GCMAGIC IS PART OF SWELL FESTIVAL 2023 |
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It is with great pride that we share the good news that GCMAGIC’s art proposal, CALL HOME, has been accepted by SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023. The festival will run from 8 to 17 September this year.
CALL HOME will consist of hand-made tiles and other media, which represent cultural diversity with Australian flora and fauna, with messages by members of various cultural communities. There will be over 10 emerging artists led by a professional sculpture and visual artist involved in the artwork. More news to come, so watch this space!
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SWELL Sculpture Festival (SWELL) is a multifaceted arts organisation that connects people, art, and place, based in Currumbin, Gold Coast, Queensland. Being a platform for emerging, mid-career and professional artists alike, together forming a strong local, national and international community of artists, with relationships made and supporting each other for years into the future as they forge forward in their careers within the arts. SWELL strongly supports First Nations Arts, encouraging sharing of stories through visual arts and performing arts. |
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WOMEN IN CONVERSATION 2023 |
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Women in Conversation is an annual event by GCMAGIC since 2016. This event consists of two activities: the group exhibition with "women" as the theme, and the celebration of International Women’s Day.
Women in Conversation 2023 was funded by the office of Cr Bob La Castra, Division 8, Gold Coast City Council.
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This year's ‘Woman-Life-Freedom’ exhibition was held at Robina Arts Gallery from 21st February to 6th March with nine artists exhibiting their work.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AT THE GARDENS |
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The International Women’s Day celebration was held on 5 March at the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens, where women from all ages, cultural backgrounds gathered, danced and shared their stories and thoughts. |
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Sharlana dut performed ABBA songs while the audiences enjoyed and danced.
The event was facilitated by Aldwyn Altuney from AA Xpose Media company.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
GCMAGIC COLLABORATIONS
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March has been a very busy month for GCMAGIC. We support other organisations in the community and share our work with them through their events and projects. We supported Serving Our People and Women Empowerment and Leadership during their celebrations of International Women's Day. |
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A friendly and conceptual event celebrating International Women's Day (IWD) was held by Serving Our People HQ in Mermaid Beach. GCMAGIC artists were invited to showcase their work and share their thoughts about the impact of arts in social building. The venue was packed and the works and speeches were very well received by the audiences.
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Women Empowerment and Leadership (WEL) |
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Nasrin Vaziri – Director of GCMAGIC was invited by WEL to deliver a speech at Parliament House on 11 March during their celebration of International Women’s Day. |
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*GCMAGIC auspices Women Empowerment and Leadership (WEL) with their project Connection, funded by Multicultural Affair Queensland.
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GCMAGIC was invited by Gold Coast Health's Creative Health Hub to exhibit at the Robina Hospital and Gold Coast University Hospital galleries during International Women’s Day and Harmony Day in March this year.
GCMAGIC has collaborated with the Creative Health Hub since 2020 providing artwork during Queensland Women's Week and Harmony Day.
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The ‘Woman-Life-Freedom’ Exhibition is currently online.
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Woman, Life, Freedom (Kurdish: Jin, Jiyan, Azadî, ژن، ژیان، ئازادی) or Woman, Life, Liberty is a popular political Kurdish slogan used in both the Kurdish independence and democratic confederalist movements. The slogan became a rallying cry during the protests which occurred in Iran as a response to the death of Mahsa Amini. (source: Wikipedia)
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LANDSCAPES FROM THE HOMELANDS
BY PRITA
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I explore and translate topographic maps and images of Iran’s rich, vast and diverse deserts which have significantly shaped our people, culture and traditions for thousands of years - a way for me to understand and return to home from afar, to the soils and sandscapes I am yet to walk on. |
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Prita is an Iranian artist with a lived experience as a refugee in Australia.
Displaced from her homelands from birth, she returns to reconnect her
cultural identity and ancestral relationships through traditional Iranian
craftsmanship practices.
Prita’s practice intends to offer new perspectives of her people, their relationships to homelands, and impacts of generational lived experiences of displacement and forced migration. Her practice explores the process of reviving ancestral practices and cultural ways of knowing during a time where they are still being erased and appropriated.
Landscapes from the Homelands is an ongoing body of silk prints which uses
the hand-dyeing ritual of Kāḡaḏ-e Abri (Abri), the tenth-century practice of
water mono-printing.
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‘Knowledge is Power’ is a GCMAGIC project that aims to highlight the role of arts in tackling domestic and family violence (DFV) in our community. The 10 sessions with different and interesting topics will be conducted by Professor Heba Ali Mohtady, Senior Fellow at the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a novelist, and a graduate of Medicine. The project consists of story-telling, creative writing workshops, group artwork, sharing food and recipes and more, which all encourage and empower women.
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Feedback is important for GCMAGIC.
GCMAGIC is linked with an online survey system called CultureCounts. Through this survey service, GCMAGIC’s team can measure its success, weaknesses and visions of the audiences and peers. When you attend our events, please make sure you scan the QR code we circulate during the events and share your feedback with us.
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https://culturecounts.cc/company |
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Culture Counts supports organisations, practitioners and philanthropists to craft rich evidence-based stories about the value they create. |
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SUPPORTING COMMUNITY INITIATIVES |
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GCMAGIC has the capability to support and auspice other organisations with their events and activities that are related to DFV, NDIS and mental health. Recent projects that GCMAGIC have helped or are helping include the following: |
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Women Empowerment and Leadership (WELAUS). GCMAGIC is auspicing WEL with their project ‘Connection’, funded by Multicultural Affairs Queensland (MAQ).
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Persian Cultural Group celebrated their ‘Nowruz’ annual event, funded by MAQ, and was held on 19 March 2023 as a very successful community event.
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GCMAGIC in partnership with Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA) is in a process of organising a community event for Mental Health Month in October 2023, .
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Free To Use Materials for Artists |
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GCMAGIC is inviting all our member artists to use materials that are available at the GCMAGIC office. The materials are for you to use if you need them. Please contact Nasrin at [email protected] with the subject MATERIALS to set a time for your visit.
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Are you an artist based on the Gold Coast? Whatever your art form or practice, we invite you to become a GCMAGIC Artist Member. We organise and coordinate a diverse range of events and programs, such as exhibitions, art-craft displays, skills development, writing and poetry workshops, cultural events, women's story sharing. We encourage and nurture new and innovative ideas. We can also assist in establishing and growing your arts practice, as well as in applying for grant funds. We look forward to working with you. Register your interest HERE. https://bit.ly/3dBCiKx
The GCMAGIC team are looking forward to working with other local artists who are passionate about growing the arts and culture practice on the Gold Coast. We invite artists to share their passions and aspirations to inspire community members to engage and experience creativity with us.
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BRICKS Newsletter
Publisher: GCMAGIC
Director: Nasrin Vaziri
Editor: Roselle Tenefrancia
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