FOLK Magazine

18/07/2022

•OPPORTUNITY•
We’ve got an exciting casual Project Producer role currently open for applications.

With activities in the pipeline, we’re on the look out for someone to take the logistical reins and ‘make it possible’. If you’re interested in talking and writing about the arts and creating opportunities for writers, this could be the gig for you.

More information and application details in
APPLICATIONS CLOSE JULY 20th

[artwork by from our 2nd Print Issue: BREAK]

07/04/2020

is a multidisciplinary creative who has had her words published in .ws, and performed as part of and Between a Two Worlds. She is focused on exploring the beauty, strength and realities of South Asian cultures and traditions through art.
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You can see the remainder of this captivating collection in our 2nd print issue— 👆 Link In Bio ☝️
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29/03/2020

It’s here LIVE and IN• COLOUR
In another timeline that feels so distant now, we would have been launching 🚀 our second issue this weekend. But all this isn’t going to stop us from celebrating the collective efforts of our team and the amazing artists we got to realise this issue with.
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We’ll be sharing teasers and excerpts in the coming days from this issue and if you’re yet to order your copy— get on it, join the many folks supporting independent publishing ✨

http://folkmag-shop.square.site/

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20/03/2020

Hey FOLKS 👋🏾
After 48hrs of writing emails we didn’t imagine we would be 3 months ago— we’ve cancelled ALL our upcoming events. This includes the Issue Launch event as well as the BREAK exhibition at . All ticket buyers have been contacted and refunds are being processed
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As we’ve said, none of these decisions are simple or easy and we, along with everyone are learning the best ways to support and care for our communities.
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With that in mind, we‘ve made the decision to honour our existing contracts with artists, with an acute awareness of the impact this pandemic and the subsequent loss of work has had on the financial stability and overall well-being of artists and arts workers globally. We hope to see this best practice carried out across our industry and beyond.
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For us, we’ll continue to highlight these artists (a fraction of which are in this image) and do what we do best. If you want to support us, or any of these artists, buy our merch, pre order the issue, share our stuff, get your friends amongst it— whatever you can, will mean the world 🌍.
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That’s it from us. For now.
Look after yourselves and yours and see you on the flip side

20/03/2020

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We're sure you're aware of the COVID-19 pandemic's continued spread across the globe. In adherence to the Government's and health professional's recommendations of social distancing measures to we have made the decision to CANCEL Cancelled: FOLK Magazine Issue #2

Tickets sales have been paused and existing purchases will be refunded in coming days.
THE ARTISTS
Below is a listing of the exciting artists we had gathered for the launch event. Our hope is that you engage with their platforms, support their practices however you can and remember their names– because they're making some very exciting work.

The exciting and growing line up of local artists included:
Yawdoesitall
Becca Hatch
Carolina Gasolina

Alongside readings from contributors.

With an exhibition curated by featuring:


Nadeena Dixon

OUR PLATFORM
As a platform dedicated to platforming and showcasing artists of colour, we will honour the contracts and fees we had with these artists- being acutely aware of the impact that consecutive cancellations are having on independent artists currently. As an independent platform with government funding to realise these activities, we see this as best practice that will hopefully become implemented more widely.

As launch events are how most publications break even, our team would be greatly appreciative of any and all support. This can look like anything from buying merchandise or pre-ordering a copy of our upcoming issue to sharing our work with your friends and families.

As we physically distance, we hope you'll continue to be tuned in to our digital community- sharing work, art and musings on what it means to be creating in this moment.
Stay in touch via our website or on all platforms

Thank you for investing into the vision of FOLK Magazine and we hope you and yours are safe during this time.

Best,
The FOLK Team

18/03/2020

Hey folks 👋🏾
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It’s here. The decisions being made at the moment are neither simple nor easy. We’re eternally in awe of the resilience of artists and their communities while being acutely aware of the impacts these disruptions and uncertainty has on them, their families and communities.

