Recoleta arrives in Yarraville.Just over the bridge and not too far away in Yarraville you will find Recoleta, an inspiring edit of Argentinian fashion for men and women. Drop in and visit for something a little boehmian, carnival-esque and playful for summer.
Archives for October, 2009
Sunday December 13th 10.00am for 10.30am sharp start @ FHC. Agenda will be posted to all financial members late Novembr. Volunteers Morning Tea Sunday December 13th following the AGM. All FHC members, parents and friends who have contributed volunteer hours ((over and above a “normal” roster.ed umpiring, watering or canteen duty for home matches as a part of your “normal” club duty) are invited to attend
Well done to all teams who made the finals and those who made grand finals in September this year. Congratulations to all the Runners Up Premiers and Premiership teams. 5 Premiership Teams and 3 Runners Up Teams is a credit to the tremendous work of the board, players and volunteers of our club. Again we have been awarded Best Junior Girls Club in Victoria, and 2nd in the overall Best Junior Club by a narrow margin. The end of the season dawned the beginning of preparations for FHC to host the largest Hockey Tournament in Australia - The Australian Veterans Championships. ...
The Very West The Laneway Festival and Footscray Community Arts Centre are proud to be working together on a brand new initiative – The Very West, designed to support emerging musicians from Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Very West will offer local unsigned and unheard of bands, and/or musicians, the opportunity to prove their stuff to a panel of industry professionals at a special showcase event at the Workers Club, Brunswick St, Fitzroy. This panel of experts can then choose one band to go on and perform at the Laneway Festival in Sydney in January 2010. The lucky group will be flown ...
The Very West The Laneway Festival and Footscray Community Arts Centre are proud to be working together on a brand new initiative – The Very West, designed to support emerging musicians from Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Very West will offer local unsigned and unheard of bands, and/or musicians, the opportunity to prove their stuff to a panel of industry professionals at a special showcase event at the Workers Club, Brunswick St, Fitzroy. This panel of experts can then choose one band to go on and perform at the Laneway Festival in Sydney in January 2010. The lucky group will be flown ...
Home of Strangers is the story of three individuals whose unique paths cross unexpectedly. They are lead on a journey to resolve their own personal conflicts and to learn about the importance of relationship. Home of Strangers is the story of three individuals whose unique paths cross unexpectedly. They are led on a journey to resolve their own personal conflicts and to learn about the importance of relationship. Dr Doan Nguyen wrote and directed Home of Strangers using a cast of young actors and students, giving them a chance to experience life on a film set without having to move to Los ...
Home of Strangers is the story of three individuals whose unique paths cross unexpectedly. They are lead on a journey to resolve their own personal conflicts and to learn about the importance of relationship. Written and directed by Doan Nguyen, in support of the Vietnamese orphanage, Que Huong Charity. Home of Strangers is the story of three individuals whose unique paths cross unexpectedly. They are lead on a journey to resolve their own personal conflicts and to learn about the importance of relationship. Benjamin Huynh is a young Vietnamese American gangster in the Californian gang, “the sKins”. After escaping the unfullfillable demands and ...
Departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre, take a shopping tour of Footscray with Vietnamese chef Tina Le and discover the delights of Little Saigon Market. As well as unlocking the secrets of the exciting ingredients available, participants will learn the art of preparing traditional Vietnamese rice paper rolls and spring rolls whilst discovering the cultural traditions behind the food. Departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre, take a shopping tour of Footscray with Vietnamese chef Tina Le and discover the delights of Little Saigon Market. As well as unlocking the secrets of the exciting ingredients available, participants will learn the art of ...
Take a shopping tour of Footscray with Vietnamese chef Tina Le and discover the delights of Little Saigon Market. Departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre, take a shopping tour of Footscray with Vietnamese chef Tina Le and discover the delights of Little Saigon Market. As well as unlocking the secrets of the exciting ingredients available, participants will learn the art of preparing traditional Vietnamese rice paper rolls and spring rolls whilst discovering the cultural traditions behind the food.
F.A.C.T 4 presents the work of three Vietnamese Australian artists, Trinh Vu, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Van Thanh Rudd. The exhibition features contemporary painting, mixed media and neon. Cam Nguyen, CEO of the Vietnamese Women’s association, will facilitate the artist talk during the opening of the exhibiton on Thursday 5 November. F.A.C.T 4 presents the work of three artists, Trinh Vu, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Van Thanh Rudd. All outstanding artists in their own right, this exhibition features recent examples of their work in contemporary painting, drawing and mixed media. The exhibition opening will be followed by an artist talk by ...
F.A.C.T 4 presents the work of three Vietnamese Australian artists, Trinh Vu, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Van Thanh Rudd. The exhibition features contemporary painting, mixed media and neon. Cam Nguyen, CEO of the Vietnamese Women’s association, will facilitate the artist talk during the opening of the exhibiton on Thursday 5 November. F.A.C.T 4 presents the work of three Vietnamese Australian artists, Trinh Vu, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Van Thanh Rudd. The exhibition features contemporary painting, mixed media and neon. Cam Nguyen, CEO of the Vietnamese Women’s association, will facilitate the artist talk. Trinh Vu Trinh is a coordinator third year Multimedia Design ...
A program of short films and performances by young local artists. Footscray Community Arts Centre and the SYNDOS group, a collective of creative young Sudanese people passionate about the arts, present a program of African-Australian short films: including Red Flower by Abraham Adet and Broken Dreams by Ezeldin Deng. The afternoon will finish with a hip hop performance by Nubian Knights. F.A.C.T FOOD, ART, COMMUNITY, TALK THE ONLY INGREDIENTS YOU NEED
Calling 7- to 10-year olds. Get up and get movin’ with this Hip-Hop Dance workshop. Hip-Hop Dance is a Creative Kids workshop designed to introduce 7- to 10-year-olds to all the moves necessary to be a hip-hop dancer. Jason Lejcak from Melbourne hip-hop crew Burn Troops will take participants on a journey to discover the art of hip-hop dance from poppin’ and lockin’ to up-rock and breaking from one of the best in the biz. Twenty-year-old Jason Lejcak (aka Bboy Large Crack) has been breaking for five years and teaching for three. Originally taught by Australian Champion Bboy Lamaroc, Jason ...
We are lucky in S.K.Y. to live right next door to Footscray. Now I know other Melburnians may make jokes about Footscray, but what they don’t know is that Footscray has some of the best restaurants in Melbourne. If you look in cheap eats this year there are almost a dozen entries. Not all suburbs can boast this! What is amazing is that it is a combination of Melbourne’s latest migrant groups that fill this suburb with such delectable choices. Indian, Vietnamese and Ethiopian..Tonight we focus on an Indian restaurant – The Taj Palace! It is an institution! It has ...
Walking in to SDS this time was a bit of 'WOW, it’s changed.' Yes folks they have redecorated and I like it! Lots of wood and lots of workspace for the boys. A fantastic new cake fridge with a great display of cakes. Fantastic improvements. As usual Simon and the boys were hard at work. They really give you good service, very attentive, I also like that. One of my pet hates is having finished my breakfast, and my first cup of tea, and then not being offered another cup of tea. Often R and I sit and sit and ...
If you’re aged seven to ten and your life needs a bit of colour try our Digital Animation workshop. Digital Animation is a Creative Kids workshop especially designed for seven- to ten-year-olds. Over the course of eight weeks, 2008 Footscray Arts Artist In Residence Lindsay Cox will teach participants how to make a cartoon world of their own. Create you very own animated video using shadow puppets and green screen techniques just like in the movies. New media artist Lindsay Cox is a graduate of RMIT’s Centre for Animation and Interactive Media). He has produced short films, animations and TV graphics in ...
Next market is the MMM (maribyrnong makers market) & its going to be a big one! Great Christmas gifts for all ages, take a look www.maribyrnongmakersmarket.com.au. November 14 @ Seddon Uniting Church in seddon 10-3pm.Personalised treasure boxes are really doing well now, & make great christmas gifts for your special little person! Check them out....hope to see you all soon. K
Footscray Community Arts Centre is very excited to be partnering with St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, as their new Melbourne home for the 2010 festival. On Saturday 30 January 2010, the grounds of Footscray Community Arts Centre and surrounding streets will become a mecca for 7500 discerning music lovers, who will experience a unique and eclectic mix of acts, including legendary post-punk band Echo & the Bunny Men and Melbourne’s own Dirty Three. Footscray Arts and the Laneways team are working hard on some new initiatives to ensure that this festival contains local content and is reflective of the burgeoning and diverse ...
[image from flickr] Hope you all had splendid weekends! I meditated, saw a dance production at Melbourne International Arts Festival, did a permaculture workshop class and cooked Kosheri from the Ottolenghi cookbook. (If you don’t have this cookbook, I am telling you HUNT IT DOWN!) I’m about to put my Diggers Club order in to claim my free membership seeds. I also am ordering a few books, and coz my order totals over $75 I can claim a free 6 month Diggers Club membership to give as a gift to someone. (I do not ‘gift’ as a verb!) So I thought I’d share ...
On this cultural culinary tour, explore the delights of Ethiopian cuisine and discover its hidden secrets with Dershaye Tessema of Harambe Restaurant in Footscray. Departing from Footscray Community Arts Centre, take a cultural culinary tour of Footscray with Ethiopian chef Dershaye Tessema of Harambe Restaurant in Footscray. Explore the delights of Ethiopian cusine and discover the secrets of the exciting ingredients available. Participants will be introduced to a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony and Dershaye will discuss the raw ingredients, prepare the traditional Ethiopian soft sour bread ‘enjeri’ and offer cooking suggestions and tips on selection and storage of ingredients. The tour ...
Footscray Community Arts Centre has received over 50 enquiries and 16 proposals from artists. The curatorial panel which consist of Brendan Lee, Bindi Cole (Melbourne Western suburbs artists), Jane Crawley (Team Leader, Cultural Development and Engagement City of Melbourne) has assessed all submissions and shortlisted 4 proposals for further development. The curatorial panel has also appointed Andrew Shoben as an external international advisor. Andrew is the founder of UK public art collective greyworld and a former lecturer at the Royal College of Arts in London and Professor of Public Art at Goldsmiths University London. The short listed artists will now have ...
For the last three months I have been living in Braybrook as I wait for my own house in Yarraville to become available. One thing I have noticed is the amount of abandoned shopping trolleys that are in the area – it’s a kind of urban phenomenon. So much so that in the last three weeks I have taken to photographing them in their habitat and you can view some on my Flickr page. There is also a great Flickr group dedicated to abandoned trolleys from around the world, with much better photographs than mine that is worth checking ...
Mmmm Mmmmm! I love Feedback! So unassuming! So delicious! Cold mornings call for wholesome nurturing food and who better to deliver. A bowl of toasted muesli was what I felt like, and I got the deluxe of all muesli’s. At $8 a bowl there is no better value for money. Beautifully toasted muesli, tossed with dried fruits and nuts, with a dob of yoghurt and the piece de resistance, a half baked pear on top. No other words to describe this breakfast dish, except divine.Rachel had a muffin which she thought was divine, heaps of fruity goodness and big and ...
The Knitting Machine (2005), installation, knitting large flag Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art2005, as installed at Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA.THE BIG KNITKnit one, Purl one....Renowned international textile artist Dave Cole is visiting Australia as part of the Big West Festival. In his first visit to our shores, Cole will be working with a team of ‘knitters’ to convert an iconic western suburbs landmark into a massive tactile, colourful installation piece. (The location is still under wraps.)Big West is looking for a team of textile artists willing to commit approximately four days a week of their time from ...
This is it - Yarraville MarketsNote the earlier closing timeNote the 2-day marketNote that Squirt Baby will be there Saturday onlySee you tomorrow!
