(fka) Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music

Surprise! Our next gig ‘After Nick’ is in two weeks, a very special durational performance by Patrick Gunasekera with @bennbuchanann 💚 it will be a slow soft folky pot-luck arts & crafts type affair ~ a community gathering and witnessing and listening all together 🌱 Detailed access information to come, but for now, keep it free and get excited 🦦 dropping in is encouraged, and we’d love to see you there whether it’s for ten minutes or the full seven hours (with the full run time being inclusive of regular breaks!) cw: gentle conversations about youth s*icide through a nuanced, informed and respectful lens, and comfortable disclosures of participating artists’ connections with this subject ~~~ Nick Drake (1948 – 1974) was an influential English folk singer, whose music conveyed an oft-stigmatised world of loneliness, confusion, pain and awe. Drake passed away when he was 26, and his experiences with mental illness and s*icide still resonate with many today. In After Nick, interdisciplinary artist Patrick Gunasekera and cellist Ben Buchanan will perform Drake’s treasured song “River Man” 26 times, alongside 26 improvisations inspired by the musicians’ own voices at the age represented by the repeat number. Woven into these cycles are excerpts of recorded conversations with Gunasekera’s close friends – digressing earnestly on Drake’s life and work through contemporary perspectives of s*icide ideation recovery and grassroots cultural change. Performed at the tail end of Gunasekera’s 26th year, this quietly powerful durational performance asks what it means to be living beyond the age Drake died, and what it requires of communities to create spaces where s*icide is prevented through safety and belonging being the norm for all bodies. ~~~ Poster mostly by @one2.2four with contributions from @saskia.robin , featuring a self portrait by Patrick

WWIM began in 2023 as a festival of first meeting plays, curated by @one2.2four and @saskia.robin with significant mentorship by Josten Myburgh, and generous support from @ps.artspace . We’ve evolved a bit since then. We’re definitely still into improvised and exploratory music, and our spiritual home is certainly the Walyalup area, but we are no longer the Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music tm. We’re still working out what exactly it is we’re doing, but young people, emerging artists, interdisciplinary making, and community are at the heart. Going forward, we are WWIM; a strange word, leaning heavily into whimsy and weirdness, but not an acronym or tied to a specific place ❤️ PS our team has evolved too, with @naoko.uemoto , @realjanestark and @razosukardi now being permanent fixtures !!

@wwimfest x @makeshiftevenings through the eyes and lens of @apurvaxgupta 🧡 We are so grateful to everyone who came, and to Apurva for capturing some of the magic that happened + the love and warmth which was in the air 🥹 what a beautiful special joyful silly night !!! Huuuge thanks to @ps.artspace for generously hosting us, sometimes you just need to dance and run and sing around a warehouse with friends old and new, and you could not ask for a better spot 😎✨🌙

pleasure to be hosting this one on Sunday in collab with @wwimfest before @naoko.uemoto leaves town ! ▁⛥⌒* ﾟ.・゜・。. sparkly duos // candlelit // mess sound @naoko.uemoto @katekinsella @__leacher__ @ppaypaypaypay @kelseyrere @lake.tess @larafay_ also @gianni.rps and @justinelwalsh jumping in 🪽 🖤 entry free 🖤 drinks & studio works for sale 🖤 ▁⛥⌒* ﾟ.・゜・。. 🖤 accessible space, reach out for info 🖤 ▁⛥⌒* ﾟ.・゜・。.

Normalising tent gigs one WWIM event at a time. This one was particularly full of unhinged musical moments, ROFLs and whimsy visuals. 🐟🐠 See you at our next silly gathering ! 🪸👁️‍🗨️

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Next Sunday we are doing an experiment, and you are invited to it 👀🫵🎪 If, for some reason, you are not going to Laneway, and are interested in coming to a house gig/ open mic night/ hang out/ Certified Good Time in Walyalup, we would love to see you there ❤️ Confirmed: silly (awesome) DJing, improvising around folk music, sound responsive animations projected onto a tent Highly likely: a jammy band set, some standup comedy, sad piano songs, DIY 2010 pop hits electronic remixes made on the spot… Entry is free, please byo food and drink, and be respectful of the house. RSVP is essential (that is how you will get the address, but also how we will know what gear we need, and how to make it the best hang/jam/ open mic night/ experiment/ ??? that it can be ☺️) RSVP/ sign up in bio, and feel free to dm us with any questions. * this is going to be a chill and wholesome event, but we reserve the right to ask people to leave and/or refuse entry to people who the hosts or wwim team believe might change that up Poster by @fisher_creative_ 🎷🐠

photos of our last event by the so very incredible, @stirlingkain ! so much gratitude to @anniikamoses and @alicesounds for guiding us through such a beautiful evening we are real big fans of @wwimfest x @makeshiftevenings and everyone that gathers to make us what we are. big big thank u to everyone that came through to share space and tune in to eachother wwim ❤️ makeshift 4eva

