Festival Launch
Where: State Government Offices
Level 4, 21 McLachlan Street, Horsham
When: 6 – 8pm Friday 18 March
Further information contact:
Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
Looking up
Attention all photographers! Enter the Art is… under our sky competition and receive a list of secret locations to photograph. Present the judges with a selection of your best ‘under our sky’ photos to win fantastic prizes.
Where: Various locations in Horsham CBD, beginning at the art is office at 10am for briefing. 1/43 Firebrace St, Horsham.
When: 10am - 2pm Saturday 2 April
Cost: $10
Further information contact:
Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
Galleries on the Side
View artists’ works relating to the theme ‘under our sky’ in shopfront windows of local business in the Horsham CBD and industrial precinct throughout the festival period. Take part in the guided city walk led by Horsham Regional Art Gallery Director, Adam Harding, where winners will be announced and prizes to the value of $500 will be awarded.
Where: Various locations within the Horsham CBD and industrial precinct
When: On display 28 March – 11 April.
Winners announced at Our Wet Wimmera Launch, at 65 Firebrace St at 5pm Sunday 3 April
Cost: FREE
Contact: Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
Interested artists can click here to download the registration form
Guide to the night sky
- Family astronomy night
Local astronomy enthusiast Gil Hopkins and cultural historian, John Morieson will lead an evening of discussion, viewing and interpretation of the night sky of the Boorong clan of the Wergaia people of northwest Victoria. Over the past decade, Aboriginal communities have worked with John on his groundbreaking research to recover the stories of the Boorong. These stories express not only knowledge about the night sky but also reflect aspects of Boorong culture. The changing skies speak not only of stars and planets but of landscapes, the activity of animals and plants throughout the year, rights conduct, healing, and lore.
Where: Laharum Hall
When: 5.30pm for BBQ dinner
Cost: TBA
Contact: Festival office ph: 53 81 0297
Trevor Smith Exhibition
The exhibition during the Art is … Festival will be all crochet work including tea cosies, lidded boxes and handbags.
Where: Café Baghdad, Safeway carpark Horsham
When: Exhibition opening 3.30pm Sunday 3 April. Nibbles and drinks provided.
Cost: FREE
Contact: Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
Grey Matters
Weather’. Grey Matters will explore the changing meteorology forecasting patterns.
Where: Conference Room at Department of Primary Industries, Horsham
When: 2pm Sunday 3 April
Cost: Gold coin donation
Contact: Simone Dalton
Ph: 5362 0762
Starry, Starry, Stars
Two-day patchwork workshop with Marion Matthews. Fool proof techniques on simple star construction.
Where: Haven Hall
When: Saturday 8 April and Sunday 9 April
Cost: $190
Contact: Marion Matthews Ph: 0428 825 971
Melissa Powell Photographic Exhibition
'Flooded' is Melissa's new abstract aerial shots of the Wimmera after the flood.
Where: Natimuk Goat Gallery
When: 8-30 April. Opening night: 7 April 6.30pm
Cost: FREE
Contact: Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
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Cinema Fiasco
A hilarious DVD style commentary provided live by bad-movie buffs Geoff Wallis (Theatresports) and Janet McLeod (ABC local radio, Local Laughs). Dressed in their splendor as airline captain and hostesses, Geoff and Janet pull apart Skyjacked, a gloriously ill-advised disaster movie starring actors who should have known better, i.e. Sean Connery! Cinema Fiasco is an outrageous comedy night with a difference
Where: Wesley Performing Arts Centre
When: Friday 1 April at 7pm
Cost: $40 adults, $36 concession
Bookings and further information contact:
Festival office 5381 0297
Premier Performance - Flock
Join us for a visually spectacular collaborative performance by internationally renowned aerial performing arts company Strange Fruit and local artists to tell the story of our local corellas. Choreographed puppets will lead the audience to reflect on our relationship with this species and the powerful visual impact they have on the Wimmera’s landscape. The performance is in partnership the Art is… festival, Wimmera Women’s Circus, local dancers, gymnasts and the Natimuk rock climbing community.
Where: Sawyer Park
When: Gates open at 7.30pm for 8pm perfomance. Saturday 2 April
Cost: FREE
Further information contact:
Festival office, ph: 5381 0297
Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO2)
Internationally renowned violinist, Lara St John, leads emerging artists of the Australian Chamber Orchestra to perform the Matthew Hindson piece, Marlinga; a violin and piano piece referencing nuclear tests conducted by the British and Australian Armies in outback South Australia during the 1950s. Commissioned especially for St John, this is the first time it’s been performed in Australia. Proudly presented by the Art is… festival in partnership with the Wesley Performing Arts Centre.
Where: Wesley Performing Arts Centre
When: Tuesday 4 April
Cost: $35 Adult, $33 concession, $10 student
Contact: Wesley Performing Arts Centre
wesleypac.com.au/
Ph: 5382 6578
Up in the sky – Cha Cha Sam
A seriously fun concert of songs for young kids encouraging creative communication and community connection using simple sign language as its choreography. Suitable for pre-primary and primary school aged children.
Where: Wesley Performing Arts Centre
When: 11am Wednesday 5 April
Cost: $15
Contact: Wesley Performing Arts Centre
wesleypac.com.au/
Ph: 5382 6578
Syzygy
Lake Tyrrell in the Victorian Mallee once served as an Indigenous celestial observatory. The heavens mirrored in its shallow waters informed a sacred reciprocity of sky with country; reciprocity long ago ruptured by clearing and colonisation. Syzygy reflects upon this sacrament and its loss by using the (now usually dry) lakebed as an imaging surface upon which photographic films are exposed directly to the ambient light of the moonless night sky without a camera.
Where: Horsham Regional Art Gallery
21 Roberts Avenue Horsham
When: Exhibition throughout the festival, meet the artist 6pm Tuesday 5 April
Cost: FREE
Contact: Horsham Regional Art Gallery
horshamartgallery.com.au
Ph: 5362 2888
Starry Starry Night
Read the media release on this event.. click here
Where: Wartook Studio Gallery
When: Opening 11am, Sunday 3 April
Cost: FREE
Contact: Wartook Studio Gallery Ph: 5383 6243
The sky is the limit
Local Artist, Carla Rose, explores the emotions that make up modern women from the wise sage to the innocent child.
Where: Oasis of Wellbeing
When: meet the artist 2pm Saturday 2 April
Cost: FREE
Contact: Festival office Ph: 5381 0297
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