Events
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TILDE SESSION SIX: PAT DOUBLE FEATURE
Footscray Drill Hall 395 Barkly St, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFor TILDE’s closing night, we’re hosting a massive PAT DOUBLE BILL screening! In collaboration with Snuff Puppets, TILDE is taking over the Footscray Drill Hall to create our very own cinema hideaway. We’ll be screening filmmaker Rowan Haber’s We Are Pat, which revisits the ’90s film It’s Pat through a 2025 lens — exploring trans…
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In Conversation with Ming Liew and Mark Wang
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaQuestions About A Word is a multi-channel video essay that explores the experience of linguistic barriers. It investigates an English-learning technique that annotates English phonetics with Chinese characters—a method adopted by both the Chinese gold miners and myself, despite being separated by more than 150 years. Through various visual and linguistic strategies, the work associates…
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ArtLife Studio – No One Forgets the Colour
Entrance Gallery & Gabriel Gallery 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Victoria, AustraliaNo One Forgets the Colour No One Forgets the Colour is a showcase honouring the artists of Artlife Studio. It is a vibrant, heartfelt celebration of our much loved, decades-long arts and disability program. Through painting, printmaking, sculpture, and digital works, the artists reflect on what it means to create together, to share stories, laughter,…
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Traces of Play
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaPlay, for our parents’ and grandparents’ generation, was predominantly out on the streets, using the unique architecture around them as a playspace, and everyday objects as playthings. My mother would often reminisce the games she used to play with her siblings, cousins, and neighbours on the communal rooftop of the building she grew up in…
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Interwoven: our generative network
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaPleated Whisper is a single-channel video accompanied by a wearable sculpture made of folded and cut white paper and red thread. Filmed after hours in Queen Victoria Market, the work documents a solo performance in which I move through the emptied market, climbing onto display tables and shelves—gestures that intentionally diverge from the typical behaviors…
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MAKE SOME SPACE
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaMAKE SOME SPACE Young people have a LOT going on. They are suing the government, being voted into local Council, filing human rights complaints with the UN and storming the streets for change across the globe. MAKE SOME SPACE hands the microphone to 10 emerging artists aged 15-25 to talk about what’s keeping them up…
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TILDE: TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE FILM FESTIVAL 2026
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWe 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 acknowledge and offer our respect to all sistergirls and brotherboys. Always Was, Always…
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Community First, Creativity Always.
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFor more than five decades, Footscray Community Arts has been a home for bold ideas, local voices, and community-led creativity in Melbourne’s west. What's behind our historical success? One thing: people choosing to support us. Every exhibition, performance, mentorship, gathering, and First Nations-led project at Footscray Community Arts begins with an investment in our communities…
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The Supposed To Be
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaKavitha once dreamed of becoming an actor, but migrant pressure pushed her into the corporate world. Then the Supposed To Be program offered her a second chance: a cloned child named Kaye, raised in a family designed to help her become the artist Kavitha was supposed to be. There’s only one rule: Kavitha must watch…
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VU Play – Playwork Pop-Up Projects
Myrtle Lawn (Various) 45 Moreland St, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaVictoria University will be providing a free weekly pop-up play space at Footscray Community Arts front lawns where VU early-childhood education students are on hand to facilitate play by providing a variety of items (loose parts) for children to explore, create and engage with. Early-childhood education students are on hand to facilitate play by providing…
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