artistic director and main choreographer of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, Kuik Swee Boon; it is the current methodology with which the dance artists at T.H.E train. Neither a mere movement aesthetic nor an existential state of being, it is an experiential process, utilising improvisational tools to guide practitioners towards a heightened physiological awareness that resonates in their movement choice, approach, and expression.
HollowBody™️ is based on the understanding of the body as the foundation of our world. As a vessel for thoughts, emotions and energy, our embodied experiences and knowledge transcend language and logic. The HollowBody™️ methodology seeks to establish in its practitioner a level of trust and access that can surface these deep impulses and needs, and unearth an innate connectivity between mind, heart, and body. With the practitioner’s curiosities, potential, and limitations becoming wholly available to themselves, self-understanding and creative expression unfold.
Today, long-term practice of the HollowBody™️ methodology has fed naturally into T.H.E’s creation and performance voice. We at T.H.E believe that with HollowBody™️, dance and movement can be embraced as a fundamental pillar in life that offers a deep connection to the body, and in turn, the world.
What to expect:
Participants will be given improvisational prompts and tools, guided to listen to their instinct and impulses, and to rediscover movement as a unique expression and identity.
Experience level:
Suitable for professional and semi-professional dance artists, dancers, full-time dance students aged 18 and above, and movement enthusiasts who are comfortable with improvisation.
The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company was founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon. Rooted firmly in Singapore yet universal in its perspective, T.H.E's contemporary dance works reveal the body as a medium for exploring and celebrating the human condition.
Dance artists at T.H.E are immersed in the Company's signature methodology, HollowBody™️, which guides them to access their deeper instincts and impulses through movement. The Company's movement vocabulary is distinct in its intensely personal aesthetics, yet thrilling in its diversity. Driven by a sincere desire to uncover the intricate, complex and oft-times overlooked dimensions of human existence, the Company's incisive observations on the human condition and its original creations are an essential mirror to the issues and rhythms of contemporary life.
As one of Singapore's seminal contemporary dance companies, T.H.E has performed and toured at many major and prestigious festivals in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Latvia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and New Zealand.
Based on its vision of contemporary dance as a medium for nurturing human potential, T.H.E has also actively initiated numerous platforms to engage young artists and the wider public. Since it was founded, the Company also started its semi-professional wing, T.H.E Second Company, which identifies and mentors dance artists who aspire to reach a professional standard of contemporary dance. In 2010, T.H.E also founded the cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (previously known as the M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival) – the country's first annual contemporary dance festival to showcase local and international artists. The Company also regularly runs public classes, workshops, and customised programmes for schools and the community.
Kuik Swee Boon Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company (est. 2008) and its annual cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (est. 2010), Kuik Swee Boon danced in Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002—2007, performing in works by renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. Prior to CND, he danced in Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. A 2007 Young Artist Award recipient, he was nominated for the Benois De La Danse Award in 2003, and selected for the 2021—2023 Fellowship Programme with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company that trains in his HollowBody™️ methodology, with a repertoire of works that has toured many international festivals. Even when the pandemic hit, his 360° virtual reality adaptation of PheNoumenon (2019), amongst other digital projects, made its rounds to Italy and Israel in 2021. Most recently, he was commissioned by Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2022 to create Infinitely Closer, which also marked the opening of the new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Kuik Swee Boon
Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company (est. 2008) and its annual cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (est. 2010), Kuik Swee Boon danced in Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002—2007, performing in works by renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. Prior to CND, he danced in Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. A 2007 Young Artist Award recipient, he was nominated for the Benois De La Danse Award in 2003, and selected for the 2021—2023 Fellowship Programme with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company that trains in his HollowBody™️ methodology, with a repertoire of works that has toured many international festivals. Even when the pandemic hit, his 360° virtual reality adaptation of PheNoumenon (2019), amongst other digital projects, made its rounds to Italy and Israel in 2021. Most recently, he was commissioned by Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2022 to create Infinitely Closer, which also marked the opening of the new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
You can find Gulayí inThe Mill Exhibition Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Join Quandamooka and Mununjali artist Chantal Henley for a weaving fundamentals session at The Mill. Chantal is an incredible textile artist, and this workshop is a fantastic opportunity for participants to learn about techniques and materials, and hear more about Chantal's knowledge of weaving.
