Category: Melbourne+VIC

July 23, 2010

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 Peace Posters is a 32 page BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER which unfolds to 30 posters and is available for FREE … To be released very soon!
Help the crew at Breakdown Press get them out into the world. To obtain copies of this Free Broadsheet for bedroom walls, workplaces, street poles, community notice boards, shopfronts and schools, please email: distro@breakdownpress.org with your address and how many copies you wish to receive!

July 10, 2010

The Big Splash Melbourne mini festival celebrates the novel and hopes to give shape and motivation to the ideas of young writers. The day includes a keynote speech given by debutant author Jessica Au, workshops hosted by John Marsden and Steven Amsterdam and a panel discussion. Tickets are $45.
Young writers can go to www.expressmedia.org.au or call 9094 7890 for more information and bookings.

October 20, 2010 to October 24, 2010

The Awakenings Arts Festival welcomes and encompasses all levels of performance experience from grass roots to professional, featuring performing and visual arts that showcase the work of artists with disabilities.
20th to 24th October, Horsham, Victoria.

July 8, 2010 7:30 pm to July 31, 2010 7:30 pm

Artworks from school students across Victoria on human rights will be displayed in City Library Gallery in Flinders Lane, Melbourne throughout July 2010.

Join us on the 8th of July 2010 for the opening night where you will also have the opportunity to make a creative action yourself!

Your art will be sent to Papua New Guinea women rights defenders who are going to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women hearing in New York.

July 9, 2010 to July 18, 2010

Gertrude Street will once again be transformed into a free outdoor gallery.

Now in its third year, the Projection Festival is this year themed ‘Me. You. Us.’ – encouraging us all to think about our relationship with ourselves and our community, and our effect on the world.

The festival program includes a building-sized interactive digital projection by the Festival’s feature artist, Kit Webster, as well as entries from community groups and emerging artists.

Co Directors of the 2010 Projection Festival, Monique McNamara and Kym Ortenburg invites everyone to visit Gertrude Street “we want everyone to come and join us and visit Gertrude St after dark!”
For more information go to www.thegertrudeassociation.com/projection