Prepare to experience absolute entertainment excellence as Geelong Arts Centre prepares to dazzle in 2023 with extraordinary arts to suit everyone.
Launching December 1, 2022, and supported by Major Artistic Partner, Deakin University and Innovation Partner, Costa Asset Management, Geelong Arts Centre Presents 2023 is designed to offer something for everyone across four outstanding programs that break boundaries, start conversations, and celebrate innovation.
Guided by the strong belief that the arts have the power to provide new perspectives, challenge our thinking, and reveal otherwise hidden sides to the stories we tell ourselves and one another, Geelong Arts Centre have designed a 2023 program that embraces creativity; transforming minds, shifting ideas, and encouraging us to reconsider our preconceptions.
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Our Season 2023 features high-calibre works, fit for Victoria’s fastest-growing city. The must-see season features performances from a multitude of the nation’s most highly regarded companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Griffin Theatre Company and many more. Putting the spotlight on those with a reputation for producing outstanding work, the Geelong Arts Centre’s Our Season 2023 celebrates both internationally acclaimed talent and rising homegrown powerhouses.
Soon to be the largest regional arts centre in Australia, it’s here in the heart of Geelong that audiences can experience an amazing array of carefully curated performances that are nothing short of extraordinary.
OUR SEASON 2023
From contemporary dance and ballet to musical theatre, comedy and orchestral extravaganzas, Geelong Arts Centre is bending genres, sharing stories and raising the bar with Our Season 2023.
Highlighting the country’s most celebrated artists as well as the brightest rising stars of the stage, Geelong Arts Centre is playing a pivotal role in navigating the way forward for bold entertainment experiences and unique opportunities across our region.
Covering a diverse and timely range of subject matter, including the #MeToo movement and First Nations perspectives, Geelong Arts Centre continues to platform the voices of those with important stories to be shared.
The full season of performances will be announced on 1 December, so be sure to visit their website or sign up for their newsletter to be the first to know.
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FAMILY MAGIC
Back by popular demand in 2023, Geelong Arts Centre’s Family Magic program will continue to captivate, inspire and entertain children under 12, as well as their parents, siblings, grandparents and carers. For many kids across the region, the Family Magic program provides their first theatrical experience and allows families to immerse themselves in the magic of the performing arts. Sometimes fantastical, funny, and always engaging, Geelong Arts Centre’s Family Magic program will have the young (and young at heart!) leaving the theatre with sore cheeks and full hearts.
DELIGHTFUL DAYS & MATINEES
After a brief hiatus, it’s finally time to re-welcome an essential part of Geelong Arts Centre’s daytime entertainment calendar, Delightful Days & Matinees, to the party. Bringing some of Australia’s best-loved performers to Geelong, Delightful Days & Matinees (formerly Musical Mornings) returns to Geelong Arts Centre with two unmissable performances. Due to be revealed very soon, you can trust the ever-adventurous team at Geelong Arts Centre to make daytime events at your Arts Centre as memorable, engaging and utterly delightful as possible.
REWIRE
Solidifying its place as the creative heart of the G21 region, Geelong Arts Centre is announcing a brand-new program of genre-bending performances and unique experiences with REWIRE. Launching for the first time in 2023, REWIRE is a celebration of new works, contemporary Australian voice, new mediums, immersive experiences and shows that are seriously great fun. Staging works that challenge, thrill, and delight all at once, REWIRE will deliver an assortment of acts that encourage interaction and exploration with a modern edge. Learn what it means to REWIRE your brain and adapt to the ever-evolving world. REWIRE is the home of bold, curious, creative and a little bit crazy within Geelong Arts Centre’s 2023 lineup and we are absolutely here for it.
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE
Who doesn’t love saving money? To experience any or all performances within Geelong Arts Centre Presents 2023, Geelong Arts Centre will open five flexible subscription package options on December 1, 2022, to include shows across all programs, from Our Season 2023, REWIRE, Family Magic and Delightful Days & Matinees! Whether you’re after shows to cover date night, mate night or a fabulous family day, with an extensive lineup of incredible arts experiences on offer next year, there truly is something for everyone and any occasion.
SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY
But that’s not all! Devoted to supporting the Greater Geelong community, from students and teachers, right through to emerging local artists, Geelong Arts Centre’s Creative Learning education program and Creative Engine artistic development program are set to return bigger and better than ever in 2023.
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CREATIVE ENGINE
Equally dedicated to lining up the next big thing to hit Geelong, and supporting local artists and people working in the creative industries, Geelong Arts Centre continues to grow its spirit for experimentation through its Creative Engine program, supported by Innovation Partner, Costa Asset Management. Bringing new content and cultural experiences to Geelong, embracing a desire to extend the art form’s boundaries and create a community of shared practice, Geelong Arts Centre’s Creative Engine relishes the opportunity to facilitate connections and bring together the creative community. Launched in October 2019, no matter what art form you practise, Creative Engine offers a place for locally-based creatives to test their work, develop new projects, and then share them with the world.
In 2023, Creative Engine will continue to offer regular grant rounds to invest in emerging projects, and provide professional development opportunities to assist artists on their journey to building sustainable, thriving practices and careers in the creative arts. Watch this space.
CO-WORKING SPACE
Boasting sleek, state-of-the-art office and studio facilities promoting professional and creative collaboration, the co-working space at the Geelong Arts Centre is among the most creative, central and affordable arts business hubs in Geelong. Located on Level 2 of Geelong Arts Centre’s landmark Ryrie Street building, the co-working space offers a contemporary open-plan office space and a range of purpose-built studios, enabling you to get shoulder-to-shoulder with local creatives and connect with like-minded, creative practitioners from all disciplines, in a space where you can foster new ideas, collaborations, networking and skill sharing.
CREATIVE LEARNING
The brilliant teachers of the region haven’t been forgotten. Supported by APCO Foundation, the Creative Learning program is designed to spark a love for the creative industries among students and open them to a world of opportunity, supported by professional theatre makers, technicians and artists. Interested educators can browse the Creative Learning program and submit an expression of interest form on the website to get ahead of their 2023 planning. Creative Learning offerings include performances and workshops embedded within the Victorian curriculum, festivals for all ages, and engaging professional development for teachers. Offering a diverse suite of programs ranging from music to movement, puppetry and theatre, the 2023 Creative Learning program offers affordable and enriching educational arts experiences that are immersive and fun for students in Kindergarten right through to Year 12.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Big enough to attract the world’s best talent, but small enough to remain friendly and local, Geelong Arts Centre really is a one-of-a-kind venue providing endless opportunities for the local community to witness incredible live performances that breathes freshness and challenges the notion of traditional theatre.
So go on, make 2023 your most entertainment-filled year yet. With so many more exciting details to come, make sure you are up to date with the latest Geelong Arts Centre announcements by signing up for the What’s On e-Newsletter via here.
