13/03/2026
WANNA DRUM AT SOMETHING MONSTROUS!?
This Sunday at Port Adelaide is the annual Dancing Monsters Community Parade! Sunday March 15th in Port Adelaide, from 6ish for rehearsal, then 7.30pm to 9.30pmish for various event things, parade, and dj set boogie.
BACKGROUND:
The annual parade celebrates and pays homage to the Yertabulti Port River. This year is especially potent as we remember the impact of the algal bloom.
Throughout cultures and histories, monsters have been many things- including wards, omens, warnings, and protectors. What might contemporary monsters look like? What powers do they and we have inside us, to remember and protect the river? This year's theme is stingrays, so you will see more of those, but all kinds of monsters are welcome.
Dancing Monsters do it best when they have lots of drums and percussion (and whatever thing that makes sound really) to accompany.
TIMES/LOCATIONS:
Grace will be leading a silly workshop from 6 beforehand at the starting location/Port Adelaide Visitors Information Centre.
Parade kicks off at 7.30 in the lane there, after various festivities and official things including Welcome to Country, choir performance, potentially operatic crabs, and more.
Parade goes to the river via a boogie at the lighthouse;
then finishes with drumming and then DJ set at Vitalstatistix's awesome Working Women's hall.
DRUM PARTS:
Parts will be posted online later tonight or tomorrow, but will also be taught at 6. They will be simple.
INSTRUMENTS:
Grace can bring drums or percussion in for you if you let us know via comment or message, and will pack some spares as well just in case. Weird sounds (eg dog toys, wobbly things) also welcome and monstrous.
It's gonna be fun, silly, raucous, important, profound, all at once.
More info and run times at the event links:
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=dancing%20monsters%20community%20parade
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/dancing-monsters-community-parade-af2026
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