freshly squeezed 2011

Overview

Freshly squeezed is how I like my juice — pithy, colourful and frothy on top. It’s a good start to the morning. But how do you get the creative juices flowing? Sydney-based hybrid art collective stagejuice are onto it. Launched in 2010, freshly squeezed brings together some of Sydney’s most exciting emerging artists to mix, whip, taste and test new ideas, interdisciplinary art forms and collaborations in workshops with peers and mentors.

More than 20 artists from film, sound, visual arts, dance and theatre are involved in freshly squeezed 2011, culminating in stimulating performances of experimental and raw ideas and pithy new work for all to see. 'Smoke' is this year’s springboard to stimulate inspiring, collaborative work and new thinking. The theme is responded to in any form, literally (or not) by artists including performance and video maker Nick Atkins, performance artist Lucia Giuffre and Beatnik poet Scott Sandwich.

Can’t wait for your fix? Check out some of the smoking new works on the freshly squeezed artists' blog. Plus, you can get along and share your juice at a Q&A session after the performance on Friday, October 21.

Image by Catherine McElhone.