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Future Reset Community Gathering
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, FootscrayABOUT Future Reset: Diasporic Dreaming is a project funded by VicHealth and created in 2022. It’s a collaboration between Footscray Community Arts and Next In Colour, aiming to support young people from African Diaspora communities. This event marks the closing of Diasporic Dreaming, and the official launch of the Research Zine: Re-imaging Utopias. It is…
One Day We’ll Understand
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray"Sim Chi Yin's miraculous counter-archive is brought to life ...Ong's percussive soundscape broadens the ambit of the story into something mythic ... an epic journey." The Straits Times One Day We'll Understand is a new multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance through the compelling family history of visual artist Sim Chi Yin. Set against the Malayan Emergency,…
Chronotopia
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, FootscrayDoes history move in a line, or in circles? Can we remake the past we inherit, before handing it on? Are memories and trauma inscribed in our bodies passed on generationally? Chronotopia is a specifically-curated exhibition accompanying Sim Chi Yin’s Asia TOPA performance, One Day We’ll Understand. The works in Chronotopia raise questions of trans-generational…