This Sunday at 8pm Sanctum Theatre’s The Photographer – as well as the Ferryman and his Wife puppets - will appear alongside Made for Chickens by Robots at the launch of The Day After Tomorrow’s CD launch at The Empress.

THE NIGHT BEFORE TOMORROW are excited to be releasing their 5 Songs EP. TNBT is a refreshing quartet of musicians in the overwhelming gaggle of Melbourne bands, playing their homemade songs with a confident air, somewhere right in the middle of intensity and silliness. With drums, bass, electric guitar and piano, the band sits sometimes awkwardly and sometimes comfortably between the styles of the Velvet Underground, Billy Joel, Daniel Johnson, The Slits and The Shaggs! TNBT is a mixed ability band that has evolved out of Rose Ertler's work at Milparinka Disability Service, where she has worked with individuals and groups running music sessions, focusing on songwriting.

MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS  is Australia's very own one man goodtime ragtime spew band!

When: Sunday 29th January 2012
Where: The Empress, 714 Nicholson St  Fitzroy North VIC
Cost: $7 (or $15 with CD)

After the crazy activity and creative output that was the Zero Projects season in 2009, Sanctum Theatre has taken a step back, regrouped, let life flow on, built a small house, made a short film called the ferryman and his wife and gathered some of the material we've generated over the past five years into two new roving acts, The MacQuails and The Photographer.

But, perhaps most importantly, we have been working towards an exhibition and two extravaganzas of film, puppets, music and environmental discussion in February and March next year!!

You will find below some information on the two upcoming shows, Sanctum Theatre's Cabinet of Antiquated Recording Devices and Bulleen Art & Garden's GAIA Night. And below that we have included  some of the events that our roviing acts have been involved in as well as some of the places the ferryman has been screened.

	Sanctum Theatre invites you to ‘buck the inevitable march of time’ and join us for our Cabinet of Antiquated Recording Devices – a hoge-podge of vague memories and hazy recollections, grainy photographs and crackly recordings – one night only at Montsalvat, 7 Hillcrest Ave. Eltham, 7:30pm, Saturday 3rd March 2012 and supported by the Nillumbik Shire Council. Click here for further information.
	On Thursday 23rd of February, as part of Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival, Bulleen Art & Garden will celebrate the Earth’s life support system, ‘Gaia’, in a night of discussion, performance, song and art whilst raising funds for Sustainable Gardening Australia. Bulleen Art & Garden, 6 Manningham Rd. West, Bulleen. Click here for further information.
	Thursday 16th February – 25th March 2012 The exhibition, Sanctum Theatre's Conservatory of Singular Specimens is an ark upon which Sanctum and BAAG artists rescue some of our most singular specimens - whether they be arboreal, bestial or purely alchemical. Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art and Garden, 6 Manningham Rd. West, Bulleen, Victoria Click here for further information.

Roving Performance in 2010 - 11

Over the past six months we've been developing two new roving acts, The MacQuails and The Photographer - and touring them to festivals, parties and weddings!!

The MacQuails attended Emma and Andrew's wedding last year, The Edendale Farm's Practically Green Festival in Eltham and the Yellow Sunshine Festival at CERES Environmental Park in Brunswick this year.

The Photographer - as well as his two subjects, the Ferryman and his Wife - have made appearances at GetUp's carbon action rally and The Village festival in the Edinburgh Gardens this year.

Click here to find out more about either of these two acts.

Or click here to see photographs of The MacQuails in action, or here for photos of The Photographer in action.

Or here to see a video of the Ferryman and his Wife at the Carbon Rally, or here to read the Herald Sun's report on the rally - with a photo of the Ferryman himself!

the ferrman and his wife - screenings and festivals

During Sanctum's residency at Montsalvat in Eltham, we devised and shot a short film called the ferryman and his wife.

the ferryman and his wife is a surrealist short film about the construction of self, about how we, as humans, shape our latent stories into lives.

The ferryman and his wife step out of emptiness and into the projectionist’s small, earthen room. The projectionist conjures their souls out of the darkness and projects them onto his wall.

Over the past year we have been peddling this film to festivals and other screenings. Over this time it has been part of the official selection for The American Independant Film Festival and The Melbourne Underground Film Festival. It as also been screened at the Comfortable Shorts film night at Loop Bar in Melbourne and as the short in front of the Saint Andrews Film Society's first screening.

Click here to read more about the ferryman and click here to view production stills and behind the scenes photos.

Acolades and acknowledgements

Sanctum Theatre's artistic director, Lachlan Plain, recieved an honourable mention as part of the Victorian Government's Live Local Awards for the Enchanted Ark project he co-ordinated at the Hawthorn Community House in 2010. He was also awarded second prize in the Page Seventeen literary journal's short story competition for his piece The Mandrake in the Marsh in 2011.