Image credit: Communitas, RISING 2025. PHOTO: Mandy Wu
SHOUSE X RISING
RISING: Communitas Workshop (Geelong)
27 APR 11.00AM—1.00PM
Doors open 10.30AM
Attendance Free (registration required)
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Internal lift. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please head to Visit Us/Contact or directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
RISING’s annual ritual of Communitas is officially kicking off again. It's the SHOUSE-led mass-musicking event where everyone's in the band, including you. And this year, it's even bigger.
Register for the event
Confirm your attendance for the big day on Sun 08 June at Melbourne Town Hall.
If you're unable to attend a workshop in the lead-up because of other commitments or location, that's totally fine. Register your interest, and RISING will contact you about securing your spot closer to the day.
Attend a workshop at Platform Arts in the lead-up to the big event.
Head to Platform Arts for a workshop with SHOUSE and Deep Soulful Sweats to help create and craft the songs you'll all be singing and performing at Melbourne Town Hall.
The workshop is free to attend
Spaces are limited, so if you can no longer attend please email ticketing@rising.melbourne
Attendance guarantees you a ticket for the event in June
If you’d like to attend another workshop as well, you’re welcome to. Visit the RISING site for more information: https://rising.melbourne/wormhole/shouse-communitas-workshops-2025
What to expect
You’ll be learning three simple, powerful songs. No experience needed. Just bring your voice and your vibe. If you have an instrument, whatever it is, bring it along. If you don't or are instro-curious, there will be some for you.
There’s space to stand out or blend in. If you joined SHOUSE last time, they need you back. You know the magic. Help them build it again. There’ll be singing. There’ll be moving, there’ll be a little chaos and a lot of collective joy.
What to bring
Your instrument of choice (if you have one)
Dress to be comfortable and able to move
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Co-presented by RISING, SHOUSE, and Platform Arts
Where
Platform Arts, 60 Little Malop Street, Geelong VIC 3220. Access via Gheringhap Street
When
Sunday 27 April, 11am–1pm. Doors open 10.30am
Access
Venue access information: Visit Us
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Last year, over 1000 music-lovers gathered in St Paul’s for RISING’s first Communitas. It was a massive act of co-creation and musical elation. The horns blew, the tambourines shook, the harmonies surged. Now Jack and Ed from SHOUSE, with their Communitas comrades, Deep Soulful Sweats are back at it, ready to help reach further and lift higher.
The idea emerged in the of wake of SHOUSE’s lock-down-era global hit ‘Love Tonight’. They returned home after touring and wanted to focus on music’s power, ritual and spontaneity instead of its commodification. One year on, their goal for Communitas remains simple but ambitious. Give the people music to make instead of consume.
This time, the big day will happen at Melbourne Town Hall, which can hold more voices, more music makers.
Like last time, the Communitas team is hosting a series of workshops in the lead up. Anyone of any musical ability can get involved. Bring an instrument. Bring your friends. Bring your family. Come solo.
Dissolve the walls between us. Let the joy rush in.
