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The Arts Diary is broadcast at 7pm on Mondays and Tuesdays and features a variety of arts and cultural information and events happening in Victoria for the week. To submit information to the Arts Diary for possible inclusion, email the details to artsdiary@rrr.org.au. Please email at least one week in advance.
Art Town - Call For Entries!
@ Chapel Street Precinct
Expressions of Interest are now open: The Chapel Street Precinct and ‘ART- Town’ sponsors are offering $4000 worth of Visual Arts Awards to Artists who participate in the 2012 ART-Town Competition.
Over two weekends the Chapel Street precinct welcomes 30 artists as they create artworks live on the street in four highly-visible locations; Grattan Gardens, the Colonnade, Yarra Lane and corner Maddock & Chapel Streets. ART-Town visitors and passers-by are treated to a rare glimpse into the artists’ creative process as they are inspired by their surroundings.Challenging the notion that public art has to be permanent, the works created during Art Town’s live art weekends will then move to a temporary exhibition space at Chapel off Chapel.
Art Town encourages online expressions of interest in this project from all artists, whether student, amateur or professional, and all forms of art will be considered for inclusion. The 30 artists selected to participate will be eligible for the ART-Town Artists Awards – as judged by preeminent art and community identities – which includes a $2000 first prize and a public-voted People’s Choice award.
The deadline for registration is Monday 20th February 2012.
Download Expression of Interest Forms here.
Forever Young: 30 years of the Heide Collection
Saturday 1st October - Sunday 15th April @ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen
The first circle of radical artists to be collected in the 1920’s and 1930’s is on display at Heidi 1 with work by Albert Tucker, Sam Atyeo and Danila Vassilieff. The revolutionary collection of the 1940’s is being diplayed in Heidi 3 and works from the 50’s through to the 70’s include those of Mirka Mora, John Brack and Charles Blackman.
For more information click here
Summers Past: Golden Days in the Sun 1950-1970
Tuesday 15th November @ Victorian Archives Centre
The exhibition of over 75 photographs will take you back to a bygone era of carefree sunny days at the beach, on holiday, at the caravan park or even lazing by the motel pool.
The show is a must for lovers of vintage poolside fashion and those who are looking for some summer sunshine inspiration.
99 Shiel St, North Melbourne
Monday to Friday: 10:00 am to 4:30 pm (excl. public holidays) and the second and last Saturday of every month
FREE
Best of the Independent Games Festival
Tuesday 20th December - Sunday 25th March @ ACMI, Melbourne
Play brilliant new games for free when the Best of the Independent Games Festival returns to ACMI. Dubbed the 'Sundance of the game world', the annual festival encourages innovation in game development and recognises the best work of indie designers from around the world. This year's crop also includes the fast and funky sword play of Nidhogg, and Bohm, a relaxing game where the aim is to grow your own tree!
Open daily 10am - 6pm > Gallery 2
Free admission
Plus, each weekday between Tuesday 3 January and Friday 13 January from 3pm to 4pm, you can play the Best of the IGF games live on the Federation Square big screen, for free!
I packed the postcard in my suitcase
Wednesday 21st December - Sunday 4th March @ ACCA, Southbank
The hedonistic pleasure worlds created by Pipilotti Rist: Pipilotti’s vivid video environments take you into a dream state of elements. Earth, wind, fire and water are alchemically activated in her mesmerizing loops of trippy experience. This major exhibition devised especially by ACCA will be the first major survey of Pipilotti’s works to be shown in Australia.
Her works are epic and lush and often deal with issues related to gender, sexuality and the human body, but in a way that evokes a sense of unadulterated happiness and innocence..
ADMISSION IS ALWAYS FREE
Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm
Weekends & Public Holidays 11am - 6pm
Monday by appointment
Open all public holidays except Christmas Day and Good Friday
111 Sturt Street, Southbank
Sundays in the Shadows
Sunday 15th January @ Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford
Every Sunday over summer Shadow Electric and Abbotsford Convent Open Air Cinema offer feature films, DJs, cheap drinks, table tennis and pop up food options in the cinema grounds...
Entry 3pm-8pm FREE, after 8pm tickets for films are available
NO BYO Alcohol
Pussyland- Michael Brady
Monday 16th January - Friday 10th February @ MAILBOX 141, City
As a part of Midsumma
Pussyland invites you in to a world of kitsch collectable ceramic cats that were the prize collection of the Cat Lady of Mackay, the late Phyllis Chambers.
Artist Michael Brady has documented this eccentric collection through a series of embellished photographs all taken at Chamber’s home. The exhibition is the result of Bray’s pledge to capture the spirit of Chamber’s vast collection.
