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WILD NORTH COMIC CON '24 & DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL presentsTHE ISLANDS WHERE WE LEFT OUR ANCESTORS - LIVE COMIC with spoken word and musical accompaniment.
Ftg. music by Joshua Santospirito & Natalya Bing
The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors explores the Aeolian Islands in Italy as artist and writer Joshua Santospirito tries to discover why his ancestors left, migrating to Australia. Joshua and his parents search for his great great grandfather's resting place whilst Joshua tries desperately to not to lose his cool with them. He explores stories of humans travelling across time and space, family migration, discusses modern Australian mixed identities, argues with ancient gods and dreams of psychopathic flameball gum trees. A warm and philosophical mix of memories, mythologies and family gossip.
The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors is a 50 minute performance with storyteller / graphic novelist Joshua Santospirito and Colombian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing. Using art, live storytelling and live music: the recipe for this performance is created using one part theatre, and one part comic strip. A live musical animatic, this story is a continuation of Joshua's exploration of how our stories are embedded in the world around us: an exploration that began with his award-winning first graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs in 2013.
ARTIST BIOS
Joshua Santospirito is a graphic novelist, multimedia artist and performer from Nipaluna/Hobart. His 2013 graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs won the NT Chief Ministers Non Fiction Book award. His third graphic novel about migration stories and trying not to lose your cool when travelling with your parents The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors is available across Australia from July through Scribe.
Natalya Bing is a Columbian/Australian violinist and multi instrumentalist based on the Tasman Peninsula who has performed at venues as diverse as the Sydney Opera House through to dive bars. She regularly performs in the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and in well-loved bands such as Warner Smith & Bancroft.
Joshua and Natalya have been performing and composing together under the name Bing/Santospirito since 2019. They were commissioned by Mona Foma to present their audio-visual improvisatory performance The Quoll at the festival (2021) and co-composed music for the theatre play ‘A Mouthful of C’s” (2023).
ABOUT WILD NORTH COMIC CON '24
The Wild North Comic Con celebrating all things comics culture. Featuring international, national and local comic creators, book launches, live audio-visual performances, artist alley, zine market, animations screening and workshops.
Discover the full program at: https://www.wildnorthcomics.com/comiccon24
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bustard Town, 17 Knuckey St, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia,Darwin, Northern Territory
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