Snake design in poster by WAARI (@blakkuyu), poster design by Jet Nikitina-Li
YEAR OF THE SNAKE
Lunar New Year Gathering at WTS
Wednesday 29 January, 6pm - 8pm.
Beat the heat – slither down to WTS gallery next week to bring in this Year of the Wood Snake. 🐍
On this special day –
We’ll learn about the significance of Lunar New Year
Channel snake and serpent symbolism
Set intentions, share feelings and food
Experience and make art — including through song, henna, performance, collage / puppet-making
Come join in recognising and strengthening the qualities we all share – protective, intelligent, powerful. Coiling, transforming, and emerging into 2025 fiercely together.
A collaboration between WTS and community members/artists:
Lion Heart Association 信狮团 (@lha_liondance )
Lion Heart Association is a lion dance group based in Alice Springs. Our mission is to inspire unity, harmony, and meaningful connections within all communities while upholding the values of righteousness and courage. As we welcome the Chinese New Year 2025, the Year of the Red Snake, we celebrate its embodiment of compassion and renewal. Through the resonating beats of our drums and the dynamic movements of our lions, we aim to spread blessings and joy to all.
Fathiah Raihan (@fathiahraihan )
Fathiah Raihan is a henna artist, creative producer and emerging multidisciplinary creating from the south-eastern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne). Inspired by cyclical natures, ephemerality and intimacy as ritual, her slow works carry forward a cultural lineage of intricate conversations between human-nature-other through henna, printmaking and batik. Connecting diasporic hands, she translates stories of grief and strength towards a language for a new century.
Seraphina Newberry (@desert_skullpunk )
I am an Arrernte/ Pitjantjatjara artist from central Australia. I am an artist and a part of Stick Mob Studio. An art collective, based in Alice Springs. Myself and Alyssa Mason are the first published female Indigenous graphic novelists in Australia. My Graphic Novel ‘Exo Dimensions’ was Published in 2021. I am currently enrolled in a Cert IV in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University (CDU). For future projects, I’ll be managing a podcast series. It tells the hidden stories of an Indigenous women in Central Australia. That shows how history influences who we are and what we do today. Alongside publishing my second Graphic novel this year, Exo Dimensions 2.
Ruby Kunoth-Monks (@rubes_art616 )
My name is Ruby Kunoth-Monks, I am an independent artist from Alice Springs, my background is Central/Eastern Arrenta. I am 23 years old and currently working on my first graphic novel/ manga. My art is more traditional manga and anime mixed with the traditional stories from my culture.
I am also currently making an independent art business for First Nations people. I have completed my studies at Batchelor institute in cert 1, 2 and 3 in visual arts. I have also won the art award for the recycling art competition in 2023 as well as the Advocate art award for people’s choice in 2023.
I will be continuing my studies in Cert IV in 2D animation and character design while also working on other graphic novels and manga to come in the future.
🐍 Come along to learn, make, share, shed.
Dinner provided! But please also bring a plate of food to share if you’d like.
Free to attend – all are welcome, including families and kids. If you’re able to, please RSVP to wts@wts.org.au.