Pussyland launches as a part of the Midsumma festival this Wednesday night.
FREE
Click here for all the info
Liquid Neurology- Chaco Kato
Thursday 19th January - Sunday 29th January @ Chapter House Lane Gallery- Chapter House Lane Melbourne
Chapter House Lane, in collaboration with the Sugar Mountain Festival presents the latest exhibition by Melbourne based, Japanese born artist Chaco Kato.
Kato is a founding member of the slow art collective and is best know for her playful installations and explores ideas of sustainability through genre crossing medium and form.
Monsoon Crossing & Living in the End Times
Wednesday 25th January - Saturday 11th February @ TCB, City
TCB art inc. is an Artist Run Initiative (ARI) based in Melbourne, Australia, dedicated to providing a space where young, emerging and established artists alike have the artistic freedom to explore, experiment and take risks within their practices.
OPENING: Wednesday 25 January at 6pm is...
Monsoon Crossing by GREG HODGE (Front Space) & Living in the End Times by NIC TAMMENS (Back Space)
Level 1/12 Waratah Place, City
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm
Closed Public Holidays
Hele Ellis- Recent Works
Wednesday 1st February - Thursday 23rd February @ Artman Gallery- 635A Glenhuntly Road, Caulfield South
This exhibition highlights how Ellis' artistic endeavours are informed by her fascination with the ethereal and the natural world. Her vivid palette choice makes each canvas vital, and gives a sense of the spiritual that is integral to her visual vocabulary.
Ellis’ paintings are collected internationally, and have been receiving awards since 1998. Her
recent credits include a solo exhibition at Gateone, Germany in 2008; a solo exhibition at Enzo’s, Washington in 2009; and Abstract Moves, her 2009 retrospective at Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales.
New Art from Tasmania
Thursday 2nd February - Saturday 25th February @ James Makin Gallery- 67 Cambridge St, Collingwood
This group exhibition curated by Dr Peter Hill showcases some of the most intriguing artwork fresh from Tasmania, reflecting the cultural renaissance happening south of Bass Strait. The exhibition features works by senior and mid-career Tasmanian artists, including Brigita Ozolins who recently had a major installation exhibited at the opening of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania. Exhibition Curator Dr Peter Hill is a Scottish-born Australian artist, academic and writer.
Forty Forty Home Present: Here, In The Sugarcane
Thursday 2nd February - Saturday 11th February @ Studio 241, Collingwood
a new Australian play by Writer Erin Kelly and Directed by Brigid Gallacher.
Here, In The Sugarcane is a story three sisters surviving the heat of an Australian summer. They are trapped in no more than a small patch of sugarcane. There is no shade, there is no water, there is no food. All they have is an armchair, a tape player and each other.
Season: 2nd-4th February 8pm
7th-11th February 8pm
Ticket Prices: Preview $10 Full $18 Conc $15
To Book click here
Live N Local
Sunday 5th February - Saturday 11th February @ Various Venues
It's that time of the year again, when St Kilda opens its doors to host some of our best local talent. Fill your week with comedy, poetry, visual art, theatre, outdoor cinema, beach sports, forums and loads and loads of music.
For more info go to livenlocal.com.au
Registrations Open- The National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum
Wednesday 8th February - Friday 10th February @ ACMI, Melbourne
Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography in association with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Forum presents emerging and established Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander photographers and photo-media artists with the opportunity to join key photographic/photo-media industry specialists, artists and educators from across Australia and New Zealand.The
Forum will include:
• Extensive technical workshops: copyright and intellectual property; printing photographs; promoting your work;
• Folio Reviews for those who wish to bring a folio of photographs for feedback from experts;
• Behind the scenes visit to the National Gallery of Victoria Photography Department;
• A free film screening.
Free for indigenous AustraliansCost For Non-Indigenous
To Register- call australian Centre for the moving image tickets & information desk on (03) 8663 2200
Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival
Wednesday 8th February - Sunday 12th February @ ACMI, Melbourne
Join ACMI for a series of talks and live events celebrating the rich traditions and new visions in Indigenous art and culture.
The festival will feature three free events, Shadowlife: Moving Image, Remembered By, and Blak Nite Cinema.
Running alongside the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival is the National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum for Photographers and Media Artists. For full pricing and booking details, download the program from the ACMI website here.
