Smile!

Here's a clip of us performing Smile at the Diversity Rocks Festival in Geelong! You can see more of our videos on the Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra YouTube channel.

Diversity Rocks Inclusive Music Festival

Want to see Melbourne's best disabled musicians all in the one day? Then head down to Geelong for the Diversity Rocks Inclusive Music Festival. It's going to be a great day, we'll be joined by legends of the Australian music scene, Rudely Interrupted, stalwarts of the disability music scene The Hackkets, as well as The Rockheads, The Sugar Bells, DJ Vinnie and Zane McKenzie.

You can also get involved and make your own groove at the music workshops happening throughout the day.

Event: Diversity Rocks Inclusive Music Festival

Where: Courthouse Youth Arts, 60 Little Malop St, Geelong. (Wheelchair Accessible).

When: Saturday 27 October, 1-7pm.

Bookings: Tickets are free, but you need to book in advance.

Rudely Interrupted headline the Diversity Rocks inclusive music festival.
Image Description: Four men, band members of Rudely Interrupted, stand in front of a red background. They are all wearing sunglasses. Lead singer Rory wears a white shirt while the rest of the band wears red.

Celebrating Disability Pride at the University of Melbourne

Join us for a celebration of Disability Pride hosted by the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Law & Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It's going to be a fabulous afternoon of entertainment hosted by the one and only Jax Jacki Brown and featuring Quippings performers Erin Kyan and  Kochava Lilit, author Yvonne Fein and Geelong's finest all-abilities rock band, The Rockheads.

Event: Celebrating Disability Pride at the University of Melbourne

Where: Grant Street Theatre, Grant St, Southbank, Victoria

When: 4pm-6.30pm Friday 18 May 2018

Tickets: Tickets are free but you must register at the link below

Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-disability-pride-at-the-university-of-melbourne-tickets-44833655671

Access: Wheelchair accessible.

Quippings Criptopia - Fabulously Disabled Cabaret

For the Quippings crew, Criptopia is a red light district, featuring diverse, different, disabled, non-normative people on display, doing unusual things...

Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra did our first gig, many years ago, on the Quippings stage. Now we're back to perform with our favourite group of freaks and weirdos. Quippings is Melbourne's wildest all-disabled cabaret, and this season takes us into their home territory: Criptopia, the stomping ground for all that is fabulously different and diverse. Quippings Criptopia stars and is directed by comedic legend Sue-Ann Post and features Emma J Hawkins, Kath Duncan, Carly Findlay, Sugar St Claire and Rowan White.

Please note: Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra will only be playing on 17th and 25th September, but all of the shows feature fabulous acts.

*** This show is not appropriate for children ***

Event: Quippings Criptopia

Where: Richmond Theatrette, Upstairs, 415 Church St Richmond

When: Sat 17th Sept Opening night 730pm-830pm

Sunday 18th Sept 5pm-6pm

Sat 24th Sept - AUSLAN INTERPRETED SHOW 730pm-830pm

Sunday 25th Sept Closing Night 5pm-6pm

*** Bearbrass will only be performing on Sat 17th and Sun 25th September ***

Tickets: $15

Bookings: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/42026

More Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1570860679882971/?active_tab=highlights

Access: Wheelchair accessible. Auslan interpreter on Sat 24th September.

The Cast of Quippings Criptopia
Image Description: A group of people with various disabilities sit and stand in rows against a black background. They are dressed as if they are visiting a red light district. Below them are the words Quippings Criptopia.

Enunciations - Starring Jess Kapuscinski-Evans

Our gorgeous lead singer, Jess Kapuscinski-Evans will be starring in a new play called Enunciations by Raspberry Ripple Productions.

Have you ever felt that you don't belong? Ever told anyone?

In Raspberry Ripple's first show, eloquent words - and some not so eloquent! - will be spoken by disabled and able-bodied performers to the the 21st century story of being in the soup together.

Classic text will tug at your heart strings, new words discomfort you, both will make you fall off your seat with laughter and re-evaluate living in an ableist world. A discombobulation of thought, mind and matter!

