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Aboriginal Family Intervention Project
Aboriginal Family Intervention Project
Project Summary:
The Aboriginal Family Intervention Project aims to train and support Family Mentors who will be able to assess needs, identify services required, negotiate documented care plans and provide ongoing monitoring and review of clients, their household members and extended family group.
Project Objectives:
To reduce the rates of harm caused by drug use in urban Aboriginal households by training and supporting Aboriginal Mentors and their supporters to directly access those households hardest to reach by traditional health and welfare strategies.
To extend the range of support services with access to the most dysfunctional urban Aboriginal households by establishing a link between established services and household units.
To improve the response of household members to a range of health and welfare problems, including life threatening situations such as overdose and suicide ideation.
To support the physical and psychological health of those members of dysfunctional households who are taking some responsibility and attempting to assist other family members to deal with drug use and issues such as:
Domestic Violence
Financial Difficulties
Physical and Mental Health Problems
To evaluate the program regularly and make adjustments periodically as indicated.
Project Strategies:
To conduct a series of workshops involving a wide range of families and individuals in the Adelaide metropolitan area, particularly targeting people who have expressed a desire to become involved in more proactive efforts to address the high rates of drug use, overdose and suicide amongst Aboriginal people. The aims of these workshops include:
Educate community members about the proposed model of assistance, Identify and motivate people to become involved as mentors, Hear community concerns and adapt the model according to community feedback, and to tailor the training program to the needs of those indicating interest in becoming involved
Program Development
Develop a training program, based on the needs of the mentors, with the involvement of the Project Co-ordinator and ADAC staff. Included in the training program would be topics covering a basic understanding of the dynamics of drug addiction, effective interventions, avenues of referral, overdose prevention and response and intervention.
Barbeque (Ended July 2010)
Sadly ADAC does not receive funding for this project so can no longer weekly run this service.
ADAC holds a weekly BBQ in West Terrace providing healthy food and beverage and this is a focal point to facilitate connections between Hepatitis C Council SA Metropolitan Educator and Volunteers, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council workers and community members. The purpose of this connection is to continue the positive relationship, already established with this arguably marginalised community of people in inner city Adelaide in order to provide information education and referral for those experiencing issues pertaining to Alcohol and Other Drug use (including methylated spirits), hepatitis C prevention and care services such as advocacy, referral and brief intervention along with attendance by other services such as clean needle program workers and workers from the homeless sector.
Better Medication Management for Aboriginal People with Mental Health Disorders and their Careers
Better Medication Management for Aboriginal People with Mental Health Disorders and their Careers
ADAC, in partnership with the Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery has recently produced the following report:
"Better Medication Management for Aboriginal People with Mental Health Disorders and their Carers - A Pilot Study in Northern Metropolitan Adelaide", de Crespigny, C., de Bellis, A., Cruse, S., Kowanko, I., Murray, H., Turner, M., Parfoot, W., Roberts, G., Wilson, S., Aboriginal Health Team (now known as Muna Paiendi) (2002), Adelaide, SA.
We are not able to provide the full text version of the report at this time, however the following, drawn directly from the report, provides an overview of the published report.
Grief and loss, chronic poverty, social dislocation, lack of culturally safe services and long term cultural disruption continue to affect the health and well-being of Aboriginal Australians.
The latest statistics indicate that the Aboriginal population is still much sicker, younger and poorer than the non-Indigenous population. Mental Health disorders (problems of emotional and social well-being) are widespread among Aboriginal people, and often complicated by other chronic illness and/or substance use. Quality medication management can be difficult for many Aboriginal clients, their carers or other family members.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that unsafe or inappropriate use of medicines is common, with potentially damaging physical, social and economic consequences.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this study was to explore the particular needs, experiences and contexts of Aboriginal people diagnosed with a mental health disorder, their carers and other family members, focusing on issues relating to management of medications. The objective was to develop recommendations for quality use of medications for this group.
Participants and Methods
Data was collected from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with Aboriginal people with mental health disorders, carers and health workers. All participants were drawn from the northern metropolitan suburbs of Adelaide. Verbatim transcripts were analysed thematically and recommendations developed collaboratively with health workers.
The data provided a rich insight into the experiences and views of Aboriginal people with mental health disorders, their carers and health workers in relation to medication use. It seems that some people cope with their mental health disorders and manage their medications quite well, and that the Northern Metropolitan Community Aboriginal Health Team provide support and care beyond the call of duty. However it is also evident that medications are not always used safely or optimally, potentially putting some people at risk. Many Aboriginal people with mental health disorders, their carers and other family members are struggling to cope with multiple and complex problems in their lives and are not always receiving adequate and appropriate support. The major issues to emerge from this research centre around:
understanding of mental illness and medications
co-ordination of services
adequate and appropriate services
the relationship between alcohol or other drugs and mental illness
burden on carers
Another important outcome is the development of a partnership model for ethical research which provides tangible benefits for participating Aboriginal communities. The research team is applying the model to a larger South Australia wide project currently in progress on the same topic funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care through the Quality Use of Medicines Evaluation Program.
1. That effective and multifaceted programs that address poverty and its root causes among Aboriginal people be implemented and sustained.
2. That health services and health professionals ensure that their practices and policies are culturally appropriate. Suggested strategies include:
Cultural awareness training and support for non-Indigenous GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other mainstream health workers;
ensuring mainstream health professionals are educated about Aboriginal understandings and manifestations of health/illness, social and emotional well-being, and traditional approaches to healing;
dissemination of current referral information for a range of services relevant to Aboriginal social and emotional well-being issues (eg schemes to reunite families);
employing more Aboriginal workers across all health and social services in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide
clarifying, formalizing and promoting systems for recognition and payment of traditional healers (Ngangkari)
3. That culturally appropriate information about mental health issues be made widely available to the Aboriginal community in order to:
raise awareness and understanding of social and emotional well-being issues;
destigmatise mental illness;
increase understanding of the different roles of health professionals (eg psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, traditional healers), in relation to mainstream and alternative treatments encourage people to seek help
increase general understanding of medications for mental illness, including purpose, safe use, compliance, interaction with other substances, side effects, storage and disposal.
This information could be provided in multiple forms (eg brochures, posters, videos, stickers) and locations (eg health centres, pharmacies, community centres, sports clubs, schools).
4. That a range of culturally appropriate early intervention strategies for Aboriginal people with social and emotional well being problems be developed and promoted. These might include peer group counselling and community support groups.
