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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…

The Grief Cocoon Podcast Launch

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

Join 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…

Cultural Vocabularies: Vitu Vya Saana

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Footscray Community Arts is excited to present Cultural Vocabularies: Vitu Vya Saana, a creative conversation curated by Collective Futures and presented by Cave_Bureau: a Nairobi-based bureau of architects and researchers charting explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature. Cave_Bureau’s creative design practice addresses and works to decode both anthropological and geological contexts of the postcolonial…

Queer PHOTO: Footscray Precinct Tour

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

Join us at Footscray Community Arts and meet the Queer PHOTO's curator Brendan McCleary. Brendan will guide you through a series of indoor and outdoor exhibitions, talk you through the artists work and how it connects to the overarching theme of queer futures. See work from Salote Tawale, Lilah Benetti, Daniel Jack Lyons (LA), Derik…

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…

Panel Yarn – Language as Resistance with Mayunkiki

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

Join us for an evening panel discussion on Language as Resistance, where we delve into the profound intersections of language, Indigenous knowledge systems, and activism in art. Our panelists will offer unique insights into the power of language, identity, and cultural preservation in the face of historical oppression and contemporary challenges. We welcome lead panelist;…

Community Open Day

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

This year, we are celebrating 50 years in the local community. And like you, we are passionate about Melbourne’s West.   That’s why we’re revitalizing our riverside lawns, thanks to a vital $8.7 million investment from the Victorian State Government.   This will allow us to enhance disability access and increase the greenspace for all to enjoy.…

TILDE: AFTRS PRESENTS WOMEN ON SET

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

Conversational Panel Consent educator, intimacy coordinator and performer Bayley Turner (Neighbours, Krystal Klairvoyant) sits down with leading actresses for a frank in-conversation about how we as a community can play a critical part in supporting trans women to thrive in the film industry. Featuring screen icon Ramon Te Wake (The Boy, the Queen & Everything…

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