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Home Stretch // A love song to the Tathra-Bermagui Road. 

The Tathra-Bermagui road is iconic to our region. A much-loved 35km stretch running parallel to the pristine coastline, its winding journey encompasses the Four Winds site, spotted gum forests, coastal vistas, rolling hills and rural farmland. Along the way are pristine beaches, streams and lakes in national parks, Yuin and settler historic sites and stories, a winery, galleries, charming wooden community halls, and – most memorably – five historic and pleasingly percussive old wooden bridges.

Locals know each twist of the road like the back of our hand. For us, the Tathra-Bermagui Road is simply the home stretch.

Part creative celebration, part cultural document, part adventure journey, through the dark times of 2021, five teams of artists from our abundantly creative region created a short site-specific performance video inspired by, and performed on, one of the iconic wooden bridges along the Tathra-Bermagui Rd.

For the 2022 Four Winds Festival the resulting series of videos, entitled Home Stretch, will be installed in locations along the road and its surrounding landscapes, creating an immersive experience for locals and visitors to the region alike.

Drive along the route south from Wallaga Lake Bridge through Bermagui or north from Tathra to see all five films in situation or visit the Bega Civic Centre to see all five as a suite, linked by a specially commissioned poem.

ARTISTS:
WALAWAANI
Requia Campbell, Cheryl Davison, Kobi Davison, Michelle Davison, Tamsin Davison, Maria Walker, Shakeela Williams.

THE TRAVELLER
David Hewitt.

QUIET TOWN
Melanie Horsnell with Heath Cullen, David Ross Macdonald, Tamlyn Magee, Pete Wild.

THE CROSSING
Olivia McPherson, Lee Pemberton, Paul Hopper, Alan MacKay and David Hewitt.

DOWN BY THE WATER
Ilsa Morandini, Julie Morandini, Mica Mahani, Deborah Nave, Amalia-Grace Thompson, Danya Thompson.

The Home Stretch suite is accompanied by The Space Between Everything – a specially commissioned poem by Raechelle Kennedy.

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Home Stretch // Four Winds

Four Winds (FW) announces 2024 Artistic Leadership Team, and a year of review, recalibration, and renewal.

Four Winds’ home on the Far South Coast of NSW provides an exquisite and unique experience of music in nature. It is also a location and community that has weathered devastating fires and floods amidst the challenges of COVID.To create a sustainable, evolving and relevant vision for the future, Four Winds has decided to pause the 2024 Easter Festival and instead present a varied program of concerts and events over the year, including a curated collection of smaller scale performances at Easter.

Four Winds First Nations Director, Cheryl Davison, Create and Inspire Director, David Hewitt, will be joined by Lindy Hume AM PhD (Artistic Director FW Festivals ‘21, ‘22) and Timothy Walker AM CBE as the Artistic Leadership Team to curate the 2024 program.

In addition to the Easter program, there will be a Spring Youth Music Festival, a First Nations program; and partnerships with Musica Viva, Music in the Regions, Cobargo Folk Festival, and Wanderer Festival.

2024 will be the time for Four Winds to review and renew its vision for the next five to ten years. This is an exciting moment to engage with Four Winds community which includes 30 years of musical alumni, partners and importantly our local diverse audience and artists.

Later this month FW is hosting the Annual Spring Youth Music Festival titled ‘Bunaan Garindja’, Dog Trumpet – a Murrah Hall collaboration, and a second residency week for Affinity Quartet. In addition, in early December we welcome back Erkki Veltheim and Sabina Maselli to continue their sound investigation work.

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