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Gather the family and spend a morning at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre making, learning and sharing at our Family Day inspired by The last coconut drifted with Morgan Hogg.

Learn raffia skirt making, join an accessible dance workshop, take part in a collaborative weaving, weaving techniques, create your own print paper Tivaevae, and share stories and knowledge from a Pasifika perspective.

The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Saturday 24 May 2025
10 am to noon

Free, registration required

Program:

• Accessible dance workshops led by Morgan Hogg, in consultation with Riana Head-Tousaint
• Raffia Skirt Making with Benjamin Akuila
• Collaborative Weaving with Lay Kabalan
• Self-directed Paper Tivaevae making and colouring activities

Light refreshments provided.

Artist bio

Morgan Hogg  is an emerging artist and creative producer of Cook Island Māori (Ngāti Tāne), Tahitian and English descent, living and working on unceded Wangal and Dharug lands. Through the perspective of her Kūki ‘Airani heritage, Hogg utilises installation and performance as visual representations of her own exploration of cultural displacement and identity. Making space within her practice to rely on oral exchange between her familial relations and community, Hogg continues the story of her ancestry through maintaining traditional practices within a contemporary lens.

 

She has completed a BVA(Hons)/ BAS (Film studies) at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. Currently studying a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. Hogg has exhibited and performed works at Firstdraft, Performance Space, Beirut Art Centre, Sculpture by the Sea, Bankstown Arts Centre, SCA Gallery, Casula Powerhouse, PICA, Carriageworks and the Art Gallery of NSW.

Follow Morgan on Instagram here

This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council

Image Credits:

Family Day, 2022, photography by Liza Moscatelli
Morgan Hogg at Parramatta Artist Studios, 2024, photography by Garry Trinh