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The SOUTHLAND BUSKERS FESTIVAL has been a highlight in Invercargill events calendar for the past six years, and we’re back January 28-31st with our seventh. We’re one of the region’s most accessible and entertaining events, bringing laughs and gasps to Invercargill each summer via a performance line-up of funny, witty and highly skilled national and international artists. This year’s line-up of fun and funny includes: Victor Rubilar from Argentina, The AJ DJ show and Eloise Green from Australia, The Biggest Little Circus, Captain Cook, Hoop Hooligans and Suzie Sport from NZ and Alex the Alien from a galaxy far, far away.
The 7th Southland Buskers Festival will hit the streets and parks of Invercargill from Thursday evening January 28th to Sunday afternoon January 31st with a programme schedule to suit everyone. We’ve even programmed an open juggling workshop for aspiring jugglers (young and old). Facilitated by some of the best jugglers in the country, this will be an opportunity to learn a skill you’ll be sure to use the rest of your life.
Full festival programmes will be available to download from Venture Southland’s website in early January. Our printed programme will be inserted with the Southland Times on January 14th and will also be available from a variety of city information outlets from the 12th of January.
It’s going to be nothing but fun!
Eloise Green (Aust)
The All you need is LOVE show is romantic comedy starring Daphne, a young woman who simply yearns to be loved in any way, shape or form. Daphne dazzles and dazes her audience incorporating death-defying acrobatics, multiple hula-hoops, and clowning in an effort to win a smile, applause, a friend or two and maybe even a lover! This is a story of LOVE in all shapes and sizes. Daphne uniquely utilizes audience members to tell her story, ‘All you need is Love’; a narrative that unravels with unexpected twists, friendships and romance that build to a huge crescendo. A climactic, surprise celebration!!! ‘You have to see it to know how it ends. http://eloisegreen.com.au
Victor Rubilar (Argentina)
Victor is more than Argentina’s most talented and hardest working street performer he’s their award-winning superstar. With eighteen international awards under his belt including five Guinness World Records he’s been on a roll since he hit the international festival scene more than ten years ago, thrilling audiences with his skills and charm in more than 42 countries- from Canada to Dubai, Turkmenistan, Egypt, USA to Australia. We’re thrilled to feature him in our 2016 festival line up! http://victorrubilar.com
AJ DJ STREET SHOW (AUST)
AD DJ has ripped up streets across the globe with his gravity defying, common-sense-flouting, gloom slaying show. With knockout slapstick, dynamite acrobatics and sidesplitting comedy, you’ll rather let your eyeballs dry out than blink and miss a thing.
Fresh off the road from the USA with Cirque du Soleil, DJ Garner has crafted his non-stop fun audacious ADDJ Circle Street Show from his years of professional experience and his natural talent. He delivers nothing but world-class physical feats and off the wall physical slapstick that leave his audiences laughing for days.
This high-octane act is not to be missed. The Age, Melbourne
http://www.addjstreetshow.com/
HOOP HOOLIGANS (NZ)
The lads love to laugh! Their shows reflect the brotherly bond of two circus hooligans, who keep their audiences transfixed with a spellbinding combination of spectacular tricks, and slapstick tomfoolery.
Performing together since 2011, this playful and creative duo began adding slapstick, physical theatre and a wide range of props and unique tricks into their act early on establishing themselves as one of New Zealand’s best circus, fire and object manipulation shows. They both have a background in circus and performance arts and have toured together in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and USA. http://tecktoys.wix.com/hoophooligans#!info/c161y
Captain Cook
An historically and politically incorrect portrayal of the man who discovered New Zealand.