LIVE music returns this year to the This is Not Art (TiNA) festival after a long hiatus, thanks to a $100,000 grant from the City of Newcastle.
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The grant to Octapod will support music programming for the experimental arts festival, providing funds over three years as well as collaboration with Newcastle Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Library.
Under the grant, Newcastle based musician Sara Sandford and visual artist Mel O’Dell have joined forces and will perform at the TiNA opening.
It’s on September 27, at Watt Space Gallery, from 5pm.
Music will also be part of the TiNA Takeover, where James Hodgett, of Holiday Basement, will croon some sweet songs and make you blush, and Flight Hawk will knock your socks off with their impressive, shiny tunes and theatrics.
It’s at Newcastle Art Gallery on September 28, from 5pm.
Also funded under the grant is the Mega Party where there will be DJs, and music from INPUT and a solo performance by Rachel Maria Cox.
It’s on at Watt Space on September 29, from 8pm.
Octapod produces TiNA annually with co-presenters the National Young Writers’ Festival, Crack X and Critical Animals, bringing new and diverse Australian voices in writing, performance, visual arts, critical thinking, and music to the Newcastle CBD.
This year's festival is on from 27-30 September. Find out what’s one here: thisisnotart.org
See The Star’s TiNA story on page 13.
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