From music in laneways to riverside soundscapes, Melbourne is set to transform by day and night when the 2024 RISING festival takes over the city from 1 –16 June.
This year’s program will heat things up this winter with more than 100 creative events featuring more than 480 artists.
RISING’s hub and nightly social club Night Trade, returns in 2024. This time sprawling across the network of laneways underneath the Capitol Theatre and connecting through to Howey Place.
First Peoples art and culture will take over Fed Square for The Blak Infinite, an expansive free exhibition and pubic program of film screenings and talks curated by Kimberley Moulton and Kate ten Buuren. The exhibition features work by esteemed First Peoples creatives such as Richard Bell, Tony Albert, Ellen Van Neervan and Kait James.
RISING's theatre, dance, and performance program features new commissions and world premieres, including: ILBIJERRI Theatre work celebrating the trailblazing rock ‘n’ roll group Warumpi Band; One Single Action, the latest dance work by Lucy Guerin Inc; ECLIPSE, a First Peoples future-forward drag show at Melbourne Town Hall and much more.
RISING’s contemporary music program will take over the CBD’s most iconic venues, weaving together a diverse mix of musical talents from across Australia and the globe.
Melbourne icons The Dirty Three will play their first hometown show in 14 years, Swedish electro-pop group Fever Ray play in Australia for the first time, and a host of other acts such as US pop star Sky Ferreira, Sydney’s drill masters OneFour, UK trance producer Evian Christ, and American indie-rock veterans Blonde Redhead.
Day Tripper is a one day music festival within the festival, running across an entire city block spanning Melbourne Town Hall, Capitol Theatre, Max Watt’s and laneways and streets in between.
Last year RISING attracted 488,000 people over 12 days to events, exhibitions, concerts and more.
RISING 2024 runs from 1 June – 16 June 2024, to book tickets and view the full program visit rising.melbourne