'The Valley Song' with Mietta, Isabel Rumble & Zoë Porter-Parsons (Red Hill, VIC)
Description
Share in an evening of communing with people and place as we gather among the gums and pines of Red Hill, sharing stories, song and practices of connection with the human and more-than-human world.
Curated by local artist, Mietta, this evening will be a collaboration among storytellers and songbirds Mietta, Isabel Rumble & Zoë Porter-Parsons
Details:
Saturday, March 28th
5:00–8:00pm (doors close at 6pm, 5-6pm will be anchored in a Deep Ecology experience guided by Zoë, Mietta & Isabel)
Red Hill Mechanics Hall
This venue is intimate and a community-hall space. Bring along a picnic (no alcohol!) and whatever makes you feel cozy. There will be some seats around the sides of the venue. However most seating will be BYO low-lying camp chairs, cushions and tapestry rugs.
This project involves the creation of a documentary series throughout 2026, produced by Darling Films. 'The Valley Song' will be the third of the series, focusing on how a gathering centred on communing with people and place impacts those present. Darling Films will be present and recording in the space. However, we will provide options if you do not wish to be filmed.
Tickets are limited for this cozy gathering - bring a loved one, a cushion, or just your lovely, cherished self. We can’t wait to share this moment with you!
With gratitude to the Mornington Peninsula Shire
This is the third installment of the 'When The Water Stills' place-based storytelling series curated by local artist, Mietta, and proudly supported by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Performing Arts Development grants.
Our artists
Mietta
Mornington Peninsula-based singer-songwriter, Mietta, weaves place, feeling, and community into tender story and gatherings. With earthy tones and graceful stage presence, she draws listeners into acoustic soundscapes that invite us to slow down and listen deeply.
Influenced by storytelling traditions encountered through her work and travels across Australia and beyond, Mietta is emerging as a powerful voice in contemporary folk. She has shared stages along the company of Pete Murray, LIOR & Domini, Kim Churchill, and Charm of Finches.
Beyond performance, Mietta works in education research and regenerative education, exploring how we build and restore relationships with each other, with story, and with the living world. Through music, community gatherings, and documentary storytelling, she creates spaces where the arts become pathways for reconnection - helping us repair what's been neglected and tend to the wellbeing of people, story, and place.
Her work asks: How do we slow down enough to truly listen? How do we return our attention to one another and to the lands and waters that sustain us? How do we live and honour our connection to people, story and place?
Through song and gathering, Mietta weaves experiences where human and more-than-human flourishing moves from idea to practice we can touch and feel.
Isabel Rumble
Indie-folk songstress, Isabel Rumble, crafts earth-rooted songs that speak directly to the heart. With a “voice like honey” (ABC Radio) and the ability to create listening spaces that captivate and heal, in 2026 Isabel is touring her new album Hold Everything Lightly across Australia, the UK, Ireland, and Europe.
Zoë Porter-Parsons
A long-time lover of the wilds, Zoë is a poet, songbird and budding storyteller, a facilitator of deep ecology immersions and an outdoor educator devoted to deepening our connection with the more-than-human web of life. Living on the banks of the birrarung she weaves art, ecology, mystery and community in a rich tapestry of aliveness.
Through her art, practice and presence, Zoë brings warmth, reverence and sensitivity to the way she holds space, and is a proud proponent of shifting cultural paradigms and creating a life-affirming future. She has studied and continues to be a student Nature Based Leadership and rewilding with Claire Dunn and CERES, worked in environmental conservation and monitory, and is now passionately facilitating the work of Deep Ecology alongside John Seed. She is a balm and a treasure to share in practice with.
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