Big West Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre
From Friday 23 November – Sunday 2 December Australia’s leading community-based contemporary arts festival is on again. This year’s Big West Festival celebrates Art, People and Place in venues all around the West, with Footscray Community Arts Centre proud to present four exciting events.
Merry Xmas: Lighting Up The Art Unit
From Friday 23 November – Sunday 2 December enjoy Christmas lights with a twist in The Art Unit on the Front Lawn at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Artists In Residence Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston from Bluebottle 3 have come up with a new concept in portable space – The Art Unit. During the Big West Festival, this lightweight, portable studio and performance space will shine with a touch of Christmas as it is lit up by a series of interactive devices. Click here for more information on The Art Unit and how you can become involved.
Friday 23 November – Sunday 2 December
Sundown onwards
The Art Unit, Front Lawn
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Night of 1000 Ukuleles
On Opening Night, songwriter, performer, comedienne and renowned ukulele player Shirley Billing stars in Night of 1000 Ukuleles. This stylish and salacious evening of hilarious musical entertainment features a host of the hottest ukulele talent in town including ukulele maker and maestro Nara Demasson and the Footscray Ukulele Orchestra. There’ll be more ukuleles than you can throw a tuner at and you can join in the fun by bringing along your own uke and jamming away at the end of the night.
Friday 23 November
9.30pm
Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
FAVSC presents Brendan Lee
On Tuesday 27 November local artist Brendan Lee will come along to the Footscray Audio Visual Social Club (FAVSC) to present his new video and photographic work reflecting life in the West. Brendan’s art looks at the associations made between notions of place, film and history. He explores the relationships between the filmic memory of significant cinematic locations and how we interact with their historical weighing. In the last few years, Brendan has focussed on Australian film history and folklore in how we identify and differentiate ourselves culturally from other regions. Through constructed and discovered film locations, he presents open-ended questions about identity through filmic narrative and tropes.
Tuesday 27 November
6pm – 8pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
DIY: Save Braybrook
Brendan has also been involved in DIY: Braybrook Big Day Out. This event is the second in Footscray Arts’ DIY – Make Your Own Event project and follows the hugely successful performance of Not Enough Cows. Brendan has worked with the Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood Association and the Braybrook Football Club to create Save Braybrook, a fictional work celebrating the life and history of Braybrook. Brendan has scripted a short video piece which involves the local residents lobbying to keep the name Braybrook from being changed to Shepherd's Gardens. The name is to be supplanted in order to increase the inner city property values. A meeting is held at the Braybrook Football Club and each local tells their stories, urban myths and legends in order to convince the politicians that their suburb’s name is worth preserving. Look out for this DIY Event at the Braybrook Big Day Out on Sunday 25 November.
Sunday 25 November
11am – 4pm
Braybrook Park, Churchill Avenue, Braybrook
FREE
Bookings advised. Phone 03 9362 8888 or email reception@footscrayarts.com
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