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Event #1
WHAT: Girl 6 Screening
WHEN: Wednesday October 2nd 7:15 and Sunday October 6th at 2pm
WHERE: AGNSW
HOW MUCH: free, RSVP required
Boasting cameos by Naomi Campbell and Madonna and a soundtrack by Prince, Girl 6 is a 1990s hotline fever dream. Spike Lee collaborated with acclaimed playwright Suzan-Lori Parks for this bubblegum tale of a struggling actor who takes a job as a phone-sex operator. She finds friendship and camaraderie with her fellow workers who guffaw and eye roll at the absurd, sometimes terrifying fantasies coming down the line. A playful, sharp examination of race, gender and performance through mediated forms of intimacy (the old-school hotline), the film was praised by author and scholar bell hooks as offering ‘the most diverse images of Black female identity ever seen in a Hollywood film.’
https://tickets.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/019182f6-7b6f-c31a-be26-5394251201e5
Event #2
WHAT: 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘, 𝗔𝗦𝗛, 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗦, 𝗜 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 Exhibition
WHEN: until December
WHERE: The Bearded Tit
HOW MUCH: free
Fire, Ash, Stars, I attend to survive curated by Kelly Dezart-Smith is a poetic visual art intervention weaving together stories of hope during dystopian times. Alyiah Knight, Atong Atem, Blu Jay and Nyaluak Leth use video, illustration and poetry to explore Octavia Butler’s fiction and our present.