Barefoot
Black Tie

Shark Bay
6th-8th of May 2022

Barefoot Black Tie is set within World Heritage Martine Parks at the most westerly point of the Australian continent, Shark Bay. Home to the Malgana First Nations people for thousands of generations,  Shark Bay also boasts the oldest life forms on earth -  the stromatolites! It also hosts the largest and richest  sea-grass beds in the world, habitat to dugong (‘sea cow’) population which in olden times were mistaken for mermaids by shipwrecked sailors.

It’s from this edge of the Indian Ocean that a group of time travelling characters converge, and merge and start their tale weaving of the Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival. Traversing the elements to frame stories of each place across the isolated outback Gascoyne region. 

Using different theatrical devices, sometimes stilts, a stage set in water, thin air, remote beaches and on ancient desert landscapes, these time travelling crew collect stories like the pirates of old collected treasures and tropical diseases. 

Collectors and tellers of stories, they trade on the cultural frontiers of community spirit and get paid in enchantments; their characters a device that frames stories of the Gascoyne at live in situ events.