Robyn’s collection of architectural maquettes, assembled for the first time for her 2019 Adelaide Festival show Picaresque, will soon go on show again for the young people’s festival Dream Big at the Adelaide Festival Centre. On the occasion of this exhibition we will celebrate the digital re-release of Robyn’s children’s album Mrs Bottle Burps.
Mother Archer’s Cabaret for Dark Times will be performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in the Dunstan Playhouse at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Mother Archer’s Cabaret for Dark Times will be performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre. As a rollicking reflection on COVID lockdown this is a show not to be missed.
Robyn Archer: an Australian Songbook will be performed at the the
Queensland Theatre.
Robyn’s most recent CD is receiving very favourable reviews. The CD can be found through Undercover Music Design.
The University of South Australia bestows an Honorary Doctroate and Robyn becomes D. Univ of that institution along with her honours from the universities of Flinders, Adelaide, Sydney, Griffith and Canberra
Robyn’s new show Mother Archer’s Cabaret for Dark Time, with longtime colleagues Michel Morley (piano) and George Butrumlis (accordion) is part of Ten Days on the Island, the festival that Robyn created and in 2021 celebrated its 20th anniversary. The mixture of songs from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century demonsrates with gusto and poignancy how songs can tackle the hard times with insight and with genuine belly-laughs.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival launches online on 5 June . Robyn features on the following dates:
Sunday 7 June 2020 – Do Not Disturb
Thursday 11 June 2020 – Hard Times
Wednesday 17 June 2020 – Solitary Blues
Facebook: @adelaidecabaretfestival Instagram: @adelaidecabaret Twitter: @adelaidecabaret Official hashtag: #AdCabFest
Robyn will be appearing in various ways at the Adelaide Festival. On Monday 9th March she will be join Join Tom Wright and a panel of informed guests to contemplate the news of the day and the big issues at Breakfast with Papers.
Robyn will be appearing in various ways at the Adelaide Festival. On Monday 2nd March she will be join Damian Barr and Chiké Frankie Edozien for Twilight Session an all-bases conversation on books, life, and the State of the World hosted by Benjamin Law.
Robyn will be appearing in various ways at the Adelaide Festival. On Sunday 1st March she will be introducing the Psalms concert Gratitude by the Tallis Scholars.
Robyn will be appearing in various ways at the Adelaide Festival. On Saturday 29th February she will be speaking at the launch of the festival’s 60th Anniversary Book for which she has written an essay.
Robyn will officially open the Design Festival in Canberra and take part in various activities throughout that week.
Robyn Archer will present The Fortunes of Exile with Michael Morley, George Butrumlis and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra August 30 2019. This concert looks at the German composers and writers forced into exile in the 1930s – what they wrote in Berlin in the 1920s and what they wrote in exile: including Hollaender, Grosz, Brecht, Weill and Eisler.
Robyn is heading to Malta where she is again a mentor for the Festival Academy’s Atelier for Young Festival Managers.
Robyn will be co-hosting Adelaide Festival’s Festival Long Lunch with Maggie Beer. Robyn is also looking forward to a long interview with David Marr on March 14 as part of the Festival Forum talk series.
Picaresque is Robyn’s new exhibition and performance for this years Adelaide Festival. There are ten performances inside around 200 miniature architectural maquettes from around the world. Robyn has been collecting these ever since she made her first overseas trip – to perform at London’s National Theatre in 1977. Book for the show through the Adelaide Festival website.
As patron of the Australian Print Triennial, Robyn will give a keynote address Do We Care About Craft? in Mildura.
Robyn opens the exhibition Objects of Fame at the Grainger Museum, Melbourne University on Tuesday September 25 – an exhibition about Percy Grainger and Dame Nellie Melba.
A one-off Sydney show of Robyn’s German program, Dancing on the Volcano, at City Recital Hall.
Robyn is the subject of Adelaide Festival of Ideas’ Dedication in 2018 and will give the keynote address there July 12.
The Melbourne season of Robyn’s German program, Dancing on the Volcano, at the Arts Centre Melbourne.
There was a moment in Germany, between the two great world wars, when cabaret came alive. For just over ten years songwriters and poets described it as ‘dancing on a volcano’, which then exploded so rapidly into the worst excesses of Nazism. Teaming up again with longtime musical collaborators, Michael Morley (piano) and George Butrumlis (accordion).
Robyn will be part of a panel to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Parliament House in Canberra..
The Sound of Falling Stars. Written and directed by Robyn Archer opens at the Arts Centre Melbourne.
Robyn will again present the pitch sessions, along with Jeff Khan, at the Australian Performing Arts Market at the Powerhouse, Brisbane.
Robyn has invitations to speak on arts and culture in Abu Dhabi and to continue her mentorship role for the European Festivals’ Association in Shanghai later in the year. In December 2016 she spent a week in that role at the EFA Atelier in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Robyn has been invited yet again to be the presenter for APACA’s Performing Arts Exchange which will take place in Sydney in 2017. She has also been invited this year to be APACA’s Thinker in Residence for the main conference days which follow the PAX.
Robyn has a two week season in July at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney. With Michael Morley (piano) and George Butrumlis (accordion), she will give three performances of each of her current recital programs (nine concerts in all) Que Reste t’Il (French songs from 1880 to the 1970s), Dancing on the Volcano (songs from Berlin in the 20s and 30s) and The Other Great American Songbook (songs from Stephen Foster to Pink). We’ve had a couple of rumours that this season is already sold out. So, Sydney, holler for more!
