BLEACH* Festival 2022

BLEACH* Festival is the Gold Coast’s annual showcase of art, performance, workshops, interactive events, and entertainment staged across the beachside of North Burleigh, Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Miami’s industrial pocket, and around the historic suburb of Mudgeeraba at the base of the hinterland.

Crossing Borders, BLEACH* Festival 2022. Photograph: Art Work Agency. Courtesy BLEACH* Festival, Queensland

BLEACH* Festival is on from 11 to 21 August 2022. Highlights include: the official opening at sunrise on day one with a First Nations ceremony of dance, fire, and song; the film premiere of RADIAL, a video art, dance, music, and fashion feature, with electronic wizardry by mixed-abilities ensemble Tralala Blip; and Indigenous sustainable fibre artist Norton Fredericks will demonstrate how to create botanical contact prints on paper using the ancient crafts of felt and botanical dyes. Also, on show, nine unique stories of nine extraordinary women from nine different countries, all of whom now call the Gold Coast home – Crossing Borders cements the power of storytelling and celebrates the diversity of our community.

Lisa Smith, BLEACH* Festival 2022. Photograph: Art Work Agency. Courtesy BLEACH* Festival, Queensland

For BLEACH* 2022, six groups of artists – Lenine Bourke + Nathan Stoneham, Lawrence English, Rising Tide Artists, Liesel Zink, Lisa Smith, and Emily Grace Taylor – are in residence at the North Burleigh Hub during the Festival. The artists will create in public to produce new work, specifically connected to place. The community is encouraged to watch art-making in action as they themselves go about their day-to-day, from the inception of an idea, through the process of creation and finally, the culmination of these new works.

Plan your festival experience online.

bleachfestival.com.au

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