SPLENDOUR 2019
Splendour Forum, Science Tent
& Comedy Club!
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Smash through more podcasts than coffees on the daily commute? Dissect Facebook comments quicker than you can say ‘Zuckerberg?’ Hold onto your train driver hats, because Splendour Forum returns for its tenth year of boundary-pushing and thought-provoking realness in 2019!
Take a seat in The Forum and prepare to rest and digest on some big ideas from big names from all walks of life. Step into the dark world of tech dystopia with Dr Karl, Brenna Harding and Dr Niels Wouters, hear from a powerful Indigenous panel on creating a way forward to empower First Nations People, catch Marc Fennell as he delves deep into the lives of some of the world’s most interesting performers or put your feet up during a screening of Mystify: Michael Hutchence. It’s all going down at The Forum!
SPLENDOUR FORUM PROGRAM
FRIDAY
10:00-11:30am Black Mirror x Biometric Mirror
Step into the dark world of tech dystopia, where the fiction of Black Mirror meets the real-world Biometric Mirror. Dr Niels Wouters’ creepy creation will read your face – and tell you scary things about yourself using AI. Are you trustworthy? Weird? Actress Brenna Harding will also tell us about working on the world’s most cutting-edge sci fi anthology. Then the Biometric Mirror will read hers live on stage!
12:30-2:00pm Panel: TREATY
Indigenous voices including artist DRMNGNOW (Australia Does Not Exist), model and poet Lala Bayles, academic Dr Chelsea Bond and NITV journalists Rachael Hocking and Danny Teece Johnson come together in a powerful panel of performance and discussion, creating a compelling vision of a way forward to empower First Nations People. A way forward that could ultimately benefit all those who live on this land.
2:30-4:00pm Panel: The Pin x APRA AMCOS present: The Power of Enough
The Pin, a website centred on conversations around race, identity, and culture, investigates the turning point for Thandi Phoenix, DRMNGNOW, Jennifer Loveless and Sosefina Fuamoli fascinating and powerful women who have tackled colourism, womanhood, indigeneity, class and the creative industry. Hosted by Nkechi Anele and Lucie Cutting, find out where they draw inspiration from, how they’ve grown, the challenges they have overcome, and what they hope to find in the future.
SATURDAY
10:00-11:30am Panel: The Future of Jobs in an AI World
Software is replacing humans at a faster pace than our lifestyles can adjust. While algorithms eat our jobs, how do we know what’s worth studying and whether key jobs of the future have even been invented yet? Our panel of experts including Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Professor Uwe Aickelin, Professor Jeannie Paterson tell us what the jobs of the future will look like, whether labour rights will exist any longer and how to avoid studying for jobs of the past.
12:30-2:00pm Hypothetical: Is it Environmentally Responsible To Be Human? With Professor Peter Singer, Adam Spencer, Damon Gameau, Gareth Liddiard and more.
Amid ongoing global inaction to curb human-driven climate change – humanity faces an existential crisis. Voluntary human extinction movements are gaining mainstream traction, with proponents voluntarily ceasing to breed in efforts to allow Earth’s biosphere to recover. Philosophers, environmentalists, artists and experts come together to negotiate philosophical outlooks, influence action and maintain progress in the thick of the climate crisis we face.
2:30-4:00pm Marc Fennell Meets…
SBS The Feed’s Marc Fennell interviews three of the world’s most interesting performers live on stage. Last year it was Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand, Henry Rollins and Lauren Mayberry from CHVRCHES. This year Courtney Barnett, Jacob Banks, Allday and Will Connolly (#EggBoy) open up about their lives, music and the issues that matter to them.
SUNDAY
10:00-11:30am WOKE BLOKES
Including: Associate Professor Michael Flood, Katrina Irawati Graham, Rhett McLaren and Nick & Stu from SET MO.
A panel of experts in behavioural psychology and bystander training alongside successful artists and leaders of industry desiring active change will discuss how men can help facilitate equality, safety and inclusive spaces for women, and leave the audience with some positive actions and perspectives to take back in to their own lives during and after the festival.
12:30-2:00pm Q&A with Emma Alberici
Experience democracy live in action when ABC presenter Emma Alberici is joined by Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Senator Peter Whish-Wilson (Greens), as well as Dr David Caldicott (harm-minimisation and pill-testing advocate) & Will Connolly (aka #Eggboy) to thrash out the big issues of today.
2:30-4:00pm Film: Mystify: Michael Hutchence.
11.30-12pm: That Movie Guy Marc Fennell in conversation with Mystify director Richard Lowenstein
THE SCIENCE TENT
Why do enzymes make the best DJs? Because they always break it down. Get in your element at the Science Tent and witness awesome presenters and real time experiments unleash more than just daggy science puns!