5. That integrated health service delivery systems be developed in the northern metropolitan area. Suggestions relevant to medication management include:
adopting a regional approach to health service delivery and planning, involving hospitals, emergency departments, GPs, pharmacies and the Northern Metropolitan Community Heath Team (Muna Paiendi)
Aboriginal and mainstream health services in the northern metropolitan region together developing an equitably resourced system for distributing medications to those who cannot afford them using additional funds allocated to GPs through the Aboriginal Primary Care Access Program to provide extra consultation time with Aboriginal clients for provision of appropriate explanations and information about mental health and medications;
Developing and implementing effective communication systems between health services, eg a simple interagency computer network. These systems should enable service providers to track individual clients so that over prescribing and conflicting advice is minimised, while preserving confidentiality.
Developing and implementing systems for effective co-ordination of health and other service providers. In particular, better linkages between health services and correctional, educational, employment and social services are required;
fostering and strengthening collaborative networks of workers across health and social portfolios (eg Aboriginal Workers Forum and the Northern Interagency Group).
6. That all workers providing assistance to Aboriginal people with mental health problems and requiring medications have access to professional training about:
Social and emotional well-being issues in Aboriginal communities;
mental health problems;
alcohol and other drugs; and
safe management of medications.
These topics could be included in curricula for Aboriginal health worker education programs such as the Certificate in Aboriginal Primary Health Care.
7. That gaps in service provision for Aboriginal people in the Northern Metropolitan area of Adelaide be addressed. In particular there are identified needs for:
health services for Aboriginal youth;
gender specific Aboriginal health services;
health services for older Aboriginal people; and
drug and alcohol services for Aboriginal clients, eg substance use clinics, harm minimisation schemes, health promotion activities and positive role modelling in schools and community groups.
8. That Aboriginal family members who care for people with mental health problems be supported in their role and recognized for their contribution. In particular, respite schemes, transport assistance and financial support are urgently needed.
9. That support and skills development be made available to Aboriginal clients in budgeting for medications.
10. That pathways be developed for supporting quality use of medications by Aboriginal elders on discharge from hospital; and Aboriginal prisoners with mental illness on and after release, eg by strengthening and formalising links between correctional services health staff, health workers on the outside and families.
Development of Resources to Enhance the Education and Training of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Workers in the Illicit Drug Field.
This project commenced in October, 2001. It is a two year project that has been funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging through the National Illicit Drug Strategy.
Project Aims:
The aim of the project is to contribute to the development of a competent workforce of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers who have appropriate illicit drug, community development and cultural skills.
Project Strategies:
To achieve the aim of the project, a resource package about illicit drugs, for Indigenous workers, has been developed. Throughout the various stages of the development of the package, consultations with Indigenous workers and organisations have been held around the country.
The Resource Package:
Presently, The Resource Package includes a number of different things:
Information about illicit drugs. There is a 'Worker's Manual', which is a brief guide about illicit drugs and helping people with illicit drug problems. Plus, there are pamphlets about heroin, cannabis, amphetamines, ecstasy and marijuana that give information about the drug, messages for 'keeping safe' when using, and a 'body picture' to map the effects of the drug on the individual. There are also several pamphlets and booklets about illicit drugs included in the package.
An 'Information and Skills Program' designed to enhance knowledge about illicit drugs and skills in helping people with illicit drug problems. This program includes:
Information Units. These Units provide detailed information about the most common illicit drugs (heroin, cannabis, amphetamines and ecstasy) and the models and ideas that are current in the alcohol and drug field (eg harm minimisation). There are also units about helping people with drug problems that cover issues such as building relationships, how to 'raise the issue' of drug use, the 'stages of change' and relapse prevention.
A 'Workbook'. Each Unit has a series of suggested workbook exercised. These can be used by workers to develop their knowledge about illicit drugs and their information resources and networks. The exercises also encourage workers or trainees to find out more about drug-related issues, and to practice skills that go along with helping people with drug problems. Trainers could use these exercises as the basis for their training.
A 'self assessment' tool. This self-assessment can be used by a worker to decide which lessons in the Information and Skills program may be the most relevant for them. trainers could use the self assessment in a similar way with their trainees.
A counselling demonstration video - 'Therapeutic Journeys - Counselling Aboriginal Clients and their Families'. Many of the workbook exercises are based around this video.
The Resource Package could be used in several ways, but we see the main ones being:
As a self-directed 'learning package' for workers who need more information about working with people who have drug-related problems. Workers need the support of their organisation and access to supervision or 'on-the-job' support if they are using the package this way.
As a resource for trainers who may be involved in training workers about illicit drug issues.
Pilot of the Resource Package: In the first 6 months of 2003 the Resource Package will be piloted. Being part of the pilot includes:
Completing the 'self assessment' by workers or trainees before and after using the Resource package.
A telephone (or face-to-face) conversation before and after using the package to talk about how you hope to use the package, and afterwards, whether it met your expectations.
For an individual worker, or group of workers, gaining the support or your organisation/manager to undertake the pilot.
Don't Gamble with your health - Health Promotion Cards
The Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council of South Australia Inc. (ADAC) has produced a set of playing cards (funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing) featuring education and promotion messages designed to raise awareness and understanding of alcohol and other drug related issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' communities.
To obtain a pack of the cards or for distribution enquiries, please contact:
National Mailing and Marketting
11 Tralee Street
Telephone (02) 6269 1000
Email: email@example.com
Please quote reference number NDSU37
when ordering cards from
National Mailing and Marketting
Grief and Trauma
The focus for this project was to assist communities and individuals to cope with the grief and trauma experienced due to drug misuse, premature deaths, violence, suicide and the host of other causes that affect Indigenous people.
The project arose from meetings in Murray Bridge in 1996 and 1997 to address the appalling levels of suicide and premature death being experienced by the community at that time. A group of Elders met and developed the In Search of a Rainbow document which outlined a community response to help individuals and families deal with the grief and trauma they were suffering.
Project Objectives:
The program had a number of aims supporting individuals, families, Indigenous workers and the community as a whole. The project was based at the Lower Murray Nungas Club in Murray Bridge but much of the individual support work was done after hours from the principal Project Officer's home or in others homes.The Project Officers' roles included supporting individuals and families facing difficult situations.
Project Strategies:
One aspect of the project was its efforts in maintaining the community services provided by the Lower Murray Nungas Club after funding to such organisations was cut in 1997. The Project Officers were active in keeping its doors open, maintaining its services and trying to get other programs and funding to make sure that the Murraylands community continued to have a functioning community centre. The project provided administrative support for the Club at a committee level and within administration.
The Project Officers also had associated roles on the boards of community organisations such as Kalparrin Community, the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee (AJAC), and the Aboriginal Elders Council.
Project Status:
Past project.
Resources resulting from the project:
The Grief and Trauma project has produced its own information pamphlets on grief and loss issues and there is also a range of resources dealing with grief and loss. These can be obtained from the resources section of the website, in the leaflets area of resources.
