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Belle Flaneur graduates
Last night we graduated. Some graduated with a Diploma of Visual Merchandising from TAFE Sydney Institute, others graduated with a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Together we are the founding collaborators of Belle Flaneur – a progressive, experiential & collaborative learning space. We celebrate each individuals creative capacities and since completion of studies last year we have developed this site. Together we action original ideas into sustainable visual projects. We relish the collaborative spirit of involving additional artists and love working in an extended community to negotiate our way from the conception of ideas to execution. We all share the love of a street stroll in an urban environment, taking in crafted retail store window displays.
Thank you to all our collaborators who have created with us to bring Belle Flaneur’s passion for sustainable installations thus far.
Next mission- bring back the art of the flaneuring street stroll on a block near you!
17 May 2012
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Congratulations and well done to everyone!
It is by Teaching that we Teach Ourselves,
by Relating that we Observe,
by Affirming that we Examine,
by Showing that we Look,
by Writing that we Think,
by Pumping that we draw Water Into the Well.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Congratulations
A big Congratulations to all my fellow class mates who graduated with a Diploma of Visual Merchandising and a huge congratulations to Miss Natty for joining us in receiving her Bachelor of Education in Adult Education. BRAVO to all!
Where life has taken us since Tafe…As soon as Miss Natty entered our class and picked our brains about what to call such a site, which invites people to come collaborate, express, craft, explore and just be…It had to be called ‘Belle Flaneur’
Myself, Sheree and Nicole seized the opportunity to be apart of such a movement, which has so far allowed us to be involved in super high fashion, interesting, collaborative and creative monster window installation and photo shoot events.
Anybody within the styling, fashion, VM, art & creative industries would jump to be apart of a movement so big. It’s potential is limitless!
The people we have met through this journey have touched & inspired us so much and incredible career and learning opportunities have risen through the work we collaborate on.
Currently I hold 6 career positions; yes i know I’m crazy! who in their right mind would do such a thing? That’s just me! I’m a proud collabortating member and stylist on Belle Flaneur. I now intern at Harpers Bazaar magazine, I interned at The Wonderland Fashion PR Co at 2012 Fashion Week. I’m a retail assistant/VM with Tigerlily and Witchery and lucky last..I also have a little night job at a bistro- haha.
After finishing Tafe last year and involving myself in Belle Flaneur, I have grown enormously, I have been taken on a journey where the possibilities at Belle Flaneur are endless… I am still learning, I am still teaching, I am still on the journey.
The rock steady crew
Congratulations to you all, a wonderful result and well deserved. They don’t give out Diplomas and Bachelor Degrees without a lot of effort being put in along the way by the successful recipients. Apart from your undoubted intelligence, you are all very pretty and glamorous girls. Watch out World here comes Belle Flaneur!
Yay!! So excited for you all and where things will lead to next!. Congratulations
Ps. LC I love your response on your experience life has taken you over the past 12 or so months! I feel inspired to do more and get involved. I see more big things, more collaborative, more experiential and more creative things to come!
Congratulations to all the very, hardworking and devoted students!
Beauty and brains, mixed in with a tonne of talent!
You have done a great job!
Congratulations Miss Natty and the Belle Flaneurs! Miss Natty I could not be involved in such a collaboration if it wasn’t for you. Your incredible vision is what brought the steam punk window and all other concepts to life and here we are all still steaming along together but more like at a rapid pace of a Japanese bullet train rather than an old steam locomotive. Impressive that your imagination has become a tangible reality – a successful and unique work of art powered by enthusiasm and determination.
I have learnt so much being involved with Belle Flaneur. The hands on practical experience is the most important part of learning and developing skills and is the biggest part of Belle Flaneur’s teaching technique. Being surrounded by like minded people who share in the same vision and creative purpose is what drives me to full potential. Being able to express my creative ability in a collaborative environment and be nurtured and encouraged along the way. Endless possibilities lie before us in this open space with no boundaries. All welcome to join and share to learn and teach. Exciting to know that new faces bringing a new wave of creative talent can open up many other doors and drive Belle Flaneur to greater heights. Nothing is wrong, and we are all in it together. I am inspired by the people, projects and potential of Belle Flaneur and every time I enter the BF HQ! Who wouldn’t want to be apart of that!?
Success is a journey, not a destination!
Love the Benjamin Franklin quote used with image, so very true!
Congratulations, all of you. This is a real milestone, and something you should all be so proud of. Walking out of the door of the classroom is probably one of the most significant steps on the path through learning.
