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Oct 17

Gift Culture – Holly Story

Our next Gift Culture recipient is WA visual artist Holly Story. Holly works in a number of mediums – including printmaking, embroidery, installation, video and sculpture – working with local, natural materials out of a finely-turned sensitivity to the natural world and its forces.

I experience Holly’s work as a real “Speaking of the Bush” – a real “Speaking of Country” – that enables audiences/viewers to experience this same speaking for themselves. In so doing she helps open a connection to all that lives in WA’s natural environment – connections out of which creative forces of social renewal can also flow. Read more

Sep 26

Gift Culture – MC Matre / Gifted

Today we gave $50US to MC Matre – Matt Sawaya. Matt is a hip hop artist, rapper, poet, mentor, social artist and much more. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Those who know him know that his live music shows – together with his spoken word – are some of the most energetic and meaningful performances taking place anywhere in the world. Read more

Sep 11

Gift Culture – PSAS: Pakenham Street Art Space

Our next Gift Culture recipient is PSAS: Pakenham Street Art Space. PSAS is a large converted warehouse in Fremantle’s West End offering subsidised artist studios. Read more

Aug 30

Gift Culture – Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA)

Our next Gift Culture recipient is Brodie McCulloch from Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA). Amongst other activities, SiiWA runs a co-working, collaboration and innovation space called ‘SpaceCubed’ on St George’s Tce, right in the heart of Perth. SpaceCubed is Space3: Space to the power of 3. It enables the coming together of creative and socially-minded individuals from all realms of social life – civil society, government, business. It offers working desks, meeting rooms, as well as space for seminars, workshops and other events. Read more

Aug 21

Gift Culture Experiment

Recently, instead of receiving birthday presents, we asked friends and family to contribute to a small Gift Culture experiment that would help money flow towards human creativity and cultural life in Western Australia and elsewhere around the world. More than 20 people and one business have so far contributed over $1,000 to the experiment. We aim to give away all of this money in the coming weeks to some of the many individuals and organisations fostering cultural renewal – fostering the generation of new thoughts, meanings, stories, values, identity – through education, research, art, spacemaking for social innovation etc., including those who are actively re-imagining the social organism as a whole, as well as money itself. In so doing we hope to provide a Read more