What to expect:
Chantal will demonstrate introductory techniques to woven body adornments. Participants will have access to materials and get to try new techniques, and can take home their creations on the day.
All materials provided
About the exhibition:
Gulayí: Woven in the Womb is a new exhibition by Chantal Henley as part of Tarnanthi 2023. Working with textiles, Chantal explores body adornment through garments, sculpture, dance and film, embedding her connection to her Grandmother’s country and her own experience as mother.
Gulayí (Woven Vessel) is a gathering of exclusively hand woven, hand printed garments and body adornments that highlight the prominence of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design.
Embellished in gathered fibers, up cycled fabrics, shells, feathers and clay, Gulayí features custom prints that are a direct tribute to my Quandamooka and Mununjali kinship, paying homage to Country and Water through woven techniques reclaimed through the many Gulayí makers that carry and contain the stories of our Elders.
Chantal Henley is an Artist & Designer from the Ngugi and Mununjali clans of the Quandamooka and Yugambeh peoples of South - East Queensland.
From an early age, Chantal connected to culture through Dance and Song and soon became familiar with textiles through both of her Grandmothers, encouraging her to learn various techniques and explore fabrics and fibres.
Through a brief stay at design school, she explored western design fundamentals and obtained insight into the production and manufacturing processes within the textile and fashion industry, soon deciding to journey elsewhere with her creativity.
Henley credits her time with master weavers and their unconditional effort to exchange with her through kinship and storytelling, contributing to her ability to regain and retain those Gulayi songlines.
Chantal carries her strong message of connection and retaining ancestral skills and techniques through her woven Gulayi (bag, vessel) and hand painted Ungarie (Swamp Reed) prints included in her collections and body of work, paying homage to her Mununjali and Ngugi songlines.
Her textiles and body adornments have been showcased and exhibited by Artisan, National Gallery of Australia, Redland Art Gallery, Jam Factory, Art Gallery Gold Coast and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, including publications such as Peppermint & RUSSH Magazine.
Henley is currently based in Tarntanyangga (Adelaide) Kaurna Yerta with her partner and children.
Bulareyaung Dance Company dancers will share what they have learned from indigenous Paiwan tribes including ancient daily chants.
What to expect:
Participants will have the chance to explore their physicality while singing and incorporating body movements.
Experience level:
Recommended for 18 yrs and above, no prior experience required.
The Bulareyaung Dance Company was founded in 2015 in Taitung by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, an indigenous choreographer from Taiwan. Creation of dance pieces and dancer training are accomplished by working in the mountains and singing old chants by the waterside. Dancers develop unique body movements and vocabulary by delving into their indigenous heritage and culture through regular field trips.
This contemporary / street dance masterclass is about finding your choreographic language through your freestyle. It focusses on practicing and discussing methods to help develop your freestyle skills.
Understanding the importance of a challenge in a process and finding the playfulness in your process. We will explore how to create for your next door neighbour, as well as your colleagues.
Experience level:
Intermediate to professional dancers.
Feras Shaheen is an artist curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Using choreography, installations, design, film, performance, digital media, and street dance to communicate his ideas, the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage with audiences. Holding a Bachelor of Design from Western Sydney University (2014), Feras often subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences' perspectives.
Born in Dubai to Palestinian parents, and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras’ perception of the world is constantly shifting and changing. Winner of The Australian Ballet’s Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) in 2021, Feras has performed and exhibited at Carriageworks, Venice Biennale, Pari, Kampnagel, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Théâtre de la Ville.
Recent works include Cross Cultures, Plastic Bag, ongoing collaboration Klapping, and Forum Q. Cross Cultures, a body of work shown at Pari Gallery Parramatta (2020) and Carriageworks (2021) explored the fluid contemporary identities of ‘Generation Y’ and how street culture is heavily impacted by media culture, specifically where commercial and urban industries intersect and reconcile. Where Plastic Bag a full-length show including performative video installation, directed by Feras, drew from the postmodern concept of hyperreality and premiered at East Sydney Community Arts Centre in 2022. Feras is currently working with Marrugeku, presenting Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a collaborative production that addresses both local and global issues regarding the fear of cultural differences.
