Refugee Art Project Launch + Pop Up Parramatta

Also featuring on the show this week:

The Refuge Art Project launch at Mori Gallery last Monday, World Refugee Day.

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Pop Up Parramatta is a project based on the successful Renew Newcastle project and focuses on injecting creative enterprise and creative infrastructure into unused shop and office spaces in Parramatta to renew the city space, promote the region, promote the creative community and to stimulate and support creative enterprise.

‘Home’ - Eora College Art Exhibition returns to Boomalli Aboriginal Art Gallery

This week Ange attended the Eora College Art Exhibition and spoke to one of the founders of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Euphemia Bostock, as well as Euroa Tafe teacher - Chico and artists - Graham Toomey & Wanita Lowe. Tune in tomorrow...2SER 107.3 | 12 pm

Buffer Zone

This week on the show, we chat to Allan Giddy, artist and co-curator of Buffer Zone, a new and free exhibition featuring solar-powered, experimental and sustainable art, on display at Newington Armory at Sydney Olympic Park every weekend until 31 July.

http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/Visiting/Whats_on/events/all_events/buffer_zone_2011_exhibition

Sunday Poetry @ 2 | 26 June 2011

Adam Hill is a Sydney based contemporary artist and seasoned spoken word performer who has been committed to forging social justice through his art and commentary for over decade. An accomplished musician who has pursued the masterful art of the Yidaki (Didgeridoo), Adam has performed and exhibited extensively nationally and internationally both as a solo artist and as a collaborator.

Brett Whiteley Studio | 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills.

This week's show!

AWARENESS MUSCLE - PART II

Chris Virtue will be presenting Part II of the Awareness Muscle Exhibition

Launch of 'Eastern Bloc' Gallery Opening - Friday 17th June, 6pm

Also on the show this week we will be speaking to one of the founders of EASTERN BLOC, Wade Marynowsky.

EASTERN BLOC is a new artist-run gallery in Rozelle (138 Evans Street). Its inaugural 'Salon' fundraiser exhibition features a recognised selection of local contemporary artists. Opening Friday 17th June, 6pm. Special guest Renny Kogers will auction off works from 8pm, post auction tunes by Dj Biffo!

Exhibition open from 18th June - 10th July, Wed - Sun, 11 - 5pm.

Or by appointment, ph: (02) 9555 8816,info@easternblocgallery.com

Eastern Bloc are currently programming the year's calendar and are accepting proposals from artists and curators. There are three-week slots available in the near future for solo and group exhibitions. The space is also open to performance / screening / sound events.

Let them know your vision:info@easternblocgallery.com Eastern Bloc

Arts and Social Media - SAMAG June Seminar

This week on the show we will be speaking to Olivia Bolton about the upcoming SAMAG seminar - Arts and Social Media.

Olivia is an artist and arts administrator. Prior to the DAAO Olivia was Marketing Coordinator at Arts on Tour NSW. She has worked at Carclew Youth Arts Centre as a researcher & artist, has volunteered at the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and, among other things, did a stint at the OECD in Paris. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UniSA and did her post graduate study in art and arts administration at COFA, UNSW.

A year is a long time in the world of social media, so it's about time for a follow-up to SAMAG's popular "Being creative with social media" seminar. Our panel will discuss the latest in social media - from audience development strategies to establishing social media policies and creative production with social tools.

The arts and social media

6.00-8.00pm, Monday 27 June 2011

Australia Council, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills

RSVP: Janelle Prescott info@samag.org or (02) 8250 5722 (msg only)

FREE ENTRY for 2011 SAMAG Members / $10 for non-members / $5 for
students. Please pay at the door - cash or cheque only

For more info please visit: http://www.samag.org/

Social Experiment # 9 AND Crude & Clean @ INDEX

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT # 9, opening at Index this Saturday, takes a look at the many and varied impacts of technology on our world today.

The show features work from three emerging local artists, Aesha Henderson, Kolet Hodgson and Tolmie Macray.

Index, 60 Hutchinson Rd, St Peters

This Saturday 2 – 4pm, Weds – Sun, 10am – 6pm until July 3rd.

Free!

CRUDE & CLEAN

It has been said that you can divide the art world in two.

The question then is "what two do you divide it into?"

Obviously there are only two distinctions left, CRUDE and CLEAN and they stand ready to become the next grand antimony that will divide and define art for the next couple months!

INDEX will be staging two exhibitions back to back, calling them respectively CRUDE and CLEAN and asking artists to take sides.

So pick a side and put your art on it. The winning side will have the art world totalized in the image of their practice!

Good Luck!

PLEASE SEND A QUICK SUBMISSION to info@indexspace.com.au. Include artist name, phone number, email. A short paragraph describing work, a short bio (or cv) and an image of work or related work. Please remember to indicate which show you are submitting for.

Participation in each show will incur a $80 artist fee (3 weeks).

Proposals close Thu. July 15, 6pm.

For more info please visit: http://indexspace.com.au/x/2011/06/16/crude-and-clean/

On the show this week:

Fear + Hope

The Refugee Art Project

To counteract the rise of negative and inaccurate perceptions towards asylum seekers within the wider community, a group of academics and staff from three Sydney universities are organising a group art exhibition at Sydney’s Mori Gallery from 20 June 2011 entitled fear+hope. The exhibition will be launched on World Refugee Day and will be opened by Amnesty International’s Graham Thom.

http://www.therefugeeartproject.com/faqs

Awareness Muscle

The Academy of Emergency Art

Awareness Muscle combines; new works (Deadline Art) created by a selection of Emergency Artists who have been invited by Dennis and Jones to participate in awareness muscle training; a collection of videos documenting the duo’s activation of critical formats over the previous 18 months; and unique live formats and events that will be launched throughout the exhibition, encouraging community participation and collective critical awareness exercise. The exhibition is part of Creative Sydney Vivid Festival, exhibiting At The Vanishing Point Gallery.

Mikelangelo and The Tin Star

Mikelangelo and The Tin Star will be launching their Debut Album The Surf ‘n’ Western Sounds Of Mikelangelo and the Tin Star at The Vanguard on Friday 17th June.

Well known for his cabaret persona fronting The Black Sea Gentlemen, and as a star of the international hit

show La Clique, Mikelangelo formed The Tin Star in late 2009 as a channel for his love of instrumental

guitar music of the 50’s and 60’s. Combined with a fascination for Western cinema soundtracks and

Mikelangelo’s impressive baritone croon, The Tin Star could never be a purely instrumental band, and

shades of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley can be heard in the vocals on the group’s debut album.

Mikelangelo and The Tin Star will also be performing a Melbourne launch at the Northcote on 10th June and in Canberra at Tilley’s on Saturday 18th June.

+ Sydney Film Festival interview w/ Celluloid Dreams, film show

+ more!