Queer Town is a Melbourne-based, queer-owned and led organisation delivering impactful education, training, and digital content on LGBTIQA+ allyship and inclusion.

Founded by CEO Archie Beetle (they/them) in 2018, Queer Town has become the trusted go-to training provider for leading institutions such as the Australian Ballet, GMHBA, and Cotton On Group. With a proven track record of driving meaningful cultural change in schools, workplaces, and events, both nationally and internationally, Queer Town creates environments where LGBTIQA+ people of all ages feel safe, valued, and celebrated for their authentic selves.

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In this panel and workshop, the Victorian Pride Centre and Transgender Victoria bring together people with lived experiences of racism, ableism, and transphobia who also have significant expertise in facilitating organisational change. Together they will challenge us to explore proactive ways that we can ‘channel our rage’, accommodating our own and others’ trauma, in order to speak back to structural oppression as individuals, leaders, employees, activists and collaborators.

A panel discussion facilitated by Errol Amerasekera (author of ‘The Anti Racist Organisation’) and Dr. Son Vivienne (author of ‘Queering Safe Spaces’) You will have an opportunity to meet and get to know diverse community members, and legendary activists including Transgender Victoria’s staff and Committee members.

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In the early 1950s, at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a new avant-garde began to emerge from a relationship between two young artists. From their run-down New York studios, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns began a private creative dialogue that introduced everyday signs, objects, and media into their work, collapsing the distinction between art and life. While their relationship would end after seven years, their art would continue to radiate the new ideas of their creative exchange.

This exhibition will draw upon the National Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler Collection of prints with works by both artists produced between 1967 and 1973, and holdings of key works by their predecessors and contemporaries.

In 1953, on the corner of a New York City street, Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008, United States) met Jasper Johns (b 1930, United States). These two young artists fell in love at a time when it was illegal to be in a same-sex relationship. It was also a time when New York’s artistic culture was dominated by Abstract Expressionism, an art movement of expressive gestures arising from the self or inner psyche. Not wanting to publicly expose their feelings and desires through art, Rauschenberg and Johns began a private creative dialogue, introducing everyday signs, objects and media into their work to create a distinctive, coded visual style. While their relationship would end in 1961, this formative exchange resonated throughout their lives and art. They became two of America’s most celebrated artists of the twentieth century.

In the late 1960s both Rauschenberg and Johns worked with celebrated printmaker Kenneth Tyler to create ground-breaking works in lithography and screen-print. Their experimental engagement with print processes made them important figures in the revival of printmaking in the United States. Expanding on ideas developed in their private creative dialogue, Rauschenberg and Johns helped reshape American printmaking.

https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/rauschenberg-johns/

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Nick is also an executive at the University of Melbourne and principal fellow at the Melbourne School of Government.

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