Arts Northern Rivers respectfully acknowledges Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Country, the lands we work and create on. We appreciate the unique and vibrant array of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders artists and cultural practitioners from here and living here. We strive to strengthen self-determination, promote presence, and support cultural continuation.
There are limited places for this 2 day Street Art Workshop, so call now.
JULLA, JUSTIN LIVINGSTON BIO
Justin is a practicing mural & street artist working extensively with the local community, businesses and public art projects to produce and execute public art, murals, street art in both urban/regional locations, community projects and private residences.
Justin has exhibited in group shows and has had work commissioned for private collections. As a arts facilitator, he teaches workshops to a broad sector of the community including supporting people with disabilities to facilitate their access to creativity and art making,
"It's Raining Cats and Dogs!" | A children's workshop
Calling all children with flood stories! Join artists Nicky Atta-Singh and storytelling facilitator Sunita Bala to document stories, poems and pictures about The Flood to be made into a book, “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs!”.
NICKY ATTA-SINGH BIO
Nicky is an artist who has exhibited in local galleries including group showings at the Lismore Regional Gallery and Loan Goat. She has facilitated a large scale community art project with children at South Lismore Primary School and travelled with ART WISE to Los Angeles where she exhibited and ran community art programs with students in disadvantaged schools.
SUNITA BALA BIO
Sunita has a passion for storytelling! As a creative facilitator, she has worked with emerging and professional artists to exhibit their stories in both the Lismore and Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery. She was the Creative Producer and Co-Director in the Building’s Still Lives” a multi media production that engaged over 100 participants and artists to bring to life people’s stories and connection to place. In 2010, she facilitated the stories of women living with disability in the book” Where Does a Story Start?” and is currently working with Social Futures to collect and publish stories of Australians and the NDIS
Join artist Michael Philp and create your own piece of visual art, sharing stories and artists skills.
MICHAEL PHILP BIO
Born in 1966, Michael always felt and thought that he was different to other people, that he didn’t fit in, so when he was fourteen and started drinking and taking drugs he started to feel normal. Sober now for over 10 years, Michael works happily as an artist. “I’ve been in several exhibitions and have received a commendation in the New South Wales Premier Art Prize. My painting ‘The Warrior’ was accepted into a travelling exhibition of the Regional Galleries of New South Wales and I am happy a happy ‘fellow’ with the direction my art is going!” ” Michael Philp
Thursday 11 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Oral History with River FM
Calling all storytellers! River FM 92.9 are broadcasting live from ARCH headquarters. Share your stories, memories, poems and songs about flood and recovery live to air or recorded by Catherine Marciniak from ABC North Coast …and let’s make some art !
Thursday 11 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
The Black Board
Join Artist Zeb Schulz and Realartworks.Inc to make chalk art on a blackboard rescued from the flood. You will be creating both visual images and written messages. Time lapses and still images from The Black Board will be included in a large scale projection exploring themes of disaster and recovery, trauma and resilience.
ZEB SCHULZ BIO
Zeb Schulz is the founding Artistic Director of RealArtWorks Inc. Since 2002 he has worked collaboratively with community and professional artists to create new art that uses and transcends a number of traditional forms. Often engaging artists with disability as professional collaborators Zeb’s work is an ongoing creative investigation of life itself. He has managed and creatively directed a number of large scale projects including ‘Rip Out your Labels” listed as one of the ten best RAF projects in 2005 Zeb creatively directed/curated the Resistant Obsolescence exhibition at the Lismore Regional Gallery in 2014 and the (nothing is) Useless Exhibition which will open at the Wagga Art Gallery in 2015. Most recently Zeb co-directed “The Building Still Lives” a large scale site specific work involving over 100 artists and participants exploring the connections between place, narrative and belonging through visual arts, song, drama and projections.
Thursday 11 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Big Picture
Be part of the Big Picture! Throughout ARCH’s residence anytime between 12pm – 3pm you have the opportunity to create your own postcard, which will capture your response and experiences of the floods. Send your thoughts and art to a friend / relatives / government agencies etc from our special “postbox” to have your postage covered. The cards will be digitised to be part of a large-scale projection exploring themes of disaster and recovery, trauma and resilience.
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Re-create, Re-vive & Re-cover | Art Project and Exhibition
Give something new life by painting second hand ephemera, bits of wood, old spray cans and anything that has been flood damaged (but isn’t stinky or poses a health risk!)
We will have a treasure trove of discarded and otherwise un-useable objects available (or bring your own) for artists and participants to paint their own design or imagery onto the item based on the theme. The project theme seeks to reflect and respond to the positivity and resilience that our community has continued to embody throughout the flooding and recovery effort.
Drop in to participate or pick up something from the ARCH location and do it in your own time and drop it back to us at ARCH. Resulting works of art will be brought together in an exhibition later in the year at Lismore Art Space.
JOANNE KAMBOURIAN BIO
Joanna is Lismore based graphic designer, printmaker and multi-dimensional visual artist of Armenian American heritage.
Through her individual and shared practice under the creative pseudonym, Ms Browns Lounge; Kambourian explores, experiences and examines the idea of ‘hybrid hyphenations’ within contemporary cultural and social identity.
Sunita has a passion for storytelling! As a creative facilitator, she has worked with emerging and professional artists to exhibit their stories in both the Lismore and Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery. She was the Creative Producer and Co-Director in the Building’s Still Lives” a multi media production that engaged over 100 participants and artists to bring to life people’s stories and connection to place. In 2010, she facilitated the stories of women living with disability in the book” Where Does a Story Start?” and is currently working with Social Futures to collect and publish stories of Australians and the NDIS.
Friday 12 May and Friday 19 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Lantern Making
Community is everything and the Lismore Lantern Parade is at the heart of our Community. Help us to help the parade get back on the road by decorating a giant lantern at our ARCH space.
Thursday 18 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Screen Printing Shenanigans
A 2-Day workshop | Thursday 18 May and Thursday 25 May
Day 1 will see you design and cut out your own stencil to be screen printed
DAY 2 will bring the magic to life with some screen printing madness. Materials provided. Bring your own fabric or T-shirt etc to print on.
Thursday 18 May and Thursday 25 May
12pm – 3pm
19 Carrington Lane, Lismore
FREE
ARCH WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Puppet Making
Making puppets out of rubbish with multi award winning Krinkl Theatre? It’s easy and fun.
Life begins with a breath. Puppets are made & become alive as they breath, move and dance with you. Through puppetry, many a great story has been told. Krinkl Theatre’s artistic director: Lara Cruickshank will take you on an animated journey with puppets made from a variety of found objects and help you meld these objects together, to make a variety of unique puppets, that will have you entranced.
This is a great opportunity to make some art and fun from discarded objects that will have you fall in love with the malformed creatures and puppets you make!
Arts Northern Rivers respectfully acknowledges Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Country, the lands we work and create on. We appreciate the unique and vibrant array of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders artists and cultural practitioners from here and living here. We strive to strengthen self-determination, promote presence, and support cultural continuation.
Arts Northern Rivers respectfully acknowledges Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Country, the lands we work and create on. We appreciate the unique and vibrant array of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders artists and cultural practitioners from here and living here. We strive to strengthen self-determination, promote presence, and support cultural continuation.
