Saturday, November 20, 2010

Artful-e: Issue 04


A Collation of Opportunities Sent Almost Every Week

from the good folks at Cairns Festival HQ and Community Partnerships Unit
Cairns Regional Council: Cultural Services & Facilities Branch
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EDITION FOUR
 of an Electronic Alert for a Growing List of Creative People in and around Cairns
(445 of you, and counting)

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04.00
TO QUOTE PICASSO
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers...


04.01
GRANT ME THIS
Cairns Regional Council revamps its website, and does up its grant-giving section. The deadlines loom. Click here now...



04.02
TEXTILE TANK
The annual Cairns Sister Cities exhibition, Fibres of Life, opens tonight at Tanks Arts Centre from 6pm. Wearable art will be on parade. Felting, braising, weaving, and basketry workshops will be held. Creative contributions from seven sister cities will be celebrated. Visit the Tanks after work and before the weekend gets going, or find out more here...
04.03
UNPLUGGED TANK
Local music takes the stage again on 26 November when Belinda Butler and The Good Things inhabit the Tanks Arts Centre. They share the bill with Far Northern Soul Collective, who will amp up the musical offerings and kick out the jams with funk, blues, and the grooviest soul around. No advance sales, but tickets will be a bargain ten bucks on the door. Click here to get the skinny...
04.04
WALLWORK WORLD
Amazing post-industrial creatures are now inhabiting the upstairs ggllery at KickArts, in the Cairns Centre of Contemporary Art. Go there now to see what artist Daniel Wallwork has been making as part of his Altered Species series. Panels, body parts, and impossible beings glorified in the sheen of automotive paint await inside KickArts. Click here for a quick peek...
04.05
AND MORNINGTON ISLAND PAINTING PLACE
From now until early March, KickArts is also showing an exhibition of extraordinary works from Mornington Island artists, with over a dozen creative people represented. Chcek out some of the pictures at this link, but go see the real art for yourself and take in a slice of Mornington Island image making on your next visit to KickArts... 



04.06
FAR NORTH ON FILM
Cairns Historical Society has teamed up with artist and film-maker Annaliese Ciel Walker for the latest installation in the Circa 1907 Gallery. Visit the space from now to December 4, to get a retro look back at home movies, 8mm images, and old photographs that reveal the sense of place from days gone by. The gallery space has been made over into a charming mid-century parlour, and a special cake and punch reception will be held tomorrow, November 20, from 3 to 4 pm. Don't miss this look back, Cinerama: Far North on Film. 
04.07
CAIRNS ART CRAWL
On December 10, a few creative places along Lake Street and City Place will keep their doors open after work and invite the community to a new monthly tradition: the Cairns Art Crawl. A creative stew is being cooked up for the early evening, so look for details to be announced soon.
Here's how they do it in East London...


04.08
ABOUT ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Ever wanted to spend time at an artists colony in Brazil? Research a dance collaboration in Berlin? Write a new collection of poems while overlooking teh Atlantic Ocean. Get the low down on creative residencies and artist colonies from the Alliance of Artists Communities, a consortium of several hundred programs that offer time, work space, and lodging for creative people from around the world...
and start your search here

04.09
INTRODUCING RES ARTIS
For an even wider range of opportunities, check out the global network of Cultural Exchanges and Artist Residencies at Res Artis, here...

04.10
ABOUT COMMUNITY
The Council's Community Partnerships Unit is cooking up new creative ideas and collaborations. Take a peek at what they've got on the boil here...


04.11
NEW MAGUIRES
Jan Murphy Gallery invites you to view and obtain some fine new drawings by Far North artist, Leith Maguire. Have a look, and take a pick...

04.12
VIRAL TUBES
The Medics offer this sublime contribution to the land of a billion videos, and their hautning, well crafted music shines through...

04.13
MIFF & MUFF
Gay zombie film fracas making global headlines: the New York Times reports here...
And the French press chimes in...
But wait, there's more. Enter the Australian Sex Party...
You cannot make this stuff up...

04.14
KIWI KULTURE
The New Zealand based website, The Big Idea, has everything you always wanted to know about Kiwi creative people and projects...

04.15
CONCHORDS TO FLY AGAIN?
New Zealand's folk comedy duo considering a touring stage show...

04.16
CREATIVE GENERATORS GENERATE ACRONYMS
QAC hosts CGF with CICADAS @ RAPAD thanks to Ozco and PRAC, and you can decipher it all here (maybe)... 

04.17
WOODFORDIA
A little bit about the Woodford Folk Festival, as the 25th anniversary looms on the horizon West of Brisbane...