Moving Across the Frontline: Young Aboriginal people and Hepatitis C
I am employed by ADAC for two days per week as a project officer. Primarily I am working on the Moving Across the Frontline: Young Aboriginal People and Hepatitis C, which is
a collaborative project involving ADAC, The Hepatitis C Council of South Australia (HCCSA) and Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA). So far we have consulted with young people in Mount Gambier, Coober Pedy and Warriappendi School.
We have revisited them since then and given education sessions about hepatitis C and overdose followed by them taking control of the sessions and writing and putting together short films with messages about hepatitis C.
We are currently at the end of this project and the short films in the form of DVD's should be out there fairly soon. This project has been a lot of fun for workers and young people alike. We have also consulted with a number of workers to find out where the gaps are in delivery of information and support regarding hepatitis C. A written report on this will be available at the completion of the project. With regard to this project,.
I wish to thank the following people,
Leslie Wightman from HCCSA, Don Hayward, Garry Goldsmith, Troy Bond from DASSA, Dave Salamon from Warriapendi School, Matt and Clayton also from Warriapendi School, and of course Jimmy Perry from the Makin Tracks Project at ADAC. I also wish to thank all of the young people, the staff from Warriapendi School, Pangula Mannamurna and Burrundies in Mount Gambier, Rose Temple from Umoona CDEPT in Coober Pedy and the Coober Pedy Area School who allowed us to use their premises.
I have represented ADAC on the hepatitis C sub committee that is a committee of people who discuss and deal with many issues regarding the virus.
A copy of the DVD is available from ADAC please email or ring.
National Alcohol and other Drug Work Force Development
WA Alcohol and Drug Authority and the Aboriginal Drug Alcohol Council (SA) Inc. will be responsible for Indigenous National Alcohol and Other Drug Workforce Development Program.
ADAC will be the lead agency in South Australia to support the delivery of the program with the Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia.
A project Officer will be employed for this project.
11th July 2008
Sharon Drage is the Strong Mind Strong Spirit Project Officer
Police Drug Diversion Liaison Project
Police Drug Diversion Initiative This program assists Aboriginal people who have been charged by the police with possession of small amounts of illegal drugs. As an alternative to going to court and being fined and getting a criminal record, the person charged can elect to be diverted to attend an assessment at ADAC and if they want other help we can put them in touch with counseling or treatment services. Research about Aboriginal people and diversion shows that in the past Aboriginal people have not been very successful in accessing these sorts of programs so ADAC decided to look at what causes this and to do something about it. Not understanding what diversion was and what benefits it offered, lack of a postal address or telephone, lack of transport, difficulty in keeping appointments and distrust of the system were all identified as barriers. ADAC can now conduct the assessments for Aboriginal people diverted under this new program. ADAC is a registered Assessor for the Police Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative - our assessor has been working with diversion programs for the last 10 years. ADAC offers much more than just an assessment. We go to the person and explain what the diversion is all about, we can help with transport to make sure people make their appointments and we can link people to other services, treatment and other forms of assistance. We can also help other assessors with Aboriginal clients by providing these services for other assessors. Who can ADAC assist? Young people under 18 years of age charged with simple possession of cannabis and other illicit drugs such as speed and heroin People over 18 charged with simple possession of illicit drugs other than cannabis e.g. speed, heroin, ecstasy etc. What does ADAC offer? Assessments and brief interventions for Aboriginal people Assistance for clients to access treatment and other help they may need: • Transport • Referrals • Resources • Assistance for other assessors with Aboriginal clients How does it work? Once a police officer identifies an alleged offender as Aboriginal, they are advised that they can be referred to assessment by an Aboriginal organisation. If they agree to that, the Police Officer will notify the Drug Diversion Line (DDL) and the DDL will then send ADAC the details of the diversion and ADAC will make contact with the person. Our Diversion Liaison Worker can visit the person at home, explain what diversion means, tell them about the advantages of the scheme and can even provide transport for them to get to an appointment. ADAC can provide assessments and brief interventions. We have a range of culturally appropriate education and information materials. We also have good networks with other Aboriginal and mainstream service providers. We can follow a person through and assist them as they access other services we can provide transport, advocacy and continuing support as they benefit from detoxification, counseling or rehabilitation. Project Officer Byron Wright Project Officer Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc. 155 Holbrooks Road, Underdale, South Australia, 5032 Ph: 08 8351 9031 Email: email@example.com
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Quality Assured status
A national pilot project for substance misuse services.
ADAC is proud to be the first Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Substance Misuse Peak Body to have been awarded Quality Assured status by the Quality Improvement Council of Australia.Quality Improvement Project
Quality Improvement Project
Quality Improvement Project
As South Australia is the only state with a community controlled peak body, representing substance use organisations, we are ideally placed to participate and support the national pilot project for the use of quality standards.
The need for quality recognition is a key element, identified in the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) review of Indigenous Substance Misuse Organisations, to show the quality and the extent of the work performed by Indigenous organisations. The Quality Improvement (QI) process allows people to identify what they do well and highlight areas that need development and areas of unmet need. It provides an evidence base for funding requirements and reporting.
The QI project provides a focus for ADAC to further improve and develop its systems and responses to alcohol and other drug issues. It supports our focus on relevant and appropriate health promotion, research and advocacy. We are now preparing for the quality accreditation process, which will see ADAC gain national recognition as a quality endorsed community organisation.
Other council members are also participants in this process and have used it to review and promote their work. The aim of the project is that by the end of 2003 all permanent council organisations; Aboriginal Sobriety Group, Kainggi Yuntuwarrin and Kalparrin will, along with ADAC have achieved Quality Accreditation. Currently each organisation has identified areas of development and have all undergone successful partial reviews against various standards.
Quality Use of Medication Pilot Project
A collaborative project of ADAC and the Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery which explores working with clients, carers and families on the appropriate use of medication for Aboriginal people with mental health problems.
The aim of this study was to explore the particular needs, experiences and contexts of Aboriginal people diagnosed with a mental health disorder, their carers and other family members, focusing on issues relating to management of medications.
Spirit Festival and Aboriginal Football Netball Carnival 2008
Spirit Festival and Aboriginal Football Netball Carnival 2008
As many of you would know, the Social Inclusion Unit of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has provided 2-year funding for the introduction of an Aboriginal Cultural and Sports Festival for South Australia, one in a regional area and one in Adelaide.
The first of these Festivals was held last year in Moonta, which combined the Aboriginal Football and Netball Carnival with a Festival of arts, culture with additional sporting and recreational activities.
