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Growing up Bilingual in Australia is a podcast series that follows the lives and experiences of Vietnamese families wanting to maintain their heritage language and culture within Australia’s monolingual mindset.
Blak Powered Adventures of a Kanaka Menace is an illustrative essay created by Kim Kruger sharing the life and legacy of her mother Aboriginal and South Sea Islander activist Patricia Corowa (Kruger)
Out In Public is an online exhibition featuring the stories of 6-8 Queer Blak, Indigenous and People-of-Colour (BIPOC) and their relationship with Naarm’s local cruising spots, also known as “beats.”
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...
Intergen is a series of artist-led interventions that critically reflect on modes of intergenerational knowledge making and sharing.
‘Practicing Utopias’ results from a dialogic writing approach unpacking the ongoing pandemic and state of crisis with artists
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.
As a part of Arts Gen's Intergen program, 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.
Techno-Oracle Training is a series of workshops that aims to reconsider the way we think about and create digital art and media.
Calling all young African Australians with an interest in musical theatre! Nguvu Moja are running a FREE three-day musical theatre intensive at Wyndham Cultural Centre.
For all up and coming musicians, songwriters and singers aged 12-25 years-old, 6Weeks2Flow is new workshops series all about collaborating and sharing musical knowledge.
A creative development workshop centred around the behind the scenes of producing a musical project for 12 - 25 year olds.
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.
'Through the Eyes of Her Children' by Young Eritreans Australia hosted by Blak Dot Gallery celebrates Eritrean voices and how we connect with each other and culture creatively, living in the diaspora.
Every place has a soul, every street has a story. In this workshop, we commune with our inner worlds in relation to the places we live, work and play, as basis for poetry.
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.
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...
In this recorded conversation, Tasnim and Florence shared the inspiration behind the idea of developing a children’s picture book together with special guest Hunhak Matt Gale.
As we emerge out of lockdowns, reconnecting and care has never been more important for our communities.
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.
Arts Gen hosted VietSpeak for a discussion of Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020) film series. The panel reflected on parallels and resonances between the films and the contemporary climate of Melbourne’s West.
Young Eritreans hosted an afternoon in Edinburgh Gardens, with food, games, henna, painting and crafts.
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...
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...
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...
'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.
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.
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...
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...
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