Commences at 7pm for 7:30pm start, Tables of 8 required $15 per ticket. Nibbles suppied, drinks at bar prices. Heaps of Give aways and two of Lakes best Chefs are up for auction to cater for your own! Tables are limited so get your tickets soon! Contact Monica for more details and tickets.
Songs For Life - Singing with Margret Roadknight Sunday, September 28, 2008 to Sunday, September 28, 2008
Following the success of recent "Instant Singing" vocal workshops in Bairnsdale & Lakes Entrance, monthly singing sessions will be held at Bungalook Studio. The sessions are for adults who enjoy (even the idea of) vocalizing and laughing together, learning songs in different styles and from different cultures, and trying different parts, without the formality of a choir.
Nobody auditions, sings solo, or needs to read music (the emphasis is on learning by ear). Running from 2:00-4:00p.m. sessions are scheduled for the fourth Sunday of the month excluding the Christmas Break.
Festival of Fishing Saturday, September 20, 2008 to Monday, September 29, 2008
An action packed program over nine days including fishing expo, fishing tours, seminars, slide shows, fishing competition, and tackle demonstrations. Based in Lakes Entrance with activities throughout East Gippsland, there is something for everyone. Full program details available in March. Contact Fishcare if you want to sponsor or offer an activity in this Festival.
Cyanotype printing Workshop Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Cyanotype process, or blueprinting, is absolute magic. Blueprinting is a simple photographic process that lets you capture the image of objects laid on the surface of either paper of fabric as it is exposed in the sun - leaving a qhite image on a blue background. Cyanotype printing is a favourite with artists and quilters who use the process to create unique patterns or images. Details and cost the be decided. Registration with East Gippsland Art Gallery is essential.
LOCATION: Community College East Gippsland
CONTACT NAME: East Gipsland Art Gallery
Spring Time Ball Saturday, September 13, 2008 to Saturday, September 13, 2008
Winter is over and Spring has started! Come and Celebrate the change of season and Dress up in your best Spring Outfit and dance the night away! Commencing at 8pm Music and Entertainment by the 'Billy Abbot' Band. Adults $15 and Kids 16 and under $8. Book a table by calling Joy.
LOCATION: Bruthen Mechanics Hall
CONTACT NAME: Joy
Disapperaing Shibori Workshop -- East Gippsland Art Gallery Saturday, September 13, 2008 to Saturday, September 13, 2008
Enjoy the Disapperaing Shibori Workshop with Barbara Schey. Shibori is a wonderful method of dying and is applicable to paper or material. Barbara Schey has many years experience as a practising artist and tutor. For more information including a materials list and cost, contact the EG Wool and Craft Group. Participants MUST register.
LOCATION: Community College East Gippsland
CONTACT NAME: EG Wool & Craft Group
Championship Dog Show Friday, September 05, 2008 to Sunday, September 07, 2008
Three Championship Dog Shows across three days is a great way to see the hundreds of beautiful purebred dogs and find the breed that is perfect for you. Hosted by the East Gippsland Kennel Club and the Bairnsdale and District Kennel Club, there will be plenty of local breeders on hand to offer you advice about your next puppy! On Friday the judging begins at 11:00am, Saturday at 9:00am and Sunday at 8:30am. Special classes for veterans (dogs over ten) as well as Best Local Dog, Best Local Bitch and Best Local Puppy.
LOCATION: Bairnsdale Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Bairnsdale
CONTACT NAME: Dogs Victoria
Thomas Heywood Pipe Organ Concert Friday, September 05, 2008 to Friday, September 05, 2008
Your chance to hear Australia's internationally acclaimed Concert Organist on Bairnsdale's only pipe organ. Thomas is young and entertaining , and will be playing music from the romantic classics. The venue is warm and comfortable, with overhead projection making it easy to watch the skill of this highly talented musician. Admission by $20 ticket on sale at the door. Students $10
East Gippsland Art Gallery - Insectoria Friday, September 05, 2008 to Tuesday, September 23, 2008
An installation based on the Victoria obsession of collecting and their fascination with science and nature. Sorted, boxed and mounted insects made from discarded metals and presented with a great sense of humour. This absurd collection will arouse curiosity and satiate the need to place things in boxes and the compulsion to label things. Opens 6 September 1pm.
LOCATION: East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale
CONTACT NAME: Eileen Thurgood
East Gippsland Art Gallery - Look Friday, September 05, 2008 to Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Look is an exhibition of photographs that came out of a five week Monash University residency in Prato, Italy and extended travel to Switzerland and Scotland. As with memory, what we see is an individual selective process and this exhibition is an idiosyncratic take on being a tourist, an outsider, in an environment that is not your own. Opens Friday 5 September 6pm.
