Step back to the 80’s with Aunty Jonny, Glenn Twenty and special guests for a bizzarro (Not So) Blue Light Disco!
Expect great tunes, homage performances and prizes for best dressed and fanciest footwork. The theming will be serving 1980s good times – will you?
Food trucks, fire pits, crimping stations and yes, the punch is definitely spiked!
Join Aunty Jonny and their band of mischief makers straight out of the 80s and dance the night away!
No effort, no entry.
Art Museum open late ’til 6pm – come early and check it out.
Free Shuttle Bus
Pick up 5.30pm from the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra
Return departure times from Bundanon: 8pm, 9pm, 10pm
PERFORMERS
Aunty Jonny Hawkins
Jonny Hawkins is an actor, writer, and DJ. They studied Acting at WAAPA, where they won the Burton Award for outstanding Shakespearian Performance, and they have subsequently won awards including the Sydney Theatre Critic’s Best Newcomer Award. Their appearances across film and TV include Mr Inbetween, Stan’s The Other Guy, Les Norton, the ABC’s award-winning RIOT and the mini-series Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.
As a writer, their short film Joy Boy won Best Film at Melbourne’s Queer Film Festival and Best Screenplay at Vivid’s Fresh Flix. Maureen is Jonny’s first fulllength play. Jonny is also one of Sydney’s best loved DJs and founder of The Dollar Bin Darlings, preaching disco and love all over Australia.
Duncan Fellows
MC for the night is Glenn Twenty, a Canberra-based presenter, audio visual enthusiast, and documentary film maker. He is passionate about this magical brown land we call Australia. His work remains largely unappreciated, but that hasn’t stopped him.
Glenn’s iconic ISO-Therapy tapes helped literally tens of Australians get through the difficult COVID lockdown period. His powerful documentary Glenn Twenty’s Eye on Wollongong has also garnered limited praise from across the Australian media landscape. Glenn is delighted to be part of this exciting event at the beautiful Bundanon property.
Glenn will be keeping the party going providing commentary, tips and prizes for best dressed and best moves. Glenn Twenty is the alter ego of actor Duncan Fellows, known for his starring roles in Deadloch and The Letdown.
Jane Watt
Jane Watt is an actor, writer and comedian who starred in the award-winning independent feature film The Greenhouse and the documentary series The War That Changed Us. Jane’s most recent theatre credits include Gypsy, Spamalot and Godspell. Along with fellow actor-comedian Rob Johnson, Jane is the creator-director of the hilarious production Musical Bang Bang, a live theatre spectacular that shoots from the hip without a script in sight.
Cheryn Frost
Cheryn Frost is a Gadigal-based actor, drag artist, theatre maker, lighting designer and producer. Cheryn’s notable work includes ‘Here Here’ (Sydney Biennale), ‘Volcanoes & Vulvas: The Exploration of My Two Greatest Loves’ (Redline) and ‘Hydraulic Fucking’ (PACT), where they explored themes of queer culture and impacts of colonialism on Indigenous lands.
Wilder Times
Wilder Times sees the return of a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings by Arthur Boyd to Bundanon for the first time since their creation in 1984 as a commission for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.
The exhibition also brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
