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Artistic VisionThe land we walk is an ancient land.

It is full of memory and traces of stories, myths and legends. Whether a creation story, a family story, an heirloom brought from a distant shore, or a tale told around the kitchen table, we are the keepers of a shared knowledge. How do we pass this on? How does the next generation encounter these stories and make them their own?

Hello and welcome to our 2016 Art is... Layers of Time Festival program. This year is our 21st festival and we invite you to come and celebrate with us! Once again we have transformed empty spaces, held creative community workshops and embraced our talented local and invited artists. We will activate our streets with local and invited visual and performing artists, and this year we’re SUPER excited to showcase

From song lines to cyber lines, ‘story’ transcends time and place. Under the ever watchful gaze of Djurite and Gariwerd, we listen, share and learn from our communities’ stories, adding our voice to the layers of time.Which part of the story do you keep?

our major project, Tchingals: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country in the NEW Horsham Town Hall Theatre.

Come and help celebrate the 2016 Horsham Art is... festival.

THANK YOU to an incredibly dedicated committee and team of volunteers. The festival would not happen without you.

Adelle Rohrsheim, Festival Manager

Art is...Layers of Time Festival Contents 4 Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country6 Opening Night 8 Visual Art17 Music18 Performance 20 Literature & Forum23 Creative Workshops27 Taste and Savour28 Our Story30 Timetable34 Map35 Sponsors & Partners

Stories, Myth & Legends

Message From The Festival Manager

Message From The MINISTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

JUNE 3RD-12TH 2016, HORSHAM

Horsham’s annual Art is… Festival continues to show us not just what art is but what it can do.

Bringing together local communities and visiting professional arts companies it engages people from all walks of life in a celebration of creativity, identity and community building.

After two decades the festival continues to set a benchmark for how communities, particularly those in rural and isolated areas, can express their creativity, connect and benefit from creative experiences.

Once again the 2016 festival offers a broad, inclusive and exciting program that embraces and celebrates Horsham and the Wimmera region.

In a state renowned for the strength and diversity of our festivals, Art Is… shows the powerful role creativity can play in communities large and small, and the Victorian government is proud to support it.

Enjoy this year’s creative offering.

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final year of a three year collaboration between invited Sydney artists from the Sydney based arts company Erth: Scott Wright, Aesha Henderson, and Andrew Blizzard, with local Wimmera artists Nichola Clarke and Claudia Haenel, animator Dave Jones and sound artist Robbie Millar. In collabor-ation with local artists, school students and community members. Directed by Ken Evans and Rebecca Russell.

Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country principal financial supporter: Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, Grampians Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group, Barengi Gadjin Land Council, GrampianArts, Office of correction and PCP.

Venue: Horsham Town Hall Theatre

Date: Saturday 11 June 8pmSunday 12 June 2pm

Cost: $20 Family $10 Adult $5 Concession U15

Stories of Wotjobaluk CountryAn Art is…major community art projectA new performance created by; the Elders of the Wotjobaluk Peoples, our regions’ artists, Wimmera community and school students in partnership with visiting artists from Erth and theatre directors Ken Evans and Rebecca Russell will bring to life local Aboriginal dreaming stories. These stories will be told using large-scale puppets, interactive animations and the theatre stage being shared by the Elders, actors, students and Tchingals. Experience our local dreaming with the whole family exploring local identity, traditions & connection to place.

Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country builds on the 2015 Culti-vat and 2014 Museum of Lands Past in the third and 4 5

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Opening Night Art After DarkCome join us to celebrate local stories, myths and legends on our opening night of the Art is Layers of Time Festival!

We start the evening in Firebrace Street at Redrock Books and Gallery where we will embed ourselves in the depths of the Wildman’s cave. There you will encounter the mysterious, legendary Wildman, David Ross, (aka Trevor Flinn) raised from the dead

(or out of the lockup!!). Enjoy a cup of billy tea with him as he calls you near to hear his story. Then we’ll head into the dark night, on an exciting journey through the streets, to catch a glimpse of a fabulous beast on the move, the Black Puma. Our journey will end in the heart-warming space of the Art is... festival HUB, where we will officially open Art is Layers of Time Festival for 2016.

Leaving enough time to enjoy a great dinner in Horsham CBD, join us later that evening to party like an artist at Art After Dark, at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery.

