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Matthew Reilly will visit Newcastle on 25 October for a special Newcastle Writers Festival event to speak about his new novel, the epic historical thriller Mr Einstein’s Secretary. The event starts at 7pm and will be held in the Shortland Building at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus.
Rhapsody is a radical new dance work by accomplished choreographer Omer Backley-Astrachan that takes the audience beyond the familiar theatrical setting and onto the fifth floor of a parking lot in Newcastle's West.
Confluence
Chris Brown and Alpha Sierra
Onwards Gallery
Open 15th September - 6-9pm
Continues 11am - 4pm Saturday - Thursday
Artist Talk on Sunday 17 September at 3pm, with Pippa Budge (curator and operations coordinator of MAP Mima) and Wednesday Sutherland (visual artist, program coordinator and curator at The Lock Up). I will share some of the stories on how the body of work came together and some of my many blunders, including getting a tick stuck in between my eyelashes. Should be fun!
Join us at MRAG to help strengthen and shape the future of the Hunters arts sector.
The NSW Government is working towards the State’s first Arts, Culture & Creative Industries Policy, and we want to hear from the sector.
Time Management for Creatives
Time Management for Creatives answers the age-old question – how are we supposed to find the time to run a creative career, pursue our arts-based practice, and have a life as well? Facilitated by Emmie Hallett, this fun and informal workshop discusses practical strategies to help you keep all the juggling balls in the air.
We are delighted to invite you to the two workshops we're running in partnership with TiNA! It's happening on Thursday the 1st of June at the Newcastle Art Space, 91 Chinchen St, Islington NSW 2296.
At 2:30pm, we'll kick off with Cash Flow for Creatives: Understanding how to manage the flow of money in and out of a creative business is always a challenge - and in a pandemic, even more so. The roller coaster of income and expenses, the 'famine and the feast', can be managed - but only with some expert advice and real-world examples to help. Cash Flow for Creatives is an interactive workshop that guides participants as they learn more about the irregularity of income that accompanies creative business, and how to manage their cash flow through practical tools and steps (NOT formulas).
At 5:30pm, we'll go right into Networking Tips for Creatives: This in-person workshop is a surprisingly fun event designed to encourage creative people to get to know each other, while acknowledging the horror, and sharing a few tips at the same time. While it’s a vital skill in the creative industries, many practitioners consider networking to be the stuff of nightmares. Networking Tips for Creatives combines education with the opportunity to practice in a safe and friendly environment while embracing the discomfort of the whole process and having a laugh.
Attending this event will provide participants with an inspiring opportunity to generate fresh ideas, to network with other creatives working in the industry, and to enhance their sense of belonging to our creative community. They will also have the opportunity to pose questions to the Creative Plus Business facilitator.
Tickets are free — the links to register are just below
Cash Flow for Creatives: http://bit.ly/3nkKDXc
Networking Tips for Creatives: http://bit.ly/3zeJjrD
We would love for you to join us! Feel free to share this far and wide, and invite friends and colleagues who would enjoy the event.
You can catch one of our new baby ibis puppets our for the very first time on Friday May 26th at The Levee Central Maitland!
Be sure to hide your trash, this pesky bin chicken just LOVES getting up to mischief.
You can catch him from 7:00pm-8:30pm at The Levee as a part of Maitland City Council's Changing Colours pop-up performances.
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PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CATAPULT DANCE HYSTERIA HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY ALYSHA FEWSTER AND ANGIE DIAZ, AND FEATURING CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER JASMIN SHEPPARD AND DANCER MADDISON FRASER.
The Gallery considerations and framing considerations workshop intends to cover the basics for curating, exhibiting, and hanging artworks. It will include information and techniques on safely handling, tools, equipment and the processes undertaken to ensure a successful exhibition. We hope it will provide comprehensive guideline for artists to exhibit their work with professionalism.
Come with your favourite recipes to share and your picnic blanket; watch Jayanto perform the Pandan Lamington story, make your own Pai Ti Kong food in air-dried clay and enjoy food snacks from different cultures and music in the Gallery garden.
Bookings essential | All ages
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
02 4934 9859 | artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au
You will have the opportunity to practice, improve and expand your skill base by experimenting with a variety of media, trying processes that encourage taking small risks and accepting change as part of the art-making process.
