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Welcome to the February edition of the Creative Mandurah Newsletter. You can quickly scroll to content sections using these quick links:
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Are You a Peel Creative?
We'd love to hear from you!
The City of Mandurah is committed to helping local creatives flourish; the information you provide will help us advocate for the arts in our region, and provide opportunities for your practice to grow.
Take the short survey here
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Celebrate 20 Years of Crab Fest!
Create a crabflower
Drop in to one of the City’s libraries on Saturday 3 February, details below, to create your very own crabflower to celebrate 20 years of Crab Fest.
350 individually decorated crab flowers will surround an ephemeral work created by local artist, Gary Aitken, to be displayed on the Eastern Foreshore during the Crab Fest weekend.
Falcon eLibrary: 10am-12pm
Mandurah Library: 1-3pm
Lakelands Library and Community Centre: 2-4pm
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Stallholders and Food Vendors
Stretch Arts Festival 2018
Perth Makers Market is excited to be supported by the City of Mandurah to bring our popular markets to the Mandurah Stretch Arts Festival.
Perth Maker’s Market has grown rapidly since their start in February 2016, demonstrating a demand in Perth for accessible, high quality, Perth-made clothing, art, jewellery and more. Named as one of the top 17 makers markets by The Weekly Review and the only one from Perth, Perth’s Makers Market is Perth’s premier handmade artisan market.
Local residents to the Peel and Mandurah region will receive a 30% discount off their stall fees.
The Mandurah Boardwalk Markets are excited to announce our Gourmet Food areas at the Stretch Arts Festival 2018, showcasing some of the best local food trucks and producers. With a mix of diverse, multicultural food, there is sure to be something to charm your taste buds.
See the website for more information.
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The Big Draw
Stretch Arts Festival 2018 – applications for project facilitators are now open
If you have an innovative and engaging idea that will encourage festival goers to make a mark and get drawing, then become a Big Draw Facilitator!
The Big Draw is a fun, colourful and energetic event aimed at arts education to promote visual literacy and the universal language of drawing as a tool for fun, learning, expression and invention.
Register your details and your idea here.
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Put a Lid on it! Mandurah Footprint Project
Play your part in creatively increasing awareness of the health of Mandurah's waterways.
Put a Lid on it! is an extension of the footprint project Walking Together with Pride
that originated at City Beach Primary School, Perth in 2016. This arts-led project will explore the impact that single-use plastics have on Mandurah’s environment.
School students and community groups will be asked to make a pair of footprints that incorporate single-use plastics that have a detrimental effect on the Peel Inlet and surrounding waterways, including plastic bottle-tops and fishing line.
To register your interest please email Jodie Davisdon.
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Open Studio Collective
Artist Talk.
Join local artists Noela O’Keefe, Alana Grant, Lisa Payton, Joshua Brew and Ashley Hay on the final day of the 2018 CASM Open Studio Collective as they discuss their four week residency experience, art practice and techniques in each of their ‘studio spaces’.
Artist talk | Thurs, 1 Feb, 6pm
Visit the website for more information about the Artist Talk.
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Pixelism
By Paul Fleetham
Exhibition Dates | Fri, 9 February – Sun, 4 March
Exhibition Launch | Fri, 9 February, 6pm
CASM presents award winning Mandurah artist Paul Fleetham in his first solo exhibition. Pixelism, featuring prints and projection from his vast collection of digital artworks.
“I love, the freedom to explore down whatever path the ART wants to go. The style is then not the most important aspect of art making to me. There is only creativity and different ways of expressing it. So while I consider myself to be predominantly a Digital artist who uses a computer and graphic programs to create with, I usually call myself a Pixelist, which I think this has a softer edge to it and is a better fit.”
Artist talk | Thurs, 22 Feb, 6pm
Gallery Hours | Wed – Sun, 10am – 6pm
63 Orsmby Tce Mandurah
Visit the website for more information.
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Artist Talk
with Paul Fleetham
Artist talk | Thurs, 22 Feb, 6pm
Local Mandurah artist Paul Fleetham discusses the journey of his art practice, including the painting, photographic and digital hybrid artworks and the concepts behind various streams of interrelated imagery. Pixelism, Paul’s first solo exhibition, features at CASM until Sunday, 4 March
Gallery Hours | Wed – Sun, 10am – 6pm
63 Orsmby Tce Mandurah
Visit the website for more information.
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Masterpieces 2K18
Art Exhibition and Competition | 13-25yrs
Applications now open
Applications are now open for the Masterpieces 2K18 Art Competition and Exhibition.
A prize pool of $2,000 is available for artists aged between 13 and 25 years.
All art forms are accepted including painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, textile, installation and jewelry. The new category of Digital Media includes digital painting and prints as well as film and video art.
