What’s ON!
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Access Arts’ end of year FUNDRAISER!
THURSDAY 8TH DECEMBER 5-7:30pm, The Block – QUT, Creative Industries precinct
$20/$10 conc.
– A celebration of Access Arts and International Day of People with Disability
– Art auction: all original works!
– Performances by our members
– Peter Vance’s CD project – The Truth
– Auslan interpreted, and wheelchair and access friendly
– Food and beverages provided for all tastes
Any queries, please contact us PH: 3844 5897
Email: joelene@accessarts.org.au
Contact on the day PH: 0403 070 688
Directions: From Kelvin Grove Road, enter QUT via Musk Road and then turn left to enter Parer Place. The Block is between The Shed and The Loft.
Smooth Jazz, Groovy Lounge
Green Jam Sessions are back every Friday evening from September for a few hours of laid back lounge and smooth jazz on QPAC’s Melbourne Street Green stage.
In this free program of live music, supported by Heritage Building Society, the talented musicians from Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium get the weekend vibe started and show off their impressive repertoire of music.
As the days become longer and the weather heats up, QPAC is the place to be for a chilled out evening of cold drinks, relaxing tunes and great company.
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| 25 November |
Luara Karlson-Carp Trio |
| 2 December |
Paula Girvan Trio |
| 9 December |
James Ball Trio |
THE SWARA ROCKY SHOW Sat 26th Dec 11am
When Brad & Janet’s car breaks down they encounter much more than they expect ………come along and see what happens! It’s a chance to dress-up and sing-a-long – so bring your voices, dress as your favourite TV/ Film Family Member and stay for a barbie afterwards
Where: SWARA 101 Park Rd, Woolloongabba
When: 11am, Sat 26th November
Cost: Gold Coin Donation
Please make an effort to dress-up and be a part of the SWARA singers.
The last night at the Grand Hotel – Performance at Judith Wright Centre 1st – 3rd Dec
Judith Wright Centre and Blue Roo Theatre company present “The last stand at the Grand Hotel” It’s 1945 and as the wrecking ball hovers over one of Brisbane’s iconic hotels, staff and patrons gather top share in one last evening of song, music, magic and mayhem
Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd December
Tickets from $15 – carers FREE!
PH: 07 3872 9000
FAN Theatre presents “A Time to Discover”
Come along for an intimate performance presented by FAN (Forgotten Australians national) Theatre.
A time to discover is a performance showcasing the skills, ideas and creativity of the FAN Theatre members that they have been developing for the last 12 weeks. The performance includes puppetry, film, live performance and is about leaving the past behind and looking towards the future
Come and join us on the 25th November, 7pm, The Studio – Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, and City. Bookings essential for a FREE performance.
CollaborARC
A Learning and Life Skills Program brought to you by ARC Disability Services Inc.
Featuring:
St Johns Community Care - Deaf Indigenous Dance Group - Tropical Arts
Where: COCA Theatre –Abbott Street
When: Friday 9th December
Time: 6.30pm (Doors open 6pm)
PH: (07) 4046 3600
Into the Mind of the Painter
“The HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE”
(Charles Olson 1950 Black Mountain College)
An exhibition of paintings by Pamela Asai exploring gesture, rhythm, motif and the mark, these largely non-figurative works inspired by literature, poetry, emotion and memory are teamed with selections from the painter’s diary. Together with quotations from other artists, critics, writers and poets, these texts offer a unique glimpse into the artistic process and the opportunity, when placed alongside the canvases, to enter ‘into the mind of the painter’.
Steeped in the traditions of mid-twentieth century American painting and inspired and challenged by Cy Twombly, Asai’s art is concerned with the physical act of painting as a direct conduit from the unarticulated self. Like a seismograph, Asai’s lines, scratches, spots, blots and slashes, register private meaning through a personal visual language. As such, these paintings are a celebration of the moment of creation; a movement from the heart, via the breath and the hand, to the canvas – painterly evidence of the synthesis of mind, emotion and the body. Intelligent and assured, this large selection of work, together with its revealing texts, is an exhibition that visitors to the gallery will find both beautiful and thought provoking.
Season: Tue 22 November 2011 – Sat 3 December 2011
Opening: 6pm Wed 23 November 2011
When: Mon – Fri: 10am – 4:30pm, Sat: 2pm – 5pm
Where: Metro Arts Galleries
Phone: (+617) 3002 7100
Email: info@metroarts.com.au
Reception: Level 2, 109 Edward St, Brisbane QLD 400
Flipside Circus News
We are very excited to have this terrific article about Flipside Circus’s Unthink the Impossible Program published on the Disability services web site. Please take a moment to have a look and if you’d like more information about this inspiring program please contact Deb at Flipside Circus
http://www.qld.gov.au/disability/news-events/circus-therapy/
PH. (07) 3352 7233
Address: 117 Mina Parade Alderley Qld 4051
PO Box 50 Alderley Qld 4051
Email: debbie@flipsidecircus.org.au
Web: www.flipsidecircus.org.au
Flipside Circus is also offering a school holiday program from the Dec 12th to Jan 21st
Flipside Circus is a national leader in youth arts empowering children and young people through circus. Flipside values the strategic concepts of circus described by Australian youth circus legend, Dr. Reg Bolton: to show off, to take risks, to trust, to dream and aspire, to work hard and to laugh.
