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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)

POSTED ON July 19 2010 BY admin AT 5:12 pm
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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.




POSTED ON July 14 2010 BY admin AT 12:01 pm
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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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POSTED ON June 29 2010 BY admin AT 5:03 pm
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Power Hip Hop live at the Peacock Theatre in 2009!



Get your tickets for Power Hip Hop at the Theatre Royal now!
Call the Theatre Royal Box Office:
6233 2299
or online: www.theatreroyal.com.au

POSTED ON June 21 2010 BY admin AT 11:31 am
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New workshop program! Enroll now!

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POSTED ON February 17 2010 BY admin AT 11:09 am
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What are you doing this Friday?

We’re going to the opening of MONA FOMA.



MONA Festival of Music and Art opens this Friday the 8th of January at Salamanca place with a free event at 7.30pm.



In the sidespace gallery our friends CHRONOX will be unveiling their installation.



Chronox - Platform 2009 from THOTH Press on Vimeo.

(Installation. Platform, Melbourne. 7 — 28 August 2009. Part of the Tape Projects residency at Platform.)



For more info about MONA FOMA go to www.mofo.net.au


POSTED ON January 7 2010 BY Pip AT 10:20 am
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Success! Power Hip Hop gets THREE standing ovations.



A couple of nice comments from punters:



“Power Hip Hop was absolutely awesome on Saturday, congratulations!! That is the first time I have ever been not slightly awkward about giving a standing ovation, those kids were so talented and confident: they really pulled it off. And yay for the orchestra, sound and lighting. WOOP.”
- Kelly Eijdenberg



“You rock the boat and the boat rocks back.
The immediate and spontaneous standing ovation of the packed house last night said it all. Kickstart Arts and the TSO kicked arts at the Peacock Theatre with Power Hip Hop. This remarkable performance was the culmination of a year’s intense collaboration between Kickstart and the TSO. Both arts organisations taking an artistic risk on an innovative community cultural development project that paid off. The intense and delightful interplay between the DJ and French Horn was one thing, but hearing an oboe rap was incredible. Were we in New York? No we were at the Salamanca Arts Centre. This was a collaboration of creative friction, audience response, rhythm and poetry (rap). The young poets channelled Bob Dylan, telling us the times are changing again, and explored issues of world peace and community engagement. My favourite lyrics were ‘you rock the boat and the boat rocks back’. Perhaps we need a little more artistic boat rocking if it delivers performances of the calibre of last nights show. The spotlight was shone on bright futures last night. Bravo Power Hip Hop.”

- Madeleine Ogilvie, ALP Candidate for Denison

(Photos by Richard Bladel)

POSTED ON December 15 2009 BY Pip AT 1:09 pm
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Power Hip Hop! This weekend!

This Friday and Saturday the Peacock Theatre will be pumping out some of Tassie’s freshest sounds.



The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Kickstart Arts presents POWER HIP HOP!



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In 2009 eight young hip hop artists, from diverse cultural backgrounds, have been mentored by professional jazz, contemporary and classical musicians Donald Bate and Simon Reid. Together they have created an exciting 50-minute music program, and learned how to score and fully orchestrate the music they have composed for a 12-piece ensemble from the TSO.



For only three concerts over two nights, the Peacock Theatre will play host to an evening of new sounds performed live by the young hip hop artists and members of the TSO. Following the final concert on December 12, the Peacock Theatre will also host the Power Hip Hop After Party featuring some of Hobart’s freshest hip hop acts.



POWER HIP HOP
Dates: 11th December 9pm, 12th December 2009 7pm & 9pm + after party
Venue: Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Place, Battery Point
Cost: $25 or $15 Concession
Tickets: TSO Box Office and on the door.

POSTED ON December 9 2009 BY Pip AT 1:02 pm
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EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENT: Kickstart Creative Living Centre

Senator Bill Shorten, the federal Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services will meet tomorrow morning at the Salamanca Arts Centre to discuss the merits of a proposed new creativity centre for Tasmania, which would provide a hub for socially inclusive arts, health and sustainability activity. The proposed centre would be situated at the historic St Johns Park Orphanage building, in New Town.



Kickstart Arts has joined forces with a group of like minded organisations including OAK Tasmania, Headway Rebuilding Lives, The Tas. Community Foundation, the Salamanca Arts Centre and the National Trust to work towards establishing a new Creative Living Centre to be housed in the historic Orphan School and adjacent buildings. The purpose of the centre would be to support and develop creativity, sustainability & social inclusion through community and cultural development programs and activities.



“ The idea is something I’ve been thinking about for 6 years ” said Jami Bladel, CEO of Kickstart Arts Inc. “We worked out at St Johns park with a group of people with mental illness in 2003, and we found this beautiful little theatrette in the old Orphanage building, with red velvet seats and a projection box and everything – but it’s been dark since the 50’s! – no-one uses it ”.



The programs and facilities provided through the centre would include Arts Access programs, Community Gardens; a training kitchen & café; a printmaking studio, theatrette and gallery space as well as a Historic site Interpretation centre.



“ I think the time is right for an idea of this kind to really take off ” said Bladel , “ It’s an idea for the new millennium – something positive and pro-active we can do. This centre will enable people and groups to work together to find solutions to the huge problems which face us as we move forward into the uncertainty of a climate changed future.”



For further information contact
Jami Bladel
0439 342 775
jami@kickstart.org.au

POSTED ON December 3 2009 BY Pip AT 3:51 pm
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Kickstart supports: ONO PROJECT

In partnership with MONA and Kickstart Arts Inc



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featuring LIGHTNING BOLT (USA) and 20 ARTISTS IN ONE DERELICT BUILDING



ONO Project is a Hobart based collective focused on repurposing disused urban space for ground breaking art and sound events.



On the 26th of November artists will inhabit and re-activate an empty building near you.



Artists include: Michael Prior, Lach Conn, Sally Rees, Matt Warren, Evil Goat, Scot Cotterell, Jacob Leary, Andrew Harper, Emma-Jean Gilmour, Pip Stafford, Kate Kelly, Nicole O’Loughlin, Froth Industries, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tristan Stowards, Bob O’Connor and more.



Details of the venue will be available via email, SMS, Facebook and word-of-mouth in the week leading up to the event.



To register to receive the address please email onoproject@gmail.com
Or go to http://moorillaevents.wufoo.com/forms/free-event-registration/



About Lightning Bolt



After 15 years of waiting, and praying, Lightning Bolt are finally touring Australia!



Hailing from Rhode Island, USA, Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo consisting of bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale. Last we left this amplified tribe of two on 2005s Hypermagic Mountain, Lightning Bolt were tossing thousand of years worth of musical history into a wood chipper and coming up with some chewy chainsaw taffy. The new album, Earthly Delights, embarks on a musical journey that will take you to places both divine and sublime.



Lightning Bolt are presented by Heathen Skulls and Street Press Australia.



Supported by the Premier’s Arts Partnership Fund.


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POSTED ON November 19 2009 BY Pip AT 2:51 pm
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