Arts & Health Gippsland

14/09/2023

This looks wonderful 🤗

08/09/2023

Tonight the heaters will be on at Jak's Live for the 2023 OTT Theatresports— the easels are set up too!
8 teams will vie for the trophy, and Hedy Peter will be performing 🪘🌹
Tix $20 on the door
Want to try your hand at some life drawing? I’ll have basic paper set up on the easels, with pastels, charcoal, pencils and markers… 👌🏼

01/09/2023

An artwork from OTT Theatresports a few years ago… come along next Friday night for a thrilling friendly competition between EIGHT teams and their improv skills. Tix $20 https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1099754

11/08/2023

I’ll be bringing easels and some arts materials for anyone who wants to have a go at capturing some of the scene: audience, fun, dramatic, or abstract.
Put Friday 8th Sept in the calendar! 🤗

So excited to add an EIGHTH team to our OTT night 8 Sept. Previous winners (2020) Latrobe Theatre Company will join current champs Off The Leash Theatre With Teeth and other Gipps theatre companies Next Gen Leongatha Lyric Theatre Inc. Warragul Theatre Company Ghostlight Theatre in improv drama adventure, along with two community teams who just want to get into the action 🎭🏆🎪🎨🪘🪗
Tickets via Trybooking or on the door, 7.30 for an 8pm start. Hedy Peter will be performing some evocative tunes, and visual artists capturing the atmosphere in paints, inks, and sketches. Jak's Live will have the heaters on and are supporting with sound and tech, Community Bank Drouin & District supporting this year as our sponsors.

12/07/2023

The next in our Vanguard Interviews - we loved hearing the stories of Hedy Peter and warmly invite you to grab a cuppa and have a read. There's so much in this interview it might need more than one sitting! but I'm sure it will inspire you as it did me. Transcribed and written by Steve Wiegerink.

Mentors in the arts, Hedy and Peter Kirkbride, this is the third of the Vanguard Interviews Series.

28/05/2023

The next in our Grab a cuppa and have a read! Transcribed and edited by Steve Wiegerink The Magic If https://artsandhealthgippsland.com.au/vanguardinterviewsdalenewayne/
🙏thanks to John at Select Office Supplies Office Choice Warragul for our external hard drive, which we are using to store this wonderful archive.

Vanguard interview number 2, with Dalene Salisbury and Wayne Pollard, focuses on ways of living an artistic and creative way of life, across the lifespan.

24/05/2023

This Saturday in Civic Park, Drouin— come along and see this new bronze monument, honouring 3 Kurnai matriarchs, and telling the story of First Nations in west Gippsland. 10am, in the Soundshell.

18/04/2023

The first of the of artist leaders and mentors in the West Gippsland region is up. This is a collaboration with The Magic If to record the stories of each Vanguard artist to encourage and nurture the wider arts community. The interviews are short - around an hour - and it is impossible to capture everything a person has done and been in their community in such a short time. I'd love to hear your stories, memories and thoughts about each Vanguard artist too. Our archive is growing, thanks for data storage from Select Office Supplies Office Choice Warragul
The first interview is with David Steele - music teacher, performer, and mentor.

The Vanguard Interviews explore the lives and work of senior artists in West Gippsland. The first interview is with musician, David Steele.

02/03/2023

I was really happy to pay it forward for this enterprise ❤️

😍 A beautiful venue for a pretty special project!
🌿 Are you ready to walk on the wild side?
👀 Curious? Learn more here: https://www.wildsideproject.org/
🤗 This workshop was delivered by CRSE Group team members Carmel and Robin thanks to sponsors Arts & Health Gippsland and WWF-Australia
👏 Huge shout out to these movers and shakers Anda, Alex, Jen, Terry and First Nations Elder Cheryl Drayton
✨️ The Gippsland Social Enterprise Collective hosted Local Learning Lab and exploration of a Regen Gippsland movement has certainly created an amazing energy and we are so excited to see how we can support it's growth!
💪Nurtured collaboration brings strength and possibility to rural communities.

Prom Coast Ecolink

02/03/2023

An incredible, tactile archive of Place. 💪🏻

27/02/2023

An for West Gippsland— with thanks to John Mai at and in collaboration with .magic.if 🎭 💡 we have begun recording some of the local vanguard of artists as they tell stories of their work in the arts in this area. In the future, this archive will form the basis for new works to be developed, with the consent of and active collaboration with each individual artist. ➡️ ‼️Who should be on our list? we don’t want to forget anyone! Artists around 65-70 years (or more or less!) who have persisted in their chosen art form despite difficulties 🙏🏼

26/02/2023

Some of the practical outworking of 'less is necessary' (originally coined by Kate Larsen) in the arts today - article by Jennifer Mills.

Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix’s experimental hothouse for work in development, is held over four days in Yerta Bulti (Port Adelaide) each year. It’s a rare opportunity for artists from around the country to come together, and for South Australian audiences to witness the alchemy of work in progress....

24/02/2023

This month’s artist chat is Cheryl Cook. Repeated this morning on 3RR-FM103.1 at 9am during Paul Strickland’s West Gippsland Week. This sounds like a great discussion between local writer, Rod Williams, and Cheryl, who is currently working on a fibre-based installation left to the elements out in nature ✨ 🧐
Link to radio: https://3bbrfm.org.au/ and to Baw Baw Arts Alliance
https://bawbawartsalliance.org.au/newcms52/Artist-Chat

Artist Chat. Representing a society of artists and art lovers of West Gippsland. The Baw Baw Arts Alliance (Bbaa) comprises a network of friendly, like-minded people interested in the arts and is about companionship and the sharing and dissemination of ideas, skills and knowledge.

15/02/2023

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30/01/2023

Here's a zine by author Anwen Crawford which has been published in full online - the art is writing, but the economic consequences are the same. Here's hoping the new federal Cultural paper (link in comments) might start to change the environment for artists suffering burnout.