Brunswick Mechanics Institute in Brunswick, Victoria | Performance & event venue

Brunswick Mechanics Institute

Locality: Brunswick, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9329 9422

Address: 270 Sydney Rd 3056 Brunswick, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.brunswickmechanics.com

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25.01.2022 Lockdowns over and we're looking straight ahead to Brunswick Music Festival's takeover of 3056. At Brunswick Mechanics Institute you'll find a few events including BMF 2021: Petal Lake (Mindy Meng Wang & Daniel Jenatsch) and Xanthe Dobbie * * projections in the courtyard. by Xanthe Dobbie (video work)... Friday 5 - Sunday 14 March Brunswick Mechanics Institute Forecourt From sundown daily FREE View the program https://bit.ly/3arW4Ui #BMF2021

25.01.2022 We can't talk about the #BMIFamily and not talk about Blak Dot Gallery They're right across the road from Brunswick Mechanics and #9 in the #BMIFamily series. @blakdotgallery is the leading gallery for contemporary First Nations art in Australia. The artist-run space showcases contemporary artworks from world Indigenous cultures and opens up to run events, workshops, panel discussions, lectures, and markets. Blakademy is the gallery's critical Indigenous learning space for... First Nations creatives and is not home to five community groups and individual artists. Blakademy has hot desks, as well as a large collection of global and local Indigenous and non-European diasporic texts. Read more about Blak Dot via their website. https://blakdot.com.au/ Scroll through our Facebook to learn about some of the other members of the BMI Family. is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics

24.01.2022 We have stopped drop off for the day, as we are at capacity for the space. We have been so overwhelmed by the support and generosity of everyone dropping off, volunteering and helping out. We will share details of other drops/ways we can support these families in hard lock down as plans come to light. Repost via Amrita

24.01.2022 Dream up something HUGE in lockdown? We want to help you bring it to RL. Creative Developments for January-June 2021 are open through Brunswick Mechanics website https://bit.ly/2K3XFFb ... We'll provide 2 weeks free studio space access to tech, production, and industry expertise. Plus a great courtyard for brainstorming, coffee and long lunches. You just need to bring your big ideas. Independent artists, groups and organisations are encouraged to apply. Applications close Nov 29. Image: // , Caroline Garcia & Lucrecia Quintanilla, @next_wave festival 2018. Photo: Snehargho Ghosh See more

24.01.2022 The DJ decks have been returned and the green screen is gone. Our DIY radio station for Assemble! at Brunswick Mechanics studio 2 has been stripped back down again. What was your favourite radioWAVE stream? What did you miss and wish you hadnt?

23.01.2022 radioWAVE returns tonight! Very excited to share the airwaves with: + Libby Harward: deadstream_TV presents Livestream Special + Nina Buchanan [LIVE DJ SET]... + Makeda, pictured [LIVE DJ SET] + NW x Hope St Radio present: Merve [DJ SET] TUNE IN, all weekend <3 radiowave.nextwave.org.au Streamed live from BMI, supported by Moreland City Council, Hope St Radio. Our thanks to MESS.

23.01.2022 Were starting a new series #BMIFamily A celebration of the extended community of artists, orgs, partners and pals we spend our time with on Sydney Road.

23.01.2022 Currently installed at Brunswick Mechanics is the group exhibition, . We'll be profiling each of the four artists as part of #BMIFamily while the artwork is on display. Our third artist, and #22 in the #BMIFamily series is: Stone Motherless Cold is an Arrernte gem, currently based in so-called Melbourne. Using drag as their main medium, Stone dabbles in performance art, dance, spoken word and visual art. Stone was one of the titl...e winners of the VIC NAIDOC LGBTQIA+ 2019 event and has previously worked on 'The Fae' at Signal Arts 2020, 'Drag of Kwatye' at 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival, 'Dis Rupt' for 2019 Yirramboi and 2019 'Lets Take Over presents: The Reveillon' at Northcote Town Hall. Scroll through our grid to learn about some of the other members of the BMI Family. is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #Family See more

21.01.2022 Rising, Public Transport Victoria and Creative Victoria invite First Peoples artists to submit artwork ideas for the 2021 Melbourne Art Trams. The 2021 Trams project asks artists to respond to Melbourne and the multiple layers of history, country, diverse community, and connections across Victoria. Get your submissions in before Monday 1 February! https://bit.ly/3nSVnqo

