Sensing Ecologies at Monmar / Point Nepean

Next date: Saturday, 15 March 2025 | 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM

A gentle adventure with the Environmental Performance Authority.

Artist collective, Environmental Performance Authority (EPA) will facilitate a walking adventure at Monmar/Point Nepean, observing this complex biocultural landscape through the senses. Audience-participants’ experience will shift between a guided walk, participatory workshop and occasional site-responsive performances by the EPA.

Lean against a Moonah tree, explore varied textures and smells of foliage, observe the direction and effects of wind upon the body and the environment, listen to sounds near and far, imagine pasts and futures of this layered place…

The workshop offers participants a memorable and fun experience that fosters connection with local ecologies through sensory encounter, listening and witnessing.

EPA artists have been informed by Bunurong Knowledge Holders, ecologist Gidja Walker, and Parks Victoria staff during their Police Point AiR residencies on Bunurong and Boon wurrung Country at Monmar.

Accessibility – All ages welcome, if you can listen quietly!
Kids under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Please note, tracks are not all wheelchair accessible, and some are undulating.

Meeting point is at the Gunners Cottage: Drive through the main gate into Point Nepean National Park and continue past the Quarantine Station until you arrive at the Gunner's Cottage car park. This is the furthest point you can drive to. Please plan to arrive early to give yourself time to park and join the group. There are public toilets in this car park.
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Environmental Performance Authority (EPA)

EPA is an ecological performance group founded in 2013. We are concerned with how place makes us and how we make place. EPA artists include dancers, sound and installation artists, theatre directors and academics. We share an underpinning practice of Body Weather, deriving embodied insights from nuanced physical and perceptual observations in relation to our surrounding environments. We are guided by curiosity in the past, present and future of specific sites or places, and driven by care. Learn more about EPA here.

Image: A moment from EPA’s recent residency at Monmar/Point Nepean, 2024. Featuring EPA artist Bronwen Kamasz, photo by Laki Sideris. Image courtesy of EPA.