Venue: Redrock Books & Gallery, 65 Firebrace Street Horsham. Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 80 Wilson Street, Horsham

Hub: TBA (check website for details)

Date: Friday 3 June from 5.30pm

Party like an artist as the Gallery becomes that after dark venue you have always wanted in Horsham. The artists’ of Pushing the Sky invite their friends and collaborators to share their artistic talents and favourite cocktail. See a band playing mash ups, a dance performance and even learn about what inspires the artists of our region. So grab your friends, get dressed and enter the art after dark…

Venue: Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 80 Wilson Street, Horsham

Date: Friday 3 June 8–10.30pm

Cost: $20. A pay bar will be operating

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Art is made here, it reflects our histories; indigenous, colonial and recent; whispering stories of our past. It allows us to understand our relationships born out of working with and on the land it even celebrates our local humour; can it help us to look ahead and see our farming future? Beyond our usual response to the geological forms that dominate our landscape we will ask our artists to look up and out to “push the sky” and share with us their recent practice.

Visit while we survey the leading artists working in our region, from Stawell to Rainbow, as we present their visions of where we live. Experience our place through their paintings, works on paper, installations and videos. Look again at our region through their photography, drawings and sculpture. See how works made and ideas formed in Wimmera studios can end up having impact around the world.

Venue: Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 80 Wilson Street

Date: 6 May – 12 July

Hours: Tues – Fri: 10am -5pmSat: 11am-4.30pm, Sun: 1- 4.30pm

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Aaron Carter, Belinda Eckermann, James Guerts, Gail Harradine, Dave Jones, Alana & Annabelle Kingston, Kelly Koumalatsos, Dónal Molloy-Drum, Tim McMonagle, James McMurtrie, Anthony Pelchen, Melissa Powell, Ewen Ross, Frank Tagliabue

Photo Credit: Anthony Pelchen’s work Code Maroon (unauthorized orange), 2014 Acrylic and collage on

paper (part woven); 150 x 113cm under construction within his Quantong studio.

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A Horsham Regional Art Gallery Exhibition

Pushing the Sky VISUAL ARTPushing The Sky

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ART MATTERSCollective Swab ProjectExhibition and Silent Auction - Magnificent large canvases created by the Art Matters Team.

Swab Mob performances at random locations throughout the Festival week.

Proceeds of the silent auction go into the continuation of the arts program for adults with a disability.

A Horsham Rural City Council Event.

Opening: Mon 6 June 6 – 7.30 pm

Venue: Jubilee Hall, 19 Roberts Ave, Horsham

Date: Tuesday 7 – Friday 10 June, 12-2pm

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A Visit To The Wildman’s Cave

Have you ever wanted to explore a cave? A local story, known by just a few, tells of the enduring mystery surrounding the 1870’s bush legend - the Wildman, David Ross. This art installation of textiles, printmaking and mixed media is a collaboration between Gill Venn & Marian Anderson, whose shared fascination for this legend has led them to create a thought provok-ing response to what is known of his life in the cave; the ‘Wildman’s cave’.

Venue: Redrock Books and Gallery, 65 Firebrace Street, Horsham

Opening: Fri 3 June 5.30-6.30pm

Date: Fri 3 - Sat 25 June 2016, Mon- Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am-1pm

Enquires: 03 5381 0866redrockbooksngallery.com.au

Beyond a Likeness: PORTRAITS FROM OUR COMMUNITY

By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features.

See how our community acts and reacts to being behind and in front of the camera. Bringing together photographs from the Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection and outcomes from our first workshop with Thea Jane Photography we focus on environmental portraiture.

Featuring the workshop outcomes by: Peta Adamson, Kim Anders, Ron Dodds, Sue Glover, Joan Johns, Merilyn Lowe, Chris Phelan, Dean Robertson, Vikki Schumann, Rae Talbot, Kathryn Walker

Venue: Horsham Regional Art Gallery 80 Wilson Street

Date: 6 May – 10 July 2016

Hours: Tues - Fri: 10am-5pm Sat: 11am-4pm, Sun: 1-4.30pm

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Image Credit: Robert ROONEY, Maria Kozic and Philip Brophy 1, 1981 from the series Robert Rooney - Portrait Photographs 1978 – 1987, digital photographic print from the original 35mm slide, edition of 15, 20 x 30.5 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

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Students from Horsham, Dimboola and Edenhope have teamed with Trust for Nature, The Snape Reserve Committee, Horsham DELWP and the Kowree Field Naturalists to learn about our extinct and endangered local species.

