Channels: Artists on Ageing Creatively

In this hybrid documentary and live music experience, award-winning composer and videographer Creswick (FKA Liam Budge) turns both lens and sound toward a question rarely explored with depth: what does it mean to keep creating across a lifetime? 

Through intimate portraits of celebrated artists including jazz musician Vince Jones, composer Judith Clingan AM, ceramicist Malcolm Cooke, artist Marily Cintra and dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM, Channels traces a shared, unrelenting creative force, one that does not fade with age, but evolves, deepens and transforms. 

Drawn from conversations with these artists, Creswick weaves cinematic portraiture with a responsive live score. Song, spoken word and image converge in real time, bringing lived experience, artistic legacy and present-moment vitality into powerful alignment. 

The music moves fluidly across jazz, ambient, folk and contemporary classical textures, performed live by a dynamic ensemble attuned to the emotional pulse of each story. 

Visually, the work travels through studios, theatres, coastlines and quiet interior worlds, spaces where creativity continues to take shape. Grounded in the voices of the artists themselves, each composition is shaped by memory, reflection and the enduring drive to make. 

The result is an immersive, evolving performance that listens as much as it speaks. Channels is both a meditation and a provocation, interrogating legacy, relevance, the body and time itself. 

What if ageing is not an ending, but a powerful act of ongoing creation?

Celebrated Artists:

Musician Vince Jones

Composer Judith Clingan AM

Ceramicist Malcolm Cooke

Artist Marily Cintra

Dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM

Live Band:

Creswick – vocals

Damien Slingsby – piano

Chris Pound – bass

Nicholas McBride – drums.

Theatre:

Theatre access

The Tuggeranong Arts Centre Theatre is raked steeply. People with mobility issues are advised that the top two (F & G) and bottom two (A & B) rows are the most easily accessible. Row G is accessed via a single level. Access to seating is available via a central aisle.
The main entrance to the theatre is on the first floor. The lift to the first floor is located just inside the main entrance, on the lefthand side and opposite the stairs.
Easier access to rows A & B is via the downstairs entrance which can be arranged by contacting the centre prior to the event. 
Please advise us if you need support to get to your seats.

Wheelchair seating

Seats G1 and G2 have removeable seats to allow for a wheelchair. Please indicate in your checkout questions if you will be using a wheelchair to sit in. If the wheelchair seats have sold out, please contact us for options.

Hearing loops

There is a hearing loop and infrared hearing augmentation system installed in the Theatre for patrons.

General information

For help, visit our reception during general opening hours or look for a staff member wearing an orange lanyard.

To get in contact with TAC call 6293 1443 or email us info@tuggeranongarts.com

Entry instructions

There is a ramp from the front carpark to the main entrance. The lift to the first floor, is located just inside the main entrance, on the lefthand side and opposite the stairs. The lift dimensions are: 2100mm (h) x 1450mm (d). The door is 880mm (w). The theatre is accessed from the first floor.

Toilets

TAC has left-hand transfer accessible unisex toilets located upstairs and downstairs. Gender-specific bathrooms are also available on both floors.

Accessible parking

There is one accessible parking space in the front carpark. If you require accessible parking, please feel free to use this space. If you or someone in your party has mobility issues where access to the TAC carpark is essential, please contact the Centre on 6293 1443 and we will reserve a space for you.

More access information is available here.