School Holiday Workshops: Extreme Arts
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWeek two of our popular School Holiday Arts Program, with an incredible line-up of artists and engaging activities for kids (6-12 years). The Extreme Arts program runs for three exciting days. Each day, children engage in a rotation through three workshops led by experienced professional artists and assistant teachers. Classes are grouped by age, ensuring…
TILDE Exhibition
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFull Scale Curated by Sapphic Flicks, Full Scale speaks to the wide-ranging diversity, visibility and musical talent of trans and gender expansive artists from Indigenous and diaspora communities. A collection of music videos, documentaries and online art. Works include queer opulence from Kee'ahn, Goddess Naavikaran, Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson. Date: 3 May—5 May 2024…
TILDE Film Festival
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaTILDE Film Festival: Three days, seven sessions, twenty-four films, two exhibitions, four filmmakers in conversation panels, two massive community events featuring world, international and Victorian premieres. We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of…
Smash to Blak Opening Night — First Nations curated by Merryn Trescott & Jamie Connor
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaSmash to Blak Opening Night — First Nations curated by Merryn Trescott & Jamie Connor Sapphic Flicks presents the Opening Night of TILDE, bringing First Nations trans folk, brotherboys and sistergirls together in celebration of our creativity, diversity of experience, and storytelling. It will be an opportunity for community and knowledge building; for our stories…
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…