Reimagining the festival

The Victorian Seniors Festival Reimagined has returned in 2021 with some well-known names from Victoria’s arts and entertainment world.

Presenting a diverse and rich mix of programming for online and radio audiences from now until the end of the year, the festival includes a range of cultures in Victoria’s diverse society, bringing together community leaders and emerging artists together in conversation, performances and inspired story-telling.

All the video broadcasts and radio programs produced for the 2021 Victorian Seniors Festival Reimagined are available to watch and listen at the Seniors Online website.

Program highlights

Radio Play: Mystery of a Hansom Cab
First published in 1886, Fergus Hume’s Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia’s original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. It is still a great yarn and now has the added interest of references to areas of Melbourne at that time such as St Kilda and Little Bourke Street. People from both areas are the main characters in this charming and deadly story.

In conversation
This series uses conversations and collaborations to give audience a window into the worlds of a wonderful mix of performers, artists and cultural movers and shakers. Names featured include celebrity chef Elizabeth Chong with her granddaughter and award-winning soprano Tess Duddy, comedians Ivan Aristiguieta and Kehau Jackson, and magicians Ross Skiffington and Sam Angelico.

David Wells – four decades of improvising performance
Seasoned performer David Wells revisits key places in his performance career – dancing and improvising at the Royal Melbourne Zoo, outside the Myer Melbourne windows and Footscray station. David Wells is celebrating four decades as a dance performer and improviser who has travelled the world performing and improvising in unique locations. He is currently undertaking a 15-year project to create dance work each week at Footscray station called Weekly Ticket.

To check out the complete program for the Victorian Seniors Festival Reimagined, visit seniorsonline.vic.gov.au/festival