When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 1:30pm-3:30pm (arrive at 1:15pm to sign in)
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)
Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)
The Mill in partnership with Metro Arts are excited to present a masterclass with writer, performer and champion slam poet Huda Fadlelmawla.
Huda Fadlelmawla will be performing in Betwixt as part of Adelaide Fringe 2023.
About the masterclass:
This masterclass is broken into two parts, beginning by going back to the basics of poetry elements, and how to get your story onto the page in a way that best expresses your own voice. The second part will bring participants to the stage, with specialised tips in performance, public speaking, and the chance of an in-house poetry slam of our own.
Experience level:
All writers and creatives, from amateur to experienced poets and writers, adults 18+.
Materials:
Please bring paper and a pen.
Huda Fadlelmawla (aka Huda The Goddess) is spoken word poet, educator, and community activist. Huda is the current Australia Poetry Slam Champion and two-time QLD champ.
Huda is a spoken word poet, educator, mental health advocate, dancer and workshop facilitator. She describes poetry as one of her senses that has allowed her to turn her experiences into art and maintain her connection to her people.
When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am)
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)
Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)
About the masterclass:
Will Tredinnick is a self-proclaimed ‘Professional Idiot’. This workshop is for anyone interested in pursuing anything professionally, be that dance, theatre, comedy, music, masonry, small business, or baking!
This masterclass will focus on developing skills in devising for performance and will start with some light physical activity to get the blood pumping around our performance vessel: the body. From there we will discover how to play, explore some tools to help us make something out of nothing, learn some simple storytelling tricks and then bring it on home with a short display of our new mastery of devising.
The workshop will be physical (but not too physical) so wear something comfortable (there will be a prize for the most comfortable outfit).
Experience level:
Suitable for individuals, duos, trios and larger ensembles - all experience levels are welcome!
Age recommended 15+
Will is a diverse and passionate theatre-maker from Western Sydney. With a Bachelor of Communication (Theatre/Media), Will developed his physical theatre, learning skills in circus, dance, and acrobatics. He’s performed at multiple Australian festivals, and led venue teams at international Fringes.
In 2018, Will developed his first solo work Table for Two? The show has since won awards and performed to sell-out audiences at Bondi Feast, Sydney and Adelaide Fringe. Since then, he's created his second touring piece, Pickled Sink, receiving multiple 4 and 5 star reviews.
When not touring, Will performs as a ‘Captain’ for the Starlight Children's Foundation, Front of House Manager at multiple large venues, and teaches, performs, and leads festivals in remote communities across NSW and WA.
When: Friday, March 3, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am to sign in)
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)
Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)
This masterclass is about getting to the heart of what you want to say and nailing the craft behind storytelling.
Stories are an incredible source of material and connective juice between a performer and their audience. This masterclass will help you find the heart, hone in on the point, and tune the delivery, so your story can do what it needs to do - express, connect and delight.
This could be a story that is used as a part of or as the whole basis for a show, told as between set 'banter' or even used to 'pitch' a work. You can take stories from your life, the lives of others or even a story you have heard or read about - all of them can be crafted into telling power.
After a couple of quick palate-cleansing games to get your minds ready to access, this masterclass will go full steam into your story crafting, from story - selection through to story delivery. Emma writes by improvised speaking, so she will also share her 'dot-point' writing style.
Get ready to work, talk and listen.
Bring a note-book, a bottle of water and a story.
Experience level:
This masterclass is open to people who practice performance of any kind, who either want to build on a story-telling practice, or incorporate it into their own genre of practice. General public are welcome to attend yet will need to be ready for working within a theatrical environment with performing artists who are familiar with improvisation and responding to unknown creative tasks ie: written, verbal and physical.
