|
Welcome to the RRAC website. The intention of this site is to inform
the Ravensthorpe community about their local arts council and also
provide an online calender of events so no one need ever miss out on
any of the exciting events happening in the area.
You can also find out about how we are funded
and how you can get help and advice on funding an arts project.
The Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council is a not for profit organisation that seeks to provide a diverse and adventurous arts program of events throughout the Ravensthorpe region.
Each year RRAC hosts various art activities and events to meet the artistic needs of the community at all levels of involvement and target groups.
|
|
IMPACT & FUSION by WA artist Bello Benischauer.
This exhibition presents a dialogue between three sets of wall-objects and audio-visual installations, questioning the social impact
 of human beings on nature through mass consumption and globally increasing population.
Bello has exhibited regularly since the late 90s across Australia, Europe and the United States. His projects explore the relationship between humanity, technology and the natural environment through a synthesis of various art practices. This exhibition shows recent wall-objects (relief-like expressions) that shockfreeze certain images from his digital installations, recalling cartographic captures of nature strips and urban landscape - always in context to the human being - trying to manifest some sort of sustainability.
Bello’s aim is to set a very special view on experiencing this complete alteration in how the world is changing through two different art forms. We have to learn to look at things differently to understand the present before we can work on the future..
The exhibition will be opening on the 25th June at 6.30pm and everyone is welcome to join in with a free glass of wine and nibbles. There will also be a free bus from Hopetoun, please contact Ainsley Foulds on 98383078 for more information.
Ravensthorpe Town Hall 25th June - 4th July. Free admission, 10am - 3pm daily.
|
Although Friday 13th might be unlucky for some, it proved very fortunate indeed for those who attended Canterbury Tales
at Hopetoun Town Hall. The evening turned into a mix of bawdy fun, courtesy of The Bare Naked Theatre Company and a beautifully presented and created dinner, courtesy of Ravensthorpe Women’s Hockey Association. Canterbury Tales has never looked so different with Geoffrey Chaucer’s original mediaeval poem being transformed into fast paced hilarious tales displaying love and lust, stupidity and passion, chivalry and greed and each tale in a different genre such as The Pardoner's Tale, a western, which showed us the folly of trying to outwit Death and that greed can be our downfall. There was also The Reeve’s Tale reinterpreted in the style of silent movie whereby we were treated to a Laurel and Hardyesque routine of bed swapping with wife and daughter of a cheating Miller, what goes around comes around!
|
|
Read more...
|
 CALLING ALL ARTISTS BOTH EXPERIENCED & WANNABEES
Come to our Art get-togethers at the Hopetoun Hall every Friday at 9:00am
This very informal, it is not art classes, but simply getting together and sharing ideas and techniques AND MORE IMPORTANTLY - MAKING THE TIME TO PAINT.
BYO boards and materials. Cost is $5.00 (Covers Hall Hire etc.)
Enquiries to Beryl Semple, 98383523 or Marie Hewson, 98383162 or just pop into the hall, Friday Morning.
|
|
