Exhibition Launched in Adelaide!
We are delighted to announce that the Men With Heart Exhibition has been launched in Adelaide! Scroll down for details and videos related to the event.
The Men with Heart Exhibition has arrived in Adelaide to continue its journey to support men’s health and well-being around the country and bring focus to the good work being done in that region
.The Southern Mens Association has brought the exhibition over, organised a terrific space with the Adelaide City Council for 6 weeks and aligned it with the South Australian Living Arts Festival as well for greater reach. There will be a series of facilitated events and experiential activities such as talking circles during the running of the show in the build up to the Southern Mens Gathering
Dates: August 7th to September 27th 2023.
Opening Times: Open Mon–Fri 9:00am-5:00pm
Where: Minor Works Building Community Centre 22 Stamford Court, Adelaide
Events:
Men’s Facilitated Talking Circles – All Welcome Thu 17 Aug 7:00pm–9:30pm Thu 24 Aug 7:00pm–9:30pm Sat 2 Sep 1:00pm–3:30pm Wed 6 Sep 7:30pm–10:00pm
NRG Breathwork Journey (Co-Gender) – Dan KIRK Sat 12 Aug 6:00pm Fri 25 Aug 5:00pm Sat 9 Sep 2:00pm.
This powerfully moving multi-media interactive exhibition has won multiple awards for its impact on the health and well-being of both men and boys in Australia in 2019. Shot in complete confidentiality over almost two decades, this documentary exhibition presents a deeply unique body of work in both its intimacy and scope intended to both challenge and explore what defines healthy masculinity in Australian culture today.
In a time when much of the world’s media is choosing to focus on the darker side of what men are capable of this project provides a refreshing, welcome and important counterbalance by portraying the open-heartedness, courage, and vulnerability of men coming together to face their issues and work on becoming better men - better fathers, brothers, partners and sons.
A powerful curation of printed imagery is accompanied by written stories and poems from the men within them and in-depth video interviews from attendees of the Tasmanian Mens Gathering expressing their heartfelt experiences.
Viewers are encouraged to interact with the images and share their thoughts, feelings and responses by writing them down on the provided cards and hanging them next to the images themselves, as well as contributing their thoughts to the expansive visitor’s book. These are being collated for a future book project.
With each exhibition, an opportunity to experience an interactive and experiential 'Heart Circle' - where attendees will get to experience a safe and open space to share and express their authentic thoughts and feelings in response to the exhibition, led by a trained facilitator.
The exhibition was brought to life through a Tasmanian Community Arts Grant and has travelled to four locations now throughout Tasmania since October 2018 with over 8000 visitors. The feedback from the exhibitions so far has been incredible. Both from demand an invitation the project is now expanding to travel nationally to support regional men’s work happening around Australia and provide inspiration, hope and deeper conversation about what the definition of healthy masculinity can be in our society today.
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