Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 26 June
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.
Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of artistic and intellectual insight is back. Every Wednesday morning for four weeks this June, we’ll explore different issues that stimulate our artists and creative thinkers as they develop new work.
We’re not interested in expert-led formats or a room full of people thinking the same things; we want big opinions, good discussion and personal stories. And coffee (that’s important). Each event runs for one hour, and will be punctuated by a series of provocations from artists, writers, thinkers and commentators. This discussion will include guests Zoey Dawson, Dylan Coleman and Ben McKenzie. Your host will be Emily Sexton.
The biennial Next Wave Festival will take place in May, 2014. The aim of this series is to get the artists (and audiences) thinking about the big questions.
Light breakfast by Yoghurt Culture and Small Batch coffee by donation.
More online
Stop, collaborate and listen. Follow #NWbclub to discuss Breakfast Club topics on Twitter (two ‘Live Scribes’ will be tweeting each event); subscribe to the brand new Breakfast Club podcast (via Soundcloud or iTunes) and catch up with blog posts at the Next Wave website.
Featuring
Ben McKenzie
Writer/performer Ben McKenzie is best known as a comedian, specialising in science and geek culture. His works include one-act play A Record or an OBE, the improvised adventure show Dungeon Crawl, the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour, live games such as The Curse and The Whispering Society with Pop Up Playground, and hit Doctor Who podcast Splendid Chaps with John Richards.
He also works as a voice-over artist, presenter and actor. He is an associate producer of Karen Pickering’s Cherchez la Femme, the monthly “feminist Q&A in the pub” salon, and is on the organising committee for the Melbourne Slutwalk. You can follow him on Twitter at @labcoatman. His favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus.
Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson
Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson is a theatre-maker based in Melbourne.
She writes and performs with the female theatre collective I’m Trying To Kiss You - in fact, a return season of their acclaimed show I Know There’s A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes will be at La Mama during April. Most recently, she has performed with MKA in The Economist in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Brisbane, directed an all-female Romeo and Juliet at fortyfivedownstairs and wrote a play about herself called The Unspoken Word is “Joe” which won the 2012 Melbourne Festival Discovery Award.
She enjoys reality TV and internet dating in ways she has recently discovered are not altogether ironic.
Dylan Coleman
Dylan Coleman is a Kokatha Aboriginal-Greek woman from the far west coast of South Australia. She is the award-winning author of Mazin Grace and has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide, where she ...
Emily Sexton
Emily Sexton is a former Head of Programming for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
She was the recipient of a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2014. Previously, she was Artistic Director of Next Wave (2010–14), where her key achievements were a radical rethink of an arts festival model, and a series of landmark commissions, publications and talks featuring First Nations artists, co-curated with Tony Albert and Tahjee Moar and titled Blak Wave.
In 2013, she was Artistic Director of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations at the Melbourne Recital Centre. She was also Creative Producer for Melbourne Fringe Festival for 2008–10.
Emily has been a proud Board Member for Arena Theatre Company, Snuff Puppets and Theatre Network Victoria, and is alumnus of the Australia Council’s Emerging Leaders Program (2011). She is a regular peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, and other philanthropic trusts and foundations. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications, English) from the University of Sydney (2005). She is a regular host and facilitator for writers’ festivals and arts organisations around Australia.