Event Blak Social: Songs of the Queencitiverse

Blak Social: Songs of the Queencitiverse

Performance

9 December 2023
12–12.30pm

Hear Blak Social perform songs from their fictional Indigenous-futurist universe, the ‘Queencitiverse’.

Led by Alethea Beetson (Kabi Kabi, Wiradjuri), Blak Social is a First Nations collective that works across theatre, music, and film. Their debut theatre work, Queen’s City, flips the 1980s science fiction comedy genre to tell a story with Blak history at the fore.

Guest Info
  • Blak Social is a First Nations-owned arts production company founded and led by Alethea Beetson. Beetson is a Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi and Wiradjuri artist and producer who has worked extensively with Indigenous communities to inspire new works about societal issues, cultural heritage, and colonisation. She is First Nations Producer at BIGSOUND and First Nations Curator (Music) at Brisbane Festival, and is the founder and former Artistic Director of Digi Youth Arts.

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The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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