Aurora Surf - Saltwater Stories and Film

Join us for a special evening with Film Director Mick Sowry, who amongst many other creative pursuits, helped craft a Saltwater story and film unlike any other. Expect to be enthralled by the tension and resolution created in one of the most beautiful places on earth.  

Film: Musica Surfica

Join a group of surfer adventurer's and musicians as they gather on the edge of the Southern Ocean for a grand experiment, to explore the meeting place within classical music and fin-less wave riding on King Island. 

• When: Friday 10th January
• Where: The Mozart Hall
• When: 6:45pm
• Cost: $20 Adult  $10 Teen

Special guest: Mick Sowry who is a storyteller, artist, and surfer. https://www.micksowry.com/

He is the award-winning writer, producer and director of two films for performance with orchestra, The Reef (2012), and The Reef Redux (2015), and also the documentary Musica Surfica (2008). All were made in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He is the concept creator, creative director and co-publisher of Great Ocean Quarterly, a journal of art, ideas and the sea. His work has featured in The Surfer's Journal, Surfing World, Surfline, Great Ocean Quarterly, and Roaring Journals. 

Musica Surfica In brief:

“All roads led to Musica Surfica, and to starkly beautiful King Island, where it was mostly filmed. The film was a collaboration between the wonderfully sensitive surf film director Mick Sowry, Tognetti, Hynd, Wegener and adventurous surfers like Tom Carroll and Belinda Baggs. The crew surfed and filmed all day, then played music and filmed by night, inviting locals to be their audience at a classic old dairy shed found by Hynd. The music and the surfing explored the limits of possibility, and while not always pretty, it was always wonderful.”