With that, here are the updates:
•• will continue to operate, at altered hours (2pm-7pm). The coworking Space has been reconfigured to maximise space, with sanitation stations and regular surface cleaning implemented.
••And so, the exhibition itself will still be open for visitation. Do visit it and engage with the work if you’re able to.
••We’ll be integrating our public programming onto our digital platforms— we’ll come to you.👨🏻‍💻
••Encouraging rest and social distancing where possible. 🙅🏿‍♂️
•• At this point, our Magazine launch (March 28th) is going ahead. Look after yourselves over this coming fortnight.
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Hopefully through this we, as an industry and society, will be able to find creative ways of reinstating agency.

Allotttaa people are scared, alloottaa people need support. And that’s okay, let’s support them and each other — The a Folk Team
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🤳🏽 Support Act 24/7 Well-being Hotline: 1800 959 500

16/03/2020

Next Up on our exciting launch Line up is DJ 🎧
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Hailing from Western Sydney, Carolina is a DJ, Presenter and an outspoken voice for Women of Colour, championing up-and-coming rap from Sydney and beyond✨ Expect sprinklings of South American beats amongst the best of hip hop underground and your favourite bangers 💥
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Book your tickets to the launch via — an incredible opportunity to support a wide spectrum of local artists 🎫
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14/03/2020

🖼 Here’s a peek at ’s large scale work — make sure to head down to this month to see it in all its excellence. March 18-29. RSVP to the opening night via
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14/03/2020

There are so many ways to engage with our 2nd issue: BREAK
FOLKs in Sydney can visit our upcoming exhibition curated by at which opens this Wednesday night 📆 RSVP via
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Graduating from SCA with a Bachelors in Visual Arts in 2015, is a Sydney based artist who has exhibited around Australia in institutional and artist run spaces including Wagga Wagga National Glass Art Museum , , Fisher Library, Rookwood Cemetery’s HIDDEN walk and 541 Art Space and she was a finalist in the National Emerging Art Glass Prize 2018. Most recently, she debuted into the international art scene as a finalist in Identity: Art & Design Competition 2019, allowing her work to be exhibited in The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.

She currently works in Studio 4 as a glass artist and art educator aiming to master the glass craft and exploring new ways to bring a traditionally craft based medium into the broader dialogue of contemporary art - discovering a place for glass to contribute with its unique voice
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14/03/2020

🚨 ITS HERE 🚨
The 2nd print issue from FOLK Magazine. A collaboration from over 30 artists and creatives working across 7 countries 🌍, we’re beyond excited to finally share it with you all. You can PRE-ORDER a copy now through here: http://folkmag-shop.square.site/
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And if that wasn’t enough, we’ve linked up with the team from Crikey and will be giving away 4 annual subscriptions to some lucky PreOrder-ers. Get amongst it and see you at the launch ✨
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Cover art by
Diversity Arts Australia Express Media Media Diversity Australia Australia Council for the Arts Auspicious Arts Projects

11/03/2020

is a freelance arts and literary journalist/critic. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Age/SMH, .australian , , and Books+Publishing. Her first book, a collection of poetry, is out now by . It's called Turbulence.
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You can read more of Thuy’s work in our latest issue launching March 28th

10/03/2020

Can’t wait to have you join us at 107

(Watch this space, exciting news incoming.. 🤫)

Step inside the creative mind

10/03/2020

is the curator behind the exhibition we’re opening in just over a week// featuring artists working across form on really exciting projects.
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Working in a range of media including painting, installation, photography and video, Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding pursues a critical view of social, political and cultural representations of race and identity through Aboriginal Australian histories and contemporary experiences.

The Sydney born artist grew up in Redfern and now resides in the eastern suburbs at Little Bay. Golding recently completed his Honours program in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design, Paddington and has exhibited in local Sydney galleries and institutions including Home@375 Gallery, , NSW Parliament House and in which he won the Aboriginal Art Prize in the 2018 .

Other professional development experiences have led Golding to work as an assistant curator as part of his studies and was mentored by lead curator Tess Allas in Under Pressure (2017) at the Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, .adelaide. He also worked as an assistant curator for Ngurrambaa (2018) at Murray Art Museum Albury.