Written and directed by Kate Hood.

Event: Enunciations
Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray
When: 7pm, Friday 19 August and Saturday 20 August. 2pm Sunday 21 August
Tickets: $25/$20
Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/211033
More Information: http://footscrayarts.com/event/enunciations
Access: Wheelchair accessible, for more details email: raspberryrippleproductions@gmail.com

Enunciations starring our lead singer Jess.
Image description: A young woman with glasses sits in a manual wheelchair. She has a baby's pacifier in her mouth and is starring directly at the camera. The word enunciations appears behind her in shiny red lights.

Let's Talk About Sex!

We love talking about sex, it's one of our favourite topics, but not everyone has equal access to a quality sex education. Come and join us for a half-day forum on sex and relationships for people with intellectual disabilities and those that support them. It will be an entertaining and informative session, followed by refreshments and music (that's us).

Event: Let's Talk About Sex: Relationships and Sexuality Forum
Where: Maidstone Community Centre, 21 Yardley St Maidstone
When: Friday 17 June, 1.45pm to 6pm.
Tickets: Free, but you must register your attendance.
Access: To discuss your access requirements contact Jess Smart, Health Promotion Officer, Cohealth: 9680-1136 or jess.smart@cohealth.org.au 
For More Information or to Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lets-talk-about-sex-relationships-and-sexuality-forum-tickets-25364169915

Yarra Valley Music Festival - Sunday 24 April

Bearbrass is going to be performing at the first ever Yarra Valley Music Festival. It'll be a whole day of music and market fun at the Yarra Junction Oval.There'll be food and market stalls, a bar, jumping castles and heaps of activities for the kids. Other acts include The Flaming Moes, Joel James and Alazarin Tribal Belly Dance. If you're very lucky we might even show off our own bellies.

Event: Yarra Valley Music Festival
Date and Time: Sunday 24 April, 12.30pm-9.30pm (Bearbrass plays 1pm-1.30pm)
Venue: Yarra Junction Oval, 1 Park St Yarra Junction (Note: this is an outdoor gig).
Tickets: http://www.trybooking.com/185548 or http://www.trybooking.com/KOMM (tickets also available at the gate may be more expensive)
Kids under 11: FREE
11-15 yrs: $10
16+ yrs: $18
Concession/Senior: $15
Family (2 adults, 2 kids): $45
More Information: https://www.facebook.com/theyarravalleymusicfestival/

The Yarra Valley Music Festival: 24 April 2016

PAVE Festival - Saturday 16 April

Come and see us strut our stuff at Emerald's PAVE Festival. Emerald is a beautiful little town situated at the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges and the PAVE Festival features some of the hills finest performing and visual artists. We'll be performing thanks to a brand new ramp built especially for us by the Emerald Men's Shed!

Event: Music at the Cave, PAVE Festival
Date and Time: Saturday 16 April, 2pm
Venue: Men's Shed, Main rd, Emerald
Website: http://www.pave.org.au/

Pave Festival - 10-17 April 2016, info@pave.org.au

Star in Our New Music Video!

We're making a new music video and we want you to star in it! We are currently looking for actors and extras, with and without disabilities to star in our new music video. No experience necessary, you just need to be in Melbourne in August. We're still finalising the venue, but it will be wheelchair accessible.

For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/452313678264952/
Or contact Jess: inmates@bearbrassasylumorchestra.com or 0403899023

Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra perforing You Can't Save Everybody

Bearbrass on TV!

Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra will be making their very first television appearance on No Limits on Channel 31 at 9pm on Friday 2nd January 2015. No Limits is an institution in Australian disability culture, and features all the latest news, views and events from the disability world. This episode features footage from the Quippings Freaktastic Fringe Show and will include the band playing One of Us, the awesome poetry of Andy Jackson and stand up comedy from Jarrod Marrinon. If you miss it, don't worry, it will be repeated at 11pm on Wednesday 7 January or you can catch up online: http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/no-limits

Bearbrass performing at Quippings Freaktastic Fringe Show. The performance will be featured on No Limits on 2 January.