'Scat Rabbit Scat!' + 'Latrine': Premiere Screenings
Thursday 9th February @ Loop Bar, Melbourne
From the team who created the short film 'Red Orchid' comes two deranged little masterpieces:
'Scat Rabbit Scat!',
Animation by Haydn Kwan
AND
'Latrine',
Short film by Laura Summers
7pm - 8.30pm plus enjoy a Q&A at the bar.
More about the films:
'Scat Rabbit Scat'
A black rabbit who doesn't fit in finds acceptance where he least expects it.
'Latrine'
A deal in a local toilet. Shit goes down. Two go into the latrine, but only one will make it out....
FREE
Loop Bar, Meyers PLace, CITY
Blow Up Cinema @ CERES
Friday 10th February - Friday 17th February @ CERES Environmental Park, Brunswick East
Blow Up Cinema is heading to Melbourne’s favourite arts park, Ceres in Brunswick for a bunch of outdoor films in the bandstand area, perfect for a Friday night.
Friday February 10th:: I AM ELEVEN / Genevieve Bailey / AUS + Q&A
I AM ELEVEN is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are.
Friday February 17th:: OUR GENERATION Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis / AUS
OUR GENERATION is a powerful and upfront documentary on the Australian Aboriginal struggle for their land, culture and freedom – a story that has been silenced by the Australian Government and mainstream media.
Gates @ 6pm, Bar @ 6.30pm, Films @ 9pm
CERES, Cnr Robert & Stewart Streets, Brunswick East
Sensorial Loop
Friday 10th February - Saturday 24th March @ RMIT Gallery
Sensorial Loop: 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial features 22 creative textile artists from across Australia and covers a range of textiles skills, from resist printed textiles to hand-embroidered cross-stitch and machine-knitted metal sculptural forms. Previously known as the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Sensorial Loop is the first Tamworth Textile Triennial.
The following free events explore new directions in textiles (bookings essential on 9925 1717)
1) New Directions in Textiles
Presented by Tamworth Textile Triennial curator Patrick Snelling and Tamworth Regional Director Sandra McMahon with artists Michele Elliot, Cecilia Heffer and Michelle Hamer.
When: 10.30am - 12pm, Friday, 10 February (includes morning tea)
Where: Storey Hall Conference Rooms 1 and 2, Level 7, 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne
2) Textile Futures: research and collaboration, teaching and technology
Panel members: Patrick Snelling, Dr Juliette Peers, Cecilia Heffer, Emma Byrnes and Leanne Zilka.
When: 2:45pm, Friday, 10 February (includes afternoon tea)
Where: RMIT University School of Fashion and Textiles, Building 514 Auditorium, RMIT Brunswick Campus, 25 Dawson Street, Brunswick
3) Floor talks with contemporary textile artists
With Lucy Irvine, Anton Veenstra, Verity Prideaux and Paula Do Prado
When: 2pm - 3.30pm, Thursday, 22 March (includes afternoon tea)
Where: RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Wheeler Centre Gala
Saturday 11th February @ Melbourne Town Hall
Taking the lead from George Bernard Shaw, who claimed ‘It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief’, The Wheeler Centre opens the brand new year of programming by dedicating their annual tradition – The Wheeler Centre Gala Night – to that thorniest and most topical of themes: belief.
Eleven writers take to the stage to explore the concept of belief from whichever angle they choose – be it a polemic on their unshakeable commitment to our inalienable rights as humans, a personal account of being in the presence of God, or a tirade on the existence of hobbits.
All profits go to the Indigenous Literacy Fund.
Featuring: Alice Pung, Elliot Perlman, Kaz Cooke, Tony Birch, Lally Katz, Andy Griffiths, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Carrie Tiffany, Gillian Mears, Bob Franklin and Casey Bennetto.
6.30-8.30pm
$20/$12
Cnr Collins and Swanston St, CITY
Melbourne Bikefest 2012
Friday 17th February - Saturday 17th March @ Various Venues
Melbourne Bikefest is a community celebration of bikes in everyday life. This year represents a new direction for the festival, with nine key projects staged in partnership with other major events, organisations and communities of bike riders.
The program encompasses fashion, food, film, performance, shopping, talks, rides, art, design and advocacy projects in a month-long celebration of life on two wheels. The vast majority of Bikefest events are FREE to attend.
More info and full program details at melbournebikefest.com.au
Celebrate
Friday 16th December @ Bartiste Lounge Bar and Cafe
Celebrate! Prints by Sharron Okines Opening Drinks Fri 16 Dec 6pm B'artiste Lounge Bar & Cafe Rear of 2/12 Young Street Frankston Tel 0422 510 653 www.sharronokines.weebly.com
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