Queen Victoria Women's Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Queen Victoria Women's Centre

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8668 8100

Address: 210 Lonsdale St 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.qvwc.org.au

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25.01.2022 Some of the QVWC staff, trust & collaborators at last nights end of year festivities

22.01.2022 We love this! The Feminist Poster project with Katie Sfetkidis our QVWC Feminist Emissary supported by Melbourne Fringe & Plakkit. Catch the walk again tomorrow 2-4pm in the City starting at the rear of the Centre! Bri Hammond ... #qvwc #melbfringe #thefeministposterproject #protest #protestposters

22.01.2022 WAR member Katie Sfetkidis brings hand-drawn, intersectional feminist messages to the streets of Melbourne as part of Melbourne Fringe with The Feminist Poster ...Project. View the website: https://www.thefeministposterproject.com/ Explore it on Fringe: https://melbournefringe.com.au//the-feminist-poster-proje/

22.01.2022 Our QVWC SHOP has been featured in Broadsheet Melbourne take a look! Perfect time of year to support our local makers

21.01.2022 I recently had the absolute pleasure of contributing to Melbourne Poetry Map's latest journey 'Taking Space', as part of Feminist Writers Festival. My piece of ...poetry contemplated a building that previously housed a synagogue and also a women's shelter named Hope Hall (you may have known it once as Trunk Diner). The remainder of the journey is performed by a host of incredible feminist voices - Sista Zai Zanda, Kochava Lilit, Quinn Eades and Darlene Silva Soberano. Have a listen here: http://melbpoetrymap.com/journeys/taking-space/ Huge thanks to Peril magazine and Queen Victoria Women's Centre for having me!

20.01.2022 This Feminist Writers Festival session is on tomorrow Saturday 14 November 5.30-6.30pm! Join Van Badham, Kate Robinson our Feminsit in Residence & more

16.01.2022 We can't wait to see this come to life in our city! "Winner of this year’s Australia Council Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Fellowship, Clarke has heritage as a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, and BoonWurrung/Wemba Wemba woman and her driving ambition with the Metro Tunnel commission is to give future passengers a sense of Country and Indigenous understandings."

15.01.2022 COMMUNITY INTERVIEW: Meet Susannah Day Susannah is a Martu woman, and her mob is from central WA. Her grandmother was a stolen generation woman, brought up just near Wiluna, and then taken to Sister Kate's orphanage in Queen's Park, Perth. Susannah grew up in Perth, and moved to Melbourne four years ago. She’s been the program manager at The Torch for just under two years. Read her interview with Jessamy Gleeson here: ... https://www.qvwc.org.au//susannah-day-a-martu-woman-amp-pr #qvwc #qvwcinterview #community #martuwomen #martu #stolengeneration #thetorch #programmanager #susannahday #read #interview #thetorchvic #firstnations #firstnationspeople

14.01.2022 NAIDOC Week: Always was, Always will be.. Today we continue sharing our NAIDOC Week contributions. Jazz Money shares a poem with us, in response to this year’s NAIDOC theme Always was, Always will be ..... The piece is titled Listen. A must read for everyone. Read Jazz’s beautiful poem here: qvwc.org.au/communitynaidoc Jazz Money is a poet and filmmaker of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on the beautiful sovereign lands of the Darug and Gundungurra nations. Her poetry has been spoken and published widely across so-called ‘Australia,’ and has been reimagined as murals, installation and film. Jazz is the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award and her first collection of poetry will be published with UQP in 2021. #NAIDOC2020 #qvwc #alwayswasalwayswillbe #NAIDOCWEEK #NAIDOC #firstnations #poet #poetry #aboriginal #aboriginalart #indigenousart #naram #indigenouswomen #aboriginalwomen #culture #community #art #artists

10.01.2022 Did you miss the Feminist Writers Festival Craftivism session on the weekend? Here is the link so you can watch! Join Van Badham, Kate Robinson, Enza Gandolfo, Casey Jenkins & Taneshia Atkinson as they touch on political & subversive art making, redemption through craft, unrealistic beauty standards & more! Link here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4GAOs-7uI&feature=youtu.be

09.01.2022 FEMINIST POETRY JOURNEYS ARE LIVE! Spend some time reacquainting with the CBD with these two new poetry walks put together in collaboration with Melbourne Poetry Map and Peril magazine. Join Melbourne's most passionate writers, musicians and poets to generate feminist poetry soundtracks that use the lens of the past to imagine a journey together in this uncertain future.... Visit www.qvwc.org.au/community-listen to view audio & maps then grab your mask, headphones, comfortable shoes & start the journey. Explore landmarks like the Women's Liberation Centre, the first women's public toilet, the Old Melbourne Gaol, and The Great Petition sculpture all within a 1.5km radius of the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. This is feminist exercise: for your mind, your heart and your soul. #qvwc #melbournepoetrymap #perilmagazine #poetrymap #melbpoetrymap #poetry #feministpoetry #feminism #poets #writers #landmarks #feministmelbourne #feministpoets #melbournewalks #melbourne #melbournecity

