To welcome you into the event we have the amazing Melissa Matheson as the S.A.M.P.L.E door host! Be sure to grab some 'Secret Santa/Lucky Dip' raffle tix from her, all prizes announced at the end of the evening 🎁🎊🎉🆒🆒🆒🥳🥳🥳

Mel writes poems. She likes words.

Wake to anxiety beating Hesitate as you kiss her neck Twist her hips Burn her skin You confuse her

The motion of your dance Struggles to step offbeat Careful to listen She whispers miles away You echo back

Senses are heightened With the blow of a feather Take care on that stone Throw with gentle precision And then hope for the best

Hail to the brightest star The warmth so distant Your wounded bird Sleeps gently next to you Careful not to bite

She is hardened by man Callused by wisdom And yet we take the blade To our surprise she bleeds heaven on this charred ground

[Image description: Melissa Jane Matheson sits in her favourite grey reclined office chair, her right hand resting awkwardly over her head. The placement of her index and middle finger rest either side of her third eye, just to let a little light through. her lips puckered, there is contempt in her gesture and a smugness to lean back on the chair. The image itself is in black and white, but within the black and white there are so many tones of grey to explore.]

Introducing Claudia Collins who will be dancing in Alana Yee's work accompanied by WCB's soundscape 🙏🙌❣️🔥🔥🔥

Ballroom bred dancer Claudia has delved into contemporary practices over the past 6 years. Claudia is a versatile dancer with a thorough understanding of body mechanics and a strong interest in improvisation. She looks forward to indulging audiences in the wonders of Alana’s new work in development.

Photo credit- Camella Camenzulli

[Image description: Pictured in black and white from her torso upwards, Claudia is smiling with her head turned towards her extended left arm and her right arm makes a right angle. Her dress is one shouldered with a mesh overlay and cut-out on the left side. Daylight peaks through large arch windows in the background.]

Back for his 2nd S.A.M.P.L.E platform, we are excited to be supporting Paul Walker in his new solo experiment! 🤩🤩🤩❣️❣️✨✨✨

Paul Walker is a Sydney based artist who makes, performs and teaches within the realms of dance, live art and theatre. His work aims to deconstruct human/non-human hierarchies by adopting a queer approach to presenting the body working, resting, and making love with the objects and environment he performs with.

For S.A.M.P.L.E 2019, Paul invites you to join him in co-creating a Wild Dance – a fluid, undulating body of ideas and provocations that will arise, crash, ripple and fall upon the night. Together through our Dance of Wildness, we will swirl and slosh, and make a mess of things. We will spill and fail, and that’s okay, because in The Wild, failure is embraced. Come ready to exercise your agency and express your inner impulses. Or not… participation and observation are completely your choice!

[Image description: Paul is dancing freely in a club setting. The image is blurry, and the bright, moving figure looks ghostly in front of a dark background. Paul appears to have two faces, one falling off the other, and his arms are bent up by his sides. His skin appears to be an aqua colour and his top is a swirling mix of yellows and purples.]

Image credit: Annette Innis

Back for his third S.A.M.P.L.E, WCB will be collaborating with Alana Yee on their new dance work as well as performing some of his own fresh material in a live set.

WCB (William Cooper Barling) is a singer-songwriter and producer with a voice that’s been dubbed “neo-soul” by music reviewers internationally, WCB perfectly blends sultry R&B, electronica, and trip-hop into something fresh and distinct that is truly his own. WCB is grateful to perform in SAMPLE using the opportunity to explore newer material in a pared back and intimate set.

WCB labelled as “... emotional and soulful, with an unmistakable moodiness”, “ … fresh, unheard, and completely distinct”, and “....[a] demanding piece of music material that demands attention.”

Follow WCB @ https://www.instagram.com/_wcb_/

Photo credit: Gabby Griggs https://www.instagram.com/gabbygriggs_photography/ https://www.facebook.com/gabbygriggsphotography/

[Image description : WCB is seated beneath a corrugated iron roof, on a sunny day, in a red distressed tee shirt layered with a maroon coloured mesh long sleeved shirt. He also wears a black leather choker with silver chain and “O” ring detailing. His hair is windswept as if in motion, he also wears subtle pink and red eye shadow as he looks into the camera.]

Super lucky to have the amazing GABBY GRIGGS| photography documenting the event, thanks Gabby! 🙏🙌❣️❣️❣️

Gabby is a photographer with a focus on creating intentional vibrant imagery focusing on PORTRAIT, FASHION and LIFESTYLE photography. She has worked with both International and Australian Influencers, Actors and Models. Her photography has featured in international exhibits and magazines. Follow more about Gabby @ www.gabbygriggs.com www.instagram.com/gabbygriggs_photography

[Image description: Gabby is leaning over peering behind the lens of her camera she is holding with both hands, you can only see her right eye. She has shoulder length messy chestnut brown hair and is wearing a long sleeved off white woolen shirt with a silk brown and orange scarf. In the background is Avalon beach in the distance.]

