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BOLDER
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia“My favourite thing about this exhibition is that it is in my style and I recognise myself” – Steven Tran BOLDER is an interdimensional art exhibition that celebrates visibility and individuality by artist Steven Tran. Building on his first solo exhibition, BOLD in 2021, BOLDER takes Steven’s drawings and paintings to new realms with Augmented…
Wominjeka Festival
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaUpdate: Wominjeka festival will be going ahead this Saturday rain, hail, or shine! The area along the Maribyrnong River where the festival is taking place is not flood affected. The protection of our community – our visitors, our artists, our elders and our staff – remains our top priority. To make it safe for community, we…
STREET PARTY
Nicholson Street Mall‘Street Party’ brings the west’s local food, music and entertainment icons to Footscray for a street party that has something to offer audiences of all ages. Experience the sounds of live bands, the flavours and textures of the west’s diverse cuisines and see Footscray’s Nicholson Street mall turn into a wonderland of celebration and sensory…
Future Reset: Focus Group Gatherings
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFuture Reset: Young People, Arts and Mental Wellbeing is a three-year program funded by VicHealth committed to engage with communities through using collaborative co-design frameworks and processes to create a series of creative activations. The purpose is to ignite social connection among young, creative Victorians and to enhance their mental wellbeing. As part of this…
Do Your Worst
Entrance GalleryDo Your Worst by Yuchen Xin explores curious perceptions of the world and the absurdities of everyday life. Through the reconstruction of found objects from second-hand shops, dollar shops and urban environments, Xin finds personal history in each item, demonstrating the magic of the uncanny and thereby building strange narratives that aim to question our identity. Individual hand formed objects are placed together to inhabit the…
HIDDEN Footscray
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaDelve deep enough beneath the cosmopolitan charm of Footscray and you can find hidden stories of lost heritage, unknown traditional cultural practices, forgotten memories and more. Presented by Maribyrnong City Council, the HIDDEN Footscray exhibition features artworks by six local artists including David Hourigan, Deb Bain-King, Jody Haines, Kerrie Poliness, Jason Waterhouse, Felicity Watson and…
Let’s Dance: Bollywood
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaSupported by VicHealth, Let’s Dance is a series of FREE kid’s dance classes. The classes are a great way to get kids moving and a chance for them to engage with dance from different cultural traditions. Come along, learn some new moves, meet other kids and have fun! Bollywood Dance with Joshinder Chaggar. Learn the…
These Bodies of Video Works
Gabriel GalleryThese Bodies of Video Works by Scotty So is a solo exhibition which explores the relationship between performance and the performer’s body through the mediums of video and objects. These new works, which incorporate So's practice of drag performance and his recent experience learning to sing as a countertenor, offer a personal and nuanced perspective…
Faces of Footscray
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWhat 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…
The Grief Cocoon Podcast Launch
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaJoin host Gaby Georges and podcast guests to celebrate the launch of The Grief Cocoon Podcast - a podcast about having open, honest, and thoughtful conversations with creatives about grief, loss, death and, ultimately, life. In each episode, Gaby speaks with local artists and creatives about how they’ve used their creative practice to process and…