Working with animators Desiree Cross and Hannah French and film-maker Tracey Rigney, they have produced a series of shy and elusive images to briefly appear in spaces close to the Town Hall.

Watch out for the Ozenkadnook tiger in the streets of Horsham. There is a reward for the best photograph of this wonderful thylacine-like animal.

Be prepared to be astounded by the incredible creature designed and created by Dave Jones and his team. You won’t believe your eyes when you see this fabulous beast slinking down the alleyways in Horsham.

For local stories about Fabulous Beasts, visit fabulousbeastsblog.wordpress.com

VISUAL ARTVISUAL ART VISUAL ARTFabulous BeastsAN ARTIST INITIATIVE PROJECT BY MARY FRENCH AND DAVE JONESA dark shadow running across the road, a glimpse of a something that can’t quite be explained; what really is out there in the remote corners of the Wimmera where people rarely visit?

Many will argue that the Grampians puma and the Ozenkadnook tiger are not simply part of Wimmera mythology but real living creatures.

Animals that once roamed the Wimmera freely have also become subject of legend. Who has heard of the White footed Rabbit rat or the Pig footed Bandicoot? These fascinating species became extinct not long after European settlement.

If you are lucky you might come across a spotted quoll or a brush tailed rock wallaby but you would have to be very lucky, as these creatures are just two in a long list of endangered flora and fauna.

Date: Saturday 4 & Saturday 11 June 7-8pm and throughout the 10 day festival in random locations.

*Tag your Fabulous Beast photo to #Artis Instagram for your chance to WIN! Winners announced Saturday 11th June at 7.30pm at the Horsham Town Hall.

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Photo Muster“The Amazing (picture taking) Race”6 photos, 5 venues, 4 fun, in 2 Hours. Ready, Set, Click.Attention all photographers!!! Enter the annual Photo Muster on the day to receive the first secret location and subject to photograph. Locations and subject is revealed as you go. Present the judges with six of your best and edgiest photos by 1.30pm for your chance to win some fantastic prizes. Photographs will be displayed in the Art is Festival HUB throughout the festival period.

Meeting Place: Jubilee Hall, 21 Roberts Avenue Horsham

Date: Saturday 4 June 10am-12noon Cost: $10

Enquiries: 03 5381 0297, artis@wimmera.com.au

Illustration by: Josh Milbourne from Haven Primary School.

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Galleries on the SideOFFICIAL OPENING TOURMeet at the Art is Festival HUB (check website for details) Sat 4 June, 5 – 7pm

WALKING TOUR Stroll with us at dusk for the official opening tour to see artworks and hear the artists talk about their interpretation on ‘Layers of Time’. The tour will conclude at the Horsham Town Hall. Street performers will warm the wintry nights of the CBD as you interact with our local artists and watch vacant shops and spaces come alive with their art making.

OPEN STUDIOS Enjoy the tour in your own time. Meet with some of the artists throughout the festival, Monday 5 – Friday 10 June, 5pm – 7pm. Explore the CBD with refreshments provided and the thrilling entertainment of street performers.

Date: Mon 6 – Fri 10 June, 5 – 7pm

Venue: CBD shopfronts, Horsham

Enquiries: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

Beans Meanz Art With 2016 being the international year of Pulses, we all need to blow our trumpets about the lentils, chickpeas, peas and faba beans which grow so well in Wimmera soils.

Artist Glenn Critchley will lead a project with the Australian Grains Genebank and Pulse Australia to develop a seed sculpture with the men and women who grow and harvest pulses.

Working with the farmers and their communities, they will create a 3m high sculpture depicting our many and varied seasons.

This year-long project will be a work in progress during the festival. Come to the Genebank and find out about it and play your part in this seedy art.

Venue: Grains Innovation Park, Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources, 110 Natimuk Road, Horsham

Date: Wed 8 June 5-7.30pm

Enquiries: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

FROM A STUDIO IN THE CITYLights in LanewaysThe official launch of Horsham Rural City Councils second Light in Laneways project.

