Little Operations with Rae Howell @sunwrae Monday 12 May 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Meat Market Stables Join us for our upcoming Little Operations event with Rae Howell: The Piano: Hook, Line and Tinker. Rae is our 2025 Little Operations artist and will be in residence at Meat Market Stables in early May exploring her creative research project. She will present a work-in-progress showing on Monday 12 May and we invite you to stay afterwards for a chat with Rae. Light refreshments will be served. Rae Howell is an award-winning Australian composer, performer, and director of multi-artform projects. She is founding director of Sunwrae, a touring ensemble, label and sheet music publisher; and Opportune Pianos, her piano technology enterprise. Little Operations is a creative development opportunity offered to independent artists working in cross-artform practice to explore new ideas and approaches. This is a free event but bookings are essential via link in our bio. Image: a deconstructed piano Image provided by Rae Howell (fb)

We are excited to announce our new Butterfly House Residency for First Nations artists. And so thrilled that our inaugural resident is Jaadwa composer, producer and sound artist James Howard (@jhowardjaadwa ) James will be in residence during July-August and says: ‘My residency at Butterfly House will provide an ideal opportunity to discover fresh approaches to composition and production. Having the space and time to make in an open-ended manner is the greatest gift that this opportunity could provide me, and I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.’ This residency is offered in partnership with @rmitculture and takes place at McCraith House. Also known as the Butterfly House and Larrakeyah, the house is located on th traditional land of the Bunurong People in Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula. Read more about James and the residency on our website. Image 1: Butterfly House image supplied by RMIT Image 2: James Howard image by @jvdkphoto (fb)