And the Pocket Park is OPEN!
It was so good to see so many people come out and celebrate with us after 18 months of hard work.
Letter to the Editor
Title image provided by Eugenie Dumot
If you missed our Grand Opening it was an absolutely gorgeous day – one day of summer in the midst of a week of rain. The official ceremony was short and sweet. After Uncle Hank Horton welcomed us to Country, Deputy Premier Guy Barnett spoke, and Mayor Wayne Johnson presented a cheque of $10,000 to Arts Deloraine to activate the park over the coming year. Representatives of Arts Deloraine spoke about the process of creating the park.
This was followed by a range of performances: slam poetry, and music from a wide variety of groups, and theatre from the Deloraine Dramatic Society, with characters from Alice in Wonderland mingling with the crowd, as well as a performance of Shakespeare. Visual artists painted the day as it unfolded.
A huge thank you to everyone involved, and especially to Meander Valley Council for their generous contribution.
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Please come and use the space – enjoy your coffee, have a picnic, buskers are more than welcome too. And if you wish to book the space for an event of your own you can do so via our website: www.artsdeloraine.com.au, or contact Rachael Koch or Heather Ewings, who are the new coordinators of the park.
Over the Craft Fair weekend we have a huge line up of events: spoken word poetry, music, storytelling and so much more. Drop into the park and check out the billboard for more details!
WOAD – Windows on Art Deloraine
From 24th October until the 7th November WOAD will grace our streets again. The shop windows in Deloraine’s main road will become a street long gallery, with yellow dots marking a trail for visitors and locals alike to discover new artwork.
We offer a huge thank you to local businesses, who offer their windows, and goodwill, to artists, allowing us to make WOAD a tradition that strengthens the bond between artists, traders, locals and visitors, and reminds us that art belongs not only in galleries but in the very heart of our community.
TSO – Come along to the Little Theatre on 29th November for the last TSO screening of the year: Beethoven’s First. It’s Beethoven and folk music, but through the eyes of boundary-pusher Pekka Kuusisto.
Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto is one of the freshest and most original talents in orchestral music today. In this concert he takes on the dual role of soloist and director, giving the Australian première of Time and Tides, a violin concerto specially written for him by Anna Clyne and co-commissioned by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Described by The Scotsman as ‘a fiendishly challenging, deeply extrovert piece’, Time and Tides draws upon maritime-themed folk songs from Britain, Finland and America. Used as a starting point, the folk songs take on ever more complex iterations, guided by the extraordinary musicianship of Pekka Kuusisto.
After the folk-song inspired first half, Kuusisto steps up to the podium to conduct Beethoven’s bold and inventive Symphony No. 1.
Time and Tides was co-commissioned by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with thanks to private donors.
4pm, 29 November at the Little Theatre (Meander Valley Performing Arts Centre). FREE entry.
Other events to look out for:
The Meander Valley Art Award Exhibition is open from 25th Oct – 9th Nov at the Little Theatre.
And, Rennie Pearson is playing traditional celtic music at the Little Theatre 27th November 7:30pm onwards – tickets are available via Humanitix.
