“A season is as much about the lapse or passage of time as weather events, climatic variation and cycles of flowering and decay. However intense or frightening or beautiful, a season passes and recurs. There are no permanent states, just invariable change. In this sound work — which draws upon the Kulin seasonal calendar — the key artists evoke a different way of knowing their Country and its extraordinary range of physical features, biodiverse habitats, ecosystems and climates. It is a way of knowing — a knowledge system — informed by the Ancestors.”  

| Venue | Blak Box, Royal Botanic Gardens |
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| Dates | Thu 6 May—Sat 5 June, Mon—Thu, 6PM and 7.15PM; Fri and Sat, 6PM, 7.15PM, 8.30PM |
| Duration| 50 minutes |
| Price | $29 + booking fee |
| Notes | As *SEASONS in Blak Box* is a deep listening experience, once the performance begins there is a complete lock out. Audience who leave the experience cannot re-enter. Low light venue. Closed Sundays. |

Event Information

Please meet at the Royal Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre.

ACCESSIBLE PARKING

Accessible car parking is available at several points around the Garden. Parking is also available in the Federation Square Car Park which is open 24hrs and has accessible spaces located next to the lift on each level.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Nearest accessible train station: Flinders Street Station, opposite Federation Square, services all metro train lines.

Nearest accessible tram stop: Stop 13 - Federation square/Swanston Street.

DISTANCE COVERED BY PARTICIPANT

Under 200m.

ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE

All areas of the Melbourne Gardens are accessible by walker and wheelchair excluding the Melbourne Observatory buildings due to their historically narrow entrances.

ACCESSIBLE BATHROOMS

Accessible bathroom locations are available via this map: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/RBGV_Melb_Map_Board_MAP_A3_ST10_OL.pdf

DOG SPENDING/REST AREAS

Multiple areas available within the parklands.

INTRA SITE TRANSPORT

Melbourne Gardens provides wheelchairs at the Visitor Centre and The Terrace Cafe.  Wheelchairs are available 9am–5pm daily.  For bookings call +61 3 9252 2429.

For further detailed accessibility information about the Royal Botanic Gardens, visit: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/visit-melbourne/plan-your-visit/accessibility

Venue Access

We are working with the Victorian Government and the Department of Health to deliver a COVID-Safe event for visitors, artists and staff. Find out what we're doing [here](https://rising.melbourne/covid-safe).

COVID-Safe Information

Curator: Daniel Browning 

Architect: Kevin O’Brien 

Lighting Designer: Karen Norris 

Composer: James Henry 

Key Artists: 

N'arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM 

Isobel Morphy-Walsh 

Aunty Joy Murphy AO 

Justice Nelson 

Contributing Artists: 

Mandy Nicholson 

Fay Stewart-Muir 

Production Manager: Julie Blyth 

Sound Engineer: Jack Prest 

Sound Recordist and Engineer: Darius Kedros 

Artistic team

Yirramboi

Royal Botanic Gardens

*SEASONS in Blak Box* was originally commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with support from Australia Council for the Arts and City of Melbourne. 

Supporters

Spring, summer, autumn and winter are often spoken about as immutable facts of nature. Just like the 24-hour clock and the Roman calendar, the four seasons are colonial imports, rigid measures of time forced on a constantly changing landscape—a place experienced and interpreted very differently by this land’s First Peoples.  

*SEASONS in Blak Box* takes you into an award-winning sound pavilion designed by architect Kevin O’Brien, where you’re invited to engage in deep listening—a First Peoples concept that acknowledges silence and in-between spaces, as much as the stories which contain them.  

Aided by subtly shifting light and music, Aboriginal broadcaster and journalist Daniel Browning curates the stories, language and anecdotes from six First Peoples women artists and elders—N'arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM, Isobel Morphy-Walsh, Aunty Joy Murphy AO, Justice Nelson, Fay Stewart-Muir and Mandy Nicholson. Through scientific examinations of biological wonders and poetic interpretations of a ceaselessly changing world, you’ll connect with Country from a First Peoples perspective. 

Local First Peoples artists and elders share their experience and knowledge of the changing landscape. It’ll reshape the four seasons as you know them.

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