healing trauma with art
March 14, 2021 9:41 PM Subscribe
An unlikely match, comedian Magda Szubanski and Will "egg boy" Connolly team up to bring art therapy for long term mental health problems associated with trauma. (ABC news link.)
(Content Warning: bushfire, associated mention of farm animal harm.)
Australian Story is an ABC TV documentary program. An Unlikely Match is the story of how Magda and Will teamed up to bring art therapy to the bushfire affected rural communities. (The main link of the fpp is a summary/promotion of the episode.)
Regeneration is a collaborative response to complex traumas experienced by Australia’s rural communities from drought and bushfires to COVID-19. Drawing on the expertise of individuals and organisations with extensive experience in and knowledge of best-practice trauma treatment and disaster recovery, Regeneration will partner with rural communities to understand their trauma, offer clinical support and equip local people with disaster preparedness information and skills to build their capacity to respond to and transform future trauma.
(Previously-ish on metatalk)
Australian Story is an ABC TV documentary program. An Unlikely Match is the story of how Magda and Will teamed up to bring art therapy to the bushfire affected rural communities. (The main link of the fpp is a summary/promotion of the episode.)
Regeneration is a collaborative response to complex traumas experienced by Australia’s rural communities from drought and bushfires to COVID-19. Drawing on the expertise of individuals and organisations with extensive experience in and knowledge of best-practice trauma treatment and disaster recovery, Regeneration will partner with rural communities to understand their trauma, offer clinical support and equip local people with disaster preparedness information and skills to build their capacity to respond to and transform future trauma.
(Previously-ish on metatalk)
Seconded flabdablet.
(Of course the arsehole in question has retreated to the mothership, to avoid the consequences of his actions, because appreciation for bankrupt fascists varies from place to place)
Yay egg-boy, and yay Magda!
posted by pompomtom at 6:06 AM on March 15, 2021
(Of course the arsehole in question has retreated to the mothership, to avoid the consequences of his actions, because appreciation for bankrupt fascists varies from place to place)
Yay egg-boy, and yay Magda!
posted by pompomtom at 6:06 AM on March 15, 2021
flabdablet - as a non- Australian, this is my first exposure to Magda Szubanski. Can you provide more links to help me get to know her better? She’s someone I’d like to know better.
posted by Silvery Fish at 6:14 AM on March 15, 2021
posted by Silvery Fish at 6:14 AM on March 15, 2021
You could start with Magda Szubanski in conversation with Richard Fidler from October 2015.
posted by flabdablet at 6:51 AM on March 15, 2021
posted by flabdablet at 6:51 AM on March 15, 2021
...but she's so famous that America made a more telegenic version of her!
Just casting about but:
Don't you think you should answer that?
That's what you get for caring.
No-one is sorrier than I that you're going to die in a couple of weeks.
(Not a Kath and Kim fan, personally)
posted by pompomtom at 6:57 AM on March 15, 2021
Just casting about but:
Don't you think you should answer that?
That's what you get for caring.
No-one is sorrier than I that you're going to die in a couple of weeks.
(Not a Kath and Kim fan, personally)
posted by pompomtom at 6:57 AM on March 15, 2021
pompomtom - thank you! Will look thru the Americanized vids, but certainly more interested in how Australians see and understand her.
posted by Silvery Fish at 8:11 AM on March 15, 2021
posted by Silvery Fish at 8:11 AM on March 15, 2021
I remember Magda Szubanski from comedy skit shows as a kid (mostly Fast Forward). She is unapologetically fat, and weird, and will go full ugly in the vein of all good physical comedians. I don't like a lot of her stock characters but she has been a consistently funny and witty comedian. In 2012 she came out and in many ways began really publicly being Political.
Her characters are often culturally specifically Australian. "Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille from the Institute de Beauté, Wee Mary MacGregor, Joan Kirner, Michelle Grogan and other characters. The character of Lynne Postlethwaite" and the aforementioned Sharon are excruciatingly Australian and real in that way comedians turn from pathos to comedy. If I had to choose an American version I'd say Melissa McCarthy - someone who goes all out on physical comedy, whose characters show a deep love and understanding of her community, and has a whole separate amazing life from being "funny lady".
She did one of those genealogy shows revealing her father was a resistance fighter, and wrote an autobiography that grapples with the aftereffects of that.
She is also kind in the way the best comedians are. She worked in women's refuges for a long time, and explores so much trauma in her work. She is unapologetically her, and I'm only a desultory fan of her comedy but an enormous fan of who she is. She leveraged her acceptance by wide swathes of the Australian population into incredibly personal politicking during the same-sex marriage referendum, and does amazing work on the ground with people.
posted by geek anachronism at 3:08 PM on March 15, 2021 [6 favorites]
Her characters are often culturally specifically Australian. "Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille from the Institute de Beauté, Wee Mary MacGregor, Joan Kirner, Michelle Grogan and other characters. The character of Lynne Postlethwaite" and the aforementioned Sharon are excruciatingly Australian and real in that way comedians turn from pathos to comedy. If I had to choose an American version I'd say Melissa McCarthy - someone who goes all out on physical comedy, whose characters show a deep love and understanding of her community, and has a whole separate amazing life from being "funny lady".
She did one of those genealogy shows revealing her father was a resistance fighter, and wrote an autobiography that grapples with the aftereffects of that.
She is also kind in the way the best comedians are. She worked in women's refuges for a long time, and explores so much trauma in her work. She is unapologetically her, and I'm only a desultory fan of her comedy but an enormous fan of who she is. She leveraged her acceptance by wide swathes of the Australian population into incredibly personal politicking during the same-sex marriage referendum, and does amazing work on the ground with people.
posted by geek anachronism at 3:08 PM on March 15, 2021 [6 favorites]
Szubanski also appears in a few episodes of Farscape, as the mercenary mechanic Furlow.
She's been kicking around for a while in Australian performing arts, and while Sharon in Kath and Kim is probably her best-known role, she's got a strong record of turning up as a character actor in a random show, knocking it out of the park, and then disappearing.
posted by Merus at 7:38 PM on March 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
She's been kicking around for a while in Australian performing arts, and while Sharon in Kath and Kim is probably her best-known role, she's got a strong record of turning up as a character actor in a random show, knocking it out of the park, and then disappearing.
posted by Merus at 7:38 PM on March 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
geek anachronism has it perfectly correct. I don't love all of her characters, but I'd leap at the chance to hang out with her. Exactly because she's the kind of person to pair up with Egg Boy to help people.
My two favourite bits of hers are the thigh slapping version of the 1812 Overture and any time she did the Sharpie dance (she shares original video on her Twitter account, fans reply with clips of her doing it in sketch comedy). I can't seem to find a clip of her doing it on Spicks & Specks but I swear she did.
posted by harriet vane at 7:17 AM on March 18, 2021 [2 favorites]
My two favourite bits of hers are the thigh slapping version of the 1812 Overture and any time she did the Sharpie dance (she shares original video on her Twitter account, fans reply with clips of her doing it in sketch comedy). I can't seem to find a clip of her doing it on Spicks & Specks but I swear she did.
posted by harriet vane at 7:17 AM on March 18, 2021 [2 favorites]
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