|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Arts Bulletin 278
5 June 2008
This Week's Feature - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Emanuel Ax Plays Chopin | 
Robin Ticciati
Photo credit Silvia Lelli
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati
| One of the world's finest pianists, highly regarded as a Chopin interpreter, Emanuel Ax will perform the composer's Second Piano Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Geelong (see details below).
This season sees Emanuel Ax performing with the major symphony orchestras around the world including the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin, Chicago and Toronto symphony orchestras and the London Philharmonic. He recently completed a solo recital tour in Europe and North America, performing in London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and New York's Carnegie Hall. In the 2005-2006 season, Mr Ax served as Pianist-in-residence with the Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin and London. In the 2004-2005 season he contributed to a BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which was awarded a 2005 International Emmy.
Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the sponsorship of the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America, and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. In 1974 he captured public attention when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
Making his Australian debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Robin Ticciati is a sensational rising star on the international conducting circuit. A violinist, pianist and percussionist by training, London-born Ticciati turned to conducting at the age of 15 under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle, while still a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Still in his mid-twenties, he is currently Music Director and Artistic Advisor to the Gävle Symphony Orchestra (Sweden) and is Music Director of Glyndebourne on Tour, a position he assumed in January 2007. In June 2005 he became the youngest conductor to conduct at La Scala, Milan.
For his Melbourne performances, he leads the MSO in Frank Bridges The Sea, a sweeping surging picture of the sea in its many facets - from shimmering moonlight to fierce tempest. Ticciati closes the program with Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 which is compact yet heroic, epic in scope, yet enormously concentrated in expression. Its famous finale, with its swinging horn theme, is intensely rousing.
Bridge The Sea
Chopin Piano Concerto No.2
Sibelius Symphony No.5
Robin Ticciati conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
| Dates: | 13 June 2008 | | Time: | 8pm | | Venue: | Deakin University, Costa Hall, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong | | Cost: | Adult $74 to $41 | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1200 | | Email: | Mso@mso.com.au | | Website: | www.mso.com.au |
|
| Performing Arts |
Picnic At Hanging Rock Revisited
Anglesea Performing Arts and Clonard College's co-production is an adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic 1967 novel Picnic At Hanging Rock and deals with the aftermath of the mysterious disappearance of a group of schoolgirls and a Mistress from Appleyard College from the slopes of Hanging Rock. This hauntingly beautiful tale is underscored by a soundscape created by Martin Cox which blends the guttural earthy sounds of the Australian bush and the evocative plaintive drone of the didgeridoo and juxtaposes these sounds with the refined romantic melodies of string quartets and piano sonatas. A complimentary glass of champagne is offered at 7.30pm on opening night. Tea, coffee or a glass of wine will be available after the show and you are invited to join the cast for a chat.
Clonard Theatre
| Dates: | 6 and 7 June | | Time: | 8pm plus 3pm matinee 7 June | | Venue: | Clonard Theatre, 225 Church Street, Geelong West | | Cost: | Adult $20 Concession $18 Groups of ten $15 | | Contact: | (03) 5278 2155 Clonard |
Geelong Wind Bands Showcase 2008
A new group has been formed for Geelong wind (concert) bands and its first project is a Wind Bands Showcase. This concert will feature bands from Christian College Geelong, Belmont High School, Clonard College, The Geelong College, St Joseph's College and Kardinia International College and The Geelong Concert Band with special guest band The Geelong Concert Senior Band. Two 'critical friends' will provide positive feedback to each band following their performance.
| Dates: | 6 June 2008 | | Time: | 5:30pm to 8:30pm | | Venue: | Costa Hall, Deakin University Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong | | Cost: | Free, however a gold coin donation would be appreciated | | Contact: | No bookings required | | Email: | geelongcb@gmail.com |
A Day At The Great Music Hall with Musical Mornings
The finale of Musical Mornings Season One 2008 promises to be spectacular with A Day at the Great Music Hall, taking us on a welcome journey back to The Good Ol' Days of 1895, with men in white tie and tails and ladies in crinolines. Join the Gaslight Company - Australia's busiest morning music troupe - for a wonderful day at the Music Hall as they serve up a song and dance storm of parlour favourites at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre.
