Tuesday 3 September 2019

ART AFTER HOURS - The Big Anxiety Festival

16 Oct, 5.30pm-9.00pm | Art Gallery of NSW

The Big Anxiety Art After Hours includes:

5.30pm: Uti Kulintjaku Initiative (Entrance Court)
Ngangkari (traditional healers) and artists from NPY Women’s Council still the gallery spaces of AGNSW with guided meditations in language – followed by a performance presentation.

6.30pm: The Listening Panel (Centenary Auditorium)
Experts with highly developed listening and empathy skills discuss the tools of their trade and what makes a good listener. Panel speakers: artist and meditation expert, Sherre DeLys; funeral celebrant Victoria Spence; Wayside Chapel pastor Jon Owen; psychiatrist Russell Meares; and Lynne Malcolm, presenter of Radio National’s All in the Mind, will moderate. Free but bookings are essential.

7.15pm - Body Mapping (Gallery Space) Booking Essential via Eventbrite
Depict your own experience of anxiety on a life-sized body map in a dynamic workshop amidst artworks in the Gallery’s collections. Facilitated by Dr Sally Nathan.

7.30pm-Black Rhymes (Entrance Court)
Sydney's leading performance event for Aboriginal writers gives voice to Indigenous perspectives on mental health and healing. Hosted by Big Anxiety Ambassador and Poet, Evelyn Araluen, with the powerful and transformative poetry of Lorna Munro, Alison Whittaker, Luke Patterson and Elizabeth Jarrett.

All evening - Virtual Reality Station (AGNSW Café)
  • Experience virtual reality works from The Empathy Clinic, including:
  • Parragirls Past, Present-an immersive and moving VR work, rewriting institutional history;
  • Being Debra - empathise and feel the lived experience of a person with dwarfism;
  • Ngura Wirukutu Katinja and Purlu Katalarranguru-creative visualisation and calming meditation from the UK Initiative.
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