Honoured to have the legendary Forest Kapo join us IRL this time for their 2nd S.A.M.P.L.E ❣️❣️❣️🤩🤩🤩💪💪💪

Hailing from Aotearoa, NZ, and residing in Melbourne Australia, indigenous performance artist Forest Kapo has tribal affiliations with North Island tribes Te Atiawa, and Ngāti Raukawa,. A multi-disciplinary approach to suit environments, Forest has facilitated and choreographed, and collaborated in performance events and festivals around the world, developing artistic networks in Germany, USA, India, Australia and New Zealand. Inside their future forward community activations, rituals, performances composed and live sound work is a socio-political, focus. While their genre interprets a cosmic- comics approach as introduced by Italo Calveno. Mythologies and text are used to navigate through time and geographies while contemporary narrative, are explored using sound, movement, installation and performance.

With renegade spirit, Forest enjoys being an artist. which includes directing teaching & facilitating improvisations and performances in both Auckland Aotearoa and Melbourne Australia.

Follow Forest @ https://www.instagram.com/maorifox/?hl=en

Murmur: a variegated- slow cooked, download of unbecoming unfolding and coping : Life within a family tree. Images by collaborator Alyx Duncan. Sound +text+concept+installation: forest.

[Image description: A blurry selfie of Forest's face. They have short curly black hair and look reclined against a dark couch. The background is a white wall and they are wearing white ear phones.]

Introducing Adam Warburton! This will be his first participation in S.A.M.P.L.E and we are super excited to have him on board 🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

Adam Warburton is an artist that uses street dance styles such as popping, house dance and hip hop to create works about connection, community and accessibility. Concepts that he likes to celebrate about hip hop and street dance culture.

The work Adam is creating for SAMPLE is about the connections people make with each other when dancing at clubs. The work is called welcome to the club.

[Image description: People are dancing in a nightclub, the figures are blurry. In the background you can see 2 of the Dj's. Hanging from one side of the room to the other there is a multi-coloured set of light bulb fairy lights hanging.]

Julian Molony has participated in two previous S.A.M.P.L.E’s as 'The Great Dahne'. In this installment, Molony will be creating a durational performance as a paper/fibre form (somewhat like a human paint-brush) Within a seven-metre paper installation, inviting the audience to assist them in creating a wild painterly immersive landscape.

Julian Molony is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist, follow them @ https://www.instagram.com/julianmolony/

Image: Julian Molony as The Great Dahne Performance title ‘My Favourite Person’ S.A.M.P.L.E Nov 2018 Creat or Die, Marrickville Photo credit: @james_takes_pics

[Image description: Julian is wearing a big piece of white fabric leaning to one side forming a geometric shape. The colours of purple and blue are reflected on this fabric from the stage lighting. In front of Julian there is a small white box prop covered in a pile of flowers lit by the stage lighting in hues of green and blue. The background is very dark highlighting both Julian in this costume and the box covered in flowers.]

Lucky to have Honiboi back for for his 3rd S.A.M.P.L.E experiment! 🤡🎂🥳😻❣️❣️❣️ Honiboi is a trans boy but if clown was a gender option he'd choose that. Using body as material he works through the trauma of being mentally ill and gender non-conforming in this binary world. 'The Winds of Change Blew Sand in My Eye' - a new work he will be performing plays with poetry, Splooshing (food on body fetish), clowning and ideas of creation and destruction. Tw- suicide/overdose Find more about Honiboi @ https://instagram.com/sweetlikehoni_

Super excited to have Ryuichi Fujimura perform at his very first S.A.M.P.L.E ❣️❣️❣️ Ryuichi Fujimura is a 54 year old dancer from Sydney whose dream is to embark on a worldwide tour with his solo performance work. Find more about Ryuichi's work at: www.ryuichifujimura.com

A Performance platform for experimental artists to test out new ideas and concepts. Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com.au/s-a-m-p-l-e-some-artists-making-performance-laboratory-experiments/tickets Curated by Alana Yee and supported by Create or Die, SAMPLE 2019 will feature 10 + artists across performance platforms - exploring new modalities of art, movement, expression and suppression. Alana Yee Julian Molony Ryuichi Fujimura forest v kapo WCB Paul Walker Morgan Lee Honiboi Adam Warburton Troy from High School S.A.M.P.L.E 2019 Manifesto 'To support and foster connections between artists from diverse backgrounds/creative disciplines, to widen/connect the local artist network/community and encourage more collaboration and inter/cross-generational interactions.' ‘To encourage and promote the idea of fun and pleasure throughout a working process! Stress does not have to dictate a process, the artist should be invested in their ideas from an authentic place of interest and curiosity - you are allowed to have an enjoyable experience!’ ‘That we will attract a quality audience (as well as quantity), quality humans who will be respectful, supportive and open in how they view and engage with our works.’

