AUTUMN PROGRAM 2018 GALLERY WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS MARCH APRIL MAY MARCH 2 SEEING VOICES 2 SEEING VOICES 13 COLLECTED VISION II: 1 ARTS OF THE OPENS NETS Victoria and Monash CLOSES NETS Victoria and Monash CLOSES RECENT ACQUISITIONS UNDERGROUND University Museum of Art I University Museum of Art I Mildura Arts Centre MUMA MUMA Collection 3 LIVE PERFORMANCE Rosie Isaac and 8 TRANSITIONAL TIMES 5 COLLECTED VISION II: 13 LENS CULTURE Aodhan Madden OPENS – THE APPROACHING OPENS RECENT ACQUISITIONS CLOSES Mildura Arts Centre FIN DE SIÈCLE Mildura Arts Centre Collection 16 TWILIGHT Mildura Arts Centre Collection 26 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 17 GALLERY GUIDED TOUR Collection 5 LENS CULTURE OPENS PLAY SCHOOL: 17 A SOCIAL JOURNALING OPENS Mildura Arts Centre CELEBRATING 50 YEARS AFTERNOON Collection National Museum of Australia APRIL 19 WEAVING THE OPENS WATERWAYS: 10 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WOMEN AND FISHING PROGRAMS Koorie Heritage Trust 21 GALLERY GUIDED TOUR 21 A SOCIAL DRAWING Get your work on AFTERNOON the wall for up THEATRE MAY MARCH MAY 19 GALLERY GUIDED TOUR to three months 2 MIKE NOCK WITH JULIEN 23 PUPPETRY 2 MODEL CITIZENS 19 A SOCIAL JOURNALING An exciting opportunity to WILSON AND STEPHEN OF THE PENIS Circus Oz AFTERNOON create a site specific work MAGNUSSON 24 THE NUTCRACKER Melbourne Recital Centre 18—20 DISNEY’S PETER PAN JR 25 ARTS OF THE at Mildura Arts Centre. Moscow Ballet Mildura Theatre Company UNDERGROUND 3 BABBA – CALLING ALL La Classique Inc. Youth Productions DANCING QUEENS TOUR 26 TEDDY BEAR’S PICNIC APRIL 23 ROALD DAHL’S GEORge’S AND FAMILY DAY 8 HART 14 THE EAGLES STORY MARVELLOUS MEDICINE She Said Theatre shake & stir theatre co 21 THE PIANO MAN 10 THE MEN IN BLACK TOUR BILLY JOEL TRIBUTE SHOW 25 HUNGRY GHOsts 12 CELTIC ILLUSION Melbourne Theatre Company milduraartscentre.com.au 28 MELBOURNE 17 JAMES REYNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY 31 CALIBAN A CRAWL TO NOW FEstIVAL ROADSHOW Western Edge Youth Arts GALLERY ARTISTS Damiano Bertoli, Erik Bünger, Catherine or Kate, Michael Cook, Fayen d’Evie and Bryan Phillips, Léuli Eshrāghi, Alicia Frankovich, Susan Hiller, Alex Martinis Roe, Angelica Mesiti, Clinton Nain and Rose Nolan. An exhibition that thinks through how the voice is visualised, employed and reimagined in contemporary art. Seeing voices, a collaboration between NETS Victoria and Monash University Museum of Art In private, in public, in conversation, on record I MUMA uses the Monash University Collection – the voice connects our experiences with those as a springboard for thinking through the voice. of others. In addition to artworks selected from the Monash University Collection, Seeing voices The exhibition encompasses drawing, features loans from Australian and international painting, photography, sculpture and video artists. and a live performance with each iteration Image left: Michael Cook, Majority Rule (Parliament), 2014. of the exhibition. Inkjet on paper. Monash University Collection. Courtesy the Artist + Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane, and Dianne Tanzer In the exhibition, the voice might act as a + This is No Fantasy Melbourne. metaphor for collective action, for speaking Image above: Rose Nolan, Help me to do things better, 2003. SEEING VOICES out against injustice and coming together Oil on hessian. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Curatorium: Hannah Mathews, Helen Hughes and Francis E Parker in gestures of solidarity. It can be a marker of Gallery, Melbourne. cultural and geographic specificity or the trace OPENING LIVE PERFORMANCE of disappearing language. It may also function 7pm, Thursday 1 March Rosie Isaac and Aodhan Madden like a spiritual medium; through its historical recording and archiving it time-travels to EXHIBITION WHEN haunt the present. The voice is also an index, Friday 2 March — Monday 2 April 10am and 2pm, Saturday 3 March a measure of position, perspective, distance and emotion. 2 3 A diverse range of paintings and works are presented in this exhibition. The artworks are recent acquisitions for Mildura Arts Centre’s permanent collection. Artists include Clair Bates, Graeme Drendel, Belinda Fox, Jennifer Mathews, Lynette McDonald, Valarie Robinson and Paula Walker. Image: Belinda Fox, Still/Life VII (fill me up),2016. Watercolour and drawing on board. Mildura Arts Centre Collection, acquired with the assistance of The Robert Salzer Foundation, 2017. TRANSITIONAL TIMES – This 1991 Print Council of Australia commissioned THE APPROACHING FIN DE SIÈCLE portfolio represents the major social, political Mildura Arts Centre Collection and environmental changes that occurred in the world’s strategic fields as the end of EXHIBITION the twentieth century drew near and the Thursday 8 March — Sunday 1 July possibilities of a new century were imagined. Transitional Times is an editioned set of prints COLLECTED VISION II: RECENT ACQUISITIONS ‘People have often perceived the advent of by sixteen artists including Raymond Arnold, Mildura Arts Centre Collection a new century not just as marking the passage Heather Shimmen, John Cattapan and of time, but as symbolising change, and with Judy Watson. EXHIBITION that change a ferment of ideas and creativity.’ Image: Geoffrey Ricardo, Factory Kite, 1991. Etching and Thursday 5 April — Sunday 13 May Sheridan Palmer drypoint. Mildura Arts Centre Collection, acquired 1992. 4 5 WEAVING THE WATERWAYS: WOMEN AND FISHING Koorie Heritage Trust Guest Curator Glenda Nicholls OPENING 6pm, Thursday 19 April EXHIBITION Thursday 19 April — Thursday 14 June ARTISTS Glenda Nicholls, Clair Bates, Donna Blackall, Deanne Gilson, Georgia MacGuire and Bronwyn Razem. Netmaking came to Glenda Nicholls from her ancestors in a vision and has inspired this exhibition of river-life, featuring baskets, ochre nets, scoop nets, fishing lines, hooks and bird nets. The works demonstrate a continuous and evolving link with techniques passed down through generations of Aboriginal women living in and around South-East Australian waterways. While drawn from functional design, the objects LENS CULTURE Mildura Arts Centre acquires artwork for its Mildura Arts Centre Collection permanent collection across all mediums. are imbued with a deep cultural significance This exhibition brings photography into focus. beyond the practical, weaving a connection across the generations of women still living EXHIBITION Thursday 5 April — Sunday 13 May Includes work by local and national on river country. photomedia artists. Image: Glenda Nicholls (Wadi Wadi/Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindgeri), Ochre Net, 2012. String, wood, ochre. Koorie Heritage Trust Collection. Image: Danielle Hobbs, Take your seat #3, 2010. Digital inkjet print. Mildura Arts Centre Collection, acquired 2010. 6 7 THEATRE MIKE NOCK WITH JULIEN WILSON versatile and distinct musicians with incredible AND StEPHEN MAGNUSSON technique and an astoundingly beautiful tone. SHOWING Julien Wilson is one of Australia’s leading 7.30pm, Friday 2 March saxophonists, and has performed on many award winning albums. Watch three of Australia’s most highly acclaimed Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in association with jazz artists perform together, and experience Mildura Arts Centre, and supported by Melbourne Jazz something memorable. Co-operative, RACV Music for Victoria, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Sydney-based pianist/composer Mike Nock is a legend of Australasian jazz, with an international Duration: 120 minutes (interval) profile based on a 25 year career in the USA. Tickets: Full price $30 I Concession $28 Nock will begin the concert with a solo piano 18 and under $15 I Student $15 performance. Guitarist Stephen Magnusson is considered one of Australia’s most accomplished, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PLAY SCHOOL: Come inside and find all your favourite CELEBRATING 50 YEARS characters – Big Ted, Little Ted, Humpty and National Museum of Australia Jemima – plus the Rocket Clock and all the windows. This exhibition brings our childhood OPENING stories alive, suitable for all ages. 11am, Saturday 26 May A travelling exhibition from the National Museum of Australia developed in collaboration with the ABC. EXHIBITION © Australian Broadcasting Saturday 26 May — Sunday 22 July Commission 2016 8 9 Mildura Arts Centre presents HART She Said Theatre SHOWING 11am and 7.30pm, Thursday 8 March “I was always like, like a magnet with my Dad, like everywhere he went I was right next to him… He never got rid of me…” Throughout Australia’s history, an unknown number of Indigenous children have been forcibly removed from their families. Parents driven mad, grandparents heartbroken, siblings torn apart, language lost, culture stripped away. Using testimonials from the Stolen Generations, Mildura Arts Centre presents Melbourne Fringe and Adelaide Fringe award- For nearly 20 years this roving tour-de-comedy MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL winner and Noongar man Ian Michael invites has visited towns and cities around Australia, COMEDY FESTIVAL ROADSHOW you to listen in on the silenced stories of his from Mildura to Mount Isa and everywhere country. in between. There’s nowhere our exceptional SHOWING entertainers fear to tread, so we’re bound to 8pm, Saturday 28 April be heading your way. Ages: Recommended 12+ Duration: 50 minutes (no interval) Australia’s largest comedy festival is packing Come on Australia – pack your laughing gear Tickets: Full price $25 Concession $20 I up and ready to roll! Join the Melbourne Student $15 Group 5+ $20pp and get on board the Roadshow! I International Comedy Festival Roadshow as it Image: Ian Michael. HART. journeys around Australia,