Reunion season
Reunion - The Village in Glebe Park and Dirt Babylon
A major part of the research involved bringing Splinters members back together and creating a performance. The 2013 Centenary of Canberra celebrations provided the opportunity. Centenary Creative Director Robyn Archer agreed to engage The Village Festival, co-directed by Splinters mainstay Stuart Vaskess, to appear in Glebe Park, Canberra in March 2013. As a centrepiece of the production, I produced and performed in the work created collaboratively with former Splinters members and Village artists titled Dirt Babylon and presented on two consecutive nights.
The success of this project and the vibrancy of the Splinters cultural heritage is demonstrated by the commission of a return Canberra season by The Village Festival by the ACT Government to createe the first Floriade Fringe in Haig Park in 2017.
David Burke captured these images of The Village. Below that is a short documentary video produced by media students at the University of Canberra.
