Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture Footscray Community Arts Centre presents Wominjeka Festival 2015 Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 Christine Anu January Presented by Maribyrnong City Council Mariaa Randall Steven Rhall Yagan Satour The Treaters TERRAIN Presented by St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Featuring Lost Boys Footscray Community Thelma Plum Arts Centre Information and tickets Emma Donovan at footscrayarts.com 45 Moreland St, Footscray and The Putbacks Illustration by Paola Balla Wominjeka Festival Supporters Footscray Community Arts Centre Supporters Welcome Culture is about living and connecting. It is the way we Footscray Community Arts Centre is proud to deliver Wominjeka Festival is our community sharing the talent, tell stories and re-connect to our Ancestors, continuing Wominjeka Festival 2015. I am especially delighted to innovation and the deadliness of our mob. The artists in on with the thousands of memories that live in this start the year as we will continue, with a rich and diverse this year’s festival come to you from Victoria and from land. Festivals like Wominjeka showcase the best of our program of art, music, performance and activities that Nations across the country. Each bring their knowledge, abilities and allow us to connect to old ways and to show deeply reflects Indigenous culture in Melbourne’s west, their culture and their stories to share with you. It’s a new way. We have a living, vibrant culture that needs and Australia. through these creative exchanges that we come to know to be maintained as a living entity. We sing up country, As always, my thanks to FCAC’s Indigenous Advisory one another - to respect our differences and acknowledge we dance up country, we ARE country. Group who continue to guide this festival, our Indigenous what makes us all one. We could not be prouder of the Aunty Carolyn Briggs, Elder and Boon Wurrung Spokesperson Cultural Program and of course, the organisation as talent on display at FCAC and are honoured to be a part of and to support the Wominjeka Festival. Aunty Carolyn will present Welcome to Country, a whole. Saturday 17 January, 5pm Welcome, FCAC Indigenous Advisory Group Uncle Larry Walsh, Aunty Carolyn Briggs, Karen Jackson, Jade Lillie, Director and CEO, Vicki Couzens, Rob Bundle and Genevieve Grieves Footscray Community Arts Centre, 2015 EXHIBITIONS LAUNCH MUSIC Join us for the launch of Maribyrnong City Council presents the two exhibitions on Thursday 15 January CHRISTINE ANU 5pm - 7pm In Concert Featuring music by Legendary singer, Christine Anu will be bringing the party to Love Heart with Wominjeka as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of her iconic Robbie Bundle album Stylin Up. With a career spanning two decades including FCAC music, theatre, dance, film and television, the ARIA award winner Roslyn Smorgon Gallery will be playing all her hits including My Island Home and Party. Join us! Saturday 17 January 8pm Main Stage Free EXHIBITION EXHIBITION DANCE MUSIC St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival presents TERRAIN Challenging, inspiring and cultivating new perceptions of what urban Indigenous music is all about, TERRAIN brings together three incredible artists creating fresh sounds in Australian music. Saturday 17 January 5pm Monkeyman Keytar, 2013. Snakeyes English as a second language (detail) Image by Jeff Busby, 2012 Main Stage Photographed by Goth Treater Steven Rhall Free HA LF Ther- Happy We Specializes in Mariaa Randall The Treaters Authentic HA LF scrutinizes the label Do U feel confined by the Aboriginal Art ‘half-caste’ and the terms that Australian culture of anxiety, Steven Rhall perpetuate racial segregation paranoia and hating on little Steven Rhall offers a collection based on skin tone, shade worlds? Well U can find relief of past and new works and colour. with The Treater Ther-happy, connected to Melbourne’s Mariaa Randall weaves traditional first aid for your mind, west - Rhall’s home and ever together dance, black and body, spirit and moom! persistent muse. Responding white photography, spoken word Triplets from the Post Madonna to ideas of cultural expression, and ceremony highlighting the Period, The Treaters consist performativity, place and evolution of Aboriginal identity of a Cyborg, a Goth and a commerce, this work engages while solidifying the diversity Monkeyman. Unsuccessful with the ‘local aesthetic’, of Aboriginal Australia today. at online applications for employing tools of advertising Thursday 15 January, 8pm supermarket jobs THE and other media. Friday 16 