Inner West Council, 2024
As part of Inner West Council’s 2044 Fest, sparK collective guided participants through a process of connecting with their favourite city memories through sensory association exercises. These memories were transformed into poems, stories and cyanotype prints.
Echoes Of the City
The People’s Maritime Museum
Inner West Council, 2023
The People’s Maritime Museum appeared at Edge Greenway Festival in 2023. Over two weeks, hundreds of participants filled the museum with their contributions and stories about the Hawthorne Canal on Gadigal Country. Participants engaged with workshops facilitated by Monty Hancock, Akala Newman and Vivienne Linsley.
Angie Goto: Deaf Awareness
Studio Sensorium and Angie Goto
Angie Goto is an Australian artist who has a unique interpretation of her surroundings through figurative and abstract art. She was born deaf, which gives her a different perspective on colour and images. Angie studied Fine Art and Graphic Design in Newcastle and Sydney. Her return to painting was marked by her Tropfest film “Angie, ” which was a finalist in 2015. She had successful exhibitions in Sydney and abroad. She has been a finalist in various art prizes such as Ravenswood Art Prize, Paddington Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Michael Reid’s National Emerging Art Prize, and many others. These experiences have solidified her dedication to painting. In addition to her art career, Angie works part-time as an Artist Educator at The Museum of Contemporary Art and Powerhouse Museum, where she focuses on special projects for the deaf and hard of hearing audience. She also does freelance work at AGNSW, Hazelhurst Art Centre, and Campbelltown Art Centre.Starring: Angie Goto
Writers: Angie Goto & Ross Symington
Producer: Vivienne Linsley for Red Rattler Theatre
Key Consultation: Sofya Gollan
Angie Goto: Deaf Awareness was made as Angie Goto and Studio Sensorium as part of the Red Rattlers ‘Future Communities Arts Program’ and proudly supported by Create NSW and Creative Australia.
GAMA EORA
Akala Newman & Studio Sensorium 2024
By her father, Akala Newman is Wiradjuri and Gadigal, part of the oldest continuing living cultures in the world. By her mother, she has Irish and English ancestors who were taken as convicts from their homelands in Cork, Ireland to so-called 'Australia'. Here in this beautiful, iconic harbour, the waters of Warrang (colonially known as Sydney Cove), was one of the first points of contact between English and First Peoples. Ongoing colonial violence and cultural loss loom. Yet, it seems Akala has found something that was never, ever broken…
GAMA EORA was made by Akala Newman & Studio Sensorium as part of the Red Rattler ‘Future Communities Arts Program’
Starring: Akala Newman, Paul Newman & Michelle Newman
Writers: Akala Newman & Ross Symington
Directors: Studio Sensorium: Vivienne Linsley & Ross Symington
'GAMA EORA' was proudly supported by Create NSW and Creative Australia.