What's On / May 2025 — correspondences

Apr 30

Apr 30 What's On / May 2025

Stories, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Tiana Khasi, Residencies

What’s On / May 2025

WHAT’S ON / MAY

Birds flying high, you know how I feel

Sun in the sky, you know how I feel}
Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me, yeah
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me, ooh
And I'm feeling good

— ‘Feeling Good’, Leslie Bricusse as performed by Nina Simone

BRUNSWICK| 30.04.25

Join us for the final week of this second part of Inciting Joy. Announcing our community performance at Balam Balam Place.

Thank you for joining us for Part 2 of Inciting Joy this past month. Whether you explored Cecilia’s exhibit, sang with Tiana and our community singers, read some poetry, embroidered, or enjoyed a cup of tea with us, your presence was deeply felt and appreciated.

This Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, please join us for our poetry reading/listening circle or community-making before we close to install the third and final part of Inciting Joy, which opens on Saturday, May 10.

This final month promises to be a special one.

By popular demand, we've added an extra community singing session with Tiana, with bookings now open for Thursday, May 15.

On Friday, May 23, we gather for our final poetry reading circle and celebrate Cecilia and Tiana’s final gallery exhibit. We will have some food and a special guest speaker with us to mark this special occasion.

On Friday, May 30, our community singers will accompany Tiana and her live band in a performance at beautiful Balam Balam Place, featuring new music and arrangements from Tiana's repertoire. We'd love for you to come celebrate, dance, and eat with us.

To join us for one, or we hope, all of these special occasions, please RSVP via the Event Bookings button below.

In the exhibition space, Cecilia’s centrally suspended installation, A pangeia do não-permanecer onde o despregar de Odús do céu e o extrapolar de sonhos acontecem na alvorada (A pangaea of non-permanence where the release of fates from the sky and the transcending of reveries happen at first light) 2025, will grow. And a new selection of works from her 2024 Alegria series will greet you at our window.

A new series of beautifully designed everyday objects by Tiana will also be featured in the exhibit, drawing inspiration from the colours, sounds, textures, stories and tastes of her Motherlands in Samoa and Meghalaya. She also continues to work on her community blanket, which will be showcased at the 30 May performance.

In closing, we thank you for supporting our work - whether that's joining a free event, buying an artwork, an event ticket, a book, or a cup of tea, recommending us to a friend, sharing our news on social media or by word of mouth, or generously volunteering your time. In these uncertain times, these gestures and contributions sustain and enrich our organisation’s ability to continue, and we warmly thank you.

Warmly

Emma Thomson

correspondences Studio

Image credit:
Cecilia Sordi Campos, A pangeia do não-permanecer onde o despregar de Odús do céu e o extrapolar de sonhos acontecem na alvorada (A pangaea of non-permanence where the release of fates from the sky and the transcending of reveries happen at first light) (detail), 2025 Photography: Stephanie Duncan

EVENT BOOKINGS

BRUNSWICK| 30.4.25—31.5.25

Upcoming Special Events & Activities

Open late — Inciting Joy & Multilingual Poetry Reading/Listening Circle
Friday, 2 May, 6:30-8:00 PM
Friday, 23 May, 6:30-8:00 PM —Closing celebration
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Once a month, on a Friday, from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m., we explore our latest exhibit together. Then, we settle down to read or listen to poetry together. Please bring a poem to share/read in whatever language you like. Or, just come to listen. All welcome.

Our last poetry reading circle on 23 May is also a celebration of the final two weeks of Inciting Joy, featuring Cecilia and Tiana. We will have some food and a special guest speaker with us to mark this special occasion.

Image credit: Installation view, Inciting Joy, / Part 2, picturing artworks by Cecilia Sordi Campos Photography: Stephanie Duncan Artworks © Cecilia Sordi Campos

Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to RSVP.

Attendance is free. Bookings are essential.

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Studio drop-in - Self-guided community making / Inciting Joy
Saturday, 3 May, 2:00-4:00 PM
Saturday, 31 May, 2:00-4:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Audiences are invited to join our artists and the correspondences' team for self-guided making as part of Incting Joy. We'll be focusing on crochet and embroidery, and materials will be provided.

Please note: Making is a freestyle and self-guided process, but our team is available to answer any questions. This forum is about conversation and togetherness.

Image credit: Tiana working on her community blanket in the space.

Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to book.

Attendance is free. Bookings are essential.

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Community singing & performance with Tiana Khasi
Thursday, 15 May, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 4 - Final workshop
Session runs 6:30 to 7:30 PM, linger until 8:00 PM
correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Together with Tiana, we invite you to join us and sing together as a community as we continue to work towards our performance, featuring Tiana, her live band and you, our community singers, on Friday, 30 May - event details below. This will be our fourth and final workshop. We encourage participants to join our community performance on 30 May, but it's not required.

No singing experience is necessary. This is about the joy of joining our voices together in song.

Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to book.
Single Booking (1 Adult): $10 /for 1/each session
Bookings are essential. Ticket proceeds are vital to support the labour involved in facilitating the sessions.

Image credit: Photograph of Cecilia and our singers at community singing. Photograph: Javad Kashani.

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Inciting Joy: A Celebration & Community Performance
Friday, 30 May, 6:30-9:00 PM
Balam Balam Place, G01, Ground Floor South, 15 Phoenix St (Formerly 33 Saxon St) BRUNSWICK VIC 3056.

Together with resident artists Tiana Khasi and Cecilia Sordi Campos, we invite you to join us for a celebration featuring a performance by Tiana, accompanied by her live band and our community singing group, assembled as part of Inciting Joy.

After the performance, tea and dessert will be served, and guests are invited to linger, relax, and mingle in conversation. Or join the making table to assemble an adornment to be added to the community blanket that Tiana has been making throughout her residency.

Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to book. Bookings are essential. There are options:

Single Adult Ticket $20
Single Adult Ticket $30 with a donation
Limited free tickets are available. First-in-best-dressed.

Your ticket includes a hot drink and dessert. Ticket proceeds and donations will go towards venue hire costs, artist fees, and food.

Image credit: Photograph of community singing with Tiana picturing a detail of Cecilia’s installation, A pangeia do não-permanecer onde o despregar de Odús do céu e o extrapolar de sonhos acontecem na alvorada (A pangaea of non-permanence where the release of fates from the sky and the transcending of reveries happen at first light), 2025 that has been our inspiration as we sing. Photograph: Saskia Yeung

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Acknowledgement of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.