The Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network is partnering with artist and cultural worker, Janelle Randall-Court, a Bundjalung\/ Yaegl woman who lives in the Blue Mountains. Janelle and BMCAN would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of the Darug and Gundungurra people and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Re-Imagine-Covera-MARCH-12TH-3a-scaled.jpg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”Re-Imagine-Covera—MARCH-12TH-3a” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ url=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/447539060170121\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%91%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D%93%7D”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” custom_padding=”||2px|||” custom_margin=”0px|auto||auto||”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Janelle-recent-photo-scaled.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”Janelle recent photo” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ align=”center” module_alignment=”center” show_bottom_space=”off” width=”50%”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ text_font_size=”16px” text_text_color=”#232323″ custom_margin=”14px|||||”]<\/p>\n
Janelle\u2019s commitment to \u2018Caring for Country\u2019 has inspired her to continue to help people re-imagine domestic waste. This builds on her previous work with the Aboriginal Cultural Resource Centre (ACRC) resulting in the documentary, No Waste on Country\u2014Leaving Only Footprints<\/em> and on her Tipp Wear<\/em> fashion project, featuring fashion items rescued from landfill, cleaned and displayed on local catwalks. These works were featured in the \u2018Waste to Art\u2019 exhibition in Katoomba and Parkes NSW, promoting the message: \u201cRecycle, Reuse, Relove\u201d, with the aim to reduce landfill in waste management.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The Re-Imagining Waste Art Project aligns with Janelle\u2019s other major work Treasures,<\/em><\/strong> a contemporary dance work based on the iconic Satin Bower Bird. Treasures<\/em> takes the audience on a journey to discover the charismatic male of the species who historically collects and adorns his bower (his \u2018love shack\u2019) with natural treasures such as flowers, berries and an assortment of other strategic items.<\/p>\n However, sadly today these bowers are littered with a wide selection of plastic and other man-made waste which is all too easy for the males to acquire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PERFORMANCE-DAY_Muliyan-crouch-Sarah-looking-on.jpg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”PERFORMANCE DAY_Muliyan crouch Sarah looking on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ show_bottom_space=”off”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n With permission from the photographer<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The Project<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Reimagining Waste Art Project has received funding from the Wentworth Health Community Wellbeing Grants program for bushfire-affected areas in the Blue Mountains. The project aims to improve community wellbeing through engagement with the arts to change the way we think about the things we throw away, and participate in sensate based creative play, to create art works that we can share with others.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-24-at-1.32.50-pm.png” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”Screen Shot 2021-09-24 at 1.32.50 pm” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ align=”center”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”||6px|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n The project will specifically target key groups, such as young people and families, as well as the general community who have been experiencing heightened anxiety resulting from the severe bushfires that ravaged parts of the Blue Mountains area in 2020, followed by ongoing anxiety resulting from the COVID pandemic lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n This project demonstrates Aboriginal thought leadership in addressing an important environmental issue, as well as showing ways in which the arts can contribute to community engagement with local Aboriginal people and participate in ‘Caring for Country\u2019 and heighten environmental awareness that challenges our \u2018throw-away\u2019 consumer culture.<\/p>\n Launch Event\u2014Film Screenings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n No Waste on County: Leave Only Footprints<\/span><\/strong>, has been re-edited by Lyle Diedrich to provide a 15 min introduction to the relationship between Caring for Country in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, and how we treat waste.<\/p>\n Waste Land<\/span><\/strong>, is the brilliant documentary by Lucy Walker, featuring the artist Vik Muniz on a singularly ambitious project. She follows Vik to Jardim Gramacho, a vast landfill established in 1970 north of Rio de Janeiro, photographing its catadores<\/em>, pickers of recyclable materials, and filming the way that Vik collaborates with them in transforming these photos into portraits created with recyclable materials. Vik\u2019s purpose is to inspire his pickers to see themselves in a new way and even to re-imagine their lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Waste Art Workshops<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Janelle will lead community art workshops whereby participants will explore multiple ways to engage with this important issue in a creative and fun way, transforming a problem area with associated feelings of guilt and anxiety, into one of creative solutions, thus contributing to building a more resilient community of connectedness to one another, and to our natural world.<\/p>\n As a member of Resilience Blue Mountains, Janelle seeks to aligns with the work of Blue Mountains City Council to engage the community in envisioning our future based on the theme of \u2018resilience\u2019 in terms of our relationship with one another in our neighbourhoods, with our natural environment, and with the Darug and Gundungurra people who are the traditional \u2018owners\u2019 of the Blue Mountains.<\/p>\n During the workshops, participants will explore:<\/p>\n REIMAGINE\u2014THE REGENESIS JOURNEY EXHIBITION<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n BMCAN will work with Janelle and the Planetary Health Initiative, to run a half day workshop-exhibition with the following program on how to reimagine our relationship with the natural world and learn to envision a future living within our bio-regional ecological boundaries.\u00a0 This workshop recognises that the roots of our crisis are epistemic. They are anchored in our deeply held worldview about the nature of reality and the privileging of humans over all other species and lifeforms.