21.01.2022 We're nearly ready to welcome you back. Before you come to #BrunswickMechanics please have a read of our Covid-19 Audience Policy. It'll keep you safe, and aware of the measures we're implementing in line with Vic Gov health advice View by clicking 'Audience Covid Safe Policy' https://bit.ly/2Yo3qRN

20.01.2022 Want to be a part of Melbourne Fringe? Brunswick Mechanics is now accepting EOIs, encouraging artistic proposals that challenge the status quo, and respond to the historical, political and cultural contexts of our time. Brunswick Mechanics supports projects and artists that delve deep, take risks, and demonstrate creative experimentation. Our venue is best suited for live art and performance, theatre, dance, sound and ephemeral/site-responsive work with spaces tha...t are flexible and transformative. Apply https://bit.ly/2YwNkq4 Applications are open, and close Mon 3 August 2020. Please reach out if you have any questions or access needs. We strongly encourage artists who live in the City of Moreland to apply to access Moreland Melbourne Fringe Microgrants via https://bit.ly/3dAK1C9 Image: Estrogenesis, Embittered Swish, Next Wave Festival 2018. Photo: Sarah Walker See more

20.01.2022 We have stopped drop off for the day, as we are at capacity for the space and have filled our entire theatre and studio! We have been so overwhelmed by the HUGE support and generosity of everyone dropping off, volunteering and helping out. We will share details of other drops/ways we can support these families in hard lock down as plans come to light. Stay tuned. ... Please share this message with friends and community who were intending to drop off tonight to help spread the word. Next Wave Moreland City Council See more

20.01.2022 Artist opportunity via our friends at Moreland City Council https://bit.ly/3tbu12F The - is designed to assist artists, businesses and community organisations to recover from COVID-19 restrictions through the creation of a matched artistic residency program. This partnership provides a short-term employment opportunity for artists and creative solution for businesses and community organisations.

20.01.2022 Footy lovers rejoice: White Line Fever: Toxic Pigskin Energy Purge kicks off very soon. Join Next Wave Festival 2020 artists Lyndon Blue & Matt Aitken/White Line Fever as they call upon footys spirits in the underworld. BYO sacred footy objects, cursed artefacts, and sacrificial pyre (where possible). We will roar, we will travel within, we will look White Line Fever in the eye and purge what does not serve us from the heart of the pigskin.... Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/98861990023 *Turn your camera off if you'd prefer not to be included in the radioWAVE stream via radiowave.nextwave.org.au Want to just watch? View the action via www.radiowave.nextwave.orgau

19.01.2022 Just started: Multipass - Ayebatonye (Irregular Fit) https://radiowave.nextwave.org.au/

18.01.2022 If youve presented, created, danced or dreamt at BMI chances are youve been greeted by RL angel, and #8 of our #BMIFamily series. Kalyani Mumtaz is a Trawlwoolway musician, curator, and DJ living in so-called Melbourne on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Lands. Mumtaz is a Producer at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Arts House, and is a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts collective, this mob. ... Mumtaz worked in the experimental pop duo Willow Beats for seven years producing three EPs and an album, and tours with major festivals such as Clockenflap (Hongkong) and Falls Music and Arts Festival (Australia). Kalyani currently performs as a solo artist and released an EP, a leaf a flower, with her project Kalyani & Isha. As DJ KYAANZ, She confidently mixes an eclectic set of genres - Turkish and Hindi Pop, Rap, Trap, Booty Bass, and modern global club sounds - tying together a tapestry of melodies with the craft of an experienced songwriter and blending rhythms with wisdom from years spent on dancefloors. She has shared music inside ACMI, Melbourne Museum and at festivals like Sun Cycle and Dark Mofo. Kalyanis work as an artist and curator centres truth and responsibility. is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #Family See more

18.01.2022 Fridays are for and we're up to lucky #10, our friend LAY the Mystic. Lay is part of the Next Wave Festival 2020 cohort (view their planned project linked below), has participated in Creative Development with us at Brunswick Mechanics and was featured in the massive program for 2018. Lay the Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and dedicated cubby-fort maker based in Narrm. ... His current works are centred around intimacy, all things close being both a lens to understand societal or cultural issues, and a landscape to enact change. View: EFREN PAMILACAN & LAY THE MYSTIC (VIC) https://bit.ly/3emk4ac @lay.the.mystic is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #BMIFamily #Family

17.01.2022 Congrats to our pals at Brunswick Music Festival who launched their program overnight. With a dreamy lineup and events free/under $10, BMF have reimagined how we come together after 2020 with park parties, the return of Venue 3056 and partnerships with local record labels. Next month we're hosting Petal Lake (Mindy Meng Wang Music + Daniel Jenatsch) in the Brunswick Mechanics Institute Forecourt as part of the series https://bit.ly/2NSqpSY View the program https://brunswickmusicfestival.com.au/

17.01.2022 #17 in the #BMIFamily Sumarlinah is classically trained in ballet and contemporary dance practices, and recently launched transomatics, a series of soft, guided body awareness practices, designed by and for the trans and gender diverse community to help navigate gender dysphoria. Sumarlinah was a participant in the Brunswick Mechanics' Artist Development program earlier this year. They also curate 'boundless' for LIMINAL Magazine, which explores what it means to be multiracial Asian-Australian. Their creative work is centred in exploring space; how we move in it, interact with it, and how we can change it.

17.01.2022 We're overwhelmed and amazed by the amount of donations and support received yesterday. After just 37 minutes, Brunswick Mechanics was completely full and had to close its doors for donations. We're so thankful for everyone that came through and so proud of our community. It was amazing to see community action IRL, and everyone coming together. Unfortunately, we don't have the space to accept more donations right now, but we'll let you know as soon as we can, and we'll keep you all updated with ways to help.

16.01.2022 We're very excited to have Merve up next on radioWAVE, as part of our final Hope St Radio collaboration. Tune in radiowave.nextwave.org.au Supported by Moreland City Council, our thanks to MESS ... radioWAVE continues through to Sunday. View the full program: radiowave.nextwave.org.au #ArtistsAssemble #GovOfArtists

15.01.2022 If you tuned into radioWAVE last week we'd love to hear from you! Complete a super quick survey for our friends Next Wave and you can go into the draw to win an annual subscription to MUBI. Complete survey https://bit.ly/2UcUY69

14.01.2022 It's the closing weekend of Next Wave's May presentation, ! and we're live streaming from BMI again today through to Sunday afternoon, for our radioWAVE program. You're invited to sit, listen, dance and engage with artist-led content. Tune in: www.radiowave.nextwave.org.au ... #ArtistsAssemble #GovOfArtists

14.01.2022 Artist workshop opportunity You don't want to miss out on this free event, facilitated by our friends at Arts Moreland [Moreland City Council]. Join public art curators Emily Cormack and Leon van de Graff for a workshop that covers the many opportunities that Moreland has to offer, and how artists might best become involved in these programs.... #Moreland #BMIRecommends

14.01.2022 #17 in the #BMIFamily Sumarlinah is classically trained in ballet and contemporary dance practices, and recently launched transomatics, a series of soft, guided body awareness practices, designed by and for the trans and gender diverse community to help navigate gender dysphoria. Sumarlinah was a participant in the Brunswick Mechanics' Artist Development program earlier this year. ... They also curate 'boundless' for Liminal Magazine, which explores what it means to be multiracial Asian-Australian. Their creative work is centred in exploring space; how we move in it, interact with it, and how we can change it. Scroll through our profile to learn about some of the other members of the BMI Family. is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #Family @sususumarlinah See more

14.01.2022 Cancer szn is all about feeling your feelings. You can't ignore the stars how did you feel about Assemble!? Let's talk it out. (If spiritual virtue isn't enough motivation for you, you could also win an annual subscription to MUBI) Fill out our survey now! bit.ly/38dNvd4

14.01.2022 Brunswick Mechanics will be closed effective immediately until Thursday 18 February due to stage 4 lockdowns across Victoria. Stay safe pals, we'll see you soon

11.01.2022 : Moreland City Council Festivals Development Program is open! They are interested in the development of new, high-quality creative work that is bold, seeks to explore and inspire community connection and that is a creative response to this time of uncertainty and disruption. These works can be presented online or in a site-specific location or in line with COVID-19... restrictions at the time of presentation. Apply https://bit.ly/2PLHxaD [grant round closes 1:59PM, Friday 21 August]

11.01.2022 It's time for another #BMIFamily post. #14 on the list is an angel and BMI hero: Magenta is the Venue Manager at Brunswick Mechanics, having previously worked across both Next Wave and Brunswick Mechanics as the Administration & Operations Coordinator. During her time at Brunswick Mechanics, Magenta has worked on , ! , amongst many other special community and art events.... Magenta moonlights as Editor of Going Down Swinging, one of Australias longest-running and most respected literary journals. At GDS, she's been lucky to produce special, sold-out live events and compelling print and digital publications. She's currently working on the 41st anthology, with a focus on digital storytelling, comics and alternate reality. She's bursting at the seams to share it with you later this year. Magenta runs creative writing workshops all over so-called Melbourne, has also edited fiction for Voiceworks and won the Melbourne Writers Festival Creative Writing prize in 2017.

