January 2012
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August 2011
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May 2011
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Quick Unpick talks on at The Social Studio
Maryann Talia Pau
Wednesday 1st June 6.30-7.30pm
Amy Carr-Bottomley
Wednesday 15th June 6.30-7.30pm
Alice Edgeley
Wednesday 29th June 6.30-7.30pm
Pia Interlandi
Wednesday 13th July 6.30-7.30pm
More info here here »
January 2011
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Fashion Event
6pm Tuesday 8th March
Underground Arts Park, 44 Harnsworth St Collingwood.
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Pop-Up Shop
We are proud to launch our first large-scale pop-up shop in Melbourne Central Shopping Centre. The glass-house will be home to regular workshops, events, our wonderful clothing collection and is providing new training and employment opportunities in retail for our team. Keep an eye on our events page for updates.
MELBOURNE CENTRAL Lonsdale St, level 1 bridge, until September.
December 2010
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Thank you, it's been a great year!
This year has been a very good year at the Studio. Some of the highlights were;
- receiving the Small Business of the Year Award, being commended in the City of Yarra Sustainability Awards and a finalist in the Melbourne Awards - our first Spring Fashion Gala with 350 guests which raised $15,000 - collaborating with 40 Interior and Industrial design students from RMIT and to launch our Pedal...
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Sudanese Summit
Our dear friend Nyadol Nyuon has recently arrived in Sudan to host the Sudanese Summit, a three-day youth, peace, leadership and change conference.
Here’s more about her hopes for the conference which will occur before the January referendum. http://www.sudantribune.com/South-Sudanese-youth-organize,37288
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Fashion Parade 2.30pm TODAY at Fed Square →
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The Social Studio won Victorian Small Business of...
“The Social Studio in Collingwood is part fashion workshop, part retail outlet and part café. This social enterprise currently provides training and employment in clothing production, customer service and hospitality for around 30 young new Australians of refugee background. It also provides social support and aims to empower its workers to achieve their dreams through social...
November 2010
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Street Party TONIGHT featuring The Social Studio,... →
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October 2010
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Stories of success from the studio: Mariana...
The Social Studio is thrilled to have placed three of our talented design students in employment with Mariana Hardwick, one of Australia’s most significant designer bridal labels.
The partnership began with work experience and training, which led to a full transition into employment. Abuk, Mesi and Sukhbir love their work and are so proud to have achieved this success in the fashion industry....
August 2010
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Racism - be informed not afraid
by Nyadol Nyuon
Racism can make one feel insignificant in a society that is dominated by the ‘other’. But we are all the ‘other’. And that is the problem.
Recently in Melbourne when I tried to board a tram, my bag got stuck at the doorway. A man covered with tattoos came and helped me pull my bag up and carried it to an empty seat. Normally, if I had met him when I was alone, I would have...
Refugees of Yarra still face discouraging facts...
by Mia Paramashinta
Australian residents who have come here as refugees or asylum seekers, and have good English and local qualifications, have no guarantee of employment. In fact, often it is not easy to gain permanent employment that matches their professional skills.
Boy and Majak, two young gentlemen from Sudan who came to Australia under the Humanitarian Visa are facing what has become a...
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After Hours Fashion With A Conscience
by Kat Moore
Melbourne Central’s Level 1 Bridge was aglow after hours on Friday 16th of July, as The Social Studio presented a fashion parade showcasing their first collection, TSS1.
Using only recycled and surplus materials, the Social Studio’s young trainees have created an original collection, which made its debut at the RISE Festival in May this year.
Usually well known as a consumer’s...
Musicians and models rise to the occasion for the...
by Michael Hackett
It was late autumn in the city, the usual tourists and visitors from across the globe are watching the luminous big screen, with images and cameras flashing, kids with their parents taking time to soak up the evening air. Looking around inside the BMW Edge Theatre at Federation Square, there are stalls for books with what looks like their authors promoting their products to...
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Done deeds: the blogger who wears her heart on her... →
THE AGE
22 August 2010
Melissa Kent
“JACKIE Ruddock’s daily wardrobe dilemma is more fraught than most. Should she accessorise her koala sweater with the gumnut earrings, or the hibiscus scarf?…
The 32-year-old Sydney social worker started the offbeat project on Done’s 70th birthday - June 29 - as a tribute to the artist and to raise money for refugee charity group...