Every Thursday a group of artists work together in the studios of Federation University. Here, influenced by the landscape around them, they share their love of art making and their skills and knowledge in printmaking and painting.Join us as we launch the six new lightboxes featuring some of their creative work. Curated by the Horsham Regional Art Gallery.

Venue: Gallery Alley- side wall of Horsham Town Hall between Pynsent and Wilson Streets.

Date: Saturday 11th June 6.30 – 7 pm.

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1,000 years from now...21st Century Plague

Visual artist Belinda Eckermann explores our continuing detachment from the land, examined through the evolution of the snail. Through layers of time and disruptions to the surface, Eckermann’s drawing process is analogous to the workings of man, machine and pest alike. Positioned in the future, these drawings respond to an imaginative myth which addresses real issues facing agriculture in the 21st Century; “At the turn of the last Millennium our farmers were dazzled by new machines and scientific methods that promised them better crops from ever less work. But as these new ways took hold their lands began to crumble under the burden of endless production with scant care given to replenishment and nurture.

Meanwhile the farmers began to forget the old methods of caring for the land and the reasons behind the old methods. Heedless of the future, they forgot about their past…”

Venue: Goat Gallery, Main St. Natimuk

Opening: Sunday 12 June 12noon

Exhibition Dates: 4 – 26 June

Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1–4pm

Loud ‘n’ Live Former Horsham residents are back to give you a taste of the Melbourne alternative music scene for one night only.

Prepare to get your faces melted (in a good way!) 60’s and 70’s inspired blues to classic pub rock from four bands regularly playing across Australia.

Have a great night out with blues to classic pub rock from four former Horsham bands.

Venue: Commercial Hotel, Wilson St

Date: Saturday 11 June From 10pm until late

Cost: $10 at the door

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La Premier… Opera Popular opera company La Prima Opera, featuring Opera Australia Principal Wagnerian Tenor, Bradley Daley and International Soprano Alison Rae Jones will take you on a journey through some of the most beautiful music ever written.

Perfect for opera newbies and aficionados alike, ENCORE will entertain you with an array of opera’s most famous hits that everyone knows through movies, television ads and even the odd sporting event. With highlights from The Pearl Fishers, La Traviata, Carmen, Madame Butterfly and many of the great aria’s, ENCORE will enthral and delight, don’t miss out!

Venue: Horsham Town Hall Theatre

Date: Thursday 9 June From 11am

Cost: $20 general admissionComplimentary morning tea served from 10.15am

Bookings: horshamtownhall.com.au

Image credit: Belinda Eckermann, ‘The Great Invasion’, 2016, Google Satellite Photo Transfer, Binder Medium,

ArtGraf, Intense Pencils, Acrylic, Snails on Paper

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow

The travelling band of intrepid funny-makers is taking over Australia, one town at a time, and now it’s Horsham’s turn.

Join MC Kevin Kropinyeri, Bev Killick, Guy Montgomery (NZ), Tommy Dean and Rob Hunter. A line-up of the finest local and international comedy acts for an evening of comedy like no other, hand-picked to bring the biggest and best belly laughs to Horsham audiences. Its silly, it’s satirical, it’s side splitting. It’s Australia’s ultimate road trip!

Venue: Horsham Town Hall Theatre

Date: Saturday 4 June 8pm

Cost: $39 full$35 concessionRecommended age 15+

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FoRT BY ASKING FOR TROUBLE A couch, table, cushions, sheets and broomsticks are the building blocks for many forts, they can transform into rockets, trampolines, cliffs and tunnels… Using everyday objects to transform spaces into places that we can fill with imagination, adventure and theatre.

Asking for Trouble is a Clunes based company that creates performance through physical theatre, clowning, found object puppetry, shadow, acrobatics and other circus skills.

In FoRT, come and watch them play with different arrangements of FoRT building materials to create images, games, routines and stories that we piece together to create a cohesive performance.

Venue: Horsham Town Hall Theatre

Date: Monday 6 June 10am

Cost: $5

Bookings: horshamtownhall.com.au

Also performing at Art Play Sunday see pg. 23 for details

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Author/Illustrator/Environmentalist Myke Mollard established a successful career in design, advertising and marketing and is now pursuing his passion for story telling both visual and with words. Discover his journey. “The road less travelled – an artist’s journey” – Talk for adult group.

Venue: Horsham Regional Library, 28 McLachlan Street.

