SALON
Salon celebrates the people of Djilang, throwing open the Courthouse doors to host a series of radical gatherings focused on artistic exchange.
Permission Granted: Performance Praxis
A workshop for anyone curious about challenging learned social conditioning with an interest in how we perform permission, agency, and the creative possibilities of the body.
There's an Art for That
Platform Arts hosts an evening of conversation and art from locally-based artists. Support local artists. Buy local art.
One & Only? 和合而生
Myth and memory meet motion in this 60-minute immersive dance and installation performance. Free to attend.
The Djilang Film Collective Showcase
The Djilang Film Collective is excited to present a night of short film screenings followed by a Q&A.
Speed Friending in the Apocalypse
The end is coming. Hold my hand. Lets get anti-social IRL and connect like it’s before the internet.
Popula Dabba: A Storytelling Workshop
Participants are invited to open their own “spice boxes” exploring how food can evoke memory, identity and creative expression.
Studio Convos with Lucy Allinson and Samantha Taylor
Join artists Lucy Allinson and Samantha Taylor in Gallery One for a facilitated conversation and critique of studio practice.
ROAM GEELONG EVENTS
Platform joins ROAM Geelong with the opening of After Walter Hopps and Gathering Place installation. Join us from 4:00PM - 10:00PM in our Gallery One and Two.
Installation Workshop
A workshop that demystifies the role of the gallery technician, offering key advice on displaying your work to industry standards.
un/scripted
What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
ZOJ: Give Water to Birds: Album Launch
ZOJ performs at the launch of their second album ‘Give Water to Birds’
Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe - Film Screening
Be Tru 2 Uluru and Platform Arts invite you to a special screening of Our Warrior: The story of Robbie Thorpe.
Beekeeping in the End Times - Film Screening and Q&A
The film screening of ‘Beekeeping in the End Times’ and Q&A with film makers.
FIELD TRIP: Ocean LAB
Discover what the wrack zone is and why it matters during an immersive field trip blending science, art, and sensory exploration.
FIELD TRIP: Deep Listening and Making with Country
Make camera-less photographs through a lumen process, collaborating with time and the sun.
DONATE TO WIN THE PLATFORM PASS
Donate to Platform Arts before EOFY and you could win a 12 month pass to all Platform programmed events.
FIELD TRIP: Mapping Forgotten Landscapes of Linton
Walk, share food and explore how projects can ‘come to us’ and be created through observation, deep listening and responsive practice.
OCULAR
What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
FIELD TRIP: Breamlea
Explore the concept of Songlines, through yarning, play, and observing with Kiri Wicks.
Thinking with Golden Ecklonia: An immersive kelp experience
A groundbreaking installation and sound walk where art meets science on the shores of Geelong
FIELD TRIP: Barwon Heads
Experience intuitive hand-building and ceramic techniques in a natural setting with Kim Drew.
FIELD TRIP: Geelong Botanical Gardens
Explore with Lucy Allinson noise pollution and how it affects our landscapes.
Screening Palestine Series: Resistance, Why? (1971)
A recently restored documentary by Christian Ghazi captures a crucial cross-section of the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon in 1970.
Dungeons & Dragons: Open Sessions
Enter the world of Dungeons & Dragons, with open game sessions in the Platform Arts Performance Space.
REFUGIUM SCREENING (2021)
A short film exploring themes of climate justice, colonial disruption, apocalypse and intergenerational justice followed by a Q&A with Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman.
PANEL DISCUSSION: WORLD-BUILDING
Panel discussion: world-building through the lenses of art and critical theory, architecture, game design, spatial design, play and spirituality.
WORLDING PUBLICATION
Features commissioned and reprinted written works by Dr. Peter Hill, Tarryn Love, Dr. Simon O’Sullivan, Robert Schubert, and Dr. Mira Keratova, and a curatorial essay by our Curator, Dr. Amber Smith.
CURATOR TALK: WORLDING
Before the exhibition officially opens to the public, join us for a floor talk with Worlding curator Amber Smith.
May'd Art Festival
Visit the Public Platform stall at May’d, Creative Geelong's 2-day festival presented in partnership with Melbourne Art Book Fair.
PUBLIC PLATFORM @ MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR
Purchase publications from a range of publishers, artists and designers exhibiting at the NGV Great Hall - including our publishing arm, Public Platform.
SPEAKERS' CORNER
In celebration of IDAHOBIT and to conclude the FAIRY program, join us to share stories about finding identity and community.
AFW + NFSA: NITRATE KISSES (1992)
At once sexy, erotic and confrontational, Barbara Hammer’s landmark documentary operates at the margins between truth and fiction, memory and history,
MASQUERADES OF RESEARCH: PART I & II (2020-2022) + Q&A
Irish artist and filmmaker Padraig Robinson explores the impact of the controversial research of pre-queer sociologist Laud Humphreys.
PALESTINE SCREENING SERIES: THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS (2023)
Through the voices and stories of 8 people, this documentary explains the mechanisms of control that the Israeli state deploys to subjugate Palestinians.