Golding also works part time at Australian Design Centre as the First Nations Creative Producer and Google Australia as a graphic designer.
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09/03/2020

Our friends at SWEATSHOP are back with amother Sweatshop Women Anthology of writing from Indigenous writers and Writers of Colour ✨

Sweatshop is incredibly excited to announce the upcoming release of Sweatshop Women: Volume Two - Australia's only anthology produced entirely by women of colour and Indigenous women. This groundbreaking new book is once again edited by the amazing Winnie Dunn and features 22 short stories and poems from some of our nation's most urgent and dynamic new literary voices. The book also features a foreword by the critically acclaimed journalist and author, Ruby Hamad, and a jaw-dropping portrait series of all 22 contributors, as well as this breathtaking cover image, by the award-winning visual artist, Amani Haydar. Sweatshop Women: Volume Two will be available for purchase on the 1st of May 2020. We will be announcing the details for the launch at the end of this week. Stay tuned.

09/03/2020

19 days and counting ☢️ we’re super excited to be bringing an incred line up of live artists to celebrate the launch of our second print issue. First up .doesitall
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Sydney artist Yawdoesitall has been called “the true embodiment of the term renaissance". This high praise rings true for the young multi-disciplinary creator across music, photography and film. Yaw’s musical style brings together all his creative pursuits with a distinctive flare that bleeds into each body of work, always creating art that is multifaceted, but still uniquely Yaw.
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March 28th—Make sure to via Link In Bio, it’s gonna be a good one 🎉
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08/03/2020

• March 18th \\ BREAK
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One of the many highlights of FOLK (humblest of brags 🙏) is the spaces we get to create for points of encounter and dialogue for diverse disciplines, artists and works.
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In the lead up to our Issue 2 launch, curator Dennis Golding has brought together an exciting group of artists (watch this space) to join the conversation through various spatial practices at 107
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RSVP to the opening: https://www.facebook.com/events/277522173217836/
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Firstdraft Pari ∞ 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Cement Fondu Parramatta Artists' Studios @ 107

07/03/2020

is a Ghanaian born creative/photographer currently based in Sydney, Australia. He’s heavily Inspired by photographers such as and and hopes to be able to capture the world as seen through his lens.
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You can check out some of Richmond’s previous work online. We can’t wait to share this latest issue featuring Richmond and many other incredible artists with you all.
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06/03/2020

We’re in Women’s History Month ✨
Here’s a throw back to a fab interview series from Ilias Bakala and Louise Dietz-Henderson on the Intersectional Expeirence of Women of Colour across Australia. the rest of the series online

05/03/2020

Community is the brief👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾👭🏽👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏿— and we’re all about it! Here’s a cute throw back to the fab line up of artists that lit up the launch of our first issue 📖
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1️⃣ who just released a new single
2️⃣ (living it up in London) and (on his tour)
3️⃣ who’s celebrating the latest cohort
4️⃣ doing incredible work
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We can’t wait to do it all again, with an exciting group of artists on March 28th at . More info: https://facebook.com/events/s/break-folk-magazine-issue-2/2676373372594305/?ti=icl
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05/03/2020

Celebration is key 🔑
We get to work with some incredibly talented artists to bring our print issues together (you’ll meet them soon). Our launch event are our opportunity to celebrate all their incredible work, a testament to the BAWSE communities they come from.
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Join us at March 28th to do just that 💃🏽 🕺🏻 Tickets a Available through: https://facebook.com/events/s/break-folk-magazine-issue-2/2676373372594305/?ti=icl
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Can’t make it but want someone else to? You can at the checkout

07/02/2020

Publishing needs to put in some serious work!
Founding Editor of Liminal Magazine Leah Jing McIntosh gave a small insight to what these stats might look like in Australia recently at Express Media’s conference— and the issues are systemic

Where Is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey Results via Lee & Low Books for US Publishing:

"The results of DBS 1.0 were stark. 79 percent of respondents identified as White. 78 percent were women. 88 percent were straight. 92 percent were non-disabled."
https://blog.leeandlow.com/2020/01/28/2019diversitybaselinesurvey/

