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The Purple Shall Govern: Screens of Resistance

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

The Purple Shall Govern, an exhibition and expansive public program presented by artist Roberta Joy Rich, explores the resilience of people during Apartheid-era South Africa, alongside those living on the unceded sovereign lands of Australia. Through re-framing history and her own family narratives, Roberta hopes to shed light on how the past informs our experiences in…

When the typhoon blows off its cocoon, the butterfly embraces the sun

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Inspired by the legacy of independent filmmaker, Kidlat Tahimik, and the voices of contemporary Filipinx artists living and working on Kulin and Gadigal Lands, Saluhan presents an end of year screening series and party, co-presented by Footscray Community Arts. Films and presenter information: Cinema Bahala Na (RJ Dela Rosa) TAO PO Tenejero Balanga, Bataan Philippines…

Faces of Footscray

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

What makes the West a thriving and vibrant community to be a part of? Our people of course!  Located on the hoarding of the New Footscray Hospital site (Geelong Road, Federal Street end), Faces of Footscray is a photographic portrait series celebrating the people of the West. A community arts collaboration between Footscray Community Arts…

Kal Angam-Kal: Stories from West Papua

Gabriel Gallery

Kal angam-kal: Stories from West Papua is a documentary exhibition that brings together Elders and Young people from the Narrm (Melbourne) based West Papuan community in a series of youth-led intergenerational interviews. Kal angam-kal is a proverb in the indigenous language of the Amungme tribe of Timika, West Papua meaning “the word has been spoken…

Kal Angam-Kal: Panel and Screening

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Join us for a screening of documentary Land of the Morning Star (dir. Mark Worth, 2004, 55mins). Land of the Morning Star reveals the turbulent history of West Papua, swept up in the power-play of international politics. Through eyewitness accounts and rare archival film, this fascinating documentary paints a picture that is intimate in detail…

Queer PHOTO: The Zizi Show

Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Australia

The Zizi Project explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while AI is often mystified as a concept and tool, it is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what AI…

Queer PHOTO: Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black) Film Screening and Q&A

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Join us at the opening of this screening on Saturday 3 February, as part of Queer Out West site takeover; for a screening of the award-winning documentary ‘Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)’ created by Derik Lynch and Matthew Thorne. The film follows Yankunytjatjara queer artist Derik Lynch who takes a road trip back to Country…

Queer PHOTO: Lilah Benetti Artist Talk

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Join Lilah Benetti in this one-off in conversation, along side South Sudanese artist and writer Atong Atem. Shot on film, this series features portraits of migrant and Indigenous Black individuals, rooted in the unique context of what is commonly referred to as Australia. The word recognise that Blackness is far from a monolithic identity; rather,…

Queer PHOTO: Film Screening and Q&A with Clifford Prince King (USA)

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Coming all the way from New York City, Clifford Prince King is teaming up with Queer PHOTO in a documentation of Queer Black Joy through photography and film. Meet the artist in a discussion following an exclusive screening of two of their short films that explore queerness, HIV, and intimate relationships. ‘Kiss of Life’ is…

Queer PHOTO: Daniel Jack Lyons (USA) Artist Talk

Daniel Jack Lyons portrait photography in their new work, ‘Like a River’ visualises and empowers the trans and queer communities living in the Amazon rainforest, made in collaboration with Casa Do Rio, a community-based organisation that celebrates and supports the cultural lives of teenagers and young people living in the Amazon. Lyons’ portraits explore how…