Massive gratitude to Capital Arts Patrons' Organisation (CAPO) for their acknowledgement and the Canberra Weekly for the Award - and this grant! It'll go a long way towards making framing costs less painless :)
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 In Australia, people with disabilities use their NDIS funding to access Creative and Experiential Therapies that they choose themselves, because it helps them to live well, stay strong, active and healthy.
Creative and Experiential Therapies include therapies that use more than verbal approaches to engage people: Creative Arts Therapy Music Therapy Dance/Movement Therapy Drama Therapy Art Therapy Play Therapy Creative and Experiential Therapies are evidence-based approaches that: improve quality of life and independent living, keep people active in their body, help people regulate emotions, engage people in their communities, strengthen relational and communication skills, and provide a safe place where people can be free to be themselves. Creative and Experiential Therapists have tertiary degrees and are members of professional associations. They are recognised members of Australia's Allied Health Work Force along with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists. Allied Health Services provided by registered Creative and Experiential Therapists for NDIS participants should be distinct from the services provided by support workers. Creative and Experiential Therapists should classified under capacity building along with other Allied Health therapies, and paid at the same rate as other Allied Health Professionals. Creative and Experiential Therapies belong in the NDIS. Sign the petition here: https://chng.it/XMKs8fWdsc Sending thoughts to our American cousins who are reeling from a Hurricane with more possibly to come. Wish you all well. And on top of that you have to put up with Trump too!! Reminds me of my time spent in Fiji following Hurricane Winston. I missed the hurricane but got there for the aftermath: the chaos, the Government inaction, the isolation. A hurricane is not just a remote headline - it's a human crisis. Still a big part of me, and am including an image of the wonderful Lagi Taraivalu one of the Spinal Injury Association of Fiji crew who made me feel so welcome and who has become a real people's champion... This will be included in upcoming 'Unconditional' - my exhibition about different forms of love. This shows a love for those in need - I hope you approve Lagi Taraivalu. 
NEW MOVIE ‘Führer and Seducer’ echoes my DISCRIMINATE exhibition earlier this year...
It’s 1938. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, is at the peak of his power, while Hitler is celebrated by the people. This remarkable drama deconstructs Goebbels’ deadly propaganda machine and reveals how he created the images, speeches and films that were used to ‘sell’ the Third Reich and the Holocaust to the masses. A powerful insight into historic events and how they parallel today's “fake news” landscape. “Shows how effectively Goebbels concealed the truth to feed his propaganda machine." - Rolling Stone / "A highly current relevance...the manipulation strategies from back then are still models for today's populists…a film about the danger of seduction—and against forgetting.” - NDR Info I held an exhibition, ‘DISCRIMINATE’, at Belconnen Arts Centre earlier this year, with eerily similar focus - a satirical take on modern media and state portrayal of disability using the style of 1930s/40s/50s Propaganda Posters. The exhibition questioned mainstream media portrayals and encouraged people to look beyond the popular messages and to be more ‘discriminating’ in their outlook as opposed to ‘discriminatory.’ I’m kicking around an idea for a follow-up about how we no longer need to look to past propaganda… the age of misinformation is back and more insidious that ever, “eating cats?” FFS. Working title: INDISCRIMINATE – THIS IS NOT A SATIRE…. I’ll be going to see the film on Dec 7th – and will be making notes! DISCRIMINATE website https://www.canberryarts.com/discriminate-exhibition-2024... Führer and Seducer listing and trailer https://tinyurl.com/kaeytraw Highly chuffed with the new postcard flyers for 'Unconditional' exhibition - it's in Feb but never too early to starting flogging it.
Talking of which - where's your submissions of you own art/poetry/photography for the public art gallery - this will feature at the Gallery, there's a prize in it...and it's FREE! Go on, get scribbling! (please ) https://www.canberryarts.com/unconditional---submit-your... With Haiti in the media at the moment for all the wrong reasons; here is a link to a fascinating overview of Haiti's revolutionary anti-slave history, discussed through the representation of prominent female figures and fighters in modern artistic portrayals of a period that freed Haitians from slavery and ultimately led to independence. As children of a nation that successfully fought for its freedoms against their oppressor, the legal migrants in the US in 2024 deserve so much better.  Taken today whilst having brunch in Sydney - spookily evocative of 'The Space Between Us' - a piece that will feature in my upcoming Unconditional exhibition. The painting is intended to show how we are starting to put social media above 'real life' relationships... even when sat across a table from a loved one in a restaurant, that tiny screen demands our full attention... Interesting to see this in reality today at the table next to me! So the Squares members' exhibition comes to an end. Time to say goodbye to my piece "On the Beach" - farewell friend and hope you go to a good home (at least i know the buyer has good taste!)  Nice trip for brunch at Strathnairn Arts today (with added bonus of seeing a couple of my efforts in situ) and yes the Woolshed Gallery did indeed use to be a working woolshed ! Thanks to Clare for stumping up for the veggie curry (both my cards cancelled at minute due to fraud) and photo duties... |
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