Posted by PetaMurray
Hosted by Peta Murray, Robin Laurie, Heather Horrocks
Date: | Sept. 26, 2015 |
Start time: | 2:00 p.m. (AEST) |
End time: | 3:30 p.m. (AEST) |
Address: |
Footscray Community Arts Centre 45 Moreland Street Footscray Victoria 3011 Australia |
This is a free event |
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About this Death Cafe
This Death Cafe event is the second of two being offered as part of a live art inquiry into Creative Ageing, being conducted at Footscray Community Arts Centre by artists in residence, Heather Horrocks, Robin Laurie, and Peta Murray.
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About Peta Murray, Robin Laurie, Heather Horrocks
Robin is Getting On. She has been making things up with groups of people for a Very Long Time. She was an original member of the Pram Factory, a co-founder of Circus OZ and the first Women's Circus. She has worked with many contemporary performance companies and festivals and researched, devised and directed large-scale multi-lingual community performances with the East Timorese, Italian, Middle Eastern, Warlpiri and refugee communities. She is part bionic and thinks it’s probably true that life is a Circus! She is a Grande Tata, a Feldenkrais practitioner, has an MA in Asian studies, loves vernacular languages and cooks a very good Christmas cake from a Nut Trek kit.
Heather Horrocks, a card-carrying Senior Citizen, is an artist, writer and tinkerer. She draws with charcoal and uses nanna-technology (stitching, knitting, crochet, glue) to play with found objects, often repurposing threads such as videotape and collaging bits of metal such as truck-flattened car parts. An opinionated feminist and activist , Heather loves the history and ambience of Footscray.
Peta has been having no end of trouble with her feet. A dramaturge, teacher, and writer, her play Wallflowering has seen numerous productions in Australia and overseas. Subsequent works include the AWGIE-winning The Keys to the Animal Room, and Salt, which won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama. Her extravaganza, Things That Fall Over: an anti-musical of a novel inside a reading of a play, with footnotes, and oratorio-as-coda saw its world premiere at FCAC in 2014.
As a late-onset academic-in-training, Peta’s current research enthusiasms include the performance essay and the embodied experience of ageing. She also loves to swim and to sing, but not at the same time.
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