Opening night presented by Liquid Architecture and the Australian Indigenous Studies Program, the University of Melbourne, as part of ‘Roze a Wail’: Whales, Whaling and Dreaming conference.

Storytelling, words, and music from Bunna Lawrie, a traditional lawman and medicine man and direct descendant of the Mirning Aboriginal Whaledreaming tribe.

Spontaneous speech and noise acts from Chilean poet, artist, visionaries Cecilia Vicuña and Camila Marambio (Chile) and sound-maker Bryan Phillips.

A song or two from Joel Maripil, an indigenous Mapuche from Chile and a Werken – a cultural elder for the Kechukawin community and Musical Director of the Children’s Orchestra of the Mapuche town of Tirua (Orquesta Infantil Mapuche de Tirua).

Poems by Kim Satchell – New South Wales surfer, performer, writer – on encountering whales, the context of the coast, and the Anthropocene – in collaboration with acoustic ecologist and sound walker Anthony Magen.

Mel Deerson and Georgina Criddle stage ‘Alexander a play for a and b’ about Alexander the Great suspended in a barrel under the sea.

In partnership with West Space, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Naturestrip, Australian Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne.