You are invited to join us for a night of reading and song! As part of the fundraising efforts for the Made by Members ticket.
We have organised a line up of our favourite union supporting artists and writers to perform for you, with pictures! Basically it is like a poetry reading but with projections.
Reading at this event are
Sam Wallman
@ourmembersbeunlimited
Sally Olds
@helen_garnier_
Marc Pearson
@marcpearson_
With a special musical performance by @iawoolford
🚪 doors - 6pm
📖 readings- 6:30
👋 goodbyes- 9pm
Tickets are limited so book them now via the link in our bio.
https://bit.ly/4tlbm38
This event is hosted on unceeded Wurundjeri Woi-warrung country at @pinkemberstudio 22 Allenby street Coburg
We condemn the continuing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. We urge you to write to your local council or MP and express your disgust at these appalling human rights abuses. Over 6000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza, a densely packed population of 2 million people, living in a city the size of Canberra. 5,700 Palestinians have already been killed.
We also urge you to attend the weekly rallies until our political leaders cannot ignore this humanitarian tragedy.
This is our gentle invitation for our beautiful community to join our fourth workshop, The Colours of Fate, and embrace the sense of spirituality that we may have missed or long to reminisce about. Our lovely facilitator, Dinithi is a queer, Sri Lankan artist, Gardner and herbalist in training. Their work is an exploration of sacred object and ritual with a focus on nurturing practices of devotion to the more than human world. Using plants as conduit, Dinithis workshops are an exploration of our inner landscapes and the embodied strength and wisdom contained within them.
This workshop explores the use of plant divination practices in dreaming up liberatory futures. We will work with Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris), a revered and ancient herbal medicine associated with the moon and used traditionally in dreaming practices. This workshop will involve a meditative visualization practice in which we envision the worlds our elder selves desire and dream to inhabit . We will then come together to create a collaborative tapestry using paint and plant material to map out these landscapes of our dreams and desires. This practice is intended to give shape to that most wise, most gentle guiding heart that lives within each of us.
For enrolment in our limited-capacity free workshop, please book your spot through the link in our bio or on the Pink Ember website.
6:00–8:00pm, Friday, 15th May
Pink Ember Studio, 22 Allenby Street, Coburg North
Pink Ember is fully volunteer run, and we are looking for 1 or 2 more volunteers to help us create content for our social media, write our newsletter, and help plan events and exhibitions! If you are interested in being a part of a queer artist run studio, workshop, gallery and event space, please consider writing us an email and introducing yourself! Must be over 18 and able to commit to 1 meeting per week in Coburg North 💗
Pink Ember currently has a number of studio spaces, in various sizes and prices starting from $100 per month for our littlest space. Apply via the link in our bio, come get cozy with us this winter 🩷🔥
Thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen, thank you to all the artists and businesses who donated items and vouchers, thank you to @thatplaceonvictoriast for cooking the most delicious food, and to our performers @glossthequeen@camille_musician@lailashouha@mohamedchamas_ and to everyone who bought raffle tickets, food, and art 🩷 until next time 💪
SWANA Community Art Fundraiser is tomorrow (Friday 6pm) and we have an amazing lineup of food and talented performers. Taste the divine food of @thatplaceonvictoriast (come on time to make sure you get some! There will be GF and Veg options) 🍅
In between bidding for your favourite artworks in the auction 🖼️ we will be blessed by performances by @lailashouha@_krayola_@mohamedchamas_@glossthequeen@camille_musician 💚 We hope to see you there for a beautiful night of solidarity and community as we raise urgent funds for our friends and families affected by the atrocities committed by the Isra-li, Australian and US governments.
Swipe for some sneak peeks of some items in our silent auction! SWANA Community Art Fundraiser is THIS FRIDAY 6pm, we have so many gorgeous artworks up for auction and some amazing performers lined up that we will share soon! Show up for community who are in urgent need of funds! See you there! Tix in bio! 💚
Join us on the 24th of April for a fundraiser for friends in need in Palestine, Iran and Lebanon.
There will be delicious food, drag, and a silent art auction. 🩷
🔗 in bio for tickets 🎫
We are still in search of more donations for the event, so if you or your business is keen to donate something big or small to help, please swipe to the second slide and send us an email!
In our third workshop, we invite you to reflect on grief, not through words or the mind, but through movement, where the body is intrigued and begins to express.
What if grief is not something to move on from, but something to stay curious with?
We invite you to come into the space with beautiful guidance from our beloved contemporary dancer, @feifei_curiosity . Born and raised in China and now based in Melbourne, her practice is grounded in Butoh and trance, shaped by lived experience and a deep inquiry into identity, memory, and belonging.
Through poetic and metaphorical movement, Feifei brings us together in this session to slow down, sense, and reconnect with our inner landscapes.
We would love you to know this is not a therapeutic session; however, dancing can be a healing experience.
For enrolment in our limited-capacity free workshop, please book your spot through the link in our bio or on the Pink Ember website.
6:00–8:00pm, Saturday, 18th April
Pink Ember Studio, 22 Allenby Street, Coburg North
Our second workshop was full of reflection, with each beautiful soul joining our community with an open heart and tender presence.
@dillings , with his calm and joyful manner, reminded us how to write a letter to a beloved one and reflect on love. He then invited us to create a paper together from all those letters, each filled with reflections on love.
Eventually, we created one beautiful piece together to capture the essence of love.
We would love to deeply thank our community members who shared that moment of love with us. We are especially grateful to have found each other in the beautiful and welcoming space of @pinkemberstudio .
Please keep an eye on our social media, as we will soon invite you to our third workshop, which will surprise you in so many ways!
📷: Qiran Wang
