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Supporting women through creative experiences, community resources and the power of connection.
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre hosts creative programming onsite, online and around Victoria, have beautiful venues available to hire, and offer space to likeminded organisations. A selection listed here:
Sanam Maher In Conversation With Dr Jessamy Gleeson
Wednesday 4 March 2020 | 6.30-7.30pm
Sanam Maher is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. For more than a decade, she has covered stories on Pakistan's art and culture, business, politics, religious minorities and women. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Roads and Kingdoms and Buzzfeed.
A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch is her first book and charts the the story of a Pakistani village girl who, in death, has become a defiant symbol for women’s freedom.
Sanam will appear in Melbourne in conversation with Dr
Jessamy Gleeson, a passionate activist, having contributed to campaigns and events such as
SlutWalk Melbourne,
Girls On Film Festival,
We keep Vigil, #ourparks, and
Melbourne’s Women’s March. Jessamy holds a PhD on feminist activism in online environments and her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, Hot Chicks With Big Brains, Spook and Archer.
Where: Queen Victoria Women's Centre, The Victoria Room, Level 4, 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Cost: Free
Bookings: Online through Trybooking
IWD Picnic With Candy Bowers & The Big Feminist Sing
Thursday 5 March 2020 | 6pm-9pm
Bring a plate & join the extraordinary
Candy Bowers for dinner. Candy is an award-winning writer, actor, social-activist, comedian & producer; pioneer of a fierce sub-genre of hip hop theatre delving into the heart of radical feminist dreaming.
Jane York of the Big Feminist Sing is also along for the ride - no excuse for sitting out an opportunity not to sing out some cathartic upbeat harmonies with 100+ other picnickers!
This one is about participating, talking, singing, maybe some dancing - meet new people, chat with ones you already know.
Where: Queen Victoria Women's Centre, The Victoria Room, Level 4, 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Cost: Free
Bookings: Online through Trybooking
Slow Art Collective
11am Monday 2 March 2020 – 12noon Sunday 8 March 2020
Hang out and make art with Slow Art Collective all week as they create a sculpture-installation-collaboration outside the QV Shopping Centre end of the QVWC
Slow Art Collective is currently helmed by
Chaco Kato and
Dylan Martorell and is an artistic collective that focuses on creative practices and ethics relating to environmental sustainability, material ethics, DIY culture and collaboration. As an interdisciplinary group of artists, Slow Art Collective is interested in process-driven practices where the focus is on the act of making.
‘Slow art’ is about slow exchanges of value rather than the fast, monetary exchange of value. It is about the slow absorption of culture through community links by creating something together and blurring the boundary between the artists and viewer. It is a sustainable arts practice, not an extreme solution; a reasonable alternative to deal with real problems in contemporary art practice.
Collaboration is intrinsic to all facets of their work. Since 2009 Slow Art Collective have undertaken a range of projects that use the process of collecting to address the crossovers between artistic practice, creative sustainability and individual responsibility. Recent commissioned projects include Powerhouse museum, Mpavillion, MelbourneNow @NGV, Castlemaine state festival, Gertrude Contemporary and Esplanade Singapore.
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Queen Victoria Women’s Centre (QVWC)
Address: 210 Lonsdale Street Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 03 8668 8100
Email: admin@qvwc.org.au
Website:
www.qvwc.org.au
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre is for women, by women – always.
