Heroine's Journeys & Women's Circles

09/08/2018

Would you be interested in participating in a fun + easy workshop with dress up and photo shoot in Melbourne this spring? You can bring or make friends, boost your self-esteem and gain clarity about where you want to go next and how to get there.

We will help you work out the answer to this question:

"Who you would be if we were to translate your life into a grand saga about a hero with superpowers who has to overcome great difficulties to get achieve what she wants most?"

Good for any age, so, if you can afford it, bring kids, teenagers, mothers and grandmothers along or make it a present for someone you care for.

Price:
- 1 WE or 4 evenings workshop with dress-up: 380 AUD
- professional photo (optional): + 180 AUD
- makeup and hair artist plus 80.

If you know someone for whom this workshop might be of help, but they won't be able to afford it, please let me know. We are here to support each other.

Post here if you are interested and let me know your preferences in terms of package and WE vs evenings. And do spread the word.

Iris

18/12/2017

https://www.facebook.com/ABCARTS/videos/10156781744734908/

08/11/2017

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-brooklyn-museum-does-its-homework-on-judy-chicagos-the-dinner-party-1131506

The Brooklyn Museum traces the five years Judy Chicago spent making The Dinner Party.

06/12/2015

Instead of Pin-Up girls, Annie Leibowitz was contracted to photograph women, who have accomplished something for the 2016 "Pirelli Calendar". This marks a turning point in the history of the Pirelli Calendar, an exclusive publication, only accessible for a few thousand chosen ones every year. It matters little whether this is simply a marketing stunt to access the new market segment of women who can buy cars and influence others more as they statistically pass on more recommendations in average than men do. What matters is, that there are now images of inspiring women out there, images that actually look like the human beings they are representing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/fashion/the-2016-pirelli-calendar-may-signal-a-cultural-shift.html

27/04/2014

Lisa Saad Photography

Credits: Janice Chalmer, Emily Raemaeker, Ciara Payne, Christina, Andrea, Iris, Lisa. Thanks to: Victorian Opera (Costume Desinter: Paula Levis), Circus Oz (Costume Desinter: Laura Frank), Emily Bye (Emilybye.bigcartel.com)

15/04/2014

behind the scenes: costumes and photography

30/03/2014

Wonderful Martha, thank you for your feedback and question just before. I had to amend the previous post as the answer is no, not all pictures will be digitalised. We will have to see what we've got first. If we do anything with a picture we will let you know. But I will follow up with the photographer in regards to your inquiruy.

30/03/2014

I've been asked if pictures can be obtained as an electronic copy and larger format. As I understand from what the photographer has explained to me it might be possible, but very expensive. I am happy to facilitate. Just send me and email to iris@zantop.net with what it is you'd like and - if you know - add how big the picture needs to be. Then we'll see what can be done and what it would cost.

30/03/2014

The wonderful women who worked together at "The Heroines & Goddesses" workshop today have so generously, respectfully and openly tried out what we had to offer. They listened, lead, and shared their truly touching and very powerful stories. All of us in the team deeply impressed and very happy about how it went.
I am terribly sorry about the lack of information in regards to the limited number of spaces and the bookings list. My sincere apologies to those who invested their time and were disappointed. We certainly know what to do differently in that concern next time. A heartfelt thanks to all of you who participated.
Copies of pictures taken on the day will be up on this site in about two weeks all going smoothly.

27/10/2013

As we women have to make up our own standards and make sure our self-value - here is some food for thought in regards to rolemodels in fiction:


http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters

Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female characters get to be Strong.

17/06/2013

"[in neolithic times] images of the Goddess both pregnant and giving birth-have been found everywhere in shrines and houses, on vases and clay figurines. And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life-rather than death and the fear of death-were dominant in society as well as art." Eisler, the Chalice and the Blade

21/05/2013

Creator Reclaiming her Space