Monthly Drawing Jam

A Monthly Drawing Jam Night is now taking place every third Wednesday, 6 - 9pm, Arts Alive, 178A Charles St, Launceston.

All Welcome. A casual and playful evening following in the spirit of Gravity project artist Chay-Ya Clancy's words "If you draw for long enough you stop controlling it and art just happens"

Stack of paper supplied, bring own drawing implements.

More info check out the Gravityinlaunceston blog

Portable Worlds Workshop a great success!

Nine participants from across the state who ranged in background from emerging filmmakers to high school teachers, learnt how to create, encode and transfer content onto their mobile phones.

Lisa Harms and Ben Jones were inspiring trainers, with deep understandings of both the commercial and creative potentials of mobile technology.

"The workshop was the best professional learning I’ve had in ages. I learned so much that will be really useful to me in my teaching. I really appreciated the quality of the presenters – they were fantastic, and clearly knew their stuff. It was also really beneficial to me as an IT teacher to get an arts perspective on things as well, that will help me to provide a more rounded education to my students."

- workshop participant Margaret Meijers

Making a Movie with Your Mobile Phone Workshops

Listen to 7LA tomorrow morning (Tue 29 April) for free workshop place give away.

Workshops:
When: 10 am – 4pm, Saturday 3rd May and Sunday 4th May
Where: Academy of the Arts, Inveresk.
Cost: $120 (full) $60 (concession)

Portable Worlds exhibition: 9 May – 5 June, Academy Gallery.

To book a place in this workshop please email: info@tasregionalarts.org.au or call 64 262344

The Academy of the Arts in partnership with Tasmanian Regional Arts are pleased to present the Australian Network for Art and Technology's two-day 'making creative content for mobile phones' workshop, to be followed by the Portable Worlds exhibition at the Academy Gallery.

People are even coming up from Hobart for this workshop! Thanks to Wide Angle Tasmania.

The workshops are supported by Screen Tasmania and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Launceston's Blockie Rout - Creator Unknown

Guerilla Art Day

On Friday 26th October Karlee Foster, myself and a bunch of playful people took inspiration from the activities outlined in the book Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith.

The aims of the day were to think about launceston's public spaces; trial some ideas and talk about potential issues with the view to presenting similar ephemeral art activities next year. Oh, and it was Tas Regional Arts' Youth Officer, Karlee Foster's last day working for us, so she got to spend it at Fresh cafe catching up with friends and making art, how good's that?

Here is Keri Smith's website:

http://www.kerismith.com