CREATION : ceremony

CREATION is a queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion for our times. Congregate with us at CREATION’s multi-faceted WorldPride ceremony, presented in Performance Space’s Day for Night XXIII. Manifesting as an elaborate sacrament of original music performed by beloved queer talents, the ceremony is replete with shareable dance moves, regalia, dazzling animated imagery, intoxicating poetry, communal planet grief, worship, love, community icons, rage and disco.

CREATION’s offerings across artforms arise from artist SJ Norman’s Liturgy of the Saprophyte, the new sacred literature forming the hot red heart of this fledgeling faith. Poetic responses to the liturgy by writers Ellen van Neerven, Evelyn Araluen, Jinghua Qian, Virginia Barratt, Brain Fuata, Kerri Shying and Heather Grace Jones are adapted into choral compositions by musical director Lex Lindsay and guest composer Karen Cummings.

In preparation we will invite you to learn the chants that bring soul and substance to CREATION and to come dressed in your own white regalia. Ticket holders are invited to join the procession of CREATION performers to participate and reinvigorate.

CREATION: Ceremony will be taking place within Day for Night: The Pleasure Arc accompanied on the DJ decks by the iconic Stereogamous.

To find out more about Day For Night: The Pleasure Arc click here

INSTIGATING ARTIST: Deborah Kelly
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Lex Lindsay
CHOIR CAPTAINS: Kit Spencer, Natasha Rusterholz
PRODUCER: Su Goldfish
DRUMMER: Billie Vanson

SINGERS:
Kate Andrews, Zaya Barroso, Andrew Bukenya, Ryan Burrett, Lelly Coombes, Karen Cummings, Bec Dean, Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Saria Green, Cate Hull, Mel Jha, Sinead Lewis, Jo Lin, Malaika M’falme, Judy Nielands, Ed Richards, Kit Spencer, Liza-Mare Syron, Charlotte Tharrup, Meri Wilson and Amity Yore.