| Dates: | 11 and 12 June 2008 | | Time: | 10.30am | | Venue: | Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Little Malop Street, Geelong | | Cost: | $15.40 single tickets, subscriptions also available | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1200 | | Website: | www.gpac.org.au |
*NEW*
Possum Magic - The Musical
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of the uniquely Australian children's classic Possum Magic. To celebrate, Possum Magic - The Musical is coming to the Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) as part of the 2008 Bendigo Bank Family Magic program. Since first being published in 1983, it has become an Australian literary classic and its author Mem Fox and illustrator Julie Vivas have become Australian literary icons. Possum Magic tells the story of Hush the baby possum, who is magically turned invisible by Grandma Poss to protect Hush from the dangers of the bush. When Grandma Poss forgets how to remove the spell, she and Hush must journey around Australia in search of the 'people food' that can make Hush visible again. In 1990 the book was adapted for the stage by Garry Ginivan Attractions, and in the following years the production has toured across the nation on 10 separate occasions, playing to more than 250,000 patrons. Featuring larger-than-life sized puppets and a cast of multi-talented performers, including GPAC's own prodigal son Mykel Jackson-Brown, Possum Magic - The Musical has stylishly transformed the story into a rollicking Australian musical, complete with lamingtons, pavlovas and Vegemite sandwiches.
| Dates: | 14 June 2008 | | Time: | 11am and 2pm | | Venue: | Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Little Malop Street, Geelong | | Cost: | $16.80 | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1200 | | Email: | boxoffice@gpac.org.au
| | Website: | www.gpac.org.au |
Geelong Advertiser Music Competition - John Brockman Regional Semi-Finals Concert
This is a wonderful program of fine classical solo music presented by twelve of Geelong's outstanding young musicians playing a range of instruments. Four of these young musicians will be selected to go forward to the Final Concert in Costa Hall Deakin University on Saturday 9 August where they will vie for the Harwood Andrews Regional Prize of $3,000. This promises to be a fine concert featuring upcoming artists.
| Dates: | 14 June 2008 | | Time: | 7.30pm | | Venue: | Costa Hall, Deakin University Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong | | Cost: | Free | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1227 | | Website: | www.gpac.org.au/gamusic |
Sportsman's Night
Sportsman's Night, written and performed by award wining comedian Damian Callinan, exposes life in a country town where footy rules all. Bodgy Creek is a town that has seen better days. The population is dwindling; the local timber industry is under threat; and now to top it all off the footy club, The Bodgy Creek Roosters, has been banned for their involvement in a 'harmless melee'! This riotous and energetic one man comedy, inspired by the real life events of a country footy club banned for a melee that got out of hand, is bound to be hit in our football loving city.
*NEW*
The Geelong Chorale
Italian Café Concert
The Chorale's traditional café concert is back! This year the Chorale is presenting an Italian Cafe Concert, with opera choruses, Italian madrigals and Neapolitan songs, as well as Italian food. Come and hear us sing the Anvil Chorus (with anvil) from Il trovatore and Brindisi from La traviata, and sing Come Back to Sorrento, Funiculi funicula, Santa Lucia and other songs with us. Manfred Pohlenz, baritone, will sing arias from opera and conduct the choir and the audience. A great night for everyone. Bravo!!
| Dates: | 28 June 2008 | | Time: | 7pm | | Venue: | Belmont Masonic Hall, Regent Street, Belmont | | Cost: | $35 includes Italian meal $20 children | | Contact: | (03) 5223 3554 (tickets) or (03) 5263 3855 (information) | | Email: | pandapil@tpg.com.au
| | Website: | www.thegeelongchorale.org.au |
*NEW*
Winter Orchestra Concert - St Joseph's College Performing Arts Centre.
Bay City Strings combine with members of St Joseph's College Senior Band and the Geelong Community Orchestra. The concert will feature St Joseph's College Year 10 Student Adrian King at the piano with Piano Concerto No 21 in C major (K.467) - 2nd movement (WA Mozart).
| Dates: | 22 June 2008 | | Time: | 5pm | | Venue: | St Joseph's College, Peter Cannon Performing Arts Centre (enter from Queens Road Newtown) | | Cost: | $10 adults, $5 Concession/children | | Contact: | Maureen (03) 5226 8100 (St Joseph's College) |
|
| Visual Arts |
*NEW*
LITTLE MALOP GALLERY
Zbukvic + Pekel + Smales
After an exceptional response to the Joseph Zbukvic, Peter Smales and Herman Pekel exhibition last year, Little Malop Gallery has invited them back. They need little introduction as three of Australia's foremost impressionist painters, and an opportunity to acquire new works by these artists is a rarity in Geelong. This exhibition of energetic, expressive watercolours and oil paintings will include many fine works based on the Geelong region and beyond, and if you were lucky you may have caught them painting on site at the waterfront recently! Be quick.
