Friday the 29th of October at our stunning AICM building on Channon Street, a free all ages live music event, of epic proportions will take place to celebrate and inspire more safe spaces for females and our LGBTIQ community.
It’s been two years and one world-wide pandemic since the Space Girls voices have been raised to herald a new era in inclusivity and acceptance within our community and beyond.
This time around the Space Girls mission will include a day workshop for young female and LGBTIQ people to come together and make art through music and lyrics. “We are excited to have Cry Baby, AYLA, Studio 88 and local songwriter Ashy facilitating a day of music creation for our musically inclined young people, and then everyone is welcomed to the AICM that night for a live concert to share Cry Baby and Ashy’s musical journeys and the youth participants will also be invited on stage for special guest spots.”
The artists will be supported by producer Judah Winnett from Studio 88, helping create new songs and polishing existing work of participants. Schools in our region have been notified and our expression of interest link should be live as this edition goes to print.
Vibrant projection art and a special guest teen DJs will add to the festival vibes for Space Girls Lift off, “Any time we come together it can be a festival, it’s all about creating a safe, energetic, supporting atmosphere and a platform to raise our voices and take up more space.”
The Space Girls concept was born right here in Gympie in 2018 when my good friends Sandra and John of Soma Soma invited me to take up their newly renovated upstairs space with a boutique event, I was surrounded by incredible women kicking huge goals from here In Gympie but on a national scale …. I wanted to celebrate our achievements together and inspire women of all ages here as to the possibilities of being rad in a region! In 2019 I partnered with Jazmyn Smith of Jazmyn Produces to occupy our Civic Centre for Space Girls The Satellite Party, with Jaguar Jonze headlining straight from BIGSOUND.
This year with support from mentor Emily Murphy of EM Events I get to realise my more developed dream for female and LGBTIQ folk to “take up more space” .
Space Girls Lift Off is a one-day music and capacity building workshop being held on Friday, 29 October as part of the Gympie Regional Council’s RESET festival program.
This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Gympie Regional Council to support arts and culture in regional Queensland.
The day time program is supported by Creative Arts Gympie Region, Bendigo Bank and Regional Arts Fund, while the evening’s live music event is a collaboration between Racy&Lucky and EM Events.
#creativesunite GO FORTH AND COLLABORATE!!
Cindy Vogels article first published in Gympie Living Magazine in October 2021
https://gympieliving.com.au