Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres in Braddon, Australian Capital Territory | Community organisation

Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres

Locality: Braddon, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6182 0000

Address: Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue 2612 Braddon, ACT, Australia

Website: http://www.agac.com.au

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23.01.2022 Always was. Always will be. The Australian landscape has been understood, cared for and shaped by Aboriginal peoples for over 65,000 years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were Australia’s first explorers, navigators, astronomers, botanists, artists, farmers and first diplomats. They traversed this vast continent, establishing traditions and practices that continue to enrich lives in each region, including our own, here in Ngunnawal Country. This week we take t...ime to acknowledge, learn and celebrate the extensive history of Australia that has been gifted to us in ancient oral histories, traditions and the many First Nations communities around the country. This NAIDOC week artwork was created by Tyrown Waigana, a 23-year old Noongar and Saibai-Islander man. His winning entry - Shape of Land - was judged by the National NAIDOC Committee to have best illustrated the 2020 NAIDOC theme: Always Was Always Will Be. Learn the story behind the artwork here: https://www.naidoc.org.au//waigana-wins-coveted-naidoc-202 NAIDOC week runs from 9 15 November 2020. How will you celebrate here on Ngunnawal Country? #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC #NgunnawalCountry #AinslieAndGorman #Braddon

22.01.2022 Yuumma! Come celebrate Canberra’s diverse cultural communities through the 'Intercultural Craft Circle' gathering, a story telling and craft making event happening in Haig Park! Unwind this weekend with a number of creative activities including stitching activities, printmaking, clay modelling, storytelling and drawing. Bring a picnic & enjoy a beautiful spring morning in the Park stay for the full three hours or drop in to one activity of your choice. ... All activities are FREE and all materials are provided, no experience required!

22.01.2022 Only three spots are left in the Contemporary Beadwork Course this weekend! Join Charlotte Appleby tomorrow for a one day Beginners workshop at Ainslie Arts Centre! Couture Bead Masters

21.01.2022 Our Friends at Ausdance ACT are tirelessly continuing their programs into the new year with a new summer intensive running across 19-21 January 2021! Check their event for more details on how to get involved! Ausdance Act #Dance #CanberraDance #AusdanceACT #GormanArtsCentre

19.01.2022 This week is Transgender Awareness Week where we celebrate the wonderful and diverse Transgender Community around us and reflect on our roles as allies. To all our trans and gender diverse friends, you are amazing! It is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate the trailblazers throughout history who have campaigned tirelessly for trans rights and visibility, and to honour those who have lost their lives to violence and discrimination. This is also a great time to reflect... and learn more about how we can individually and as a community, be proactive in showing our love and support for those who identify as trans and/or gender diverse. Asking is a great place to start. Visit minus18.org.au for excellent resources to start the conversation. How will you be celebrating the trans and gender diverse community? How can you be a better ally? #TransgenderAwarenessWeek #TAW

18.01.2022 The legends from Girls Rock! Canberra are launching a new online mentorship program! Tune Up! is a chance for young people of marginalised gender identities including women, gender-diverse folks, and trans-men (aged 15-20 years). This is an opportunity for emerging musicians and young people to connect with successful members of the music community and learn from their experiences. Applications close midnight 17 November. Check out the details at https://www.girlsrockaustrali...a.com.au/ #GirlsRockCBR #CanberraMusic #Canberra #Braddon #TuneUp

18.01.2022 Tomorrow our friends at Canberra Youth Theatre are launching their 2021 program! Join in at 7pm on Tuesday 15 December to hear all about the exciting new things coming your way in 2021! Canberra Youth Theatre ... #CanberraYouthTheatre #YouthTheatre #CanberraTheatre #cyt2021 #PerformingArts #CBRArts #VisitCanberra #Braddon #AinslieAndGorman