Plans were underway for this style of Festival to be held in Adelaide over the October long weekend 2008. The intention was to hold the Arts and Culture component of the Festival in Elder Park and secure venues within the City of Adelaide for the sporting components. However, it proved very difficult to secure venues at the same time and within close proximity to each other over that weekend.
It has been decided that the Aboriginal Football and Netball Carnival will still feature as a part of the overall Festival, but will maintain it�s tradition of being held on the October long weekend and the Spirit Festival will continue, as planned in December 2008.
Information regarding both events is provided below.
� Spirit Festival 2008
We are pleased to introduce the �Spirit Festival� - an Aboriginal Culture and Sports Festival for South Australia. The Festival has been named � Spirit Festival � in recognition of the spirit of sport, the spirit of the arts and most importantly the spirit of our people and our culture. The 2008 Spirit Festival will showcase, amongst other cultural activities, music and dance performances from high-profile artists and a market place to include Aboriginal crafts, visual arts exhibitions and traditional food tasting, with life styles and health information. Thousands of people over a two-day period will experience the world�s oldest living continuing cultures of South Australia. The Spirit Festival will be held for the first time in Adelaide, South Australia, at Elder Park and surrounding areas, over the weekend of the 13th and 14th December 2008.
� Aboriginal Football and Netball Carnival 2008
The Aboriginal Football Netball Carnival will maintain its tradition and be held on the 4th and 5th October (long weekend) this year. The SANFL and Netball SA are sponsoring this event by offering their professional grounds and facilities in support of the Spirit Festival. Football players will enjoy the SANFL standard of playing field and facilities with the Football component being held at the West Adelaide Football Club. Equally the Netball players will enjoy the world-class courts and facilities offered at ETSA Park.
These facilities are within 1.9kms of each other (a 4 minute drive by car or a 10 minute walk). Transport will be provided between Richmond Oval and ETSA Park over the October long weekend, so community have more of an opportunity to see more games and to support their teams. The Transport service will stop after the last game at each venue on each day.
To register teams, or for further information about the Aboriginal Football and Netball Carnival please contact:
For the Carnival
Attn: Scott Wilson Director ADAC
Phone: (08) 8362 0395
Fax: (08) 8362 0327
E: email@example.com
For the Spirit Festival
Attn: Karl Telfer Project Officer
Phone: (08) 8362 0395
Fax: (08) 8362 0327
E: email@example.com
Strong Spirit Strong Mind
Strong Spirit Strong Mind- National Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drug worker Training Program Certificate III Community Services work (AOD).
The Aboriginal Alcohol and Other Drugs Program of the Government of Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office (DAO) have developed a Drug and Alcohol training program for the purpose of equipping front line Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol workers with the skills to work effectively and in a culturally secure manner with Aboriginal communities.
The program recognises the unique history of Aboriginal peoples in Australia, and the unique cultural responsibilities that exist within these communities.
The program recognises the cultural setting in which Aboriginal Australians learn best, and strives to incorporate these principles into the delivery of the course content. This is a Nationally Recognized Training program with nationally recognised qualifications.
The program is currently being delivered throughout Australia under the auspice of the Western Australia Drug and Alcohol Office (DAO), and as such is subject to the National best practice guidelines of the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF). This framework provides the basis for Australia nationally consistent, high quality Vocational Education and Training system.
In South Australia, the Aboriginal Drug & Alcohol Council (SA) Inc. (ADAC) is responsible for rolling out this program in collaboration with the Drug and Alcohol Services SA (DASSA). DAO provides the funding, learning resources and structure for the program. DAO also provide support and expertise to the South Australian training team.
This program is unique and distinct from other training programs with its learning content underpinned by evidence based practice for alcohol and other drugs, particularly relating to work with Aboriginal people and their respective communities. All learning materials and methods have been developed by Aboriginal professionals and relate to an Aboriginal worldview through introduction of Aboriginal models of practice and cultural ways of working.
The Strong Spirit Strong Mind program utilises a range of learning strategies including training blocks and action learning. Action learning involves consolidating counseling and community development skills, regular clinical supervision, supported learning and set tasks.
The South Australia training team attend the learning blocks and then between blocks go out and see the participants where they work and support them to complete assignments, which will demonstrate the competencies that have been delivered during the training blocks. Currently there are participants in the program from Yalata, APY Lands, Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Port Pirie.
At the completion of these blocks it's envisioned that the participants in the program will all achieve the necessary competencies to gain a nationally recognised qualification.
The Co-ordinator of the Strong Spirit Strong Mind Program in Adelaide is Sharon Drage.
Sharon Can be contacted on:
Phone: 08 8362 0395
email Sharon firstname.lastname@example.com
Using Rapid Assessment Procedures to Investigate the Impact of Injecting Drug Use Amongst Indigenous Australians in Metropolitan Adelaide.
Project Aims:
The aim of this project was to use Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP) to undertake research to assess the practices of Aboriginal injecting drug users in metropolitan Adelaide. This project aimed to gather information about injecting practices and issues relating to Injecting Drug Use (IDU) that are important to the Aboriginal community.
Project Objectives:
A major component of the project was to utilise Peer Interviewers (Aboriginal people with experience of injecting drug use) to conduct a survey of Aboriginal people who inject drugs. The survey for this project was based on a previous survey that ADAC conducted in Murray Bridge. Information gathered during this project will be used to improve the available knowledge base on Indigenous IDU and inform further development of more appropriate responses and services.
Project Strategies:
The project was supported by a Community Advisory Committee, consisting of representatives from:
The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
Nunkuwarrin Yunti (an Indigenous Health Service)
SAVIVE (an IDU peer based program area of the AIDS Council of SA)
The Parks Community Health Centre
The Aboriginal Health Council; and
The C Clearly (Hepatitis C) project.
Throughout the project ADAC has had continuing contact with the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), who have been undertaking similar research in Western Australia.
The project is funded by The Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).
The project has been endorsed by The Aboriginal Health Council's Ethics Research Committee.
Project Status:
Concluded August 2003
Resources resulting from the project
During the early stages of the project it became evident that many Indigenous injecting drug users were unaware of the range of services and what they offered, so ADAC has produced a service directory in the form of a wallet sized foldout card (ADAC Help Card). The Help Card is based on a previous resource produced for newly released Indigenous prisoners as part of the ADAC Prison Project.
Updating the ADAC Hep C Poster occurred as a result of identifying a need within the Indigenous community for information on Hepatitis C.
ADAC have also produced a review of existing literature, documenting the major findings of research into Indigenous IDU and providing a picture of the main issues for Indigenous injecting drug users.
