Life Drawing 2022
Big Fish Studio 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VICLife Drawing is a weekly class that provides a wonderful opportunity to work from a life model alongside a friendly community of people. Renowned artist Darien Pullen’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…
Open Studio 2022
Big Fish Studio 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VICOpen Studios is an ideal way of sustaining your art practice and connecting with a community of artists. Facilitated by professional artist Darien Pullen, this course is designed for budding and advanced artists and art students who are looking for the opportunity to expand their creative practice and artist network. You will get to work…
Wominjeka Festival
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaUpdate: Wominjeka festival will be going ahead this Saturday rain, hail, or shine! The area along the Maribyrnong River where the festival is taking place is not flood affected. The protection of our community – our visitors, our artists, our elders and our staff – remains our top priority. To make it safe for community, we…
Neighbourhood
An ode to Western Melbourne. Co-presented by Footscray Community Arts and The Substation, Neighbourhood spans across a number of notable venues including The Bowery Theatre, Incinerator Gallery, West Space, as well as along the West’s train lines and public spaces. Dance around Nicholson Street Mall; honour ancestry through performance; immerse in the world of an…
House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaBấm vào đây để nhận bản dịch tiếng Việt (click here to get the Vietnamese translation) An exploration of place, language and migrant-settler positionalities, House of Mother Tongue will be presented at Footscray Community Arts, whilst a second exhibition, House of Other Tongue, will be presented at West Space Inc. Created particularly for the Vietnamese…
Electric Man
Gabriel GalleryInspired by the qualities of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, Electric Man is a tracks worker who becomes a superhero when he encounters an electric fuse box at a local railway station. Electric Man is the brainchild of Diego Pizarro, a comic-book artist who is currently undertaking an ArtLife Residency at Footscray Community Arts. Loosely based…
STREET PARTY
Nicholson Street Mall‘Street Party’ brings the west’s local food, music and entertainment icons to Footscray for a street party that has something to offer audiences of all ages. Experience the sounds of live bands, the flavours and textures of the west’s diverse cuisines and see Footscray’s Nicholson Street mall turn into a wonderland of celebration and sensory…
Between Us
Footscray Community Arts Riverside Lawn 45 Moreland St, Footscray, AustraliaBetween us is a public art and community engagement project that considers ‘the space between’. Encompassing the micro and macro; personal and public; and the local and universal; the project engages audiences in a poetic consideration of the spaces that exist between the structures and systems that shape our lives. Responding to the prompt ‘Between…
House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue – Hát Xe Buýt (Singing Bus)
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaBấm vào đây để nhận bản dịch tiếng Việt (click here to get the Vietnamese translation) House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue An exploration of place, language and migrant-settler positionalities, House of Mother Tongue will be presented at Footscray Community Arts, whilst a second exhibition, House of Other Tongue, will be presented at…
Spirit of the Nile (አባይ)
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaInternationally celebrated and critically acclaimed musician/pianist and composer, Girma Yifrashewa, returns to Australia with 'Spirit of the Nile/አባይ’ - a series of 2 concerts here at Footscray Community Arts. These concerts will celebrate one of Ethiopia’s most beloved artists and the Ethiopian community, one that has developed such a vibrant and integral presence in Melbourne’s…