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Comment by Christine-Joy (C J Lewis) on October 24, 2009 at 11:47pm

My first solo exhibition ... finally got around to organizing one ... is on from 2nd - 14th November, 2009 at MLC Gallery, 449 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW. Opening night Wednesday 4th 7-9pm for any Sydney based artists that would like to come meet me on the night. Invitation details in my photos.

Comment by Van Wyk Albertus on February 19, 2009 at 12:19am

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Comment by Christine-Joy (C J Lewis) on February 18, 2009 at 2:52am

For Sydney artists:

"Now Here's My Darkside" Exhibition ... Redbubble artists.
When - 9th - 19th March, 2009
Where - The Tap Gallery, 45 Burton Street, Darlinghurst.
Opening Night: Wednesday 11th March from 7pm til late.
Inquiries for NSW artists who want to participate:
Email stevethebodymechanic@hotmail.com

Comment by Christine-Joy (C J Lewis) on January 14, 2009 at 9:13pm

For Sydney Artists:
CarriageArtWorks - Contemporry Art From The City Fringe - 16-24 Jan 09
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh (near Newtown - the old Train Workshops)
Exhibition includes artworks from:
Aboriginal Women's Art Collective Bronwyn Bancroft, Jessica Birk
At the Vanishing Point (ATVP) Brendan Penzar, Amanda Hills
Enmore Jewellery & Object Design Centre Danielle Butters, Joanne Piper
Factory 49 Pam Aitken, Kate Mackay
Hardware Gallery Nicholas Fintan, Rebecca Gallo
Lennox Street Studios Steven Vella, Peter Williamson
Marnling Press Syd Ball, John Beard
NG Art Gallery Alison Coates, Mai Long, Jane Gillings, Lizzie Buckmaster Dove
Oh REally! Gallery & Collective Max Berry, Ears
SNO Contemporary Art Proects Daniel Argyle, Sarah Keighery
Sheffer Gallery and Shannon Johnson, Andrew Pervis
Wilson Street Gallery Suzanne Archer, Graham Kuo
16 – 24 January 2009 | Free and open to all. All works are for sale.

To be opened by esteemed author and journalist David Marr on Thursday 15 January at 6pm

Discover dynamic art from the creative hotbed that is Sydney’s urban city fringe…

The inaugural carriageARTworks is a curated exhibition of contemporary artwork from 13 galleries and artist run initiatives (ARIs)* of the south west city fringe area of Sydney. carriageARTworks will showcase the south west city fringe area as a thriving place for contemporary art in Sydney, exhibiting the work of over 40 artists and expanding art networks through a series of tours, talks and panel discussions.

carriageArtworks has been timed to coincide with the 2009 Sydney Festival and Barrie Kosky’s The Tell-Tale Heart, which will run alongside it.

carriageARTworks is unique in its approach of bringing galleries and ARIs together to curate and present work under one roof in a free exhibition open to everyone. It is rare that Artist Run Initiatives and gallerists get the opportunity to come together under one roof to share their work with the public and talk about their practice.

Ensuring that the exhibition showcases the diversity of creative practices alive in the south west city fringe, contemporary art of all mediums such as painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, glasswork, mixed media assemblages, installations and performance art has been solicited from galleries and ARIs by the following representatives from the local art community: Nicky Ginsberg of NG Art Gallery, Brendan Penzer of At the Vanishing Point – Contemporary Art, Michelle Perry of Wilson Street Gallery and artist representatives- distinguished artist Janet Lawrence, 2008 Paddington Art Prize winner Alan Jones and sculptor Mark Wotherspoon.

The south west city fringe area stretches north to Parramatta Road, east to Bourke Street, south to the Princess Highway through Sydenham, west to Marrickville and Petersham – with CarriageWorks lying at the heart of the area. Here are the exhibiting galleries including some of the artists who will be showing work at carriageARTworks: Four artists from each gallery and ARIs have been selected.

In addition a number of talks and forums will be held with speakers such as celebrated artist Ben Quilty, Artbank senior curator Jackie Dunn, MCA curator Glenn Barkley, arts writer Peter Pinson, renowned art collector Tom Lowenstein to name but a few.

* An Artist Run Initiative (ARI) is a cooperative of artists who are unrepresented by commercial galleries or artist agents.

EXHIBITION DETAILS Thursday 15 January – Saturday 24 January 2008 | Open Mon - Sat 12 – 8pm and Sun 4 – 8pm
MEET THE ARTISTS TALK AND TOUR Saturday 17 January 5 – 6pm and Thursday 22 January 5 – 7pm | Free and open to all
HOW TO BUY CONTEMPORARY ART Saturday 17 January 4 – 5pm Free and open to all with limited seating
ART IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FORUM Saturday 24 January 4 – 6pm | Free and open to all with limited seated audience

VENUE CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
Main entrance: Cnr of Codrington Street | Nearest train: Redfern or Macdonaldtown
FREE PARKNG Enter at 229 Wilson Street, opposite Queen Street
MORE INFO www.carriageworks.com.au
MEDIA CONTACT Nicole Austin, nicole.a@carriageworks.com.au | 02 8571 9067

Comment by Ross Naidoo on October 28, 2008 at 11:43am

Dear Baboa Gallery Friends
Please find invite to Opening next Friday evening. Suzanne Danaher is one of Brisbane's most accomplished print media artists and is in many public collection around Australia. Please join the artist for drinks 31 October 6PM

