Culture
Storytelling by Jaya Penelope
Jaya is an old friend of the centre with a lifelong passion for spoken word performance and poetry. She is currently a member of the Tealeaf Troubadours storytelling ensemble - check out the videos from their performances at the 2014 Perth Fringe. Jaya helps present "The Story Circuit" in Fremantle, an event which takes place on the 3rd Friday of every month from 7-9pm at the Fibonacci Centre, 19 Blinco St. Participants present traditional stories from history, myth and fairytale - |
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October's theme is Initiation stories and November's is Men's stories. She also recommends "Barefaced Storytelling", a regular event in Northbridge where people present personal narratives - look them up on facebook for more details.
Jaya will be assisting during the MIndfulness and Poetry weekend at Origins (Oct 8-9).
Jaya will be assisting during the MIndfulness and Poetry weekend at Origins (Oct 8-9).
Sculpture by Elaine Clocherty Elaine is an award-winning and inspirational local artist who has been a dear friend of Origins and Coorain for many years. She describes her work as "site specific ephemeral sculpture" - hers is a wonderful exemplar of process oriented art that is intimately engaged with, and indeed inseparable from, the environment and community in which it is crafted and conceived. |
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She travels widely with her family to exhibitions, festivals and conferences where she creates beautiful and thought provoking work. Before she became famous, years ago she and husband Evan Coumbe curated a number of artists to install work here at Origins Centre. This short (45 sec.) video is a great way to gain an impression of her work if you can't see it in person. She has several other videos on YouTube, including her award-winning Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in 2014, and this short documentary of a Community Art Project in Margaret River.
You can also visit her website to see galleries of her work: https://elaineclocherty.com/
You can also visit her website to see galleries of her work: https://elaineclocherty.com/
Drawings by Anunda Mertz
These drawings explore the interaction between industry and the human experience. They examine how industry (including mining) has altered our relationship with ourselves, as the mechanical world we’ve created becomes part of our identity. They are also a response to the artist’s personal experience as a woman working in the mining industry, driving and operating explosives trucks.
Anunda has lived in Fremantle for almost 30 years, and her studio is surrounded by a hub of people who are endeavoring to maintain a community focus while achieving individual goals, and developing a sustainable lifestyle while also being industrious. Thus, the drawings reflect the influence of this local community on her awareness of the complexities of life, the environment, and concerns about progress.
Prints of these works are available for purchase here: www.burattieditions.com
These drawings explore the interaction between industry and the human experience. They examine how industry (including mining) has altered our relationship with ourselves, as the mechanical world we’ve created becomes part of our identity. They are also a response to the artist’s personal experience as a woman working in the mining industry, driving and operating explosives trucks.
Anunda has lived in Fremantle for almost 30 years, and her studio is surrounded by a hub of people who are endeavoring to maintain a community focus while achieving individual goals, and developing a sustainable lifestyle while also being industrious. Thus, the drawings reflect the influence of this local community on her awareness of the complexities of life, the environment, and concerns about progress.
Prints of these works are available for purchase here: www.burattieditions.com
'Complications' - a short story by Vahri McKenzie
Vahri is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU South West. She makes performance work, researches creativity, and has won awards for her short stories. This story was originally published in the WA literary journal dot dot dash in 2011. You can read more of her fiction: The prize-winning ‘I shine not burn’ in Knitting and other stories: http://margaretriverpress.com/shop/fiction/knitting-and-other-stories/ ‘Against the grain’ in Issue 1 of Melbourne literary journal Gargouille: http://www.gargouille.com.au/store/ Most recently, ‘Likes to measure’ in the anthology of finalists in the Newcastle Short Story Award 2016: http://www.hunterwriterscentre.org/shop.html |
'Your Light is Magnetic' - Video by Melinda Tupling, Music by Katrina Amiss Melinda is a WA artist and film-maker. |
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Like Junk - music by Scott White and others Scott is a Perth-based artist who creates music under the name Like Junk. They have been described as 'eccentric, eclectic, terrifying, enticing, melodramatic and ridiculously unique.' Click on the picture to listen to the track 'Glossolalia' It can also be downloaded by donation from BandCamp: https://likejunk.bandcamp.com/track/glossolalia Listen to more from the album 'The Creature's Voice' on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/likejunk/glossolalia?in=likejunk/sets/the-creatures-voice-lp |
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Music by Leila Adu Leila Adu is a New Zealand composer and singer respected for her wide-ranging, informed and original approach to music. She is currently completing a PhD at Princeton University and performs globally. Click on the picture to listen to a recent single. You can find out more on her website: http://www.leilaadu.com/ Listen to more of her music on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/leila-adu Get involved in her latest project here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/love-cells-release-tour#/ |
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The Gift - Music By Glenn Rogers and others
Some years ago Glenn Rogers offered this wonderful project as fundraising support to the Centre. "The Gift" is an 11 track CD of original music by professional musicians. It is available for purchase at Origins or you can download them and make a donation online. Glenn Rogers is a guitarist and composer accomplished in both jazz and classical guitar. He has performed with symphony orchestras, in concert venues and festivals in Amsterdam, Belgium, Germany, India and Australia. He has played and composed in diverse styles such as Hindustani and Carnatic music, Western classical, Brazilian, European jazz, R&B, bebop, rock and 20th century classical. He has composed music for numerous small ensembles for planetarium domes in America and Australia, and two interactive multi media operas ‘The Horla’ and ‘Liminal’. Apart from his interest in improvisation and composition he has a strong interest in the music of other cultures especially Indian music, He has studied konnokol (the vocalisation of the mathematical calculations used in Carnatic music) in Bangalore and Chennai, and north Indian raga in Malaysia.
