Toronto MIRCI conference, and Mamapalooza Sydney 2012

From Sydney to Toronto, 2012 Mother's Day week is turning out to be a busy time of multiple 'synergies' for the new Motherhood arts movement around the world..

I am flying to Toronto to present my research project 'Remembering Australia's Forgotten Mothers: Identity and Colonial History' at the MIRCI international conference Mothers and History: Histories of Motherhood, hosted by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, York University on the 10-12th May. My trip is generously supported by the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, where I am a Lecturer.

At the same time the Mamapalooza Sydney festival that I have been involved in for the past few months,  runs from 8-13th May. I will be there in spirit and with images from my photographic series, Last Things, in the exhibition. 

Festival coordinator and film-maker Vee Malnar has suggested filming a video-talk of my presentation  to show at Mamapalooza Sydney during the festival; if not quite as good as teleportation nonetheless this would seem not a bad way of being in two places at once- a feat I often dreamt of as a busy working mother .

                                  

 

                  ©Ruth Skilbeck. Armchair Illumination, from Last Things 2008-2012. Digital photograph.