The Listening Lounge returns again in 2022 as part of Bunbury Fringe, offering a collective listening experience inside the South West Women's Health Clinic Saturday, and Fringe Gardens on Sunday. Facilitated by key project artist, Margot Edwards.
The audio installation runs for 1.5-hour sessions including 45 mins deep listening to the three audio story versions and an essential 45 mins allowed for shared or private reflection and discussion.
Please note two venues are hosting this event, see below info for separate ticketing links.
Session 1
South West Women’s Health Centre
Saturday, 22 Jan at 10.30am
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bunbury-fringe-the-wilding-stories-1030am-session-tickets-227383017727
Session 2
South West Women’s Health Centre
Saturday, 22 Jan at 1.30 pm
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bunbury-fringe-the-wildings-130pm-session-tickets-227391723767
Session 3 & 4
Lotus Space @ Bunbury Fringe Gardens
Sunday, 23 Jan Sunday at 11am and 1pm
🎟 https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bunburyfringe/616615#
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More about this event
Capture three versions of a magnificent yet harrowing tale of hope… The session is hosted by Margot Edwards from Margaret River.
A lament in the Celtic tradition; a powerhouse call from ancient Indigenous women's business; a melodic ballad for the soul. Each Wilding story contains fragments of many women's stories, across diverse cultures, retold in many women's voices.
The Wilding is an original modern folktale of two sisters - The Hearth Sister and The Wild One - standing together to overpower a demonic father; enacting liberation from despair; saying 'no more' to all forms of violence and abuse against women in their homes, their workplaces and in the wider world.
It is also a tale of reconnection, of harnessing the aspects of self, with recognising that none of us need be alone, with reaching out to call in what we need, with navigating the rocky wild terrain of change.
And it is a story of surrender, of releasing intergenerational trauma; of liberating our children, of honouring a mother's sacrifices, of daughters acknowledging and respecting their differences and their common ground, of duality in life and death, of reflection on the pain and beauty of our mother's passing.
Drawn from collective threads and woven through the lens of magic realism, The Wilding Stories allows space for women to reflect on being women, together. And behind the tale of witches and weeds and brewing discontent, lies a powerful metaphor from Mother Earth.