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Reconnecting Arts & Community Interactive Event

Maxine: Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 7:59 PM

Only 1 sleep to go!!

RECONNECTING: Art and Community Event

10-11th March 2012 (10-4pm).

Come on down and get involved with your community, be part of art and craft! Gold Coin Donation Entry.

Some of the artists, musicians and pieces that will be at the Reconnecting Arts and Community event in March 2012

Enter Your Details at the event for a chance to win the Daily Door Prize with artworks and goodies from the artists and crafts people at the Event!

ARTISTS & MARKET STALL HOLDERS:

Nis Wichtermann

Explore the sound vibration of the Dreamharp and experience a new way of music making, which harmonises the heartbeat and calms the mind. Find out about woodcraft workshops held by Nis or come and pick-up some great artistic work.

Danica Wichtermann

Be inspired by Danica’s delicate ceramic works, which explore the Australian land and botanical life, revealing unseen or concealed beauty. There will be many functional and non functional works available to purchase.

Andreas Hutter

Explore stone carving and stone artwork, follow amazing patterns and colours within this natural work, and collect your very own stone bowl, necklace or wall hanging to take home.

Maxine Clarke

Discover the beautiful hand made Jewellery by Maxine. She enjoys working with the naivety, almost primitiveness of some handmade glass, the precision and sparkle of Swarovski crystal and the organic feel of semi-precious gemstones, freshwater pearls and Bali silver.

Leisa- Healing India Glass and Giftware

Spoil yourself with unique handmade glass jewellery, bowls, platters, clocks and more.

Pamela Jones

Bead work at its most creative- as well as hand sown toys and assembled wind chimes, perfect for a gift for someone special.

Tara Reid

Explore the various hand made works by Tara, including hair clips and hair bands, bags and phone snuggies.

Bernadette Aitken

Experience creative and colourful hand dyed fabrics and Print and Textile Artwork including cushions, shoe-bags, sarongs and scarves. (Saturday Only)

Anthony Macleod

Fill your soul with colour, creativity and joy. Anthony works on paper and canvas, with pastel and gouache, oil, acrylic, and hand painted Japanese papers, to bring you these vibrant celebrations. (Saturday Only)

Julie

Have some fun and get your face painted from $3- $5 (Saturday Only)

Teresa Kileff

Enjoy conceptual mixed media paintings influenced by nature, as well as hand made greeting cards and originally designed t-shirts. (Sunday Only)

Kerryn-Leigh

Experience Linj`dta

Kelly Darragh

Relax and be revitalised with Reiki Healing and Massage.

Cost- donation. (Sunday Only)

...and more!

MUSIC:

*There will be a variety of different musicians performing over the weekend, including Perth Waldorf School Students Jack and Tashi Hall (Acoustic/Indie/Roots sound), Trojan-John (Acoustic/Soft Rock Pop Blues), and Acushla Music, from 12-1.30pm.

There will be a SUPER SUNDAY MUSIC SESSION on the 11th March from 12-4pm.

Featuring: Dave Brewer, Natalie Gillespie, The Coots, TJ, Dave Billing and more!

There will also be a variety of YUMMY & WHOLESOME FOOD, COFFEE, TEA AND SCRUMPTIOUS CAKES served over the weekend. Proceeds will be going towards the Perth Waldorf School Class 7 Sailing camp to Albany.

INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATIONS: Come and be involved in creativity- art, craft and music! There will be a variety of different activities for the whole family.

Demonstrations will be run over both days from 10am-4pm unless specified.* These demonstrations, interactive opportunities and short workshops are FREE of charge.

Drumming and Percussion Circle - Michael O'Shaughnessy

Michael will be holding a drum & percussion circle- come and be a part of this organic music!

*Workshop times:Saturday 10th March 2pm-4pm

Story Telling Workshops - Kitsiri DeSilva

Kitsiri will be holding Magical Storytelling workshops. Become a kid again, experience enchantment and fun, and learn wondrous new tools for bringing stories to life!

*Workshop times: Saturday 10th March 1pm-3pm Sunday 11th March 10.30am-12pm

Ceramics and Wheel Work - Danica Wichtermann

Danica will be demonstrating how she creates her ceramic works on the wheel. There will also be an opportunity for you to create your own ceramic artwork or pot on the wheel.

Demonstrations & interactive opportunities: 11-12.30pm & 1.30-3pm Saturday & Sunday

Stone Carving - Andreas Hutter

Watch and participate in carving a piece of stone, observing its transformation into a sculptural artwork.

Wood Carving and Sculpting a Dreamharp - Nis Wichtermann

Nis will be doing wood carving demonstrations where you will have the opportunity to learn how to carve, sculpt, tune and play a Dreamharp.

Jewellery and Bead Work - Maxine Clarke

Come and make your own beautiful jewelled butterfly with Maxine. These can then be used as brooches, sun catchers, ornaments and make wonderful and inexpensive gifts

Print and Dye Work - Bernadette Aitken

Bernadette will be doing demonstrations on *Saturday 10th March with print and dye on fabric. You will also be able to participate in creating your very own print and dye work on silk or cotton.

Community Mural Mandala -Kelly Darragh

Be part of painting and creating a community mandala mural (Sunday only).

RECONNECTING will be held on the weekend of the 10-11th March, from 10-4pm at the Perth Waldorf School- 14 Gwilliam Drive, Bibra Lake.

