Kitsch Events

02/04/2024

One year on since 💤

01/08/2023

Another day, another cabaret… 💅 Excited to bring the chaos with + to 🌪️

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From the producer of The Sh*tshow Cabaret comes the spin-off series that nobody asked for, Cheeky Devil TV: Live in Studio.

Join hosts Rob Braslin and Emesha Rudolf as we channel hop through absurdity, showcasing LIVE performance artists from various disciplines (and non-disciplines) in a frenzy that busts through the fourth wall. Brace yourself for jaw-dropping circus tricks, revolutionary live mixes, interactive game shows, competitive local sports, and a conference on mustard.

Tune in, tune out - we’re only here until they cut the cord.

21/03/2023

FFLORA (FLUID FEMME LUMINARIES OFFERING RHAPSODIC ASCENSION). A place of musical exploration and expression, FFLORA presents a journey into group improvisation. The ever-evolving ensemble take inspiration from jazz, folk, free improv, sick beats, collisions of sounds, failures, glory, poetry and synergy. Each time the group performs together it is truly unique. Be prepared to experience uplifting, unsteady, un-conforming utters of unreal music.

FFLORA plays two exclusive, interactive “jukebox” sets, tailored for us, on Sat 1 Apr. Don’t miss out.

08/03/2023

TICKETS ON SALE NOW. 🪩 SWIPE FOR LINEUP.

🎨Design by Dave Eastburn.

28/11/2022

First ever intrastate **tshowhobart 💥 huge thank you to for the support, the opportunity and the packed house 🦑🎟🎟🎟

07/04/2022

is coming to later this month! Outside of Artist Liaison work, we are also producing and hosting a late night cabaret with local comic . 💪 See you there.

05/12/2021

1 year. 6 shows. 65 artists. And 700 tickets. Bye for now **tshowhobart 💖

28/10/2021

🥺

Dear friends of the Sh*tshow,

The Sh*tshow: Last Splutter on Thursday 25th of November will be our final show.
..at least for a long while.

We hope this isn’t the last time you see us but we can’t promise anything.

Over the last 11 months we have worked with over 50 different artists (including athletes, arts workers and the multiple personalities of Pussay Poppins), as well as entertained more than 565 people in the heart of nipaluna.

In this short time, you’ve given us permission to be ambitious, ridiculous, foolish and q***r - not to mention, local as f*ck.

For this, we want to thank you.

As well as assure you that, like on an old pair of un**es, we intend to leave a mark.

The Last Splutter is going to be our biggest show yet with even more talent and gags than before. Tickets will increase from $15 to $25 and (for the first time) we will presell them.

So, yes, consider this a heads up: The Last Splutter lineup will be announced next week and tickets will be released the following day.

Don’t come crying to us when you miss out.

From the deepest, darkest crevice of our bottoms,
The Sh*tshow
+ Kitsch Events

xx

07/10/2021

Last week’s controlled chaos.

08/09/2021

Due to the foreseeable border closures between Victoria and Tasmania (and our least favourite c-word), Garry Starr sadly won’t be at the next Sh*tshow:. But trust us - he’ll be here as soon as he can!🤞

In the meantime, if you booked tickets to Garry Starr Performs Everything or Provoking the Clown with Damien Warren-Smith, you will be contacted with a full refund in the next 2-5 days.

30/08/2021

⚡️⚡️⚡️Non-stop femme music until late. Live this Friday ⚡️⚡️⚡️

26/08/2021

Tickets on sale now. ⚡️

We s**t you not. Garry Starr is coming to play with us next month.

Right. Well. Who is he? Garry Starr is none other than the alter ego of award-winning Australian/British comedian, Damien Warren-Smith, on a mission to revive theatre - all by himself.

Gary’s solo show is the next night too. Come see it. It’s directed by the same guy who directed The Mighty Boosh, so yes, it’s off-the-frickin-hook.

Event link here: https://fb.me/e/2167qRMcb

23/08/2021

⚡LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT⚡
Fflora | S>c>r>a>p>s | Shindig Troika | Hannah Price | Katy Raucher
Presented by our show-stopping Queen, MUM

Tickets onsale now: https://tinyurl.com/rebelrebelkitschevents
Event link here: https://fb.me/e/31rTwXum9

13/08/2021

We sold out.

11/08/2021

Stoked to be curating our Fri 3 Sep show. Stay tuned ⚡️

07/08/2021

📣🤹‍♀️🎪 Guess what? just gave our project ‘Producing & Other Juggling Acts’ the green light!

This means internationally-acclaimed artist and producer will be in lutruwita/Tasmania for the next 10 days, performing, mentoring and teaching circus to locals.

You can find Jess:
🎪 **tshowhobart on Thu 12 Aug
🎪 on Sat 14 Aug
🎪 Mon 16 - Wed 18 Aug
As well as coaching me on what it takes to be a world-class producer on the festival circuit. 🎉

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‘Producing & Other Juggling Acts’ was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.

02/08/2021

Keep scrolling, I’m just adding to my folio.