I started making shows for my mum in her bedroom when I was six. Since then, I graduated from Flinders Drama Centre, worked in theatre and screen as well as developing an arts practice of making theatre shows from intimate conversations with other humans, from strangers to my dad, drawing from documentary to create my own docu-theatre style. The best moments of these conversations I collect together to make shows, which exalt the un-exalted in our daily lives, and hone in on our life-changing stories. My work is often direct address, and montages monologue storytelling, gestures and physical narratives that are collected from interviews, conversations, confessions and observations.
I work with collaborators that include installation-theatre companies in Demark and Singapore, and various companies / festivals locally including The Rabble, Arts House, DreamBIG festival, Aphids, OSCA, No Strings Attached, STC SA, Brink Productions and Vitalstatistix. Emma has just finished her one-woman show commissioned for the Adelaide Festival, The Photo Box.
Studio open at 12:45pm, please arrive then to check in and warm up.
The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival present a contemporary movement masterclass with Marrugeku’s Dalisa Pigram and Rachel Swain.
Dalisa Pigram is touring to Adelaide to perform in Gudirr Gudirr as part of 2022 OzAsia Festival.
About the masterclass:
Marrugeku's co-artistic directors Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain will lead a workshop for dancers, movers, and choreographers. The workshop will introduce Marrugeku’s devising approaches drawing on personal and cultural backgrounds to create contemporary movement. We will experiment with techniques to layer and structure movement, ideas, characters and cultural influences. The workshop will draw from the processes Marrugeku used to create Gudirr Gudirr.
Experience level:
Participants should have 2-3 years of experience in one or more of dance, circus, street forms like parkour or hip hop, traditional or contemporary Indigenous dance, martial arts or other movement based practices.
The workshop is also open to actors with some movement experience interested in improvisational movement processes to generate theatre.
About the Co-Artistic Directors:
A Yawuru/Bardi woman born and raised in Broome, Dalisa has worked with Marrugeku since the first production Mimi and has been Co-Artistic Director since 2008. A co-devising performer on all Marrugeku’s productions, touring extensively overseas and throughout Australia. Dalisa’s solo work Gudirr Gudirr earned an Australian Dance Award (Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance 2014) and a Green Room Award (Best Female Performer 2014). Dalisa co-conceived Marrugeku’s Burning Daylight and Cut the Sky with Rachael Swain, co-choreographing both works with Serge Aimé Coulibaly. Together with Swain she co-directed Buru, Ngalimpa and co-curated Marrugeku’s four International Indigenous Choreographic Labs and Burrbgaja Yalirra. Dalisa co-conceived with Rachael Swain and Patrick Dodson Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk], co-Choreographing the new work with the performers.
Dalisa also co-choreographed and performed in Marrugeku’s new digital work, Gudirr Gudirr video and sound installation. In her community, Dalisa teaches the Yawuru Language at Cable Beach Primary School and is committed to the maintenance of Indigenous language and culture through arts and education. Dalisa is co-editor of Marrugeku: Telling That Story—25 years of trans-Indigenous and intercultural exchange (Performance Research 2021).
Rachael Swain —Artistic Co-director Marrugeku: a settler artist, born in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Rachael works between the lands of the Gadigal in Sydney and the lands of the Yawuru in Broome. She is a director and dramaturg of intercultural and trans-disciplinary dance projects and a performance scholar and researcher. Since the company’s founding, she has co-conceived and directed Marrugeku’s productions Mimi, Crying Baby, Burning Daylight, Cut the Sky and Jurrungu Ngan-ga. She co-directed Buruand Ngalimpa with Dalisa Pigram. Rachael was previously Co-Artistic director of Stalker Theatre, co-devising and performing in the early works and directing Blood Vessel, Incognita (with Koen Augustijnen), Sugar and Shanghai Lady Killer. She was dramaturg for Dalisa Pigram’s award winning solo Gudirr Gudirr, Le Dernier Appel and Burrbgaja Yalirra.
Rachael trained at the European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem, the Netherlands, The Amsterdam School for Advanced Theatre and Dance Research (DAS ARTS) and gained a PhD in Performance Studies from Melbourne University. She held an ARC funded post-doctoral research fellowship at Melbourne University 2013-2016. Rachael is the author of Dance in Contested Land—new intercultural dramaturgies (Palgrave 2020) and co-editor of Marrugeku: Telling That Story—25 years of trans-Indigenous and intercultural exchange (Performance Research 2021).
