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For Portraits of Invisible People
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point

August 7 – 15
Opens 6th August, 6pm

Kickstart and Headway Rebuilding Lives present: Portraits of Invisible People

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A multi art form installation about different ways of being.


Kickstart Arts’ Portraits of Invisible People takes us on a physical, emotional and intellectual journey through the personal stories of people whose lives have been changed forever due to a brain injury.


The show asks its audience to consider the nature of fate, memory, grief, truth, and relationship through extraordinary storytelling, metaphors of space, experience and time, video, stunning photography and sound. Kickstart Arts, Headway rebuilding lives, community participants and artists collaborated to develop a deep, heartfelt personal story telling that offers powerful insights into what’s most important in life.


From late February 2010 four professional artists have worked closely with people living with acquired brain injuries, their family members and support workers to explore what life is like if you have a brain injury. Project curator/writer Richard Bladel, photographer Sean Fennessy, filmmaker Troy Melville and designer/builder Uwe Feiste have collaborated with these community members to draw out their unique and profound perspectives on life.


THE EXHIBITION DETAILS


Portraits of Invisible People: a multi art form installation about different ways of being.


Exhibition Opening 6 PM Friday August 6th


Exhibition runs from Saturday August 7th – Sunday August 15th


Long Gallery, First floor, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart


FOR MORE INFORMATION
Kickstart Arts Inc
03 62242362
0408 358 671
community@kickstart.org.au
For more information about Kickstart Arts: www.kickstart.org.au

(Photo by Sean Fennessy)

Power Hip Hop rocks the Orchestra AND the Theatre Royal!

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” I would like to congratulate you all for your outstanding contribution to Tasmanian society by taking part in the Power Hip-Hop concerts.
I am a teacher and brought with me 20 refugee students to see the show. This is the first time these students have been in a theatre; have seen an orchestra; and seen refugees celebrated and encouraged to perform to an audience like this. My students were beaming for hours afterwards.
I have also worked extensively with students from disadvantaged areas like Claremont and Rokeby and never have I heard these students so involved and liberated.
What a wonderful example of how to bridge multiple worlds. Make no mistake, this is a valuable contribution to our society, and one that is making quite a few people stand up and take notice.
Congratulations and thank you so much.”

- Richard Angus, ESL Support Teacher, Elizabeth College, Hobart.

Power Hip Hop – one week to go!

Our awesome rappers and TSO ensemble are gearing up for another great concert!
Don’t forget to book your tickets – contact the Theatre Royal Box Office on 62332299 or www.theatreroyal.com.au
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Community Radio, A new voice in the Midlands

Photo courtesy of LenR

Photo courtesy of LenR


Starting last week Kickstart have started working on a new project up in Oatlands, we’re working with the local school and some keen youths to invigorate the local radio station. Although the dates are yet to be decided soon you could be hearing some new voices and new music charging through the air to a huge number of radios throughout the Tasmanian Midlands.


If per chance you represent a new band looking to get it’s original music played, get in contact and you to could be being heard through Tasmania.


-Stay tuned,


George.

Contact Us

03 6224 2362

community@kickstart.org.au

77 Salamanca Place

Battery Point 7004

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