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The Social Studio Spring Fashion Gala
An evening with Lee-Lin Chin
The Social Studio is delighted to invite you to the launch of our Spring Collection at our first gala dinner and fundraising event.
The evening will be hosted by SBS newsreader and fashionista Lee-Lin Chin and will feature a sit-down dinner, a fashion parade to launch our Spring collection, a live auction and lots of great musical entertainment.
Tickets...
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What Ken be Done?
Jackie Ruddock’s has pledged to wear Ken Done inspired 1980s fashion every day for a year to raise money for The Social Studio.
“Beginning on Tuesday 29 June 2010 - the same day Ken Done celebrates his 70th birthday - I pledge to wear a piece of Ken Done fashion for one year (as well as some other inspired pieces by 1980s Australian fashion icons). For every day of *good fashion*...
July 2010
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Thank you!
We are were so excited to see such a huge turnout at the launch of our very first collection. Thank you to everyone who attended and for those who missed out you can still see our latest collection at our pedal powered pop-up shops and of course at The Social Studio.
We'd love to hear your feedback and hope you had as much fun as we did.
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Pedal Powered Fashion Parade
The Social Studio | No Fixed Address
Pedal powered retail platform & exhibition State of Design Festival 14 - 24 July
Level 1 Bridge, above Lonsdale St, Melbourne Central The Social studio fashion parade 6.30pm Friday 16th July
More info >
June 2010
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World Refugee Day RALLY
End the freeze on asylum seeker claims
Where: State Library, Cnr Latrobe & Swanston Sts, City When: Sunday 20th June - 12:00pm Seeking asylum is not a crime and it is a right that is held up by the laws of this land as well as the UN refugee convention that our country has pledged to support. Yet successive Australian governments in recent times have begun to fundamentally disregard this...
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WatchCheck out the RISE video and head down to the World Refugee Day Rally, we’ll be there!
Where: State Library, Cnr Latrobe & Swanston Sts, City When: Sunday 20th June 2010 - 12:00pm
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MüCKE
Ellie Mucke will be presenting her work Thursday 10 June, 6.30 – 7.30pm
photo: Rachel Taylor
With an art teacher and a fine wood-turner for parents Ellie Mucke grew up nourished by art and craft. Ellie established the fashion label MüCKE to bring together her environmental and social concerns with a love for design.
The MüCKE collection of ladies clothing and accessories is created from...
May 2010
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Adele Varcoe
is presenting her work Wednesday 26th May, 6.30 – 7.30pm.
Adele Varcoe is an interdisciplinary designer who can be found making things and modifying skins in her travelling tent. Her most recent work, iFold is a propositional design for a new fashion that invites people to temporarily modify their skin.
Adele holds a degree in fashion and has recently completed a Masters of Design...
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WatchSneak peak at The Social Studio Autumn/Winter Collection. thesocialstudio.org
MUSIC: SIA Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix)
RISE Festival
RISE (Refugees, Survivors and ex-detainees) Festival today at BMW Edge, Fed Square. 3-6pm kicking off with a fashion parade by The Social Studio.
more details here http://riserefugee.org/
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Taken in but left to feel shut out →
“Otong’s story illustrates two elements of the refugee experience that are sometimes forgotten in the politics of immigration. The first of these is that people who flee their homes generally have compelling reasons for doing so. The second”
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The Quick Unpick is back
Last night’s Quick Unpick was a great success! Full house, great discussion and fantastic work. Thanks so much to A Name is a Label for their generosity and for sharing their work with us.
Next up is Adele Varcoe, Wednesday 26th May, 6.30 – 7.30pm, who is an interdisciplinary designer. Her most recent work, iFold is a propositional design for a new fashion that invites people to...
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a name is a label
Are presenting their work this Wednesday 12th May, 6.30 – 7.30pm.
Both Nicole Fausten and Lina Didzys inherited their parents’ post World War II European frugality, only using recycled materials for their challenging, wearable and empowering pieces.
