Arts Gen is a space for learning, sharing and artmaking based at Footscray Community Arts in Melbourne’s inner west.
Through socially engaged creative practice, we promote self-representation and platforms that support the creative potential of communities from Melbourne’s West and North.
Our work aims to address the social and cultural determinants of health, including ongoing colonisation, racism and other forms of structural discrimination have direct negative impacts on wellbeing.
We believe that when communities have the power and access to the arts, to develop and determine health and wellbeing initiatives, it leads to truly representative culture making.
Arts Gen is proudly supported by COHEALTH
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We are present and responsive with movements for change.
We are listening, learning and adapting our practices.
We are open about what we do, how we do it, what is possible and our limits.
Nothing for us, without us.
We value our relationships and are accountable to each other.
We make space and speak back to power.
Tania Cañas is an artist researcher based on unceded Kulin Territory. She began her practice as a theatre performer and subsequent Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and has since developed a creative arts research practice, at the intersection of performance, community, socio-spatial and cultural enquiry.
Yasbelle Kerkow is an artist, emerging filmmaker and Pacific community organiser. Her arts and community practices centres Fijian women’s material culture, climate change, intergenerational conversations and communicating Melanesian stories through the arts.
Arts Gen’s primary supporter is COHEALTH.
We are also thankful for the support of: