Arts Garden Ep. 12 – Wildflower Roads, Spamalot Chaos, Musical Austen & Karaoke Art

Send us Fan MailA road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery.We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album. Then it’s full absurdist throttle with the cast of Spamalot from the Metropolitan Musical Theatre Company. Expect Monty Python chaos, coconut percussion, and a reminder that great ensemble work is the backbone of any show (even one involving shrubbery).We shift gears into classical and literary territory with Gillian Dooley, who brings Jane Austen set to music back to life, blending scholarship, performance, and new compositions that reveal Austen’s wit in an entirely new register.Finally, we head into Chinatown for On Site, a boundary-pushing OSCA project curated by Kim Munro, Yusuf Ali Hayat and Alice McCool transforming a karaoke bar into an immersive, multi-room art experience. Think experimental film, sound works, audience participation and a reimagining of what an arts space can be.