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
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
Money Dreaming: “Everyone is a Banker”
In Noongar Country in Western Australia, the Whadjuk word for money is the same as the word for rock: Boya. Only with the arrival of Europeans did the word for an externalised monetary system come about (connected to rocks that contained gold).
In Indigenous Australian culture, people are assigned particular totems or dreamings – not arbitrarily, but out of keen spiritual insight and guidance. To have a dreaming is to have a responsibility for that dreaming – to care for it. One is expected to fully know it – to become it. 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 Culutre – Noongar Language
Kaya! Noonook moorditj?
Our latest Gift Culture recipient is Sharon Gregory for her work teaching Noongar language. Sharon is an experienced Noongar language teacher, and has published Noongar-English dictionaries through Batchelor Press.
Beginner’s lessons are currently being held at Tuart Place, 24 High St, Fremantle every Saturday morning from 9am. New students are welcome, and each lesson is $20. Sharon has said she will put the $50 gift towards buying new teaching resources and materials for the class. 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 – 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
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
Gift Culture – Phoebe Phillips
We are delighted to announce that our next Gift Culture recipient is Phoebe Phillips. Amongst many other things, Phoebe is a ‘photographer’ of street art. Of course, Phoebe is in no way connected to what might be called ‘illegal’ works of graffiti. She is connected, however, to the enlivening and re-imagining of Western Australia’s public places through creative, artistic activity. Read more
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