Players from the Geelong Symphony Orchestra played a performance of Nick Batterham’s evocative score written especially for the RONE exhibition at the Geelong Gallery. The music captures the mood, impermanence and nostalgia.
Of those involved, we’ve published stories on Wendy Galloway founder of the GSO, Kym Dillon of With One Voice Choir Geelong, Vicki Hallett, Carter Harris-Smith of Skip Hip Hooray and the RONE Exhibition at the Geelong Gallery. You can read these stories on our website.
‘The Dance’, our fun music video project which was 18 months in the making and included a diverse cast of thousands, was launched to a Sold Out crowd at the dome, Geelong Library on Tuesday 23rd March. The event was part of Geelong Design Week 2021, which celebrates the fact that Geelong is the only city in Australia to be a UNESCO City of Design.
The aim of ‘The Dance’ was to bring joy, and to showcase our beautiful region and many of our amazing, creative individuals, Humans in Geelong team members and community groups who are making a difference. Humans in Geelong volunteer videographer Hadeel of @hs.stories.photography did a brilliant job of matching 60 clips to the winning song.
Andrea Robertson won The Song Contest. Her song ‘Dance the Blues Away’ from the Album ‘Live at New Hall’ was chosen to be the song for the video clip, it’s funky, upbeat music and lyrics matched the project perfectly. Humans in Geelong would also like to congratulate ‘The Red Violets’ who came second in The Song Contest with their song ‘The Beat’. It was a tough choice.
We thank each and every participant in this project. They are all included in our previous post.
Thanks also to the whole team, team member Bec Picone who spoke about Peace of Mind Foundation and guest speaker Kyle Jdali of Atman. You can view the talk on the Geelong Regional Library YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1UNmacK3w
Watch and share ‘The Dance’: https://youtu.be/mfrbUIzd5Yk Geelong and region – you can be very proud!
View more photos from the launch on our Instagram or Facebook.
The aim of The Dance, is to showcase the beautiful Geelong region and many of our amazing individuals and community groups who are making a difference. Our volunteer videographer Hadeel Hani of @hs.stories.photography did a brilliant job of matching the 60 clips to the winning song. It’s ‘Dance the Blues Away’ from the album, ‘Live at New Hall’ released in 2019 by Andrea Robertson.
We thank each and every participant in this project. Here they are in order of appearance:
Aerial of Geelong by Boom Jellyfish.
Deadly Dancers at the Cats Ground.
Buckley Falls – team members Jacqui, Bec, Charion and Rini.
Lily – Rocky Point Lookout between Torquay and Jan Juc.
Continue reading “The Dance, compiled by Humans in Geelong.”Today is Harmony Day. “We have written and recorded a song called ‘Marching Free’ – a song of inclusiveness and respect, supporting the theme ‘everyone belongs’, to celebrate Harmony Week. We are a musical duo called The Red Violets (Claire Foley and Jill O’Dowd).
“The most memorable part of our celebration was meeting so many beautiful people and sharing the joy of creating art, dancing, playing and making new friends.
“We held a music and art workshop with so many beautiful children and their families to create a meaningful piece of artwork that we included in our music video clip.
“The rainbow eyes in our art piece represent people from all nations and backgrounds looking a little deeper to see that we are all the same.
“The song was released on Sunday the 14th of March to celebrate the start of Harmony Week.
Continue reading “Harmony Day 2021, The Red Violets.”Join us for the exciting launch of The Dance and the announcement of the winners of The Song Contest. It’s free and it’ll be loads of fun. It’s part of Geelong Design Week 2021 and our talk is at the Geelong Library, Level 5, arrive 7pm for a 7.30pm start, Tuesday 23rd March. Get in quick because numbers are limited.
Be inspired and uplifted by positive local stories. Hear from team members Jacqui Bennett and Bec Picone. Meet the team. Special guest speaker, Kyle Jdali of Atman. We’ll have our Humans in Geelong Books and Bags available for donations.