For the future First Nations and POC Writers Count in Australian Publishing, visit Djed Press: https://djedpress.com/2019/06/13/4285/

02/02/2020

💃🏽That’s the energy!🕺🏾
Super excited to have another stockist join the family— folks in Sydney can now grab the last copies of at , they’ve also got a couple of our limited release tote bags.
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We love hearing about all the fabulous spots you wanna see FOLK stocked at. If you’ve got a favourite book book or coffee spot that simply HAS to have , let us know 👇🏾👇🏾

07/01/2020

Just under a week to get your submissions in! There are already some very exciting works already in.

Our next print issue is gearing up to be our best one yet- check out all the details below

Know someone who SHOULD be putting their work in? Then share this with them.

We're excited to be ringing in the new decade with our second print issue. Following our inaugural print issue (REFLECT) in 2018 we're really embracing the power of 2s: double the space, double the art and double the fun (we promise). In this issue we're calling on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People...

30/12/2019

The new decade is just around the corner and we can’t wait to dive right into our 2nd print issue!
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The theme for this issue is BREAK. In the 🥴 of Holiday season, we’ve loved seeing submissions already dripping in. •
Platforming Australian Artists of Colour is our M.O and we’re chuffed to be continuing that into 2020
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT JAN 13th.
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More info https://folkmagazine.com.au/general/break-folk-magazine-issue-2-callout/

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16/12/2019

🚨 CALLOUT 🚨
The train is in motion to get issue 2 of out and we can’t wait to jump head-first into the funnest part: meeting all of you!
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BREAK is the theme of our 2nd issue and we’re keen to see the diverse ways you all respond to it.
Keep an eye out on these channels for some jump of points over the holidays.
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Thanks to Australia Council for the Arts we’re able to continue our commitment to pay all the artists we publish 🥳
All the deets via 👉 https://folkmagazine.com.au/general/break-folk-magazine-issue-2-callout/
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09/08/2019

Founder and Creative director of Moreblessing Maturure talked to Fashion Journal about the establishment of FOLK and our WHY— constantly pushing the needle
You can check out the piece below and send your philanthropist friends our way 🥰

“FOLK has become a space where diversity of participants is celebrated. Value is seen in the nuance of different voices, and how best to tell the story at hand.”

Getting louder.

27/07/2019

What a moment to capture at the Shakespeare's Globe! and incredible initiative that has captured over 250 black womxn who work in theatre! Just Not That Many is another incredible initiative challenging narratives of deficit in talent or artists from diverse intersectional backgrounds here in Australia’s arts and entertainment industry!

‘WeAreVisible is something to celebrate, its unprecedented. We wanted to bring together all theatre staff and creatives across generations because we need to see each other... We aim to drive a new conversation that celebrates and acknowledges the important role black womxn have played and continue to play in Theatre and its diversity’
- Black Womxn in Theatre founder, Stella Kanu

Yesterday over 250 Black Womxn stood on our stage in celebration of their contribution to the theatre industry.

We have used the word 'Womxn’ as it is consistent with the name of the company, Black Womxn in Theatre, and the language that it uses.

(📸: Sharon Wallace Photography)

15/07/2019

All the congratulations to Co-Curious , Belvoir St Theatre and team for taking home 7 awards at this year’s The Helpmann Awards for S. Shakthidharan’s including Best New Australian work and Best Production of a Play!! 🎉

Looking forward to increased support of artists and storytellers who present the glorious breadth of today’s Australia.

Counting and Cracking has been nominated for 8 Helpmann Awards! Incredible recognition for the full team of artists and staff at Belvoir and Co-Curious who worked so hard to make this production happen. 🤗

15/07/2019

An INCRED duo creating space!
Folks in Melbourne can find copies of at Ladies of Leisure’s new space

Anything but leisurely.

12/07/2019

While we’re on the topic of GREAT THEATRE! Meyne Wyatt’s has opened to rave ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 reviews at Queensland Theatre!

Sydney folks will be able to catch it soon during its season at Griffin Theatre Company
❤️💛🖤