Cairns Artful-e: Issue 08
A Collation of Opportunities Sent Almost Every Week
from the good folks at Cairns
Cairns Festival HQ and Community Partnerships Team
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EDITION EIGHT: Summertime, Revival, Tradition...
Electronic Alert for a Growing List of Creative People in and around Cairns
(593 of you, and ever-expanding)
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08.00
GET BLITZED
Perseverance of Tradition
A New Year Resolution from Festival Producer Eric Holowacz & Cairns Artful-e
American glass artist, Dale Chihuly, well known for cherishing craft and tradition in the art-making process, offers a good allegory for a New Year's resolution. Chihuly was interested in an elderly Japanese glass-blower who had spent his life providing floats for his village's fishermen. Cheap machine-made plastic floats had become the norm, and the old man's craft was quickly fading away. Chihuly spent several days getting to a remote island and learning the artisan's methods and materials. He then put money down on a commission for 1,200 new glass floats.
A New Year Resolution from Festival Producer Eric Holowacz & Cairns Artful-e
American glass artist, Dale Chihuly, well known for cherishing craft and tradition in the art-making process, offers a good allegory for a New Year's resolution. Chihuly was interested in an elderly Japanese glass-blower who had spent his life providing floats for his village's fishermen. Cheap machine-made plastic floats had become the norm, and the old man's craft was quickly fading away. Chihuly spent several days getting to a remote island and learning the artisan's methods and materials. He then put money down on a commission for 1,200 new glass floats.
"Why," asked the old craftsman, "you are not a fisherman...what do you want with all those floats?"
"To satisfy my order," replied Chihuly, "you'll have to hire 4 or 5 young men from the village. They will be taught everything you know, and those men will become the keepers of your tradition and its magic. There will be one more generation of artisan for your village."
My resolution is to support artists and creative people in my village, Cairns, so that the cheap, plastic, homogenous culture does not replace them. And to keep searching the landscape for new islands of inspiration and people who possess a special magic...
This weekend there are 101 reasons to get creative in the CBD. Cairns Post expands its corporate citizenship, encourages urban creativity, and champions art, music, and expression in the downtown space...
Starting at 6am today and running through Friday and Saturday, the people of Cairns
...dozens of live performances and wild entertainment, free wi-fi, street cleaning and landscaping, extended opening hours so you can grab a coffee (until 7pm each day). The Cairns Post crew will be giving away awesome freebies and blogging like crazy! You can even bring the kids down with their old Matchbox cars and help build an art installation in the laneway!
Body art
Evolving art installations
Live music by local musicians
Street theatre
Asian cooking demonstrations
And heaps more!
...dozens of live performances and wild entertainment, free wi-fi, street cleaning and landscaping, extended opening hours so you can grab a coffee (until 7pm each day). The Cairns Post crew will be giving away awesome freebies and blogging like crazy! You can even bring the kids down with their old Matchbox cars and help build an art installation in the laneway!
Body art
Evolving art installations
Live music by local musicians
Street theatre
Asian cooking demonstrations
And heaps more!
08.03
FUNDING NEEDS
If you’re a visual artist, actor, musician, writer, heritage worker and you have an idea for an arts project that needs funding to get off the ground – the Council's RADF managers need you to help build a case! Every year, Cairns Regional Council makes a bid to the Queensland Government (through Arts Queensland) to partner with our local community to support professional and emerging artists through the Regional Arts Development Fund. To build a really strong case for funding, they need an indication of the kinds of projects that are being planned for the 2011/12. Even if your ideas are still germinating, they want to hear about them.
Creative movers and shakers should send in a brief summary of arts projects that might gain future RADF support. For more information on how to couch your ideas, contact t.goldingclarke@cairns.qld.gov.au by the end of January 2011.
08.22
DECONSTRUCTING BURLY-Q
The Guardian faces up to the newfangled burlesque craze, and then turns its back on jiggly tassels...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/dec/13/burlesque-stripping-posh-empowering?81d9fa18
But wait, well, maybe they will stick around and watch...
08.23
BEYOND THE FIRST CRAWL
The idea of a regular art walk, with local cultural institutions and creative businesses working together, got off ot a good start last Friday. Thanks to all the venues and organisations who jumped on board, and to those who are now keen to expand the next Cairns Creative Crawl. Plans are being made for the next Crawl in February, and tehn every few months after, leading up to a massive urban odyssey around the start of the 2011 Cairns Festival in August. If you are a business, organization, or a creative practitioner of any kind, and you might like to be part of the next Cairns Creative Crawl (in any way, shape, or form), please reply to this message and join in our collaboration in urban activation.
