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Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really exciting. I thought, therefore, I’d post a quick notice to let people know details of the event, should anyone who hasn’t already responded to our rsvp be interested in checking it out. Details are available at the BrisCulture website, and on the Facebook event page. Over the fold, I’ve posted the programme for the evening.
Well, the day has arrived! BrisCulture’s ‘Creative Brisbane’ event takes place tonight at the Old School of Arts, 166 Ann Street (in the Bleeding Heart Gallery) courtesy of our partners The Eidos Institute.
I thought it might be useful if I gave a quick run down of how the event will proceed.
The bar, cafe and gallery space will be open from 5pm. If you’re coming after work, please feel free to join us for some refreshment and you may also wish to enjoy the exhibition in the Bleeding Heart Gallery – a truly wonderful space.
We will be commencing our conversation in the gallery at 6pm. Professor Bruce Muirhead of Eidos will be chairing the event. The seminar will begin with a brief opening presentation from me about the BrisCulture concept, and then be thrown open to a discussion between the panelists and audience around the themes of ‘Creative Brisbane’. At the conclusion of proceedings, I will talk briefly about where we intend to take BrisCulture in the future.
There will be an opportunity at the close of the session for participants to register their interest in future events and projects and leave written comments.
We expect to conclude around 7.10pm, at which point we invite and welcome attendees to share a drink and some tapas on the front deck. There will be a cash bar and some free nibblies. All proceeds will go to support the ongoing gallery and community work of Bleeding Heart. The bar will be open until 8.30pm.
We’re extremely excited about our inaugural event, and are looking forward so much to seeing many of you there, meeting and interacting with you, and beginning to shape a sustainable cultural future for our town together!
Update: Some initial reflections on the evening have been posted at BrisCulture.
Update: Tony Robertson has posted his photos of last night’s event to Picasa.
The picture reminds me of that song Underneath the Story Bridge where a guy sings about his simple working-class upbringing there, and how it’s all changed now with sushi bars and other artefacts of deracinated yuppiedom. That said, if I was in Brisbane tonight I’d probably go. Hope it goes off and forms a solid basis for many more such.
Thanks, Andrew! It went very well!
Some photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103709026689#/album.php?aid=114600&id=680773131
The event was filmed and will be uploaded to the web in due course.
And soonish, there’ll be some reports and discussions here:
http://brisculture.com/
Mark, when you surface the link to the Bleeding Heart Gallery is broken. I’d really love to have a look if it can be fixed.
Yesterday afternoon I headed west to Gatton to attend a forum of farmers and graziers who are suffering under the State Government’s moratorium on regrowth tree clearing. I short, up to half of some properties may be taken out of production with the stroke of a legislative pen, putting in jeopardy the economic unit and destroying capital value. The property owner then becomes an unpaid custodian of what is effectively a park without any compensation for loss of capital and productive capacity or of payment for the carbon sequestered and the custodial role.
These guys realise they have to get their message across to the 2 million people who live in the SE corner, but an indifferently attended meeting in Gatton, literally on the fringe, is not even close. Seeing this post I have never been more conscious of a cultural faultline – more a gaping chasm – opening up.
Fixed the link, Brian -
http://www.bleedingheart.com.au/
Update: Some initial reflections on the evening have been posted at BrisCulture.
Update: Tony Robertson has posted his photos of last night’s event to Picasa.
When you say “The entire event was filmed” you don’t really mean someone was so determinedly retro as to capture light into a chemical emulsion medium do you? … That would be something, definitely worth celebrating in itself. I’m guessing justin wasn’t just there for the wine, so the (presumed hd video) results should be good.
I don’t think he’ll mind if I say: For a bit of a grab bag of some of the worthier acts to have trod seq boards over the last few years, you could do worse than cast an eye and ear over his youtube channel.
No, Danny, I mean it was recorded digitally with vision and sound… obviously not my area of expertise since I don’t know the jargon! I think “filmed” captures the idea though!
so there you have it folks,
welcome to the thriving bustle of Brisbane’s Creative Culture
and they say design by committee doesn’t work…..pah
if you are going to be the catalyst for creative change, things have to
be more exciting than a few drinks, nibblies and talking heads,
there needs to be a natural, geyserlike upswelling of creativity that comes from the masses, without guidance or contrivance, – e.g the hip hop scene from New York in the seventies, goth culture from the 80′s,
Pure creativity is like an errant teenager,
its there when it wants to be, you can’t harness it, wrangle it
and if you try forcing it to do your bidding, it’ll go the opposite direction
but your intentions are good, so my hats off to you,
good luck
“a few drinks, nibblies”
Well I’ve been a starving artiste in my time “without without guidance” (although heaps of contrivance) and I’m all for such bunfights. Fill up on free food, some networking and bullshitting and then trouser a bottle or two for a party later.
And I must say I’ve never before thought of 80′s goth culture as a “natural, geyserlike upswelling of creativity”.
I always thought it spread more like mould. Which is not a putdown.
I think he means the postpunk musical scene where people did tend to dress a bit black and if you’re quite young you might confuse the two.