08.01.2022 Congratulations to QVWC Trust member Jenna Davey-Burns on her election as a Councillor with Kingston Council! #weknewyouwhen #makingadifference #yougogirl

05.01.2022 We/Connect/PPE: PRIZE WINNERS We are excited to announce over the coming weeks the category winners of We/Connect/PPE: phone photography competition! Documentary Category Winner: Maite Arbildua ... Work: During a pandemic, anything can turn into a game. Here, my kids, drawing in a wet window, after weeks of being in self quarantine. Visit the exhibition LIVE in our exhibition space at the Centre. December viewing hours Tue-Fri 12-3pm entry is via QVWC Shop! rear of the building, QV Square. The exhibition is wonderful on the walls just like amazing windows out into the lives of the participants. View the QVWC Covid-Safe plan here: https://www.qvwc.org.au/media-and-resources Thank you to our judges Mikala Tai (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art), Jenny Huang (QVWC) & Jade Richards-Butler (Michaels)

04.01.2022 NAIDOC Week: Always was, Always will be. Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman shares a must read short essay with us titled Never Forgotten, responding to this year’s NAIDOC theme Always was, Always will be. Read to full piece here: www.qvwc.org.au/communitynaidoc... Claire is a Noongar woman whose family have belonged to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. She writes fiction, essays and poetry while (mostly) traveling around the continent now called Australia in a ragged caravan towed by an ancient troopy (the car has earned "vintage" status). Born in Perth, away from her ancestral country she has lived most of her life in Victoria and most of that in and around Melbourne. During an extended circuit of the continent she wrote a novel, influenced by certain experiences gained on the road. She has since won a Black&Write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for that novel ,"Terra Nullius". Terra Nullius was published in Australia by Hachette Australia and in North America by Small Beer Press. #NAIDOC2020 #qvwc #alwayswasalwayswillbe #NAIDOCWEEK #NAIDOC #firstnations #aboriginal #aboriginalart #indigenousart #naram #boonwurrung #noongar #indigenouswomen #aboriginalwomen #culture #community #art #artitsts #terranullius

03.01.2022 Today marks the start of 16 Days of Activism. This is a campaign calling for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls. Ending violence against women is everyone’s business. UN Women explains 10 ways you can #orangetheworld and make a difference during the #16DaysOfActivism against Gender-Based Violence every day, even during the #COVID19 pandemic. http://unwo.men/M35e50Cobn0... Join with us and say NO to violence. #16dayscampaign #respectis #orangetheworld #GenerationEquality

03.01.2022 NAIDOC Week: Always was, Always will be. We continue sharing our special NAIDOC Week contributions. Lisa Waup's work titled Continuity Brooch, responding to this year’s NAIDOC theme Always was, Always will be.... Lisa is a mixed-race First Nations woman with a multidisciplinary art practice and is also a curator, born in Naarm (Melbourne) and currently a visitor on Boon Wurrung Country. Waup’s practice is studio-based, and involves the creation of objects, with a strong connection of symbology through her work and materials which connects her to family, Country, hXstory and story. She works across weaving, printmaking, photography, sculpture, textiles and installation and her work eloquently illustrates her life’s journey through discovery and connection. Waup’s practice highlighting the importance of tracing lost hXstory, ancestral relationships, Country, motherhood and time which ultimately are woven stories of her past, present and future into contemporary forms. Read more about Lisa & her work here: qvwc.org.au/communitynaidoc #NAIDOC2020 #qvwc #alwayswasalwayswillbe #NAIDOCWEEK #NAIDOC #firstnations #aboriginal #aboriginalart #indigenousart #naram #boonwurrung #indigenouswomen #aboriginalwomen #culture #community #art #artist

01.01.2022 We/Connect/PPE: PRIZE WINNERS Two more winners to announce today! Action Shot Category Winner: Belinda Quantock Fearless Grace. A solo performance of connection to nature and utter certainty of a place in this world.... Portrait Category Winner: Wendy Dalkrian My 79 year old mother, Mei Chun Luk had recently moved into a nursing home and due to Covid-19 our family were unable to visit her in person so we had a zoom meeting set up. I took this photo on my phone and later realised I could see my reflection over mums heart. A few weeks later she died so I cherish this last photo of my precious mum and I together in a virtual picture. Visit the exhibition LIVE in our exhibition space at the Centre. Tue-Fri 12-3pm entry is via QVWC Shop! rear of the building on QV Square. The exhibition is wonderful on the walls - just like amazing windows into the participants' lives.