BILLED as an evening to commemorate the life and art of the late David Bowie, The Bowie Ball is coming up at Ainslie Arts Centre on February 10.
With live music from Alice Cottee, spoken word tributes by Hannah McCann and Duncan Driver and a special performance by Venus Mantrap, you can bet there won’t be a dry eye in the house.
Cottee is front woman of suburban folk-league No Hausfrau (Best ACT Country Artist 2012 – Music ACT Music Awards) and also dabbles in old jazz & swing, with her 1920’s influenced character & band ‘Dollface’.
Driver is an artistic director and founding member of Canberra’s Everyman Theatre. He has a PhD in Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies from ANU so naturally knows all about Bowie.
McCann lectures in gender studies at the ANU, has published on’ The Conversation’, in ‘Australian Feminist Studies’,’ the Australian Humanities Review’, ‘Feminartsy’, and blogs AT binarythis.com
The Bowie connection is most visible in Venus Mantrap, the androgynous drag construct of artist, Samuel Townsend. The character, whose roots are firmly planted in the world of drag, explores aspects of cabaret, performance-art and comedy, during live shows, featured in Voyeur magazine and NYC’s “Red Door.”
The Bowie Ball, Ainslie Arts Centre, 30 Elouera St, Braddon, 7pm Saturday February 13, bookings to agac.com.au
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