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Project: ART HOUSE was an exhibition I coordinated at eighteen - and really is the whole reason I got into this crazy biz.

Over six months, I engaged nine (fellow) college students from around the state to create artworks. These artworks were developed in response to what would become our gallery space, the heritage-listed gunpowder magazine beneath Princes Park.

I managed so many stakeholders given that it was my first time - emerging artists, school teachers, council members and volunteer gallery attendants. I learnt about public liability insurance, graphic design, grant applications and technical art installation.

During the lead up, I cried a lot privately because the project had countless set backs - including dissuasion from my school’s Art Department and a minor flood. No one believed that I could pull it off. (And I guess I was also going through puberty.) But opening night saw 150 people and a food van, without a hitch. As well as my own video work projected in one of the side rooms and a great deal of giddy excitement in between.

Project: ART HOUSE gave me my true love for events. It pushed me to lust for project management, problem-solving and perseverance. A childhood dream. It’s still my proudest achievement.

Thanks, younger me.

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Project: ART HOUSE was supported by City of Hobart and Fullers Bookshop. Filmed by Yasmin Donnelly. Audio by Carl Renshaw and James Nutting. And as always, a big thank you to Joe Weller.

Exhibition page https://www.facebook.com/projectarthousetas/?fref=ts

08/07/2021

Last weekend to ABOLISH THE OLYMPICS, with a little bit of help from PONY EXPRESS. 🥇🤼🥈

"The city has been taken over. A group calling itself The Committee is now in charge. There will be changes. Beautiful things are promised to the people, parades, light shows, awe inspiring ceremonies, and incredible feats of engineering and demonstrations of the pinnacle of human achievement and spirit. The eyes of the world will be turned this way. But there are conditions, there is a plan, a formula for the transformation the city must undergo. It is an honour to have the attention of The Committee focused on the city." - from Journal #21 by Ben Winspear

Click here to read: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/21-abolish-the-olympics-by-ben-winspear/

🏆 Abolish the Olympics continues at CAT until this Sunday 11 July. Gallery open 12 - 5pm. 🥇

03/06/2021

Last week.

28/05/2021

JOSH GLANC | The Grand Poobah is on tonight. Listen to his interview with Jimmy & Nath (HIT 100.9) from yesterday morning.

17/05/2021

✨WIN 2 X FREE TICKETS TO SEE JOSH GLANC IN HOBART✨

All you gotta’ do is:
1. Tell us who you want to bring by dropping their name in the comment section below.
2. Share this post via your Instagram story.
3. Don’t forget to tag **tshowhobart + so we know that you’re entering the competition!

Entries close midday (AEST) THIS Sunday (23 May). Winners will be announced 5pm the same evening. Good luck. 🤝

14/05/2021

Book your tickets now for multi-award winning comedian, Josh Glanc at The Grand Poobah on Fri 28 May.

Event: JOSH GLANC | The Grand Poobah
Tickets: tinyurl.com/JoshGlancHobart.

14/05/2021

Wanna’ know more about **tshowhobart ? I mean, no one asked, but it’s in anyway.

09/05/2021

Internationally-renowned artists and hidden talents at home. Put it in your calendar. 📅🖊

Third time's a charm, right? 🧞‍♂️
Find out at The Sh*tshow: Triples Itself. 7pm, Thu 27 May at The Grand Poobah.

06/05/2021

Mayhem. See you in June. x

Within weeks of the Tokyo Olympics, we pause briefly to consider: are the Olympics fu**ed?

16 June - 11 July, Pony Express are holding our own bootleg, protest Olympiad.

Hosted by Contemporary Art Tasmania, join us in our Hyper-Arena of propaganda, conceptual sportsmanship, absurd opening ceremonies and performance art ‘athleticism’.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

Official Uniforms + Merchandise by Hickey Hardware

Official Arena Audiovisual Design by Hosting

Area + Object Coaching by Kitsch Events

02/05/2021

Between the isolation and impulse purchases, things got a little wild there for a second. Cop an eyeful of Josh Glanc as he performs his absurd blend of pandemic sketch comedy at JOSH GLANC | The Grand Poobah on Friday 28 May. Tickets: tinyurl.com/JoshGlancHobart

23/04/2021

Let's diversify.

The Sh*tshow is looking to diversify it’s talent pool. Do you have a special skill? Or know someone who does? Tag your friends! We’d love to hear from you.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
More details in the comments.

26/03/2021

Felt a lot of strength in presenting an all-female lineup for The Sh*tshow: Number Two's. 💪 We (women) work twice as hard to prove ourselves and I feel like last night’s show reflected that. 💘

16/03/2021

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We don’t just have an all-female lineup, we’re all women behind the scenes too. So firstly, we want to introduce our producer and stage manager, Sophie Ambler.
Having absolutely no talent of her own, Sophie is making sure that those who do spend more time on the stage than she does. With her she brings fierce commitment, personability and a background in the events industry both interstate and internationally. Plus, there’s one thing that we know for sure: she can only get better at setting up a microphone. 🎤