This Week Wednesday 6 July – Hybrid Lunch Meeting
Guest Speaker: Hon Heidi Victoria, Former Arts Minister, Photographer
Time/Venue: 12.30 for 12.50-1400 - Lunch - @ Sofitel No35 and Zoom
Topic ‘The Show Must Go On’
Chairman David Kram
Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-6-july
During covid, Hon Heidi Victoria BA, a professional photographer, interviewed and photographed seventy artists from across the visual and performing arts sectors and produced a coffee-table book “The Show must go on – What the performing arts were doing when they weren’t doing what they know they do”.
Throughout the ages, the world has been hit hard by global pandemics - The Plague, the Spanish Flu, and now COVID-19. The performing arts are usually the first to be shut down and often the last to be allowed to start back up again. Yet creativity, critical awareness of the human condition and comic relief are perhaps needed more than anything in times such as these. As Heidi photographed each person for this book, she learned more about the industry and what makes it so unique. The people who work within the performing arts industry are resilient by nature and many of them have re-invented themselves and their income streams, passing time until the magic is allowed to happen again.These are their stories.
Partners and invited guests are welcome to attend.
