Night OUT with STRYKER

STRYKERMEYER WAS AWESOME!

On Saturday we had our night out at Clubwest's 18th Birthday Show featuring Strykermeyer! A HUGE THANKYOU to Stryker and Clubwest for donating tickets so the FC visitors and volunteers could see the show!! Here are a few of the photos (we had learnt about low-light photography earlier that day in Outspace!)


Book out the 5th Oct 1-4pm to come see these photos and many more at the FC Open Day for the PrideWA Festival. AND visit the FC stall at PrideWA Fairday on the 28th Sept for a sneak peak at our photography :D

OUT @ FC

At OUTspace yesterday we spent the day doing photography - check out our photos

These photos and more from other OUTspace sessions will be exhibited at the FC Open Day on the 5th Oct
For the FC Open Day we need to make some music for a soundtrack to this! Come to Freespace sessions in August to help make the soundtrack!!

Get DRAGGED with Strykermeyer!

Ever wanted to find your inner drag queen? or your inner drag king?? or have the opportunity play with gender expression??? Now's your chance with FC and Strykermeyer!

Strykermeyer was the makeup artist and drag queen consultant of Australian film 'The Adventures of Pricilla Queen of the Desert'. In fact the story of Pricilla was loosely based on his friend and fellow drag queen Cindy Pastel and he won a BAFTA for the makeup art on Pricilla!

Strykermeyer will be joining FC's Outspace sessions to teach us the ins and outs of Drag!
The times for the 'Get Dragged at Outspace' sessions are;
Sat 16th August 12-4pm
Sat 30th August 12-4pm
Sat 13th September 11am-5pm

You can come to as many or few of the sessions as you like and you can get involved however you like - we will be taking photos and filming the workshops, and you can get drag king-ed, drag queen-ed or both!

Strkermeyer will be helping us get ready for the Pride Parade too!

The 2008 Pride Parade is on Saturday 25th October. FC will be open from 11am that day so we can get all made up for the parade. Freedom Centre, Strykermeyer, Gay & Lesbian Community Services and True Colours will all be marching together! For more info about FC in the Pride Parade go to the FC events page

So come to FC and GET DRAGGED! But make sure you email Dani on info@freedom.org.au to find out what you should bring, wear etc. See you there!!

FC WEBSITE

...is SO great already, but soon it will be even better! We're currently changing the site to a content management system which will let us have a whole lot more, like;
-an FC FORUM
-a search function
-three new sub-sites for family, for professionals and students, and for friends or straight ally young people of LGBTIQQ young people
-even MORE info
-the second edition of Ama-gi - the FC Zine


All this will be live within the next couple of months so stay tuned to www.freedom.org.au :D

Freespace @ FC

Tonight we were running a muck @ Freespace @ FC and got the camera out for the FC Blog! :P

Don't forget about OUTSPACE sessions starting on Sat 12th July 12-4pm. go to the FC Drop In sessions page for more info :D

Hear what the FC crew think!

We're writing 2 articles for the StyleAID 2008 magazine, so we thought we'd do 1 about the people at FC! We got the visitors, volunteers and staff to answer a few questions and here's what some of us had to say;

~Tell us about yourself;
I am a 16 year old homosexual who is only ‘out'; to 3 people outside of Freedom Centre. Extremely looking forward to next year when I’m no longer in school and can come out.
~Why is Freedom Centre important to you?
Because it’s pretty much the only social life I have. It allows me to be myself, meet new people and gives me something to look forward to each week.
~What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?
To not feel pressurized by others to be someone who I’m not.
~What would you spend funds for FC on?
Bigger kitchen and a more practical location.

~Tell us about yourself;
I consider myself a liberated gay man. I’m a regular visitor to FC. Much of my enthusiasm for the centre comes from its composition of people: who I love completely!
~Why is Freedom Centre important to you?
It’s a very large, marginalising world that we live in. FC allows for us to come together to just be ourselves, without fearing judgement or prejudice.
~What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?
Liberation, breaking from the norm, being myself, allowing others to be themselves, and ultimately being at the Freedom Centre.
~What would you spend funds for FC on?
A more accessible location, to encourage attendance from closeted people… and a kitchen

~Tell us about yourself;
I am a young gay man and I have been visiting Freedom Centre for a few years, and now volunteering and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I wouldn’t be here without FC.
~Why is Freedom Centre important to you?
It’s important for young people on their emotional journey to have a guide throughout adolescence and if they have feelings that require help that schools can’t provide it’s good to know that Freedom Centre is available.
~What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?
Freedom means to me, that you don’t need/have someone shouting at you telling you how to live your life.
~What would you spend funds for FC on?
Resources and stuff to advertise FC a bit more.

Stay tuned for more of what the FC Crew said in coming weeks!

Freedom Centre at the StyleAID Photography Exhibition Launch!

Tonight was the night that the Freedom Centre Documentary was screened at the StyleAID Photography Exhibition Launch!

We started the evening at Turner Galleries where we saw the Exhibition and FC Documentary, then we moved on to see the Freedom Centre (conveniently across the road!) in all its glory with the new furniture, freshly hung art works from FC's 2006 Emerge Art Project, and shiny new pride curtains, hanging in front of the new storage shelving area!

Here are some pics from the event!!


Nadine Toussaint, Dani Wright, Meredith Turnbull & Chloe Britton - 4 generations of Freedom Centre Coordinators!