The Birregurra Hall Ballyhoo is the first of its kind for The Otways – it’s part costume ball and part live art extravaganza that weaves Walsh’s large scale projection works with a host of performance art, digital installations, music, dance and theatre scripted and curated by Acaroglu.

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Designed to celebrate the importance and contemporary relevance of small country halls, the Birregurra Hall Ballyhoo features more than 20 installations and performances in just over 3 hours that interrogate the community’s history and experiences of the Birregurra Mechanics Institute Hall.

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One highlight event is a series of collaborative works from Off-Broadway composer, lyricist and performer, Meryl Leppard and Handspan Theatre’s Michelle Fifer, exploring the hall’s connection to past wars and debutante balls.

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Wild Honey Performing Arts and Spyndrift artists, Eloise Wood and Hoya Wolfgang, will employ light, performance and sound to play with notions of the hall as Birregurra’s beating heart.

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Other artists featured in the Birregurra Hall Ballyhoo include writer and poet, Linnet Hunter; Geelong-based digital artists: Laine Hogarty and Ella Forbes; choreographer and performer, Helen Duncan; Opera Australia soprano, Lee Abrahmsen; and a myriad local musicians and dancers.

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The Birregurra Hall Ballyhoo is a culmination of enLIGHTen Me: I Have a Hall in my Heart and over 18 months of collaborations with the Birregurra community and professional artists as part of Small Town Transformations – a Victorian Government initiative delivered by Regional Arts Victoria.

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enLIGHTen Me: I Have a Hall in my Heart received $350,000 over two years to undertake an ambitious creative project to invigorate the use and function of the Birregurra Mechanics Institute Hall as well as inspire community connection through the arts.

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Images: Eloise Wood, Costume By Jen . Photo by Dale Gaylard.

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PHOTO/VIDEO DISCLAIMER

When you enter the Birregurra Hall Ballyhoo event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording will occur.

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By entering the event premises, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose by Birregurra Community Group (BCG) and Regional Arts Victoria, and its affiliates and representatives. Images, photos and/or videos may be used to promote similar events in the future, highlight the event and exhibit the capabilities of BCG. You release BCG, its committee, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitising, or publication and use of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.

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By entering the event premises, you waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any use, exhibition, streaming, web casting, televising, or other publication of these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such use, exhibiting, broadcasting, web casting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee for admission or sponsorship is charged. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by BCG or the person or entity designated to do so by BCG.

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You have been fully informed of your consent, waiver of liability, and release before entering the event, and agree to the terms for your entire RSVP party by submitting your RSVP.

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