Thursday, February 17, 2011

Artful-e: Issue 14


















A Collation of Opportunities and Things You Might Want to Know
Sent Almost Every Week from the good folks at Cairns Regional Council:
Cultural Services & Facilities Branch
Cairns Festival HQ and Creative Partnerships Team
 
 
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EDITION FOURTEEN:  
Electronic Alert for a Growing List of Creative People in and around Cairns
(677 of you, and ever-growing)
  
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. 
— Aldous Huxley

 
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14.00
OF MEN AND FASCINATORS
Quietly, well ahead of the Festival season, and with the help of a crafty local image-maker, the Man vs Fascinator socio-photographic project begins... 



14.01
CONSIDER ADELAIDE FRINGE
The Adelaide Fringe is now so large and mainstream that the term fringe seems faintly ridiculous. With 759 events in 325 venues across the small capital this year, it's more an arts invasion than anything on the margins. So says The Australian, in pondering the effect of the annual creative explosion. Read the rest of what they say here...


14.02
BECOME A STEEL PAN STAR
They wowed the crowd at the 2010 Cairns Festival Parade, and that was just their first public performance (when they knew two songs). Now, after months of practice and six weeks of intensive learning, the Cairns Pan Stars are ready for a full on party: Saturday March 19 at the Tanks Arts Centre! Tickets are only $10, and the supporting acts include DJs Culture Harry, Marcus Fari, Kanaka and Ultraviolet: all delivering full servings off a Caribbean menu of calypso, soca, zouk and reggae.
Lennox ‘Madman’ Jordan is the genuine article: a Trinidadian, second generation steel pan maker, musical arranger and teacher.  Back home, Lennox led 60-piece orchestra The Fascinators to the finals of Panorama, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual steel pan competition.  Recently migrated to Australia, Lennox plays with calypso/jazz fusion quintet, The Badjohns, and is director of Panschool, a Sunshine Coast based outfit that has helped form steel bands in Melbourne, Darwin and our very own Cairns Pan Stars. From 7 February to 19 March, Lennox Jordan will be conducting steel pan workshops, open to interested Cairns musicians and community members.  To learn more, contact Violet Stannard: vstanna@tpg.com.au or 0409 092 101

14.03
CULTURAL PRECINCT NEWS
The Cairns Post reports on the latest progress towards a new cultural facility in the Far North...

and you are invited to the next Cultural Precinct Committee to learn more...


14.04
A CASE OF BLUES
Don't miss the Curtain Raiser for the Cairns Blues Festival, a special event  at the Showgrounds Front Bar in Mulgrave Road on Saturday February 26 from 6pm. Good music will be made by Mason Rack Band, Joules Boult, Moondogs Gypsy Blues Band, and more. 


14.05
CHALLENGE ME!
Cairns gets mighty adventurous with a host of new, exciting, challenging outdoor competitions...


14.06
MUSIC IN TIME
Artist Bobby McFerrin discussing music, performance, audience, and Yo Yo Ma's visit to a small village in Botswana:

"They don't have any concept of performance. There was no word in their vocabulary that suggests that music is somehow going to happen later on.... Music was here. And music was now. Why do they have to wait to hear music, and why do they have to go somewhere else to hear it?"

Hear the podcast of McFerrin's lecture here:  


14.07
MILLION DOLLAR CITY
Urban and civic leaders get together, think about continuous improvement and bold, visionary ideas, create one million dollar prize for city that most increases its number of newly educated citizens. Learn more about the Talent Divident, and the group, CEO's for Cities, that aims to build the next generation of great American cities...


14.08
PUT ON YOUR CREATIVITY CAP
Australian scientists create a brain device to stimulate the creative activity in your brain. Want to facilitate Insight by non-invasive brain stimulation? Put it on... 


14.09
COUNCILLOR PRIMER
Local Government NSW has put together a handy guide for anybody wanting to become a Councillor, understand conflict of interest, study the proper Code of Conduct, and groom one's self for elected office in service to the rate-payers and community at-large. Read it here...  


14.10
SUBWAY ETIQUETTE
New York artist creates series of signs telling train riders how best to behave. Makes them look like the regular public advisory posters. Installs them in public spaces and subway stations. The people obey...


