Queer PowerPoint
Queer PowerPoint is a new experimental performance series, which invites queer artists from across the world to explore and share an idea, current obsession, or ongoing fascination using that most staid and ubiquitous of programming tools: PowerPoint.
Get ready for a night of corporate presentations and personal optimisation, where a bunch of queers deep-dive into highly niche content in a very gay way. It’s the funnest, cutest, cheekiest, and sexiest uni lecture you’ll ever go to.
Got an idea you'd like to share with the Sunshine Coast? Be part of the show: click here to submit an EOI by Wed 9 April.
Reclaiming and queering the corporate presentation from our straight capitalist overlords, creators Xanthe Dobbie and Harriet Gillies host this night of surprising stories, secret passions and starwipes.
Commissioning artists to create a new 10-minute performance lecture about absolutely anything, the only rules are they have to be queer af, and they have to use Microsoft PowerPoint.
Please note, this is a show for all regardless of sexual preferences.
— The Conversation
“Queer PowerPoint is smart, raucous and hugely inventive. Who knew the exploding text transitions embedded in this dowdy graphic interface could be so profoundly and creatively employed?”
Creative Team
- Co-creators & Co-hosts – Harriet Gillies & Xanthe Dobbie
- Co-creator & Creative Producer – Thom Smyth
Harriet Gillies
Harriet Gillies is an award-winning performance artist working across a range of performance modes. She has performed in immersive and interactive projects such as Pony Express’ Ecosexual Bathhouse, pvi collective’s Blackmarket and Hermann Nitsch’s 150 Actions.
Xanthe Dobbie
Xanthe Dobbie is an Australian new media artist and filmmaker. Working across on- and offline modes of making, Dobbie’s practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era.
Thom Smyth
Thom Smyth is a producer and marketer with a keen interest in socially-engaged performance. Thom is a Producer with national creative producing company Performing Lines. He was Director of arts marketing company Little Shout; was Marketing Manager at Proximity Festival – Australia’s only one-on-one performance platform; was Marketing & Communications Manager at The Blue Room Theatre; was Marketing Manager for Barefaced Stories.
Acknowledgements
Queer Powerpoint is presented by Horizon 2025 in partnership with Solbar.
Queer Powerpoint is a social performance event with dialogue in English and AUSLAN - presented in an indoor, licensed venue.
There are refreshments and food available for purchase at Solbar.
Wheelchair Accessibility
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Level Access
Ramp access available.
Bathroom Access
Solbar has bathrooms available.
Any other access requirements
We welcome all audiences to Horizon and strive to make every event and performance as accessible as possible.
We are always open to discussing your individual requirements to assist wherever possible. If you’d like to speak to someone about your access requirements, please contact us during business hours at (07) 5475 7272 or [email protected].
Companion Cards
Horizon is proud to support the Companion Card program. Companion Card holders are eligible for a second ticket at no cost for their companion.
To access a complimentary companion ticket, please contact our team via [email protected].
This event features
- a bright screen with animations and potential onscreen nudity and pornography.
- Coarse language
- Amplified sound and music
- Strictly 18+
If you are travelling by car there is free, three-hour parking available at the Big Top Shopping Centre carpark located on Ocean Street. Parking is limited, we advise you use alternative transport, carpool or park and walk.
Solbar is within easy walking distance of the Maroochydore Station Bus Interchange. Plan your journey to festival from the Translink Website.
Car Parking is limited on Ocean Street so ride your bike to the Duporth Ave bike parking hub. You can lock your bike in the Council facility that has 24hr security cameras active.