For Portraits of Invisible People
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point
August 7 - 15
Opens 6th August, 6pm
Posts Tagged ‘Events’We’re getting ready…
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.
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
We’ve moved!
Same address, just downstairs.
Visit us in Room E-102 of the Salamanca Arts Centre.
(Just across the hall from the Tasmanian Writers Centre)
Power Hip Hop is coming!
New sounds. New voices.
This is cutting edge hip hop by Tasmania’s best young MCs.
Performed with musicians from the TSO and DJ Dameza, this is going to be a not-to-be-missed event for classical and hip hop lovers alike.
Don’t forget to book your tickets by calling the TSO Box Office on 1800 001 190!
Tickets WILL sell fast and are limited.
We are also proud to announce that we will be supporting Gua Africa at this event. Donations can be made at the Power Hip Hop events or directly to the organisation via their website.
About Gua:
GUA Africa was founded by Emmanuel Jal, an ex-child soldier turned rap artist. The word GUA (pronounced gwaah) means peace in Nuer, a tribal language of Southern Sudan.
Our mission is to work with individuals, families and communities to help them overcome the effects of war and poverty. Each of our projects focus on providing an education to children and young adults who would otherwise be denied such opportunity. Currently our work is in Kenya and Sudan, however in the future we would like to expand into other areas of Sub-Saharan Africa - working with other experienced partner organisations where ever opportunities arise.
In April 2008 we were granted full UK charity status and later the same year we received our NGO registration in South Sudan.
As a number of our rappers are former refugees from Sudan, many of whose families and friends are still in Sudan, we thought it pertinent and important that we support this excellent cause.
Hobart Fringe!
The Hobart Fringe Festival is on again!
With all sorts of events and happenings and goings-on, there really is something for everyone to get involved with. From the traditional Super 8 contest (which I happen to be on the judging panel for!) to the Night Market to Bust-a-Move Physical theatre workshops.
You can download the full program here. Or find a copy in your local bar or cafe.
The Hobart Fringe Inc. is a not for profit organisation. The primary aim of the group is to organise an annual community arts festival. The focus of the festival is experimental, emerging and multi-disciplinary art.
We aim to showcase the talent that hasn’t yet made it in our arts adverse, commercial world, bringing attention to those inhabiting the margins that would otherwise be left unnoticed.