*NEW*
SHEARER'S GALLERY
Members' Bequest Exhibition
The Shearers Arms Gallery is hosting an exciting Members' Bequest Exhibition to be judged by Joel Wolter. This exhibition is an award exhibition from bequests made to the society in all mediums.
CAVALIER GALLERY
[dis]placed: concepts of time, space, place and memory
John Watts, Gillian Turner and James Watt are Geelong-based artists and educators. This new exhibition, entitled [dis]placed, brings these artists together for the first time in their combined Iinterpretations of this theme. Using photography, painting, drawing and mixed media [dis]placed informs the artists' varied concepts of time, space, place and memory to create deliberate figurative and spatial ambiguities in their work.
| Dates: | To 21 June 2008 | | Time: | Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm Friday 9am to 4pm Saturday 11am to 4pm | | Venue: | Cavalier Gallery - Brougham School of Art and Photography, 73 Malop Street, Geelong | | Cost: | Free | | Contact: | (03) 03 5229 9984 | | Email: | admin@broughamart.vic.edu.au | | Website: | www.broughamart.vic.edu.au |
EAGLES NEST GALLERY
Heart Felt
The Eagles Nest Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition by local artist Matthew Grace who has exhibited in London, Melbourne and at the Adelaide Arts Festival. Grace's iconography of the mundane explores the relationship of the objects that surround him and his paintings are the result. He refers to them as visual poetry.
| Dates: | To 15 June 2008 | | Times: | 10am to 5pm | | Venue: | Eagles Nest Gallery, 50 Great Ocean Road, Aireys Inlet | | Cost: | Free | | Contact: | (03) 5289 7366 | | Email: | nadia@eaglesnestgallery.com.au |
GEELONG GALLERY
Continuous Moment - Damiano Bertoli
The three components of this exhibition - a central installation and two related paintings - are part of an ongoing investigation by Damiano Bertoli into the notion of 'continuous moment' or, in other words, the ways in which art history retains a relevance for contemporary practice, with a constant engagement in most forms of art between the past and the present. Each of the exhibited works makes reference to a haunting painting by the nineteenth century German Romantic artist, Caspar David Friedrich, titled Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice) - a work that depicts the fateful end to a fictitious North Sea expedition. Consistent with the German Romantic approach that emphasized the monumentality of nature in opposition to the comparative frailty of man, Friedrich's painting reveals traces of a shipwreck that are dwarfed by an immense pyramid of shattered ice. Friedrich's narrative of exploration and tragedy at sea is replaced by a different kind of human presence and endeavour in Bertoli's sculptural work Continuous Moment, with its constructed geometric forms combined with discarded materials from building sites. Bertoli's narrative shifts to that of the artist in the studio, to the successes and failures of art making rather than the failed North Sea expedition evoked by Friedrich. A floor talk of the exhibition will be presented by Damiano Bertoli, exhibiting artist.
*NEW*
QUEENSCLIFF PIER
Artist in Residence
Award winning Melbourne based artist Cameron Robbins will take up residency in Queenscliff to install two of his pieces on the Queenscliff Pier. Lifeboat Reverie is a sound sculpture with a tuned set of organ pipes driven by tidal movements which will be installed in the Rescue Boat Shed on the Queenscliff Pier. Also at the end of the Pier Cameron will install a wind drawing machine - a mechanical drawing device that randomly collects wind energy and translates it into a sketch. While Cameron is in Queenscliff he intends to spend time researching artefacts and instruments in the Maritime Museum that will no doubt inform his works in the future. The residency will include an Artist Talk with Cameron and other opportunities for community to meet with him.
