PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Write On
Devonport Regional Gallery’s Creative Writing Group
The Devonport Regional Gallery wish to announce the inception of Write On, a new writers group devised to provide local writers with an outlet for their creativity. With an emphasis on dramatic writing and script writing, the group will extend on the outcomes of the Gallery’s popular 2009 Script Writing class.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore and develop their own ideas through the act of creative and dramatic writing. The ten week program will focus on writing from personal experiences and real life stories. The writing group will emphasise on:
Supporting
Sharing
Editing
Critique
The cost for the ten weeks is $40 members, $50 non-members.
The group will operate fortnightly from the 10th August to the 14th December, 6pm through to 8pm.
WS: Willow Chair
Make a Willow Chair from scratch with Lee Cole
The Devonport Regional Gallery will be conducting a one-day willow chair making workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to design and build their own unique piece of furniture to use in the home or garden.
A series of Willow Chair making workshops have been conducted around the State leading up to the Regional Arts Australia National Conference, Junction 2010. Pieces from these workshops will form the installation, Wild Willow Café, at the Conference in Launceston. Participants in the Devonport Regional Gallery’s workshop may choose to include their work in this installation, allowing them to be part of the national festival/conference.
The workshop is strictly limited to 10 people. Therefore a first in – first served principle will apply. Participants will need to bring their own pair of securters and gloves
Tuition Fee $15 members, $20 non-members.
Friday 13th August, 10am through to 3pm
Artist FAD: Sonja Hindrum
Tuesday August 17, 12 – 4pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Liz Williamson: Living Treasures, Master of Australian Craft Series, prominent Tasmanian textile artist Sonja Hindrum has been invited to participate in the Gallery’s Artist FAD – Artist for a day program.
The artist will establish a lively studio space inside the Gallery and work on several of her ongoing projects, including Pleiades, a community project involving over 1000 felted spheres. Pleiades will be a highlight of the Regional Arts Australia National Conference, Junction 2010, held in Launceston in late August.
The Gallery invites people to visit Sonja Hindrum at the Gallery on Tuesday the 17 August. Sonja will be in the Gallery between 12pm and 4pm. It is essential for school groups to book, so that special consideration can be provided regarding artist talks.
WS: Make Your Own Felt Scarf
In the evening, Sonja Hindrum will be conducting a felt scarf workshop, inviting participants to try their hand at felting. Beginners will be able to practice simple felting techniques while the more advanced can work on a ‘cobweb’ scarf.
Participants will need to bring towels, a rolling pin and a plastic bucket.
Tuesday 17th August, 6pm – 8.00pm at the DRG
Cost $20 Adults / $15 Members, Students, Concession
Spring Squeeze
The 2010 Devonport Regional Gallery Spring Squeeze will feature two award winning documentary series. Throughout September and October the Gallery will be screening Great Artists One, with Tim Marlow and Five Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Great Artists One, with Tim Marlow
“A major 14 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured including Giotto, Michelangelo and Raphael.”
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Five Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude
“Chronicles a 30 year collaboration between acclaimed documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles and internationally renowned environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Maysles Brothers, along with such frequent co-filmmakers as Charlotte Zwerin and Susan Froemke, have captured the artists’ enduring relationship and the grandeur of their large scale temporary public works. The series of award winning films stands as a permanent document of the process, the political drama, the emotional investment and the transforming effect the finished works have on all those who come in contact with them.”
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Attendance is Free.
Each Screening will start at 5.30pm
Thursday Sept. 2 – Episodes 1 – 3 Great Artists, with Tim Marlow
Thursday Sept. 9 – Episodes 4 – 6 Great Artists, with Tim Marlow
Thursday Sept. 16 – Episodes 7 – 9 Great Artists, with Tim Marlow
Thursday Sept. 23 – Episodes 10 – 12 Great Artists, with Tim Marlow
Thursday Sept. 30 – Episodes 13 & 14 Great Artists, with Tim Marlow
(Each Episode runs for 25 minute)
Break
Thursday Oct. 14 – 1974 Christo’s Valley Curtain & 1978 Running Fence
Thursday Oct. 21 – 1986 Islands & 1990 Christo in Paris
Thursday Oct. 28 – 1995 Umbrellas & Interview
The Jam
A sticky situation – that tastes so sweet
The Gallery is always open on a Sunday afternoon, however to warm up your winter and take you into spring, there is now even more reason to come to the Gallery - The Jam, for joy and entertainment.
The Jam is about performing and having fun. It’s about strumming, hooting, tooting, singing, dancing, stand-up comedy, spoken word – in fact anything that is a little or a lot impromptu.
Everyone is welcome to attend this relaxing afternoon of entertainment, but obviously only those brave enough need take to the stage – who knows, you might even get picked up by a talent scout!
12th September
24th October
$5 Entry Fee, Register at the door
