Opening Night 6pm-10pm Friday, 18thOct 2024
Join artists Melita Rowston and Justine Wahlin as they infiltrate the fractured windows of nostalgia to explore the heartache, swampy regret, and fragile sweetness of our vanished pasts.
THE DISHONESTY OF NOSTALGIA will be exhibited between October 18 and 27 and open for viewing at three special events
(Viewing by appointment can also be arranged).
Friday Oct 18 – Opening night, 6 – 10pm
6.30pm: opening speech by Melissa Holmes – CEO of Stepping Out
Live performances from 7pm:
Singer/songwriter: Willie Wahlin
Singer/songwriter: Matt Thomson
Singer/songwriter: Hiske Weijers
Thursday Oct 24 – mid-show event: “The Shadows We Walk With” 6 – 8pm
Solo & duo musical and poetry performances amongst the art.
Singer/songwriter: Justine Wahlin
Singer/songwriter: Mickijoy (Micaela Ellis)
Duo: King Dickerson
MC/poetry: Melita Rowston
(BYO)
Sunday Oct 27 – Closing night, 4-7pm
A relaxed final viewing (BYO)
All events are FREE.
From the Greek ‘nóstos’ and ‘álgos,’ nostalgia combines notions of
‘homecoming’ and ‘pain’. Once described as a form of medical
melancholy, nostalgia is a haunting, a wistful memory for long-gone moments, places, people or possibilities. It’s an acute psychic state that, individually and in community, connects us to who we are.
Nostalgia can also be a trick of the mind, a too-rosy retrospection for a ‘glorious past’, a false security blanket that’s grasped when the future is perceived as intolerably bleak…