Mega Pash Action is you, is me, is we, is she, is he, is they, is bae, is play, is rash, is pash rash, is your BFF, is that feeling when you spoon, when you hoon, when you drink goon looking at the moon, is hurt, is healing, is masturbate appealing, is peace, your niece, has never been to Greece, to increase, this connection, our erection, or disconnection, and bad complexion, presents or waiting for Chrissy Presence, shows up, like a mooncup, authentic and plastic, elastic, altruistic queen hag, don’t brag, bleeding, reading, pinata complex, needs to have sex, heart chakra, love addiction, dance friction.

Welcome to your human revolution.

Please keep your phones ON and step out of your own way, thank you xx

Photo credit: Fern King

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show

Honoured to have Melbourne based dance artist Vicky Kapo' work featured in our programme 🙏🙌💓💓💓 Vicky's collaborative videodance 'Assemblage' will be projected into the main space from 8pm. (Please note the video is only 5 minutes long so please arrive early to avoid disappointment!)

Assemblage. Editor: Matt Gillanders. Guest Artist Rebekah Stuart. Music: Forest: Te Wao Kapo.

Armed with a B.A in Performance and Dance, and with renegade spirit, Forest (aka vicky kapo) uses whatever methods happen to allow fulfilment of the creative vision. Her tools of choice are movement, text, installations, sound and channeled improvisation. She is human agent, dreamtime observer; curious about activating collective consciousness, translating dreamtime, and sharing the joys and craft found in the construction of a well -formed sentence.

Rebekah Stuart. Guest Artist. http://rebekahlouart.tumblr.com/ Rebekah Stuart is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist exploring an alternative aesthetic to the traditional and Romantic landscape in her artworks and authentic improvisation techniques within her dance practice.

Matt Gillanders. The video editor that made it.. work. Director of Archipela Limited. Videographer. Editor. All round Goddamn awesome human.

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show 

Back for their third S.A.M.P.L.E lab experience, we're excited to have Sydney-based gender-fluid performer, The Great Dahne back on the scene ❣️❣️❣️

The Great Dahne loves playing with boundaries of traditional images of the body by combining elements of drag, burlesque and theatre.

Photo credit: Luana Paz

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show

WCB (William Cooper Barling) is a singer-songwriter and producer with a voice that’s been dubbed “neo-soul” by music reviewers internationally, WCB perfectly blends sultry R&B, electronica, and trip-hop into something fresh and distinct that is truly his own. His live show features floor to ceiling projection work to fully realise his vocal landscapes and pull you deep into a plush and stormy dreamworld. WCB has been labelled as “... emotional and soulful, with an unmistakable moodiness”, “ … fresh, unheard, and completely distinct”, and “....[a] demanding piece of music material that demands attention.”

This will be his third S.A.M.P.L.E experience, and he is looking forward to sharing new works in progress at the event where he made his debut.

FB https://www.facebook.com/willcooperbarlingmusic/

Insta https://www.instagram.com/_wcb_/ or @_wcb_

Website www.wcb-music.com

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville, Sydney Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show

Back for his 2nd S.A.M.P.L.E performance lab experiment, stoked to have back HoniBoi! 🤡💖🤡💖🤡💖

HoniBoi was born a clown! He's moving through boyhood and gets sad alot.

He'll be performing clown drag that talks to breakups, self representation and becoming a boy.

Find HoniBoi at: https://instagram.com/honiboi

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville, Sydney Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show

Lucky to have back for her 2nd lab experiment/development - Luisana (Lucy) Ochoa-Petit! 📝💕📝💕📝💕

Luisana (Lucy) Ochoa-Petit is a Venezuelan writer. She's a copywriter by day and a poet by night. Her poetry is deeply personal, reflecting how she experiences the world around her.

Luisana's Poetry Portraits is a live art piece that explores building connections between strangers in the digital age, creativity under pressure and our society's obsession with perfection. During the performance, Luisana will write poetry live. Each poem becoming a raw, real and unedited snapshot into that moment.

So come along and get your portrait written. Read some of Luisana's poetry at https://www.instagram.com/lucy_luisana/

Photo credit: William Barling

S.A.M.P.L.E Create or Die 10 Mitchell St, Marrickville, Sydney Saturday 17th November 2018 7pm $15 on the door/$10 online

https://events.humanitix.com.au/sample-group-art-show