"Thank you for the rainbow 🌈 community who are leading the way to a creative future
"… Quite sensibly Mardi Gras Management put a focus on “OUR FUTURE” in 2024. Disquieting but not surprising was the cancellation of the “Queer Futures event, advertised as being a variety of roundtables with diverse panellists about how we see our community progressing in the next 50 years”.
I too tried over a period of 30 years to encourage across the spectrum of our larger Australian society the need to plan a vision towards our future.
I mean if we don’t know where we want to go we can find ourselves lost.
My discovery over that 30 years was that making a happy future even for myself is just plain hard work. People grasp at the fantasies of wanting it all now. Dangerous territory when the fantasy bubble bursts to reveal reality.
As far as I can see all our aspirational futures are to simply be happy.
The elusive frustrating question for most is HOW?
People want it all easy and life simply doesn’t work that way.
GLBTQIA+ people are not all that different than the rest…not really.
It’s true though that the history of our Sydney Gay/Queer Community is to lead.
Perhaps because of the freedoms and acceptance this Community has had to fight for there is an ingrained streak of creative determination about us!
We can never underestimate the value of our want to be creative.
That’s a driving force that when focussed can achieve much.
The centrepiece of my efforts encouraging the need for a future vision is an artwork that I recently retitled as “The Big Failed National Project - STOP, LOOK & LEAP”.
You can see the artwork and read a synopsis of what it is about by linking to:-
I gave it a go but am now wanting to move on and create other artworks.
I’m also in the process over a period of years of relocating to New Zealand.
If Mardi Gras at some point would like to reimagine the idea of “OUR FUTURE” in some capacity and can see a use for the Artwork I am happy to loan it to you.
If you’d like to have a more detailed look at the Artwork and perhaps discuss possibilities please let me know. May I suggest for example it could feature as a “teaser”. The Artwork contains subliminally a model vision that the viewer needs to discover for themselves.
We all want to be a party to seeing the “Sunshine!”.
Reality dictates that we have to put in the effort to make it so.
Rainbows usually herald the coming of the Sun.
Kind regards and thanks to all for the tireless efforts made,
FOOTNOTE
I received today (17/06/24) a most welcome piece of correspondence from the Mardi Gras people in response to my earlier letter. Their comments were kind, thoughtful and no BS.
Evie's observations above are spot on.
GLBTQIA+ people have been amongst the real leaders in our world since the 1970's. Colour, style and original creativity are just some of this Community's positives. There is a mature sophistication that exists in this Community that has been earned over many year's of well earned self enlightenment.
GLBTQIA+ : Gay - Lesbian - Bisexual - Transgender - Queer - Intersex - Asexual
The plus(+) in LGBTQIA+ may represent other sexual identities such as pansexual, gender fluid…
Perhaps the + should mean all those friendly to diversity in life?
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