14.11
I AM AN OUTSIDER ARTIST
The New York Times writes a thing or two about the annual Outsider Art Fair, and begins by citing Australian art historian Colin Rhodes...


14.12
EVENT FUNDING DEADLINE
The EQRDP has extended its grant deadline to March 4. Find out what EQRDP is, and how you can request some dose here 


14.13
WRITE STUFF
JUTE Theatre’s multi-award winning script development program, Enter Stage Write is now calling for emerging writers to join its 2011 program.  Applications close on Friday 18 February, 2011, so get in on the action now! Enter Stage Write is one of JUTE theatre’s key initiatives and is designed to help people tell our stories and develop new stage works. Since its establishment in 2001 the program has produced over 48 new plays. Learn more about JUTE's Enter Stage Write, visit JUTE Theatre’s website on www.jute.com.au or contact Jodie Savina on 4050 9444 or email jodie@jute.com.au

14.14
HOUSE OF ART
This Saturday from 6pm, Arthouse launches onto the drab deep-north landscape with a dynamic and eclectic extravaganza of music, performance, film, circus and nonsense. Formally the old Hrvastki Klub (Croation Club), Arthouse mixes the roles of studio, arts office, film and performance venue, workshop and set construction space. The opening night extravaganza is a mash-up of contemporary music, film, circus, performance, media and DJ culture, and promises something for everyone. Be there, 240 Scott Street in Bungalow (via McCoombe Street entrance) for live grafitti, DJs, new media works and installations, steel drums, and creative happenings galore...http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192107527486089


14.15
WENDERS 3D ARTHOUSE DOCO
Let the 3D film treatments begin. Wim Wenders begins with dance legend Pina Bausch. Soon, opera, theatre, dance, and stage works will be shot and distributed as 3D video. One medium is tailor made for the other... 


14.16
SOVIET ARCHITECTURE & MONUMENT
In his book Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, Frédéric Chaubin documents 90 buildings in 14 former-USSR republics belonging to what he calls the 'fourth age' of Soviet architecture. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, says UK newspaper The Guardian, and indicate a burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. The buildings you are about to see represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system and the end of the Soviet Union. Have a good look here...


14.17
VOTE FOR ART
The National Gallery of Victoria wants you to vote for your favourite work in its vast collection. Go here, and help them out... 


14.18
NOW THAT OPRAH HAS GONE
Sydney Opera House is about to embark on a $150 million plan to build tunnels under its famous built environment. Dig it here...


14.19
ENTER THE WAIFS
Grab your harpoon, six string, and get in the groove. Behold The Waifs...


14.20
APRIL CREATIVE CRAWL
Cairns Creative Crawl, A self-guided exploration of creative addresses and cultural offerings in Cairns, is today from 5:30 to 8:00pm. You'll find interesting and free things happening all over town.  Knock off from a most unusual and busy work week, and hit the CBD for tonight's Cairns Creative Crawl. A growing collection of arts organisations, studios spaces, restaurants and businesses are opening up, offering food, live music, new art, and free creative experiences for everybody. The Creative Crawl is self-guided and self-paced, so there is no exact start place, and no guided tour leader. Simply say goodbye to your busy work week, go for a walk about the city, pick the places you want to stop from the below offerings, explore some new ones, and connect yourself with our local creative vibe...


14.21
UNDERSCORING
Local photographer Carly Whouley opens a new exhibition, Underscore, at Cell Art Space on March 5. Mark your calendar for a special reception on March 11, to meet the artist and enjoy food and drinks from 12 Bar Cafe. Whouley was born in Cairns, and obtained a Bachelor of Film and Television Production from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art in 2002. She muses about the nooks and crannies:

“Our landscape is grand and beautiful and saturated with enough textbook aesthetics to make any fanny pack-wearing tourist wee their cargo pants. Alas, so much goes unnoticed - the diminutive, modest, concealed quarters that form the underscore to this magnificently large-scale production. This is the Cairns that my grandparents, parents, siblings, friends and I know so well.”

The Underscore will be on view through April 2, and you can read more about Cell Art Space here...
 