Categories for entry are:
- 13-15 years
- 16-17 years
- 18-25 years
- Digital Media
Applications close | Fri, 30 March, 5pm
CASM Masterpieces 2K18 Application 2018
For more information please visit http://www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/facilities/casm
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CASM Cultural Eco Garden
Volunteer day February 2018
Volunteer day: Tue, 6 Feb, 10.30am – 12pm
With great thanks to project manager Helen Coleman and the garden volunteers, the CASM Cultural Eco Garden is looking and smelling fantastic!
The garden began transformation in November and now contains almost 30 different endemic (local) species, all of which have traditional Noongar significance for bushfoods,
medicines or tool/textile uses.
December was another busy month for the volunteers, building natural habitats for goanna’s and more recently developing the site for three fish/frog ponds.
The next Cultural Eco Garden volunteer day is the first Tuesday in February. Bring your hat and join Helen and other volunteers for a morning of garden activities followed by a bush tucker tasting.
For further information about the project and volunteer group contact Helen Coleman on
coleman_clan@bigpond.com or ph: 0427 383 620
63 Ormsby Tce Mandurah
www.artspacesmandurah.com.au
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CASM Workshop Space
Evening Hire Available
The recently renovated CASM Workshop Space is available to the creative community for hire Monday – Sunday from 6pm – 10pm.
Join the hub of local artists and artisans facilitating or learning through CASM.
Contact CASM for further details during office hours: Wed – Fri, 9am – 4pm.
PH| 9550 3989
Email | casm@mandurah.wa.gov.au
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NEW Youth Judging Event, Wearable Art Mandurah
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Saturday 24 March.
Due to the high number of youth entries, Wearable Art Mandurah are presenting a second judging day, exclusively for designers aged 18 and under.
If you are in a role that nurtures creative young people – or are a creative young person yourself, request a free VIP ticket to watch the live judging. Tickets are limited.
Email to request your free tickets.
Have a look at this short video clip to see what happened at last year’s judging day.
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SAVE THE DATE
Wearable Art Mandurah Showcase : Tickets on sale 9 March
BOLD! EVOCATIVE! BREATHTAKING!
The body is a vehicle and the stage a canvas for encouraging new ways of viewing the world through revolutionary works of art for the body.
“A meeting of the disciplines of visual art, craft skills, design principals and fashion, wearable art is an exciting and intriguing art form. The performance groups the works thematically, leading to a beautiful tableaux with entertaining scenes featuring music, dance, drama and comedy to frame the presentation of the wearable artworks.”
Read the full review Here by Nerida Dickinson, Theatre Critic 2017 Showcase Review
6.30 pm Saturday 9 June: Wearable Art Mandurah Awards Showcase
2.00 pm Sunday 10 June: Wearable Art Mandurah Showcase
Image: Icarus Rising by Helen Coleman. Photography Tony Tropiano
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An invitation to paint
MANDURAH PLEIN AIR ARTISTS EXHIBITION PAINT-OUTS
Come along and paint with the local plein air group each Tuesday from 8am during their exhibition at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (MPAC) Foyer Gallery.
Tuesday 6, 13 and 20 February, meet outside MPAC
Any medium, any skill level – BYO paints and materials.
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ACP Printmakers 2018 Workshop
Make an Artist Book
Venue: CASM workshop
Dates: 14th and 21st February 2018
Time: 9:00-12:30
Cost: $45 per person
ACP Printmakers will be running a two week project in February to make an artist book and talk about print making projects for 2018. Spaces are available for the artist book workshop and in regular printmaking classes on Wednesday mornings at the CASM workshop.
Materials supplied | Paper, cardboard, glue
Please Bring | 30cm steel ruler, scissors, pencils, craft knife, 500mm x 500mmx piece of cotton or silk printed cloth for the cover of the book
To register please contact Judy Evans
PH | 9582 8557
Artist book images
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Art Classes in January and February
With local artist Trudi Whitcher.
Make an Artist Book
Classes
Acrylic Painting for Beginners | Tuesday 10am - 12pm and Saturday 10am- 12pm
Black and White Expressive Drawings | Tuesday 1pm -3pm
Pastel for Beginners | Thursdays 10am - 12pm
Pastel Classes | Thursday 7pm - 9pm
Homeschool Art Classes | Wednesday 9.30am -11.30am & 1pm – 3pm
Workshops
Expressive Black and White Drawing | 10th February 9am - 3 pm
Edicol Dye and Mixed Media | 24th February 9am - 3pm
Classes $25. Workshops $80
For bookings, inquiries and gift vouchers
Contact Trudi on 0407 771 717
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Upcoming Events Calendar
Thur, 1 February 6pm
Artist Talk Open Studio Collective, CASM
Tue, 6, 13 & 20 Feb
Paint with the plein air artists, CASM Garden
Tue, 6 Feb, 10.30am
CASM Cultural Eco Garden Volunteer Day
Fri, 9 February, 6pm
Launch Pixelism by Paul Fleetham, CASM
14 & 21 Feb
Artist Book Workshop with ACP printmakers, CASM Workshop
19 February
Photos of wearable art due for first round of judging, Online
24 March
NEW Wearable Art Mandurah Youth Judging Event, MPAC
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