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Live comic/musical performance by Joshua Santospirito & Natalya Bing
June 28, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ACST
https://www.wildnorthcomics.com/joshuasantospirito
++tickets also available at the door++
The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors is a 50 minute performance with storyteller / graphic novelist Joshua Santospirito and Colombian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing. Using art, live storytelling and live music: the recipe for this performance is created using one part theatre, and one part comic strip.
Joshua explores the Aeolian Islands in Italy trying to discover why his ancestors left, migrating to Australia. Joshua and his parents search for his great great grandfather’s resting place whilst Joshua tries desperately to not to lose his cool with them. He explores stories of humans travelling across time and space, family migration, discusses modern Australian mixed identities, argues with ancient gods and dreams of psychopathic flameball gum trees. A warm and philosophical mix of memories, mythologies and family gossip.
Created from the new graphic novel The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors, this story is a continuation of Joshua’s exploration of how our stories are embedded in the world around us: an exploration that began with his award-winning first graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs in 2013.