Farm Gate Art Registration Form

Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council

 

FARM GATE ART WORSHOP REGISTRATION

 

Participants Name: ______________________________________________

 

Contact Details: _______________________________________________________________

Telephone________________________Email: _________________________

 

Emergency Contact Name :______________________Phone No ______________

 

I ____________________________ accept full responsibility and liability for my own safety during the RRAC Farm Gate Art Workshop, before, during and after workshop hours while on the workshop venue site.

I give RRAC permission to use images of my sculpture in written and photo publication for the website, newsletter, newspaper articles, blogs etc.

RRAC reserves the right to refuse acceptance of the sculpture into the Self Drive Art Trail if the sculpture does not meet safety requirements.  All sculptures must be inspected by RRAC before they are erected so that suitable positions can be used so as not to cause Motor Vehicle driver distraction

 

 

Signature of Participant ________________________________

 Date    /08/2014

 

 

Squaring the Wheel

When an eccentric misfit stumbles into a pile of junk, hungry and on his own, it doesn’t seem to be his lucky day, until he discovers that things don’t necessarily have to be as bad as they first appear. More precisely: they don’t have to be what they appear to be at all!

 

Country Arts WA and Act-Belong-Commit present

Squaring the Wheel

Locally presented by Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council

 

 

Ravensthorpe Town Hall Saturday 26^th July, 3:30pm

Doors open 3:00pm

photo by David Wyatt

 

 

Created and performed by Jens Altheimer and winner of the Adelaide Fringe Award 2013, Best Presentation for Children.

…How to complicate simple things…

…A thingamabobbish theatre-circus comedy!

Tickets now available from the Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun CRCs.

A family show suitable for ages 5+, Squaring the Wheel combines circus, clown, strange mechanisms and contraptions, puppetry, magic and music into an unusual thingamabobbish theatre extravaganza.

Unpredictable, funny, touching, highly visual and occasionally out of control; it is a clever theatre adventure for the whole family in thinking out of the box

 ‘A comical feast which simply has to be seen to be believed’

ArtsHub ****

 

 

Free Clowning/Physical Theatre workshop 1-2pm at the hall for 6-12 year olds.

  Prior bookings for workshop essential to

Mel Daw on 0427 381 530.

 

A humorous introduction into the work of clown and theatre with a mainly physical approach.  Exercises of coordination, rhythm and movement followed by some playful improvisation.

 

Afternoon tea and tea/coffee/milo will be available for purchase at the hall.

 To find out more about Squaring the Wheel, click on the link below…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-qbA7Xj14

 

 

 

 

 

Pink Threads Portraits a Huge Success!



Another Exciting Project by Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council!

To coincide with the performance of Calendar Girls last month, the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council held an exhibition in the hall of paintings made entirely by locals.  The project was called Pink Threads Portraits.  100 canvases were distributed throughout the community and six free workshops run across the Shire to assist people to create their own portrait of themselves or someone they know who has been affected by cancer.  Each portrait had to have a pink thread running from left to right.

On the night of the Calendar Girls play, the portraits were exhibited around the hall, with the pink threads joining them up to symbolise how we are all connected through our own experiences with cancer.  The portraits were then auctioned off on the night with all proceeds donated to the Leukaemia Foundation WA in true Calendar Girls spirit.  Of the 100 canvases, 89 were given back to the RRAC to exhibit and 61 of those were sold.

It is with much pleasure that we can finally announce that all sales have been complete and the project raised a total of $1420 for the Leukaemia Foundation WA!   The RRAC also sold sunflowers for the Leukaemia Foundation’s “Sunflower Dash”, raising another $520.

Congratulations on your efforts to all who participated by contributing a painting for the night; the hall looked awesome, and a huge thanks to all those who generously purchased a painting. 

The Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council would like to acknowledge the support of the Shire of Ravensthorpe, Country Arts WA and the Department of Culture and the Arts.

 

 

Wheel of Fortunes 2014; Continuing the Momentum

Calendar Girls

It was a big night out in Ravensthorpe last Saturday 24th May at the town hall!  A  good crowd turned out to see the play Calendar Girls by Jally Entertainment and presented locally by the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council.  The event was made possible with sponsorship by Healthway.

Upon entry, the audience received a free copy of the community calendar created by the RRAC and the Ravensthorpe Community Resource Centre.  The calendar features dozens of  photographs sent in by locals depicting the many volunteers across our community.  Local community groups also sent in information to include on the calendar such as meeting dates and other events to keep us all informed as to what is happening when.  Calendars are available from the RCRC if you missed out.

Whilst waiting for the show to begin the crowd were delighted by the 89 Pink Thread Portraits on display, many placing a bid in the auction to take one home.  Door staff were also kept busy as the beautiful sunflower brooches proved popular.  Sales from paintings and sunflowers are all to go to the Leukaemia Foundation WA in true Calendar Girls spirit, with well over $1000 raised from the generous bidders!

Finally the lights went down and the play began with an amusing Tai Chi scene....and it just got better and better!  The audience were captivated by the antics on stage and roared with laughter at the many witty one liners.  It was such a fantastic show and an all round awesome night out (one particular table practically had to be kicked out well after the final curtain)! 

Thanks to the volunteers from the RRAC who brought this wonderful event to town, to those who sent in information and photos in for the Community Calendar, to the participants of the Pink Threads Portraits and to the generous bidders who purchased paintings and flowers to help us raise money for a worthy cause...together we do amazing things!

We hope you enjoy these photos of the big night!

Good to see some Jerdy folk make the trip in to catch the show!

Ally from Jally Entertainment meets the locals after the show.

Is this a proud artist, or buyer,...or both?

Some of the cast of Calendar Girls...without the cupcakes!

awww

Pleased buyers.

Proud artist!

Busy door staff a sales get hectic!

Ainsley, RRAC Chairperson, models the Community Calendar...just how did an arts organisation end up with motorbikes on the front?

The bar staff enjoy a tea break....we hope!



Fay O'Brien, committee member of the RRAC and Country Arts WA Board Member, with Ally from Jally Entertainment.

Spot the sunflowers!

And Ally with RRAC secretary, Beck Hillier.

RRAC secretary Beck Hillier with RRAC Vice Chairperson Alice Morgan.

Love those sunflowers ladies!

These calendars are pretty good!

Another beautiful artwork brightens Aiko's day.

Of course Jally Entertainment were peddling their own Calendars.

Pink Threads Portraits Exhibition

On Saturday 24th May the Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council presented the play Calendar Girls by Jally Entertainment at the Ravensthorpe Town Hall.

In the spirit of the Calendar Girls theme, the RRAC held a number of workshops across the community over the past couple of months in order to help people paint a "portrait" in the name of someone who has been affected by cancer, whether it be them, or family or friends.

The goal was to collect 100 canvases, which were provided by the RRAC, along with paints and brushes.

It was required that each canvas have a "pink thread" of some description running from left to right, so that on exhibiting the threads would link up as a representation of how we, as a community, are all linked by cancer in its various forms.

Canvases were also available for distribution and collection at the Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun Community Resource Centres.

The submitted canvases, just 11 shy of the 100 target, were exhibited on the night of the Calendar Girls play and auctioned off to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation WA.  Of the 89 canvases on display, 37 sold on the night raising a total of $855 with another $285 yet to come in for another 10 canvases that were bought by people unable to attend on the night.

The Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council would like to thank all the participants in the Pink Threads Portraits project for sharing your stories and the generous buyers of all the art work for helping us raise funds for such a worthy cause.

 We hope you enjoy the art work submitted by our marvelous community!