About Performance

A bunch of kids have set out to bring a live audience to the urban Fantasia that is the under-side of the Flemington Bridge overpass. However, on the other side of the urban landscape, a bureaucratic plot is being hatched to undermine their efforts. Occupational Health and Safety manuals, insurance premiums and risk management plans are all being launched to destroy the young hopefuls. All seems lost. What are they to do?

The solution is simple: Fight back.

Kids Can Get Lost is a humorous performance about two Occupational Health and Safety Officers who attempt to run an educational course on Safe Family Roadtrips. The staging ground is the vast concrete floodway below the Yellow and Red Sticks of the CityLink Tollway. A place that is reminiscent of MTV Music Videos, Hollywood car chases and disaster movies; the perfect location for:
Crash Testing the Great Australian Holiday.



Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Want to volunteer on this project?



What we need volunteers for

To assist in ushering the audience safely from the Flemington Community Centre, along the bikepath and out onto the Moonee Ponds Creek Floodway and back again. Also, assist in Front of House.

Who we need
People that can commit to volunteering for at least two performances. We will require two volunteers per performance.

Perks of the job
This is an Official Next Wave Festival Volunteer position,
which means that you will:
- receive a Next Wave Festival T-shirt
- have access to Next Wave special offers on tickets and events
- be able to experience the inner workings of a contemporary arts festival
- be supporting emerging artists and new work
- get to wear fluoro orange!!!

Performance Dates and Times in May

See right hand column of this webpage.
Arrive at 4pm for a 5pm show. Finished by 7pm

How to get involved
Contact Matthew Kneale matthew !AT! collabo !DOT! net or 0422 818 562
with the dates you’re available to volunteer, then head along to the Next Wave Volunteer induction this Tuesday 29th April from 6-9pm
Meat Market
5 Blackwood St
North Melbourne 3051

Don't worry
If you can’t make it to the induction still contact us and we’ll make other arrangements

Your support will be greatly appreciated!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Launch of the 2008 Next Wave Festival Program

Today, Spilt Second's Occupational Health Safety Officers assisted in the launch of of the 2008 Next Wave Festival Program.

Highly caffeinated from that latte, Paul Bongiorno was ready to identify and manage all possible risks and hazards.
Aaron Orzech, used meticulously choreographed flag gestures and pedestrian management signals to direct the guests safely up the stairs.

Limited edition Spilt Second signs reduced the likelihood of risks occurring from "almost certain" to "possible".
Finally... once up the stairs, the guests received the Festival Program Guide formated as a broadsheet newspaper. Here's a clipping of our ad:

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Creative Development Feedback

Feedback form from our August 2007 creative development showing... maybe a hint of what is to come?:
Matthew