A new show, written and directed by Robyn is slated to premiere in Adelaide in June. A two week workshop in Melbourne in November resulted in a very successful showing to a who’s who of presenters at The Bakehouse Studios and plans are now proceeding for the longer rehearsal period, and touring in 2018.
A recent invitation from ABC Classic FM means that Robyn will explore some classical favourites with Margaret Throsby on her Saturday Morning with Margaret Throsby show. Keep your ears open for this sometime in May or thereabouts.
Robyn has been invited to Singapore to inspire a new generation of dynamic programming staff at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay. She will spend a few days there in early February.
And hot on the heels of the Sydney visit is Robyn’s guest appearance in Moira Finnucane’s show at the Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday January 27. She will perform a couple of songs with one of her regular and much-admired accompanists, the accordion virtuoso, George Butrumlis.
Robyn will spend time at NIDA in Sydney January 23 and 24 for introductory sessions with the second cohort of participants in the Master of Fine Arts (Cultural Leadership) which Robyn chairs. It will be a chance for her to catch up with NIDA’s new director, Kate Cherry, whom Robyn has known since she was a little girl: Kate’s father, the legendary Wal Cherry having been Robyn’s very first theatrical director, one of a trio of inspiring theatre men to whom Robyn attributes the kickstart of her first ventures out of entertainment and into the arts.
Robyn will make a guest appearance at the Sydney Critics Awards at the Seymour Centre.
In December Robyn will again act as mentor in The Festival Academy, presented by the European Festivals’ Association. The December Academy will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the context of that city’s Design Festival.
Robyn will give a major address in Melbourne for the The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
The Performing Arts Exchange at APACA in Melbourne will again be hosted by Robyn, the ultimate MC.
The Bendigo Writers festival features a Saturday session in which Robyn will be interviewed at length about all aspects of her career.
The Other Great American Songbook, featuring Robyn with Michael Morley and George Butrumlis, will be presented at the Melbourne Recital Centre July 22 and 23. Bookings through Melbourne Recital Centre.
Robyn will be giving a recital of the Brecht repertoire in Oxford (UK) on the 26 June at the conference of The International Brecht Society.
Upcoming concerts at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Robyn is part of the Opening Gala 10 June, performs her own concerts Dancing on the Volcano June 11 ( 3.30pm) and June 12 ( 7.30 pm) in the Space, and MCs and sings in the Weill File, 7.30 pm 13 June in the Dunstan Playhouse. Bookings via The Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Actively involved in the ISPA Congress in Melbourne, Robyn is hosting the Pitch sessions at the Melbourne Recital Centre 3 June, and taking part in the Placemaking Panel 4 June.
Robyn opens The Light in Winter 2 June at Federation Square in Melbourne. The festival runs to June 18 and the Solstice Celebration. Details at fedsquare.com.
Robyn will be in Margaret River WA to talk about cultural development, and Perth November 18. Enquiries to canwa.com.au.
Head to Mildura for the inaugural Mildura Print Triennial. This new event in the cultural calendar has Robyn as its patron, and is hosted by the remarkable Art Vault. Amidst the extraordinary environment of this remote oasis, it offers a weekend of immersion in all things ‘print’. Robyn will be giving one of the talks.
See Robyn perform her show The Other Great American Songbook at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival at 2pm.
Bundanon’s Spring event Siteworks happens again September 25, and Robyn will be moderating the conversations all that afternoon.
The next European Festivals’ Association Atelier will take place in Gawngju, South Korea, and coincides with the opening season of the Asian Arts Hub. Robyn has mentored at the Atelier in Varna, Singapore, Ljubjliana, Izmir and Poznan.
The APACA inaugural Performing Arts Exchange will have Robyn as moderator on its first day.
Robyn will speak at the University of Wollongong’s Festival of Big Ideas.
Robyn will moderate 2970 The Boiling Point on the afternoon of the 28th June, a forum taking place on the Gold Coast from the 26-28th June in which artists are introduced to a wide range of innovative practice from the arts and non-arts sectors.
Robyn will speak at the Access Arts Disability Festival which takes place 26-27 June in Brisbane.
Robyn will take part in the Australia New Zealand Literary Festival in London. The discussion will take place at King’s College London and will be chaired by the Hon Ros Kelly and includes Geraldine Doogue.
Robyn will play a cameo role as Judge Madelaine Hawkshire in a new musical The New Black by Marcus Corowa, Leeroy Bilney and Stephen Helper at the The Arts Centre Gold Coast.
Robyn spoke at the Peking University (English language University) in Beijing.
Robyn performed her Helpmann Award-winning French cabaret Que Reste t’Il at the Hong Kong Academy of Arts.
Robyn performed her Helpmann Award-winning French cabaret Que Reste t’Il at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.
Robyn spoke at the Edinburgh Festival’s Culture Summit.
In association with her role as Strategic Adviser, Arts and Culture, Gold Coast, Robyn traveled to Glasgow to observe the cultural program of the Commonwealth Games. The Gold Coast will host the Commonwealth Games in 2018.
Enquires can be directed through Robyn Archer's agent on the details below:
Matt Jones Creative Projects Pty Ltd
231 Chapel Street, Prahran VIC 3181
P: +61409800127
E: matt@mjcreativeprojects.com.au
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