Young NUNGAS Yarning Together
Young Nungas Yarning Together is a partnership initiative of Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc. and the Parks Community Health Service (CANHS). Young Nungas Yarning Together Program targets Aboriginal youth aged between 12 to 18-years of age. It identifies that many youth of secondary school age may be experiencing significant changes in their lives and that this time is a time where they may become exposed to risk taking activities through their peers. Young Nungas Yarning Together aims to establish a sustainable �Peer Educator project for Aboriginal youth in the�Parks area" that:
- Engages young people in drug prevention and early intervention activities with other youth
- Provides young people with the knowledge, skills and ability to actively support other young people who use drugs
- Provides youth as peer educators with access to appropriate and up to date information on harm minimisation principles, resources and support.
- Is supported by an infrastructure of youth, Aboriginal groups, community, Government, TAFE and Non-Government organisations that work together to actively facilitate drug prevention and harm minimisation activities
- Fosters cultural connection, pride and leadership
- Provides a pathway to further education and employment opportunities
- Is evaluated and the program design reviewed to reflect best practice
A model has been developed with TafeSA and is currently being linked to Cert 2/3 in Community Services in Alcohol and Other Drugs. If young people who complete the Peer Education Training are still enrolled in mainstream education there is opportunity for the course to be linked to SACE Accreditation.
This project will focus on building on the strengths of Aboriginal youth, listening to the voice of Aboriginal youth and developing links with the community to identify and develop strategies for the prevention and harm minimisation of drug use, while providing pathways into TAFE within the VET system.
The program is culturally appropriate and sensitive to the cultural needs of Aboriginal youth and will seek to support the community, particularly Aboriginal youth as vehicle for change.
The program will be designed to encourage Aboriginal participation by providing fun activities that are relevant to the needs of young Aboriginal people.
Young Nungas Yarning Together offers, a number of diversionary, short- term project activities. These activities are offered over the year as a way to link into the Peer Education Program and include;
- Self esteem programs
- Art and Craft activities
- Team Building activities
- Healthy Choices
Young Nungas Yarning Together is based at the
Parks Community Health Service
Trafford Street
Angle Park SA 5010
Project Worker: Ms Katie Perry
If you are interested in finding out more about Young Nungas Yarning Together or would like to invite the Peer Educators to present a talk to the youth in your organisation/Community
please contact Scott Wilson
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City centre restaurateur Lee Clarke has teamed up with YMCA Cambridgeshire & Peterborough in launching a tasty competition to find the region's best young food entrepreneurs.
Could you be their first Youth Food Apprentice? Do you make a scrumptious soufflé? Can you tell apart a korma from a kumquat? Is your lasagne to die for?
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Not only that, but each cook will receive an in-depth insight into how to use their talents to create a successful business out of their love of food, by receiving free training in business planning and health and safety at a pre-competition workshop.
Developing the skills and ambition of young people is something both YMCA Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and Lee are very passionate about.
Peterborough Telegraph columnist Lee, who opened his new restaurant in April, said "I'm thrilled to be helping and very passionate about future food producers and entrepreneurs, really looking forward to tasting some great food and helping them to develop their skills to compete and inspire independent food business across the region."
Rebecca Jackson, CYD Project Manager, said "This is a really exciting competition and huge opportunity for budding chefs and entrepreneurs.
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For Easter, chocolate lovers will particularly enjoy the chocolate-covered nuts, the chocolate eggs filled with maple cream, marshmallow or salted caramel, and the giant bunny made with a (w)hopping 2 kg of chocolate!
Rochef Chocolatier chocolates are available at several locations, including right here at the Maison du Tourisme.
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Because there's no such thing as too much chocolate, on April 4, Miss Chocolat is giving an Easter chocolate-moulding workshop for young aspiring chocolatiers. And when you visit the shop, guess how many chocolates are hung from the ceiling and you could win a chocolate centrepiece worth $100.
For suggestions for fun family Easter activities, read this recent blog post Sandy Allen. And follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram … remember our hashtag, #outaouaisfun.
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Wish I'd known about your experience before forking over my money. They wouldn't even take a check. Insisted on cash or international money order!
After my last email, I received a response from a Carol Gillies-Lewis (don't know her relationship to Ms. Pitter, the researcher) apologizing and stating that they HAD sent me additional research, etc, etc. Then said she tried to call me at the phone number in my email but that she got a message that my number was disconnected. Huh? Too much! No reference whatsoever to my request for a refund and no appreciation of the fact that she got my email and responded next day but insisted that they never received my other follow-up emails. Oh, also said that they'd been having COMPUTER problems! You've heard that one before, right.
Anyway, today I called the Jamaica Consulate in DC to find out what to do. They told me to call Dr. Patricia Holness at RGD. I called Dr. Holness and left a message with her receptionist. And then I fired off another email to Ms. Lewis reiterating my request for a refund and copied Dr. Holness.
Will see how it goes this time. Tomorrow I'm going over to the Honorary Consul's office here in Stone Mountain, GA where I live.
You ended up paying for info you gave THEM and I have only received 5 hrs out of the 20 that I paid for. We may never get satisfaction but at the very least I hope that publicizing our experience will keep others from being ripped off.
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Although you wouldn't guess it from audio recordings of oral arguments, the justices of the Supreme Court get antsy. Justice Stephen Breyer swivels his balding pate, raises his eyebrows, whispers to his neighbors. Justice Elena Kagan leans forward, cocks her head, purses her lips. Justice Anthony Kennedy sits forward anxiously and hunches his shoulders. Even Justice Clarence Thomas, deep into his apparent vow of silence, rocks back and forth in his chair, tilting his head back, restlessly zoning out.
The justices' nervous fidgets—I like to think of them as tells—will never be witnessed by most Americans. There are no cameras in the courtroom, which fits only 400 people, and often fewer than 100 of them are public spectators. Photography is strictly forbidden; the last clear picture of the court in session was taken in 1937. (Today, protesters occasionally smuggle in tiny cameras to produce a few seconds of blurry footage, mostly of the ceiling.) For the vast majority of Americans, a small cadre of court reporters provides the only glimpse into the judicial proceedings that involve the most momentous, contentious issues of the day.
I am one of those reporters, and let me tell you: It is awesome. I go to those cases our primary Supreme Court correspondent, the dazzlingly brilliant Dahlia Lithwick, can't attend. I've covered arguments about confederate flags on Texas license plates, mentally disabled prisoners on death row, and police brutality against innocent people stuck in jail. Every case is obviously unique, but the process of reporting on arguments is pretty regimented and consistent. Let me walk you through the typical day of a court reporter.
