Immerse yourself in a unique and transformative experience that blends the essence of art with the healing power of sound.

This intimate gathering invites you to express your creativity while enjoying wine, herbal tea, and delicious snacks, all while connecting with friends both old and new.

You'll participate in self-directed life drawing sessions featuring a diverse range of poses, including quick sketches of 1 and 5/10 minutes, and two longer poses lasting 15 to 20 minutes. These moments of artistic expression will wrap up with a relaxing live sound healing finale during the last two longer poses.

During the last two poses, allow the calming vibrations of powerful Crystal Singing Bowls to wash over you. Each note resonates deeply, promoting relaxation and filling your spirit with positive energy as the life model holds their positions for you to draw.

This event is designed for everyone—whether you're a seasoned artist or a complete beginner— this is a space for you to explore, be creative and participate in a mindful practice.

Simply create, draw and let the healing sounds wash over you.

All necessary materials, including charcoal/pastel and paper/boards, will be provided, though you're welcome to bring your own supplies if you prefer. With limited spaces available, be sure to reserve your spot for this unforgettable evening of art, sound, and connection.

Tickets are $40 - The price includes, Life Drawing, drawing equipment, live sound bath music, wine, tea and snacks.

7pm - 8:30pm

A forum for early-career academics to practice presenting their work and for the public to learn about it too.

Members only, entry by donation.

Upcoming: DOUBLE BILL: Grace Aldridge & Jack Doepel, 20 November

Grace Aldridge

This presentation will describe a research program endeavouring to better understand how technology-assisted parenting programs could better engage and empower parents of children experiencing adversity. We reviewed the scientific literature and found that designing interventions with those who use it can make it more engaging. We therefore co-designed a technology-assisted parenting intervention (consisting of podcasts and micro-coaching) with a health service accessed by parents of children who experience adversity and developed strategies to support its implementation. This methodology enabled producing an intervention that empowers parents with strategies to protect their child’s mental health and has potential to be delivered widely at low cost. This presentation may be of relevance to anyone working with child and family services and/or with an interest in reducing research-to-practice gaps.

Grace Aldridge is a psychologist and researcher interested in working collaboratively and relationally with families and services to better meet families’ needs for supporting their children’s mental health. The PhD research stemmed from an interest in understanding how to improve the reach of the many evidence-based parenting supports that exist but are not used.

Jack Doepel

In decolonial studies, and other domains interested in the concepts 'race' and 'gender', 'white European man' is frequently cast as the antagonist, and quite rightly. Less common, however, are analyses designed to elucidate the history of this standpoint. As a result, authors often end up adopting a religious-like, colourist/racist conception of the 'white man' as inherently evil. My contention, is that like all things, the contours of white man's psyche owe themselves to some earlier cause...

tldr; everyone knows white man acts evil, few really ask why.

What can a clearer understanding of whiteness and its history teach us that might benefit our knowing today?

ALOT duh :p

Join me as we attempt to deshroud white man's mini-map. I promise we find a banquet for the seeker.

Past:

Keanu Hoi, 30 October 2024, 5:30pm-7:30pm (sharp!)

Before a film comes to life, it starts as fragmented imaginations, sketched, written and shared with collaborators… previsualisation. This practice has a rich history in art cinema that has been slowly eroded by studios standardising previsualisation to suit assembly line film production. This presentation charts an alternative history of cinema, taking a careful look at the role of previsualisation and its roots in animation history and art making.

Let’s reclaim the roots of cinema as a creative and unpredictable relationship between animation and live-action photography. It has become increasingly common for independent film productions to compartmentalise crafts to discrete points in a pipeline. Previsualisation is a unique opportunity to start to unwind this practice, and question the ways in which we collaborate and who we collaborate with. 

This presentation is free for portal members and open to all. It may prove especially relevant to filmmakers, students of film, and creatives curious about story development and animation. 

Keanu Hoi is an animation lecturer and PhD candidate studying how animated previsualisation impacts collaboration, creativity and authorship. The PhD research was born from his experiences in the film and animation industry, noticing the strange divisions between these two worlds. 

His journey with animation began as a child, when he underwent alternative dyslexia treatment, which involved modelling hundreds of clay dioramas that told stories about the words he struggled with reading and writing. This led to him making claymations with the same clay used in his treatment. He began to paint and later went to film school at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. Here he began to blend his love for all kinds of filmmaking processes, both animated and live-action. The style that emerged is a distinct reflection of his approach to storytelling; one that explores feelings of estrangement and attraction to computers and automation. His work has premiered on Adult Swim (USA), CineQuest (California), Melbourne International Animation Festival, Sydney Fringe Festival and Soft Centre (Australia) & Cinanima (Portugal), among others. 

keanuhoi.art

The un Projects Reading Group is at the portal with 18.1 After-care guest editor Joel Sherwood Spring! Join us this Thursday 14th November 6-8pm in the unnamed alleyway behind 3 Westgarth St in Fitzroy, Naarm. We’ll be reading and discussing the introduction 'What Are Savages for? from Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy (2007) by Christopher Bracken. This event is free to attend and all are welcome to join - even if you have or haven't read the text! 

Immerse yourself in a unique and transformative experience that blends the essence of art with the healing power of sound.

You'll participate in self-directed life drawing sessions featuring a diverse range of poses, including quick sketches of 1 and 5/10 minutes, and two longer poses lasting 15 to 20 minutes. The life model maintains their positions, providing you with a serene opportunity to sketch. These moments of artistic expression will wrap up with a relaxing live sound healing finale during the last two longer poses. Let the soothing vibrations of the powerful Crystal Singing Bowls being played wash over you. Each note resonates deeply within, fostering relaxation and enhancing your connection to creativity with uplifting energy.

This event is designed for everyone—whether you're a seasoned artist or a complete beginner— this is a space for you to explore, be creative and participate in a mindful practice. Simply create, draw and let the healing sounds relax your mind/body.

All necessary materials, including charcoal/pastel and paper/boards, will be provided, though you're welcome to bring your own supplies if you prefer. With limited spaces available, be sure to reserve your spot for this unforgettable evening of art, sound, and connection.

Tickets are $40 - The price includes, Life Drawing, drawing equipment, live sound bath music, wine, tea and snacks. Buy through Eventbrite to secure your spot, or also you can pay cash on the night.