School Holiday Theatre Intensive
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaAward-winning artists PO PO MO CO will facilitate theatre making workshops for budding performers. Through games, physical theatre, characters, clowning, dancing and singing the participants will create their own extraordinary mini stage shows inspired by picture books. Participants will be guided through the tricks of the trade: to make the favourite story books leap off…
Why Can’t They Dance
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaExperience Ahmad Sabra’s solo exhibition Why Can’t They Dance, exploring a futurist perspective where White Australia no longer holds the power, providing a unique perspective of the tables turning. In this world, once ethnic minorities are now in a position to reframe and explain history with little experience, knowledge, or care for the meaning behind White…
HRAFF Westside
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaJoin us in a gathering filled with conversation, art, music and performance in response to A Bell Rings Across The Valley as part of PHOTO2022: International Festival of Photography. Conversations will be led by Curator Shivanjani Lal, who has brought together works by five artists from across South Asia and its Diaspora to speak of complex…
What I Wish I’d Told You
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia'What I Wish I'd Told You', by Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano with Deaf community, centres Deaf voices, identity, language and culture. Auslan storytellers affirm Deaf experiences and diverse, complex identities, in an immersive exhibition of large scale video projections, which bring visitors into a Deaf world. In this collaboration of over seventy Deaf and…
Same River Twice
Gabriel GalleryIf the flow of the water is constant, and the only constant is change, where does that leave memory? What does the river carry, and for how long? Ten writers and artists reflect on what water, place, memories and inheritances can contain. With Freya Alexander, Kelly Bartholomeusz, Gloria Demillo, Sam Elkin, Ryan Gustaffson, Gurmeet Kaur,…
Let’s Dance: Afrobeats 2022
Basement Theatre 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaDagogo Obogo’s Afrobeats dance classes are renowned for being an enjoyable, up-tempo and fun experience. The instructor will get you feeling fit and confident in your skin, while learning cultural elements from various West African musical styles. While these dance classes predominantly focus on the joy and creativity of movement, they also invite you to…
InterPlay
Gabriel GalleryInterPlay, presented through the collaborative efforts of Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA), Curatorial Collective, and Footscray Community Arts, is a playful and community-minded interactive art exhibition with public events. This exhibition invites audiences to experience art in a way that explores our environment, and the themes of gender, time, space, memory and essentialism. Led by Environmental…
Citizen
Entrance GalleryThrough Citizen, FONI seeks to normalise the place of South Sudanese communities within Australian society. In developing Citizen, FONI’s process involved inviting South Sudanese Australians to take part in conversations while being photographed for their portraits. Stories were shared about diasporic feelings of longing to belong, of achieving dreams, of racial issues, the generational disconnects, communication challenges, the…
BOLDER
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia“My favourite thing about this exhibition is that it is in my style and I recognise myself” – Steven Tran BOLDER is an interdimensional art exhibition that celebrates visibility and individuality by artist Steven Tran. Building on his first solo exhibition, BOLD in 2021, BOLDER takes Steven’s drawings and paintings to new realms with Augmented…
Theatre Intensive: The Flying Bookworms
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWe're thrilled to introduce The Flying Bookworms Theatre Company as the facilitators for our upcoming Theatre Intensive. The Bookworms are Victoria's premier Theatre-in-Education company, and perform over 700 shows to students and young people every year. Over four fun days The Flying Bookworms will empower participants to create their own performance, inspired and driven from…