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May 2017
June 2017
Window to the Soul:
Outposts |
What Rhymes
July 2017
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Transistor Film Weekly Workshops – Term 2
Participants will learn all aspects of the filmmaking process from professional filmmakers, screen writers and actors and then apply the skills learnt to make short films and/or a short dramatic web series. During term 1 the workshops focused on screenwriting, screen directing and producing. Participants developed the outline of short films and worked together to create the outline of a web series. In term 2 participants will work together to complete scripts for the web series and film these scripts…
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FREE
Window to the Soul:
Tintype portraits of Tasmanians in the Arts
A technique from the dawn of photography captures compelling portraits of the contemporary Tasmanian Arts community. The mystical ability of artists to see more deeply into the world around us seems to lend their gaze a striking clarity. Window to the Soul captures those eyes using tintype portraiture, a 160 year old photographic process experiencing a global revival by artists including Tasmania’s Phillip England. Tasmania has become a centre for artistic, artisanal and cultural endeavour. Window to the Soul celebrates 30 or…
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Products of Conception
The inaugural Salamanca Arts Centre Emerging Artist Scholarship 2017, featuring the work of Emma Magnussen-Reid. Natural versus unnatural, much of the time we are surrounded by things that perplex us, physical anomalies and contradictions that are outside of our control. “My life so far as a white female in her early twenties, has been just that. Existing in this physical form perplexes me, it is at times intimidating, but provides an endless absurdity that I embrace. My work generally gives…
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FREE
Well, Hello!
Kelly’s Garden Curated Projects #27 An installation by Sanja Pahoki Well, Hello! is a site-specific installation that considers the relationship between a tourist/spectator/viewer and host/place/artwork. Humans have a need to be recognised by others, this is how our subjectivity is formed. In more religious times, it was God who was a witness to our soul. Nowadays it is the internet. People upload numerous selfies, with the desire to be seen, recognised, liked. But if everyone is busy uploading images of themselves…
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FREE
Outposts |
DARK MOFO 2017
Curated by Brendan Walls Presented by Salamanca Arts Centre Lost signals and voices from the electro-magnetosphere seethe and mutter in the dark. As night falls, return for The Last Bastion live performance. Featuring: Robert Ashley (USA) Peter Blamey (SYD) Sally Ann McIntyre (NZ) Eden Meure (TAS) Pip Stafford (TAS) DATES: Saturday 10 – Sunday 25 June 2017 10:00am – 4:00pm daily OFFICIAL OPENING: Friday 9 June 2017 @ 6:00pm FREE event!
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Presented by artist and storyteller Clare Noble. In 1996 Victoria, visiting Senior Law First People from North Western Desert Country view Clare Noble’s first clay sculpture. They adopted her and encouraged her to continue with her arts practice. Clare then approached Victoria Elders, and went to the Cebtral Desert to ask Permission. It was there that she was taken to the late Senior Law Leader Wenton Rubuntja, who adopted her as a granddaughter, asking Clare to share her story, writings…
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$30 - $49
What Rhymes
with Cars and Girls |
FoV 2017
Produced by the Tasmanian Theatre Company as part of Festival of Voices 2017 Unabashedly romantic, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls is a tender musical adapted from Tim Rogers’ iconic solo album. Playwright, Aidan Fennessy, has threaded Rogers’ beautiful songs together to create a stunning new tale of contemporary love in Australia. Performed with a live band, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls is an intimate musical treasure of two lovers brought together by fate – and a pizza delivery gone…
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FREE
Rektango
Rektango is a weekly event held every Friday in Salamanca Art Centre’s own enchanting Courtyard. Hemmed in by a cliff face stretching up to Battery Point, people from all walks of life gather for live music every Friday evening between 5:30pm and 7:30pm. It’s a FREE EVENT event run by the musicians themselves, with lots of dancing, catching up with old friends or meeting new ones. There’s hot mulled wine and fires in the winter, sangria in the summer, plus beers, ciders and…
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FREE
Out of Hand 2017 : Biennial Mini Challenge
Recycled cardboard, slot & tab construction – stitched, woven, painted, collaged, scored, glued, peeled & revealed, lights, mirrors and more… Generated by a mini challenge from the Stitching & Beyond membership, this exhibition will endeavour to show the diversity of this group. It will make creative use of the small space, light conditions and the opportunity to see work from the front and the back will present some interesting challenges for our members to resolve. EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday 1 –…
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FREE
Rektango
Rektango is a weekly event held every Friday in Salamanca Art Centre’s own enchanting Courtyard. Hemmed in by a cliff face stretching up to Battery Point, people from all walks of life gather for live music every Friday evening between 5:30pm and 7:30pm. It’s a FREE EVENT event run by the musicians themselves, with lots of dancing, catching up with old friends or meeting new ones. There’s hot mulled wine and fires in the winter, sangria in the summer, plus beers, ciders and…
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