Everything that Belle Flaneur does, every step on this long and beautiful path through learning, reminds me of the wise words of Julius Sumner Miller (yes, the bloke who put the hard-boiled egg down the neck of the milk bottle, for those of us old enough to remember that):
“No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour for no one can be taught a thing.
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. To my own teachers who handled me in this way, I owe a great and lasting debt.”
You are each other’s teachers. I’d tell you to get out there and spark that flame of learning, but you’ve already been doing it all along. Never stop.
I dont usually get emotional .. so I wont now either
I have been lucky to witness the opportunities [quite a few] offered through Belle Flaneur & to see the BF action with my own eyes as well through the lens and what I have seen has been impressive and you know I dont impress easily … so far amazing!… now that you all have your flash pieces of paper with your names on… what’s next? big things and lots of them I expect…hope I can keep up … well done BF angels.
CONGRATULATIONS to all the Visual Merchandising students and to Miss Natty on completing her course and graduating with us (It was meant to be). Oh what a journey… Who would have thought that when Natalie walked into the classroom we would be where we are today… making executive business decisions, being involved in important business meetings, working for high calibre fashion retailers, rolling out massive installations and running photo shoots, not to mention the bucket loads of yummy pasta and coffee, with late night phone calls and endless msg’s about the next BF gig. It is an honour to be constantly working along side Natalie, Sheree and Lara plus all the regular Belle Flaneurs… I’m sure I speak for many, but THANK YOU for creating a space where I can express my creative energy in a place that is not restricted, that is open for discussion and development. Belle Flaneur is my outlet where I am able to exert my hand’s on needs, while pushing myself and others to limitless boundaries. I cannot wait for what is next and where this open space takes us! We have touched Spring, boarded a Steam train that has taken us way back to the 1930′s, sat Front Row at Australian Fashion Week and have dived into the Great Blue! Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this journey?
Congratulations BFS on completing your course. Was great to finally meet you Nat and the BFS families. Bravo!
CONGRATS GIRLS!
Big Congratulations to the founders of this amazing and catalysing project! As an implement for creating urban renewal, restructure and redemption by gathering a diversity of artists across all forms you will be contributing a place for a cornucopia of ideas to find ground and flourish!
The sharing of concepts and art is as vital to humanity as air and water…without it we wither and die for lack of uplifting cultural material…to collaborate and educate are the warp and weft of our society…
Good luck Belle Flaneur… to your future visions!
Clearly no-one graduated in French.
Shouldn’t that be “beau flaneur”? Or perhaps “belle flaneuse”?
Hello Funfan & welcome to Belle Flanuer. Congratulations for being the first person to comment about the mixing of the genders in our community name. What it ‘should’ be is not our interest. What it can be is our focus.
There is nothing arbitrary about the selection of the name Belle Flaneur. The name was bestowed upon our movement following much discussion by a group of Uncles & Aunties – Australian playwright Matt Cameron, film maker Theo Cremona, artist Sophie Hoppe & creative consultant Milena Quansah, but it was Ross Steel AM who was awarded the Legion d’honneur & has published thirty four books in French and English on the subjects of French culture, language & teaching of French language who gave us the final nod to mix the genders in this beautiful butch celebration.
Our founding collaborators & recent graduates of the VM diploma from TAFE (as featured above) did not graduate in French. They are part of the ‘Millennial generation’ who prefer not to be identified by gender. It was the above graduates who had the final say on the name. The names Belle Flaneuse & Beau Flaneur were both considered. But it was the mixing of the genders that appealed to us the most. If it is considered impossible to mix these two words, then that’s fine with us. The impossible is what Belle Flaneur does!
Belle Flaneur is as much a place as an entity, where we celebrate the feminine in the masculine & the masculine in the feminine.
It’s only a chromosome between genders, after all…. and the word ‘female’ does contain ‘male’… and the circus has long had half-man/half-woman acts… and marilyn manson is a man… and women may be from venus and men may be from mars but they are in the same solar system… it’s like Ray Davies from The Kinks said: It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola.
Hey I graduated in french!
I think it is just about time to free this beautiful language from the burden of traditions! we live in times of change!
Interesting topic, I am so happy someone opened the debate! does any one know why objets have gender??? it is weird when you think about it… They don’t teach this at french schools unfortunately, but one day I discovered that a language in papua new guinea has gender referring to the shape of object. anything round, curved is feminine and anything long, more rectangular is masculine. It makes sense when you realise that ancient cultures like egypt used to symbolise feminine energy with a copper cup and masculine energy with a steel rod, example a leaf: feminine. A trunk:masculine, hey it works in french too! une feuille, un tronc! …. to be continued…..