The Other Journey: A very special new Curious Work premiering at Parramasala this October »
This is an excerpt from the Parramasala website. Book tickets and learn about the rest of the Festival Programme via http://parramasala.com/events/the-other-journey-australia-sri-lanka/the-other-journey-australia-sri-lanka .
Sydney’s remarkable CuriousWorks is renowned for its innovative approach to creating art across many forms. The Other Journey is a theatre work presenting intimate stories by three very different people who fled from Sri Lanka to Australia.
Commissioned by Parramasala and presented outdoors on a stretch of the Parramatta River, this exciting project combines large scale outdoor video art, moving storytelling, guided tours and luscious music which mixes Eastern and Western influences.
The flowing water and banks around the Lennox Bridge will provide the canvas for a stunning art installation which maps the many individual journeys from Sri Lanka to Australia. Animated light projections, lanterns and short films will bring the river to life.
Against this ever-changing backdrop, The Other Journey will be presented at scheduled times each evening to small pre-booked groups. Audience members will take part in two different experiences. Leaving Lanka is presented to the audience while sitting on the riverbank. Through headphones and mp3 players, intimate stories will be told by people who decided to flee from Sri Lanka to Australia. Becoming A Battler revisits the same people, this time telling the story of how they settled into Sydney and became Australians. For this experience, the audience is seated in a boat which gently travels up and down the river.
Every audience member will take something special away with them, and leave something personal behind.
Passers-by can simply view the unfolding visual story each night from the Lennox Bridge.
CuriousWorks’ The Other Journey will be one of the unmissable events of the festival and sessions are expected to sell out quickly.
(See the documentary film produced by CuriousWorks , The Migrant Project at 1pm Friday 4 November as part of the free Lunch Hour Documentaries series).