Spring Arts 2011
Friday 21st October - Sunday 6th November
Each year Mansfield comes alive with the High Country Festival & Spring Arts. Artists enjoy a range of opportunities to enter competitions and mount exclusive exhibitions in cafe venues in one of Victoria's busiest towns.
Daily until 6 November:
Spring Arts Walk is a series of solo and group exhibitions in cafés in Mansfield township.
Enquiries
0418 132 015 DOWNLOAD (6MB) your guide to the walk or pick one up for participating cafes in town.
• Wild at Heart visual art exhibition & prize at the Hotel Delatite, 95 High St.
• Proactive Tax Sculpture Prize at Delatite Cellar Door, 26 High Street.
• artVision 2011: Colour, Light and Spirit - stunning contemporary glass art and visual arts exhibition. St John’s Church Hall, cnr Highett & Victoria Streets.
• Median to Rare Sculpture Exhibition on the lawn opposite the Post Office
(Sat 29 October)
Wild at Heart Workshops
Ceramics Workshops with Wendy Jagger
Saturday 22 October
9.00 am - 1.00pm: Wheel Throwing Introduction
Sunday 23 October
9.00am - 1.00pm: Wheel Throwing and Decorating Techniques
Morning tea is provided on both days
There will be a one hour break for lunch BYO lunch
Cost: $90 per person per day
Address: 36 Dundas Crt, Mansfield
Website: www.wendyjagger.com
Watercolour & Drawing Workshops with Pamela Moore
Saturday 22 October
9.00am - 4.00pm: Anyone Can Learn to Draw with charcoal
Sunday 23 October
9.00am - 4.00pm: Watercolour for beginners with line and wash.
Each workshop can be booked separtely. Morning tea and afternoon tea is provided on both days.
There will be a one hour break for lunch BYO lunch
Cost: $100 per person per day
Address: "Killara''850 Glen Creek RdBonnie Doon
Website: www.artsmansfield.com/PamelaMoore.htm
Singing Workshop with the Brunswick Women's Choir
Saturday 22 October
2.00pm - 4.00pm: Language Centre at Mansfield Secondary College. Adults $25 Concession $15
www.brunswickwomenschoir.org.au
Writing Workshop with Rachel Berger
Saturday 22 October
11am - 1pm: Writing Wild From the Heart .
Language Centre at Mansfield Secondary College.
Tickets $5 at the door.
Wild at Heart Open Studios
Sunday 23 October
11am – 2.30pm:
The NE Basketry group will be demonstrating basket making at Karen Pirie’s studio and garden at Mt Battery Rd.Everyone is welcome to come and see basket making in action. It’s a day to catch up and have fun. If you are already a basket maker feel free to bring along your project and materials, chair, lunch etc and join in.
For those who are curious and want to try their hand at this craft, there will be some materials available and plenty of friendly advice.
No cost.
Address: 50 Mt Battery Rd, Mansfield.
(Park next door at the Showgrounds and come through the gate in the fence)
Website: www.karenpirie.com.au
As this event will be held outside, this is a fine weather event.
Please check this site on the day to make sure the event is still on.
29 & 30 October
12noon - 4.00pm:
Wendy Jagger
Nestled on the edge of the pretty town of Mansfield in North East Victoria, Studio KanderField is where Wendy creates her art and teaches her enthusiastic students, both young and old. There is also a gallery exhibiting her work.
Address: 36 Dundas Crt, Mansfield
Website: www.wendyjagger.com
29 & 30 October
12noon - 4.00pm:
Pamela Moore 
A realist style of painting is what artist of 30 years Pamela Moore enjoys these days, but her versatility around the style is vast.
Pamela works in oil, watercolor, pastels as well as many drawing mediums at her Glen Creek Road studio in Bonnie Doon.
Open Sat 29 and Sun 30 Oct 12pm - 4pm
Address: "Killara'' 850 Glen Creek Rd, Bonnie Doon
Website: www.artsmansfield.com/PamelaMoore.htm
Lynn Cole
See behind the door of a ceramics studio, wheel throwing demonstrations,
lots of items for sale.
Open Sat 29 and Sun 30 Oct 12pm - 4pm
Address: 23 Cambridge Drive, Mansfield
LIVE PERFORMANCES
The Weather and Your Health
Sunday 23 October 5:30pm
Performing Arts Centre
View Street, Mansfield
Tickets - Wallaby Ritz
Info: 0418 132 015
The Weather and Your Health
Written and Performed by Bethany Simons with Andrew Dodds
Directed by David Wicks
Synopsis:
Gilgandra. Flat as a tack, dry as a bone, hot as an oven.
Life can be tough on the banks of the Castlereagh. But there is beauty in everything, if you know where to look.
Inspired by life in regional Australia, The Weather and Your Health is the enchanting story of a woman whose sunny outlook transcends the ups and downs of life.
This charming play paints a touching portrait of country life through one woman’s stories of young love, war-times, local dances and home-made sausage rolls.
Written and performed by Bethany Simons with Andrew Dodds, and nominated for two Green Room Awards, The Weather and Your Health is a trip down memory lane.
Put the kettle on, it’s time for some sponge cake!
Reviews:
‘I can’t enthuse colourfully enough about the warmth, charm, humour and humanity of the thing…A very Australian performance…compact and utterly beguiling… simple and unexpectedly moving…this small play with a big heart and loads of talent does have universal appeal.’
Lee Bemrose, Australian Stage
‘So amusing… a charming story of rural youth.’
Kate Herbert, Herald Sun
‘…clever two-hander.’
Lawrence Money, The Age
Chasing the Lollyman
Tuesday 25 October 8pm
Performing Arts Centre
View Street, Mansfield
Tickets - Wallaby Ritz
Info: 0418 132 015
Chasing the Lollyman, is a one man show by one of Queensland’s funniest Indigenous performers, Mark Sheppard. It is a joyous sharing of stories, a celebration of urban Indigenous identity and takes a satirical look at the media and popular culture.
Playing a variety of characters and weaving stand up with story telling and a good dose of clown, Mark pokes fun at everything from Neighbours (what would it be like if a Murri family moved into Ramsey St) to an episode of Getaway (taking a look at Australia’s best kept secret, Queensland Missions)!
OVER the past decade there have been a number of solo shows in which Aboriginal actors have explored stories of identity: from Deborah Cheetham's White Baptist Abba Fan, to Tammy Anderson's I Don't Wanna Play House, to Noel Tovey's Little Black Bastard.
Now comes Mark Sheppard telling his story in Chasing the Lollyman - except that this show is much less a personal narrative and more a rollicking comic entertainment with social satire on the side.
Perhaps the first thing that needs to be said about Chasing the Lollyman is that it is a lot of fun. Sheppard quickly has the audience eating out of his hand with quirky skits such as ''Finding Your Inner Aboriginal'' or imagining an episode of Neighbours after blackfellas have moved into Ramsay Street. One of the most moving sketches is Sheppard giving a speech to the nation as the first black prime minister of Australia - now wouldn't that be something!
There is some very clever political satire, but Sheppard never lets earnestness get in the way of a good joke, nor does he spare his own mob from bearing the brunt of the jest.
Above all, Chasing the Lollyman is about celebrating the talents of Mark Sheppard - and there is a lot to admire, from his evocative dancing to his wry commentary about growing up black (and gay) in Australia.
