MOOGAHLIN PERFORMING ARTS AND SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS PRESENT
KOORI GRAS
A series of creative cultural arts events featuring local interstate and international First Nations qweer artists, thinkers, and communities.
Blak Nulla Cabaret
Australia’s most prestigious Blak drags and drag kings returned for your beloved performance event Blak Nulla. This year saw the return of all your favourites in one venue, curated & co-hosted by local elder Nana Miss Koori and Darwin celebrity Miss Ellaneous! See the full line up here.
Yellamundie Queer Blak Play Readings
Exploring WHAT MATTERS during the weeklong writing intensive at Carriageworks, five emerging LGBTQI black artists presented their newly-developed works as public readings at Seymour Centre.
Blak Diva For The Day
A safe place to explore your hidden Drag King or Queen. A one-day workshop for community members to come along and dress up and find their drag persona. Choose from a variety of donated glamorous outfits, participate in a make up workshop, and select your song to perform. Diva for the Day participants were offered the opportunity to strut their stuff at the Black Nulla Cabaret
Yellamundie Queer Blak
Off the back of the success of the 2019 drag creative development workshops, in 2020 Moogahlin offered five emerging LGBQIT blak artists a one week writing intensive with internationally renowned queer playwright Victor Rodger and Moogahlin Co-Artistic Director Liza-Mare Syron. The focus of the writing workshops was for performance, exploring the 2020 SGLMG theme WHAT MATTERS. The works developed will were presented as public readings at Seymour Centre.
CREATIVE TEAM
Producer - Liza-Mare Syron
Assistant Producer - Sonny Dallas Law
Blak Nulla Curator - Graham Simms & Ben Graetz
Production Manager - Liv Anstis
NOTES & ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible.
SUPPORTERS
This project is supported by Create NSW, Australia Council for the Arts, and Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Koori Gras 2016 - 2018
Some of the beautiful people captured by photographers Jamie James and Meg White over the past three years of Koori Gras at Mardi Gras.