You can find samples, videos, downloads at more information at: http://www.glennrogers.net/ |
Drawings by Shultz Abrahms-Kavunenko Instantiating in turn some of the many yawning spaces between coherent seeming things, Shultz is a sometimes artist, writer, dancer, musician and general maintainer of interest in maintaining interest. Whilst traveling the world, he blogs at: http://fluidbirthinglizard.wordpress.com/ The Kindle version of his first novel can be found by clicking here. |
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Performance by Tiffany Barton Tiffany Barton is a playwright, performer and theatre producer who's been visiting the Origins Centre for the last 17 years. She says. "Origins has had a huge, profound and healing influence on me over the years and I love it to bits." Tiffany also runs story-telling, creative writing and drama workshops, and takes bookings for 5 indigenous artists who run cultural workshops, including story-telling, didgeridoo, art and song. For more information check out her website: www.tiffanybarton.com |
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This year Tiffany's award winning play DIVA will tour to the New York Fringe Festival in August. DIVA is about June - a brilliant, bold, brassy, bad-ass opera singer, given to singing to her dead stuffed cat, reminiscing about her lurid love life, consuming vast amounts of vodka, and chastising her lousy ex-husband. Tiffany's writing is heavily influenced by the Beat Poets and she used their free flowing stream of consciousness technique to write DIVA. Here are short promotional videos for some of her previous shows: |
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Paintings by Lance Kerr
Lance Says - "My work deals with concepts around the emergence of integral consciousness that is forming around the globe. Conscious synergy, synthesis, and integrating energy are being explored in my art. The weave motif was created in 2002 after reading a book by Ken Wilber called “The Eye of Spirit” I had received teachings by Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche around the same time, and I started to explore Buddhist ideas in my painting. The Basic teachings of a Nagarjuna has had a profound effect on me and continues to inform my art, as I use the empty space of paper as a metaphorical device. As of latterly I’ve been exploring French postmodern philosopher Deleuze, and his ideas on painting, especially the articulation of sensation and perception." Contact him: Lanx4u@yahoo.com
Lance Says - "My work deals with concepts around the emergence of integral consciousness that is forming around the globe. Conscious synergy, synthesis, and integrating energy are being explored in my art. The weave motif was created in 2002 after reading a book by Ken Wilber called “The Eye of Spirit” I had received teachings by Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche around the same time, and I started to explore Buddhist ideas in my painting. The Basic teachings of a Nagarjuna has had a profound effect on me and continues to inform my art, as I use the empty space of paper as a metaphorical device. As of latterly I’ve been exploring French postmodern philosopher Deleuze, and his ideas on painting, especially the articulation of sensation and perception." Contact him: Lanx4u@yahoo.com
Frantic Assembly Niki Browne-Cooper, a drama teacher and practitioner based in Perth recommended this UK Physical Theatre company. Their work is cutting edge and socially engaged, and Niki is using their ensemble training techniques in her current productions. Check out their website here: www.franticassembly.co.uk If this grabs you, you should search YouTube for work by companies such as DV8 and Legs on the Wall |
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Poetry by Romy Steffel
This piece won Highly Commended from the recent Blake In The Blackwood poetry prize, judged by internationally renowned poet Andrew Lansdown. As the name suggests, the competition was open across the South-West region to writers contemplating spiritual aspects of life. Romy is a teacher and co-manager at Origins. Please also read her cycle of poems reflecting on Vajrasattva practice, which can be found on the Online Offerings page under Dharma Innovations |
The Way Home wet wood dark bridge bright leaf winter rains drift in all day trees shake and bow in the valley autumn sun falls in the spaces the path shines I walk home expectant, attentive any moment you will embrace me will it be the whisper of water sliding over itself the crisp air slipping between the trees or the pattern of leaves in chaos and perfection on the ground? |