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.

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.

Mamapalooza Sydney 2012

Calling mother artists, writers, poets, singer-songwriters, clowns, performers for a week long festival of Artists Celebrating Motherhood, based at Tap Gallery, Sydney 7-13th May.

Mamapalooza Sydney 2012

Mamapalooza festival organiser Vee Malnar - veemalnar@gmail.com 

Media co-ordinator, Ruth Skilbeck - mamapaloozasydney@gmail.com

For entry forms to the art show prize please contact Tap Gallery

For latest updates on Mamapalooza Sydney 2012 check the facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/299769770062231/      

Mamapalooza Sydney 2012

Calling mother artists, writers, poets, singer-songwriters, clowns, performers for a week long festival of Artists Celebrating Motherhood, based at Tap Gallery, Sydney 7-13th May.

Mamapalooza Sydney 2012

Mamapalooza festival organiser Vee Malnar - veemalnar@gmail.com 

Media co-ordinator, Ruth Skilbeck - mamapaloozasydney@gmail.com

For entry forms to the art show prize please contact Tap Gallery

For latest updates on Mamapalooza Sydney 2012 check the facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/299769770062231/      

A New Chapter- Mamapalooza coming to Sydney.

Dear Readers,

It has been a few days (ahem) since last I tapped a missive into this virtual space, and I must admit the thought did cross my mind to end it with my last post, as the Scrolls seemed to have reached a point of natural conclusion. The end of the first six months of the Blog coincided with my new appointment (and the end of the teaching semester). Next year a new vista stretches out ahead. Many things have happened since last I wrote. One is another role I am taking up in the organisation of Mamapalooza- Sydney, an international festival of mother's creativity and art that began in New York and is coming down under in May. And a book project collating a decade of my contemporary art essays, interviews, and articles on Australian and International contemporary art and art journalism, that were published in art and popular culture periodicals, newspapers, radio, online media, and peer reviewed journals, when I was  owner/director of media writing and research business Arts Features International (that I started up in 2003) is in progress. I am still running my one-woman media writing business. With so much to write about, leaving the Blogosphere now would seems premature.

A new chapter begins.

Until next time.

Ruth Skilbeck