Silver Linings: 25 Years of Tuggeranong Community Arts is 11 days of fun, colour and movement for the community to get involved with to celebrate 25 years of art making in Tuggeranong. There’s six different styles of dance you can come and try, from Bollywood to Bushdance, with free tutorials that will teach you the basic moves to a dance you can perform at our Silvery Moon Festival on Saturday 7 November. After each tutorial there’s a free costume making workshop so you can put some silver into a costume to wear to the ‘performance’.
Free art making workshops for both adults and children are running throughout October, so you can make, or contribute to, a piece of art that will make up our Universe Alight installation in the lawns adjacent to Tuggeranong Arts Centre during the Silvery Moon Festival.
A fantastic film festival will further showcase the different dance cultures, with films from Brazil, Nepal, the Philippines and Israel. The culture of Bollywood is explored through a presentation by Kambah local boy G-Luv, who won the opportunity to go to Mumbai and audition for big-time Bollywood producers, as well as a local play called Zak and Reefa’s Bollywood Funeral, the coming of age story of a Bangla brother and sister.
There are exhibitions at the arts centre and at the Tuggeranong Hyperdome. Fresh Faced Funk’s season of new works features works choreographed by returning alumni. With music and talks, there’s something for everyone.
There’s even a Phat n’ Layzee Picnic on Saturday 31 October that puts paid to the misconception that Tuggeranong is a fat and lazy district, with drawing classes, zine making workshops and free sweets to be had to the strains of some Phat Beats!
