VIRAL 2019
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
Ally and Kev live up in the flats, they’ve got their own little place, a brand new baby and dreams for the future. Life should be good but sometimes life has its own plans.
Just ask Merv, he hasn’t been feeling too good lately. Years of tough luck, bad choices and hard living have finally caught up with him. He’s dreaming of one final chance to make things right.
As though that’s not messy enough, they’re all being filmed for some documentary! #ITS COMPLICATED.
One things for sure, things are about to go VIRAL….
A deadly show from the makers of CHOPPED LIVER, VIRAL premiered in 2018 and is now back by popular demand!
Writer Maryanne Sam
Director/Dramaturge Kamarra Bell-Wykes
Performers Jessie Butler, Shannon Hood & Nikita Tabuteau
Choreographer Carly Sheppard
Set & Sound Designer small sound
Costume Designer Jacinta Keefe
Producers Emily Anyupa Butcher and Lisa Parris
Production Coordinator Caleb Thaiday
Community Engagement Richie Hallal
Community Consultation Facilitators Shiralee Hood & Kamarra Bell-Wykes
ILBIJERRI would like to thank community members from Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-operative (BDAC), Star Health and Loddon Prison Precinct for their vital contribution to the development of this project.
We would also like to acknowledge the input of the 2018 cast (Laila Thaker, Jesse Butler & Blayne Welsh) to the devised elements of this work.
VIRAL is supported by the Victorian Government, Hepatitis Victoria and the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.
VIRAL 2019
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
FREE events. Registration essential.
Contact Caleb Thaiday: caleb@ilbijerri.com.au
Phone 03 9329 9097
PREVIEW NIGHT
Date Mon 19 Aug 2019
Time 6:30PM
Venue Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, VIC, 3056
Date Tue 27 Aug 2019
Time 10:00AM
Venue CoHealth, Harmsworth Hall – 31 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood, VIC, 3066
Date Tue 27 Aug 2019
Time 2:00PM
Venue Thorne Harbour Health (Positive Living Centre), 51 Commercial Road, South Yarra, VIC, 3141
Date Wed 28 Aug 2019
Time 3:00PM
Venue Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative, Address TBC
Date Thu 29 Aug 2019
Time 4:30PM
Venue DHHS, 15/50 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Date Fri 30 Aug 2019
Time 09:30AM
Venue VACCHO, 17-24 Sackville St, Collingwood, VIC, 3066
Date Fri 30 Aug 2019
Time 1:30PM
Venue Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, 186 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, VIC, 3004
Date Mon 2 Sept 2019
Time 2:00PM
Venue Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, VIC, 3004
Date Wed 4 Sept 2019
Time 2:00PM
Venue Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative, 5 Market St, Ballarat, VIC, 3353
For more info and to register for any of these free events, please contact Caleb Thaiday: caleb@ilbijierri.com.au
Phone 03 9329 9097
VIRAL 2019
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
New tablets kill the Hepatitis C virus:
- 95% of people are cured
- Treatment is a pill a day for 8 – 12 weeks (No injections)
- Treatment is safe: few side effects (e.g. headache)
Hepatitis treatment protects us all. Yarn it up with your doctor: it doesn’t matter how you got it.
Ask for a blood borne virus check at your next health check
Get Checked and get cured
Hep C facts:
Hepatitis C is a virus. Without treatment hepatitis C can shorten your life.
About 182,144 Australians are living with the hepatitis C virus[1]. In Victoria, the rate of newly diagnosed Hep C is 20 times higher in Aboriginal communities[2].
You can only get the hepatitis C virus when blood with hepatitis C enters your bloodstream.
You can get it again- so don’t share diabetes prickers, injecting, tattooing or piercing equipment.
You can’t get hepatitis C by sharing food, cups, and hugs
or kisses, or from toilets or mozzies!
[1] Kirby Institute Annual Surveillance Report (2018) https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/report/hiv-viral-hepatitis-and-sexually-transmissible-infections-australia-annual-surveillance