Screech Theatre
Have fun, make friends and get creative…
Are you aged between 13 and 20 and interested in drama? Then Screech Theatre would love to hear from you!
At Screech you’ll have the chance to make new friends, learn new drama and art skills, perform for an audience and most importantly, have fun!
Screech is offering a series of free ‘taster’ workshops for new members. The workshops are for everyone and will give you an idea of what drama is all about, including designing sets, making props, making costumes and of course, acting!
Screech is committed to building an inclusive, expressive and creative space, so if you’ve ever considered drama, come along and give it a go!
Dates and times
From 10am to 1pm
Saturday 17th December 2011
Saturday 14th January 2012
Saturday 22nd January 2012
Venue Cerebral Palsy League, Windsor
217A Lutwyche Road, Windsor
PH: Nic Vogelpoel – 07 3357 5289
Email: nvogelpoel@cplqld.org.au
GoMA – Current exhibitions
Pip & Pop | we miss you magic land!
26 November 2011 – 4 March 2012 | GoMA
For our GoMA Turns 5 celebrations, the Children’s Art Centre invited Perth-based artist duo Pip & Pop (Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic) to transform the Park Level into a large-scale installation especially for children and families.
Drawing on children’s fairy tales from all over the world, creation myths, Buddhist cosmologies and video games, Pip & Pop create magical lands coloured with a bright, often fluorescent palette. A favourite story is the land of Cockaigne, which first appeared in French poetry in the thirteenth century. This mythical land of plenty was the medieval peasant’s dream – an idea that captured everyone’s imagination and quickly spread across Europe. Descriptions mention streets paved with pastries, houses made of cake and sugar, and skies raining cheeses. Other stories referred to in the artists’ works include the Ainu folktale ‘The birds’ party’, about a celebratory feast hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Pigeon; and the Incan story ‘In search of the magic lake’, set in a stunning landscape, where the sky dips so low that it meets the water’s edge, charging the liquid with healing powers
Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
18 November 2011 – 11 March 2012 | GoMA
‘Look Now, See Forever’ transforms the dramatic spaces of the Gallery of Modern Art with a series of spectacular immersive rooms, featuring new sculptures and paintings as well as film projection and installation
12 November 2011 – 19 February 2012 | GoMA
In recent years, Brisbane benefactor James C Sourris, AM, has been gathering an extensive collection of contemporary Australian art, focusing on the first decade of the twenty-first century and paying particular attention to Queensland artists
5 November 2011 – 21 October 2012 | GOMA
‘Across Country’ celebrates the Indigenous Australian art collection development since GoMA’s opening, by highlighting major acquisitions
4 November 2011 − 15 January 2012 | QAG
Daphne Mayo (1895–1982) is one of Queensland’s most significant twentieth century artists. Mayo was an outstanding sculptor and creator of some of Brisbane’s grandest monuments, as well as a passionate advocate for the arts.
15 October 2011 – 25 March 2012 | GoMA
In recognition of the Gallery’s ongoing commitment to contemporary design, Australia’s Dinosaur Designs have been commissioned to produce a new body of work for GoMA’s fifth anniversary. It will be one of their largest and most dazzling projects to date.
1 October 2011 – 5 February 2012 | GoMA
Bringing together a diverse range of contemporary textiles from the Gallery’s Australian, Asian and Pacific Collections, ‘Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric’ celebrates the ways in which contemporary artists explore and extend the textile medium.
1 October 2011 – 12 February 2012 | GoMA
‘The Hand, The Eye and The Heart’ brings together a series of works that reflect on the public dimension of private experience. The exhibition includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture, and surveys a range of approaches used by artists to record private and personal aspects of human experience. The exhibition in turn considers how these acts of remembrance are made material and spiritual.
27 August – 27 November 2011 | QAG
‘Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World’ is an exhibition for all audiences. Regarded by the French as a national treasure this important exhibition of Cartier-Bresson works is presented in conjunction with the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation and Magnum Photos, Paris
For more information
http://qag.qld.gov.au/whats_on
Contact Us
- Stanley Place, South Bank,
Queensland 4101, Australia
Phone: +61 (0)7 3840 7303
Fax: +61 (0)7 3844 8865
Email: gallery@qag.qld.gov.au
Matisse Up Late – GOMA
5.30–10.00pm Fridays 20 January – 2 March 2012 | Gallery of Modern Art
GoMA is open UP LATE on Fridays from 20 January – 2 March during ‘Matisse: Drawing Life’.
Up Late takes a sophisticated, soulful approach during ‘Matisse: Drawing Life’, with DJ jazz in the early evening introducing the lush arrangements of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Django Rheinhart, Alice Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Don Cherry, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker.
Up Late will feature contemporary artist talks, live models bringing The Drawing Room to life, and music performances with an acoustic edge providing the perfect backdrop to the exhibition.
