TILDE: OUR FUTURE
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening & filmmaker in-conversation There is a wave of trans and gender expansive culture building strength. Australia's young filmmakers are breaking through with poignant and deeply complex storytelling. Featuring the world premiere of the delicately beautiful Black Trans Miracle by Tinaye Nyathi, with screenings and in-conversations with filmmakers Luka Gracie (More Than This), AP Pobjoy…
TILDE: OUR ELDERS
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening Celebrating our icons. Celebrating elders who ensured future spaces like TILDE. Through rarely seen experimental and archival hidden gems, we open up an opportunity for our elders to look at us, as much as we look at them. Representing Takatāpui, activists and genderqueer life from the ‘70s, ‘80s and today. Starring Icons Carmen Rupe,…
TILDE: GAY24 Presents TRANS DOMESTICITY
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreenings Guest Curated by Jini Maxwell & Samantha Eckhardt At TILDE in 2024, GAY24 are hosting the international premiere of Henry Hanson’s DOG MOVIE; a film about a tenderqueer couple whose eternal couch surfer who seems immune to their passive-aggressive insinuations that it might be time for her to find a new place – until…
TILDE: PREMIERE SHORTS
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening 'Trans stories are elevated when trans and gender diverse collectives lead the narrative.' Our premiere shorts epitomise this festival theme, centering TGD directors, producers, cast and crew. From the sublimely absurd Australian premiere of In their dreams all jellyfish are wet to the visionary mind of director Karimah Zakia Issa in Scaring Women At…
TILDE: AFTRS PRESENTS WOMEN ON SET
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaConversational 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…
TILDE: OUR DESIRE LINES – COMMUNITY NIGHT
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening & Panel Discussion A cinematic pairing that provides refreshingly honest perspectives on sex and relationships through a trans masculine lens. It is a rare occurrence to feel seen and understood, hopeful and motivated, deeply grateful for and connected to community, whilst also entertained and aroused, all at once. Opening this session is the short…
Chinese Restaurant Playground
Entrance Gallery & Gabriel Gallery 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Victoria, AustraliaChinese Restaurant Playground by Steffie Yee 余淑婷, is an exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of her parents’ Chinese restaurant. The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of finished works, and works in progress, exploring the artist’s experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations,…
Sutures
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts is delighted to present Sutures, an exhibition by Sophie Cassar that explores the sexual politics of disability through photography, text, and artist books. Sutures emerges from Cassar’s research into online archives of disability-based fetish material. These works confront the often-blurred lines between medical intervention and non-consensual touch. In her artist books, Cassar…
Toddler Jam
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWhen: Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30—11:15am Term 3: 18 July—20 September 2024 Ages: 9 months—5 years old. A weekly music party for toddlers & pre-schoolers to ROCK OUT with parents and care-givers! Bubs and children 1—5 years are welcome to join in, exploring singing, dancing, percussion, Auslan and self-expression. Created by Razz Mussen, this class is…
In Place
Amphitheatre VIC, AustraliaIn a society turned upside down who will lead us? In Place is a journey of hierarchy told through acrobatics and grounded in cultural connection. The culmination of 12 months dedication, this world-premiere performance erupts into Footscray’s outdoor amphitheatre with a subversive and challenging First Nations led circus. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have…