Harry Potter Panto

Here are some photos from the Harry Potter panto on Friday May 2...it was a great night!

Homespun 2014

Remember this?

and this?

Well, you had better dust off those crochet hooks because we need you to help us make another 1000 flowers!

The Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council has been successful in its bid to take Homespun to Kalgoorlie in October for the national Regional Arts Australia Summit!  How exciting to get those panels on the road and hand out flowers to a cohort of national and international artists and arts workers!  We are really getting on the map!

We are in the process of organising more wool, buttons and hooks but please, if you have some on hand then don’t wait, start today and get those flowers cranking!

Wool can be recycled from old projects such as jumpers and rugs or, if newly purchased, 100% Australian wool please.

Finished flowers can be handed in to the Hopetoun or Ravensthorpe CRC’s.

Pink Threads Portraits

This community arts project has so far been successful in engaging participants to come along to a workshop and produce their own art work in response to the topic of cancer.  Each workshop has been inspiring in that people have been able to put their own story down on canvas successfully, often surprising themselves as they came along with the all too common attitude of “but I can’t paint!”

The idea is that we will collect 100 canvases that tell individual stories or experiences, each joined by a “pink thread” that runs across the canvas, connecting it to the next and symbolising how we are all connected by cancer in its many forms.  The canvases will be exhibited at the Calendar Girls play by Jally Entertainment, presented locally by the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council on Saturday May 24.  A silent auction will be held on the night with, in the spirit of the Calendar Girls story, all funds raised going to the Leukaemia Foundation of WA.

It has been a privilege to be able to be part of this project and help people communicate their story onto canvas effectively.  Thanks to all those who have been part of it, and I can’t wait to see all of the “portraits” on display at the Calendar Girls event.

I hope you enjoy these photos by Mel Daw from workshops held in Fitzgerald, the Dunnart Gallery in Ravensthorpe and  the Chair in Hopetoun.