Black Sassy Artist's Collective

The Black Sassy Collective is a community collective of artisans, poets, creatives and musicians, inspired by the wilds of Tasmanian forests, rivers and seas. It focuses on encouraging and empowering, inspiring and educating peoples about the beauty and integral nature of being part of these wild lands.
The collective is based at the Huon Valley Environment Centre, Tasmania. The collective's story began at its embryonic beginning, when monthly trips to the Southern forests of Tasmania were instigated as a means of viewing and appreciating the rapidly diminishing vastness of forest seas. The Weld Echo was the spawned baby of this project, which has developed into a very popular annual collaborative exhibition, and is a very important fundraiser for forest protection campaigns. Following this, The Black Sassy Collective has been part of a number of projects around Australia and monthly exhibitions in Huonville at GLO cafe. Black Sassy is a support body for all types of creative explosions and is currently in amidst of a number of projects.
You can also find the Black Sassy Collective group on Facebook.

Black Sassy presents...Freedom to Speak: a Corporate Unmasking
Gunns 20 Fundraising Collaborative Exhibition – 20 Artists
At Hogan Gallery, Smith St, Collingwood Melbourne. Opens 15 Jan 2010

This February Six Defendants will stand trial in the long running Gunns 20 case. Gunns Ltd – the Tasmanian native forest logging company is suing five individuals and one grass roots environmental organisation.
The case has already cost Gunns Ltd $2.8 million and is likely to cost much more by the end. It is one of the longest running and most expensive case of its kind in Australian legal history.
Fortunately, this planet is blessed with courageous people who are prepared to fight for a healthy democracy and the public good, to defend freedom of speech, and to fight for the future of our native forests and wildlife. By supporting this fundraising exhibition, you are supporting the defendants in this nationally and internationally significant court
case. It will have far-reaching implications for the right to protest and the right to free speech.