Darebin FUSE Festival 2025
FUSE Festival @ Northcote Town Hall
Produced and Production Managed by Ebony Rattle, working with the Darebin City Council Festival & Events unit.
About FUSE Festival: FUSE Festival is Darebin’s contemporary, multi-arts festival. Every year the festival offers signature events presented by the Darebin Arts Festival and Events unit, artist-led events supported by the FUSE Fund, and a platform to share events by local artists and creatives as part of the FUSE Open Access initiative.
FUSE Festival @ Northcote Town Hall: Take a seat at Civic Square and experience Tarutharu – The Kaurna Skink, a 27-metre luminous skink created by Elizabeth Close Arts (Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara) and Jack Buckskin (Kaurna and Nurungga), as a representative of the Kaurna Peoples, in collaboration with Darebin-based puppet company A Blanck Canvas.
Walk through the main hall of Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre and into Cochlea - a giant inflatable installation celebrating voices from the frontlines of gender by celebrated puppet company Snuff Puppets. Amorphous puppets invite you to enter a winding cavern of interlocking tubes and passages, culminating in the spiral vortex at the centre of the inner ear. A world of soft-edged chambers, geometric forms, and colour-saturated light. Inside the huge 15-meter Cochlea, gender terrorist OPAL presents immersive interviews with trans, non binary and gender diverse locals.
Also on offer is a colouring in sheet by visual artist Arkie Barton (Kalkadoon and Bidjara) for kids to colour in while they are listening to the stories.
Friday 5th September Opening Night: A special opening night for our community, beginning with a Welcome to Country and followed by roving performances by celebrated local drag icons Cerulean and Stone Motherless Cold.
Photographs by Wild Heardt
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