‘Shrooms’ is a finalist in the Blacktown City Art Prize and eligible for the People’s Choice Award. If you’re in Western Sydney, you can check out all the work and cast your vote at the exhibition.
Image via Shopfront.org.au
Activities, Performances, Fundraising!
Saturday 12 December | 3-7:30pm
$10 FUNFAIR | $10 Performances
come to both for $15 (under 6s Free)
Call (02) 9588 3948 or email
admin@shopfront.org.au to book tickets
Come join Shopfront for a range fun activities from 3-6pm including: Hip Hop Dancing, Film Special Effects, Circus Skills, Newspaper Costumes, Christmas Craft, and Singing! Plus we’ll have a Silent Auction fundraiser, Bake Sale, and delicious BBQ.
Stick around to watch our wonderful workshop participants share their creations from this Term with Performances and Short Films from 6-7:30pm.
Everyone is welcome – invite your friends, family, and neighbours. They’ll be plenty of activities for kids and don’t forget to bring your gold coins to donate!
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Tom will be performing in Mira Oosterwehel’s physical performance work. For more info visit the event on Facebook.
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Room 13 , through the NSW Fresh AIR initiative, is supported by the Federal Government through the Australia Council for the Arts in partnership with the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the NSW Department of Education and Communities.
The aim of the Artist in Residence program is to improve children and young people’s access to quality school-based arts education by supporting professional artists in residence in public schools. It encourages longer term engagement between artists and public schools with residencies of a minimum of one month.
Over the past couple of days I have been helping hang the exhibition and the work is stunning. Congratulations to Howard and the Shopfront team on all their hard work.
Read more →Join Tom for some Landscape painting classes (think Bob Ross) down at Cubby House’s inaugural event (Sunday the 18th of October).
Image: Samantha Hawker
From the Cubby House site:
“Rather than a wasted day of woe, Sundays are meant for nourishment. For homecooked meals, meaningful chats and creative beverages. We’re here to help. Concrete Playground and Secret Garden — keen weekenders and lovers of good food, new friends and general tomfoolery — have teamed up to create the ultimate Sunday fortress of fun: Cubby House.
Located at the stunning Strickland House, Cubby House is a temporary hidden haven created purely for you to reclaim the weekend and stand you in good stead for the week to come. Give up the password and crawl into a secret hideaway of local food and drink, lawn games and seriously great talks to ditch the Sunday blues and make the most of your weekend. We’ll even help you send that postcard to your grandma.
Find a spot on the lawn to catch performances, news wrap-ups and comedy handpicked by The Guardian, eat a hearty Sunday roast from Newtowners Raven’s Eye, play your favourite lawn games, find comfort in a Bloody Mary by the Golden Age Cinema guys, pop into a workshop or two and learn a few mad skills, then we’ll even help you sort out your errands in time for Monday.”
Tickets and more info here.
Edit 2/11/15: Check out some of the images from the day here.
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Photography by Sophie Haylen
There is just under two weeks til I debut my first ever solo show at Crack Theatre Festival and I can’t believe how quickly it has come and how excited I am to show you what I’ve made.
‘Business Unfinished’ started a year ago when I applied for PACT‘s ‘Vacant Room‘ program. I was completely obsessed with the whole notion of the paranormal. I was watching a lot of really trashy American Ghost shows and 90s horror movies. I was fascinated by the ideathat people experience terrific and unexplainable spectacles in their homes (paranormal or otherwise) that they were willing to ignore or rationalise.
I wanted to make a show which incorporated people’s donated ghost stories with my own interviews with my Mum, about my Dad – who saw ghosts in our family homes before my parents divorced when I was 9.
After my PACT residency, I received a lot of encouragement and positive feedback about the show. I very much wanted to turn my residency piece into a ‘fully formed show’. A cabaret exorcism that only I could perform without being possessed by the devil. I applied to Crack. I got in – and ‘Business Unfinished’, the show, was conceived. The new material is satanic, scary, saucy and secret.
Below are the times and dates. I hope you can make it out to Newcastle to come and see it and heaps of other awesome stuff playing during THIS IS NOT ART. It’s also my 28th birthday so definitely come and have an ‘I-beat-the-27-club’ cocktail if you’re in the area.
Tom will join a handful of AIM alumni and industry specialists to speak about his experiences studying with the Institute. For more information please click the banner below.
From the AIM site:
“Meet with AIM teaching staff & students, hear industry professionals and experts during the popular music, dramatic arts and entertainment industry panel forum. Listen to successful graduates on our alumni panel talk about their insights, thoughts and advice on breaking into today’s music, dramatic arts and entertainment industry”.
Business Unfinished has been programmed for this year’s Crack Theatre Festival. The Crack Theatre Festival is a national festival and forum for theatre-makers & performing artists that occurs as part of This is Not Art Festival (TiNA) in Newcastle.
For updates and ticketing info closer to the festival, Like the Crack Theatre Festival Facebook Page.
Read more →I am thrilled to announce my involvement as a facilitator in Marina Abramović’s residency with Kaldor Public Art Projects. Details of the exhibition’s opening hours and ticketing can be found below.
‘Marina Abramović: In Residence’
Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney.
24 June – 5 July 2015
12 noon – 7pm daily
AGES 12+
FREE ENTRY
BOOKINGS NOT REQUIRED
Pier 2/3 is wheelchair accessible.
Read more about the project here.
Click on the image above to enter the draw to win some Special Edition Christophersen swag.
[UPDATE: 13/09/15]
#WINNER
