AFTER - at Short Point

AFTER is a site responsive performance, co - created by young artists in FLING Company. 
Join us for our first outdoor event of the AFTER series, exploring place and the terrain of our home. 

AFTER looks at the resilience of this land, our endurance in the elements and the natural theatre our landscapes offers. 
This event at Short Point includes live performance with local musician and FLING Alumni, Leif Helland. 

AFTER has been an ongoing project through 2024 of artistic development with FLING Company.
It is a container for experimentation, risk taking, exploring new collaborations and sustaining skills in performance.

Audience are invited to join us at Short Point, Merimbula for FREE dusk performances on the headland. 
*Registration required

AFTER AT SHORT POINT
SAT 22 Feb & SUN 23 Feb 
Meeting at the carpark from 6:40pm 
Performance: 7pm (approx 30mins)

WHAT TO EXPECT AT THIS EVENT:

• Our audience will be walked by the FLING Team from the carpark to the performance site.
• Throughout the performance, you will be invited to join the performers on the rocks and encouraged to enjoy the terrain yourself.
• We suggest wearing shoes you are comfortable walking in.
• Short Point Headland is a public site, and an off leash dog area
  
  ACCESS:

• The public pathway from car park to clifftop is accessible for most, and the performance has been designed so that viewing can remain from the clifftop if preferred
  
• It is a short event and seats will not be provided - there is a small amount of public infrastructure to sit on at the cliff top. 
• You are welcome to bring a beach chair - or get in touch with us prior to the event and FLING team can provide a small stool.

AFTER will remain as an active project of Artistic Development in 2025 & 2026, with quarterly events of choreographic and performance research. You can read more about AFTER here

*This event is FREE, but we welcome donations to help us provide inclusive spaces where young people can thrive, create and belong.

AFTER has been led by Beth Lane and Paddy Meessmann
With artistic contributions from guest artists Rachel Coulson, Reuben MacDougall Di Manno and the young artists of FLING Company. 
Concept development in consultation with dance artist Emily Bowman and Sound Artist Zoltan Fecso. 

FLING's youth Companies are at the heart of our organisation, offering regional youth in the Bega Valley the opportunity to work with visiting and local professional artists to create original contemporary performance works. 

FLING respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we live, dance and create. The Djiringanj people, whose custodianship has never been ceded, and continues to guide and support our connection to country today. We pay our respect to elders past, present and emerging.

Image Credit: Chris Sheedy Reflexe