Editing the veryAbility NTV show is underway

Well after some delay I am glad to announce that editing has begun on creating a full length NTV program from the footage collected at the 2009 veryAbility festival in Lismore NSW.
All footage has been captured and sync points have been created between clips. I envisage that it will cut down to around a half hour program. Which we can then look at distributing.
At this point I am planning to do two edits. One with Chris's Floor Manager comments and one without. After these are done there are far more artistic versions with the V8 and other visuals effects but for the first edit I am planning the most TV friendly edit I can.
Until then I hope you can all calm your enthusiasm to see it all finished. Limited release DVDs should be finished for the Art in the Hart project that at this stage looks like being in early June.
'Till then...

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Puppet Show, a performance at the Roxy Gallery.....

WANOWA GROUP & REAL ARTWORKS WORKSHOPS, A REFLECTION

What was your favourite experience over the last couple of months?

Heather

"My favourite experience was painting on canvas and making jewelery. The opening of our exhibition was exciting. It was the first time I have ever sold a painting and my jewelery!"

Rob

"Can I give you an honest answer? The whole thing was great!!!!Being together, being ourselves, sharing, simple pleasures of sharing, learning and being creative. My dream....everyone wants to make a difference and for me making a difference is being part of the local community. It's been a really enriching experience.

It was a thrill to sell one of my paintings. Heather said, 'come and have a look at this......' there was a red dot on one of my paintings.

My wife and I celebrated being able to share the experience."

Anthony

"Making my hand artwork and listening to my music while I watched the workshops."

Catherine

Watching Wally take photo's and writing my songs....meeting Whitey and Gully."

Wally

"Oh....no!!!! Running away from jobs....that's been my highlight! meeting Whitey, he taught me how to take photos."

Nicky

"I like the painting and drawing and meeting new people. I like coming to Kyogle to do music and the art workshops and to see my artwork in the newspaper."

John

"Playing drums at the opening was my highlight. I enjoyed painting and drawing too."

B

"It's a life changing story.....When I went to Red Ink- it got my feelings out in life. I wanted to change...I needed a clear head. My big dream was to 'get out' in the world. I want to dance. I don't want to be judged as different to anybody else.

I love music and art. I am happy to have experienced the workshops.

Having fun with other people was great!"

Real Art Works @ the Roxy Gallery, Kyogle

Well, the exhibition was officially opened in some sort grandeasy style the evening of the day just passed, it being 32 minute after the hour of two in the morning.... I find myself speaking in the style of the Southern american gent for somereason. I gave a speach this eve, weird especially I suppose if one takes the 1952 Concise (only 15 inches thinck and the 2 dimensions of a telephone book) Websters international (mind you!) Dictionary meaning of the word weird. A scottish word meaning supernatural or fated. What is fate other than knowing that what you are doing is exactly the right thing to be doing at that moment. All doubt lies behind the sofa like a disregarded sock. There is in that moment or in the momennts of reflection afterwards something akin to everything. In that moment and the moment of appreciation aftwerwards we can surpass the rules of competition between human beings and just become humans being. Don't get me wrong this aint no hippy diatribe. Any way the speech consisted of the notion that interating with your creativity will make you happier whoever you are, whatever your ability. It does for me. more later xyzeb

REAL ART WORKS @ the Roxy

It was a frustrating day, 

no car,

30 k's from some of the artworks I needed to get to the gallery

after a night in the studio pretending not to be there

using the screens until the ink dried and blocked the image out

trying not to cough,

about two or three days away from completing some of the work that

I suggested to myself at least may have been done at this point,

This point being the day that the exhibition is to be installed.

i like Chinese and tap dance triggers intercepting with reasonable doubt,

lost documents, inturrpted communications

and heartbroken friends at the public phonebox on Magellen St.

Whitey did  coupla hundred k's and me and my stuff got there.

I love a joke.

I am a joke

ergo I love myself.

Kyogle Art Exhibitop

hi

my name is michael

i like to draw and stuff

sometimes i even sing a tune or two

the other day i painted on a suitcase

some of my friends thought- "hey, that's a groovey doovey idea"

so i took on their enthusiastic words and painted a few more.

frankly, it is a lot of work for "hey, that's groovey doovey' but what can you do?

nothing?

but then again- there's no 22% commission  on nothing is there. 

tax is just a short, sharp way of saying "thanks"

no worries.

Real Art Works is not for profit

Real Art Works has incorporated as a not for profit body. This doesn't mean that we don't do exciting projects employing profesional artists at professional rates. What it does mean is that the express aim of the organisation is not about making money. It's about making art that is real and relevant to the communities from which it comes. It's about making art in a collaberative and often risky style. Some call it sloppy, I call it digging into the process. The other good thing about being a not for profit org is that it means that we are eligable to apply for funding from a much larger number of funding catagories in our own right. RealArtWorks is asking it's members therefore to come up with great projects, contact Zeb or Ruth to talk about your ideas, Zeb needs something to do anyway and (without pissing  in his own pocket/blowing smoke up his own arse from which with aid of a mirror he can see the sunshining) he's ok at the grant writing