Shortwave: Blak Social - Gatekeepers (2024)
Shortwave - New Screen Commissions 2024
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Gatekeepers is a hidden bar out the back of Haze Land in Queen’s City. The place where you find all the Indigenous musicians you never get to meet because of the gatekeepers in the music industry.
Gatekeepers is the fourth instalment of Blak Social’s Queenscitiverse project which already includes the plays Queen’s City and Meet Your Maker; alongside the Indigenised Fright Night Blak Friday. Queen’s City is a fictional town that uncovers the truth about the colonial project through the fierce reclamation of pop culture.
Key creatives:
Alethea Beetson
Katina Olsen
Neta-Rie Mabo
Moss
Loki Liddle
Joe Geia
Maggie Walsh
Sue Ray
Mark Munk Ross
Kerrod Meredith-Creed
Kerrinne Jenkins
Sasha Parlett
Roger Stonehouse
Harriett Williams
Blak Social is an Indigenous arts company dreamed into existence by Alethea Beetson (Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi and Wiradjuri). We currently work across music, performance and film. Alethea Beetson established Blak Social after successfully founding a renowned Indigenous youth arts organisation, Digi Youth Arts, to continue creating spaces for the sovereign-led development and presentation of Indigenous stories and connected arts practice.
Blak Social knows how to have fun while burning down the colony. Creating hilarious and viscous stories that rewrite history, Indiginise popular culture and are an assault to the senses while traversing deep time and being meta as fuck.
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