10.01.2022 Launching today's program of radioWAVE is Emma Stevenson TUNE IN radiowave.nextwave.org.au 12PM (AEST) live from Brunswick Mechanics Institute ... Emma is a community-minded DJ, always lifting up and supporting those around her. A great mate to pester for a track ID on a dancefloor or for a hot tip on and up-and-coming DJ, shes incredibly on the pulse with whats fresh and happening across all strands of dance music. Emma has soundtracked settings from gallery openings to heaving dancefloors and her technically-minded, student-of-the-game approach gives her a range of tools to whip out for any set and setting. Shes technically adept and digs deep across genres, unearthing all kinds of wicked grooves for the dance floor. Expect tidy mixes from the speakers and a big smile on your face. radioWAVE is part of Next Wave's May presentation, !and is supported by Moreland City Council and Hope St Radio. Our thanks to MESS. #ArtistsAssemble #GovOfArtists

10.01.2022 Let's work together. We'll provide the space, you bring the ideas. Creative development at Brunswick Mechanics provides artists with two weeks of free space and access to tech, production, and industry expertise. We want projects that are innovative, exciting, and responsible. Apply now! Link in bio. Image: Estrogenesis, Embittered Swish, Next Wave Festival 2018. Photo by Sarah Walker

09.01.2022 Edit: We have stopped drop off for the day, as we are at capacity for the space. We have been so overwhelmed by the support and generosity of everyone dropping off, volunteering and helping out. We will share details of other drops/ways we can support these families in hard lock down as plans come to light. Huge thanks to Amrita for organising. ... This afternoon we are accepting food donations to Brunswick Mechanics for those in forced hard lockdown in Flemington and Kensington. Contactless donations will be accepted from 5-7.30pm (Monday July 6) at 270 Sydney Road Brunswick. Please swipe through to see which items are most needed alongside safety protocols to ensure you are practicing on arrival. Next Wave Moreland City Council

09.01.2022 Artist opportunity Our friends at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick (Moreland City Council) have extended their Call Outs for 2021 exhibitions. Applications close this Friday, 31st of July. Apply https://bit.ly/3hBIpdZ [Image: Chris Bowes. Monitor, 2020 (installation detail). Computer, screens, cables, webcam and code. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist]

08.01.2022 Today kicks of NAIDOC Week, dedicated to celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Make space for First Nations voices and listen hard. Not just this week, but always. We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land from which we work and create: the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Sovereignty was never ceded, a treaty was never signed, this is stolen land. #NAID...OCWeek #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe See more

07.01.2022 #IndigenousLivesMatter #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

05.01.2022 It's Friday, you all know what that means... Next up and #12 in the #BMIFamily: Meri Leeworth is a designer and performance maker turned secluded musician (particularly since lockdown), as well as moonlighting as the venue cleaner and tech for Brunswick Mechanics. Earlier this year she presented her first major composition at The SUBSTATION. Last year she won a Green Room Awards Association Award for sound designing the theatre show .... At Brunswick Mechanics Institute she performed as part of Critical Mass, as part of Next Wave, and did a development for a work called , all in 2018. She also designed lighting for Eugene Choi and Marcus Whale's work ! at BMI earlier this year. Check out Meri's music via https://meri-leeworthy.bandcamp.com/ is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #Family

05.01.2022 In our latest e-news we celebrate some of the members of #BMIFamily (meet Bobby, Emerging Writers' Festival, Ella & Pete from Hope St Radio) and invite you to share your ideas for digital presentations with us for Melbourne Fringe. Read it https://bit.ly/3jTI3Bh Want it delivered to your inbox? Subscribe https://bit.ly/3fdDzls... #BrunswickMechanics

05.01.2022 Creative Development updateWe're providing a $500 stipend to each artist to support their development. If you've got something you want to bring to life, Brunswick Mechanics can help. - 2 weeks free studio space - access to tech, production, and industry expertise... - $500 stipend Applications close 29. More info via our website or link in bio. Photo: Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen / Deep Soulful Sweets @snaiken @becjenny and @deepsoulfulsweats Image by Gregory Lorenzutti @greglorenzutti (2019)

04.01.2022 Due to COVID-19, Brunswick Mechanics is currently closed to the public. Were putting our toolbox down and will continue to monitor the situation at the advice of health professionals. Brunswick Mechanics will re-open when it is safe to do so. For now, were working from home and thinking about ways to present our planned projects for the year. Take care, stay home, and pick up some nice snacks.... Love, Brunswick Mechanics