Bookings essential | Ages 14 – 16 years
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Deborah Kelly, Gods of tiny things 2019, Courtesy of the artist.
Bookings essential | All ages
This program is part of the Holiday Break Program supported by the Office for Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
02 4934 9859 | artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au
Join LOVEDAVID and his team in a special one-day collaborative film-making workshop, and then be part of red-carpet stardom at the MRAG Canned Fast Film Festival on Friday 20 January from 5.00pm.
The film festival will include your workshop films plus LOVEDAVID’S curated selection of the best in movies!
This program is part of the Holiday Break Program supported by the Office for Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.
Bookings essential | Two sessions
Ages 12-14 | Wednesday 18 January, 10.00am – 2.00pm
Ages 15-17 | Thursday 19 January, 11.00am – 3.00pm
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Kate takes inspiration from decorative arts, science and mythological creatures to create intensely colourful jewellery and sculptures.
Kate Rohde has exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art and in 2015 was a finalist in the Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria. Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery and Bendigo Art Gallery.
Friday 13 January, 6.30pm | Gallery open until 8.00pm
Bookings essential for talk | All ages
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
A unique opportunity to work with Melbourne-based artist Kate Rohde where you will learn the essential skills for designing your own small wearable or sculptural object and simple techniques for making a mould to cast designs, using low odour, easy-to-handle and fast-setting materials for a quick and colourful result.
You may get messy in this workshop so wear old clothes and BYO apron.
Bookings essential | Ages 14 – 18 years
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
You may get messy in this workshop so wear old clothes and bring along an apron or art smock.
Bookings essential | Ages 8 – 12 years
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
This workshop is designed for children 4 -8 years but can be enjoyed by older children too.
Bookings essential | Children & carers
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Detail of installation by Holly Macdonald for Brenda Clouten Memorial Art Scholarships 2022
Artist Holly Macdonald will guide workshop participants through the process of making clay tiles working with hands and body to produce tiles that uniquely reflect each participant.
Bookings essential | All ages & skill levels
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | (+61 2) 4934 9859
Artist Holly Macdonald will work with participants to uncover the range of sounds made by clay and how these sounds offer information about the material and our relationship to it.
Bring a smart phone along so that you can take some sounds home with you!
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
Bookings essential | All ages & skill levels
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Running daily during exhibition hours: 10.00am – 1.00pm
Drop in | Daily | 30-minute sessions
Participants are invited to spend 30 minutes at the station.
Bookings not required, but places limited.
Free Art January is generously supported by Education Partner Cleverpatch and MRAG Members.
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Human Remains dance performance by Catapult Dance at Maitland Regional Art Gallery .
Participants will learn contemporary dance and choreographic process discovery based on the kinetic sculptures of Hannah Gartside.
The workshops will focus on developing choreography that stems from the kinetic movement and aesthetic qualities of the sculptures in the exhibition, Harbingers: Loie, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah And Lilith.
Cadi McCarthy is the Director and Founder of Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub. Cadi has been actively engaged in dance as a professional dancer, choreographer, educator and director.
For more information, contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Alex Seton in residence at Canberra Glassworks. Photo by Brooke McEachern.
Join us for the opening of EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT: ALEX SETON and DOUBLE RAINBOW: MICHELLE GEARIN from 5.30PM Saturday 10 December to celebrate the launch of these two exciting exhibitions.
Alex Seton will be presenting a series of blown glass chandeliers throughout The Lock-Up's historic cells in tribute to those made by Newcastle’s discontinued Leonora Glassworks and commonly seen within entranceways of clubs and RSLs of post-World War II Australia.
Hunter-based artist Michelle Gearin will be presenting a new body of work exploring her personal experience as an Autistic artist responding to the power of the human eye and the science of optics.
Both exhibitions feature site-specific commissions that push each of the artist's practices through the use of new and exciting mediums.
Bookings not required.