The winning song provides the backdrop to our home grown film clip which has been edited by our amazing team member, the talented videographer, Hadeel Hani @hs.stories.photography
Sixty clips from community groups, team members and talented individuals make up this fun video called ‘The Dance’.
It showcases the best of Geelong’s gorgeous scenery too. We can all be proud.
Geelong Design Week 2021 is made up of over 60 exhibitions, workshops, tours, open studios and more. The full program can be found here: https://www.geelongcityofdesign.com.au/geelong-design-week/
Our Library Talk and launch of The Dance video is part of Geelong Design Week 2021, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong. Presented in partnership with Geelong Regional Library Corporation.
Very proud Geelong! There was a massive turn out tonight for Geelong’s March4Justice. It’s the first of many. It was organised by the Geelong Women Unionists Network and they suggest you follow them to find out about more action. Sarah Hathaway, from the group spoke, followed by Christine Couzens MP and Councillor Belinda Maloney.
The message was ‘enough’! There needs to be justice, no more violence against women and equity.
This March was one of many throughout the country.
Could you make a difference in a teenager’s life?
Local schools, including Belmont High School, are seeking volunteer mentors to support students through evidence-based, best-practice mentoring programs. For more information please visit: https://raise.org.au/mentor/
From vulnerable and disengaged to resilient and confident – Raise’s youth mentoring program is proven to help young people thrive. At Raise they match everyday people from the community with a young person at a local High School for a one-to-one mentoring experience.
All you need is the desire to make a difference! Raise provide you with expert training enabling you to mentor a Year 8 student who needs a trusted, neutral adult, willing to listen.
Once matched with a student in your community, the program is structured, managed and supported by a qualified Raise counsellor.
Raise aims for a powerful mentoring movement that creates thriving communities.
One of Victoria’s most unique music events, the Aireys Inlet Open Mic Music Festival, is on this weekend (13-15 March). Featuring 150 acts, including 50 bands, over three days on nine different stages, the event completely takes over the coastal town of Aireys Inlet.
The program features everything from rock bands to choirs, youth acts and solo artists like myself.
What makes the festival unique? Well, for starters, it’s free to attend – it has a ‘Pay What You think it’s Worth’ policy so you make a donation if you’ve had fun.
Secondly, it features talented performers you may well not have seen before. The festival, now in its 14th year, focuses on talented newcomers, enthusiastic veterans and serious but not-yet-famous acts. The next wave, if you will.
Continue reading “Airey’s Inlet Open Mic Music Festival, Andrew.”“I would spend days crying for hours on end. It led me to believe heaven and hell are not places, they are thoughts.” Local, Scott Andrews, also known as The Travelling Alchemist, tells us more about his project, ‘Man Up, Man Down’. A book of 50 stories and photos of men and their mental health journeys. The stunning, soul revealing photos are achieved by using an age-old photography process called wet-plate.
“I created the ‘Man Up, Man Down’ project shortly after going through a very dark phase in my life, in 2019 which lasted about 6 months. I was alone, having just come out of a relationship. I lost a lot as a result of that.
“I had trouble even leaving the house, I suffered severe anxiety and depression. I felt like everything was ending, my whole world was turned upside down. I would spend days crying for hours on end. Anytime I wasn’t in public I would be crying and this just got worse and worse.
“Thankfully, I eventually spoke to my GP and started on medication, it took time, but slowly I came good over the next six months or so.
Continue reading “Man Up, Man Down, Scott Andrews.”It’s Clean Up Australia Day! You can find your local site at https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/join-a-clean-up I’ll be over at the Wandana Heights Oval at Tim Hill Reserve running a site from 9.30-10.30. We ran our local school Clean Up at Highton Primary on Tuesday and hundreds of kids enthusiastically helped out. One boy told me he wants to be a Marine Biologist and he knows that cleaning up rubbish helps it from getting washed in to our water systems then out to sea where it could harm marine animals.
If an area is clean, people are less likely to drop papers in the first place. So, no matter where you are on this beautiful Autumn day, you could simply pick up a few papers to make a difference.
Cute photo borrowed from The Awesome Foundation.
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