Reef 360… what is it?

The ‘Awe Experience’ takes us on a journey. It entices us into a mini revolution, an internal revolt that opens us.

Without asking for permission, it evolves our perceptions, our beliefs and the way we relate to the world around us. It is an experience that turns on a light inside us when we least expect it!

I gave my first successful u

nderwater concert test off Michaelmas Cay in the Great Barrier Reef. I have invested more than a 150k into my underwater gear, transportation and filming thus far. I wish is to do it again next year for two months this time, with a ten person crew.

I initially reached out to IKONIX, an Australian based team of professionals producing bespoke content and immersive environments using video, lighting, audio and architecture for a three part installation for museums. After reviewing my vision, they asked if I’d consider turning my initial three piece underwater concert installation into something much bigger.

Big Mother Touring is now doing the leg work needed to present Reef 360 in domes that will tour regional towns and cities across Australia over a five-year period of time, starting in regional towns in the first year.

Reef 360 is an opportunity for people across Australia to ensure coral species survive whilst we follow through with innovative solutions to cool reefs, like using the natural currents to distribute the deeper cooler water across the reef as a whole. This could be initiated right now! Add in Greening Australia’s initiative to repair the gullies and restore the wetlands that effect the GRB together we create a cocktail of NGOs working together to inspire a focused movement for ocean-centric and land management NGOs to work together. As I see it this is what we need onthe planet right now.

There are many individual organisations, scientist and environmentalists working singularly, but what happens they could work together. If you have an Oboe player playing alone in a concert hall or a cello it is not as effective to communicate a complete piece of music. But many instruments working together can create something magnificent to behold.

The environmental concern is the song, the individual organisations are the instruments in the orchestra. Working together in concert is the solution, and ultimate beautiful story!

This one-of-a-kind (((WOW!!!))) entertainment and educational experience gives children and adults the opportunity to participate in initiatives such as (but not limited to) adopting a coral species [GBR Legacy], hands-on repairing and restoring gullies and wetlands [Greening Australia], and adopting local marine reserves where invasive species require management [South East Marine Park Network and GBR Marin Park], and encourage them to come up with novel and unique solutions to issues at a local level.

We are committed to engaging young minds with an engineering design competition at universities to come up with innovative ways we can cool our reefs for future generations using wave energy to pump deeper cooler water across the natural currents that distribute water across the GBR in order to reduce future coral bleaching events.

Reef 360 is on the road to entertain, educate and connect marine scientists with primary, high school and university educators, giving children and adults the opportunity to literally adopt a coral species whilst being a part of a national GBR education fundraising initiative; plus other initiatives mentioned above; and more that will be announced.

“As coral reefs worldwide decline due to climate change, severe storm events and coral disease, the Great Barrier Reef Legacy team have decided it is time for ground breaking action to help preserve our reefs. Current approaches to securing the health and biodiversity of corals are not working, and with each coral bleaching event we are losing vulnerable coral species and reefs around the world.

Therefore, GBR Legacy have officially partnered with Corals of the World and Cairns Marine to safeguard the biodiversity of all known hard coral species by creating the worlds first Living Coral Biobank.” – Great Barrier Reef Legacy

I personally feel we need to invest and build bridges into regional areas around the world by bringing top shelf music-driven spectacle to seed emerging solutions into communities who are often left out.

The Reef 360  includes viewings for the general public which include: Xtreme Sport, Live Music and Dancing Under-the-Sea, as well as mindful activities like yoga under the sea in the mornings before three school sessions. We plan to interface directly with schools in each town during the day. Laree Thorsby, Reef 360’s Tour and Education Coordinator is a teacher and tutor which makes her the perfect person to lead the educational modules.

Inspired by the Cirque du Soleil touring model, the domes will travel from town to town. They will be up for two weeks or more depending on the size of the town or city bringing the spectacle and awe of the ocean to regional towns that are normally left out of being exposed to exceptional out-of-the-box entertainment.

Cirque du Soleil took the world by storm. It created a blue ocean of new market space. Its blue ocean strategic move challenged the conventions of the circus industry. Cirque’s productions have been seen by more than 150 million spectators in more than 300 cities around the world.

A compelling aspect of Cirque du Soleil’s success is that it did not win by taking customers from the already shrinking circus industry, which historically catered to children. Instead, it created uncontested market space that made the competition irrelevant. It appealed to a whole new group of customers: adults and corporate clients prepared to pay a price several times as great as traditional circuses for an unprecedented entertainment experience לויטרה 20 מ”ג מחיר.”

Cirque du Soleil succeeded because it realized that to win in the future, companies

must stop competing in red oceans. Instead, they should create blue oceans of uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant. ‒ Blue Ocean Strategy

By taking stunning, moving inspired entertainment that focuses on simple things we can do together – on the road – to where it is most needed on the planet, which are rural areas, we can create a Blue Ocean Strategy for the environment that opens hearts and minds.

As a performing artist and environmental activist living in the time of covid-19, innovation and adaptation is paramount. Seizing the opportunity to turn Reef 360 into a touring

vehicle is innovation in action.

THANK YOU IKONIX FOR THE INSPIRATION!

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THANK YOU PROSPERO PRODUCTIONS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Big Mother Touring and Reef 360 are targeting 80 regional towns over the next five years. Scroll down for a list of towns and theatres I have pollinated for many years now.

Below are two of the songs that inspired me to want to sing to whales and dolphins. They are also a part of a new album of music and a new 3D mapping show called It’s All a Beautiful Noise… Enjoy!

I am currently looking for like-minded individuals and organisations to support us in making Reef 360 a reality. Please contact us at admin@bigmotherentertainment.com if you are interested in learning more.

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The Playhouse, Canberra

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