Audible Edge Night School: What was that all about?
Event description
The curators of Audible Edge, Annika Moses & Josten Myburgh, invite you for a reflective discussion on the festival. Why was Audible Edge the way it was? What challenges were faced in pulling it together? How did it actually go? What was good about it? What didn’t work?
This debrief serves an important function for Tone List to reflect on how public money is put to use in service of our program. This is both ethical, and mandatory for our funding evaluations. But it’s also a way of inviting the public to join in that process and shape the festival into the future. It’s a space for you to support the festival with your perspective and ideas, and also to critique or challenge its curatorial perspectives.
About the Night School
The Night School is series of workshops and critical conversations in the lead-up to this year's Audible Edge Festival. The Night School is about the capacity of our scene: to write our own stories, build our own platforms, grow safer cultures, and to play and listen better.
We want to get stuck into ideas and skills that are overlooked or under-explored in our community. We want anyone to feel able to contribute at these workshops, growing new thoughts together. We all participate as teachers, students and provocateurs alike.
The night school is not always at night. In fact, it usually isn’t. This is largely the result of us becoming attached to the name before various circumstances changed. But it also nods to the “post-event hang” as an important site of learning. A nocturnal space where learning is reflected on, critiqued and hashed out over eats and drinks.
Accessibility
The State Library of Western Australia Geographe Room is a wheelchair accessible venue. It is located on the ground floor. There are numerous wheelchair accessible, all-gender bathrooms located throughout the library. The event is alcohol-free and all-ages. The room will be warmly and clearly lit. Live captioning can be arranged for the session. The venue is enclosed with no windows. It will not be overcrowded, but depending on in-person attendance numbers, it may not have spare for more than 1.5m physical distancing.
Acknowledgments
Audible Edge is proudly supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries and the Australian Cultural Fund. Night School events are presented in partnership with the State Library of Western Australia, Sound Exploration Fremantle and AvantWhatever.
Audible Edge and Tone List operate in Boorloo and Walyalup, on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We pay our respects to boodja and to its custodians and birdiya/Elders from all times.