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K(not) is a new multi-year artistic project that discusses the impacts of climate colonisation and ecological justice on diasporic and First Nations communities.
Benchmark is a free arts and cultural program for young people in Melbourne’s West. Our Facilitators support participants in a range of skill development including songwriting, recording, production...
Three Fold Rise created by artist John Mashar, is a spoken word video-art piece that captures of both the individual and collective experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this work, John Mashar explores the theme of resilience...
Performing Statelessness is a creative and practice-led research initiative that foregrounds stateless communities’ voices and lived experience to investigate what it means to be stateless in the context of Australia.
'They Did Didn’t They' is a podcast series about community, creativity, care and culture. Across 10 episodes this podcast series draws on a wealth of community knowledge and experience to explore and unpack the many ways to build community wellbeing from the ground up rather than problematic top-down approaches.
Stir it Up was a youth-led project which fostered intercultural connections and dialogues between young people from Pacific and African backgrounds based in the cities of Brimbank, Wyndham and Melton. Stir it Up commenced in...
Sisters and Brothers (S&B) is a schools-based program that explores race-based discrimination with children and young people in Grades 3 to 9. The program uses critical hip-hop pedagogy to engage young people in meaningful...
Dichōtomi is a cultural archive dedicated to holding space for multidimensional experiences of black creativity. Dichōtomi serves as the bridge between seemingly opposing worlds existing simultaneously in one space...
Black Wattle is a keeping place: a collection of poetry, photography, collage and illustration developed by this mob arts collective over the last 12 months.
Honesty Policy is a series of workshops and public showings — part music jam, part open mic and performance dialogue, hosted by Musican Sirak Keeghan. Honesty Policy will unpack experiences of lockdown and post-lockdown in...
High Rise High Five is a children's guide to staying healthy and safe during Covid-19, developed with and for public housing communities in Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond.
Ajak Kwai with Sabrina Adem & Adiam Beyin of Young Eritreans Australia are challenging the politics of food through a series of online cooking and conversation videos that discuss diaspora, colonialism, identity and connecting to roots.
H_ME W_RK collective artists Merinda Dias-Jayasinha, Isha Ram Das, Moonis Ahmad Shah x Hafsa Sayeed and Priya Namana take us on four experimental audio journeys.
In this recorded conversation, Tasnim and Florence shared the inspiration behind the idea of developing a children’s picture book together that unsettles usual multiculturalist children’s literature.
Los Chipotes is a multi-platform community archive project by artist and print-maker Camilo Ernesto Pérez Landaverde.
Blak Powered Adventures of a Kanaka Menace’ by Kim Kruger shares the life and legacy of her mother Aboriginal and South Sea Islander activist Patricia Corowa.
Ajak Kwai and Young Eritreans Australia are challenging the politics of food through a series of online cooking and conversation videos that discuss diaspora, colonialism, identity and connecting to roots.
Transomatics is a series of exercises developed by dancer and artist Sumarlinah Winoto. Transomatics is an alternative offering through creating an all-trans space for people in the community to explore what it means to sink deeper into...
Derived from a saying boasting both adoration and urgency, Swallow It Without Salt reflects on food sovereignty in times of danger, scarcity, and hunger, inspired by her parent’s wartime storytelling and frugal home cooking.
The name of this exhibition زندگی Zendegi means life in Farsi. English is a bit basic though and doesn’t really capture the word’s full complexity. The start of زندگی Zendegi is زن Zan which means woman. This represent the centrality of women to life. For me this is important because the phrase زن زندگی آزادی (Women Life Freedom) is also a symbol of the protests that are happening in Iran right now.
This program saw AROT and Arts Gen collaborate to deliver a series of multi-lingual creative workshops that invited older members of the community to gather safely, share food, learn new skills and express themselves through art.
‘Practicing Utopias’ results from a dialogic writing approach unpacking the ongoing pandemic and state of crisis with artists
A group show featuring the work of Marli Madson, Enoki, Nyassa Levings, Ebben Saunders, Bec Suarez, Olivia Wood, Leena O’luu, and Nicholas Currie, all emerging artists living and making in Melbourne's west.
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