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Mungangga Garlagula Perth

State Theatre Centre of WA

7:30pm, Monday 11 August 2025

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Produced by Tura

Program

Mungangga Garlagula (70 Minutes)
Co-Created and Performed by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim

Mungangga Garlagula (Wajarri for “yarning by the fire”) is a deeply human story of homecoming, told through spoken word, soundscape and music. Co-created and performed by Yamatji artist Mark Atkins and Finnish-Australian composer Erkki Veltheim, the work celebrates the life and career of one of Australia’s most respected First Nations musicians and poets.

Audiences are invited to join Atkins by the fire and travel with him across shifting boundaries of memory and myth, light and shadow, the reverberating past and the emerging future.

Atkins and Veltheim perform live on stage in this theatrical production. Exceptional Australian musicians Genevieve Lacey, Vanessa Tomlinson, Stephen Magnusson, Anthony Pateras and Scott Tinkler have also created and recorded a shifting bed of sound that is integral to the work. Co-created with Mark and Erkki from the outset, the recorded score and live elements form a unified sonic and narrative experience.

Mungangga Garlagula captivated audiences in the south west of WA before a celebrated 2025 season at the Canberra International Music Festival. This one-night-only Perth performance offers audiences an opportunity to experience the culmination of this five-year creative journey.

Mon, 11 Aug, 2025

7:30pm

Mungangga Garlagula Perth

$35-50 Adult, $25-40 Concession, $15-30 Students, $35-50 Groups 10+, $20 School Groups 12+

Perth

Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA

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Mungangga Garlagula | Co Created and Performed by Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim

Mark Atkins | Co-creator and Director

"Mungangga Garlagula has been a journey I have wanted to travel for so long and it’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Erkki and the creatives to nurture this into being." - Mark Atkins

Acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest didjeridu players, Mark Atkins is also recognised internationally for his collaborative projects with some of the world’s leading composers and musicians. A descendant of Western Australia’s Yamitji people, as well as of Irish/Australian heritage, Mark is known not only for his masterly playing, but also as a storyteller, composer, percussionist, visual artist and instrument maker. Mark has performed alongside and composed with artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O’Connor, Philip Glass, Donald Lunney, Ornette Coleman, Peter Sculthorpe, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Gondwana, Jenny Morris, John Williamson, James Morrison, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). He is a founding member of Black Arm Band.

Erkki Veltheim | Co-creator

"Mungangga Garlagula transports audiences to a world where dreams and reality merge, and the everyday coexists with the mythological.” - Erkki Veltheim

Erkki Veltheim is an Australian/Finnish composer and performer. His practice spans noise, audiovisual installation, improvisation, notated music, electroacoustic composition, pop arrangements and cross-disciplinary performance. Erkki has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsink and composed the orchestral works for celebrated Australian indigenous musician Gurrumul's posthumous album Djarimirri.