08.24
CRAFTING A BETTER FESTIVAL
Bold projects wanted. Cairns Festival is calling for suggestions and ideas. Click below, and share your thoughts, wild ideas, bold projects, and suggestions for what makes a meaningful and interesting annual creative celebration...
08.25
UK LIVE/WORK OPPORTUNITY
Acme Studios seeks Cairns and Far North artists for International Residency Programme...
And expands its Associate Artist Programme...
08.26
ACME IN CAIRNS CULTURAL PRECINCT?
What if the Cairns visionaries figured out a way to put 100 artist studios, a few dozen live/work spaces, and international residency programs at the yet-to-exist Cultural Precinct complex? You might get something like this...
or maybe something like any of these non-profit creative live/work developments...
08.27
POP GOES THE CITY
Cheap, fast, exciting: pop-up art is the new creative buzz...
Like this pop-up museum in a mall, appearing in Coffs Harbour...
Here's a quick tutorial on how to pop-up...
Creative things are even popping up in Chicago...
Cairns, why don't you be next...
08.28
YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS
Kaldor Public Art Projects and artist John Baldessari invites you to put your name in lights, for fifteen shining seconds. Go here and sign on, adn they will confirm the exact date adn tiem you will be made famous (or creatively illuminated)...
The Tate Museum asks Baldessari a few questions about life, art, and what makes him tick...
08.29
A CULTURAL POLICY BLOG
Considering the notion of creative industry. Or why we need to rescue the idea of innovation from the economists...
And if you really, really want to get into it...
08.30
ENRICH INDIVIDUAL AND CIVIC LIFE
It pays to read this far inot teh Cairns Artful-e. Why? Because the Sidney Myer Fund has a January 11 deadline for expressions of interest, Arts and Humanities grants...
08.31
CHANGING LANES IN CAIRNS
Get thinking about site-specific installations for lanes and side streets in Cairns...
08.32
YALANJU COUNTRY
Four artists from Wujal Wujal tell stories about their culture on canvas, artefacts, and pottery. The result is the striking "Where Rainforest Meets the Sea: Yalanji Country, now on view at UMI Arts, 335 Sheridan Street. Click here to learn more...
08.33
VIBRANT CITY
Look at all the live music and stuff coming up at the Esplanade and City Place. Drumming workshops, market days, Suave Swing, Junior See Poy Trio, lantern making, rock and roll dance...not to mention the busking. Who said the CBD lacked a vibrant core?
08.34
CBD REVIVALIST
Meet Caroline Stalker, urban planner from Architectus Brisbane, and the consultant working on a master plan for the Cairns CBD. She'll be asking for your input in February, but you can send her your thoughts, ideas, and urban impressions at any time here...
08.35
YOUR NEWS OR EVENT HERE
Reply to this message if you have information or opportunities to list in the next edition of Cairns Artful-e...
08.36
CAIRNS INPUT NEEDED
Always wanted to have a say, or three or four says, in the future of your community. Here's a website that asks many questions, and lets you answer them all. Community Plan, Cultural Precinct, Flying Cars and Monorails: tell 'em what you have on your mind. Click, think, type...
08.37
LOS ANGELES MOCA BUCKLES
Whitewashing the trendy underground types and blaming it on context...
08.38
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 (and there are some good links on the left as well)
08.39
CONTACT CAIRNS ARTFUL-E
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This issue of Cairns Artful-e is a melting pot of creative opportunities, links, happenings, ideas, and flights of fancy. This newfangled cyber-telegraph transmission began in late 2010 as a no-cost information conduit, powered by the community-minded folks at Cairns Regional Council's Cultural Services & Facilities branch. The readership is building, and much more information wants to be free. Some of these items, will spark the imagination. Other bits might lack the luster you require. 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 events and opportunities to mentioned. Forward some or all of this to a friend. Cairns Artful-e is our earnest attempt to be helpful, and spread the news. Join us in giving thanks for so many of the creative things around us...for these new islands of inspiration and the people who possess a special magic...
08.40
ENDNOTE
When Dale Chihuly was a child, after a big storm, strange glass orbs would wash up on the shores of Puget Sound, near his pacific Northwest home. Here are two links that proceed from that memory...
08.05
EDGE OF BLUNT
Last week was big in teh far North. After 2 months, 80+ artists came together to reveal thier new portraits of other local artists in the annula tradition know as the Blunt Edge of Portraiture. Guided by Dominic Johns and Roland Nancarrow, this effort indicates not only the wealth of talent resident in the far North, but the range of mediums, ideas, and forms of visual communications. Giant pillows, large assemblage, video pizza, a psotcard series...
