Panel Talk with Footscray Community Arts The second in the HUB Singapore online presentation series is the upcoming Panel Talk with Footscray Community Arts. Footscray Community Arts has cultivated a vital role in the Australian and international cultural landscape generating open and inclusive contemporary creative spaces that platform underrepresented artistic voices. They deliver artistic excellence…
Big hART, Australia’s leading arts and social change organisation, toured Europe during the Autumn, visiting the Netherlands along the way. The tour showcased Big hART’s acclaimed audio-visual work “Acoustic Life of Zinc”, featuring an immersive soundscape created purely from sounds recorded in the smelter. The ICAF team had the pleasure of attending the event, alongside dr.…
Bukjeh is a bilingual installation filled with real and intimate stories by people who have been forced to leave their homes, created in response to children’s questions about refugees. The Arabic word ‘bukjeh’ means a pack of belongings carried by travellers and refugees. The project has been developed by recently arrived refugees, together with artists…
Dr. Misha Myers is a Senior Lecturer in Art & Performance, Course Director of Creative Arts and Research Fellow in Deakin Motion Lab at Deakin University.Through her research she seeks to bring attention to and understanding of knowledges, contributions and experiences of isolated and marginalized groups including refugees and asylum seekers, women and rural communities,…
Since 2011 The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program. The program supports the development of self-esteem, confidence and resilience, through cultural strengthening and artistic expression. The Torch assists artists to reconnect with culture, earn income from art sales (with 100% of…
The Hobson Street Theatre Company (HSTC), is an award winning company created in partnership with the Auckland City Mission, and who have been creating and touring together since 2010. It is the first and only theatre company with and for homeless people in New Zealand. HSTC works from a strength based kaupapa; the focus is…
Tania Cañas is a Melbourne-based theatre maker, facilitator and researcher all within community driven settings. She is the Arts Director at RISE Refugee, Australia’s first Refugee and Asylum seeker organisation run and governed by the community. Tania’s passions include books, particularly those written by writers of colour about navigating social and political spaces. Two of…
Big hART is an arts and social organization which has been working in Australia for over twenty years. Established by Creative Director Scott Rankin, the company is sustained by the producers and artists who assist to evolve its vision and practice. The motivating ideas behind Big hART are simple: “Nations are essentially narrations”, and “It’s…