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Calling local innovators and instigators!
Applications closing midnight 2 May 2022
Be part of a new celebration of all things creative this winter, 3-14 August and 20-21 August 2022.
Creative Open is an annual platform to collaborate, spark curiosity and gather inspiration. It’s an exciting new festival for Sydney’s arts calendar. With your help, we will develop a dynamic program activating creative hubs and pop-ups right across the Northern Beaches.
Environmental Art and Design Prize
Entries closing 11 May
How should contemporary art and design reckon with climate change and the environment? Artists and designers, Australia-wide join the conversation and share your innovative works in this year’s prize.
Join our Public Art Selection Panel
EOI closing 3 May, 5pm
Express your interest in joining one two community representatives for the panel, one Aboriginal-identified member and one local resident, both with expertise in arts and culture.
Image: Artist Impression, McKillop Park. Courtesy mili mili
What's on
New exhibition - Binta
Wed 20 Apr - Sun 1 May
Curl Curl Creative Space
Exploring themes of defiance, agency, self-determination and ingenuity from the perspectives of artists of African ancestry living and working in Australia.
Curated by Kevin Diallo and supported through the Northern Beaches Council Arts and Creativity Grants.
Image detail: Richmond Kobla Dido
The Mad Florist's Tea Party
Sat 7 or 21 May, 1-3pm
Avalon Creative Space
Take part in a workshop and learn to make cute arrangements in vintage teacups with Xenia Jade of Wildflower Child.
Image: Courtesy of the artist
Natural Dye Workshop
Sat 23 Apr, 1-3pm
Curl Curl Creative Space
Learn from Gianna Chirstella Hayes the chemistry and intuitive process of extracting pigments from herbs, flowers, and plant matter with bundle dyeing.
Image: Courtesy of the artist
Local creative
This month's spotlight is on Noah Bloom
A local composer and musician, was recently awarded shared winner of the Theo Batten Youth Award for his sound and film installation, Akuna, showing in Express Yourself 2022 currently showing at MAG&M until 1 May.
Image: Noah Bloom image courtesy of the artist
What's on at MAG&M
Being Manly: Billy Bain
Open until Sun 19 Jun
The exhibition seeks to unsettle colonial narratives of masculinity by playfully deconstructing popular iconography and histories related to Manly’s cultural identity.
Image detail: Being Manly exhibition
Don't miss Express Yourself 2022
Open until Sun 1 May
View the annual exhibition of artworks by HSC Visual Arts students, from schools across the Northern Beaches. G et your vote in for the People's Choice Award.
Image detail: Luke O'Donnell, 2056, photo media.
Coming soon
Art Prizes - how, what, why?
Wed 27 Apr, 6 - 7pm (new date)
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Dig into the how, what and why of art prizes in this candid conversation with portrait artist Evert Ploeg and curator Bronwen Davies.
Image: Evert Ploeg, courtesy of the artist.
New street artwork at Narrabeen Tramshed
Artist Helen Proctor is creating a new abstract depiction of the waterways and bushland around Narrabeen. The new work has been commissioned for Youth Week 2022 as part of Council’s Street Art Program.
image: Helen Proctor, work in progress
Creative Community
Bookmaking + Drawing Workshop
Sat 30 Apr - Sun 1 May
Eramboo Artist Environment
Guided by two artists, make your own sketchbook to use in this weekend workshop.
Eramboo Mother’s Day Art Market
Sun 8 May, 10am - 4pm
Eramboo Artist Environment
Shop in a lovely bush setting for beautiful handmade treasures by local artists and makers.
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