04.18
TO QUOTE PICASSO AGAIN
Art is a lie...which makes us see the truth...

04.19
EVENTS PEOPLE MUSTER IN ROCKY
Far North Delegates Captured on Camera
and finally
04.20
I HEARD THAT
Melbourne gathers oral histories and stories from commuters, launches Southern Crossings as a site-specific sound walk project. Learn about it here...
and


04.21
FILMIC CRITIC
Movie maven Margaret Pomeranz lets her emotions flow, craves saucier scenes, senses unease in the industry, blames the Brits...
04.22
ARTIST RESIDENCY: ISTANBUL
04.22
ARTIST RESIDENCY: JAPAN
04.22
ARTIST RESIDENCY: NORWAY


04.23
PLANTING THE SEED
Stoking the fire of a Burning Man Australia

04.24
ABOUT THE BURNING SEED
Almost fifty questions and answers about Australia's emerging Burning Man gathering
04.25
END CREDITS: NEXT UP
Motherfish explores the journey and settlement of Vietnamese boat people in Australia. At the Movies calls it "immensely moving," and you will too. Read their summary here
And check out the upcoming End Credits Film Club offerings here


 
04.26
VIRAL TUBES
Take yourself to the sights and sounds of West New Britain Province, PNG, and the Lomtengen project...

04.27
CROWDED HOUSING
Legendary music-makers bring latest reunion to Perth. Goosebumps emerge on the arms of forty-somethings in the Swan Valley...

 

04.28
PONDERING THE CULTURAL TOURIST
...and directives such as these: "The task is to convert the market potential into opportunities for both tourism and the cultural sector and in so doing increase TNQ visitor satisfaction. This involves establishing and marketing the best destination imagery and positioning, together with utilising cultural assets and filling gaps in capacity." It's all here...

 
04.29
NEWLY INVENTED CRYPTID BABIES
Is Patricia PIccinini the most fascinating visual artist working today? Or the most disturbing?
For a look at images from Piccinini's exhibition, Beyond our kin, click here and then on your favorite thumbnails...

04.30
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, MEASURED
A recent review by Glyn Davies of the Tropical Arts production of the Bard's Viennese tragicomedy...


04.31
SCHOOLS+ART+SHOPFRONTS

Beautiful Art Spaces Offering Display Opportunities for Schools
This Christmas, Beautiful Art Spaces (an initiative of Cairns Regional Council's Community Partnerships Unit) is seeking the art work of local school children and young people, to be displayed in shopfronts in the CBD.
This new twist is a great opportunity for children and young people to share their art with the wider community, and will help make our City beautiful for the holiday season. Interested schools and teachers can obtain a complete information kit from Sarah Boulle at the Council's Community Partnerships Unit on 4032 6626 



04.32
TRAVOLTA BOLTS BACK


04.33
VIRAL TUBES
The finale of the 2010 Cairns Ukulele Festival captured on video: uke all-stars jam it up (in a casually copacetic way) to Waiting in Vain. Here they are, live on the Tanks Arts Centre stage as the festival came to a close...  

04.34
TO QUOTE PICASSO
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. 

04.35

DO THE ART-O-MAT
Cairns is now home to the first Art-o-mat machine in the Southern Hemisphere. It joins about 100 other repurposed vending machines from Seattle to Vienna, and a new work of art is yours for a bargain $5. Stop by the Cairns Festival HQ in City Place to meet our Australia's first coin operated affordable art dispensing machine. Learn how to become an Art-o-mat artist and contribute to the global phenomenon here...

04.36

ON THE STRAND

Artists are invited to submit proposals to participate in Strand Ephemera VI.  Innovation and creativity are encouraged.  Works may be in any media. In its sixth incarnation Strand Ephemera will be held along Townsville's 2km recreational beachside promenade in September 2011. Any sites within this area may be considered, and a non-acquisitve prize of $10,000 is offered plus a $2,000 people's choice award.

For entry forms (detailing entry conditions and selection criteria), possible site images and further information visit: www.townsville.qld.gov.au
or contact Pam Lane on (07) 4727 9679 or pam.lane@townsville.qld.gov.au


04.37

COLLINS AVENUE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Tanks Arts Centre wants you to know about a new residency for creative people from here, there, and everywhere. Guidelines and applications are here, so spread the word to one and all.

04.38

WHAT'S ON
Check the TicketLink website for all the details on upcoming events, concerts, and performances. It's only a click away...

04.39

CAIRNS ARTFUL-E ARCHIVES
If you missed last week's edition, or want to delve into the archives for a special tidbit of information, find past versions stored here


04.40
TO QUOTE PICASSO
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. 




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This issue of Cairns Artful-e is a hodge-podge of creative opportunities, links, happenings, ideas, and instructions. Have a look. It ain't very fancy...yet. Take what you will...today, tomorrow. Some of this stuff, it is true, you will not care about. Other items might be revelations. Some will be useful. Please let us know if you don't want to get this regular email transmission. Pester us if you are receiving it more than once at a time. Send us stuff you want us to include. Share with a friend. This is our earnest attempt to be helpful, and spread information. The weekend, by the way, starts now...


 
But first, a final farewell to Rocky...

And a few guidelines from Burning Man...

BURNING MAN & BURNING SEED'S TEN PRINCIPLES
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

posted by Cultural Engineer @ 8:45 am