PACT x CRUSH CO. PRESENTS
THEATRE NIGHTS:
MOUSE MAG LAUNCH PARTY!
ABOUT THE LAUNCH PARTY:
The Crush Collective mice have teamed up with PACT to throw a party for the hoard! Emerging artists, alternative milk enthusiasts, musos and stall holders will all be coming together to celebrate the launch of Mouse Mag, a magazine run by mice for mice.
Come grab a drink and celebrate what it is to be a mouse, part of a hedonistic community of scamps that indulge in arts and culture in the fringes!
We usually find ourselves in abandoned warehouses, empty bookshops, garages, and stoner bedrooms, engorging ourselves on every little lo fi morsel of music, dance, visual arts and interactive shenanigans we can get our greasy paws on. This time the mice are moving into PACT!
Details:
Date: 19 August 2023, Time: 6:00pm until late, Location: PACT Centre for Emerging Artists - 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, 2043
This event is Auslan interpreted
INTRODUCING MOUSE MAG
Mouse Mag is a new magazine commissioned by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists that celebrates all things mouse.
All pages have been created by members of Crush Collective, who have found the ways in which both artists and mice relate to the world.
We’ve discovered that both mice and emerging artists relate as shy, cheeky daydreamers. The Mouse Crew of Crush Collective have scurried through the streets of Erskineville for pub crawls, fashion shoots and Instagram pics.
Through articles, poems, quizzes, and horoscopes, Mouse Print brings you the ins and outs to what it means to be in your Mouse Era.
Keen to grab a copy of your own? Be one of the first to get your hands on it by coming along to our Mouse Mag launch on August 19! Tickets are on sale now.
THE LINEUP
MOUSE BELLA
MOUSE ELLEN
Milky Intrusive Thoughts
IRELISH BARKER
LEAH HERBERT
KRIS AND SARAH
GIRL BLOGGING
APOLLO
POLLY
THE DOE AND THE SCAPEGOAT
ABOUT CRUSH COLLECTIVE
Crush Collective is a performance and mixed media collective run by Bella Whitcher, Leah Herbert and Ellen Houghton.
The aim of Crush Collective is to produce contemporary works and a gig culture for emerging artists within local communities. Crush Collective first began hosting Theatre Nights at Society City (2021-2022), allowing new writers and artists to present their works in progress and share a drink together.
The collective was then a recipient of Wollongong Council’s Creative Wollongong Quick Response Grants (2022), where Crush Collective provided community writing workshops to women.
The culmination of writing from the workshop participants was then adapted into a show at Society City, titled Feral Women (2022). This sellout show allowed actors and non actors to showcase their work to the community.
Crush Collective also produced an interactive multimedia event titled girlblogging (2022) at the University of Wollongong. The Collective now runs Writers Night (2023) and Crush Nights (2023) at Merrigong’s new venue at 93 Crown St, allowing writers and artists from all practices to come together and work on projects with a community of artists.
Crush Collective will soon be presenting Gen Z Journals (2023), an interactive doomsday party at 93 Crown St at the end of August and girlblogging (2022) at Qtopia’s Live At The Bandstand event in September.