FILM: Mood Ring (2024)
A love-letter to friendship and Fiji
The MOOD RING World Premiere has gotten so much bigger!
Join us from 6:30pm for a Fijian feast catered by Lomani Vale Events. Food will be served buffet-style, and is complimentary for all ticket-holders.
The theatre doors will open at 7:15pm for a film start time of 7:45pm.
At 9pm, following the film screening, Sereima Adimate, Director of ‘Mood Ring,’ will sit down for a 15 minute Q&A host by interdisciplinary artist Bhenji Ra.
And then stick around in the Casula Powerhouse Turbine Hall and mingle to the ambient sounds performance by ARIA Award–winning Fijian musician Joji Malani, who will play until 9:50pm.
We have just released more tickets for this premiere event, so feel free to spread the word!
This initiative is proudly supported by the NSW Government through the Culture Up Late Western Sydney program.
Mood Ring is a feature film by performance artist Sereima Adimate/Stelly G, Kiki Oner and Garden Reflexxx. The group examines female friendships, the idea of love letters, the challenge of unpacking heritage and the meaning of going home. In the ineffable shadow of taboo, Mood Ring is a radical sign of deliverance.
In 2021 the group started a writer's room brainstorming ideas of 'First Times'. It led them to Mood Ring, a community funded project based in/on Fiji. The footage features moments from the location reconnaissance Sereima went on in early 2022.
In a tangled visual poem that blends journal entries with travelogue, Kiki Oner and best friend Stelly G return to their island home Viti Lev. During this - their first trip together as adults - they make contact with a past that is unfamiliar to them yet shrouded in memories. What follows is a deeply felt trip that forces them to confront lives almost lived. There will be scenes of confronting pasts, and catastrophic futures.
Starring: Sereima Adimate/Stelly G, Kiki Oner, Alivereti Welekoto, Uncle Mana
With support from Cement Fondu, and special thanks to Fiji Film, Australian Cultural Fund, the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, Fiji Airways, and the community of Eora/Sydney for their support.
NOTE You are booking for Friday 12 January 2024
OTHER DATES AND TIMES:
Saturday 13 January 2024, 7:00pm
Sunday 14 January 2024, 2:00pm
LOCATION Casula Powerhouse Theatre
AGE SUITABILITY 16+
TICKET PRICE $10 + $2.80 Booking Fee
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Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) [the Seller] does not offer refunds or exchanges as a result of a change in your personal circumstances. CPAC will only provide a refund or exchange a ticket if an event is cancelled, rescheduled or significantly relocated by the Seller (and you cannot or do not wish to attend the rescheduled or relocated event), or to the extent otherwise required by law (including the Australian Consumer Law).
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