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…
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…