A new year beckons
At Kickstart Arts we’re back to work after some brilliant holidays and we’re ready to start on a new year of community projects throughout Tasmania. The team is back in business bringing a number of projects to greater Hobart, th
e Huon Valley, Southern Midlands, Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island.
And we’re planning a whole new website and 2 other cool project sites.
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- Jami Bladel our artistic director enjoying the company of her son over some stearling summer days.
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- The rest of the team getting away from it all.
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- Pip 4 Belle, forever.
A reflection on Portraits of Invisible People
At the Salamanca Arts Centre this year 2156 people attended Portraits Of Invisible People in The Long Gallery.
‘For me this project is opening my consciousness up to recognising and acknowledging people with brain injuries and to feel more in tune with them and myself’ (Noni Howard)
‘Helping more people understand ABI and people with ABI – allowing them to recognise the human beyond the disability. Helping them appreciate that anyone of these people could be any one of us.’ (Elspeth Callender)
“The stories and spirit of people with A.B.I, promoting (positively) people who have acquired head injuries or disabilities ‘people just like us…!” (anon)
For more information visit the project page or contact us directly at community@kickstart.org.au
We’re getting ready…
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
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!
” 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.
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