6th July

Elizabethan Feast

Name: Elizabethan Feast
Start: 2024-07-06T18:30:25+1000
End: 2024-07-06T22:30:25+1000
Location: Hall Pavilion

Price $60 AUD + BF Get tickets

Event description

Wayfarers Australia and Friends invite you to an Elizabethan Feast. Enjoy a three-course 16th century-style banquet (vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free options) washed down with mulled wine or mulled apple juiceand be entertained by 16th century instrumental music (crumhorns, cornetti, dulcimer, recorders et al), 16th century choral music (gems by Dowland, Morley, Wilbye, Josquin, Byrd, Lassus…..) and dramatised excerpts from Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, As You Like It. Post-dinner, enjoy learning simple 16th century dances accompanied by our Renaissance band, with Caller.

For any further enquiries please email wayfarersaustralia@outlook.com or call 0410 617 427

ATTENTION ALL TICKET HOLDERS!!!
All Guests must:

1. Wear some sort of mock 16th century costume: a female costume could be at least a long skirt; a sort of male costume (for younger people) can be achieved by rolling your trousers up to just below the knee, wearing long socks or leggings beneath; add a large shirt, belted at the waist. Older male costumes were long robes to the calf or the ankle, with a belt at the waist. Cloaks can be made easily by getting a long skirt from an op-shop and undoing one seam. A ruff would help!

2. People in male costume should have a sword. PLASTIC OR WOODEN ONLY. This will be used in one of the dances!

3. EVERYONE WILL NEED: a cloth bag containing their own eating utensils: a bowl, a wooden platter or flat plate, a spoon, a sharp knife, and a drinking vessel. NO FORKS!!! Add your own cloth napkin. Please arrive at 6:15! You will need to place your bag at your chosen place at your allocated table. You will then go outside and form a line of pairs, ready for a formal processional entry with music at 6:30.

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Wayfarers Australia

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Wayfarers Australia was started in 1997 by composer, choral conductor and music educator Judith Clingan AM. Judith brought together students, parents and teachers from several Steiner / Waldorf schools in eastern Australia to encourage teenagers, particularly boys, to enjoy singing choral music in four parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass). The choir has grown to include performers from around the world, particularly Taiwan.

Our repertoire stretches across the last thousand years of European music, from Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic, to 20th century and contemporary music, both sacred and secular. We venture among the folk traditions of many cultures. We often incorporate other art forms, such as instrumental music, drama, dance, puppetry and visual art, to create exciting musical theatre events.

A core purpose of Wayfarers is to share this experience as travelling performers and teachers of choral music and music theatre. Tours are low budget, making it possible to share performances with diverse audiences. We give workshops, mainly in Steiner schools, and aim to let children of all ages (both primary and high school) as well as adults, experience all elements of music and drama, including not only singing and acting but also instrumental ensemble work and some music history.The group has undertaken tours around Australia, New Zealand, UK, Europe and Asia, giving workshops and performances in Waldorf-Steiner schools and with other music-loving communities.

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