ArtsLab: Uncanned

Shopfront Arts Co-op presents ArtsLab: Uncanned, a festival of four new shows created by four emerging arts collectives. This years' season will challenge form, perceptions and incite conversation around the social and political.

Ingle by Harry McGee - 30 Jan, 1–2 Feb
Hello citizen! You are invited to come to the Ingle Council Meeting. Don’t worry, everything is absolutely fine and nothing is wrong in our glorious town. This is just an ordinary council meeting to discuss completely ordinary things…

Spider In My Soup by Nicole Pingon - 30 Jan, 1–2 Feb
Spiders are our future selves dropping in to check on us. Spider In My Soup is an intimate sensory experience exploring memory. Enter a dreamscape of performance and live music that questions how we remember, why we forget and what changes over time.

Shortcuts by Madeleine Stedman - 31 Jan, 2–3 Feb
How do you grow up without your other half? One woman pays to relive her own memories, hoping to uncover clues to her best friend’s disappearance over 30 years ago. Shortcuts is a new work from Snatched Collective about grieving, growing up, and being teenager in the late 2000s.

Return Of Kings by Socks in Jocks - 31 Jan, 2–3 Feb
Sausage sizzle! Tinnies! Reclaim the kingdom! What if one night could shift your destiny? Drag meets gospel in Return of Kings, a service for masculinity hosted by contemporary drag collective Socks in Jocks, who will expose toxic masculinity for the good of humanity.