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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 IS BACK!

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Tickets will sell fast so contact the box office as soon as possible!

For media enquiries:
Pip Stafford
Kickstart Arts Inc
6224 2362
pip@kickstart.org.au

POSTED ON May 31 2010 BY admin AT 1:23 pm
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Live Power Hip Hop song!

Now up at our Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/kickstartpowerhiphop

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POSTED ON May 25 2010 BY admin AT 10:46 am
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Happiness!





Our Happiness artists have been searching out Happiness & Its Causes in Hobart and Sydney over the past couple of weeks.

What is Happiness?
All will be revealed soon!

POSTED ON May 11 2010 BY Pip AT 3:23 pm
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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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Happy Festive Season

…from all of us at Kickstart.



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We wish you a happy and safe start to the new year.
See you in 2010!

(Photo by Sean Fennessy)

POSTED ON December 18 2009 BY Pip AT 4:31 pm
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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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