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Welcome
News update:
Launch of Three Works
Three works from Six Weeks of Asylum| Six Weeks of Compassion will be installed in sites along Port Phillip Bay- transparence (formerly gathering) | the space between (formerly queue jumpers)| pathways
June 14-29, 2003
Join us for the Launch
Sunday June 15 at 3pm
Click here for more details
(including how to get there)---------------------------------------
WelcomeSix Weeks of Asylum/
Six Weeks of Compassion
is a visual art project being held from
August 2002 – July 2003.The project focusses on issues relating to asylum seekers. Community members are invited to take part. The project culminates in a journey: six site-specific installations of 2D and 3D artworks along the Port Phillip Bay, a new one each week, for six weeks.
Compassion is a value we all hope to nurture in ourselves and our community. This project represents an artistc response to the idea of compassion.
The public is invited to join free workshops to learn more about asylum seeker issues and make a creative personal response. No prior art knowledge is necessary.
• links to compassion – for links to the websites or other groups working with asylum seekers and refugees. There are many volunteer opportunities with these groups.
For most of us the need to flee towards a place of refuge is something we will never experience. For asylum seekers it has been a reality, lives fraught with terror and uncertainty. Six Weeks of Asylum will bring symbolic images of and about the refugee crisis into our own backyard- into those spaces where we work, where we live, and where we leisure.
This project is supported by The city of Port Phillip and the Avtarovski Family Trust.
Refuge
n. A sheltered or protected state, safe from threat or harm
Compassion
n. sensitivity to the suffering of others, often including a desire to help.
This
project has been assisted by the City of Port Phillip Cultural
Programs Board through it's
Cultural Development Fund