Dates: Tuesday 7 June, 7.30pm

Bookings: 03 5382 5707 or horsham.library@wrlc.org.au

Myke Mollard’s Bush Creatures

Grey Matters - Lifting the lid Follow in Mark Twain’s footsteps, discover stories of murder and ghosts, go back stage, up stairs and through new doors - to places that seem more of a myth than a reality.

Grey Matters is this year lifting the lid on things that we see from afar but wonder about. We’ll take a two hour walking tour around Horsham seeing things we have never seen before, debunking some myths and discovering some stories from the past involving an array of wonderful and not so wonderful characters. Chuck on your sensible shoes and warm coat and enjoy a entertaining Sunday stroll that will make you look at Horsham’s CBD in

a whole new light! You never know what you might find when you lift that lid!

Date: Sunday 5 June 10am-12noon

Cost: $5 includes light lunch

Meet at Roberts Ave Bus Station,Horsham at 10am. Please ensure that you wear suitable clothing and footwear for the outdoors.

Bookings: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

VISUAL ARTLiterature & ForumYanga Track

The area known as Yanga Track stretches for several kilometres along the Wimmera River near Horsham. Yanga Track…Wanjab, Gadjin and Murnong are inspired by the story of the native plants which were the medicine chest, hardware store and supermarket of the Aboriginal people. This tour will highlight the fascinating stories of how Aboriginal communities used these plants in their everyday lives. Join Rae Talbot from Wimmera CMA for a guided tour.

Meeting Place: Meet at Weir Park picnic tables on the banks of the Wimmera River, Horsham

Date: Saturday 11 June 10amPlease ensure that you are wearing suitable clothing and footwear for an outdoor walking activity.

Enquiries: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

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Inside our Art Do you have a great idea for a future art project? Why not use Art is... festival expertise to help you get your idea off the ground. Join us for this fun forum led by Alison Eggleton, curator at Horsham Regional Art Gallery to hear from our Art is...2016 artists and Festival Director as they discuss ways of developing engaging community art.

Venue: Horsham Town Hall Education Centre, 80 Wilson Street, Horsham

Date: Thursday June 9

Time: 5.30 - 7pm

Cost: FREE

Connect with NatureInteractive nature-based theatre and storytelling

Wimmera CMA and Landcare connect kids to the joys of being outdoors, caring for the environment and learning about our charismatic local species. You are invited to become part of the story, join us on a nature-based quest and scavenger hunt, and come face to face with colourful characters of the natural world.

Venue: Meet at Weir Park on the banks of the Wimmera River, Horsham

Date: Friday 10 June 10am

Cost: FREE

Bookings: 03 5382 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

Please note this will be an all-weather activity and participants should come dressed appropriately.

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Join us for an afternoon of family entertainment and activities. The Wimmera Womens Circus will launch the day with a performance for all, followed by a variety of workshops; Art making with the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, acrobatic skills with the local Wimmera Womens Circus, have fun in the pop-up playgroup with creative activities for the pre-schoolers plus snacks to enjoy for the whole family.

To end the afternoon, sit and enjoy FoRT by Asking for Trouble, a performance with physical theatre, found object puppetry, acrobatics and other circus skills.

Proudly presented by the Art is… festival Inc.

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Venue: Horsham Town Hall and Theatre

Date: Sunday 5 June 1-4pm

Cost: $10 Child $5 Adult

Bookings: horshamtownhall.com.au

Enquiries: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

Art Play Sunday

Knitnax & KnitwitzJoin a regular group of knitters/crocheters in the Wild Man’s CaveHelp to add to the wall of the cave, knit a rock! Wool and needles supplied.

Venue: Redrock Books & Gallery, 65 Firebrace Street Horsham

Date: Monday 6 June 4-6pm Enquiries: 03 5381 0866 or info@fibreworks.net.au

Cost: FREE!

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Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk CountryAn Art is…major community art project

Local artists Nichola Clarke and Claudia Haenel, offer guidance and inspiration to help the community add to the major performance of the Tchingals project. Creative Community WorkshopsVenue: Up Tempo Cafe, 6 Dimboola Road, Horsham Date: Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May, 10am-4pmCost: FREE!