THE WINTERGARDEN
lianne @ wintergarden
Lianne Gough, local artist and 2007 Winner of the Gallipoli Prize is opening an exhibition of her new works. This exciting selection of work showcases Lianne's unique style and perspective. While the exhibition also includes landscapes, Lianne has again chosen to focus on portraiture which demonstrates her passion for chronicling the human spirit. Her paintings describe the subjects' attitude to life, by the look in their eyes, the way they stand or their place on the canvas. Art enthusiasts and professionals alike will be able to appreciate and enjoy this selection of works, giving us a glimpse of our community through one woman's eyes. Everyone is welcome to the opening of an exhibition of new works by Lianne Gough.
|
| Literature |
*NEW*
Inaugural Torquay Froth And Bubble Literary Festival
Poets, writers, playwrights, authors, publishers, actors, philosophers from all spectrums of their
craft will be descending on Torquay for a Festival of Literature (see details below). They will be coming from Country Victoria, Melbourne and Geelong with some artists being well known and some relatively unknown. All are wishing to display and teach through readings, recitations, book signings and workshops for children and adults.
Starting at St Therese Primary School, Torquay at 11 am on the Saturday morning with an outline by Paul Morgan of his novel The Seeds of Misrule about the perils of GM crops. This will be followed by The Torquay Theatre Troupe and a Festival Dinner on Saturday night at Zeally's Restaurant. On Sunday there will be poetry at Zeally's, a children's workshop at the library and The Chocolate Room, PowerPoint presentation by The Geelong Scribes and a talk on Philosophy. We will also enjoy a visit from the Melbourne Arvo's, Poetica Christi, and the Melbourne
Wordsmiths.
Quote "Your jug might break on the musty shelf but mine will break by the dazzling stream"
Adam Lindsay Gordon. Australia's first poet of note. 1833-1870
|
| Festivals and Events |
National Celtic Festival 2008
There's a chill to the air, the days are getting shorter and the mist is lingering a little longer over the beautiful seaside town of Portarlington. It's the perfect atmosphere for the upcoming National Celtic Festival 2008 held over the June long weekend (see details below). From Friday evening until Monday afternoon there is much to enjoy. The huge array of entertainment ranges from lively stage concerts to intimate acoustic sessions. Festival venues include the Ol' Duke, Parks Hall, Wine Bar and the Village Stage, set amid the food and craft stalls of the lively Celtic Market.
2008 Bethany Arthouse Film Festival - The Lives Of Others
This intense thriller begins in Berlin five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and traces the gradual disillusionment of State Security Captain Gerd Wiesler, who works for the Stasi Secret Police. A powerful minister, who takes a fancy to beautiful actress Christa-Maria Sieland, puts Weisler up to spying on her and her playwright partner. When you wiretap, you learn all sorts of things, perhaps even things you weren't supposed to know. He comes to increasingly empathise with the couple he spends so much time eavesdropping on, leading to complex and shattering results. Winner 2006 Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film. German with English subtitles.
Rating MA Duration 132 mins Starring Sebastian Koch and Martina Gadeck.
| Dates: | 5 June 2008 | | Time: | 8pm | | Venue: | Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Little Malop Street, Geelong | | Cost: | Adult $16 Concession $10 | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1200 | | Email: | www.gpac.org.au |
Field Naturalists' Lecture
A presentation on the subject of weeds.
| Date: | 10 June 2008 | | Time: | 7.30pm | | Venue: | Geelong Botanic Gardens Meeting Room | | Cost: | Free | | Contact: | (03) 5222 6053 | | Email: | friendsgbg@sunet.com.au |
Geelong Classic Cinema - Anansi
A group of four West Africans dare to undertake the perilous journey to Germany. However their path to a promised land is strewn with obstacles. Anansi is an odyssey full of wonders and sacrifices, African mystique and love that surpasses all borders. Director and screenplay Fritz Baumann. Vivid soundtrack by Roma Bunkas.
Germany 2002 colour 80mins sub-titled. The short film Celtic Spirits will also screen. Canada. 1978 Colour 28 mins. | Date: | 11 June 2008 | | Time: | 7.30 pm (allow time for parking) | | Venue: | Morrow Theatrette. 51 Litttle Malop St Geelong (Upstairs - next to the Geelong Art Galllery) | | Cost: | Become a member and see 3 monthly films for $15 | | Contact: | Vern (03) 5243 6926 John (03) 5254 2496 |
*NEW*
Film - Mongol
Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, Mongol. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. Mongol shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor. Village Cinema have 5 double passes to sneak screenings from June 13 to 15. Call the Arts and Culture Department on (03) 5227 0878 to receive your complimentary ticket.
