Making handmade books to tell our stories

Today was the second session where participants in Ravensthorpe met with Carina Hoang, visiting author in residence at the Ravy community resource centre.
Having already shared some of their personal stories on Monday, today's session was facilitated by volunteer artist Amber Perryman from the Dunnart Studio Gallery who showed them a simple technique to create a handmade 'snake' book from folding only one piece of paper. A handmade artists book is a unique way that participants can choose to communicate their story, through either text and image. Participants explored a variety of techniques from cutting and pasting to hand painting and lettering. . For those who couldn't make it today there will be another session at the Dunnart gallery ( date tbc) to assist people to create their books to exhibit in a community exhibition in November at the Dunnart Gallery.

Author in Residence Aug 25 to Sept 1

click on the tab at the top for access to a full program and updates on all the events which form part of this amazing project

Found Art travels

Check out the Ravy Found Art blog - there's some brilliant stories from people all around Australia who are discovering these fabulous wire sculptures and then taking them on their travels with them!

Farm visit with art group

To prepare for the Up coming 'year of the farmer' exhibition, the Ravensthorpe District Art group is hosting a day trip to a local farm on 28 July from 9.30am til 4pm - this will provide an opportunity for photography and sketching on site and will hopefully inspire you and give you lots of ideas for creating your artwork.

Family members are welcome to come along - cost $10 see flyers below and/ or collect one from the Dunnart Gallery, Ravensthorpe

Participants are then also invited to return to the farm on 29th July to continue working on ideas

RSVP to Lynell Belli on 98381128 by 26th July

Light painting in Ravy

A few of the Friday night regulars braved the extreme cold and came along for some light painting fun on the main street in Ravy on 29 Jun. Serena Shaddick from ABC Open travelled down from Esperance to show us the ropes and tell us all about new and very cool ways to use our digital cameras! You might think that setting fire to steel wool and twirling it wildly in the centre of town outside the pub and the police station might prompt a bit of an audience but no! Not one person came to ask what we were doing! Fortunately the only thing we burned was Bec's hair! Here's one of the images that Mel took on her digital camera

Come to the Cabaret!

SATURDAY 21^ST JULY 2012

RAVENSTHORPE TOWN HALL

6.30 pm TO 12.30 am

Music by JAY WESTON

And the

TIPSY GYPSIES

This is a free community event sponsored by the Shire of Ravensthorpe to celebrate the refurbishment of the Ravensthorpe Town Hall

Bar Facilities, Italian Themed Meal available 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm

Bus from Hopetoun

Meal  & Bus Bookings Essential

Ph Hopetoun CRC 98383962 Ravensthorpe CRC 98381340  

Found Art Project

Sculpted animals are popping up all over the place as students from RDHS participate in a 'found art' project coordinated by Mel Daw of the Ravy Arts Council. Stories from the sculptures' travels are being shared by the people who discover them in obscure places and are inspired or touched by their encounter with the whimsical wire creatures. To read some of these stories click on the found art tab at the top of the page - or from the blog list to your right. In the meantime keep your eyes peeled, you never know where the next one is hiding!