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Melbourne Art Walk

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13.01.2022 Sorry, I forgot to post this weeks event here. Oops. Oh well, enjoy this video anyway.

12.01.2022 Hey all!!! Tomorrow we're heading to Walking the Wood. Starting at Backwoods Gallery at 1.30pm, then we're going to Off the Kerb Gallery for Tinky's artist talk, and then the artist market at the Melba Speigltent

10.01.2022 Art is not just for people with exclusive addresses, it’s for everyone. This ethos drives Bside to keep true to its street art roots from Blender Studios, maintaining accessibility and increasing engagement in innovative ways. With a welcoming and casual environment Bside has developed a thriving art community in its studios and tirelessly works to support emerging and up and coming artists; showcasing some exceptional, but always affordable, work. Bside has engaged with a fe...Continue reading

04.01.2022 I have 3 free tickets to give away. First in, first served!

04.01.2022 An absolutely masterful performance tonight by Bryony Kimmings in her solo show, I'm a Phoenix, Bitch. Weaving her tragic and heroic story together, piece by piece, illustrating relatable points along her journey with comedy and a light hearted approach before grabbing your hand and dragging you down to the depth of her emotional trauma. A young and hopeful start to life with a new relationship, a new home, and a pregnancy, ending with the breakdown of her relationship, her ...struggle with her mental health post birth, and her undiagnosed state descending into psychosis when her child develops a debilitating condition that nearly ended his young life. Forced to find a way out of the nightmare that has become her reality, she lifts you from the depths through her sheer determination and strength, but not completely. There is no fairy tale ending here. This is not a film script, it's real life. I'm in awe of her creative use of her set and the way she seamlessly intertwined multimedia into her performance giving a sense of space from the close relationship she created with her audience. Bryony is a superb and authentic storyteller, and her show certainly stirred up my own relatively recent terrible life experience. I'm sure some people went along for the trauma porn (don't lie, we all love it), but as someone who is still coming to terms with their own loss and trash pile fire of a life, it wasn't just an opportunity to poke at the bits that hurt, but also examine the way someone else pulled themselves out of the mud. The past few years have taught me a lot about life and people. Even though life is completely random and unpredictable we like to feel a sense of control over our lives, and when we lose the ability to choose, when life and people make choices for us that we don't want, but can't undo, we're left feeling completely lost, confused, and angry. In the end the people that you think will be there for you, won't be. You will find solace and support in the most unusual places, in my case all the friendships I'd cultivated over the past 12-13 years dissolved overnight. Instead it was my neighbour, an old friend I'd barely seen in years, an ex, a new date, and my boss who gave me a fighting chance to survive the death of my husband, and the loss of my home, my once close friends, my pets, a family I loved, and my sanity. These people support me everyday to become a better person, to become stronger and rise from the ashes of my old life. But this isn't just my story, it's all of our collective stories. We all have shitty things that happen to us that force us to shift into a new place; the person we once were has gone and something new must take its place. In 80 captivating minutes Bryony will make you face your truth and examine your own response to your life. Tickets still available from the Arts Centre Melbourne.