Camping Under The Moonahs
Art exhibition and assemblage by Deborah Brearley as part of the Wetlands Connections series of events.
| Date: | To 15 June 2008 | | Time: | 8am to Late Monday to Saturday
8am to 5pm Sunday | | Venue: | Kelp, 67 Pt Lonsdale Road, Point Lonsdale | | Cost: | Free | | Contact: | (03) 5258 4797 |
|
| Opportunities and Employment |
*NEW*
Information Night and Auditions
Ruby Moon
An information night for Matt Cameron's Ruby Moon, directed by Doug Mann is being held (see details below). What happens when a child goes missing? What does a parent do when their worst nightmare comes true, their silent cries of 'surely not mine' go unanswered, and all their desperate searching is in vain? How to cling to hope, how to fight despair? How do you even hold on to sanity and each other? Ruby Moon walks the footpaths of our great, disconnected Australian suburbia in the wake of the disappearance of Ruby, a 10 year-old girl who went to visit her grandma one day and never came back. Since then, Ruby's parents have been trying to pick up the pieces and fit them together…into something that looks like Ruby. Ruby Moon is a powerful, grimly comic vision of the agony that is Gretel, Azaria, little Maddie and all the missing children. It is the tale of the Big Bad Wolf retold in a kaleidoscopic way you will not forget.
| Dates: | Information Night 11 June 2008
Auditions 22 and 24 June 2008 | | Time: | Information Night 7.30pm
Auditions 22 June - 2pm 24 June - 7.30pm | | Venue: | Woodbin Theatre, Lillian Stott Centre, 15 Coronation Street Geelong West | | Contact: | Doug - 0414 650 277 | | Email: | blackibis@hotmail.com | | Website: | www.geelongrep.com.au |
Divas Wanted
Auditions for female singers aged 12 to 18 years
Were you born to perform? Do you want to hit the recording studio? Do you love singing challenging harmonies?
We are looking for talented female singers aged 12 to 18 years to form an a cappella group to record and perform in Geelong. If you think you have what it takes, call Lucy Jones with your details or email (see details below). Auditions will be held in Geelong. This project is proudly supported by the Geelong Harmony Chorus.
Seniors Festival Program Open
Are you looking for a new way to open your corner of the art world to people aged 50 years and over? The City of Greater Geelong might be able to help. The Victorian Seniors Festival Geelong is the largest community celebration for seniors in regional Victoria. It runs for the entire month of October and features a huge variety of community hosted events and experiences, including competitions, workshops, dances, concerts and tours. In a survey conducted with Festival participants in 2007, a significant number of seniors indicated that they were looking for opportunities to be involved with the arts either as an audience member or a direct participant (eg via workshops and classes). If your organisation would like to promote an event or special offer in our Program of Events or needs financial assistance of up to $400 to assist with hosting an event, contact us on or visit our website to apply (see details below).
Victorian Music Library
The Victorian Music Library (VML) is a not for profit music resource centre, managed by volunteers to preserve and provide for loan a collection of over 60,000 items of sheet music to their members throughout Victoria. They aim to make the music collection available to their membership, which includes orchestras, string ensembles, brass bands, school music departments, musicians, performers, students and music teachers. The library offers a great value way for local communities to access music, often providing works that are only available in Australia in their library, along with a postal service and longer loans for rural and regional members. Membership is available at a reasonable rate and allows multiple loans from the collection along with other benefits. Check the website for more information about this exciting resource.
| Dates: | Tuesdays and Thursdays | | Time: | 10am to 4pm | | Venue: | 64 - 66 Orrong Road, Elsternwick (alongside the Uniting Church Archives) | | Cost: | Check website for membership fees | | Contact: | (03) 9528 3135 | | Email: | musiclib@vicnet.net.au | | Website: | www.vicnet.net.au/~vml/ |
EOI: Local Art, Craft and Produce Stallholders
Expressions of interest are being sought for quality local art and craft and local produce market stalls for this year's National Celtic Festival to be held over the June long weekend in Portarlington. Visit our website for further information. Celtic Market applications can be found on the website or call 0409 017 130 to register your interest.
|
| Education |
*NEW* Multiple Listings
Teddy Bears Visit the National Wool Museum
The very popular Teddy Bears Visit program returns to the National Wool Museum. Children aged from Playgroup to Grade Two are invited to bring their favourite teddy (or similar friend) to the Museum to sing songs, dance and explore the Museum on a fun and educational journey. The program is on offer from now until 27 June, Mondays to Fridays at 9.30am, 11.15am and 1.15pm, with the afternoon session also being available as a birthday party option.