Myke Mollard’s Bush CreaturesWant to know how to draw Australian bush creatures?Author/illustrator Myke Mollard is pursuing his passion for story telling both visual and with words. Learn how to draw Australian bush creatures and endangered animals.Tuesday 7 June, “Exploring Australian wildlife through drawing endangered species”. One hour workshop, up to 50 participants (grade 3-6).Wednesday 8 June, “Bunyips and how-to-create a mythical creature”. One hour workshop, up to 50 participants (Kinder age group).

Venue: Horsham Library, 28 McLachlan Street. Dates: Tuesday 7 June, 1.30 pmWednesday 8 June, 10amBookings: 03 5382 5707 or horsham.library@wrlc.org.auCost: FREE!

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CreationStory TimePre-schoolers are invited to come and listen to our local Creation Stories at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery and follow with a craft activity to take home.Venue: Horsham Regional Art GalleryDate: Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 June 11am-12noon. Cost: FREE Bookings: 03 5381 0297artis@wimmera.com.auLimited spaces - please book to confirm.

Playgroup Vic Pop-up ActivitiesPop-up Playgroup will be joining us for two mornings during Art is. They will start each session with Free play activities; Baby play area, playdough, Nature Play, Active Play, large native animal puppets. Make a musical instrument – (take home) giant group weaving activity, individual weaving (take home) activity, large boxes and recyclables materials, construction activities, individual and groups.These are just some of the activities on offer… plus more fun for everyone!Venue: Horsham Special School Monday 6 and Horsham Town Hall Education Centre Tuesday 7 JuneTime: 10am-12noon Cost: FREEBookings: 0456 863 390 or lisa@playgroup.org.au

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A community meeting place where people can gather to support local produce growers and artists in a vibrant atmosphere, including live music and tantalising food, refreshments and a Puma sighting!

Venue: Main St, Natimuk

Date: Sunday 7 June, 10am – 1pm

Enquiries: Judith Bysouth 0429 328 600

Venue: Laharum Olive Grove 1603 Winfields Road, LaharumDate: Sunday 12 June 6:30pm for 7pm.Cost: $65 Drinks from the bar. Places are limited and bookings essential. For more information contact Deirdre 0429 136 319 service@laharumgrove.com.auBus transport available $25pp. Enquiries: 03 5381 0297 artis@wimmera.com.au

Located in Laharum Grove, an organic olive grove covering 300 acres, Deirdre’s Restaurant is nestled beneath the dramatic Western escarpment of the Mount Difficult range in the Grampians National Park. The restaurant celebrates the seasonal diversity and quality of fresh produce from small independent growers.

A Timely Dinner at Deirdre’s will explore, through taste, the many different layers of the land. Warm up on a winter’s night by the fire at Deirdre’s and settle in for a special multi course dinner.

A Timely DinnerAT DIERDRE’S

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Art is... collaborates with amazing arts companies that we invite to Horsham. We offer our communities the opportunity to create high quality artworks and performances with these companies in collaboration with talented local artists. This year our community has helped to create Tchingals: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country with the internationally renowned arts company Erth, and our young people who have walked the boards with professional theatre company, Asking for Trouble and their production FoRT.

BIG thank you to our fantastic volunteers, incredible dedicated committee and everyone who has contributed in some way to the success of the Art is... festival since 1995.

Festival ManagerAdelle Rohrsheim

Production Manager Cindy Francis

Promotions Natasha Pietsch

Volunteer CoordinatorCindy Francis

Committee 2015Chairperson Robbie Millar Vice Chairperson Cassandra VelinosSecretary Cheryl LinkeTreasurer Marion Matthews

Alison Eggleton, Carolynne Hamdorf, Jillian Pearce, Glen Critchley, Belinda Eckermann, Sarah Natali, Mary French, Gill Venn, Claudia Haenel and Adam Harding.