 
14.22
NEW MOVE NETWORK
For the first time in Cairns, an exciting new dance initiative is launching at the Centre of Contemporary Arts. In 2011 this  will be the place to experience new dance work through Move – Dance TNQ and the ‘New Move Network’, an inaugural program of five, two-week choreographic residencies throughout the year.

Combining key practitioners and  partnerships the ‘New Move Network’ will support independent artists in their practice through a Studio Season with Raymond Blanco (14 – 27 February), Bonemap / Rebecca Youdell and Russell Milledge (11 - 24  April), Monica Stevens (27 June – 10 July), Sarah Collins (5 – 18 September) and Jess Jones (7-20 November).

Creatively the chorographers will have the ability to share their experiences and explore themes of Indigenous, non-Indigenous and shared identity, personal histories and collective knowledge with peers and public through engagement in forums, artist talks, masterclasses, workshops and choreographic showings. The work the artists create will be made through a series of kinaesthetic, text, sound and media processes, that will generate appropriate, innovative and challenging context for new dance in tropical far north Queensland.

MOVE - dance tnq is a motivated network of dance practitioners who represent diverse interests and experiences within the Dance sector, expert industry members, and key stakeholders. In the spirit of reconciliation and tolerance, the vision of the MOVE - dance tnq network is to advocate sector sustainability through dance - evolution, ecology and engagement. For more information contact New Move Network project coordinator, Rebecca Youdell on 0407 794 385 or admin@movedancetnq.com and visit the website to learn more...http://www.movedancetnq.com


14.23
3D PRINTER REVOLUTIONJust as nobody could have predicted the impact of the steam engine in 1750—or the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950—it is impossible to foresee the long-term impact of 3D printing. But the technology is coming, and it is likely to disrupt every field it touches. So reports The Economist, in its February 10 edition...http://www.economist.com/node/18114327


14.24
BUY VINCENT GALLO'S TUXEDO

and for the very bold, and wealthy, you can have even more of Gallo's peculiar flavour of anti-genius...



14.25
ENTER COOPERBLACK
Welcome to the new New Wave, Darwin style. Behold the envious Cooperblack...


14.26
OZ CO STUDIES CREATIVE INDUSTRY
A report on the future of Australia's arts and creative industries, vis-a-vis creative policy-making and the trends after postmodernism... 

 
14.27
LIVING & PAINTING IN A GLASS HOUSE
Artists Rod Ramage and Billy Missi have taken up residence in a Cairns shop-front, and are working hard to create new art to benefit flood and cyclone relief. Stop by the ground floor of Sunshine Tower Hotel, 136-140 Sheridan Street, to see what they are up to and support this interactive effort to raise $100,000...

 
14.28
ARTS IMPACT
Talking about the arts industry, economic impact, and why government support for the creative industries equals jobs and other good things...

 
14.29
PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL
Forty years ago a visionary artist, with the help of a few arts patrons, set up a glass-making studio and school about an hour North of Seattle. Ever since the woods have been buzzing with activity, and the Pilchuck hot shop has been at the centre of the contemporary glass art revival. What would it take to begin a creative exchange between Cairns and Pilchuck? What would happen if the Babinda Mill was transformed into Australia's answer to Pilchuck Glass School? Or what if we added a glass-making hot shop and ongoing workshop instruction to the plans for the Cairns Cultural, and our city became Australia's destination for contemporary fine art glass production? 
 
14.30
STRAND EPHEMERA
Cyclone Yasi has given Townsville's Strand a terrible beating but Townsville City Council and local residents have already started the clean-up to get it back to it's former glory. Preparations for Strand Ephemera VI are still on track, and the entry closing date has been extended to Monday 21 February. Work up your design submission and click below to learn more...



14.31
TAKE A LEAP
Calling all of the region's emerging visual artists: Cairns Regional Gallery wants to exhibit your work in its Loft Emerging Artists' Program. Check this out...


14.32
ART BIKES FOR EVERYBODY
What if we provided free bicycles for those wanting to explore Cairns and our city's creative organizations and galleries? Or take a ride along the new Aerogeln Cycleway?  What if they were awesome Dutch push-bikes, and they came with lights and a helmet? And what if the city commissioned artists to design interesting bike racks to serve as hubs for these "artbikes"? Hobart has beaten us to it: further evidence that there is a creative ground swell way down South...