Group bookings are essential and the cost is $3.65 per participant (including parents/carers). Teddy Bears are free! Preferred minimum group size is 12 children. Please contact the Museum's Bookings Officer on 5227 0701 for further information.
*NEW*
Cooking in the Woolshed
The National Wool Museum is offering a new education program for primary schools, titled Shear Hard Work!
Primary school students can visit the Museum to see the exhibition Baitlayers and Babbling Brooks – An Exhibition on Shearers' Cooks to learn all about the job of being a shearers' cook and the amount and type of food that shearers typically eat. They will also be doing some cooking of shearers' buns and making a craft item from wool.
The Shear Hard Work! program is offered at the rate of $3.65 per student until 27 June, and will also be offered during the July School Holidays at $5.00 per child and $3.65 per accompanying adult, including a shearing demonstration. Bookings are essential. Please contact the Museum's Bookings Officer on 5227 0701 or email for further information.
| Venue: | National Wool Museum, 26 Moorabool Street, Geelong |
*NEW*
Printmaking Program At Brougham
Brougham school of art and photography is offering a comprehensive printmaking program for Term 3. This program includes introductory and intermediate classes as well as a whole day printmaking workshops run over two Saturdays.
| Dates: | Printmaking - An Introduction 25 July to 12 September 2008
Printmaking - Intermediate 25 July to 12 September
Printmaking Workshop - Run over two Saturdays 26 July and 2 August 2008 | | Time: | Printmaking - An Introduction 9am to 12pm
Printmaking -Iintermediate 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Printmaking Workshop on Saturdays 10am to 4pm | | Venue: | Brougham School of Art and photography, Level 1, 73 malop street, geelong | | Cost: | Printmaking - An introduction $270 (8 weeks)
Printmaking - Iintermediate $270 (8 weeks)
Printmaking Workshop on Saturdays $140 (2 Days) | | Contact: | (03) 5229 9984 | | Email: | admin@broughamart.vic.edu.au | | Website: | www.broughamart.vic.edu.au |
|
| Artist of the Month - Ron Sudden |
Ron Sudden
Ron and Maureen Sudden in Beat on Broadway. Photo copyright Gavin D Andrew | Ron Sudden is one of Geelong's most popular and well-known entertainers. He is originally from Scotland, where he was a member of the famous Kirkintilloch Junior Choir. Emigrating at the age of 14, Ron soon joined the Musical Comedy Company where his leading roles included Tommy Allright in Brigadoon, Professor Harold Hill in Musicman, and in 1995, Javert in Les Miserables for the Lyric Theatre Company. Ron received 5 Oscars and 2 Awards of Merit for Best Actor in A Musical, including Lt Cable in South Pacific, Cornelius Hackl in Hello Dolly, Harold Hill in Musicman and Petrucchio in Kiss Me Kate.
Ron has played piano in bands for many years, turning professional in 1982, and now plays and performs all over Victoria and Queensland. Ron and his wife, Maureen Sudden, entertain together at various functions all over Geelong and Melbourne and are popular guest artists at many musical clubs and groups on the Gold Coast, where they go to relax after a busy year.
He also has directed shows for GMCC (Diamond Jubilee in 2002), 2 shows for Queenscliff Lighthouse Theatre Group, and 3 shows for B.E.A.T., with a fourth, A Tribute To The Hollywood Musicals, currently in rehearsal. Devised and directed by Ron and Maureen, this revue showcases well-loved songs from movie musicals from the 1930s to the present day. With a cast of 30 talented singers and dancers, this show is sure to prove very popular (see details below for dates and other information).
Ron has one unfulfilled ambition to teach singing and stagecraft in Geelong, which he hopes to commence in the very near future.
A Tribute to Hollywood Musicals
| Dates: | 26 to 28 June 2008 | | Time: | Evening 7.30pm
Matinee 1.30pm 28 June | | Venue: | Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Little Malop Street, Geelong | | Cost: | $28 Adults, $26 Concession, $16 child (16 and under) | | Contact: | (03) 5225 1200 |
|
** This publication is intended as a general guide and is published on the basis of information provided to the City of Greater Geelong by third parties. It does not substitute for professional advice on laws and regulations in individual cases. If readers still have doubts, they should consult legislation or seek professional advice. The City of Greater Geelong accepts no responsibility for any errors or ommissions that may have accidentally occured within the publication. Council does not neccessarily endorse the views expressed by the contributors or endorse events, photographs or information contained within. |
|
|