Inspired by surrealism, the energy and attitude of the 80’s street culture and the punk ethos, a name is a label was born overseas while the...
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The Social Studio @ RISE festival
Press Release: 5th May 2010
The Social Studio is proud to launch their Winter’10 collection at the first ever RISE Festival at Federation Square on Sunday 23rd of May. Amongst musicians, DJ’s, dancers and comedians, the talented designers from Social Studio will showcase their latest range in a catwalk show at the BMW Edge centre.
Both the Social Studio and Remixed women’s and men’s designs...
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The Quick Unpick II
The Social Studio presents its second series of design talks throughout May and June 2010 with local designers discussing their work and backgrounds.
a name is a label
Wednesday 12th May, 6.30 – 7.30pm.
Adele Varcoe
Wednesday 26th May, 6.30 – 7.30pm
MüCKE
Thursday 10 June, 6.30 – 7.30pm
Leeyong Soo
Thursday 24th June 6.30 – 7.30pm
Please pass on the flyer:
http://eepurl.com/v-79
April 2010
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*bespoken newspaper II - OUT NOW →
*bespoken second edition is now in print. Keep an eye out or pick one up at The Social Studio, 128 Smith St Collingwood. *bespoken is a bi-monthly fashion, design and news publication, and an initiative of the local community in Melbourne. *bespoken seeks to create a new outlet for the voices of local residents who may not have had the opportunity to contribute in mainstream media.
It encourages...
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Some Facts
According to the United Nations, there are 11,400,000 refugees worldwide.
Australia takes 0.1% of the world’s refugee population per year
Australia receives only 1% of the world’s asylum seekers
Last year, Australia’s refugee intake was only 7% of our annual permanent migration
Statistics compiled from data published by the Department of Immigration and United...
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ABC's Art Nation next Sunday featuring The Social... →
Sneak preview of The Social Studio special feature on ABC’s Art Nation next Sunday…
Check it out http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2862681.htm
March 2010
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Open Studio Day for the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion...
The Social Studio will be joining in on the LMFF’s Open Studio Day, where Melbournians can go ‘behind the seams’ and step into the workspaces of local creatives.
If you haven’t visited our studio yet, it’s a great chance to see our brilliant team of designers in full swing, walk through our recycled and convertible studio fit-out, and chat to our staff about our creative and community...
Poetry Reading
YarraNile Cultural Organisation will be holding a poetry reading at the Social Studio café on Sunday 21st March.
After the successful launch of *bespoken, the new lift-out in the local Sudanese newspaper The Migrant, the poetry reading will continue to celebrate and platform the creative voices of Melbourne’s multicultural community.
There is no set theme and anyone is welcome to take part,...
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Fitzroy Outdoor Cinema TONIGHT
Bend it Like Beckham will be screening at the premier Fitzroy Outdoor Cinema session, as well as short films made by the young people of Fitzroy.
Located at the Atherton Gardens Oval, the screen will bring residents from the Fitzroy housing estate and the wider community together for an evening of entertainment under the stars.
While waiting for the sun to go down, there will be circus...
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We're at the Viva Victoria Multi-Cultural Festival...
Viva Victoria Multicultural Festival - Saturday 20th March, 11am- 6pm, Federation Square.
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Newsletter March 2010
The Social Studio/Hunter Gatherer Street Party Fashion Parade
This Friday we’re showcasing our recent collaboration with the Brotherhood of St Lawrence’s vintage label Hunter Gatherer for the Brunswick Street foot traffic with a parade, music and drinks.
Recycled vintage garments have been chosen by our designers from the Hunter Gather store and then reworked into new pieces with African...
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The Social Studio/Hunter Gatherer Street Party...
This Friday we’re showcasing our recent collaboration with the Brotherhood of St Lawrence’s vintage label Hunter Gatherer for the Brunswick Street foot traffic with a parade, music and drinks.
Recycled vintage garments have been chosen by our designers from the Hunter Gather store and then reworked into new pieces with African influences.
All garments will be modelled by the Social Studio...
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Roll up roll up!
*bespoken is now in print. With 5000 copies floating around Australia you might just come across one. Keep an eye out or pick one up at The Social Studio, 128 Smith St Collingwood.