Studio open at 5:15pm, please arrive then to check in and warm up.
The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival present a masterclass with Sue Healey that explores the Dancer and the Camera through visual awareness, the frame and movement within it.
Sue Healey is touring to Adelaide to perform in The Long Walk as part of 2022 Oz Asia Festival.
About the masterclass:
The class will open up visual and kinaesthetic awareness through a series of exercises and improvisations that relate to the works Healey is showing in the festival. Participants will move and observe, experimenting with the frame and dynamic nature of a moving camera.
Experience level:
All ages and disciplines are welcome – Open to everyone, though the workshop setting is best suited for artists, filmmakers, cinematographers, choreographers, dancers, performance and media artists. No dance experience required. All movement exercises will be accessible for all abilities.
Requirements:
Participants must bring a smart phone with a camera.
Sue Healey is a Sydney-based choreographer, film-maker and installation artist with 40 years experience in Australia and internationally. She is the recipient of the Australia Council Award for Dance for 2021.
Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates performance and film for diverse spaces and contexts: galleries, theatres and screens. She tours internationally and has shown her work in many iconic venues, including the Sydney Opera House; Victorian Arts Centre; Lincoln Centre, New York; Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, West Kowloon Cultural Precinct, Hong Kong and Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya Japan.
Sue has created highly acclaimed, large scale projects, in Australia, New Zealand and Asia; including Live Action Relay for Liveworks Festival 2020, City as Portrait Gallery (B.E. Exhibition, Customshouse Sydney 2018), En Route (Wynscreen 2017), On View: Hong Kong - 5 channel installation for West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong (2017), On View: Japan - 5 channel installation Red Brick Warehouse Yokohama 2019, On View: Panorama live performance and film installations that toured Kinosaki, Yokohama and Nagoya, Japan 2020.
Studio open at 3:45pm, please arrive then to check in and warm up.
The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival present a masterclass with Maria Tran exploring action fight choreography and stage combat.
Maria Tran is touring to Adelaide to perform in ACTION STAR as part of 2022 Oz Asia Festival.
About the masterclass:
The central focus is to give opportunities for artists to explore themselves performatively through the format of action fight choreography and stage combat. Creatives will unpack leadership skills, courage, kindness, and what being strong and taking action means. Skills include improvisation, voice and movement devising, acting, and creating group work scenes.
Experience level:
16+, any level or experience welcome.
Maria has a Bachelor in Psychology, Western Sydney University and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment. She has conducted over a dozen workshop classes in leadership, digital media, creativity, business and entrepreneurship, public speaking and presenting, and acting and performance training for individuals, groups, face-to-face and online, particularly amongst culturally diverse communities.
Her role as Youth Digital Cultures Coordinator with Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) 2007-2009 led to the activation amongst young people of colour through digital art activism & performance. Since then, she’s designed, implemented, and ran over 100 workshops in Western Sydney and across Australia. Her workshops centre on creativity, psychology, stage combat and fight choreography, acting and performance, self-care, exploring passions, public speaking and presentation, project management, communication, community and cultural development practices, life as an artist, and many more. She currently co-facilitates at Acting For Mindfulness, a training program tailored for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and descent navigating the acting & performative industries.
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
The Mill invites you to join us for an intimate yarning circle with exhibiting Antikjrita artist Natalie Austin and Wangkangurru woman and independent curator Marika Davies.
Natalie will have a chat about her work and Marika will keep our hands busy with some weaving while chatting about her role as exhibition curator. We'll also have some tea and biccies!
About the exhibition:
Memory of Water by Antikjrita woman Natalie Austin speaks of the artists connection to Country as motif within her life. Natalie traces her life from child, teen, mother and now grandmother and the meaningful role that water has in her understanding of self, Country and community. Natalie has worked with Wangkangurru woman and independent curator Marika Davies to develop this exhibition, an inaugural collaboration between The Mill and regional South Australian Aboriginal artists. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue essay written by Yankunytjatjara / Kokatha woman and well-known poet Ali Cobby Eckermann.