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Dear Baboa Gallery Friends.docArt Exhibition

Comment by Ross Naidoo on October 28, 2008 at 11:34am

Art Exhibtion

Comment by Ross Naidoo on October 17, 2008 at 10:58am

South's Leagues Club, Jane St West End

www.azadoota.com Friday 24th October 8.30 pm $16 Ph. 33914433 to book

Representing a tiny nation with a huge sound, Azadoota infuses Assyrian party music with Latin, African and Eastern European flavours. Azadoota is the creation of Assyrian singer/songwriter Robin Zirwanda. Based in Sydney, Azadoota has been performing on the East Coast festival circuit for the last 8 years. With band members from Iraq, Latin America , Asia and Europe, Azadoota's cross cultural fusion has been winning fans up and down the coast in music festivals, pubs and cultural events. Following their recent CD release, Azadoota will be performing one concert only in Brisbane.

Comment by SpIderGoAtaL on September 22, 2008 at 12:21pm

Visual Art Submissions - Chrysalis: Eco Radio Fundraiser 23 October @ The Zoo

On 23rd October is Chrysalis, which will be a night of beautiful electronica and folk. It's a fundraiser I am organising for 4ZzZ and Eco Radio. I am hoping that some of you visually inclined artists may also be interested in submitting photos to be projected and displayed as part of an exploration of environmental awareness and artistic expression.

'The idea for Chrysalis emerged while looking through the pages of a 1920s book that had scientific illustrations of insects and animals drawn in ink. I realised that art and environmental awareness have always been linked, in beautiful ways.'

Chrysalis will be a night fused with delicate folk, beautiful electronica and visual art with an environmental theme at the Zoo on Thursday 23rd October. Gracing the stage will be Dizzygotheca, Silver Sircus, Mardi Lumsden and Sans Grenadine. This night of luscious music and vivid art will be a fundraiser for 4ZzZ 102.1fm's Eco Radio show.

As well as music, visual art will be part of the night. Established and emerging visual artists are invited to submit photos that explore their own perception of how 'artistic expression meets environmental awareness'.

You can submit photos:
• Via email – jpegs or similar (please email to check if other formats are acceptable) with a resolution of 300 dpi. File size should not exceed 5MB without checking prior to sending.
Photos should be accompanied with a description (up to 100 words) of how it relates to the theme of the evening.

Images will be projected on the night and selected items printed with the artists consent for display. People interested in purchasing copies can email the artists.

Visual Artist Submissions:
Electronic photographic submissions:
RSVP: September 26th 2008
Electronic submission of art: October 9th 2008

Please RSVP to heidim@4zzzfm.org.au
Please email electronic photo submissions to heidi_millington@hotmail.com

I hope this is something you might engage with. Please feel free to forward on to people you know who might be interested.

Peace

Heidi

heidi_millington@hotmail.com
Eco Radio
11-12 Sunday mornings
www.4zzzfm.org.au
102.1fm

Comment by Baz Ashworth on September 21, 2008 at 2:49pm

BEMAC (Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre)
What Makes BEMAC A Special Organization - Our Positioning

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,

BEMAC, the oldest not-for-profit organization in Queensland, takes a unique three-tiered approach to differentiating ourselves from other not-for-profit entities. These three tiers are:

1.) BEMAC the Educational Institution
2.) BEMAC the Community Integration Organization
3.) BEMAC the Multicultural Arts Organization

BEMAC as an Educational Institution
For well over 20 years, BEMAC has provided an accessible institutional process for the training and guidance of new Australians with immigrant and refugee backgrounds, to enable them to learn the due process of how to belong and contribute to a democratically based institution at a community level. It is one of very few not-for-profit organizations that helps develop the operational, strategic, and managerial skills of new Australians, such that they develop an enhanced and appreciative view of how an integrated and harmonious democratic Australian society functions. It is one of the few organizations were men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds can learn the managerial, strategic, and operational skills needed in the overall functioning of a not-for-profit organization, an opportunity that is unfortunately denied to most new Australians in the current environment.

BEMAC the Community Integration Organization
BEMAC, through its daily operations of working with new Australian’s under the banner of multiculturalism, provides an equally accessible environment where all cultures can meet, share, learn, and appreciate our cultural differences and similarities through the Arts and Humanities. BEMAC provides an umbrella of integration for many diversified cultures to meet, share, and enjoy their unique cultural expressions in a manner that results in a more integrated and respectful cosmopolitan society in Australia.

BEMAC the Multicultural Arts Organization
For two decades, BEMAC has provided an equally accessible organization for providing:
1.) Traditional Cultural Expression (Cultural Maintenance)
2.) Contemporary Multicultural Expression
3.) Emerging Cultural Expression in all its art forms for Australian society in its entirety.

This has always been carried out within a code of conduct and culture that respects and celebrates diversity in a manner that endeavours to engender the professional development of artists and audience appreciation ranging across a continuum from grass roots to globally recognizable levels.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

Nelson Mandela said "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

I ask of you today, to please help in making Australia better, by helping to enhance these freedoms.

Comment by Ross Naidoo on September 12, 2008 at 8:01am

Ross Naidoo Aussie active with multicutural arts and excellence in quiality performance aims and objectives without neglecting our communties and decent cultural maintenance - Northey street below is an example of what we do so check it out!

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