New Folk are looking for donations of artworks and energies to auction at the Wild Things Forest Fundraiser. This festival event will be a celebration of all the hard work and incredible energy that goes into the ongoing battle to protect our forests. Artists and artisans are sought after for three main happenings at the event.

1. A Silent Art Auction will feature as part of the festival, showing some of the amazing art that our natural world inspires. Artworks will auctioned and bids placed over the evening with a reserve price nominated by the artist. 30% of the winning bid will be returned to the artist and the remaining 70% will be donated to the ongoing campaign to protect Victoria’s native forests and to assist with the Save Sylvia Creek campaign.
2. The Wild Things Bizarre will also be featured as a lounge space hosting lots of other random fundraising happenings. Face painters, body painters, hairdressers, tattooists and the like are also sought after for the event.
3. The Restorative Gallery will be a healing space and is looking for healers who can give massage, reiki, shiatsu, etc to help raise funds.

Please contact New Folk or email info@newfolk.com.au if you have skills, energy or artwork you would like to contribute.

The great Fest La Frog arts auction is live.  Proceeds go to great work of Beyond Zero Emissions, so please post a bid and send to your friends.

Fest la Frog is a showcase of sustainable organic music and art which was held at Melbourne’s CERES Environment Park on Saturday 9 April 2011.

Twelve artists decorated eight doors which were mounted to form a door henge.

Click here to see the artwork and place your bid

Fest la Frog is a showcase of sustainable organic music and art to be held at Melbourne’s CERES Environment Park this Saturday.

Bindarri and Here Studio is curating an installation called “Door Henge”. Eight artists will decorate a door each which will be mounted onsite in a circular pattern to form the door henge. The individual doors will be auctioned to raise funds for Beyond Zero Emissions great work.

We invite you to participate. Simply email us a link to your work online. If you are chosen, you will be given $50 towards materials and you need to arrive in the morning to create you work onsite. (if you need to work before hand, this may be possible)

See you there and invite your mates today!!!

Fest la Frog website | Fest la Frog facebook | Download the installation plan

The Women’s Circus annual fundraising event Dished Up will ripple into the Drill Hall, 395 Barkly St, West Footscray on Sat 4th Dec. For only $15 you are promised an exhilarating night of circus performances. The bar is liscenced and there will be food. There will also be lots of great things on offer at the silent auction. So come and enjoy the recipe of circus. $15 tickets at the door only (cash), children under 5 free. Doors open 7pm. Show starts 8pm. With less than 2 weeks to go the Women’s Circus are also looking for donors to contribute prizes for the silent auction. If you have a talent, a service or a good that you would like to donate to assist in fundraising then please contact them.

Art for Sharks is a major charity art auction, held each year to raise funds for our work to save our threatened marine wildlife, make our fisheries sustainable and create marine national parks, places in the sea where our turtles, sharks and seals are safe from harm.
Please join AMCS for a night of celebration, inspiration and art appreciation in Richmond (Victoria). All funds raised from Art for Sharks will go specifically towards their Save our Sharks campaign.

The auction will feature work from established and emerging artists from all over Australia working across a variety of different mediums.

A feature of this years’ event will be a large collection of Aboriginal art from South Australia and the Northern Territory.

The auction is a joint fundraiser for the ACE campaign and for the Aboriginal-led Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA).

Hogans Gallery, 310 Smith Street (next door to Friends of the Earth)