Winter Blooming Festival 2022
Winter Blooming is a festival celebrates Indigenous, multicultural, LGBTIQ arts, culture, communities and allies from across the New England and regional NSW.
- Date: 15th - 17th July 2022
- Time: See program
- Venue: NERAM
- Cost: $15 - $25
This ticket is for general entry into Festival sessions - Workshops and Queer Brunch will be ticketed individually. Subsidised tickets are available on request.
The festival program has multiple sessions that offer a range of participation opportunities. Sessions are subject to change.
Program
Friday 15th
5.30pm - 7.30pm
Queer Allyship panel & Meet the Hetropessimists
Speakers and details coming soon.
Saturday 16th
10.00AM – 11.00AM
Introduction: Everybody Say Love
Samara Shehata from ACON will speak on stigma and discrimination and how to be part of the solution not the problem
Russel Cook from HealthWISE will present on First Nations sexuality and gender identities
Ruby Mountford from Thorn Harbour Health and Darebin Community Health will speak on Bisexual identity and challenges experienced by this community
11.10AM – 12.10PM
Panel 1. Speak Out! First Nations. Pay the Rent.
Rob Waters, Gomeroi man with deep cultural connections to the North West of NSW
Gabi Briggs is an Anaiwan & Gumbaynggirr gedyura (woman) who works on community building projects and is a research-based artist working within a diverse range of mediums, primarily photography, weaving and zine-making.
Other speaker TBC
12.10PM – 1.00PM
Lunch
1.00pM – 2.00PM
Panel 2: Multicultural and multifaith
Aba Saad, founder of Queer Middle-Eastern and African Christians in Australia (QMEACA)
Budi Sudarto, Director of Ananda Training & Consultancy, specialising in inclusion, intersectionality, and belonging.
Aisya Zaharin, serves as one of the Board Directors of Forcibly Displaced People Network while doing her PhD in navigating Asian values and media responsibility.
2.00PM – 5.00PM
Workshop Sessions
Still-life and Sex Toys Drawing Workshop with Kim Leutwyler
Join artist Kim Leutwyler as she takes participants through still life drawing with a twist. Engage with the classic elements of still life composition and explore the unique colours, shapes and textures of the sex toys interspersed between the pots, bottles and flowers. This workshop is guaranteed to be pleasurable, not matter your current artistic skill level.
6.30pm - 9.00pm
NERAM Nights: Winter Blooming
Joins us after dark for a social and cultural event that will allow festival participants to continue their conversations and share their festival inspired ideas and works in an open gathering. Enjoy drag, music, and performances, meet and mingle with new people, pop by our pop up bar and celebrate our diverse community and culture.
Sunday 17th
11.00am
Queer Brunch
Social meet up for the LGBTAQ+ community at the Six Counties at NERAM. Tickets are free but limited. Brunch purchased on the day from the Six Counties menu. Enjoy a big brekkie or sip on a coffee.
Winter Blooming aims to support diversity and create a safe space for the inclusion of all voices to be expressed through cultural and social exchange.