<\/p>\n Program: 1.30pm to 4.30pm – to be held late September 2022 at the Planetary Health rooms.<\/p>\n 1.30pm \u2013 Welcome and Reimagine Project<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.00pm \u2013 Planetary Health Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n 2.30pm \u2013 Thinking differently \u2013 the first step towards a regenerative society<\/strong><\/p>\n 3.15pm \u2013 The Creative Journey to Regenesis<\/strong><\/p>\n Waste to Art with BMCAN <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n BMCAN has a long history of celebrating waste to art through Peter Shoemark’s sculptures that are a regular feature of our BMCAN Gallery at The Edge Cinema complex in Katoomba.<\/p>\n Featured here:<\/p>\n Daisies<\/strong><\/em>\u2014metal daisies and leaves<\/p>\n Rose<\/strong><\/em>\u2014coffee pot and golf sticks with ceramic rose<\/p>\n March of the Molluscs<\/strong><\/em>\u2014recycled wood, metal and marbles<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Janelle Randall-Court The Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network is partnering with artist and cultural worker, Janelle Randall-Court, a Bundjalung\/ Yaegl woman who lives in the Blue Mountains. 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Janelle and BMCAN would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of the Darug and Gundungurra people and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.\r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"2329\" img_size=\"medium\" alignment=\"center\"][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text] The Re-Imagining Waste Art Project aligns with Janelle\u2019s other major work Treasures,<\/em><\/strong> a contemporary dance work based on the iconic Satin Bower Bird. Treasures<\/em> takes the audience on a journey to discover the charismatic male of the species who historically collects and adorns his bower (his \u2018love shack\u2019) with natural treasures such as flowers, berries and an assortment of other strategic items.<\/p>\r\n However, sadly today these bowers are littered with a wide selection of plastic and other man-made waste which is all too easy for the males to acquire.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Project<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Reimagining Waste Art Project has received funding from the Wentworth Health Community Wellbeing Grants program for bushfire-affected areas in the Blue Mountains. The project aims to improve community wellbeing through engagement with the arts to change the way we think about the things we throw away, and participate in sensate based creative play, to create art works that we can share with others.\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/waste-land-263x300.jpeg\")
We will launch the RE-IMAGINE project with the screening of two films on Saturday 4 December at the Bates Hall, Blackheath, at 4.30-6.30pm.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Janelle\u2019s commitment to \u2018Caring for Country\u2019 has inspired her to continue to help people re-imagine domestic waste. This builds on her previous work with the Aboriginal Cultural Resource Centre (ACRC) resulting in the documentary, No Waste on Country\u2014Leaving Only Footprints<\/em> and on her Tipp Wear<\/em> fashion project, featuring fashion items rescued from landfill, cleaned and displayed on local catwalks. These works were featured in the \u2018Waste to Art\u2019 exhibition in Katoomba and Parkes NSW, promoting the message: \u201cRecycle, Reuse, Relove\u201d, with the aim to reduce landfill in waste management.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2277\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"453\"]![\"\"](\"https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PERFORMANCE-DAY_Muliyan-crouch-Sarah-looking-on-300x200.jpg\")
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\r\n\r\nThe project will specifically target key groups, such as young people and families, as well as the general community who have been experiencing heightened anxiety resulting from the severe bushfires that ravaged parts of the Blue Mountains area in 2020, followed by ongoing anxiety resulting from the COVID pandemic lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.\r\n\r\nThis project demonstrates Aboriginal thought leadership in addressing an important environmental issue, as well as showing ways in which the arts can contribute to community engagement with local Aboriginal people and participate in 'Caring for Country\u2019 and heighten environmental awareness that challenges our \u2018throw-away\u2019 consumer culture.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Launch Event\u2014Film Screenings<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nWe will launch the RE-IMAGINE project with the screening of two films on Saturday 4 December at the Bates Hall, Blackheath, at 4.30-6.30pm.\r\n\r\nNo Waste on County: Leave Only Footprints<\/span><\/strong>, has been re-edited by Lyle Diedrich to provide a 15 min introduction to the relationship between Caring for Country in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, and how we treat waste.\r\n\r\nWaste Land<\/span><\/strong>, is the brilliant documentary by Lucy Walker, featuring the artist Vik Muniz on a singularly ambitious project. She follows Vik to Jardim Gramacho, a vast landfill established in 1970 north of Rio de Janeiro, photographing its catadores<\/em>, pickers of recyclable materials, and filming the way that Vik collaborates with them in transforming these photos into portraits created with recyclable materials. Vik\u2019s purpose is to inspire his pickers to see themselves in a new way and even to re-imagine their lives.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Waste Art Workshops<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nJanelle will lead community art workshops whereby participants will explore multiple ways to engage with this important issue in a creative and fun way, transforming a problem area with associated feelings of guilt and anxiety, into one of creative solutions, thus contributing to building a more resilient community of connectedness to one another, and to our natural world.\r\n\r\nAs a member of Resilience Blue Mountains, Janelle seeks to aligns with the work of Blue Mountains City Council to engage the community in envisioning our future based on the theme of \u2018resilience\u2019 in terms of our relationship with one another in our neighbourhoods, with our natural environment, and with the Darug and Gundungurra people who are the traditional \u2018owners\u2019 of the Blue Mountains.\r\n\r\nDuring the workshops, participants will explore:\r\n\r\n \t
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