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RISING announces mass participatory project for its 2024 festival

The first event for next year’s winter festival RISING will see audiences become the artists in a major participatory experience.

7 Dec 2023 15:54

Richard Watts

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Recording of Shouse’s 2017 track ‘Love Tonight’ in progress in a Brunswick warehouse. Photo: Supplied.

Melburnians and visitors alike will become the voices, instruments and performers of Communitas, a world premiere interactive event to be held as part of RISING in 2024.

Led by Melbourne electronic duo Shouse (whose 2017 track ‘Love Tonight’ went viral in 2021 after being remixed by French DJ and producer David Guetta) Communitas will be staged within St Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of the city.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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