Life Drawing
ArtLife Studio 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaJoin renowned artist and teacher Darien Pullen as he teaches detailed Life Drawing classes. Darien’s sessions are based around the development of observational skills and they are suitable for artists of any level and ability. The unique advantage of Darien’s Life Drawing classes, is his tutelage. Rather than attempting to draw the human form with no…
Draft Disability & Inclusion Action Plan
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts is seeking feedback on our Draft Disability & Inclusion Action Plan through an online survey. This survey asks for specific feedback on our goals and action areas and is confidential and anonymous. Our Disability and Inclusion Action Plan aims to integrate accessible ways of working, developing, and presenting art, and was created…
Between Islands
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaBetween Islands is an afternoon of performance and conversation exploring the artists and ideas of the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili. Between Islands deeply and joyfully explores a key theme of the Biennial: the survival and transmission of knowledge outside of Western Culture. The knowledge systems sustained and practiced by the artists of ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili – ancestral, trans,…
Winter Voices
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts is excited to present the Winter Voices, two nights of captivating musical performances that explore the space between the traditional and contemporary. On night one, gracing the stage is Ajak Kwai, a renowned South-Sudanese Australian songwoman of contemporary South Sudanese music. On night two, skilled Indian-Australian violinist Bhairavi Raman and Nanthesh Sivarajah…
Cultural Vocabularies: Vitu Vya Saana
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts is excited to present Cultural Vocabularies: Vitu Vya Saana, a creative conversation curated by Collective Futures and presented by Cave_Bureau: a Nairobi-based bureau of architects and researchers charting explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature. Cave_Bureau’s creative design practice addresses and works to decode both anthropological and geological contexts of the postcolonial…
Ancestral Words
The Ian Potter Centre Federation Square, Flinders St &, Russell St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAncestral Words is a performance event that celebrates the transformative power of storytelling, which has been passed down through generations as a tool for healing and resilience. Through spoken word and poetry, Ancestral Words creates a space for diverse voices to have a platform to share their lived experiences, creating an inclusive environment where audiences…
Footscray Art Prize 2023
The biennial Footscray Art Prize exhibition is officially open. With the 43 finalists' works on display at Roslyn Smorgon Gallery and Henderson House and the Young Artists Prize entrants works in the Basement theatre, the exhibition is a one of a kind celebration of outstanding multidisciplinary art. Find out more about the winning artist here.…
Journey to Footscray
Expressions of interests are now open for Journey to Footscray, a public art commission by the new Footscray Hospital that will celebrate stories of migration to Melbourne’s western suburbs. We are encouraging artists from the migrant/diaspora communities of Melbourne's western suburbs to apply. Artists can apply in any language – with applications to be submitted…
GUÀI
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaUnleash your inner monster with this AI-charged avatar experience. Ever wondered what kind of monster lives inside? Guài can show you. Presented by Melbourne Fringe and Footscray Community Arts, this immersive augmented-reality mirror uses state-of-the-art technology to map your face (and emotions), and then transforms you into a fantastical monster avatar that reflects the uniqueness…
BRIGHT
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia'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…