MEET OUR LEADER.... spotlight on the iconic Annika Moses, our second workshop leader Only TWO more sleeps, until our final workshop and performance collab between WWIM and Make-Shift Evenings for the year Join the workshop FOR FREE Stay for the show and eat cake! RSVP in bio ---- Annika says 'Every musician has a body, though Western music has spent centuries trying to obscure this fact, and every movement artist makes sound. Since the beginning of my improv practice in 2016, I have been curious about the ways musicians and movement artists can get slippery with those labels, cultivating curiosity in the between-space that is neither Sound nor Dance but something more like Listen.' Annika lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land she also likes to write, play, listen, and sew. Annika contributes to the musical projects Nika Mo, Great Statue, Didion's Bible and Lyndon Blue, and is co-director of Boorloo-based exploratory music or Tone List. She has developed a practice of improvisation alongside sound-makers and movers since 2018. ---- Graphics by the talented @one2.2four

It's time to... MEET OUR LEADERS... We're only three more sleeps away from wwimake-shift, coming up THIS FRIDAY Here's some more info about our brilliant workshop leader, Alice Cummins. If you haven't already, sign up for our e-newsletter to stay up-to-date and get more info about our events like this! ---- AliceC says ‘Through my love and commitment to improvisation, I am interested in cultivating practices that shift, transform and elucidate states of moving and being.’ Alice is an interdisciplinary artist, working in dance, film, performance and installation, with a 40 year history of contemporary performance making. She is a provocative and versatile performer whose enduring aesthetic enquiry into the moving body creates work that interrogates and disrupts social and cultural narratives. The materiality of her work emerges from an attention to inner and outer worlds, inviting an intimacy with the body and place, wrestling an entwinement of personal/artistic, colonial and planetary histories. Alice has been an educator and mentor to a generation of Australian artists, influencing diverse disciplines of dance, theatre, writing, sound, visual art, sculpture and film making. Since returning to Boorloo/Perth in 2022 she has been actively engaged with STRUT Dance teaching and mentoring young and mid-career artists. Her most recent work terra first realised as performance, Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth (2024) and further film iterations by Cobie Orger with global distribution as a 3-channel 4K video installation and single channel HD video. ---- Graphics by the talented @one2.2four

Welcome ….. WWIMake-Shift! ~~ Making, co-posing, rupturing, overlapping, permeating, percolating …~~ Brought to you by Make-Shift and WWIM. This evening is a 2-hr long FREE workshop (RSVP in bio) facilitated by AliceC and Annika Moses for artists with a sound or movement practice and improvisational experience. At 7:30pm, an improvisational performance by workshop participants is open to the public, so bring your friends! THIS FRIDAY December 12th, Studio 1 Performance 7:30 pm, Studio 3 King Street Art Centre, Level 2 RSVP to the Workshop link in bio! Please note: • The studios are accessible from the Murray Street or King Street entrance and a lift/stairs to level 2. • Entry into the performance is by donation at a pay scale $ 5/10/15 at the door. The workshop is free. • Audience only permitted to watch the performance. There will be cake! --- Photos by the incredible @apurva.mov from our last WWIMake-Shift held at @ps.artspace

WWIMake-Shift is so back! Make-Shift and WWIM (fka Walyalup Weekend of Improvised Music) are collaborating! This is a 2 hr long improvisation workshop facilitated by AliceC (@alicehcummins ) and Annika Moses (@nikamomusic ), two very special local artists who will share their thoughts and expertise on sound and movement interplay and collaboration from an embodied understanding of improvising. Following this, at 7:30pm, is an open improv performance for workshop participants, OPEN to public viewing! spots limited PLS RSVP for the workshop! Link in our linktree DETAILS  Friday December 12th at King Street Arts Centre, Level 2 Workshop 4 pm - 6 pm, Studio 1 Dinner 6 pm - 7 pm *Set up in Studio 3 until 7:30 pm* Performance 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Studio Please note: this workshop is for people who have a dance or music practice and improvisational experience. … more coming … graphics by the spesh @one2.2four DM any questions or email us at [email protected]