It’s our great pleasure to be the wine partner to the inaugural RISING festival - a surge of art, music, performance, and ceremony in the heart of Melbourne, running 26 May to 6 June.

In partnership with this exciting new festival, over the next month we’ll be giving away a range of tickets to some fascinating events, and first off the bat is none other than Patricia Piccinini’s ‘A Miracle Constantly Repeated’ at the beautiful Flinders Street Station ballroom.

After holding Melbourne’s imagination for decades, the mysterious Flinders Street Station ballroom (and its surrounding hidden rooms) will open to the public to become A Miracle Constantly Repeated—an eco-system of hyper-real silicone sculptures, video, sound and light devised by Patricia Piccinini.

Working on the border of art and science, Piccinini has spent close to three decades exploring humanity’s relationship to technology and the environment. Her work has been exhibited at major Australian and international institutions and events including the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; and the Vancouver and Venice biennales.

For her first extensive hometown show in almost two decades, Australia’s foremost visual artist will augment the ballroom’s architecture with enormous dioramas, sentient saplings, nurturing marine mammals and enormous life-sustaining foliage.

In A Miracle Constantly Repeated, technology and nature coexist and combine. It’s an empathetic vision of the future built on resilience and care.

We have two double passes to give away to this stunning show on the 29th of May - all you need to do to enter is sign up to the Blackhearts & Sparrows newsletter for your chance to win (if you’re already a subscriber, just pop your details in again to enter this competition!). Entries close Thursday 6th of May, so get in quick.

T&Cs
- Winners will chosen at random & contacted via email, if no response is received within 48 hours, the double pass will be offered to the next randomly drawn entrant.
- Recipients must be able to attend the Piccinini event on 29th May in Melbourne (entry time on the day TBC by the RISING team).

Photo by Peter Tarasiuk, courtesy of RISING.