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The ‘Mo Show’ gets off to a clean start

MOVEMBER is here and with it is a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery telling the story of facial hair through the years.

“Jo’s Mo Show (with beards)” traces and celebrates the changes in facial hair fashions from the 1780s to the 1980s, connecting these changes to the social, cultural and political conditions that initiated them.

The paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures from the collection in “Jo’s Mo Show” create a visual timeline of changes in facial hair fashion.

The launch of the exhibition was used as the official Movember launch in Canberra with plenty of clean-shaven men in attendance preparing their upper lips for a month of fuzz.

Last year, TransACT CEO Ivan Slavich raised more money for the cause than anyone participating in Movember worldwide. This year he hopes to beat his $65,000 record.

“I’ll be sending an email to every single person who supported me last year and asking them to donate again,” he says.

The month-long, charity initiative aims to raise awareness,  support and funding for men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and male depression.

Men grow a Mo (moustache) for 30 days to become walking, talking billboards for men’s health causes, and women support their Mo Bro’s efforts by registering and recruiting teams and fundraising.

“The cause has really captured people’s imaginations and I think it’s partly because all men secretly want to grow a moustache and also because men are notoriously bad at looking after their health,” Ivan says.

“Personally, I have mates who have had prostate cancer and also known guys who have committed suicide because of depression,” Ivan says.

“TransACT has a pretty large male workforce so Movember provides us with an opportunity to get everybody together in the company and talking about these things.

To date, more than 1.1 million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas across the world – from Hong Kong to Antarctica, Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai – have supported Movember, raising over $178 million.

More information at www.movember.com

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