'Bright is about colour, joy and playful freedom' – Pamela Debrincat, curator. Bright is an art exhibition with a radical curatorial process, bringing together five installations without a defined beginning or end. Bright ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect with each work to contribute to its meaning. Bright emphasises our need…
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…
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…
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We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands, and through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thank the Elders in Residence – N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM and Uncle Larry Walsh – and the Indigenous Advisory Group for their ongoing guidance and leadership at Footscray Community Arts.