All School Lab / Next Wave, Oct 28-29
Our friends at Next Wave have launched their new artist-led learning platform - All School at Next Wave, Oct 28th-29th.
All School offers a new space to share, swap ideas and cast a constellation of connections through in-person and online gatherings led by/for artists across the continent. All School is unveiled with the inaugural LAB –– offering moments to come together with artists, community and new and old friends. Whether they’re stepping onto a larger stage for the first time, exploring new directions, or expanding the scale of their projects — the All School Lab offers the public a chance to dive in with artists in action.
LINEUP: Aaron Claringbold, Amias Hanley, Baongoc Brunswick, Bayu Widodo (Taring Padi/Survive Garage Collective), Catherine Ryan, Dandy Fredes, Eliki Reade, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, House Of Muchness, Jack Mitchell, James Nguyen, Jocelyn Tribe, Kristi Monfries, Mabu Mabu, Marcellina Dwi Kencana Putri (Gudskul), Prue Stevenson, Rebecca Mccauley, Rio Withall, Rully Shabara (Senyawa), Sol Fernandez, Steven Rhall, Tian Zhang, We Eatin’ Good & More
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Here in ‘Australia’, Indigenous people are the most incarcerated population on Earth. Countless lives have been murdered by white police, white government policies and this country’s white history, institutionalised colonialism and ongoing racial oppression. Racial injustice continues today under the phoney, self-congratulatory politics of ‘Reconciliation’ and the notion that colonialism is something that must be denied and forgotten, an uncomfortable artefact of the past.
Feeling guilty is not enough. We must take action, pay the rent, educate ourselves and acknowledge that empathy and sorrow for past actions is insufficient if this does nothing to prevent our current reality from extending into the future.
Please consider making donations to the following organisations (the list is so small and the work to be done is so large, do your research to find more grassroots, Indigenous-lead community organisations):
Indigenous Social Justice Association - fighting to stop Indigenous deaths in custody