Happiness: News from the front.
The Happiness Project is in full swing!
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 Power Hip Hop.
A total of 3031 people attended a performance of Power Hip Hop
Power Hip Hop gathered together a diverse group of musicians to perform at the Theatre Royal earlier this year. Young rappers worked with the wonderful Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra to produce original works, here’s a quick look at how it went down.
“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 afterward...” (Richard Angus, ESL Support Teacher)
“Totally transfixing right from the start, these exciting new voices cut across genre, race, class, tradition and stereotype to perform up stage-front of the tuxedoed and be-pearled TSO, all in their best Rapper baggy jeans and T-shirts.” (Gai Anderson, Power Hip Hop review)
“Bravo! On Tuesday I was privileged, incredible privileged, to be part of the audience to see Power Hip Hop. Created through the passion of the artistic director of Kickstart Arts, Jami Bladel and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, this was the most extraordinary piece of theatre.” (Coral Tulloch, Pontville, Excerpt from a featured letter to the mercury)
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)
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