 
14.33
ART LOANS FOR ALL
Suppose you wanted people to acquire and cherish original works of art by local painters, sculptors, jewelry designers, and print-makers. Maybe you would offer no-interest loans of up to $7,500 for eager art buyers, and encourage people to support the community's visual arts sector. Again, Tasmania is first cab off the rank, and you can learn all about it here...

14.34
KURANDA ARTS CO-OP
15 reasons to head up the hill and check out the arts scene in Kuranda...


14.35
ENTER SCRAPOMATIC
Two dues, old timey blues and roots, Scrapomatic style. I belong to the band, Amen...


 
14.36
ARTISTIC BIRDING
Cairns Regional Gallery has launched a collaborative exhibition of birds, bird cages, and interpretations of Hong Kong's Yuen Po Street. Birds of a Feather is on view now, so pop in soon (and check out the Ranamok Glass exhibition and Sam Creyton's 100 Pieces as well)...
 

14.37
I'M FINE
Artist and actor Crispin Glover wants you to know it's fine, everything is fine. And if you already have his classic book, Rat Catching, he has a few more oddball tomes available here...
 

14.38
AT THE RONDO THEATRE
Cairns Little Theatre launches its 2011 season, and comedy is in your future...

 
14.39
BUY NOW AT KICKARTS

KickArts, at the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Abbott Street, has launched an exhibition of recent prints created in workshops at its Djumbunji Press. The works in Sting in the Tail represent a diverse cross section of Cairns-based artists featuring established and emerging visual communicators alike. All pictures on display are editions of 30 and are available for sale: just pop in at 96 Abbott Street, have a look, and enquire at the lobby gift shop.

14.40
VISIONARY WALSH
Australian new media artist, Craig Walsh returns to Cairns with the culmination of his recent project and itinerant studies. Craig Walsh: Digital Odyssey is the name of his two-year journey, which included stops around the country, and collaborative and community investigations of the sense of home. The result is a large video projection that includes histories, stories, and landscapes. Walsh's work will be shown at the KickArts upstairs gallery until March 12, so stop by and spend some time on his Digital Odyssey.


14.41
CHLOE'S CULTURE
Chloe Fox won a suite of awards at last year’s Energy exhibition, including a prestigious Creative Generation Excellence in Visual Arts award and the Tanks Arts Centre Curator’s Award.  In her first solo exhibition, Chloe presents photographs, collographs, prints and assemblages.

“I have been on a journey, exploring my mixed heritage from Papua New Guinea and England. I have come to realise that most of us go through life with an inner turmoil of who we are and what makes us the people we have turned out to be. No matter where I go or the people I am around, I will always carry my culture with me.”
In preparing work for My Culture, Fox has been a young artist in residence at Djumbunji Press.
 
14.42
PERTH IS FRINGEWORLD
The first full Perth Fringe Festival will occur in February 2012, but they've jumped the gun and turned the city into Fringe World for February 2011. There are over 100 Fringe Festivals in operation across the world today, and Perth Fringe looks to become one of the world's best — built around opportunity for local, interstate and international artists to participate. Jump on their bandwagon: registrations for program inclusion will open in June 2011. Click here for details on what's happening out West...http://www.fringeworld.com.au/


14.43
WOMEN IN FLIGHT
For International Women’s Day 2011, Tanks presents this very personal homage to Womanhood, from one of our city’s most colourful artists. The Women Who Taught Me To Fly is a collection of painted portraits of the female friends and family of Lilla Benigno, and the exhibition opens with a 6pm public reception on March 4.

“I survived 10 years of homelessness, desperately lost in the streets of Melbourne, but I was extremely lucky to have come across thousands of women who helped me to change. … As a woman with a disability, I always felt I had to work harder to achieve my dreams, and yes, to a certain extent I had to, but I couldn’t do it alone. I always had a woman alongside me … some of these special women have passed away, but I know they are looking from whereverhttp://www.tanksartscentre.com/home/event.asp?eid=349



14.44
TRANSFAUNA
London Artist, Tom Van Herrewege, is the latest arrival to Cairns as Artist-in-Residence at Tanks Arts Centre. His work explores fascinations and fears we have towards the animal world, and while in North Queesland, the artist will explore local snake life, as well as the other creatures in our midst. Van Herrewege will create a new series of drawings through march 10, and the public is invited to meet him at a launch of the exhibituion, Transfauna on March 11 from 6pm, at the Tanks. 

