VISIONS OF HOME
A series of exhibitions and events using a whole range of different mediums that give young people around the world a chance to express to their peers in their own and other countries, visions and images of the societies in which they live.
UMBUL UMBUL
Presented by the Australian Festival for Young People in association with the International Affairs Unit, Department of Education & Childrens Services.
Umbul Umbul are the long vertical flags that decorate temples and roadways throughout Indonesia. In this unique project young people in South Australia and Bali use these flags as a medium to describe their lives and life styles to one another. Following their display around the Capital City, the flags will be shown in Bali. The Umbul Umbul project is one of a number of initiatives celebrating the special relationships between DE & Cs and Department of Education and Culture, Bali.
Capital City, Elder Park
March21 to April 6
One thousand nine hundred and ninety seven postcards
(HK/CHINA/UK/AUST)
Fresh from the 1996 Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival, this is a unique look at the hand over of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, seen through the eyes of school children in Hong Kong, China, the UK and South Australia. Around 400 large postcards with each half designed by a student in one of these countries, will go on display on luscious Chinese silk scrolls and stands.
Playhouse Foyer
March 21 to April 6
FREE
All ages
OzScreen
Young South Australians create a series of provocative, humourous, and moving images of their vision of Australia as it enters the 21 Century. How do we define ourselves? Do images of kangaroos and koalas, football and surfboards, barbeques and cork hats still pervade our national consciousness or are images now emerging that reflect a broader more complex Australia? Using an array of screen based images, text, photographs, video film, laser projection, computer graphics, montage and photography this moving interactive exhibition gives some answers to how a rising generation see themselves and the country that they will help shape and develop.
Tech Over Performance Space
Seen and Heard
The results of statewide workshops where, using cartoons as the language of self expression, young people were asked to consider issues that concern and affect them and develop ways of getting these ideas across to politicians and policy-makers. Images from the workshops will be seen around Capital City throughout the Festival - so look up and look out!
River Gallery, Elder park
March 21-April 6
The River Gallery
Interstate and local visual artists show their technology-focused works on a giant, floating gallery screen on the River Torrens directly in front of the Capital City cafes. Works include Victoria Straub`s Don't Forget to Breathe, a series of moody black and white photos from the Big Apple. New York is truly lightness and darkness. arm-wrestling on a shaky table. Thanks to the Queens Trust Awards See ANIMAPS outstanding and colourful film from graduates of the MAPS course at Adelaide's Hamilton Senior Secondary College. Sit beneath the stars and see a range of work, combining photography with a range of striking computer generated artwork.
River Torrens
Capital City (near cafes), Elder Park March 21 - April 5
Evenings
Billboards
Artists TAKE OVER advertising billboards and transform them into giant canvases for their art, through the mediums of paint and collage to show off wonderfully imaginative works. Billboards generously donated by 3M Australian Posters, paint supplied by J&L Painting Services.
Billboard locations available in Daily Diary or the Capital City Box Office
Animal Instincts
Presented by The Art Gallery of South Australia
The behaviour and personality of animals has always offered insights into our own humanity. Drawn from the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection of Australian and International paintings and sculptures from the 1930's onwards, this exhibition includes depiction's of many creatures. Works include Rayner Hoff's Lions. James Angus' Rhinoceros. Arthur Boyd. and many others.
Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace, Adelaide March 21 to May 19
FREE
All ages
Contemporary Arts Centre presents
Young South Australian curators Samara Mitchell and Jackie Deare present an exhibition of work which represents the most important and exciting of their generation of emerging South Australian artists. The exhibition provides audiences with the opportunity to experience and support the work of emerging South Australian artists - the future of our local art scene. A cataloge will accompany the exhibition which will include work by young writers.
Contemporary Arts Centre. 14 Porter Street. Parkside April 4 to May 4
Tuesday to Friday. 11.00am to 5.00pm
FREE
All ages
Back Then Now
An Aboriginal perspective on plants and the environment.
An outdoor children's art trail through the beautiful Australian forest section in the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide. The winding trail makes its way past a series of colourful
painted panels which depict some of the many different traditional ways Aboriginal people used plants to live in a sustainable way with their natural environment. Many panels focus on the Adelaide Plains Kaurna people. Back then Now is by students from Alberton Primary School working with artists Eileen Karpany and Audrey Emery as part of the Artists In Schools program. An interpretative pamphlet and student activity sheets are available to guide teachers and students through the exhibition.
For bookings and information contact the Education Officer Botanic Gardens of Adelaide Ph (08) 8228 2344 or
fax (08) 8223 1809 or email smeredith@btg.lands.sa.gov.au
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide North Terrace. Adelaide March 24 to April 7
All ages
Take Over Poster Competition
Young South Australian talent is revealed in this colourful and sometimes amusing selection of entries from last years statewide competition to design the TAKE OVER 97 poster for the Festival
On display at Capital City FREE
All ages
Tandanya Take Over
As part of TAKE OVER 97, Tandanya. the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute presents a series of exciting exhibitions Find events designed for young people.
Inmaku Pakani
(Dance a Ceremony)
An exhibition of Iino cuts by Aboriginal children and elders from Oak Valley. produced at community workshops under the guidance of artist,
Jonathon Novick
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. 253 Grenfell Street, City March 7 - April 13(excl. Good Friday) 10.00am -5.00pm
FREE ENTRY during TAKE OVER
All ages
Breath of Life
This exhibition covers four key aspects of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
interface in Australia. through the poetry and line cuts of Kevin Gilbert and the photography of Eleanor Williams -NOT GREY - the inter-relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultures SPIRIT OF THE LAND - a contemporary of poetic and photographic imagery inspired by the spirit of the land and its people. BREATH OF LIFE - the creative and political contribution by Aboriginal
poet/activist, Kevin Gilbert, to the indigenous struggle for justice and THE STRUGGLE' - Aboriginal political protest from 1979 to the present day.
Tandanya
March 7 - April 13(excl. Good Friday) 10,00am- 5,00pm
FREE ENTRY during TAKE OVER All ages
Write to Be
Aboriginal writer Lisa Bellear leads workshops for secondary school students, introducing the writings of activist Kevin Gilbert and reading from her own works and those of other prominent Aboriginal literary figures. Participants will join in discussions and practical exercises in creative visualisation and expression to assist them in their own writing. At the beginning of the workshop, children from Yalata/Oak Valley will join elders from Oak Valley for traditional dance performances, the result of ongoing workshops in the community.
Writing Workshops:
Tandanya
March 24 - 27 at 9,45am (with dance performance) or 12.45 pm
April 1 - 4 at 10,00am, 12,45pm
All sessions S 6.00
Duration 2 hours
Phone Matthew Henger,Tandanya. Ph (08) 8224 3210 for bookings
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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