You Are Here

I first encountered Jason Nelson’s work while visiting Darwin in 2011 for the first time. I was looking for places I could perform poetry, meet other artists, and flog copies of my latest zine. I’d dropped by the NT Writers Centre located at the atmospherically named Frog Hollow Centre for the Arts. One of the [...]

Approximately 8 hours ago the remaining Festival staff spilled out of Fletcher Jones to make their way down to Honkytonks for a boogie at our final event Pledge your Groovallegiance to the Funk. Nathan and I said our goodbyes and began our journey back to Sydney, my car cramped full of cushions and a fancy [...]

10 days, 10 episodes. You Are Here’s first ever behind the scenes documentary. This is the last episode, for the final day of the festival. We hope you have enjoyed the ride. Massive thanks and congratulations to Luke McGrath and Nick Delatovic and everyone who worked on Heartbroken Assassin. Enjoy! A series of 10 webisodes [...]

It’s 5am, and I’m sitting in the foyer of Canberra Museum and Gallery, surrounded by sleeping strangers while some of my favourite musicians are six hours into an eight hour set. And I don’t even go here. I’m a Sydney person, by way of Wollongong. Until a few years ago, the only times I’d been [...]

It’s the second last episode!!! One more and it’s all over. One more day and the festival is over! A series of 10 webisodes that take you behind the scenes of You Are Here. Heartbroken Assassin is about all the usual challenges involved in running an experimental art festival: crime, murder, romance, fights to the [...]

A series of 10 webisodes that take you behind the scenes of You Are Here. Heartbroken Assassin is about all the usual challenges involved in running an experimental art festival: crime, murder, romance, fights to the death and bone-rattling heroism. One episode of Heartbroken Assassin will be shot each day of the festival, for air [...]

I don’t think many people will believe me when I say that when I sat down to write this post I didn’t intend to focus on the ladies of You Are Here. The artists, dancers, performers, musicians, writers and all the artistic wonders that get showcased at this most bizarre of festivals, who also are of [...]

When you are inside a festival, amongst the core inner workings of its hive brain and tangled in the throngs of its muscles, it can pass you by very quickly. The first couple of days, you’re vibing on energy, bouncing from event to event on the sheer thrill of it all. By the middle, you’re [...]