  

14.45
FOLLOW THE MONEY
A few sources of possible project support, upcoming grant deadlines, and resources to do what you need to do as a Far North cultural producer.  

 
14.46
INSIDE THE ALLOSPHERE
The Australia Council for the Arts invites Australian musicians, composers, sound artists and media artists who work extensively with sound to apply for the pilot AlloSphere Residency. The Inter-Arts office and the Music Board, in partnership with the University of California, are offering an opportunity for an artists' residency at this unique international facility. Check it out...http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grants/allosphere_residency 


14.47
ENTER THE MEDICS
Grab your harpoon, six string, and get in the groove. Behold The Waifs...


14.48
MAN vs FASCINATOR
A new collaborative socio-photographic project begins to take shape at the Cairns Festival HQ soon. Photographer Jake Nowakowski will set up a studio and begin shooting the first Man vs Fascinator images for the 2011 Cairns Festival. Become a subject, explore your identity, convince your partner. The first test portrait shoots begin on 23 February at the Circa 1907 Gallery in City Place. Here's how it works...
Cairns Festival realizes that the Fascinator, a type of fanciful head-dress worn at social functions throughout Australia, is an important aspect of the Queensland woman's wardrobe (especially when equestrian activities are happening nearby). This small, often feathered object is a staple of race-going and party-making and seen at key events during the year. One of these events, The Amateurs, is held within the Cairns Festival season.
 
The Man vs Fascinator project starts by asking local women to dig deep into their wardrobe and select one or two of their favourite Fascinators. Then, here's the twist, they must present it to their partner, and convince him (or her) to try it on. If everybody is comfortable, the logical next step is for man to meet project artist Jake Nowakowski, carefully don the Fascinator with clothing normally worn during the work week, and then sit for a masterful portrait (opportunities will be scheduled between now and August).
 
So ladies (and gentlemen) consider your head-gear, and be part of the origins of Man vs Fascinator. Click below or contact 4044 3086 to scheduled your portrait shoot. Select images will be show in at the Man vs Fascinator exhibition during the Festival, timed to coincide with the pomp, circumstance, and elaborate head-dress of the Cairns race days. To learn more, reply to this email or stop by Festival HQ during the upcoming Creative Crawl.  
 
14.49
EVENTS AND INFO WANTED
Cairns Artful-e is an information conduit compiled by Eric Holowacz, producer of the Cairns Festival. He seeks out upcoming events, obscure quotes, interesting links, inspiring stories, and content that might support Far North artists, audiences, cultural producers, and creative thinkers. If you have news or ideas that might feed this cyber-conduit, please reply with details and help us expand the Artful-e effect. 


14.50
EXPERIMENTA COMMISSIONS
Experimenta has announced the commencement of its next commission round in preparation for it's 5th International Biennial of Media Art launching in September 2012.Commissioning new work by Australian media artists is fundamental to Experimenta’s program. Through the commissioning process, the organisation supports artists in the creation of new projects including interactive, screen based, sound, public, transmedial, online artworks and beyond. Experimenta provides a significant opportunity for both emerging and mid-career Australian artists to gain professional, creative and technical development, with the required financial support, to realise innovative works of art that engage and thrill the imaginations of our wide audiences. Click here and learn how you can benefit...


14.51
LOFTY WORKS
Local artist Sam Creyton has a new exhibition, 100 Pieces, on view at the Cairns Regional Gallery's Emerging Artist Loft. Check out her carefully-constructed mark-making and mixed-media collage (and striking investigation of fragments) and buy what strikes you. There's more information at the Gallery's website...



14.52
CONSERVATORY / TANKS
Now on view at the Tanks Arts Centre is Conservatory, a sound installation in Tank 3 by Adelaide artists Sasha Grbich and Lisa Harms. The work follows their January artist residency in Cairns, and was made in response to the architecture and war time history of Tanks Arts Centre. Starting from a conversation about border protection and expanding to encompass broad experiences of making home, Conservatory offers a poetic reflection on belonging. Stop by and check it out, and add your own voice... 


