Brave New Works | Denmark Arts Council

BRAVE NEW WORKS #31

3 - 6 APRIL 2025

Tickets Available from the 1st of March

BE BRAVE, BE NEW.

IT IS TIME!

DENMARK'S community arts festival Brave New Works welcomes experimental works, works in progress and polished pieces. Responding to the 2025 theme: Aurora Australis, local artists and artists from outside the region to present NEW or BRAVE works.

Cosmic, unusual, zany and curious presentations incorporating the thrilling Auora, will present carefully considered, high calibre performances, of dance, spoken word, music, bands, mediation, comedy, visual art and workshops.

A festival like no other, the 31st Brave New Works, makes Kwoorabup (Denmark) one of the state’s most recognised creative hubs! A beloved festival that welcomes all forms of creative expression to entertain and challenge audiences. offering professional development programs for artists and opportunities for artists to interact directly with audiences.

Great Southern audiences are famous for their welcoming and warm support of the festival, creating a safe stage for new and experienced artists alike to try something new. BNW welcomes experimentation, exploration and performance practice.

It has been the springboard for many artistic careers, You never know what marvelous work you will experience! Denmark Arts is proud to have been witness to and supporter of many artistic careers over the many years! Who knows, you could be next!?

AURORA AUSTRALIS

For the 31st iteration of the festival, we will be celebrating the Aurora Australis.

The magical Aurora was captured repeatedly in 2024.

It was the most spectacular show, lighting up the night sky..Now let's light up the town of Denmark!

The theme has been interpretated by artists by colours, shapes, luminosity, night sky, inspired by 2024's sky show.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT

Thanks to the generous support of Department of Local Government, Sports and Culture, for the 2025 festival Denmark Arts will be offering professional development opportunities for participating Denmark-dwelling creatives in the lead up to the event. There is one seat reserved per application, if you are a leader/soloist/choreographer/organiser of a group in the festival you automatically have a reserved seat to all sessions.

If you are a participant in the festival and following a leader/choreographer/organiser you will need to purchase a ticket.

If you are not in the festival you can still participate in the Professional Development by purchasing a ticket.

These sessions will be facilitated by Denmark-based industry professionals in early March (dates to be confirmed).

The Art of Text - Facilitated by Liz Jack

Date:

The two half hours will cover:

530pm: Marketing overview in ten minutes

Who’s your market
5 P”s and what it means as an artist

6:00pm: Creation of your story / narrative / profile

Template provided that they fill in
Discussion on issues / challenges

645pm: In pairs verbal pitch of their product and refine narrative

7.15pm: Expanding your reach and capacity for more work - product + performance = profit / success etc

Will also touch on issues of copyright and IP protection

To Bring

Bring computer, pen and paper

Any professional visual images you feel best work and can be shared amoungst the group

Theatre & Staging - Facilitated by Silvia Lehmann

Mentorship and masterclasses in areas such as stagecraft, technical and production skills, marketing and more.

Date:

Workshop 1: For performers, dancers, soloists, poets.

Learn the power and dynamics of different stage positions, experiment with audience/performer relationships, and play with how to inhabit stages of different sizes and dimensions with the same show. Discover the potential of unusual or 'found' performance spaces and how to get the most out of any performance space.

Come to this two hour workshop for lots of good staging tips from a professional theatre director!

Workshop 2: For performers, dancers, soloists, poets.

Please bring a 5min scene/excerpt from your BNW show and we will workshop different staging possibilities for it (if you have several cast members in the scene/excerpt, please all come to this workshop!) It will be helpful, but not a pre-requisite to attend staging workshop 1.

We will play with how to expand and contract a performance space to suit your show, as well as the power vs distraction of props/backdrops/set elements. We will experiment with entrances and exits and transitions between 'scenes' to make a seamless show.

For those of you interested in developing your arts industry literacy or submitting works for future BNW festivals, a small number of places in these workshops will be available to the general public for a small fee.

Places will also be offered to production volunteers.

If you are not applying this year but would like to be notified about professional development calendar, please email admin@denmarkarts.com.au