Exhibition: Creative Generation
Mon 12 Oct - Fri 13 Nov 2009 (Mon – Fri 8:30am-4:30pm)
The 2009 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design invites the community to experience artworks by some of Queensland’s outstanding senior secondary students. This touring exhibition showcases the artwork of 40 students from both state and non-state schools in every region of the state.
OPENING EVENT Thurs 22 Oct, 4:30pm, everyone is welcome.
eMerge Media Space
School of Creative Arts Complex
Building DA300
Douglas Campus, JCU
Townsville
Cost: free
For information: contact gallery@jcu.edu.au or phone 4781 3142
Performance: Tug of War & Show Us What Ya Got!
Both performances Mon 26 Oct 2009, 7:00pm SHARP
Two performances in one night, by our 2nd year Performance students:
Tug of War explores a young woman’s struggle to find her identity. Jane’s journey is experienced with surreal dark characters from her subconscious Peanut and Jelly that taunt her to discover the issues affecting her identity struggle. To set herself free Jane has to come to terms with moral issues associated with friendship, bullying and harassment to consider the real reason for Peanut and Jelly’s existence.
Show Us What Ya Got! Interacts with the audience in a new talent show ‘On Tour’ that enables young men and women from regional Australia to enter without audition.
Contestants have an opportunity to perform live by ballot and provide a short multimedia biography outlining part of their life journey. Not only do the contestants perform a prepared song but also improvise in any medium determined by the audience.
Limited bookings are available!
Cowshed Theatre
Western Campus
Building DG243
Douglas Campus, JCU
Townsville
Cost: free
For information or to RSVP a seat: contact debra.thomas@jcu.edu.au or phone 4781 4905
Performance: Pennies before the Holidays
Thurs 5, Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov 2009, 7:00pm SHARP
Be entertained by our 3rd year performance students in a play directed by Debra Thomas.
A young woman Elizabeth 21 played by Anita Whyte confronts old age as she spends time each week with her grandfather, Chas 86 played by Tristan Savage, two grand mothers, Daisy 84 and Iris 82 played by Sherrie Houston and Rachel Rogers respectively and Megan Bennett in the role of the 75 year old great aunt. Their difficult relationships are played out in a series of increasingly bizarre, poignant and funny scenes. This is a quirky black comedy that swings between naturalism and surrealism. The aged roles of the cast are written to perform by actors of any age providing challenging characters for the actors.
Cowshed Theatre
Western Campus
Building DG243
Douglas Campus, JCU
Townsville
Cost: free
For information: contact soca.events@jcu.edu.au or phone 4781 3142
Screening: Northern Lights Film Festival
Fri 6 Nov 2009, 4pm SHARP
Be a part of this exciting inaugural short film festival at JCU. Great prizes for the best Open Documentary, Open Fiction and High School categories! Brought to you by the SoCA and the Townsville Cinema Group. See poster here.
School of Creative Arts Complex
Building DA300
Douglas Campus, JCU
Townsville
Cost: free
For information: contact soca.events@jcu.edu.au or phone 4781 3142
Exhibition: Culture in the Mix
Fri 13 Nov - Sun 22 Nov 2009 (Mon – Fri 10am-5pm, Sat – Sun 10am – 2pm)
The School of Creative Arts, JCU invites you to experience the work of its first graduating year of Bachelor of New Media Arts students. A cutting edge display of screen, print and web based media will be on show, combining the best of the degree’s five fresh new media disciplines: digital visual arts, digital photography, new media design, digital sound and multimedia performance.
Come along and see the latest generation of digital arts practitioners as they challenge the traditions of gallery exposition and lay the foundation for future North Queensland new media artists.
OPENING EVENT Fri 13 Nov, 7pm, everyone is welcome.
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Cnr Denham St & Flinders Mall
Townsville
Cost: free
For information: contact gallery@jcu.edu.au or phone 4781 3142
Performance: The Shining Path
Fri 13 Nov - Wed 18 Nov 2009
A play written by Victoria Carless, Performance Lecturer at the School of Creative Arts, Cairns campus.
Meet Len. He works in middle level bureaucracy – Consumer Complaints Division. His special talent is answering phones. But when Len’s old mate Dale barges back into his life, our hero is taken waaaaay out of his comfort zone. Len and Dale share a past, one that briefly features a stint with South American revolutionaries. After the pair is separated in a terrorist attack gone wrong, they return to Australia to make new lives for themselves, alone.
When Dale bursts back into Len’s life, some twenty years later and minus a leg, the pair embarks on a madcap, unwieldy train trip around Queensland, where the past and the present collide. With the help of a host of storytelling Queenslanders they meet along the way, including a nun, a miner and a slightly sinister Mr. Whippy, will Len and Dale find the shining path back to friendship?
The Shining Path follows two map-less blokes on a buoyant, somewhat random train journey around Queensland.
Quirky, sometimes sad, and often hilarious, the play visits the iconic, familiar, as well as the out of the way places that are unique to this great state.
With universal themes of friendship, betrayal and redemption, the play celebrates all that is broken, beautiful and bizarre about Queensland towns and the characters that populate them.
JUTE Theatre
Centre of Contemporary Arts
96 Abbott St
Cairns
For session times, costs or to make a booking : visit JUTE or phone 07 4050 9444
