August Drawing Jam

Activities undertaken:

* Exquisite Corspe game

* 1 x 3 m collaborative drawing

* Observational drawings of pears, mandarins, and each other

* Sharing and discussion of artbooks and strange seventies illustrations

This month's guest zine editor is Jared Irwin who gathered up our drawings at the end of the night to create the next zine to share with us in September.

Take my Word for it...

Opening: Thursday 14th August at 5:30pm
11 August – 16 August Tue to Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat 10am to 2pm , Arts Alive, 178a Charles St, Launceston.

Artsts: Sonja Brough,Tim Chatwin, Samuel Eddy, Vika Fiffta, Mairi Ward, Rowena Watson, Themis Wood, Janine Wright, Steven Wright

For this show, nine contemporary artists have been asked to provide works with no title or statement that would reflect the intention of their work, with writers then being invited to view one of the works each and to give a description or possible ‘meaning’ of the artwork.

Part of Tasmanian Living Writers' Week

Arts Alive contact: Damien Quilliam 6331 2777 or 0447 874 117

CALL FOR LAUNCESTON COLLOBARATORS!

From early September Wide Angle Tasmania will be trialing having regular monthly screenings of films and we are going to develop a mini-movie-makers weekend!

If you are based up north, and would like to be involved or contribute your skills, please contact Bev directly on bev@wideangle.org.au or by phone on 6223 8344.

We would like to have a northern based email contact list, so just send Bev an email with “Count Me In” and she will update you directly.

Showreel for Launceston's Diemen Media

http://www.diemenmedia.com/

Gee Whiz

Works by the Access Arts Link artists from Launceston, Tasmania

21^st – 8^th August @ Smithton Library

18^th – 12^th September @ Deloraine Hospital

Photo by Sarah Howell of a sidewalk chalk drawing by Arts Access Link artist Matthew Viney.

Chay-Ya's Travel Blog

http://stillnessinflight.blogspot.com/

6-9pm Wed 20th August

Ater the success of the last Drawing Jam we bring you the next Monthly Drawing Jam Night!

Arts Alive, 178A Charles St, Launceston.

6 - 9pm Wed 20th August.

Stack of paper supplied, bring own drawing implements.