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Teaching First Nations Perspectives

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Learn how to embed First Nations perspectives in your classroom with Footscray Community Arts' First Nations led Professional Development Program. Teachers are encouraged to expand their knowledge of First Nations' histories and culture as well as gain the confidence to present these viewpoints in sensitive and impactful ways. These sessions will have a focus on…

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Kal Angam-Kal: Panel and Screening

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

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…

Colourful Movement – An ArtLife Showcase

Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

Footscray Community Arts is excited to present the ArtLife Showcase for 2023 - an exhibition of new, eclectic and dynamic work from over 40 d/Deaf and Disabled artists in ArtLife Studio.   Walk through our current major exhibition BRIGHT - curated by ArtLife Studio artist Pamela Debinacrat – and embrace the colour, joy and playful freedom…

Queer PHOTO: The Zizi Show

Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Australia

The Zizi Project explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and drag performance. Drag challenges gender and explores otherness, while AI is often mystified as a concept and tool, it is complicit in reproducing social bias. Zizi combines these themes through a deepfake, synthesised drag identity created using machine learning. The project explores what AI…

Queer PHOTO

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

Queer PHOTO presents a collection of photographic exhibitions, outdoor activations and immersive public events that explore identity, culture, and resilience.  Seen through the queer gaze, personal narratives intertwine with intimacy and sexuality, inviting you to witness the convergence of traditional cultural boundaries, contemporary bodies, and sex positivity. Indoor Exhibitions: 3 February — 26 May 2024…

Queer PHOTO: Black and Blur

Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Australia

What if Black Queerness could be more than embodied? Through this series featuring portraits of migrant and Indigenous Black individuals and rooted in the unique context of what is commonly referred to as Australia, Lilah Benetti's work recognises that Blackness is far from a monolithic identity; rather, a mosaic of cultural, ethnic, and global Indigenous…

Queer PHOTO: Alteration

Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Australia

A decade of groundbreaking work from queer Polynesian artist collective FAFSWAG. Meeting at the intersections of cultural archival practices, digital technology and queer Indigenous storytelling, Alteration presents a glimpse into the shapeshifting practice of FAFSWAG, an Aotearoa-based queer Polynesian arts collective. This outdoor exhibition at Footscray Community Arts complements a major showing at The Substation.…

Queer PHOTO: Like A River

Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Australia

Daniel Jack Lyon's portrait photography 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 deep Indigenous traditions and modern identity politics…

Queer PHOTO: Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black) Film Screening and Q&A

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

Join us at the opening of this screening on Saturday 3 February, as part of Queer Out West site takeover; for a screening of the award-winning documentary ‘Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)’ created by Derik Lynch and Matthew Thorne. The film follows Yankunytjatjara queer artist Derik Lynch who takes a road trip back to Country…