Brave New Works 26 - Denmark Arts

love letters from a broad Dear Denmark, I am missing you already. Love is everywhere, yet home is where the heart is. There is no distance between hearts, even when stretched across oceans. Through the ether (& the internet) I am sending my love home to you, from the wild world beyond, while remembering all that is precious about you and that glorious home by the Kwoorabup we share. Dare you to write back, tell me what you love about being here. Love has no other hands to work with than yours. 🙂 With Love, Linda X

lovelettersfromabroad.com
Free event

BONE BROTHBone Broth is not about the expected outcome or product of this work - a few litres of broth. The whole process, over 48 hours of making the work, is a metaphor for everything about nourishing ourselves. Not just about restoring our depleted and exhausted physical bodies, not just about intellectualising on the subject of nourishment, but more importantly, realising how we nourish ourselves spiritually.

48 Hours of continuous Performance Art
Opening 6pm Friday 1 Nov
Finishes 6pm Sunday 3 Nov
The Garden Room (Denmark Community Resource Centre)
Free Event

IS PERFORMANCE ART COOL? Maxwell is an artist, writer, performer and composer and has lectured on Art and Spirituality in universities across Australia. In this series of presentations we will explore the broader context and rich history of performance art as a way of understanding the intent and meaning of Peter Toy's performance Bone Broth.

9pm Friday 1 Nov • Performance Art: A history
12pm Saturday 2 Nov • Performance Art: Alchemy and Shamanism
7pm Sunday 3 Nov • Performance Art: The Life World/Ecology
The Garden Room (Denmark Community Resource Centre)
Free Event

LIVING WITH THE QUESTIONS If we feel lost maybe we have forgotten something. Aboriginal narratives remind us of belonging within the perennial pattern of life. The safe return of the lost is a given because in the moral order giving rise to the cosmos people have no business being out of place. A musical journey with Steve Hammond, celebrating the ‘inherent goodness’ of life through songs of love and hope inspired by T. S. Elliot, Nick Cave, Aengus Óg and Aboriginal Dreaming stories of Dingo and Moon.

2pm - 2:45pm Saturday 2 Nov
Artshouse (2A Strickland Street)
Adults $15, Concession $10, Under 16’s free at the door

HOW I BECAME A REFUGEE An award-winning documentary film that follows the extraordinary journey of a Burmese Chin refugee family from their homeland where they escaped religious persecution through to Malaysia before being resettled in Perth. There’s a Q&A session with filmmaker Dr Marilyn Metta and Rubi NiChin whose family story is featured in the film after the screening. The film was produced by Mettamorphosis Inc, an organisation working to provide access to education for refugee young people.

3pm Sunday 3 Nov
Artshouse (2A Strickland St)
Tickets $5 at the door

DEARLY BELOVED: ALL SOULS BY THE RIVER For the twelfth year, a simple service in the tradition of All Souls Day by the Denmark river, bringing the community together to remember those who have passed, and to share the ongoing journey of life. Led by Revd. Sally Buckley, the St Leonard’s community and Eklektika choir, all are welcome to share songs, poems or reflections, and to scatter flowers in the river, while the Denmark Dragon Boat Club glides past casting petals on the water.

11am Sunday 3 Nov
Berridge Park
Free Event

SPRING GATHERING Alongside spectacular arrangements, the community is invited to help fill every corner of St Leonard’s with flowers in celebration of the loveliness of flowers and the bounty of the earth. Blooms, jars, cards, and art materials for attaching words of love and wisdom will be provided, or bring your own. The Sunday 9.30 service is a traditional celebration of All Saints after which flowers will be taken to the river for the All Souls community service at 11am.

9:30am - 4pm Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 Nov
St Leonard's Anglican Church
Free Event

11 QUESTIONS I just came to the realization that… 11 Questions explores the world of dreams, altered reality and big questions. A fascinatingly absurd script devised by the cast and written by Deb Edmondson with an original soundscape by Steve Bergmann. The show features current and former Denmark Senior High School drama students. 11 Questions, gives you an insight into “young people these days”, and the thought provoking, touching and amusing workings of the young mind. Don’t expect answers …

2pm-2:30pm Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 Nov
Denmark Civic Centre
Tickets $5 at the door or on-line @ https://www.trybooking.com/BFTDV

DANCE FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS Join guest dance artist Sandi Woo in dance workshops for children aged 3 – 6 years and their parents, grandparents or carers. Using familiar childhood games, Sandi supports children to take the creative lead in making dance with their parents. A fun hour that enhances the bonds between us.

Presented by Annette Carmichael Projects
2pm-3pm Saturday 2 Nov
2pm-3pm Sunday 3 Nov
Denmark RSL Hall
$20 per parent/child pair
Bookings: www.annettecarmichael.com.au
We recommend attending both workshops.

LOVE ESCAPES A BURNING LANDSCAPE Creativity burns within our hearts, nourished or neglected ... given validation and value or undermined by limiting beliefs. Artist Bronz Brown explores his own creative process, emerging from the stagnation of the inner critic and resistance into a full expression of personal freedom. Taking works either incomplete or discarded from Opshops and Tipshops, reimagining them through intuitive image and mark making.

Exhibition Opening 8pm Friday 1 Nov
Arthouse (2A Strickland St)
Welcome Music Xave and Jasper Brown
Free event

LOVE HAS NO BOUNDARIES My sister Patricia-Anne in Canada, my brother Carrington in Cape Town and myself in Australia were recently reunited through the internet. This is when i found out that we are all artists… We wanted to share our artworks firstly for ourselves and to celebrate the re-union of the three of us. It was triggered by Patricia’s last three drawings and the one portrait by Carrington that gave me the idea of setting up this project. We agreed to hold a Virtual Exhibition to express the gratitude and love we have for our parents, Lydia and Charles, who gave us these talents.

Multi-Media Digital Exhibition
Andre Steyl (Australia)
Patricia-Anne Steyl (Canada)
Carrington Steyl (South Africa)
https://www.dvtvgallery.com
Free event

31 October - 3 November