Memory of Water is presented in partnership with Ku Arts, Ripple Effect/HumanKind and City of Adelaide.
Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.
The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.
Learn to carve jewellers wax to create your own ring using the lost wax casting method. We'll carve with files, pick with tools and melt with flame until you've made yourself a masterpiece. Jewellers wax is a medium like no other; easy to get lost in and can take on so very many forms. We will explore different shapes, textures and techniques (please note, this workshop does not include working with stones). No two rings are ever the same, just uniquely yours!
At the end of the session, Nativis, aka Elly, will collect all your finished wax moulds. They're then cast in solid silver, after which Elly tackle the processing for you, and return to you your shiny, finished piece. Making jewellery is wonderful but sharing the experience is more-so, this is my way to get people involved and bring them closer to a slow and conscious way of creating.
About the artist:
Elly Pepper is a predominantly self-taught jeweller; creating one-off pieces from recycled solid silver and gold, and ethically sourced stones. Her works range from simple studs to future heirloom pieces, as she enjoys continuing to build her skillset and experimenting with new techniques.
As a trained horticulturalist, her work is continuously inspired by nature, the earth, and the beautiful stones she holds, particularly Australian opal. Elly began offering wax workshops mid-2021, hoping to bring to life the opportunity to make a gift instead of buying it, an experience for you and your loved ones to create treasures you will hold forever, made by your own two hands. Her dream of bringing people together over food and drink to create is well and truly alive within these workshops!
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Masterclass: Process-based Approaches & Resolutions with Ruby Chew
Join Ruby Chew for a two day process based workshop at The Mill. Ruby will guide participants through techniques in abstraction and alternative making techniques building towards creating an abstract painting on wood board.
This workshop is suitable for beginners through to established artists, with a focus on experimentation, play, exploration, and composition. Ruby is a generous teacher with many years experience teaching and as a practicing artist.
Students will need to provide some basic materials (scissors, glue stick, wood board etc. list will be provided with ticket), and The Mill will provide other materials for the group to share.
About the artist:
Ruby Chew is a painter who employs process-based making techniques to create open dialogues with her viewers whilst exploring the fluidity of pictorial space. Completing a BA Visual Arts Hons. at Adelaide Central School of Art (2010), along with further study at Central Saint Martins, London and the Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Ruby’s practice is deeply rooted in traditional painting techniques, which are the foundation of her practice.
Ruby is a Ruth Tuck Scholarship recipient (2015) and has exhibited, taught and held residency positions interstate and overseas. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, notably Portraits at Magazine Gallery (2011), Spitting Image at Hill Smith Gallery (2012) and The Difference Between Things at Floating Goose Studios (2021).
Her artworks are in public and private collections across Australia, Canada, Malaysia and London. She currently lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
Image: Viray Thach
Workshop: Beginners lino printing with Viray Thach
When:Sunday, August 21, or Saturday, September 10, 12-4pm
If you're looking for an opportunity to be creative, join Sponsored Studio artist Viray Thach for an illustration and lino print workshop. This beginners workshop will introduce skills in preparing a design, carving lino and printing, and all participants will take home finished artworks.
Held in The Mill’s exhibition space alongside Viray’s solo exhibition Resilience, the workshop will be intimate and casual and is open to complete beginners.
About the artist:
Viray Thach is an emerging digital illustrator and educator. Her style, inspired by pop art, art deco and art nouveau, also sees deep-rooted influences from traditional Kbach ornamental designs that pay homage to her Cambodian roots. Viray’s iPad is the digital sketchbook where all the magic happens. Here, she marries the old and the new, using cybernation to recreate time-honoured textures and techniques into tactile designs that evoke a warm, homely compassion.
Formally educated in graphic design, business management and education, Viray is not only dedicated to her role as an illustrator, but as an educator and mentor, cultivating young minds and passing her multi-creative knowledge on to creative visionaries of the next generation. She remains business-minded and efficient while still delivering work full of the heart and soul.
At the root of it, Viray uses her art to tell a story – whether that is through character-rich portraits, lively illustrations, or bringing her mind’s eye to life through magnificent murals.
