Events Calendar
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14 Dec
Kid's Arty Farty Festival Grand Parade : FESTIVAL, KIDS, FREE
Sunday 20 March 2016
10.00 am - 11.00 am
Burgundy Street
Heidelberg 3084
Marching down Burgundy Street to Sills Bend and sponsored by The Heidelberg Central Traders, the Grand Parade is a chance for everyone to come together and celebrate creativity, community and childhood!
You’ll have to set your time machines for the future for this year’s parade…
The 2016 theme is Dreams of the Future and we want you to let your imaginations run wild!
What do you want to be when you grow up? What kind of world would you like to live in?
Will we be living on Mars?
Under the rule of giant cats?
Communicating only via dance?
Peacefully co-existing with artificially intelligent robots?
Whichever way you decide to interpret the theme, the Grand Parade is bound to be a fun and creative experience for all.
In 2015 the parade attracted over 1000 people and 35 groups from the community including schools, local arts groups, sporting clubs and organisations Get your creativity flowing and make a mark on the Arty Farty Festival by getting your group or school involved!
Download your entry form here. Entries close Friday 04 March 2016.
Check out the 2015 parade photos here .
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20 Jan
EXHIBITION: Anna Farago - "Stitching Place" : EXHIBITION
20 January – 14 February 2016
Middle of the road 2014 | Cotton thread on linen | 22 x 22cm
An exhibition of small textile works by Pinpoint artist, Anna Farago
Stitching Place contemplates the memories of being within visited places. Each work alludes to a ‘fleeting moment’, of both being there and being remembered later, and conveys this lingering effect through fractured shape and colour. Each stitched image is an intimate memory and object, often hinting at aspects of human presence through road signs, tents or fences within the bush, coast or open pastures.
Hand stitching is a focused way of making, creating private space around the concentrated attention of doing. The works are deliberately small and fragile, made on and for the interstices of the everyday, and stitched while on the train, with a cup of tea at the end of the day, or during a craft evening with friends. In their use of recycled fabric offcuts they reflect what 70s feminist artist Miriam Shipiro might call ‘femmage’. The idea of ‘place’ grounds the location of the memories and identifies the landscapes that occupy the works.
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Catalogue essay 'Fractured Structure' by Penelope Aitken
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28 Jan
GAYBY BABY screening : FREE, SCREENING
Banyule City Council presents a free screening of GAYBY BABY, the hit 2015 Australian film.At a time when the world is questioning the politics of same-sex families, GAYBY BABY takes us into the homes and personal dramas of four kids approaching puberty under the guidance of gay parents. In his all-female household, GUS strives to work out what it means to be a "man"; EBONY struggles to find her voice as a singer and a place where her gay family will be accepted; MATT questions how the God his lesbian mums worship can also damn them to hell; and GRAHAM’s desire to read and win the approval of his dads is complicated by a move to Fiji, where homosexuality is frowned upon. Told from the point of view of the kids, GAYBY BABY is a living, moving portrait of same-sex families that offers a refreshingly honest picture of what really counts in modern life
FREE event, but bookings required.
Follow the link to book: http://www.trybooking.com/JYUPWHEN: Thursday 28 January 2016, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
WHERE: Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, 14 Ivanhoe Parade, IVANHOE 3079
CONTACT: arts@banyule.vic.gov.au