See also


14.53
PIPE ME A TUNE
Cairns RSL Pipes and Drums are looking for 3 to 4 new drummers to play bass drum and side drums with their group. Drummers need no experience, just a keen interest in making some noise! Cairns RSL Pipes and Drums have 10 pipers and meet every Wednesday for practice from 7pm to 9pm at Cairns High School. To get into the beat, contact: Allan McKay on 4055 4735 or 0412 630 651

 
14.54
CLOSURE
Here's a quick look at the timeline of our local sugar industry, from its 1880s origins to the looming closure of Babinda Mill. 

 
14.55
POST-SUGAR BABINDA
Cairns Regional Council will springboard a multifaceted plan for the future of Babinda in the wake of the announcement of the closure of the town’s sugar mill. Mayor Val Schier said Council will rally a force consisting of Council staff and specialist consultants who will work with the community to come up with alternative ideas for the economic future of the town. Could the arts play a role in the town's revival? Might that imposing mill become home to sculptors, glass artists, and creative workshops? Read more...

14.56
ENTER THE BARONS OF TANG
Lookout Cairns, for the Barons are coming, and they are bringing an onslaught of gypsy, folk funk, tango mayhem...

14.57
THE GOOGLE MUSEUM
The Google Art Project is putting the museum experience on-line and into new virtual territory...

 
14.58
GO FOR RADF GRANTS NOW 
Artists in the Cairns region are encouraged to bring their talent forward and think big by seeking funding for their projects through the first round of the 2011 Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). Cairns Regional Council invites artists and art workers to apply for funding for their projects. The first of two funding rounds for this year opened this week. Read more


14.59
MUSICAL GIFTING
The 2011 edition of Opening Notes, a culturally rich and creatively made pakcage of music and images, will be coming together over the next few months. Opening Notes is a Cairns Festival initiaitves, representing our unique sense of place, and the CD, booklet, and package are given to every baby born in the far North: on teh day of birth and at the place of birth. The generous project is made possible by Cairns Regional Council and Cairns Penny Savings Bank, and hundreds of contributing creative people. If you'd like to become part of the 2011 edition, or have a local sogn to contribute, please contact the Cairns Festivla office (or reply to this email). Learn more about the Opening Notes project here...
14.60
FESTIVALS FUNDING
Cairns Regional Council offers grant funding for community festivals and events. The next round opens in April, and all you ned to do is follow this link to find out how to make your case...http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/11734/LCGrants.pdf
14.61
MAJOR FESTIVALS FUNDING
Consider your event a larger animal, and need major funding. Cairns Regional Council offers grant funding for major events that want to happen. The next round opens in April, and all you ned to do is follow this link to find out how to make your case...http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/11746/MEGrants.pdf
 
14.62
MAYORAL FUNDING
If that doesn't work, why not ask the Mayor's Community Fund for help? Cairns Regional Council offers special funding for good things that want to happen. Find out how to make your request by reading over the simple application form here...http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/9004/MCGrant.pdf
 
14.63
DIVERSIFY ME
While you are at it, try to make sense of the Economic Diversification Fund Grant Program Guidelines, a lucrative Cairns Regional Council award of up to $20,000. You have until March 21 to figure out where business meets paradise, and achieve successful lodgment...http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/13897/Fund.pdf
14.64
IT HAPPENED TODAY
An almanac of interesting and curious literary history can be found here...

 
14.65
ART-O-MATICALLY GOOD
Thanks to Cairns Festival, Far North Queensland is home to the only Art-o-mat machine in the Southern Hemisphere. The unique original art vending machine will make its debut in the public lobby of KickArts, in the Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts. Workshops and starter packs for local artists will follow. Check the upcoming edition of Artful-e for news about a launch, opportunities for Australian artists to get involved, and how you can stop by and purchase your very own Art-o-mat works from around the world... 

