The new generation in Australian art. The biennial Next Wave Festival provides a platform for emerging artists taking creative risks, with a program committed to diversity, sustainability and inclusion. Next Wave Collective is a two-year program, where an intimate group of supporters experience Next Wave's unique festival cycle from the inside. Next Wave is the most comprehensive platform in Australia for a new generation of artists taking creative risks. Next Wave produces unparalleled learning programs and a biennial festival, which reflect a commitment to social and cultural diversity, environmental sustainability and inclusion. Next Wave Festival 2018 Festival Opening Party Presented by Archie Rose 3 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute Ritual 3-20 May Next Wave Nights Presented by Mountain Goat 3-20 May Crunch Time Counterpilot 3-12 May SEER House of Vnholy 3-8 May, Main Theatre, Darebin Arts Centre Bloodlines Sancintya Mohini Simpson 3-20 May Daydreamer Wolf Elyas Alavi 3-20 May Not Good Place Josh Muir, Adam Ridgeway 3-20 May, Blak Dot Gallery and Testing Grounds tracing transcendence Shireen Taweel 4 May - 16 June, The SUBSTATION Endless Romantica Field Theory 5-6 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute On the Border of Things (Part Two) James Nguyen, Nguyen Cong Ai 4-20 May, Various Deep Water Dream Girl Athena Thebus 5-20 May, Testing Grounds Wayfind Amelia Winata 5-20 May, Emely Baker Building, Edinburgh Gardens PRECOG Sezzo Snot, Makeda Zucco 6 May, The Tote Hotel Estrogenesis Embittered Swish 8-13 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute M/other Land Roberta Rich 8-12 May, Arts House Lifestyle of the Richard and Family Harriet Gillies 8-13 May, The Stables, Meat Market Victorian Theatre Forum 2018 9 May, Arts Centre Melbourne I am a... Luke Duncan King 9 May - 12 June, Bus Projects Baby Cake Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez, Kerensa Diball 9-13 May, Studio 2, Northcote Town Hall Exhale Black Birds 9-12 May, Arts House salt. Selina Thompson 9-12 May, Arts House Lady Example Slown, Smallened & Son 9-13 May, The SUBSTATION Wild Tongue Vol. 2 - How Should an Artist Be? Timmah Ball, Azja Kulpińska 9-19 May, Southbank Library at Boyd Community Hub Bureau of Meteoranxiety Olivia Tartaglia, Alex Tate 10-19 May, BLINDSIDE Jupiter Orbiting Joshua Pether 10-13 May, Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall Canine Choreography Danielle Reynolds 11-12 May, Testing Grounds Great Movements of Feeling Zara Sigglekow 11 May - 16 June, Gertrude Contemporary Kickstart Helix Information Sessions 12 & 19 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute and Testing Grounds SANKOFA the love vibration Sista Zai Zanda 12 May, Arts House Apokalypsis Zak Pidd, Charles Purcell 16-20 May, The SUBSTATION Future City Inflatable Ellen Davies, Alice Heyward 16-20 May, Industrial School, Abbotsford Convent mi:wi Taree Sansbury 16-20 May, Main Hall, Northcote Town Hall Shimmer of the Numinous Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Jen Ritchie-Jones 16-19 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute Intestine in my eye Rosie Isaac 16-18 May, The Supreme Court Library Precinct B-SIDES Athena Thebus 19 May, Testing Grounds BARRIO// BARYO SOUND SYSTEM Caroline Garcia, Lucreccia Quintanilla 20 May, Brunswick Mechanics Institute Acknowledgement Of Country Next Wave is grateful to the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation on whose unceded country our festival takes place. We extend our deepest respects to all Elders: past, present and emerging. For 60,000 years, generations of Kulin peoples have carried a cultural and creative continuum which is intimately connected to the people, lands and waters of Melbourne. It is with this spirit we gather to dance, talk, sing, write, share and celebrate in this place that always was and always will be Aboriginal land.