Theatre

FARMING IS FOREVER

Environmental Performance Lecture.

$37.00
Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website
A person wearing a white chemical spray-suit and speed dealer sun glasses is lying down and posing confidently in front of a vegetable growing out of a glass beaker, while holding a hand held chemical spray gun. The image backdrop is a sea of corn kernels.
Past Event

Image Credit: Harry McGee

  • Created and Performed by: Brooke Arblaster

  • Directed by: Harry McGee

  • Outside Eye: Cheryn Frost

Please note: Melbourne Fringe’s ticket allocation is exhausted, for tickets visit the Butterfly Club website.

A horticultural industry insider delivers a performance lecture/psychedelic brain fart attempting to demystify man-made ecocide through farming heaps of food for heaps of people.

After beginning a career in the Australian horticultural industry with the intent of earning income through ethical work, Brooke Arblaster learnt about the horrific reality of how modern agricultural practices deplete life from the Earth's soil at alarming rates and how these processes came to fruition by the Green Revolution of the 1960's.

Reflecting on the health of Australian soil, and our attitudes towards it, the show is pretty silly, and a bit sad, but isn't everything these days.

Let's come together for a late night loungeroom session of understanding food production.

  • Duration: 50 minutes

  • Age suitability: M

  • Event warnings: Strong Coarse Language, Sustained Loud Noises.

  • Content warnings: Self Harm Or Suicide, War, Mental Health, Ecocide.

  • The Butterfly Club - Downstairs
    5 Carson Pl, Melbourne CBD, VIC, 3000

    This venue is not wheelchair accessible and there is no step-free access to this venue as there are steps throughout.

    There is no reserved parking for permit holders, though there are plenty of commercial carparks nearby.

    There is no accessible toilet at this venue.

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  • Full: $37.00

  • Concession: $33.00

  • Group 6+: $30.00

  • Blak Tix: $0.00

Sessions: In Person Events

Date Time Venue

Monday, 16 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Thursday, 19 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Friday, 20 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Saturday, 21 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

Sunday, 22 October 2023

10:00pm

The Butterfly Club - Downstairs

 Fringe allocation exhausted – see venue website

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