RePerth – By Horst Kornberger
Is it simply a monosyllabic place
on the periphery of maps,
a city on the pedestal of isolation,
a mining Mekka
on the road to prosperity? Read more
Posts tagged ‘reimagining western australia’
Nov 22
Gift Culture – Horst Kornberger
Our next Gift Culture recipient is Horst Kornberger.
Horst is an accomplished artist, writer, poet, researcher, philosopher, educator, director, speaker, story-teller and much more. His cultural gifts have been enlivening this and many other places around the world for years. Creativity lives at the heart of all Horst’s projects – particularly the fostering of the creativity of others through imaginative work. He is, in short, a tender of human capacities; a creator of capital. Read more
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
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
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
Gift Culture – Free Columbia Art Course
The next Gift Culture recipient is The Free Columbia Art Course, based in Hawthorne Valley, New York. Not only is this a free gift in support of the unfolding of human capacities through cultural activity – education, research, art – it is also supporting, importantly, new ways of financing such activity.
The Free Columbia Art Course does not charge anything for course tuition or materials. As you can see on their website here, the course expenses are completely funded through financial pledges and other free gifts, such as our micro-gift of $50. Because of this, there is a greater opportunity for those who feel called to take part in this full-time course to be able to take part irrespective of their financial situation. Read more
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