Creative Womens Circle is coming to Guildford Lane!
A word from the Tess McCabe who has recently taken over the role of organising the Creative Women's Circle.
Hello everyone, It is with excitement that I invite you all to the first Creative Women's Circle for 2009!
Saturday 4 April 10am - 12 midday
Guildford Lane Gallery
20 Guildford Lane Melbourne CBD
(off Queen St, between LaTrobe and Little Lonsdale streets. A short walk from Melbourne Central Station or Elizabeth St/Latrobe St trams. Parking lot nearby.)
Please RSVP by replying to tess@tessmccabe.com.au
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I'm delighted to announce that our speaker will be Lucy Feagins, most notably the author of the popular design blog TheDesignFiles.net.
By day, Lucy is a props buyer and set dresser in the film industry, and her website/blog TheDesignFiles is a collection of creative people, places and products from Melbourne and beyond. She updates her website daily, and interviews some of Australia’s most talented designers, artists and creative professionals every week. Currently, Lucy blogs to roughly 14,000 readers worldwide a month. No small feat in the online world!
In addition to getting an insight on her work as a props buyer, Lucy will speak about how creating and maintaining a blog has helped her professionally and inspired her creativity, and will answer questions about how creative people can better promote themselves and raise their profiles as artists online via their own (or other people's) blogs.
In the era of online promotion and social networking, this will be an informative talk for all!Please pass on this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in the CWC. Seating is limited so if you are planning to attend, please RSVP as early as possible.
The Creative Womens Circle is proudly supported by
Guildford Lane Gallery.
Guildford Lane Gallery.
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ABOUT THE WEDNESDAY PROJECT
The Wednesday Project is a weekly event held amongst the exhibitions at Guildford Lane Gallery with the intention of fostering marginal, peripheral and/or ephemeral art forms, as well as critical forums. It encourages exploration and collaboration; cross-discipline, cross-genre, cross-media, you name it!
To give you an idea of its scope, the Wednesday Projects thus far has involved experimental music, sound, sculpture, installation and performance. It could also include lectures, performance poetry, philosophical discussions, screenings, contemporary dance or live artworks.
The concept is that of the Director Robert Cripps, who believes in providing a space where new ideas can be tried in front an audience and offered for feedback. These ideas can be presented through music, a forum, dance, film or by other means, in the hope that they will inspire discussion and further exploration. We particularly encourage projects collaborating across media to bring people of various disciplines together.
Guildford Lane Gallery hopes to provide a space where unusual and unheard of projects can come to fruition and where support can be offered to artists otherwise struggling to find a venue for their work. We hope to encourage the wider community into our space; to involve writers and philosophers; to welcome anyone with an interest in new ideas; something of an incubator.
As a privately owned Gallery, we stay afloat by hiring out our spaces. Realising that there is not much money to be made via experimental projects, our time, space and resources (wherever possible) are donated to The Wednesday Project. We hope that this makes it worthwhile for artists to bring their ideas to an audience. The Project operates on a $0 budget, but to make sure that it is accessible to anyone that wishes to attend we keep entry to a donation and 100% of the door donations go to the artists. The Gallery, who has recently had its liquor licence granted, recovers some costs through drink sales. In light of this situation, The Wednesday Project may or may not be suitable to projects that already have an established audience and/or that already attract an income elsewhere. It is mostly for those risky projects that require a space for trying out in front of a willing audience for feedback and discussion; it is for projects that have a future or room for development within the Gallery environment.
We welcome your feedback on how the Project can be improved upon or how it can become more beneficial to artists and viewers. It is a learning experience for us all.
The Wednesday Project occurs most Wednesday evenings, to receive invitations to these events write to wproject@guildfordlanegallery.org with a request to be added to the mailing list. If you are interested in putting forward a proposal please write to the same email address for more information.
Doors Open 6pm. Performance 7pm. Entry by Donation.