YOUR INNER CIRCLES 2022
THE 16 DAYS of activism
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT EVENT - CIRCLES IN THE CITY
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Designing our city for, and with, women and children.
Brisbane is growing rapidly and over the next 10 years, we will face challenges and opportunities that contribute to making the built environment a safe city. How can we make Brisbane a more inclusive and equitable place for girls and women to live, work, play and thrive? Panel includes:
Councillor Vicki Howard – Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee.
Sarah Burgess - Urban Planner, Founder Brisbane Urbanistas Chapter.
Jacqui Grinzi – Director, QMusic
Jessica Astrid - Artist and equality activist.
Leesa watego - Managing Director, Iscariot Media Pty Ltd
Kate gould - CEO/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Brisbane Powerhouse
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT - CIRCLES OF Culture Panel
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Bec Mac brings together Brisbane’s Major Arts organisation leaders to dicuss What role can the arts play in making Brisbane a safer city for Women and Children?
Within the canon of western art the female body count is high. How do we make these narratives relevant to a modern audience? DOES ART have the Power to transform a cities cultural identity therefore in turn activate behavioural AND systemic change, ARE Art venues sanctuaries?
Yolande BROWN, Bangarra Alumni, Independent Artist
Geraldine Barlow, Curatorial Manager, International Art, QAGOMA.
Amanda Jolly, CEO, Queensland Theatre Company.
Patrick Nolan, Artistic Director/CEO, Opera Queensland.
Join us in learning the importance of the arts in creating safe environments in art spaces and beyond.
FIERCE FEMALES SELF DEFENCE WORKSHOP
CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT
Created by women, for women, we utilise a multimodal approach, creating an experience like no other.
More than "punching and kicking", our female trainers know how it feels to be the smaller individual in conflict.
Our holistic solution to violence provides the tools and knowledge needed to plan, prepare and act in the face of fear and danger.
Hosted by Amanda Giblin our founder, is as fierce in her body as she is in her mind. She has studied martial arts since age 14 and continues her learning. She currently holds her Karate black belt (2nd Dan) and Muay Thai (Black - 2nd Degree).
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT - Craftivism /Starting The Conversation – Who Needs Care?
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Creating a circle of support for people with disabilities through a collective endurance French Knitting event | Donna Toussiant
A new report published on 6 March 2021 reveals that in the last year women with disability were more than twice as likely to report sexual violence as women without disability.
Through an act of craftivism participants will be invited to sit, knit and discuss what they know about caring. How can they be of some assistance to changing our collective inertia around supporting people with disability to have a better and more meaningful role in their own lives. Could they be involved in a circle of support? People looking out for people is the best protection people can have.
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA event: Shattering The Silver Ceiling Film Festival
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A short Film Festival that is a platform for inclusive story-telling for woman & LGBTQIA+ community to showcase work both in front of and behind the camera.
We support, encourage and celebrate Screen and Media’s culturally diverse storytelling. As a community our stories need to reflect who we really are including female, queer, LGBTQIA+, culturally and linguistic background, people of colour and people with disabilities.
Over the day long festival there will be screenings of short films from some of our most celebrated female filmmakers, emerging filmmakers and QLD student filmmakers. There will be keynotes to start the conversation about the importance of representation and inclusive and ethical filmmaking practices. Each screening will conclude with a panel of filmmakers and industry practitioners.
The panel discussions will be aimed at identifying the challenges that female and female identifying filmmakers face, the opportunities that are now available to break the silver ceiling, strategies for creating your inner circle and creating an inclusive workplace. This is an opportunity to start the conversation, network and build your inner circle of likeminded peers.
We invite you to celebrate, provoke, subvert, unsettle, inspire, empower and start the conversation within YOUR INNER CIRCLES.
FILM TIMES
FEATURE FILM 1 |10:35 am
“The MOTHS WILL EAT THEM UP”, TANYA MODNI
Act 1 Films |11:00 am - 11:25 am
“Arsenic”, Josephine Stalley, Tertiary Undergraduate, QUT
“WORLDS BEYOND”, Olivia Crucie, Year 12, Mary Mackillop College
“What are my other options?”, Olivia Edwards, Year 11, Marymount College
“Girl, Boy.”, Clouds Medlin, Year 12, The Cathedral College Rockhampton
“Alien” (Music Video), Lily Podlich, year 11, Mary Mackillop College
feature film 2 | 1:50 PM
“WHEN THE SKY WAS BLUE”, Rae Choi and Sheree Ramage
ACT 2 FILMS |2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
“BANANAS”, Rachel Maxine Anderson and Mary Duong
“ALIEN”, Mali Smedts, Year 12, Cairns State High School
“DEAR MARIA”, Lara Roberts, Year 9, Indooroopilly State High School
“WOMAN”, Janistar Sanamontri, Year 12, Brisbane State High School
TALK TIMES
10:30 am | Welcome and acknowledgement of country
10:50 am | keynote: TANYA MODNI
11:25 AM | PANEL 1: Tanya Modini, Lily Podlich, Lucy Marcovich
1:45 PM |Intro and welcome back: Karyn Chapman
2:05 pm | keynote: Rae Choi
2:50 pm | panel 2: Rae Choi, Sheree Ramage and Lorena Vine
3:25 pm | close: Moneth
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA | Arts Against Gendered Violence
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A MICRO-festival hosting a critical conversation with Arts leaders, Urbanists and advocates about making Brisbane the safest city in the world for women and children, workshops on being fierce and caring, an exhibition opening of portraits of Formidable Females of Brisbane and the inaugural Shattering The Silver Ceiling Film Festival.
