Crochet Circle Club Merlot Room Elders Hopetoun

Late Night Fun

NEXT CROCHET/KNITTING CIRCLE - HOPETOUN

THURSDAY 4^TH JULY 10.00 – 12.00 – Moana Clothing & Gift Store

Maitland Street Shops – Morning Tea Supplied

Wool and hooks available to use, but do BYO if you have them.

 

FRIDAY 5^th July – 7.00pm – 9.00pm Club Merlot Room – Elders

Come along, bring a friend and get involved. BYO Drinks and plate of supper

 

Enquires Sue Leighton 0407 981 301      Ainsley Foulds 0427 383 078

 

Wheel of Fortunes

Some of the most remote and isolated destinations in Western Australia including

Hopetoun, Jerdacuttup, Ravensthorpe, Broome, Karratha and Dampier will play host to Future

Landings 2013, an extraordinary Ausdance WA contemporary dance initiative designed to bring

dance and cultural experiences to remote Western Australia from April to October.

 

Future Landings 2013 will present a unique opportunity for communities in isolated locations across WA with little or no dance experience, to work with regional and award-winning choreographers, artists and filmmakers to create large scale performances each unique to their town and with each cast made up entirely of locals.

 

The Ravensthorpe project, Wheel of Fortunes, will be a new contemporary dance work made with and for the community. Based site-specifically at the Jerdacuttup Wheat Bin, Wheel of Fortunes explores the concepts of richness and loss in the community. Through working closely with the writers of the towns, and integrating text with the performance, the community’s cycles of fortunes, and misfortunes, and the resilience that has blossomed through it all, will be explored.

Alongside the performance work a film will be made to represent the themes and atmosphere of the dance.

 

The process begins with a flurry of taster workshops to be held over 4 days from Thursday 25^th to Sunday the 28^th July in Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun, where dance and writing classes are offered to as many members of the community as possible. This is an opportunity for people to experience this unique project and decide if they would like to take their interest further and participate as one of the 15-20 local performers or as part of the script writing team.

 

Ausdance WA and the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council invite you to be part of Wheel of Fortunes.   In July, join choreographer Aimee Smith and writing facilitator Nicola-Jane le Breton in one or all of their free workshops.

 

 

 

For more information or enquires please contact Ainsley Foulds 0427 383078

www.futurelandings.com.au

 

This project is part of Ausdance WA’s Future Landings 2013 and is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Culture and the Arts in association with Lotterywest.

Wheel of Fortunes is co-presented by Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council and supported by Country Arts WA, CBH Group and Shire of Ravensthorpe

Homespun Crochet Circle

There will be a crochet circle in Ravensthorpe at the Red Room on Monday 15th July from 10am to 12pm.  Wool and hooks available to use but please BYO if you have them.  Bring a plate of morning tea to share, tea and coffee available.  Beginners and experienced crochet-ers all welcome- come and learn or come and teach...just come and be part of this awesome community arts project!

Enquiries to rraccoordinator@westnet.com.au or Mel on 0427 381530.

Wintering. June 22nd. 2013

 A warm and cosy atmosphere...

 

 Delicious homemade food...

 

 The Homespun display.

 

 Feelin' cosy in the hall...are we still in the hall?

 

 The Wintering cast and crew...

 

 ...in Ravey!

 

Warm spicy, buttery rum cider was a big hit!

 

 

“In late 2010 I was blessed with the opportunity to voyage to the High Acrtic as part of The Arctic Circle Project.  Expecting to use the experience to solidify my political position on climate change and channel that into my artwork, I instead found myself overwhelmed by the immense beauty and fragility of this magnificent place.  The journey for me was not a political one, but an emotional one.  I acknowledged a great sadness in myself in this space.  It was this emotional landscape, very rarely spoken of, that I wanted to bring back and nurture in this work.  It is something beyond the political, beyond the facts, to something more primal, more real, and perhaps holding more potential for healing than we imagine”  Aimee Smith.


The making of Wintering
Check out this short interview with Aimee Smith about her trip to the Artic Circle and how it led to the creation of Wintering.
http://youtu.be/5IAPJPtk7S0


How to get the most out of the performance
Wintering is a performance that combine music, dance and visual imagery to evoke an Artic landscape and express the choreographers emotions about her experience.

It does not tell a story.  And you will enjoy the experience more if you let what you see and hear simply wash over you.

There is no right or wrong interpretation of what you see.  Like life, we all view things differently and how we interpret them depends on our past experiences.  The great thing about contemporary dance is that it gives you space to create your own interpretation.

Sometimes it takes time for a performance like this to have its full effect on us.  What you think as the curtain falls may change in the days after the performance.  It’s worth noticing.

Hot Buttered Rum Cider was a big hit at Wintering