19 DECEMBER 2016

GOMA TURNS 10 SUMMER FESTIVAL FROM 18-22 JANUARY 2017

An all-ages five-day festival of creative workshops, storytelling, film, talks and live music will animate the Gallery of Modern Art from 18 to 22 January.

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines CNZM said the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival was a great opportunity for families, kids and adults alike to enjoy yet another rich program celebrating the Gallery of Modern Art’s tenth anniversary, and would include a special edition of Up Late profiling some of Brisbane’s favourite bands on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January.

The GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival will feature tours of the Gallery with GOMA Ambassadors Benjamin Law, Patience Hodgson and Alison Kubler; a free crash course in contemporary art offered daily at 2.30pm; and a ticketed evening workshop ‘Arts & Craft After Dark’ with comedian Tim Ross and Queensland artist Sam Cranstoun at 5.30pm on Thursday 19 January.

An unmissable highlight of the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival will be a live performance of Nick Cave’s spectacular HEARD·Brisbane 2016, in which 15 brightly coloured raffia horse costumes will be worn and brought to life by 30 dancers from5pm on Sunday 22 January.

Families can join Kids’ Tours, enjoy special performances and participate in workshops by artists including Gordon Hookey, the Gabori sisters, Anne Wallace, Julie Blyfield, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Pip & Pop, and author Morris Gleitzman.

Screening daily during the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival is a free program of animated features that explore our relationship to animals and the natural world. Highlights include Irish animation Song of the Sea 2014, the award-winning Pixar film WALL‑E 2008 and the Australian classic Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest 1992.

Up Late returns on Friday 20 January with a special free, extended session kicking off at 3.30pm with a unique Kids’ Up Late set by Ben Ely and Family. It will continue into the night with performances by Yucca, The Goon Sax, The Creases, Blank Realm and Regurgitator.

A second Up Late session on Saturday 21 January from 2.30pm will start with a kids’ set from The Grates. It will be followed by music from Emily Wurramurra, Luke Daniel Peacock, I Heart Hiroshima, Jeremy Neale, Cub Sport and a headline set by The Grates. Capacity to Up Late is limited.

‘The GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival celebrates GOMA’s tenth birthday and is a superb complement to the experience of more than 300 artworks currently on display in exhibitions ‘A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift’, ‘Lucent’ and ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything,’ Mr Saines said.

Throughout summer audiences can also enjoy GOMA’s Children’s Art Centre program ‘Mirror Mirror’, a free, interactive project developed in collaboration with artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, where visitors create their own unique paper hairstyle and style a wall of artificial hair-like material. Nusra Latif Qureshi’s project Enchanted Spaces is also on display for the first time in a decade.

Festivalgoers can visit the Yering Station Wine Bar in the GOMA Lounge from midday throughout the festival. A pop-up outdoor dining space at GOMA’s Bodhi Tree Terrace, and the GOMA Cafe Bistro will be open every day, with extended opening times during the Summer Festival Up Late.

The GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival is an all ages, free, multi-faceted, and participatory program.

For more information and a full list of programs and events, visit https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/goma-turns-10/summer‑festival