Back for round three in 2019, The Science Tent will bring all of the awesome interactive experiences, totally engrossing talks, and other cool shit to Splendour across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Be prepared to dive deep into the science of a shoey, take a trip into Dr Karl’s brain, learn how Instagram shapes our sense of self, how we can unf*ck the planet and heaps more!
Here’s a taste!
Science of a Shoey
Quill Darby Fizzics Education
We all get carried away sometimes. But what are these viral videos doing for our health? We take a look at The Shoey. We’ve all done it. What could possibly go wrong? Dive in feet first to uncover the history of this trend and explore the hygiene of your shoe-shaped drinking vessel. Is there a best beverage type or temperature for your shoey? And of course, let’s grow some of your very own shoe bacteria that you can come back and hang with over the festival weekend.
Dr Karl’s Science Trip
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Dr Karl will take you on a rollercoaster ride through science! He will discuss why A2 milk and alkaline diets are a huge con, how the map of the 4 tastes on the human tongue is a lie, how each of us is just 91% frozen energy (man), how the human race nearly got wiped out on Halloween 2015, it’s not just global warming but ships that make the ocean level rise, and answers the big one – do fish drink water?
SPLENDOUR COMEDY CLUB
Between the bands, beers and Bunsen burners, make your way to Splendour’s giggle-inducing institution, The Comedy Club!
Renowned for bringing debaucherously funny humans to The Forum tent each year, Splendour Comedy Club will be dishing up lols left, right and centre From Thursday to Sunday evening.
Taking the helm is the hilariously honest Luke McGregor, Legally Brown star and Netflix mainstay Nazeem Hussain, triple j legend and sassy stand-up queen Gen Fricker, and Splendour veteran, ARIA award winner and one of Australia’s favourite comedians Matt Okine!
Thursday: Michael Hing, Matt Okine, Melanie Bracewell, & more!
Friday: Luke McGregor, Melanie Bracewell, Aaron Gocs, Jess Perkins & more!
Saturday: Nazeem Hussain, Gen Fricker, Luke McGregor, Matt Okine & more!
Sunday: Nazeem Hussain, Gen Fricker, Aaron Gocs & more!
Keen for shits ‘n giggles but missed out on a ticket to Splendour? Check out Splendour’s Resale Facility. Tickets are available now.
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CHANCE THE RAPPER · TAME IMPALA · CHILDISH GAMBINO · SZA
FOALS · CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN · JAMES BLAKE · SANTIGOLD (EXCLUSIVE) · THE LUMINEERS · THE STREETS · RUSS · WHAT SO NOT · COURTNEY BARNETT · WARPAINT · OCEAN ALLEY · MATT CORBY · WOLF ALICE · FRIENDLY FIRES · BROODS · DEAN LEWIS · FIDLAR · COSMO’S MIDNIGHT · MEG MAC · ZIGGY ALBERTS ·
HAYDEN JAMES · DAVE · DOPE LEMON · DERMOT KENNEDY · ALLDAY & FRIENDS · LITTLE SIMZ · THE RUBENS · MARIBOU STATE · WINSTON SURFSHIRT · TYCHO · POND · THE TESKEY BROTHERS · JACOB BANKS · WOLFMOTHER · TROPICAL F*CK STORM · KYLE HALL · LOCAL NATIVES · MANSIONAIR · ODETTE · RUBY FIELDS · MIKE SERVITO · LAST DINOSAURS · THELMA PLUM · TROPHY EYES · HARVEY SUTHERLAND (DJ SET) · K.FLAY · SAM FENDER · SLAVES (EXCLUSIVE) · PUB CHOIR · SEB WILDBLOOD ·
THE BETHS · SET MO · HATCHIE · HONNE · KWAME · THE NUDE PARTY · NATHAN MICAY · SLOWLY SLOWLY · PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS · KIAN · KENJI TAKIMI ·
DEAR SEATTLE · CHARLY BLISS · KAIIT · PHONY PPL · A SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS ·
THE MIDNIGHT · CHANNEL TRES · PIST IDIOTS · MORMOR · SUZANNE KRAFT · ERTHLINGS · TELEPHONES · MOANING LISA · THANDI PHOENIX · DJ NETT ·
WAX’O PARADISO · ANDY GARVEY · TYNE-JAMES ORGAN · LASTLINGS · MERVE · JENNIFER LOVELESS · NOISE IN MY HEAD · SKIN ON SKIN · REBEL YELL ·
TRIPLE J UNEARTHED WINNERS. PLUS NINAJIRACHI · BODY PROMISE ·
DONALD’S HOUSE · CASUAL CONNECTION · DJ KLASIK · CLOSE COUNTERS (DJ SET) · MERPH · DAMEEEELA · LEX DELUXE
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SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS 2019
Friday 19 July, Saturday 20 July and Sunday 21 July
North Byron Parklands
Tweed Valley Way, Wooyung (15 mins north of Byron Bay)
splendourinthegrass.com
Proudly supported by triple j.
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