When I arrive at the court in the morning—usually before 9 a.m.; arguments start at 10—I draw the angry glares of public spectators standing in line. On an ordinary day, they've been waiting for a few hours; for blockbuster cases, they'll arrive days in advance. Court reporters must wear formal attire, which is deeply unpleasant for people like me who became journalists to avoid ever having to iron. My fancy (if rumpled) clothes draw the stares of a few line-standers, who wonder whether I'm famous. When they realize I am most definitely not, they scowl with disappointment. (One line-stander once told me she wished I were Nina Totenberg.)
After security, I set up shop among the other reporters, who are corralled into an office filled with tiny cubicles. The cubicles are for the "hard-pass holders," your Adam Liptaks and Jess Bravins, while peons like me grab a spot at the desks lining the walls. At 9:28, everybody files into an adjacent room, where two members of the Public Information Office stand with giant piles of paper. These are the day's "orders," listing which cases the justices have agreed to hear and which they've denied. There's an unspoken, unofficial pecking order for who gets to grab these first, and while the VIP journalists are quite kind about it, they are firm in asserting their VIP status.
At 9:30 on the nose, the orders go out, and everybody runs to their desks to report any big news. On days when the Supreme Court justices are hearing oral arguments, reporters then trickle upstairs into the courtroom. (Members of the press are stuffed in an alcove stage right, though hard pass holders have reserved seats with the best views.) At 10, we all rise as the justices enter dramatically from behind the red velvet curtain. On a typical argument day, Chief Justice John Roberts welcomes a few new lawyers into the Supreme Court bar, then gets the party started. On a day when decisions are handed down, Roberts announces that "Justice X has the opinion of the court in case Y." That one sentence can be the biggest moment of the day—as when X was Justice Samuel Alito and Y was Hobby Lobby.
You can listen to the announcement of decisions in the press room, too, if you want to file your story in 15 seconds. But it's not as much fun—and, more importantly, you don't get to watch the justices' subtle body language that telegraphs microaggressions like you're so completely wrong and I really, really despise you right now. Alito is particularly bad at hiding his dismay over liberal decisions while Kennedy has a shockingly good poker face. I suppose that's a necessary skill for the perennial swing justice, who often manages to piss off both the liberal wing and the conservative wing in the same day.
If Kennedy is stoned-faced on decision days, he's a bundle of quasi-avuncular concern during oral arguments. Every justice has a trademark resting face: Breyer frequently looks a little confused; Kagan looks sharply quizzical; Alito looks bored; Scalia looks disgruntled; Roberts looks thoughtful and engaged. (As I've said before, the chief has freakishly good control over his facial expressions.) Kennedy's face is harder to describe, though in a word, I'd call it worried. Dahlia once called him a "monster states' rights fretter," but really, he's a fretter about everything. He speaks with stuttering incertitude, stammering his way through each question with his eyebrows pointing upward. Kennedy's critics believe the justice is totally feigning this ponderous demeanor, but I suspect it's sincere. The most powerful man in America truly does seem to agonize over the finer points of every case, even when his ultimate vote is not really in question.
Luckily, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Kagan provide a powerful counterweight to Kennedy's equivocations. The two often tag-team conservative attorneys, whipping up a firestorm of trenchant questions and stripping the most outrageous arguments of their scholarly patina. Sotomayor is especially great at restating arguments in a way that reveals their underlying stupidity. And like Scalia, she's more than a little scary: Although unfailingly kind in person, Sotomayor is a bulldog on the bench. She glowers at attorneys peddling sophistry, tearing apart their feeble reasoning and tossing the carcass back at them. Every so often, she'll all but call them liars. It's a thrilling, unnerving performance from a woman who is, off the bench, perhaps the friendliest justice in recent memory.
When arguments finish, we reporters all scuttle downstairs, yammering about the morning's weirdest moments and making our early predictions. Then we scatter to write our stories. I try to cover arguments in Dahlia's trademark style, treating them more like a sports event than some esoteric kerfuffle over an arcane legal doctrine. After writing for Slate for nearly three years, I have learned the hard way that 99 percent of readers will click away if you use a Latin phrase. (As they should! Legal Latin is usually bastardized and always pointless.)
As I noted earlier, I don't put on a suit for just anyone, and my friends and colleagues sometimes ask why I go through so much trouble to cover an institution that has broken my heart so many times. I'll admit that, on my darker days, I've been known to call for the abolition of the court, especially after the conservative justices restricted Americans' ability to protect themselves from corporate corruption and political malfeasance. But most of the time, I have a fondness for the damn place that I can't quite shake. I'm not sure exactly what it is—a romantic view of the law, nostalgia for the Warren Court era, an obsession with the idea of constitutional equality—but I'm hooked on the court. It may be an unrequited love affair. But I'm in this one for the long haul.


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The opening night of the Royal Opera's latest revival of Les Contes d'Hoffmann was dedicated to Richard Hickox, who conducted Offenbach's masterpiece on its previous Covent Garden outing four years ago. Now, as then, Hoffmann is played by Rolando Villazón. He has been erratic of late, though this is unquestionably one of his finest achievements.
Offenbach first shows us the alcoholic wreck Hoffmann has become, then winds the clock back to lead us through the narrative, real or imagined, of his decline. Wild-eyed and frighteningly aggressive, Villazón pitches on to the stage to portray Hoffmann's near-madness with such veracity that you find yourself wondering, for once, whether what you are watching is genuinely real. Back on vocal form after his recent bad patch, he achieves a poetic intensity that has been matched by few.
The rest of it isn't in the same league, however. Revived by Christopher Cowell, John Schlesinger's phantasmagoric production remains handsome and unnerving, though Antonio Pappano's conducting is heavy-handed, making the score sound more like Verdi than Offenbach. Gidon Saks, tackling the incarnations of Hoffmann's demonic nemesis, seems happier with Dapertutto's perviness and Miracle's sinister grace than with Coppélius's eccentricity or Lindorf's hypocrisy. The three women in Hoffmann's life are also unevenly matched. Katie Van Kooten is the sumptuous-sounding Antonia, Ekaterina Lekhina the flashy, if shallow-toned Olympia. Giulietta, meanwhile, lies too high for Christine Rice. Ultimately, this is Villazón's evening.


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Promotional film for Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital and College at Alton, showing life there for crippled boys in 1923. (British Pathe (commissioned); 1923; B/W; silent)
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Jubilee Sailing Trust film showing disabled people crewing tall ship Lord Nelson, and helping to build her successor. (Jubilee Sailing Trust; 1997; Colour; sound)
A 2005 DVD about Treloar School and what it has to offer, which contrasts with the other films shown earlier in the sequence. (Treloar Trust; 2005; Colour; sound)
This film compilation is available to borrow from various Hampshire Libraries. Search the library catalogue to see which Hampshire libraries hold this film. It is also available for reference only at Hampshire Record Office. You can also search our online catalogue to find other archive films and sound recordings we hold relating to this topic.


