Brand X is re-launching Season 5 of its contemporary performance program The Flying Nun, premiering at East Sydney Community Arts Centre from October – December 2020.
Brand X Director James Winter, says: “After months of Sydney’s night-time venues being dormant, we are excited to inject some creative life back into the inner city and present this exciting collection of experimental independent artists in a COVID-safe environment.
“Brand X offers Sydney and virtual audiences an affordable program of live contemporary performance to reconnect with each other again under the new realities of COVID-19. If isolation has taught us anything, we need places for commune. Cultural connections remind us of our simultaneous fragility and resilience.”
brand x is back with a new live program
The new program is radical, exciting, subversive and surprising - expect the unexpected with performances that explore love, covid isolation, trans-global collaboration, Sydney eccentrics, aTed Talk on acid and Whitney Houston! A celebration of fringe counter-culture, The Flying Nun was created to incubate experimental projects that more conventional performance spaces hesitate to take a risk on and provides a platform for artists to test out new ideas and take them to the next level.
Established in 2018, The Flying Nun is a biannual showcase of contemporary performance work developed through performing arts residencies offered by Brand X at East Sydney Community Arts Centre. To date, the program has supported 56 emerging and independent ensembles to realise new ideas that push creative boundaries. Originally slated for February – May, but delayed due to COVID-19, Brand X is able to finally present this suite of experimental new works in its intimate COVID-safe* Darlinghurst venue.
VENUE East Sydney Community Arts Centre, 34 Burton Street Darlinghurst
TICKETS / LIVE $25 www.brandx.org.au/tickets / ONLINE $10 digital tickets