For more information, contact The Lock-Up:
info@thelockup.org.au | (02) 4925 2265
Michelle Gearin, Double Rainbow (installation detail) 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
The event will also be moving from City Hall to The University of Newcastle’s NUspace building as part of a new three-year partnership between the two organisations. Founding festival director Rosemarie Milsom said the move marks the beginning of a new chapter. “The University is a founding sponsor and I’m thrilled that after a decade it has strengthened its commitment by becoming a major partner. NUspace provides greater accessibility and space, which has become a priority since the arrival of Covid. We’re also excited about introducing our audience and guest writers to the stunning building.”
University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky said, “Our University is delighted to partner with Newcastle Writers Festival for the next three years. I’m also pleased that the festival will now call NUspace home. Newcastle Writers Festival is an iconic cultural event in our region and in the past decade many of our students, staff and alumni have contributed to extending its success. We’re excited about our partnership, and we look forward to supporting its continual growth.”
Milsom said that guest authors Craig Silvey (Jasper Jones, Honeybee, Runt) and Pip Williams (The Dictionary of Lost Words) had been high on the list of audience requests in the past few years. “Their books are loved far and wide and I’m excited that Pip will be visiting Newcastle on the eve of the release of her new novel The Bookbinder of Jericho.”
Equally exciting is the inclusion of diverse debut writers. Mawunyo Gbogbo is a self-described “church-going African Australian girl” who grew up in the Hunter region mining town of Muswellbrook. She will speak about her compelling memoir Hip Hop & Hymns. First Nations academic Amy Thunig, who launched her memoir Tell Me Again at the University of Newcastle’s Wollotuka Institute in October, is also a guest speaker. “The festival has always provided a platform for emerging writers and our audience is passionate about supporting new and interesting voices,” said Milsom.
Walkley Award-winning photojournalist Andrew Quilty worked in Afghanistan for almost a decade and Milsom remembers him as a fresh-faced intern at Fairfax Media (now Nine) where they both worked 20 years ago. “Andrew’s work in the midst of the ongoing upheaval in war-ravaged Afghanistan is exemplary,” she said. “His book, The Fall of Kabul, provides searing observations about all sides of the conflict.”
There will be 70 ticketed and free events in the 2023 program, which will be presented in venues within the Civic Precinct including the Conservatorium of Music, NUspace, Watt Street Gallery and Playhouse. A couple of special events will also be held at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus.
The full program will be available online from 9am on February 17 and tickets go on sale at the same time.
For more information and to organise interviews with the writers mentioned contact Rosemarie Milsom: rmilsom@newcastlewriterfestival.org.au | 0403 041 588
Image: 1983 Pearl Beach - Louise, Valerie and Tim. Photo by John Lewis.
Enjoy delicious food, refreshments, great company and exclusive access to the exhibition, A Rare Sensibility, featuring the work of artist Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen.
Hear from her son, Tim Olsen as he shares insights into his Mother's practice and place in Australia's cultural landscape.
There's also door prizes to be won and 20% off* in the Gallery Shop just for Members' until 1.00pm.
Capacity limited.
For more information, contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
- A Rare Sensibility | Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
- Many Hands Make Life Work - Deborah Kelly and the Moving Image 2011-2021
- Harbingers: Loie, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah and Lilith | Hannah Gartside
- Monster Mash | Kate Rohde
- Yellow Sun, Blue Gum | Ileigh Hellier
- Protection | Jane Lander
- Escapade | Tinky
- A Little Potluck Party Pai Ti Kong with the Ghosts (Double Happiness) | Jayanto Tan
For more information, please contact Maitland Regional Art Gallery:
artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au | 02 4934 9859
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion between the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the ABC’s Matt Bevan about geopolitics, media, and the health of democracy. As one of Australia’s leading authorities on the relationship between the United States and China, Mr Rudd will also discuss his most recent book, The Avoidable War, which he explores the likely outcomes of a war between the two nations and proposes solutions based on his own diplomatic experience.
Inspired by Roland Harvey’s picture book, the work incorporates themes of the beach, quirky humour and summer fun, and is perfect entertainment for young children.
London-based Australian human rights and media lawyer Jennifer Robinson will speak about her new book How Many Women? Exposing how the law silences women. Jennifer has defended Julian Assange and advised WikiLeaks since 2010 and recently represented Amber Heard in British and US defamation cases.
Experience a powerful evening of physical, gritty, raw, text-driven, dance theatre.
Where is your edge and how close are you to slipping off?
