About this Event
Saturday 6 July and Sunday 7 July, 10am – 4pm
CASE Incubator Studio, the Leda Business Centre, Rosebery
$50* for the two-day workshop, eight places available, vegan lunch and snacks included
‘Socially engaged art practices’, ‘creative recovery’ and ‘arts and health’ are increasingly becoming part of our contemporary art vocabulary. The growth in these types of practices raises important questions about how we share knowledge and build a community of practice.
This two-day learning event is for artists who are interest in learning about, and practicing in ways that are 'socially engaged'. Using a mix of presentations, case studies, reading material and group activities, this weekend will give participants a practical, theoretical and ethical background in socially engaged practices.
Led by Vic McEwan, Sarah McEwan and Sarah Penicka-Smith with guest speakers Karenza Ebejer and Mitch King, this weekend workshop will provide opportunities to discuss and explore practice, with the aim of giving participants confidence to apply their socially engaged learnings within their own communities and projects.
*This two-day workshop is free for healthcare card holders.
* This two-day workshop is free for up to four regional NSW artists who live in an area with a RADO. These artists are also eligible for a $200 travel bursary that will be paid to them on the first day of the workshop.
About the Artists
Vic McEwan is the Artistic Director of the Cad Factory which, he co-founded in 2004. He is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, video, photography, installation, and performance, and was the first artist to receive a practice-led PhD through the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney (2023). Throughout his career, Vic has created dozens of contemporary art outcomes while contributing to broader conversations about the role that the arts can play within our communities. He works nationally and internationally with diverse partners to explore difficult themes within lived experience, for which he has received multiple fellowships and awards.
Sarah McEwan is the Creative Producer of the Cad Factory. She has been working and volunteering at the Cad Factory since 2006. Sarah is an artist, musician and artist-curator who lives and works between Sandigo, within the Wiradjuri Nation, and in Sydney, within the Eora Nation. Sarah likes to time travel through the past in order to learn from what has happened before, to understand, navigate, and create the world she wants and needs in the present and the future. In the spirit of ethically engaged practices, she values community, collaboration, gentleness, and embracing differences.
A passionate advocate for music as a force for change, Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith is a Western Sydney-based conductor and socially-engaged artist. She holds positions with River City Voices and Willoughby Symphony, and runs a number of pioneering projects with her wife Melanie. Currently these include Pacific Pride Choir, a queer touring choir that has visited Germany, Poland, Vietnam and Cambodia, and commissioning and producing Eve Klein’s ‘OCDiva’, a new one-woman opera for mezzo-soprano and mental health advocate Yasmin Arkinstall.
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Access in the Leda Business Centre
The Leda Business Centre has three entrances. The entrance on Harcourt Pde has nine stairs. There are two entrances at the rear of the building that you enter via Rothschild Ave. It has one ramp into the building and another rear entrance with seven stairs. Within the building there is an elevator between the floors. There is one stair into the bathroom. There are no disability toilets on any level. There is a level entrance into the CASE Incubator Studio.
After making your booking you will be emailed a short questionnaire that asks simple questions about your practice, dietary requirements and any access needs.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
315/30-40 Harcourt Parade, 30-40 Harcourt Parade, Rosebery, Australia
AUD 0.00 to AUD 50.00