04.01.2022 We'd like to introduce you to king, icon, and lucky #11 in the #BMIFamily series: is a musician, DJ, producer, and Booking Agent based in Melbourne. Over various roles within their decades-long career, they've been dedicated to helping carve out a safer, more inviting, and accessible music culture in Australia. Most recently, Sullivan was programmed for radioWAVE's live closing party, Quarantag Team, where they invited those streaming in to embody the c...lub, guiding them on a journey of isolated dance floor rhythms. Read more about Sully's practice via http://sullivanpatten.com/ Scroll through our grid to learn about some of the other members of the BMI Family. is an ongoing initiative celebrating our creative community of artists, collaborators, partners and pals who fill our courtyard, studios and theatre with ambitious, experimental and critical art. #BrunswickMechanics #Family

03.01.2022 ATTN: Time to introduce the next member of the #BMIFamily: #7 Moorina Bonini is a proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna and the Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri-Woiwurrung Briggs/McCrae family. Moorina Bonini is an artist whose works are informed by her experiences as an Aboriginal and Italian woman. By unsettling the narrative placed upon Aboriginal people as a result of colonisation of Aboriginal Australia, Moorina's practice i...s based within Indigenous Knowledge systems and brings this to the fore. Moorina has produced and curated a number of projects at BMI, most recently, the First Nations-led storytelling livestream that kicked off !. Moorina holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Moorina is currently a candidate at Monash University where she is undertaking a Masters of Fine Art within the Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab. Her work has been shown in various exhibition spaces such as Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Sydney Festival, Blak Dot Gallery, c3 contemporary art space, Centre for Contemporary Photography, KINGS Artist-Run, SEVENTH Gallery, Bus Projects, Koorie Heritage Trust and Brunswick Street Gallery. Moorina has produced and co-curated art and cultural programs across RMIT University and the The University of Melbourne. Moorina is currently working at Next Wave as the First Nations Engagement Coordinator. She is a board member of SEVENTH Gallery, where she is currently the First Nations Programming Coordinator. Check out Moorina's website for a full sweep of her incredible projects https://www.moorinabonini.com/

03.01.2022 Our dear friends at Testing Grounds have just opened EOIs for their Creative Development Program. Apply https://bit.ly/3ilfwUf

03.01.2022 Last day to check out Next Wave's May artist-led program, ! Peruse artist projects by + Daz Chandler + Kalanjay Dhir... + Libby Harward + Tal Fitzpatrick + Alex Last + White Line Fever / Matt Aitken & Lyndon Blue + Rachel Meyers + Ivey Wawn +Sapna Chandu & Michael Warnock View projects: www.assemble.nextwave.org.au Image 1: ID: a shot of a staged photo shoot, with photography lights and two people in the centre of the image Image courtesy of Sapna Chandu & Michael Warnock View interview: https://assemble.nextwave.org.au/projects/sapna-chandu/ Image 2: ID: Two branches on a light grey background. The leaves are dry and drooping down. Image: Alex Last View project: https://assemble.nextwave.org.au/projects/alex-last/ Image 3: ID: A brown image with two drawn figures. In the corner is the text 'In Perpetuity' with a horse drawn in the top corner, and a woman crouching on her hand and knees with long hair in the bottom right corner.

02.01.2022 Uh oh! Our website is down. We're on the tools and trying to revive it. In the meantime you can reach us via email [email protected] or by messaging this page.

02.01.2022 Time to treat yourself: you've definitely earned it. Our friends at Next Wave launched waveMART last week, a space for artists to sell, trade and swap. The artists will receive every cent you spend on their products, and Next Wave will even divvy it up between artists if you purchase a (virtual) rose. It closes this week, and items are limited, exclusive and undeniably special. Get in before they close shop on Sunday 31st of May at 11.00PM (AEST).

01.01.2022 Artists Cerulean, Mo Money, Oyana, and Stone Motherless Cold have Blaked out Brunswick Mechanics occupying the windows with renderings of their drag faces and filling the blank space with their writing. Walk the parameter of 270 Sydney Road and check out Front And Centre, running until 27 November. If you can't make it out to Brunswick Mechanics, you can visit the image-described virtual exhibition via our website.

01.01.2022 Remembering radioWAVE with Alice Skye's latest song radioWAVE was streamed live from Brunswick Mechanics, supported by Moreland City Council and Hope St Radio.