Still to come in 2012...

After our sell-out Adelaide Festival season of Malmo, the inspiring creative development of Farrugia and a huge Adhocracy 2013 involving ten project and forty artists, Vitals is gearing up for a massive second half of 2012.

The Vitals Book, Zine & Crafty Affair

Coming up this month is our annual fundraising event The Vitals Book, Zine & Crafty Affair. All the money raised helps us to continue to produce provocative and inspiring theatre and interdisciplinary arts projects at our heritage-listed venue Waterside.

You'll find more info about the Book Fair here

Vitalstatistix is currently seeking proposals for our 2013 Incubator residency program. Applications are sought from professional artists and creative teams seeking to develop new performance, live art or interdisciplinary art works.

Incubator residencies support the creative development and presentation of new work through partnerships with independent artists.  The residencies provide a highly sought after opportunity for creative development in a supportive producing environment.

Applications are due by 31^st August.

Download information and application instructions here

Download application cover form here

Read about current Incubator residencies here

Take Up Thy Bed and Walk

Presented by Vitalstatistix

Conceived by theatre designer and disability activist Gaelle Mellis, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk is a subversive new work about women, disability and fiction, drawing on portrayals of disabled women in 19^th century literature.

Classic fiction for girls used physical crippling to represent the passage into womanhood. Disability, female transgression and punishment were portrayed side by side; the moral of the story usually required the learning of submissive behaviours such as patience, cheerfulness, modesty & making the best of things. Unlike views about women, society’s understanding of disability has not changed greatly since these Victorian novels were penned.

Take Up Thy Bed and Walk ground breaks a new ‘aesthetically accessible’ performance experience through a new approach to design and dramaturgy that is simultaneously and seamlessly accessible to Deaf, blind, sighted and hearing audience. Presented in three parts (pre-story, story and anthem) Take Up Thy Bed and Walk will be an intelligent, beautiful, unsettling and humorous performance event.

Creative team: Gaelle Mellis, Ingrid Voorendt, Zoë Barry, Hilary Bell, Geoff Cobham, Joanna Dunbar, Emma J Hawkins, Kyra Kimpton, Michelle Ryan, Heath Britton, Jennifer Greer Holmes & Wendy Todd.

24^th October – 10^th November

Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

Twitter: #TakeUpThyBedandWalk #TakeUpThyBed