June 2008

Indigenous Arts - present and future

Lattice::Sydney Roundup

» Earlier this year, Alice Angus and Orlagh Woods from UK-based artist-led studio Proboscis undertook a three and a half week residency at ICE – supported by the British Council – to work with a select group of emerging young artists and cultural practitioners from Western Sydney. Find out more about what Proboscis did in Western Sydney and check out the images, videos and ongoing blog. More »

Ali Kadhim: Parkroar

» New media artist and parkour practitioner, Ali Kadhim, has been working at ICE since 2007, thanks to an Emerging Producers in Community (EPIC) grant from the Australia Council. Join us to take a look at how his innovative project – Parkroar – has taken shape over the past year. More »

Changing Lives

» Changing Lives is a project engaging Arabic speaking young people with digital arts and community cultural development. The project empowers young people with skills to make and tell their own stories and share them on the internet. More »

Hip-Hop Projections 3

» Join us at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on May 24 to celebrate the achievements of the Urban Music Project in a dynamic night of live performance and video projections. The ICE Urban Music Project is about self expression and skills and above all, hip-hop! Led by ARIA-nominee MC Trey the project has been making a big difference in the lives of young people from Western Sydney. More »

Digital stories and hip-hop for young people

» ICE is currently recruiting participants for our first free TAFE-accredited hip-hop and digital storytelling program for unemployed young people aged 15-25. More »

Sydney Arab Film Festival's biggest opening yet

» The Sydney Arab Film Festival opens Thursday 10 April with the sold-out Australian premiere of Nadine Labaki’s Caramel. Get with the program at the festival website! More »

Parramatta On Screen

» Eight young filmmakers will launch six sharp new short films made in Parramatta this Wednesday 19 March at Riverside Theatres. The films were produced during Springboard, a digital film workshop for first-time young filmmakers. More »

The Lattice: Sydney Forum

» Come along to this exciting forum on March 7 to see a display of works-in-progress generated during Proboscis’ Lattice: Sydney workshops. The forum will also feature a discussion about creative cities with Professor Ross Gibson and Kasama Yamtree. More »

Indigenous Arts - present and future

Don’t miss the last seminar in our free Autumn/Winter seminar series! Indigenous arts – present and future will be the subject of discussion at the Bankstown City Council Chambers on July 10. Speakers include Garry Jones, Peter White, Patricia Adjei and Adam Hill. More »

Switch Academy coming soon

ICE will soon be offering an exciting range of fee-paying short courses. Through Switch Academy you can learn new skills, upgrade your existing ones, get creative, follow a passion or just do something completely different! More »

Making Links - Call for Papers

The Making Links Conference, Melbourne 11-13 November, is looking for presentation papers and workshops on topics discussing technology and social inclusion, community participation, action and case studies of successful ICT projects. More »

ICE plays host to visiting scholar

ICE is pleased to be hosting a visit from Shing Au-Yeung from the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Shing is visiting Australia for five months to undertake research for his PhD on the relationship between arts funding in Australia and Hong Kong. More »

Join ICE on Facebook

Did you know you can now find ICE on Facebook? Join the ICE Facebook group to show your support and to receive updates on projects, events and opportunities at ICE. More »

Shout out to aspiring youth leaders in Western Sydney

Want to have fun, make a difference, be creative, get recognised and help to run awesome projects? Come and be a part of the Youth Digital Cultures project at ICE. More »

New short courses at Switch Academy

Through Switch Academy, ICE will soon be offering an exciting range of fee-paying short courses. It’s a great way to learn new skills and upgrade your existing ones. More »

Arts Marketing Techniques for Artists

The next event in our free Autumn/Winter seminar program is Arts Marketing Techniques for Artists. Come along on June 26 to learn about marketing yourself, producing and distributing marketing materials and using the internet as a marketing tool. More »

Digital Territories: Palestine

A forum on the power of digital activism in the 21st Century. Featuring Palestinian-American author Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada – the world’s primary website on information about Palestine. More »

An Unimagined Evening

As part of this years Sydney Writers’ Festival, ICE is pleased to present ‘An Imagined Evening’, a conversation between visiting Pakistani author Imran Ahmad and Sydney-based Palestinian-Egyption author and civil rights activist Randa Abdel-Fattah. More »