January, 1pm Lost Boys Emma Donovan Thelma Plum TREATERS went on to (with Q&A) and 8pm Thursday 15 January, Hailing from Townsville, Lost and The Putbacks Casting a spell over audiences successfully complete a Saturday 17 January, 3:30pm 5pm – 7pm Boys’ eclectic sound ranges everywhere, singer-songwriter computer course in Aboriginal FCAC Performance Space Acclaimed vocalist Emma Exhibition until 24 February from alternative and indie, Thelma Plum burst onto the new age Ther-happy! $15, Book online Donovan and Melbourne Gabriel Gallery to progressive and soulful. Australian music scene in Launch Thursday 15 January, FREE rhythm combo The PutBacks Energetic and exciting, it’s have come together to play 2012, winning multiple awards 5pm - 7pm no surprise their shows have including Triple J Unearthed Exhibition until 24 February songs from their new album attracted a huge following Dawn, an LP of hard hitting Competition and National Roslyn Smorgon Gallery from Cairns to Melbourne New Talent of the Year at FREE and heartfelt soul songs telling and have seen them play stories of grief, struggle and the National Indigenous THE TREATERS with acts like Gomez and redemption. The artists’ song Music Awards. Thelma has Ther-Happy Performance Sticky Fingers. writing is in turns optimistic, played with musicians like Presented by Brown Cab angry and melancholic and on Elvis Costello and Bob Evans Productions and FCAC occasions bruisingly honest. and her collaboration with as part of the Independent producer M-Phazes has led to Live Theatre Initiative. some of the most exciting new Saturday 17 January, 1pm sounds in Australian music. Roslyn Smorgon Gallery WORKSHOP PLAY PERFORMANCE We acknowledge that we work across the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurrundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Foostcray Community Arts Centre would like to thank the FCAC Indigenous Advisory Group, Moondani Balluk, Victoria University, Paola Balla, Sweet Creative, Starling Communications, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Shah Alamdar, Alfred Felton Bequest ANZ, Brown Cab Productions, ArtLife, Maribyrnong City Council and Ministry for the Arts. MIRRNONG MINNIES Image by Paola Balla Image by Steven Rhall Weaving Workshops with HOMELANDS PAST RACISM / How to get here Bronwyn Razem Curated by Paola Balla FUTURE RIGHTS Footscray Community Arts Centre is located at 45 Moreland Street on the banks of the Maribyrnong Join Gunditjmara fibre Homelands is an interactive Star Aqua Galactica River and can be easily accessed by public transport and car. artist, Bronwyn Razem for space for children inspired Presented by Brown Cab weaving workshops. Learn by learning, play, curiosity Productions and FCAC • Catch a train to Footscray Station and take • There are limited 2 hour unmetered carparks various traditional and and discovery. as part of the Independent a 5 minute walk down Bunbury Street. in FCAC’s front car park and metered parking contemporary Indigenous Children become co-creators Live Theatre Initiative. on Moreland Street. techniques and participate in • Take the 402 bus to the corner of Moreland as they explore Indigenous 1 a revival of cultural tradition. Yagan Satour is a 24 year, Street and Dynon Road, and then a 5 minute • Cycle or walk along the Maribyrnong River experiences of place, kinship 1 month, 3 week and 3 day walk down Moreland Street. and enter FCAC via Riverside Lawn. Suitable for beginners and inclusion. A culturally safe old, selfie-loving, Arrente, to advanced weavers. space for children and families Gurindji and Worimi man Workshop One: Homelands is a place to play, who is GLBTIQ and has Follow us on Bus Stop Friday 16 January hide and create! an intellectual disability. Hopkins Street 10am - 4pm Saturday 17 January He is a Scorpio, born in the year Workshop Two: Wingfield Street 12pm – 4pm of the Metal Horse (this is the #Wominjeka15 Irving Street Saturday 17 January FCAC Amphitheatre year of the Wooden Horse). Footscray 10am - 4pm FREE @footscrayarts Train Station FCAC Jack Kennedy Room His rising sign is Aquarius $70.00 per workshop / and his moon is in Capricorn. FREE for Indigenous He loves science fiction. participants Star Aqua Galactica is his drag persona and she Footscray Cowper Street Materials included Hyde Street Book online is a Sagittarius. She is 24. Community Whitehall Street Maribyrnong River This is their show. Arts Centre Bunbury Street This text has been formatted 45 Moreland Street by Yagan Satour Footscray Moreland Street Saturday 17 January 2pm 03 9362 8888 footscrayarts.com FCAC Basement Theatre $10, Book online.