A wonderful start to our Fire Garden show in Wangaratta with music from the Highstreet Shufflers 🎪🌳![]()
📷 Richard Baxter
After taking The Fire Garden to Truganina and Wangratta we're looking into future towns to tour to 🔥 Let us know where you'd like to see The Fire Garden next!?![]()
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Image description: At nightime in an open field a tree and various huge shapes of material are lit up with projections featuring white dots and zigzag lines. To the right of these is a small stage with 3 musicians playing out to an audience in their cars (not seen in the image).
After many many delays from the pandemic The Fire Garden finally presented it's premiere tour 🔥 ![]()
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Image description: In an open field at night time many cars are lined up alongside one another facing towards illuminated inflated sculptures and a firework display of yellow sparking lines evolving into more solid blue lines reaching into the sky.
A huge thank you to all that came along to our sold-out performance of The Fire Garden last night in Truganina! That ends this years’ Fire Garden Tour. We’ll share some photos soon. But for now a special thanks to the entire touring team:
Artists:
Uncle Ron Murray – Lead Artist, Storyteller, and Musician
Justin Marshall – Sound Director & Musician
Sarah James – Musician
Jim Coad – Projection Artist and Animator
Lorraine Brigdale – Animator
Akhilla Fernando – Animator
Jip Vaskess – Lighting Designer
John Sanderson – Pyrotechnics & Special Effects Designer/Operator
Daniele Poidomani – Puppeteer (The Bush Turkey)
Lachlan Plain – Puppeteer (The Starfish)
Jules Chapple – Puppeteer (The Whale)
Crew
Tim Sneddon – Director
Suzanne Kalk – Producer
Renee Delahunty – Production Manager
Stuart Vaskess – Site Designer
Timothy Ryan – Marketing and Box Officer
Marjetka McMkrizanic – Show Caller
Thomas Jones (Wasabi) – Sound Technican
Bronwyn Pringle – Lighting Supervisor
Rob Ramsay – Foreman
Nick Timson - Rigger
Madeleine Heaven – Parking & Crew
Nick Wilson – Puppetry Assistant & Crew
Dave Evans - Crew
Leonie Van Eyk – Projection operator (rehearsals)
Access:
Nilgun Guven – Access Consultant
Bo Svoronos – Audio Describer and Tactile Tour Guide
Linda D’Ornay – Auslan Interpreter (Stage Left)
Supporting Artists:
Emilie & Olive – Rovers
Damanu Bangerang Dance Group – Welcome to Country (Bangerang)
High Street Shufflers – Pre-show entertainment (Bangerang)
Hasta La Cumbia – Pre-show entertainment (Wurundjeri)
Melton Community Circus Group – Pre show entertainment (Wurundjeri)
Ryn Thessman – Pre-show entertainment (Wurundjeri)![]()
Radio
The teams at Oakfm and 979fm!!
Documentation:
Richard Baxter – Photographer
Phil Soliman – Photographer
Jeff Achtem – Videographer
Alex Sibbison – Videographer
And a special and sincere thank you to Aunty Juliane Oxford (Wurundjeri) Uncle Peter Webster (Wurundjeri), Uncle Dozer (Bangerang), and Uncle Kevin Atkinson (Bangerang) for welcoming us all into your communities. Thank you to Michael Naismith from the Mt Atkinson Community Centre, Kelly Timms & Elisha Naish from Rural City of Wangaratta, for all your generous support and hospitality.