18.01.2022 Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres residents Music For Canberra are delighted to be back with some fantastic musical programming at the end of year Musical Celebration. With concerts from young and talented String Stream Ensembles, James McCusker Orchestra and the Canberra Youth Orchestra these day and night performances will be jam packed full of music from our Concerto Competition winners and small ensembles, featuring piano accordion player Anton Wurzer and diverse repertoir...e from Vaughan Williams, Vieuxtemps, Tchaikovsky and more! They will be performing at the Llewellyn Hall and can't wait to fill the concert hall with the stunning sounds of live performance that have been missed in 2020. Book now at: https://musicforcanberra.org.au/whats-on/

16.01.2022 Our offices are closed to the public from COB Thursday 24 December and reopening to the public on Monday 11 January 2021. We’ll get back to your emails once our mandatory digital detox is complete!

14.01.2022 Jason's Plant of the Month is Azaleas! Our gardens are dotted with all kinds of Azaleas, including the Rhododendron ‘White Gumbo’ and ‘Nova Zembla’, whose white and bright pink trumpet flowers open up during spring. They are shade loving plants, that brighten up corners of the ground cover, but behind their cheery faces lies a dark secret. ... Now here’s the real scoop on Azaleas. They are well known for the toxicity in their leaves and nectar and were once used as a veiled threat in bouquets of flowers. In some parts of Turkey and Nepal, bees are fed exclusively on rhododendrons for their neurotoxins, and produce a mind-altering, potentially medicinal, and occasionally lethal honey called ‘mad honey’. Yes. Mad honey. So now we know the real reason we don’t keep bees here at Gorman. The blooming Azaleas. #PlantsByJason #Azaleas #Rhododendron #RhododendronNovaZembla #flower #Springtime #AinslieGorman #GormanArtsCentre #Gardening #GreenThumb #Braddon #VisitCanberra #ACT #CBR #MadHoney

11.01.2022 Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres have had the pleasure of hosting 1:1 concerts, a unique musical experience in aid of musicians struggling during the COVID19 lockdown. So far these intimate one on one concerts have raised a significant amount of funds assisting 87 musicians who have been doing it tough, in one of the worst years for touring musicians. Look out for an insight into the concept on ABC TV tonight or better yet book, donate and be part of the an important lifelin...e and support network. http://1to1concerts.de/en/australia See more

11.01.2022 Are you a someone who loves Canberra's outdoor green spaces? Do you live in the Braddon area? Then Canberra Renewal Authority would like to hear from you about the proposed design concepts for a new community centre in Haig Park in Braddon. Please follow the link below https://www.yoursay.act.gov.au/haigpark/community-centre

06.01.2022 Physical theatre master Jake Silvestro - Circus & Visual Art spent 2 weeks developing a new work ‘December’ a response to the devastating bush fire of 2019. This work was created in the Ralph Wilson Theatre and culminated in an industry performance on Friday last week. Next showing of this work will on the Friday 11 December in Albury. Book here! https://bit.ly/JSilvestro

06.01.2022 Calla Lily Jason's first plant for 2021! Zantedeschia aethiopica These beauties are native to southern Africa but have made themselves home all across the world. New Zealand isn’t a fan of them, in fact they are in the bad books and it is illegal to propagate, sell or distribute them.... However, Calla Lilies aren’t all bad, they are also able to be used as wastewater treatment plants (actual plants) for their ability to grow in wet areas, helping to filter and clean the water around them. It is also an important symbolic flower for Irish republicanism and nationalism. Known as the Easter Lily, it helps commemorates the lives lost in the 1916 uprising against the British forces in Ireland. #PlantsByJason #CallaLily #EasterLily #ZantedeschiaAethiopica #AinslieGorman #GormanArtsCentre #Gardening #GreenThumb #Braddon #VisitCanberra #ACT #CBR