We invite you to celebrate, provoke, subvert, unsettle, inspire, empower and start the conversation WITH YOUR INNER CIRCLE.
Minefield: The Art of Mona Ryder Bookmark Sewing Circle
Join artist Mona Ryder for a sewing circle and introduction to Minefield: The Art of Mona Ryder at QUT Art Museum this December.
Bring along a project in process or join in the creation of a bookmark as we sew, stitch and yarn together. Sift through Mona’s unique stash of found and collected materials to create a one-of-a-kind gift for yourself or a loved one this festive season.
No experience is needed, and all materials are provided in this special artist-led making experience. All welcome! Registrations essential.
Image credit: Mona RYDER, Untitled (Fragile garden series) (detail) 2016, fabric, embroidery, paint, artificial plants. Courtesy of the artist.
Organisers will photograph and record events for use in marketing and communications. If you do not wish to be photographed and recorded please advise staff upon arrival.
For any queries, contact QUT Art Museum at +61 7 3138 1384 or artmuseum@qut.edu.au.
INNER CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT - Formidable Females: A Jacqui Stockdale Live Painting Event + Exhibition
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Chrysalis Project’s YOUR Inner Circles - Arts Against Gendered Violence is celebrating Formidable Females of the city of Brisbane through this unique portrait performance project.
Jacqui Stockdale will create a series of live portraits, capturing the faces of some of the most formidable females in our city. five days in the window of the Chrysalis Projects office on Brunswick St which will be transformed into a stunning Salon installation. Here Passersby will be able to witness the two-hour sittings.
Formidable Females are fearless game changers, artists/creatives and leaders overcoming insurmountable odds or mold breakers in their field or career. We feel that by celebrating these women and telling their stories through art their visibility gives others permission to dream, to achieve, to overcome and to be free!
This will culminate with a final painting day during the Circles Hub at the JWAC on December 3 with an exhibition opening at 4 pm that afternoon with the final paintings mounted wet on the wall.
“One of the safest things we can do to protect women is to empower women.” Karyn Walsh, CEO of Micah Projects
LIVE PAINTING DATES
Tuesday 29 Nov:
SALLY-ANNE Atkinson 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 30 Nov:
ATOMICX 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
BIANCA BEETSON 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kathryn Lyons 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
THURSDAY 1 DEC:
HELEN YEATES 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
KARYN WALSH 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jess halligan 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FRIDAY 2 DEC:
Mona Ryder 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LEESA WATEGO 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SATURDAY 3 DEC:
FAIZA EL HIGZI 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WANITA HONKY TONK 1:00 PM - 3:00PM
FINAL EXHIBITION
Saturday 3 DEC 4:00 pm - 6:00 PM
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I welcome the interaction, the exchange and the challenge to make a portrait in the presence of a model and an external audience. It is my way of connecting, of bringing people behind the scenes of an artist's practice and to involve them equally. In my recent project, Nudes of Chong, I painted 26 portraits in oil over 10 days from the window of a costume shop on Gertrude st, Fitzroy. Each sitting brought a deeper understanding of the person, whether they were strangers or kin”. Artist, Jacqui Stockdale
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Based in Melbourne, Jacqui Stockdale is a multidisciplinary artist known for her figurative paintings, drawings, staged photographs, collages and vaudevillian performances. She is drawn to the human condition, engaging in folklore narratives, cultural identity, masquerade and ritual. Her portrait subjects include singer/songwriters, Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly and Wanita, the Australian Queen of Honky Tonk and commissions by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Stockdale was the winner of the Doug Moran Photographic Portrait Prize and the Kings’ School Prize, NSW and invited to enter the National Self-Portrait Award, UQ Art Museum. She graduated from the VCA with a BFA in 1990. Stockdale’s work is held in significant public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of South Australia, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and the National Portrait Gallery.
IMAGE Self-portrait by jacqui Stockdale
Your Inner Circles Launch - Reflections in a Tea Cup
QPAC X Vulcana Circus X Micah X Chrysalis
Launching the 16-day Your Inner Circles festival, we reflect on Vulcana Circus’s exquisitely beautiful project, Circus in a Teacup. A part of the festival program last year, Circus in a Teacup was a collaboration between Vulcana Circus and survivors of gender-based abuse.
CIRCLE WORK GALLERY
Circle Work Gallery employs the walls of Brisbane’s cityscape to both shine the spotlight on four incredible Brisbane female artists, and to raise awareness about “Your Inner Circles” through the power of their art.
A series of four works will be featured at ten sites across Brisbane. This incredible public paste-up gallery will be on display during all 16 days of Activism.
Zonta Fellowship Walk
A walk to end violence against women.
A world without violence is possible and the time for change is now.
Zonta will be leading a fellowship walk around Brisbane city, starting at King George Square at 6:00 pm.
Your Inner Circles Product Launch
Loved the Mia tote from last year? Circles 22 has a whole new product line designed by Natalie Kitzelman!!!
Come have a sneak peek at this fabulous product line while sipping on a glass of bubbly on the 22nd of November at Open House!