14.66
LA MAMA WORKS
Over 40 years ago, Off Off Broadway jumped hemispheres and inspired a new Australian theatre scene in a small Melbourne building in Carlton. 1,800 new stage works later, La Mama has helped forge the careers of David Williamson, Barry Dickins, Cate Blanchett, Lloyd Jones, and Julia Zemiro. Beginning with Jack Hibberd's play Three Old Friends in 1967, La Mama has provided a low financial risk model that supports innovation and enables artists to explore new ways of expression. There is no other stage quite like it. Learn more about Melbourne's La Mama here...
14.67
THE PLAY'S THE THING
And the $20,000 prize is yours, if your play is the thing. Click here to learn how to submit your stage script to the Richard BUrton Award for New Plays, Australia's richest playwright booty...
http://www.australianstage.com.au/201102054178/news/industry-news/submissions-open-–-richard-burton-award-for-new-plays.html
 
14.68
TALKIN' CREATIVELY
What if Cairns Festival asked a bunch of creative people a bunch of questions, and they all told us more about what they do. We did, and they did, and the links are here...
  
14.69
HELPING A CULTURAL FACILITY HAPPEN
Have ideas for a possible new Cultural Precinct? Maybe you think it should have 100 studio spaces for local artists? or soundproof music rehearsal rooms? or workshop spaces for beginners? a glas-blowing studio and hot shop? or a world class concert hall and museum facility? Perhaps you want to suggest that it include a creative industries campus for university students? or an aquarium where the tanks also house sculptures by Australia's greatest artists? Maybe you think this creative place should have a kids playground, creatively inspired and designed by local children and built by parents and civic leaders? Maybe you crave a giant outdoor movie screen and free movies there every weekend? Perhaps there is a recording studio, or an ABC radio production and broadcast suite? How would you make its plaza a vibrant gathering place? What would you want a $200 million creative place to have? 

Take a look at the comprehensive feasibility study here
14.70
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! And if you don't, get out there and make one...
 
14.71
STARTING WITH ART
ArtStart grants for graduate and final year artists open for applications in January. Click here to go to the Australia Council website to learn how you could be $10,000 richer as you launch your creative career...
 
 
14.72
VIBRANT CITY
Look at all the live music and stuff coming up at the Esplanade and City Place. Drumming workshops, market days, Snake Gully live, The McMennamins, Suave Swing...not to mention the busking and teh DJs. Who said the CBD lacked a vibrant core?
14.73
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...
 
14.74
GET YOURSELF A COMMUNITY HALL
Did you know that Cairns Regional Council has a portfolio of two dozen community halls, and all of them are just waiting for your idea or event. From Daintree Hall to Gordonvale Community Hall, all you need to do is click on the below link, contact the Council (or number indicated) and set yourself up as the next community user of one of these fine community halls... 

 
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CAIRNS ARTFUL-E ARCHIVES
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This issue of Cairns Artful-e is a stew 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, and one fastidious Interweb traveller at its Cairns Festival office. The readership is building, and much more information wants to be free and out there. Some of these items, will spark the imagination. Other bits might lack the oomph 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 that should be mentioned. Forward some or all of this to a friend. Cairns Artful-e is our earnest attempt to be helpful, and spread the news. As we enter inot another glorious weekend in the Far North, join us in giving thanks for so many of the creative things around us...for the ability to see and touch other worlds...to inhabit music...and to usher in the Year of the Rabbit... 
 
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ENDNOTE
Entering Picasso's studio in Paris, in 1940, Peggy Guggenheim found the Master surrounded by a group of admirers. Her artistic mission for the past several months — to buy a picture a day — was widely known. Most artists and dealers of the day, anticipating a German attack, were desperate to sell anything they could before packing or hiding their works and fleeing the city. Léger, Giacometti, Man Ray: all eagerly delivered their work to the gawky American heiress, and few objected to her haggling over price. There were not many buyers, after all...

She had a list, compiled by experts, of artists who should be included in a first-class modern collection, and it had not taken her long to acquire a painting or sculpture by almost every one. The great exception, who ignored her pointedly as she hovered in his studio, finally glanced up to inform her that she had arrived at the wrong location:


"Madame," Picasso said as he dismissed her, "you will find the lingerie department on the second floor."
 
 

posted by Cultural Engineer @ 8:26 pm