04.01.2022 2020 has been a tough year, with the arts being hit incredibly hard in the wake of a global pandemic. Despite the changeable and uncertain nature of our year, we are so proud of what we, alongside our local creative community have achieved in 2020. During lock-down our Programs team worked tirelessly to bring 9 workshops and Q & A’s to over 1,2 00 artists and arts organisations and provide 48 in depth Toolkit Chats with individual artists as part of the Artists Toolkit Progra...m. We spent the start of the year launching two new residency programs, Live Art Lab and Kids X Art, both dedicated to artist development and mentorship that will carry on in 2021. A+G also jumped at the chance to reconnect with the Haig Park Projects and their partners by being part of 17 community building activities and events and supporting arts workers through event employment. We would like to thank our project partners for the year, University of Canberra Liz Lea Dance PwC Australia Events ACT Where You are Festival, Canberra Innovation, Create Curious, Lightbulb, The Festival of Creativity and DEiFY. Finally, thank you to our Canberra community for coming along and supporting these programs! See you for an exciting new year of programming in 2021! Photo: Interconnect by The Bindu Project photographed by Andrew Sikorski Art Atelier Photography Image description: In a dimly lit room a dancer dressed in white is poised with arms raised as white scribbles inside squares are projected on the walls behind. #AinslieAndGorman #2020 #Canberra #Braddon #CBRArts

04.01.2022 After a very challenging year, A+G would like to wish all our friends, collegues, allies and future friends a very happy New Year!

03.01.2022 Mega congrats to A+G Resident Orgs QL2 Dance Inc (Canberra, Australia), Australian Dance Party and ACT artist Liz Lea Dance on their nominations for the Australian Dance Awards! Online ceremony will be on Tuesday 8 December 7.30 pm AEST, so stay tuned for details of an Ausdance ACT hosted watch party via the Ausdance Act website! Photo: David Kelly. Pol Andres & Thio-Libby-Rose Niederer, Queensland Ballet.... Image description: A black and white image of a male identifying dancer with head leaning over the back of a female identifying dancer.

02.01.2022 Jason's Plant of the Month is Euphorbia! Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, that has over 2000 members in its family. One such member is Euphorbia Characias Wilfenii, more commonly known as Mediterranean spurge. And it lives in the lush spring gardens of Gorman.... These hardy plants are popular in garden climates like Canberra’s for their ability to survive and even thrive with little maintenance. As you can see, its low effort and high reward with these plants. They are strong, independent self-seeders, so keep an eye on them, as they can get unwieldy. They are also known for their milky sap that can irritate the skin. Throughout history the sap was used to treat a variety of skin issues. For those botany fans, a quick fan moment. Euphorbia’s are the only genus of plant that uses all three types of photosynthesis. Boom! Exciting stuff. #PlantsByJason #Euphorbia #EuphorbiaCharacias #AinslieGorman #GormanArtsCentre #Gardening #GreenThumb #Braddon #VisitCanberra #ACT #CBR

02.01.2022 Hello Canberra! The LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club is here! Set to be THE monthly must-go-to social event, the LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club is a fun, inclusive and safe intergenerational gathering hosted at Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres. "It's gentle, comfortable, lots of socialising, with drinks and toasts and speeches and opportunities to break out into dance. It's a chance to build community over a period of time." says Tristan Meecham of All the Queens Men. Stay tuned to our ...socials for the next fab and fun Dance Club! Meridian - formerly AIDS Action Council All The Queens Men The Canberra Times See more

01.01.2022 Dance, Design and Devotion. How do these concepts link together? Join The Bindu Project for their new show 'Interconnect', a series of dance solos dedicated to the art and form of dance and the body presented as part of the DESIGN Canberra Festival. The Bindu Project celebrates the concept of 'Bindu', the central point of design in Hindu mythology - the moment of creation. Entertain that curiosity, come and see how this extends into the design of movement, cities and peo...ple. Two shows available on Saturday 21 November in F block Gallery at Gorman Arts Centre. Book now! The Bindu Project DESIGN Canberra Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre

01.01.2022 From all of us at A+G, we would like to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!