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Ceramic artwork 'Out of the Cage' by Ann Ferguson was the winner of the True Blue Art Prize sponsored by Mansfield Shire Council as part of Spring Arts 2006. Click here to download a larger high quality image - 1Mb file size
Red Carpet screening of Mansfield made movie, BLING this Wednesday at Mansfield Cinema Click for larger file Mark Lee, Mansfield Youth Worker with Daniel Belle and David Padbury are part of the crew of 'Bling'. A film premiering this Wednesday, 1st November at the Mansfield Cinema as part of the Over the Fence Comedy Film Festival at the Mansfield Cinema starting 6.30pm. The town was a buzz of movie making activity this weekend with a professional movie being created by eight Mansfield young people. A collaborative project initiated by the Arts Council of Mansfield and managed by the Youth Worker Mark Lee the youth were working with film maker Greg Coffey from Over the Fence Comedy Films. Greg travelled from Western Australia to conduct the three day workshop which is a first for Mansfield and Spring Arts. The film, scripted, directed and acted by the crew, Daniel Belle, Sam Binzer, David Padbury, Ryan Daykin, Nellie Leatham, Britney Crellin, Ashleigh Turner and Gabriel Bergmoser, will be a highlight of the Over the Fence Comedy film festival to be screened on Wednesday at the Mansfield Cinema. Greg Coffery, film maker and director said he was 'knocked over' by the talent of the Mansfield crew. "They really got it together pretty quickly coming to terms with the whole filmaking thing including mastering the professional equipment. I think Mansfield is going to be very proud of what their young people have achieved". He urged everyone to come on Wednesday night at 6.30 to see the film for themselves. The film 'Bling' is a horror movie and the crew has created all the props and costumes as part of the elaborate process of producing a professional film. The Arts Council of Mansfield president, Lyn Cole said this initiative of our young people being creatively involved in a professional film making workshop was a fantastic idea and earlier in the year interest was gauged through an advert in the local paper and the response was overwhelming. The project is so hands on over three full days only eight participants could attend, but given the interest we could well be looking at having future workshops so that more young people could learn film making skills directly from people in the industry. 'Bling' is set to premiere this Wednesday night, 1st November, at the Mansfield Cinema at 6.30.
Spring Arts rocks to new band Mode Stylus at Opening Night GiG Click for larger file Fintan Bradley, Eddy Durham, Alex Purdue and Henry Badgery are Mode Stylus Mode Stylus opened the Spring Arts 2006 GiG at the Produce Store in Mansfield this Friday, 27th October. The band travelled to Mansfield to perform to 300 enthusiastic festival goers this weekend. Mode Stylus were first band to play in a line up of top acts including Earthbound, and blues singer Lisa Bade amongst many other acts, all hailing from the Mansfield region.The guys describe their genre as blues meets funk and they certainly got the crowd rocking performing two epic encores before fans reluctantly let them leave the stage. The guys have a huge musical repetoire swapping instruments and moving between trumpet, bass, drum, keyboard and gutiar solo's. This band was tight and the crowd knew it. Well rehearsed and musically confident Mode Stylus's next GiG will be eagerly anticipated. Watch this space for upcoming GiG's.
Glen Mitchell Forging & Blacksmithing Workshops - Mansfield - 5th August 2006
The Arts Council of Mansfield as part of a skills developement program and lead up to Spring Arts 2006, invited Glen Mitchell, artist and blacksmith, to conduct a workshop in the Mansfield Community Shed on Saturday 5th August. Eleven people attended the workshop and learnt traditional blacksmithing techniques. As a result of the overwhelming success of this workshop another workshop is planned for 7th October 2006. For workshop details contact Lyn Cole: 0407 093 410
Liz Webb, Blacksmith Glen Mitchell and Susan Pickworth at the Blacksmithing and Forging Workshop at the Mansfield Community Shed on Saturday 5th August. (Download a high res image)	Liz Webb bends hot steel into a spiral shape.
Penny Murphy with her father Terry work together forging steel.	Janet Phipps is proud of her steel spirals during the Blacksmithing and Forging Workshop.

Vincent Drane Printmaking & Japanese Soft Cover Bookbinding Workshops - Mansfield - July 2006
	Kaye Hall
Vincent Drane, Printmaker and Bookbinding specialist conducted two workshops in Mansfield on 15th and 16th July. Participants produced handmade prints and then completed the workshop by incorporating the prints into a book using a specialist technique of Japanese Bookbinding. Here pictured with Vincent are two of the participants, Heather Matthew and Liz Clark. (Download a larger image file) Lyn Cole	Liz Clark
Arts Council of Mansfield wins Australia Day Award for best Community Event in 2005
Spring Arts 2005 was the winner of the Mansfield Shire Australia Day award for best community event. The award was presented to the Arts Council at the Australia Day celebrations on 26 January 2006. The award was judged by the Shire and already the 2006 Spring Arts Event is well into the planning process.
Mansfield is host to Spring Arts, a series of exhibitions in local venues around the Mansfield District. Participation is invited from people working in all art forms who have a connection with the Mansfield township, its people or the area. For information please contact the Arts Council of Mansfield. Email:admin@artsmansfield.com

Ceramic artwork 'Out of the Cage' by Ann Ferguson was the winner of the True Blue Art Prize sponsored by Mansfield Shire Council as part of Spring Arts 2006.