What's On / April 2025 — correspondences

Apr 6

Apr 6 What's On / April 2025

Stories, Residencies, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Tiana Khasi

What’s On / April

WHAT’S ON / APRIL

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

— ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou

BRUNSWICK| 28.03.25

Thank you for joining us for the first month of Inciting Joy. Part 2 opens on Saturday, 4 April.

Thank you for joining us for the first month of Inciting Joy, our first residency project for the year. We have loved sharing the Sydney Road Street Party, Brunswick Music Festival and our special programming for Inciting Joy with you.

Thanks must go to our artists and collaborators, to Tiana Khasi - and Ryotaro Noshiro, Samuel Kuzich and Liona Tatafu, Jay Gabriel and Ash Kennedy of Halo Vocal Ensemble - for a breathtaking BMF performance, for gathering our voices together for community singing, to Cecilia Sordi Campos, writer Grace Yee and guest speakers Dr Selina Namchee Lo and Saskia Yeung for evocative readings and magic conversations.

This evening and Saturday afternoon, we invite you to join us for our monthly poetry reading/listening circle or community-making before we close to install the second part of Inciting Joy, which opens on April 5.

In the coming month, our programming for Inciting Joy continues (details below). In the meantime, we invite you to save the date for our community performance and celebration on Friday, 23 May, featuring Tiana and the community choir assembled through our community singing gathering.

As we delve further into the deep matter of joy, we continue to be inspired by poetry, including the immortal words of Maya Angelou from her poem, ‘Still I Rise’ (above). Watch a video of Angelou performing her magnificent poem here [hyperlink].

In closing, correspondences wishes to acknowledge the support of Arts Merri-Bek and Brunswick Music Festival, without whose continuing support our work would not be possible.

Last but not least, I wish to personally thank our volunteer team who have supported our events during this past month—Pornpreya Wongphasookchot, Prim Chanla, Rowan Huang, Junming Shi, Mi-Chieh Chen, Paulina Tuscano, Saskia Yeung, Grace Vescovi and Liaojia (Ava) Jia.

Warmly

Emma Thomson

correspondences Studio

Credits:
Installation view, Inciting Joy picturing artworks by Cecilia Sordi Campos Photography: Stephanie Duncan Artworks © Cecilia Sordi Campos

BRUNSWICK| 28.3.25—31.5.25

Upcoming Special Events & Activities

Open late — Inciting Joy & Multilingual Poetry Reading/Listening Circle
Friday, 28 March, 6:30-8:00 PM
Friday, 2 May, 6:30-8:00 PM
Friday, 30 May, 6:30-8:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

We invite you to explore our latest exhibit for Inciting Joy and join our Multilingual Poetry Reading/Listening Circle. On one Friday every month, from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m., we explore our latest exhibit together. Then, we settle down to read or listen to poetry together. Please bring a poem to share/read in whatever language you like. Or, just come to listen. All welcome.

Credit: Installation view, Inciting Joy picturing artworks by Cecilia Sordi Campos Photography: Stephanie Duncan Artworks © Cecilia Sordi Campos

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Attendance is free. Bookings are essential.

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Studio drop-in - Self-guided community making / Inciting Joy
Saturday, 29 March, 2:00-4:00 PM
Saturday, 3 May, 2:00-4:00 PM
Saturday, 31 May, 2:00-4:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Audiences are invited to join our artists and the correspondences' team for self-guided making as part of Incting Joy. We'll be focusing on crochet and embroidery, and materials will be provided.

Please note: Making is freestyle and self-guided, but our team is around to answer any questions. This forum is about conversation and togetherness.

Credit: Installation view, Inciting Joy picturing artworks by Cecilia Sordi Campos Photography: Stephanie Duncan Artworks © Cecilia Sordi Campos

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Attendance is free. Bookings are essential. Small donations to help cover the cost of materials are gratefully received.

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Monthly Art Walk — Frida Kahlo: In her own image at Bendigo Art Gallery
Friday, 11 April, 11:00 AM - 12/12:30 PM
Bendigo Art Gallery 42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC 3550

Join us for our April Art Walk, when we will visit Bendigo Art Gallery to experience Frida Kahlo: In her own image.

Plan/meeting location:
—Start exhibition entry of the exhibit at Bendigo Art Gallery @ 10:55 am for 11:00 AM entry.
—End at @ 12:00 /12:30 PM

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Credit: Guests attending a 2023 Art Walk to see Slippery Images at NGV, featuring artworks by Ali McCann.

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Community singing & performance with Tiana Khasi
Thursday, 17 April, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 2 - Workshop
Thursday, 24 April, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 3 - Workshop/Rehearsal
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Together with Tiana, we invite you to join us and sing together as a community for three months, working towards a performance by Tiana and you as a community choir on Friday, 31 May, at a beautiful outdoor location to be disclosed soon!

Over the course of the residency, Tiana will lead two more Thursday evening sessions. Each one will run for one hour from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, and then participants are invited to linger for a drink in until 8:00 PM.

We encourage participants to attend all sessions and to also be part of our final performance to deepen engagement. But if you can only attend one or two sessions, we still encourage you to join us.

No singing experience is necessary. This is about the joy of joining our voices together in song. We ask you to please confirm your availability to join the performance at your session.

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Single Booking (1 Adult): $10 /for 1 session
First-in-best-dressed. Bookings are essential.

Credits: Photograph of Tiana by Daniel Grima

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Acknowledgement of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.