Entry to the event is by gold coin donation, and you also go into the draw to win an amazing door prize with artworks and goodies from the artists and crafts people at the Reconnecting Event.

Entry to the event is by gold coin donation, and you can also go into the draw to win an amazing door prize with artworks and goodies from the artists and crafts people at the Reconnecting Event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information visit: http://www.pulseartstudio.com/_studio/open.htm

or become a fan on Facebook: ReconnectingArtsAndCommunity.

Proudly Supported by the City of Cockburn and the Perth Waldorf School.

This information and more is taken from the above websites. Please visit them.

Regards

Maxine

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Calling local Artisans, Artists and Musicians....

Maxine: Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 1:06 PM

The next Reconnecting Arts & Community event

will be held over the weekend of 10th & 11th March, 2012

at the Perth Waldorf School in Bibra Lake

Note this weekend into your diary and come down to enjoy the

displays, demonstrations, workshops, music and

community spirit.

I will post more information closer to the time.

If you make hand-crafted items, are a musician, or offer healing or meditation and would like to join this not-for-profit group, or be part of this or future events,

please contact me for the details or

phone Nis on 0400815689 or Danica on 0422 986 129

At present the aim is for a larger community event once a year to encourage the community to become involved with arts & crafts and the community spirit itself and a few smaller (by invitation only) events at the

Pulse Art Studio in Spearwood.

The following pictures are from the last private event at the Pulse Art Studio

in November 2011. There were hands-on demonstrations and workshops, musicians, community mural painting, meditation and healing offered over both days of the weekend.

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Free the Bears challenge

Maxine: Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 11:04 AM

A recent "challenge" as part of the Bead Guild of WA's monthly meeting was to decorate a Belvedere Bear from the Free the Bears Fund.

A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear sitting in the flowers

I was at the Reconnecting Arts & Community Event and wasn't able to get to the meeting to collect my bear, so he arrived in the post a few days later.

This little "beanie bear" was a little thin when he arrived, so my first mission was to put him on a better diet and fatten him up a bit. Then I had to decide how to decorate him.

A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear sunbaking on the rocks

As a beader (and as this was a Bead Guild Challenge) my first instinct was to bead him from head to toe, but then (in my over-imaginative mind), he would have been saved brom being butchered or milked for bile only to send him to the streets as a tortured Dancing Bear.

This would not do!

A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear eating strawberries from the garden

Then I thought if I had been a bear .... who had been locked in a cage or tied to a rope, what would I want to do if I was free..... ROMP IN THE WILD!!!! So that is what happened.

My bear has been embroidered with a vine which has wrapped around him as he has rolled on the forrest floor and he has a bunch of blossoms on his bottom where he has sat in the meadow and wondered at the wildflowers and all the beauties of nature which he never envisaged during the terror and torment of his previous life.

A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear enjoying the great outdoors.

Belvedere can now play near the pond, look at the fish, visit the vege garden and check out the strawberries, play in the flowers and get lots of hugs from the grandchildren. He, like many others the Fund has helped, can have a better life.

If you would like to help the Free the Bears Fund, all donations are used 100% towards the bears.

: A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear smelling the flowers

: A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear sitting in the garden

: A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear being a little shy

: A Free the Bears Fund Belvedere bear playing up a tree

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Reconnecting Arts & Community Weekend Event

Maxine: Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:45 PM

Over the weekend of November 5th & 6th the Reconnecting Arts & Community Group held an Art Market and Open Day at the Pulse Art Studio in Spearwood.

We had a shaky start with some last minute hiccups with the Health Department, but with the support of Councillors and the Mayor we continued, with some changes and made it a private event - by invitation only. Invites went out via word of mouth, email, facebook etc.

Although the Saturday was quite wet, we had many brave souls come to try out the workshops and participate in the event.

Sunday, although a little damp, was in general a much nicer day and again people came to participate in the demonstrations, workshops, to paint on the community mural, listen to the music, meditate, have a blessing or healing and just join in with the positive feel of this community minded event and meet the artists, musicians, facilitators and other members of their neighbourhood.

The next event is planned for March, 2012. At this stage it will be held at the Waldorf School in Gwilliam Street, Bibra Lake.

For further details, please email me, keep an eye on this blog or register your interest with the Reconnecting Group.

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Reconnecting Arts and Community

Maxine: Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:17 PM

A Community Newspaper article on the Pulse Art Studio Community Art Market in Spearwood, Western Australia.

The Pulse Art Studio Community Art Market I was honoured to be a stall holder at is developing to now include the Reconnecting Arts and Community Facebook page.

I have taken the following excerpt from that page.

Mission - The overall intention is to bridge the gap between ourselves and our community, getting to know our neighbours, and build better dialog and better relationships with one another.

Through getting involved in the arts, people may also be inspired to pursue other artistic endeavours, and though this foster better communication and build positive relationships.

Description - This working group was created to bring people together to reconnect with creativity, the arts and our community.

In order to do this our group organises ‘Community Art Markets’ where we invite local artists, musicians and crafts people to share their own work with others through stalls, a small exhibition and most importantly through short interactive workshops and demonstrations available to the public. Our goal is to bring something new to the usual ‘markets’ by encouraging a peaceful environment and homely feel, as well as sustainable community space where people can come, experience and participate.

To read Nis's vision statement, for further information or to participate in this exciting concept, please follow the link or contact Danica.