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The 2011 SSO Annual Cancer Symposium runs from March 2nd through March 5th. The SSO Annual Cancer Symposium attracts more than 1,500 surgical oncologists, general surgeons, exhibitors and guests. Attendees come from more than 40 countries.
This year's event is being held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center & Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio Texas. SSO received a record-breaking 612 abstract submissions for this meeting, and one details vaccine specific immmunologic responses to Generex's AE37 HER2/neu Ii-Key hybrid peptide vaccine. This is the accepted abstract for the event:
"Vaccine-Specific Immmunologic Responses to the Novel Ii-Key Hybrid HER-2/neu Peptide (AE37) Vaccine in a Phase II Clinical Trial"
A. K. Sears, G. T. Clifton, S. A. Perez, K.S. Clive, J. P. Holmes, K. Georgakopoulou, M. Papamichail, S. Ponniah, G. E. Peoples, E. A. Mittendorf
Vaccine-Specific Immunologic Responses to the Novel Ii-Key Hybrid HER-2/neu Peptide (AE37) Vaccine in a Phase II Clinical
Trial A.K. Sears,1* G.T. Clifton,1 S.A. Perez,2 K.S. Clive,1 J.P. Holmes,3 K. Georgakopoulou,2 M. Papamichail,2 S. Ponniah,4 G.E. Peoples,1 E.A. Mittendorf.5 1. Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX; 2. Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece; 3. Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA; 4. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; 5. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Introduction AE37 is the Ii-Key hybrid of the HER-2/neu peptide AE36 (HER-2/neu: 776-790), and is capable of stimulating CD4+helper T-cells with anti-tumor activity. We are currently conducting a prospective, randomized, single-blinded, phase II trial of AE37 + GM-CSF (immunoadjuvant) vs. GMCSF alone for the prevention of breast cancer recurrence. Here we present safety and immunologic data for this clinical trial.
Methods Node positive or high-risk node negative breast cancer patients with any level of HER-2/neu expression (IHC 1+, 2+ or 3+), disease-free after standard treatments were enrolled. Patients were randomized to receive either AE37 + GM-CSF (VG)or GM-CSF alone (CG). Vaccines were given in six monthly intradermal inoculations. Ex vivo (3H-thymidine proliferation assay) and in vivo (delayed type hypersensitivity [DTH]) responses were measured before (R0), mid-series (R3), upon completion (R6), and at six (RC6) and 12 (RC12) months after completion of the vaccine series.
Results We have enrolled 197 patients (VG=86, CG=111). Systemic toxicities were grade ≤ 2 in 96% of VG and 93% of CG; there were no grade 3-5 local toxicities. In the VG, proliferative responses to AE37 and AE36 increased from R0 to all other measured times (AE37: R0=0.98, R3=3.29, R6=3.38, RC6=3.64, RC12=3.68, p <0.001; AE36: R0=0.95, R3=1.92, R6=2.12, RC6=2.18, RC12=1.80; p<0.001) while they did not change in the CG (Figure 1). DTH responses increased in the VG from pre- to postvaccination (AE37: 2.7 vs 30.2 mm, p<0.001; AE36: 2.2 vs 16.3 mm, p<0.001) while there was no change in the CG.
Conclusions In a prospective, randomized, single-blinded, phase II vaccine trial with a GM-CSF only control group, the novel Ii-Key hybrid HER-2/neu AE37 vaccine appears safe and well-tolerated with minimal toxicity. AE37+GM-CSF is effective at generating HER-2/neu-specific immunity as demonstrated by a significant increase in ex vivo and in vivo immune response in vaccinated patients.
Search for poster #60 (P60) here. The PDF for the general program is here.
My Take The post-vaccine DTH levels for AE37 are a very promising hint of the effectiveness of the vaccine. An increase in DTH levels from pre to post vaccination, combined with a decrease in Tregs, are what researchers of a peptide vaccine hope to see. In my previous blog, I relayed information from a new peer review from the United States Military Cancer Institute. The report states that DTH testing has been described as a very reliable method of monitoring immune response to cancer vaccines. The USMCI researchers believe large DTH reaction may correlate with clinical outcome. The post vaccination DTH responses to AE37 have similarly been reported in a Phase I study with HER2/neu early stage breast cancer patients, as well as a Phase I study with HER2/neu early stage prostate cancer patients. I believe a non-expert ad hoc look the combined DTH response is telling us that the immunological response to AE37 is not only potent and as desired, but consitient and reliable.
The response of patients was also measured by reactivity of their T cells to AE37 as measured by their ability to proliferate after being exposed to the peptide. The proliferation assay appears to show consistent and potent responses among the patients. These findings also confirm previous data supplied by AE37's investigators.
This latest abstract once again finds AE37 to be well-tolerated with minimal toxicity. The findings illustrate that there were no grade 3-5 local toxicities, as has been the case in all prior findings. These toxicity findings are in stark contrast to other cancer drugs, and bode well for the peptide vaccine program at the USMCI. Last month, Generex stated in a press release that they are increasing the number of patients enrolled in the study from 190 to 330, and these results show that 197 have been enrolled to date of submission of this abstract. This abstract may have been submitted to SSO a few months ago. Generex is listed as an exhibitor at ASCO's Annual Meeting that will be held between June 4th and 6th. We may see more data presented at this event. AE37 is doing very well.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
New Phase II Data for Generex's AE37 Breast Cancer Vaccine to be Presented at SSO 2011
Posted by Rich Steffens at 4:21 PM


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The work of Carla Gannis is an arresting blend of Internet culture with classic art and literary references. Her Selfie Drawings Project, along with her recent solo show at TRANSFER Gallery, A Subject Self-Defined, offers the viewer unflinching self-portraits. Not only are these images intimate, they also speak to the unique place of the digital in contemporary art. Art Report sat down with Gannis for an exclusive interview in which she reflects on the concept of the selfie as portraiture, the notion of self in the digital age, and her inspirations from Bowie to Klimt.
Art Report: How did The Selfie Drawings project start? What were its origins?
Carla Gannis: The Selfie Drawing project began in January 2015. I was in North Carolina where I'm originally from, visiting my family. I'd recently gone through a break up, moved to a new apartment in Brooklyn, and was sorting out who I was, as a woman and an artist, in this shifted context. One day during my visit I began making iPad drawings of my 99 year old grandmother, Pansy Mae, (she turned 100 this past December 31st!). At some point, I stopped drawing, took a photo of her, and then of myself. I started looking at my own "selfie" iPhone pic, and quickly began to draw it on my iPad. Over the course of a year I completed 52 digital drawings, a kind of hybridization of selfie photography with more traditional self portraiture. After each completion of a drawing I would upload it to several social media platforms, essentially instantiating it as a "selfie."
