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May 2020
Footscray Community Arts Radio
Footscray Community Arts Radio creates space for unpacking creativity and exchanging ideas. It's a place where the outlying artistic voices are shared and heard. Delve into discussions of practice, intention, challenges and triumphs and we develop a deeper understanding of locally-made art. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Find out more »June 2020
Footscray Community Arts Writes
In isolation, where do we find joy, solace and support? Writers from Melbourne’s west and beyond discuss life and work in a COVID context. Discover our literary initiative, Footscray Community Arts Writes. Footscray Community Arts Writes 2020 is curated by Bigoa Chuol.
Find out more »January 2021
Footscray Community Arts Music
Footscray Community Arts Music is an online program for showcasing exceptional talent from Melbourne’s western suburbs and beyond. The program focuses on distinctive voices and original sounds, shining a spotlight on emerging and established artists against a visually stunning, ambient set design. We're thrilled to deliver performances from the incredible Pookie, Tiana Khasi, Kee’ahn, and Gordon Koang as part of Victoria Together, a dedicated platform for connecting Victorians to our state's best digital experiences and activities.
Find out more »March 2021
Online Workshops for Adults
Join local artists to learn about the creative process of their work and gain insightful tips on tapping into your creativity. These free online workshops are presented as part of Victoria Together, a dedicated platform for connecting Victorians to our state’s best digital experiences and activities.
Find out more »Online Workshops for Kids
Join local artists to learn about their creative process, and gain insightful tips on tapping into your creativity. This series of online workshops for kids are presented as part of Victoria Together, a dedicated platform for connecting Victorians to our state’s best digital experiences and activities.
Find out more »April 2021
Weaving Sustainable Culture
Boon Wurrung artist Mitch Mahoney and Yorta Yorta artist Donna Blackall present Weaving Sustainable Culture, a sculpture exhibition inspired by the Kulin Nation waterway protectors, the Balayang (Fruit Bat) and the Waa (Crow). Culminating in the form of canoes and woven fishing nets, these eco-sculptures were built by over 200 community members during educational workshops with the artists. The sculptures, in consultation with Elders and First Nations designers and environmental scientists, will pilot the revegetation of the Maribyrnong River as a way to…
Find out more »August 2021
Wrapped in Culture
In this international exchange, Indigenous artists and Elders present contemporary versions of the Australian-Aboriginal possum skin cloak and the North American-Aboriginal buffalo robe. The two distinct, yet similar artistic traditions are historically held for both sacred and practical purposes. Wrapped in Culture was developed in a three-week workshop at Ottawa Art Gallery in 2017. You can enjoy a digital iteration of this exhibition as part of Footscray Community Arts' online program. A 360° virtual exhibition and a series of exhibition…
Find out more »October 2021
Having a Disability
Esther Tuddenham’s poems explore narratives from her lived experience with themes of nostalgia, shyness and self-affirmation. As part of building her solo spoken word practice, Esther produced a video featuring her poem Having a Disability. The performance is set in a stylised bedroom referencing Esther’s experiences of childhood - in collaboration with set designer, Jen Tran, and videographer, Jackie Dixon.
Find out more »June 2022
What I Wish I’d Told You
'What I Wish I'd Told You', by Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano with Deaf community, centres Deaf voices, identity, language and culture. Auslan storytellers affirm Deaf experiences and diverse, complex identities, in an immersive exhibition of large scale video projections, which bring visitors into a Deaf world. In this collaboration of over seventy Deaf and hearing allies, empowered Deaf storytellers draw on decolonising strategies of truth-telling, provocation, and self-representation, to challenge audist colonisation of Deaf lives, bodies, language, and knowledges.…
Find out more »Same River Twice
If the flow of the water is constant, and the only constant is change, where does that leave memory? What does the river carry, and for how long? Ten writers and artists reflect on what water, place, memories and inheritances can contain. With Freya Alexander, Kelly Bartholomeusz, Gloria Demillo, Sam Elkin, Ryan Gustaffson, Gurmeet Kaur, Gabriella Munoz, Monique Nair, Hiếu Phung, Christy Tan Hosted by: Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh Same River Twice is an outcome of Footscray Community Arts West Writers program…
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