Birregurra Community Arts Group

What is it? A practical workshop devised especially for artists and creative entrepreneurs to help them create an online bio that speaks with their voice, reveals their special brilliance and lets the world know what they have to offer with clarity, grace and style. What you get where to start how and who to ask for help three art activities to generate your words  ways to excite your reader about what you do  how to avoid sounding like you are bragging  What it’s about Writing about who you are and what you do is a challenge for everyone, but especially for artists whose work is bound up with their creativity. These workshops explore Vision and Voice. VISION getting clear about what a bio needs to have and the research phase who am I writing to?  how much of this do I share?  what does the reader want to know?  VOICE finding the words, using your voice, exploring ways of sharing your work, using a structure  making the most of

Local Felt Artist & BCAG member, Pam Fyfe, is busy preparing her entries into this year's CrossXpollinatioN Fibre & Textile exhibition, themed ENTWINED'd. These 2 stunning works, named 'Tangled 1 & 2', are wet felted, embellished with silk. The exhibition opens Saturday, July 2nd at Red Rock Regional Theatre & Gallery and will run for 2 weeks, All welcome!

Birregurra Singing Circle and Louise Brown would like to invite you to the introductory & drumming session of the OMM Rock Choir in preparation of the 2016 Birregurra Festival & Art Show .  Singers & music lovers of all ages and skills are welcome!   

Exhibiting artists include -  Deb Baillie Angela Baldwin Viv Wheeler Jane Bear Helene Bell Jan Stickland Sandy Batten Kathleen Harkins

Rachael Comte and her band Finding Isla  are performing an exclusive Parlour Gig in Birregurra on the 9th of July and limited tickets are now available to Arts Group members only. Birregurra's Community Singing Circle is delighted to announce a vocal harmony workshop with Rachael! The workshop will be held in the Community Health Centre on Sunday, the 10th of July 10:30am - noon. Singers of all ages and skills are welcome! Members $10 - Non-members $15 book in via email. Listen to the title song of Finding Isla's new album https://soundcloud.com/findingisla1/sets/breathe-light

One Day Painting Workshop at Birregurra, Saturday 16th July 2016, 9.30 - 4 pm Members $75 -  Non-member $85 If you love colour then July's painting workshop is for you. Marion East has a degree in fine Arts (Visual) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, and has 35 years of Professional Practice in Drawing and Painting. Marion has exhibited her work widely in Australia as well as having conducted many workshops in painting and Drawing. This workshop will focus on landscape/still life (dependent on weather) . Painting with an emphasis on Colour. We will discuss Colour Theory & Colour Charts as a way of understanding approaches to colour. Marion will bring resource images of artists such as Van Gogh, Suerat, Pierre Bonnard, David Hockney & William Robinson, who use colour as a means of expression. Don't miss out and register via email now. Material list supplied upon registering.

Miles and Simone are a music act with a difference. Their emotional melodies and immaculate harmonies will sweep you away on a journey from the delicate realms of love, loss and the sea and then come down to earth. They will be playing a mix of original songs and old country classics. Miles is a musician, actor and member of the groups Junkyard band and The Suitcase Royale. Simone is an opera singer, cabaret star and creator of the critically acclaimed cabarets The Lovebirds. These two funny, quirky best friends mix their magic chemistry with lyrical warmth and originality that make them a compelling duo, and their between show humour and banter will crack you up. Set in the stunning Birregurra Christ Church, Miles & Simone drop into Birre as part of a state wide tour; their echoing harmonies and storytelling sweeping away audiences. This will be a stunning night for music lovers of all ages from 9 to 99.  Tickets are just $20 for adults and $50 for families.  Lo

We have, again, scheduled an outing to the Big Smoke to this year's Winter Masterpieces Exhibition. Mark the date - Wednesday, the 29th of June and email us to register your participation. Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2016, Degas: A New Vision In June 2016, an exhibition of one of the world’s most loved artists, Edgar Degas, will open to the public. The world-first exhibition  Degas: A New Vision will offer the most significant international survey of Degas’ work in decades, presenting more than 200 works which showcase the artist’s talent in a new light; not only as a great master of painting, but also as a master of drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. The National Gallery of Victoria and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will both stage this major retrospective, which has been developed by both institutions in association with Art Exhibitions Australia.  Degas:   A New Vision  will be premiered at NGV International in June 2016 as the next Melbourne Wi

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Minister Martin Foley with Angie Smales, Vicki Jeffrey & Fiona Brandscheid On Saturday 28th May,  Birregurra began celebrating the news that the community successfully secured $350k in funding to creatively transform the town through art as part of Small Town Transformations, a Victorian State initiative administered by Regional Arts Victoria. The two year long project, titled "enLIGHTen Me: I have a Hall in my Heart" will see significant climatic and technological upgrades to the much loved but all too frequently idle Mechanics Institute, otherwise known as Birregurra Hall. The ultimate goal is to inspire the community to champion its potential and creative possibilities—transforming it from a much underused facility into a sustainable and inventive cultural centre with an ongoing program of community activities and events. There will also be some physical changes to the hall—subtle but very functional. A key element to the physical works to the hall will be c

90 STITCHES IN APOLLO BAY Textile artist Jo Maxwell loves nothing more than the challenge of transforming an idea or a basic sketch into a 3D creation to adorn the homes of local and international clients. Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Jo at her forthcoming textile exhibition ‘90 Stitches’ in Apollo Bay over the long weekend in June. While much of her inspiration comes from her quirky way of seeing the world and, in particular, the people in her life, Jo also turns to the past to find something new. Her fresh approach to traditional embroidery embraces techniques from a range of accumulated skills over a long career in design, dressmaking and more recently in creative surface stitchery. Jo, who has lived much of her life in country Victoria, brings her love of nature and natural fibres to her creative work. “I love working with natural products – cotton, silk, timber and I particularly enjoy creating pieces with linen. I like to collect, recycle and ren