I felt vulnerable at first, speaking more directly through my own voice, and in essence performing my identity online. As I continued making the drawings they began to take on broader dimensions outside of personal self-analysis and reflection. I began to weave together art historical and literary references with current technological and cultural tropes, finding collision points for visual storytelling. At some point I was no longer merely playing the "role of Carla Gannis," I was setting up scenarios to represent different types of women, for example a woman in her bedroom simultaneously channeling cheerleading moves, Wonder Woman and Shiva while wearing an iPhone strapped to her head; a woman facing the implications of post-humanism and artificial intelligence by 3D printing her body as a replacement for her physical body in a Google Deep Dream environment; a "Nude Descending a Staircase" (after Duchamp), this time descending from a spaceship, recording device in hand, as she enters a flooded, stormy environment seemingly on the brink of disaster.
In January 2016, I premiered at TRANSFER Gallery, the solo exhibition A Subject Self-Defined. It is a narrative expansion of the drawings through time-based media. On four 10 x 10 ft screens in the gallery 4 "psychological seasons" were projected as panoramic videos. 12 months of square format videos were also projected, to create an encompassing, immersive physical experience of "virtual video." Also, in collaboration with Blippar and UNBOX I have released The Selfie Drawings project as a book. This hardcover, limited edition art catalog transcends the parameters of a physical book, as contained within it, released over the period of a year (begun March 5th, 2016), 52 augmented reality experiences are coming to life. It's a serialized augmented reality "book object." Using the Blippar app, readers can hover over a static drawing, and a new dynamic experience, combining photography with 2D and 3D animation, appears on their screens. Viewers of the book can follow along as I release a new blipp each week.
AR: Your show A Subject Self Defined just ended at Transfer Gallery (congrats!). Were there any reactions to your work that surprised or didn't surprise you?
CG: Even though there are loads of references in this work to art, film, literature, and pop culture, one surprise was that people found additional references that I had not consciously intended to be there, such as Gustav Klimt, Edward Munch, and one of my favorites, in reference to a drawing, David Bowie.
Also for the closing of my exhibition I co-curated with Berlin-based curator Tina Sauerländer a screening and subsequent online exhibition entitled "NarGIFsus" where artists were asked to react to the concept behind my work, instead of to my work directly. We invited over 50 artists to contribute "selfie-self portraits" as animated gifs. It was surprising and exciting to see the variety in interpretations on the topic. Quite a few of the works subverted expectations we might have about selfies and self portraiture, for example there was an abstracted thumb print and a post-Anthropocene monkey selfie. These responses seemed to lend relevance to my own exhibition about personally defining one's subjecthood and "self" in the Digital Age.
AR: What's so striking about your work in A Subject Self Defined is that you insert selfies, which are often seen as gratuitous and self-indulgent, into classic and revered works such as 16th century tableaus and Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. Imagery culled from modern, highly accessible technology stands in stark contrast to fine art settings you insert them in. What is compelling to you about this pairing? What would you like viewers to take away from this jarring juxtaposition?
CG: Context is everything. There may be a day when we view certain facets of networked pop culture from a different perspective — particularly after their absorption into artistic and literary lexicons, such as Fred Benenson's Emoji Dick, a translation of Moby Dick into Emoji. In the 13th C Giotto di Bondone was painting altarpieces that combined popular vernacular with "more elite" and codified religious iconography. These works are considered masterpieces, but Giotto was interweaving the quotidian with what was considered "sublime" at the time. Likewise in the 20th Century, artists like Andy Warhol and Barbara Kruger "elevated" layout and design motifs from the advertising world to high art, and their more populist approaches have had a resounding affect on artists incorporating internet-based idiom into their work.
In my collaging of noted art historical works (which are also highly accessible as reproductions online) with digital sign systems and selfie culture, as well as super heroine and Sci Fi tropes, I'm looking to reveal convergence and divergence points in our past, present and possibly future representations of the human, and increasingly post-human condition. It is my hope that this visual hybridity will resonate with people as a layered artifact of our cultural production over millennia.
AR: Your work is not only deeply rooted in art history, it also highlights what's missing from much of art history: representation of the female form and consciousness by female artists. Could you talk about this theme in your art, and specifically in relation to your piece Fault Line?
CG: I remember when I was in college, I was always looking for female artist role models throughout the history of art, and I found few until the 20th century. I often wonder in 100 or 200 or 500 years who will be remembered. Will (enough) women artists be recorded then? Most of the works I reference I love as works of art, but I do think my appropriating from the canon of art, particularly a Western male-dominated canon, does involve a feminist, populist and universalist reappraisal on some level. By inserting myself, as a subject, into these tableaus, I am calling into question patriarchal perspectives on who is framed as the genius and who as the muse.
"Fault Line" in essence embodies themes running through out all of the drawings and video works I produced for this project: past and present collisions, identity schisms, and the questioning of biases regarding how women author and appear in their own stories today. Two favorite authors, Marge Piercy and Octavia Butler, have written novels where women travel into the past and to the future to reconcile their identities, to come to terms with their present selves. Both authors deal with a metaphysical and physical fracturing of the body. In "Fault Line" I am visually expressing a similar concept, a past self, at first seemingly complete in her Victorian representation, dematerializes as the film that documents her burns, perhaps a comment on Barthes "punctum and studium" in the context of the repressiveness of that earlier culture. She (me) is replaced by a present/future she (me) who documents, and presumably shares with a networked world, her body splitting in half, becoming alien, and then suturing itself back together again — all forever in a loop.
AR: What's next?
CG: I'll take a minute here to talk about my practice. I really connect with the hybridity of the 21st century, and generally begin with a core idea that I express through one medium and then translate into various other media. Many of my projects have included drawings; digital paintings; animated gifs; printed books & catalogs; interactive applications; 3D printed sculptures; Flash games; Twitter accounts; projection mapped video installations; live performances with audio, video, & interactive enhancements; and currently with The Selfie Drawing book, I've added augmented reality (AR) to my repertoire. I generally don't feel like my vision is complete when it's expressed through a single medium or media channel. That said, I'm still working on my current project, more than thinking about my next. I have 47 more weeks to dive deeper into producing what I hope to be a very resonant AR experience for "readers" of my book. After (or during) this process, I'm not sure what I might experiment with next, in terms of concept or form(s). I've been producing work seriously non-stop for the past 2.5 years, first a project entitled The Garden of Emoji Delights, then The Selfie Drawings and A Subject Self-Defined. I'm looking forward to being a sponge again, absorbing from contemporary culture, future speculation, and past reflections until I find a theme to intuitively distill a new body of work from.
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