EVERY WILD IDEA

EVERY WILD IDEA
A 3-day festival celebrating 20 years of Critical Path

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DATES
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER
7PM-9PM

SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
11AM-3PM

SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER
11AM-3PM

LOCATION
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE

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EVERY WILD IDEA
A 3-day festival of performance, screen installation, archival sound project and publication launch.

FRIDAY 14 November
EVERY WILD IDEA
Live Performance
7pm-9pm
Led by powerhouse hip hop artist Azzam Mohamed
7 artists in 7 spaces in real-time ideation
Every Wild Idea is a one-night only performance event activating the entire Drill Hall building as a living laboratory. In the spirit of experimentation, research and risk-taking, 7 artists will improvise, research and create in real-time while audiences are free to roam and witness the energy of process-in-action.

SATURDAY 15 November
BREAKTHROUGHS
Premiere Screen Installation by filmmaker Deborah May
11am-3pm
What happens when we follow a flash of inspiration over time? The moment when memories, cultures and fragments of practice connect with renewed vitality. They give us energy to transform as artists committed to a lifetime of exploration. The rehearsal room holds the vulnerability of these ideas in motion. Witness 5 dancers in the Drill Hall at Critical Path, as they approach their practice through the lens of the ‘Breakthrough’. 

Featuring Breakthroughs from:

Henrietta Baird
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal
Martin Del Amo
Rhiannon Newton
Rosalind Crisp

SUNDAY 16 November
Vignettes flickers fades by Ira Ferris
Publication Launch & Archival Sound Project
11am-1pm
Doors open until 3pm
Join multidisciplinary artist, writer and radio journalist Ira Ferris for the launch of the special edition of Critical Dialogues #16 celebrating 20 years of Critical Path. The publication launch is accompanied by the archival sound project Vignettes flickers fades created in collaboration with sound artist/musician Alexandra Spence. The launch will include:

• Conversation between Ira Ferris and Tammi Gissell

• Performance by Alexandra Spence

• Performance by Ryuichi Fujimura

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EVERY WILD IDEA is free to all.

We invite those who can to make a voluntary donation to contribute to fees of artists engaged in our program in 2026. Your donation will directly support the artists and your generosity will be acknowledged in our credits - no gift is too small!

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This event is proudly supported by Create NSW, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and Woollahra Council’s Grants Program.

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Gok-Lim Finch and Sophie Dumaresq during the FORBIDDEN development at Critical Path in 2025 with Lucy Doherty, Eden Swan, Tay Haggarty and AnSo. Photographer Estelle Yoon. Photo courtesy of Lucy Doherty.

IMAGE ID: An image taken at nighttime outside The Drill Hall on lawn beside the harbour. A person stands holding onto a large yellow ladder. Another person is captured in flight diving off the ladder into an inflatable baby pool.