Panel Discussion: Re-gathering Resilience
When: Sunday 17th January 2021 1.30PM start
Length: (45-50 minutes) 15 mins questions
Where: Ledger Gallery
Price: This is a FREE event
Bookings: Numbers are strictly limited. To secure your place, phone or email the gallery on 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
Panel:
- Kirstin Berg – Artist
- Sally Matheson – Program Manager at Tomorrow Today
- Annie Rowland – Community Engagement Coordinator, Live4Life
- Moderator: Mardi Nowak, Head of Visual Arts RACV
After a trying 2020 where we have faced COVID-19, bushfires and economic upheaval, it’s time to come together and discuss the ways that we got through it and built our resiliency. For some, it was through creative practice (art and baking), for others it was re-engaging with nature. It’s time to reflect on the skills we gained but also look at ways we can learn new ones as a community.
This program is presented in partnership with RACV and MPavilion as part of the AMPLIFY program.
Since 2019, MPavilion and RACV have shared a partnership of strong common values around community, advocacy, creativity and collaboration. In 2020, that partnership is responding to the challenges of a year beset by bushfire and a global pandemic with AMPLIFY—an uplifting and energetic cultural program that moves beyond the city to communities in regional Victoria. Bounding into some of the biggest environmental, social and infrastructural questions facing people in Australia today, AMPLIFY will be a lightning rod of discussions and insights, inviting people of all ages—in physical and digital attendance—to take an active part in the discovery and development of new ideas, new attitudes, and new, life-changing ways forward.
HOW TO EXPERIENCE
To book, phone or email the gallery on 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au. All visitors must check-in via QR codes and are required to observe hygiene and physical distancing practices. Benalla Art Gallery will ensure that capacity requirements are observed in a Gallery space at all times. For further inquiries for visiting the gallery, please contact gallery reception (03) 5760 2619.
PANELLIST BIOS
Kirstin Berg
Kirstin creates immersive environments by combining and manipulating unconventional materials such as fire ash, bush debris and hard rubbish into sculptural ephemera. Her work fuses painting, drawing and sculpture and revolves around her concern for environmental and human crisis and the redemption found in transforming our losses.
Kirstin has exhibited extensively in Australia and has lived, worked and exhibited internationally in Prague, Berlin and Barcelona. Her work is held in the National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and Parliament House (Canberra), and in private collections within Australia, Europe and America.
She currently lives and works between Melbourne and Berlin.
Sally Matheson
Sally has lived in Benalla for 21 years. A qualified speech pathologist, she is the Education Benalla Program Manager at Tomorrow Today, Benalla’s independent community foundation. Her role sees her work with families, schools and the community to ensure Benalla’s children and young people can achieve their potential in school, work and life. Outside of work, Sally is an active member of the Benalla Rose City Band and the Rotary Club of Benalla.
Annie Rowland
Annie has been working with young people for over 25 years. She has worked across a range of settings including youth support, community development and project management. Annie brings with her a strong youth participation practice. In addition to her work with young people, Annie has extensive experience delivering teen and Youth Mental Health First Aid as a Master Instructor and part of the original team involved in the Mental Health First Aid Australia and the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Teen MHFA research project in 2013. Annie has a long-standing and dedicated interest in increasing the capacity of rural communities to build partnerships and respond, in meaningful ways, to young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Annie is also currently the Deputy Chairperson of the Macedon Ranges Suicide Prevention Action Group and believes that everybody has a role to play in suicide prevention