LOCATION: East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale
CONTACT NAME: Eileen Thurgood
The First Step on a Tram is Hell! Friday, September 05, 2008 to Friday, September 05, 2008
The First Step on a Tram is Hell, the latest work from feminist comedian, writer and performer Sue Ingleton, commences a much-awaited Victorian Regional Tour. Wrapping up a sell-0out season at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this no-holds-barred revelation of ageing and aged care is skillfully manipulated and devastatingly mishandled by Ingleton's alter egos, Bill Rawlings and Edith Wise. Tales of speed dating for seniors, the pros and cons of prepaid funerals and the perils of the sidewalk emerge from minds that not only wander - but often leave completely!
The First Step on a Tram is Hell! Thursday, September 04, 2008 to Thursday, September 04, 2008
The First Step on a Tram is Hell, the latest work from feminist comedian, writer and performer Sue Ingleton, commences a much-awaited Victorian Regional Tour. Wrapping up a sell-0out season at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this no-holds-barred revelation of ageing and aged care is skillfully manipulated and devastatingly mishandled by Ingleton's alter egos, Bill Rawlings and Edith Wise. Tales of speed dating for seniors, the pros and cons of prepaid funerals and the perils of the sidewalk emerge from minds that not only wander - but often leave completely!
LOCATION: Orbost Exhibition Centre
CONTACT NAME: Orbost Exhibition Centre
Distances - Robert Logie - East Gippsland Art Gallery Friday, August 22, 2008 to Tuesday, September 02, 2008
These bold and intuitive works explore and portray some of the relationships or not, (distances) between mainly elderly, traditional, farming couples - their reaction, or not, of each individual to the other as well as individually toward the environment in which they find themselves. Robert's paintings are rich in the application of the paint and vibrant colours and gestural marks of his linocuts echo the brushstrokes of his paintings.
LOCATION: East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale
CONTACT NAME: East Gipsland Art Gallery
East Gippsland Photographic Society supporting World Photographic Day' - Exhibition Friday, August 15, 2008 to Friday, September 26, 2008
Come and visit the Lakes Entrance Visitor Centre Upstairs Gallery to admire the East Gippsland Photographic Society's exhibition celebrating World Photography Day. The exihibition features a wide range of images from local artists.
LOCATION: Lakes Entrance Visitor Centre Gallery, 2 Marine Parade, Lakes Entrance
CONTACT NAME: East Gippsland Photogaphic Society
EJ Brady Short Story Competition Tuesday, April 01, 2008 to Friday, September 12, 2008
Long running competition hosted by Mallacoota Arts Council, Australia-wide. Prizes: -$1500 for story under 2500 words -$200 runner up -$500 for story under 700 words -$100 Tom Donovan encouragement award Entries close September 12th 2008. Winners announced in November. Current entry forms can be downloaded from www.madeineastgippsland.com but past winning stories are viewable on our website mallacootaarts.org
Australia’s Coastal Wilderness National Landscape was launched by the Federal Minister for Tourism, the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP last Friday 1 August in Torquay in association with the launch of the Great Ocean Road National Landscape.
The Launch was attended by a number of East Gippslanders including Chair of the Australia’s Coastal Wilderness Steering Committee Phil Rickards who is also the Tourism Coordinator for the East Gippsland Shire.
In his address, Minister Ferguson acknowledged that whilst he would have liked very much to have launched each of the eight individual landscapes in each region, due to time constraints that had not been possible. However, he said he hoped to be able to visit the Australia’s Coastal Wilderness region at some stage in the future.
The Minister acknowledged the work of the Steering Committees in getting their respective landscapes accepted into the program.
“I would particularly like to welcome members of the landscapes steering committees who I know are passionately enthused about this project. Enthusiasm in a service-oriented industry such as tourism is critical. So is innovation and I believe the National Landscapes Program will provide the impetus for Australia as a nation to view the relationship between tourism and our natural landscapes in an innovative light.
“Much like the members of the Steering Committees, I am passionately enthused by the natural beauty of Australia. I do believe the landscapes which surround us are unparalleled in their beauty. In the fiercely competitive world of tourism they present us with enormous opportunity and point of difference.
Who would not want to visit those National Landscapes already launched, they being The Australian Alps, Australia’s Red Centre, The Flinders Ranges, Australia’s Green Cauldron and the Greater Blue Mountains? I am pleased today to add the Great Ocean Road and Australia’s Coastal Wilderness to the list of regions included in the National Landscapes Program
“To qualify as a National Landscape the location must be a world-class landscape of natural, cultural and spiritual assets, distinctive to Australia.
“Australia’s Coastal Wilderness has a significance which has long been internationally recognized. It is a site of more than national significance and includes Croajingolong National Park which was in 1977 proclaimed a World Biosphere Region by UNESCO.”
“The landscapes I am announcing today have been included in this unique program because they are more than just a group of appealing destinations. They are regions, which as a whole, are much greater than just the sum of their parts. They are distinctively Australian natural and cultural environments. And they will appeal to Tourism Australia’s target market, experience seekers; travelers of all ages who wish to experience new adventures and destinations which enable them to engage with a local culture.
“I congratulate the steering committees for the Great Ocean Road and Australia’s Coastal Wilderness on achieving National Landscape status for these wonderful regions”, concluded Minister Ferguson.
