Itinerant Art Project

Itinerant: Travelling from Place to Place, an art project about homelessness.

Have you or someone you know experienced homelessness or housing insecurity?

Would you like to share your story and make art for an exhibition?

Get in touch or come along to our free arts and storytelling workshops at:

The Meeting Place - part of the John Flynn Memorial Uniting Church (off Todd Mall, next to the new Law Court, and across from the car park)

Every Wednesday, 10.30am to 2.30pm, October 30 to December 11, 2019

Or we can come to you.

We are also seeking some donations for our workshops: Pop up tents, fold up tables, fold up chairs, tarps, paint brushes, and a boom box, please let us know if you if you have a donation and we can collect.

Contact the team on 0497 1300 94, Itinerant.art.project@gmail.com, or follow us @itinerant.art.project. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body.

Climate Actions: Alice Heat Wave

You're amazing, people of Mparntwe/Alice Springs!!

Over 100 individuals came together yesterday evening to do the Alice Heat Wave and tell our leaders that we care about this Climate Emergency and that they need to act NOW. We're talking local, state and federal governments - we're not giving up until you start taking responsibility through dedicated action.

Join us for FLOSS for the Future, the next public action this Friday 27th at 5pm in the Todd Mall (library end). All welcome.

It's gonna be great.

Global Strike For Climate

A personal message from our Director, Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts…

Dear friends, peers, individuals, businesses, organisations - everyone,

This Friday begins the week of Climate Action, and, jeez, I feel buzzed and excited and worried and proud to be part of it all. I encourage you all, from the bottom of my heart with so much love and hope, that you will join in all the actions happening around the world.

If you’re in Alice, here’s what you should join in on:

THIS FRIDAY 20TH - Global Strike For Climate

• 8am @ Church Lawns, Todd Mall: Student-led strike (students have asked adults to join them in solidarity, so don’t be worried to come if you’re over 18. This is for everyone 💖)

• 10am, 4pm, 6pm @ Alice Springs Cinema: FREE screenings of the 2040 film.

• 12pm @ Church Lawns, Todd Mall: lunch by the many local businesses in town who are joining the #CLOSEDFORCLIMATE movement.

• 3:30pm @ Town Council Lawns: #FridaysForFuture (Alice Springs mob Fridays for the Future) session to talk about ways we can make a difference as individuals.

• 5-8pm @ Watch This Space: Chill Out! Climate strike wrap up. Come together, relax, share and celebrate this monumental day in history with food, drinks, music and stuff for kids. Not heccas, just nice vibes. All funds go towards safe efforts to stop the planned fracking in the NT in November.

Such an amazing day of actions by all different groups across town.
If you haven’t taken the day off, talk to your bosses about how important this day is in the bigger (global) scheme of things. I was so excited to find out that Congress are going to be striking for the day, which - along with all the other groups making efforts - I think shows how dedicated individuals, businesses and organisations are to taking action in the name of climate justice.

THEN...

WEDNESDAY 25TH, 5pm @ top of Anzac Hill: Alice Heat Wave

Come for a massive “Mexican wave” to show our leaders we CARE.

FRIDAY 27TH, 5pm @ Todd Mall (library end): FLOSS for the Future

Join kids and adults “flossing” to attract media (and governments) attention.

Every single action makes a difference, and every individual joining in on those actions adds up to a whole world making an impact. I truly hope to see you there.

In solidarity,
Zoya

Oz Co Grant Info Session

Thursday 5th September, 2-3pm

@ WTS Gallery

To coincide with Desert Mob 2019, the Australia Council is holding an informal information session for visual artists from the Northern Territory and beyond.

As part of Council's commitment to regional Australia, diversity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and culture we encourage more artists to apply for funding with us.

Laura McLeod, Arts Practice Director for Visual Arts will there be to provide information and field any questions you may have.

This is a great opportunity to connect with us and other artists during this time of celebration of Indigenous culture and creativity.

GUTS Dance: Call Out

Public Survey for new dance project

GUTS dance are embarking on a new creative development over the month of June and have created a public survey to try help gather people's thoughts, experiences and opinions to help inform the creation of choreographic content. The project, Value For Money,  is a physical exploration of human-worth and the currency we use to quantify this.  Concerned with the polarity of power and vulnerability inherent within us all, VFM explores the value we place on human lives and bodies, focusing on how relationship, proximity and community change our perception of a life's worth and the worth of a body as a vessel. 

Click here to complete the survey - some of the questions are quite personal, so feel free to skip any of the content if it makes you uncomfortable: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/25QZJ5P

The survey data is anonymous and will be used to inform tasks and movement exploration in the studio over June, and into the next development in 2020. We are also looking for people from diverse backgrounds who may be interested in personally sharing their experiences and ideas, so if this interests you, please contact GUTS dance via email at gutsdance@gmail.com. 

AND

Free Contemporary Dance Classes

During their development over the month of June, GUTS are also offering FREE contemporary dance classes, lead by members of the Value for Money team. The classes are an intermediate/advanced level and will be happening from 7:30 - 8:30am on Monday's and Friday's. Whilst there is on cost, GUTS are asking that you please book a spot, by either getting in touch via social media (GUTS Dance on Facebook or @guts_dance on Instagram) or emailing them at gutsdance@gmail.com. 

Book launch @ White Gums

A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man

by Ender Bașkan

A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man follows the author’s despair and euphoria as he journeys to the heart of the continent with his girlfriend, their unborn child and his best friend. Together they drive from their home in Melbourne to a hut on the edge of Alice Springs where they encounter a new vision of Australia, their lives, and their futures. A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man is a rhapsodic novel about being and becoming — becoming an artist, becoming a parent and being in Australia.

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I register the local signature here. I don’t understand it but I feel it. There is meant to be an Australia Central Standard Time on our clocks and watches but it means nothing at all to me now.

With readings by:

— Ender Bașkan
— Mali Cavanagh
— Gabriel Curtin
— Declan Furber Gillick
— Betty Sweetlove
— Shirley Turner

BYO food and drink.
Books available for purchase. Cash Sales only.
Call — 0458588134 — if having trouble finding the veue.

WHAT: Book Launch by Vre books II

WHEN: Saturday 15th June, 2pm

WHERE: 274 Bullen Road (The Hut, White Gums), Alice Springs NT