Graphic Design and Web Studio 8. www.studio8design.com

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Date Time Event Venue Category Pg.Fri 3 June 5.30pm Exhibition Opening - Wildman’s Cave Redrock Books & Gallery Visual Art 10Fri 3 June 6.30pm Puma Siting roaming the streets Horsham CBD - Firebrace St Visual Art 6Fri 3 June 6.45pm Official Festival Opening Horsham CBD - TBC Opening 6Fri 3 June 8pm Art After Dark Horsham Regional Art Gallery Visual Art 7 Sat 4 June 10am Photo Muster Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 13Sat 4 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Sat 4 June 7-8pm Fabulous Beasts Horsham Town Hall Visual Art 12Sat 4 June 8pm Melb. Int’l Festival Comedy Roadshow Horsham Town Hall Theatre Performance 18Sun 5 June 10am-12noon Grey Matters Horsham CBD - Roberts Ave Literature & Forum 20Sun 5 June 1-4pm Art Play Sunday Horsham Town Hall Creative Workshops 23Mon 6 June 10am FoRT Horsham Town Hall Theatre Performance 19Mon 6 June 10am-12noon Pop-up Playgroup Horsham Special School Creative Workshops 26Mon 6 June 4-6pm Knitnax & Knitwitz Redrock Books & Gallery Creative Workshops 25Mon 6 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Mon 6 June 6-7.30pm Art Matters - Collective Swabs Jubilee Hall Visual Art 10Tues 7 June 11am-12noon Creation Stories Horsham Regional Art Gallery Creative Workshops 26Tues 7 June 12noon - 2pm Art Matters - Collective Swabs Jubilee Hall Visual Art 10Tues 7 June 1.30pm Bush Creatures-Drawing Endangered Species Horsham Regional Library Creative Workshops 25Tues 7 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Tues 7 June 7.30pm The road less traveled - artist’s journey Horsham Regional Library Literature & Forum 20

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Date Time Event Venue Category Pg.Wed 8 June 10am Bush Creatures-Bunyips & Mythical Creatures Horsham Regional Library Creative Workshops 25Wed 8 June 11am-12noon Creation Stories Horsham Regional Art Gallery Creative Workshops 26Wed 8 June 12noon - 2pm Art Matters - Collective Swabs Jubilee Hall Visual Art 10Wed 8 June 5-7.30pm Beans Means Art Grains Innovation Park Visual Art 14Wed 8 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Thurs 9 June 11am La Premier… Opera Horsham Town Hall Theatre Music 17Thurs 9 June 12noon - 2pm Art Matters - Collective Swabs Jubilee Hall Visual Art 10Thurs 9 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Thurs 9 June 5.30-7pm Inside our Art Horsham Town Hall Education Ctr Literature & Forum 22Fri 10 June 10am Connect with Nature Horsham Weir Park Literature & Forum 22Fri 10 June 12noon - 2pm Art Matters - Collective Swobs Jubilee Hall Visual Art 10Fri 10 June 5-7pm Galleries on the Side Horsham CBD - VenueTBC Visual Art 15Fri 10 June 5.30-7pm Regional Arts Victoria - Special Event Horsham Town Hall Education Ctr Literature & ForumSat 11 June 10am Yanga Track Horsham Weir Park Literature & Forum 21Sat 11 June 7-8pm Fabulous Beasts Horsham Town Hall Visual Art 12Sat 11 June 6:30-7pm Lights in Laneways Horsham Town Hall - Gallery Alley Visual Art 15Sat 11 June 8pm Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country Horsham Town Hall Theatre Performance 24Sat 11 June 10pm Loud ‘n’ Live Commercial Hotel, Wilson Street Music 17Sun 12 June 10am-1pm Natimuk Farmers Market Plus Main Street, Natimuk Taste and Savour 27Sun 12 June 12noon 1,000 yrs from now...21st Century Plague Goat Gallery, Natimuk Visual Art 16Sun 12 June 2pm Tchingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country Horsham Town Hall Theatre Performance 24Sun 12 June 6:30pm A Timely Dinner at Deirdre’s Laharum Olive Grove Taste and Savour 27

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BOOKS&Gallery

Project Funding Partners

Regional Event Sponsors: Commercial Hotel • Laharum Grove Shelton and Lane Stationers • Goolum Goolum • Unmani • Nexus

Horsham Jayco • Horsham Mens Shed • Harvey Norman

Sponsors & Supporters

MediaPartners

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CulturalPartners

We would like to acknowledge the sustained support of our fantastic cultural partners, sponsors & supporters, our government funding partners and our media partners in the delivery of this year’s festival. Thank you!

Thank you & SponsorsMapFor where to stay in Horsham visit www.visithorsham.com.au or phone the Visitor Information Centre on 1800 633 218

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1. Horsham Town Hall2. Wesley PAC3. Wimmera Legacy Rm4. Art is… festival office

5. Post Office6. Horsham Regional Library7. Redrock Books & Gallery8. Horsham Regional Art Gallery

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