Art is the memory, mirror, and the navigator of culture, this is why artists need be employed, not by Governments, (especially Governments who require our artists to jump through their hoops,) but by us, the people, the true custodians of who we were, are and will be.
Marketing Independent Theatre has always been tough. You rely on getting lucky with baited media releases hoping to hook an article or better yet an interview on radio or even TV.
You were always competing against the big guys who had these things called Marketing Budgets, but you were driven by a passion to remain living within your dreams.
Now though there is a new wall to clamber over, one I can’t even believe that our country is facing; Censorship.
We heard from the mouth of a triple RRR presenter that our Tribe is not allowed on their platform, the same for all of the ABC’s platforms.
The other media outlets are driven by Government advertising so the producer in me understands why they won’t entertain us either. I don’t like it, but money is their God now, not principles.
But the ABC is supposed to be the peoples’ platform, or was. Now it’s a Propaganda Arm of the Government.
Also, nearly all Social Media Platforms are heavily censoring the voices of our Tribe, using their Algorithms that have no morality a human can appeal to.
So what to do?
I suggest we create our own newsletter or letters that we can use to market the Artists who will now become the pioneers of what I believe will be our country’s greatest renaissance.
But before this we need YOUR help to spread the word of the shows created by Artists who have decided to not jump through our Government’s medical hoops.
Therefore I am imploring you, for the sake of our culture, to share the word.
Michael
"Art is the memory, mirror, and the navigator of culture, this is why artists need be employed, not by Governments, (especially Governments who require our artists to jump through their hoops,) but by us, the people, the true custodians of who we were, are and will be."
Forget about or ailing world for a night and come celebrate and even sing along to some brilliant songs sung by these great singers.
Forget about or ailing world for a night and come celebrate and even sing along to some brilliant songs sung by these great singers.
Cafe Locked Out Presents The Opera Rogues
“Rogue Bulls are born on remote cattle stations, unaware of humans. They take it for granted that they are free and so they roam the bush accordingly, unaware that once the musterers find them, they will capture them and send them to the abattoir, for the farmer’s goal is to breed a docile herd, full of compliant cows that are easier to manage. Yet around their camp fires the only cattle the musterers talk about with reverence, are the rogues.”
The Opera Rogues.
Throughout the last year, when we were interviewing Australians everywhere, we were approached by Opera Singers who, for their own reasons, had become segregated from their community.
So now, back in Melbourne, we have contacted these exceptionally talented and renowned artists to see if they will allow us to bring them to a new stage and to you.
They have agreed.
These artists are
Grace Bawden
Benjamin Martin
Dmitri Pronin
And Ayse Göknur Shanal
The night will be an eclectic mix of classic Opera songs, rarer Opera songs and maybe even some Bee Gees numbers. And because they are all willing to pay the price of their own principles we are calling them The Opera Rogues.
So on Saturday the 3rd of September, prepare yourself for a moving night of fun, with a goal to allow the talent of these Artists to fill your soul.
Alex Theatre St Kilda
Level 1, 135 Fitzroy Street
Grand Boulevard
St Kilda, MELBOURNE
Date
Sept 3 2020
Time 7pm.
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Would love to come, but I'm in Sydney. Best of luck with it all.