Click below to see the dozens and dozens of locally produced adn freshly minted portraits that make up the 2010 Blunt Edge. And if you missed last Friday's awards and reception, there's still time to view the goodness of the 2010 Blunt Edge of Portraiture. Stop by the Circa 1907 Gallery in City Place, next to the Festival HQ, or Crate59 at Billy's Coffee in Sheridan Street for two lingering exhibitions of the new works.
08.06
ROOM HALF FILLED WITH BALLOONS
Major exhibition in Brisbane looks at anti-masterpieces and the art of the 21st century. 180 works by over 100 artists from 40 countries...
08.07
THANK YOU SIR
Ian Potter Foundation offers another source of charitable funding for the arts, innovation, and community goodness.
08.08
SPICE OF LIFE
Old Spice Boys, a favorite of the Cairns Ukulele Festival, return to the Far North for a Saturday night gig at Cape York Hotel. They are followed by Johno's Blues Band and young guitar slingers, The Derringers.
08.09
STRANDED
Strand Ephemera is a dynamic 11 day festival of contemporary art and installation. Presented along the length of the Strand, Townsville's famous beachfront, the festival is complemented by a dynamic program of events, workshops, guided tours, and performances. Propose your installation before 14 February, but read the guidelines first...
08.10
THEATRE ANYWHERE
Want to produce a theatre work in non-traditional spaces and outdoor locations in Brisbane. A curious new effort is calling for your ideas to do just that as part of the 2011 Anywhere Theatre Festival...
You can't have enough fringe theatre! The Australian takes a look at the trend towards non-traditional venues, experimental ideas, and the theatre ghetto...
See also
08.11
FILM YOUR ADVENTUROUS NATURE
The second annual Cairns Adventure Film Festival is Australasia's only adventure and extreme sports film competition. The films showcase the talent and wild side of local film makers and adventure sports people, and many feature beautiful and raw natural locations in the far North. The action thus far has been intense, and this will be made clear at the main show night on Saturday 28 May 2011 at AJ Hackett in Cairns in a night of great fast-paced adventure films and live action.
The call for entries is now open: if you have an adventure or extreme sports film, submit it!
www.caff.net.au/competition
www.caff.net.au/competition
08.12
SAME TIME, NEXT FAIR
A reason to use the private jet. The story behind last week's Art Basel Miami, and the rise of the Art Fair phenomenon...
08.13
THE (PEGGY) GUGGENHEIM EFFECT
Part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is heading to Perth. A wonderland of 20th century modernism arrives in WA. Ombre e cicchetti anyone?
08.14
O TANNENBAUM. O MINIMALISM
Artist Georgia Sadotti is commissioned to design the Tate Museum Christmas Tree. He places a nine meter spruce adorned only with a bullwhip at its base. Promises a live action performance to complete the installation on the Feast of Epiphany. This will involve the whip and a woman Sadotti knows as "Fanny from Marseilles."
08.15
OPERA GLASSES IN THE 3RD DIMENSION
Sizing up the Opera-in-Cinema phenomenon: the Royal Opera House muscles in on the Met, and 3D is coming soon...
08.16
THREE MINUTES OF GUERILLA ORCHESTRA
Rogue orchestras on the loose. Lookout! Spontaneous music...
08.17
SECURING INTERNATIONAL REACTION?
High level curatorial input provided for art party in Venice
08.18
FLICKERFEST TIME
May the Shorts be with You in 2011, and 100 interesting small films, and some of the best story-telling in the land...
08.19
FAKE OUT
The fine art of making artificial furnishings...
08.20-
JELLY GIANTS
Italian artist, unaware of a more famous Cairns collection of sculptures, installs giant jelly babies at London's Marble Arch
08.21
TAKING THE HEROIC STAGE
Belarus Free Theatre champions the unstable elements, in secret, and risks it all...
08.04
CAIRNS RADF GRANT WINNERS
An album of original Queensland songs, Cairns Museum, a series of musical workshops and an exhibition of tropical art works, and Clink Theatre are amongst the 18 projects supported by over $115,000 from the Cairns Regional Arts Development Fund grants for 2010. Click here to see who is in the money, and what they will do with the newfound dosh...
08.02
THE NEW CARTOGRAPHY
Mapping the Heart of the City. Click here to get a Google bird's eye view of Cairns, and open an interactive world of places to explore...
08.01
SWEET NOSTALGIA
Once upon a time in City Place, there were fountains, shade, grass, and a pretty neat band shell. Here, have a look...
posted by Cultural Engineer @ 3:19 pm
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