This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

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Eastmint presents

Cold Hands Warm Heart 'Luxury Bat' launch / Duré Dara + Aarti Jadu / Smoking Ceremony + Welcome to Country with Aunty Joy Wandin

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Doors 3:30pm

4:00 Welcome to Country + Smoking Ceremony by Aunty Joy Wandin

4:30 Abby Sundborn + Duré Dara + Aarti Jadu

5:30 CHWH

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ALL AGES SHOW ~ KIDS FREE ~ BYO

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Vegan soysage sizzle fundraiser for 'Fly by Night Bat Clinic' / Lemon Myrtle Tea. / Card and Cash accepted / BYO keep cups and alcoholic bevies

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~ waged, unwaged broke af and free tix available

~ free First Nations tix

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Cold Hands Warm Heart invite you to join them by the Banks of the Birrarung to launch their second LP 'Luxury Bat', alongside a set from Abby Sundborn, a Welcome To Country and the launching into the night of the Yarra Bend flying fox colony.

Cold Hands Warm Heart

Bark. Branches. Stones. Clay. Cold Hands Warm Heart is a Narrm-based collective of four musicians who seek to pay homage to nature by evoking it through experimental soundscapes. A fallen tree, teeming with life. The swell of a river, after rain. This is music that draws attention to deep time by inviting deep listening.

The band’s work springs from the base compositions of Genevieve Fry (Hantu, Whelk, Hear My Eyes: Suspiria, Grand Salvo), combining harp, synth, recorder, percussion and guitar to guide listeners through sonic spaces that are both pre-arranged and improvised.

CHWH’s self-titled, award-winning 2016 LP is now followed by the band’s new album, Luxury Bat.

Releasing on November 24th, 2023, this latest release, recorded with James Cecil at Super Melody World (Time for Dreams, Totally Mild), mixed by Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Francis Plagne, Yuko Kono) and mastered by Rashad Becker (HTRK, Imogen Cygler, Keiji Haino), is an offering of tracks that continue this work of centring the natural world—namely the Country of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples. Luxury Bat pays tribute to the existence, experience and protection of these lands, and their ever regenerating cycles.

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Duré Dara

Duré Dara OAM is Indian by race, Malaysian by birth and Australian by choice from the age of 15. Since the 1960s, she has frequently performed on ABC radio, recordings and at festivals and concerts around Australia as an improvising musician and contemporary jazz player most notably in a duet with David Tolley, her deceased husband. She is widely celebrated as a trailblazing restaurateur, business woman, women’s equity activist and percussionist.

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Aarti Jadu

Aarti Jadu began her sound journey in the context of devotional music, originating from India. Being a first generation Australian artist, Aarti’s practice naturally bridges diverse ideologies for the survival of her own integrity. She fervently explores voice through electronics to greater understand energy and its potential in relationships. Her recent work in trauma informed voice workshops + somatics, along with years of study in yoga and raga music, forged a path to collaborate with neuroscience graduates to communicate and discuss matters of human experience, philosophy + science.

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Accessibility

There are steps to access the main seating bank of the amphitheatre. For the least number of steps please follow the ramped path down towards the river, there will be chalked directions.

There is a wheelchair accessible viewing platform on the southern side of the top of the amphitheatre. Access is via the path toward the pipe bridge. An accessible toilet is located in the Canoe Club complex which will be open to audience. Please follow chalked signs and get in touch with us eastmintrecords@gmail.com for more information regarding accessibility questions not addressed here.