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Workshop with exhibiting artist Alex Martinis Roe

Saturday 10 May 2025 from 11 am to 4 pm

Anyone with an interest in documenting, archiving, theorising or telling stories about social justice movements is invited to join exhibiting artist Alex Martinis Roe in a special one-day workshop at La Trobe Art Institute.

In this workshop, Alex will engage participants in the collaborative working process of the Storytelling Liberation project. Participants will learn about each other’s approach to telling stories about social justice movements, and together identify how such approaches can be made accessible to others.

If you are interested in joining the workshop, please email Curator Amelia Wallin (A.Wallin@latrobe.edu.au) by May 3 with an example of something you have been working on that could be shared during the workshop. Participants will be asked to do some preparation in advance of the workshop and a light lunch will be provided.

This workshop is for practitioners and students from any occupation, field, discipline or political commitment.

Film program

Join us for a film screening program in our auditorium, featuring films that contextualise and extend the concerns of the exhibition, Storytelling Liberation, selected by Alex Martinis Roe and her collaborators. A different film will be screened each week across four Sundays during the exhibition run.

This program accompanies Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibition Storytelling Liberation. Intended as invitation, resource and instrument, the exhibition seeks to foster international anti-colonial and feminist alliances by sharing tools for telling stories about social justice movements.

Storytelling Liberation was made in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos.

Schedule

We Care: Video for Careproviders of People Affected by AIDS, Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise (WAVE)

32 mins. (1990)
Sunday March 16, 2 pm

The Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise (WAVE) was a unique “video support” group sponsored by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and arts funding organizations. For six months, seven women met to share information about providing care to people with AIDS with a particular focus on communities of colour in NYC. “We Care” is the group’s final project.

Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman), Lourdes Portillo (Dir.)

74 mins. (2001)
Sunday March 23, 2 pm

This award-winning film investigates the kidnapping, rape and murder of more than 350 young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-US border. It documents a two-year search for answers and unravels the layers of complicity in a crime of this magnitude.

Landscapes of Resistance, Marta Popivoda (Dir.)

95 mins. (2021)
Sunday March 30, 2 pm

The main character of Landscapes of Resistance, Sonja, was one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia and helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz. For over 10 years, director Marta Popivoda and Sonja's granddaughter and co-author of the film, Ana Vujanovic, recorded their conversations with Sonja. These interviews are overlaid with footage of the landscapes and sites of her story. What starts off as a celebration of the resistance of one woman and her comrades gradually turns into a cinematic antifascist manifesto as the filmmakers become more and more confronted with the rise of fascism in Europe today.

Vai, directed by Nicole Whippy, ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Matasila Freshwater, Amberley Jo Aumua, Mīria George, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Dianna Fuemana, and Becs Arahanga

88min (2019)
Sunday April 6, 2 pm

“We sweat and cry salt water, so we know that the ocean is really in our blood” so reads an epigraph by Teresia Teaiwa to opens the film Vai. Made by nine female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in seven different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand), Vai, meaning water, follows the lifelong journey of girl.

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