Tasneem’s Blog Archive
Triennial/ Tryennial- A sensory sensation either way
#triennial2018 is wall to wall #wowfactor with numerous installations, including Yayoi Kusama's Flower Obsession apartment. These Triennial treasures are showcasing some stunning and some confounding displays by 100 designers from 32 countries in Melbourne’s...
Women Walking the Double Glazed Glass Ceiling Talk
Tonght I participated in a Victorian Women Lawyers EVENT: FACING THE DOUBLE CEILING The discussion focused on navigating the challenges of the ‘double ceiling for CALD women- in what was referred to as an often, double glazed/ bamboo/ reinforced steel/ concrete...
Breaking The Hussain Barrier
This funny guy’s humour was on point last night. Congrats @nazeemhussain for a top show with #NoPainNoHussain at The Forum, as part of Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival. This was a brilliant meld of racial, cultural and socio-political cues that didn’t...
A Day in Paramedic Observer Shift Life
Am so grateful for spending the day with an ALS team from Reservoir for Ambulance Victoria. In a shift that spanned 11.5hours, I observed paramedics, Jack and Sam ,attend five emergency calls and make patient transfers to four different hospitals. In this time,...
Wonderland Blooms in the Rabbit Hole – at ACMI
The Opening of #Wonderland tonight, was a heady mix of secret spaces, illusions, colourful explosions and happy faces. As a Board Director of ACMI, I was proud to support this exhibition for all its ridiculous fun complete with brilliant, digitally...
Amina of Zaria – Project with Purpose
Starting the week off with something a little left of centre, speaking to Michelle- from #aminaofzaria, for their online storytelling project profiling WOC change makers. It was an absolute pleasure to share insights with her and learn about the ways nurturing and...
ABC Saturday Afternoons, Australia
So this happened and I managed to not cut off any live interviews - always a bonus! Thanks to my endlessly patient and brilliant producer @desileary who makes it look so easy and reminds me to smile and breathe when it feels like I’m treading water. For the first of 8...
Penalties & Purpose
Tonight in Canberra at The #TuggeranongArtsCentre, I participated in a panel called ‘Penalties & Purpose’, as part of the centre’s ‘The Human Condition’ program. The program comprises several projects that explore themes from ‘Another Day in Paradise’- a...
Activating Change from Within
Looking up to these two giants, Ali Ahmed and Ahmed Nur of the community sector, at the launch of the ‘Young Womens Leadership’ initiative of #YouthActivatingYouth, securing funding for a forthcoming round of fitness and mentoring activities for Muslim girls across...
Curious & Curiouser
Today I had the pleasure of a behind-the-scenes scoping of the almost completed installation of ‘Wonderland’. Billed as an ‘immersive exhibition that takes you down the rabbit hole’, this exhibition is scheduled to open April 5th and is an #ACMI commission that ticks...