BIODIVERSITY IN YOUR BACKYARD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROGRAM Supported By Name Title Joel Host Event Song, Induction and welcome for the event Carnegie Artist Presentation 1 Simon Grass Grass Shrine is an artistic collaboration of poetry, music and sculpture and Macauley, Shrine, was created to help raise awareness of kangaroo grass. Barry Hill, Grass Song The shrine creates a sensory stimulation and a space that focuses the Rose Grass senses and allows for the grass to be appreciated in a unique and deeply Bygrave Poem moving way. Artist Presentation 2 Jane Flowers Red Jane Flowers will be presenting a large oil on canvas painting of a nest, Capped homage to the attention to detail the plovers go to in creating and Plover decorating their nest, and the near perfect camouflage they are capable of Nest in disguising their nests. Camouflage which means, unfortunately, that they are easily unwittingly destroyed by people and dogs. Jane will take you through the artistic process for creating this artwork including bird watching, monitoring and photographing red capped plovers local to her area, making daily sketch drawings in her sketchbook and planning and painting the final work. Artist Presentation 3 Margaret Barwon As part of a creative approach to conservation, the Barwon Estuary Project Griffith Estuary and 72 Year 5 students have collaboratively developed the Barwon Heads School Primary School 2018 Diary. Daniel Vella Diary 2018 Daniel Vella (BHPS Principal), students Archie and Oskar, and Margaret Barwon Griffith (BEP project leader) will discuss their art/science/community Estuary education strategy. Project Archie and Oskar (BHPS) Artist Presentation 4 Peter Volcano Volcano Dreaming is a 12 metre exhibition of the ecosystems of the Haffenden Dreaming Victorian Volcanic Plains which spread 300 kilometres from the western suburbs of Melbourne to the border between Victoria and South Australia. Kerrie The exhibition can be seen as a whole and in parts on a website explaining Poliness the exhibition. These volcanic plains make up a good deal of the landscapes and geology around the City of Geelong. The vegetation growing on these volcanic soils was predominately grasslands, or more accurately called ‘Flowerlands’ by some people, because they were also home to hundreds of species of lillies, daisies and orchids. Artist Presentation 5 Gillian Winter This presentation is a collection of art works made at Lake Lorne and in The Turner Birds and Dell, and includes writing inspired by a large gathering of cormorants. the Gillian uses a range of techniques and materials, and photography is one Elements aspect of her work. Early morning light, especially during winter, brings a special quality to familiar landscapes. To capture an unexpected moment, a rare glimpse of dozens of cormorants gathered on an old wooden jetty in The Dell, or the mystery of water birds and grasses emerging from fog-shrouded Lake Lorne is utterly inspiring. Artist Presentation 6 Theatre What Theatre 3Triple2 will present a short Preview of a new original Play about 3Triple2 and Became of one of the Bellarine Peninsula’s most endangered shores birds, the Hooded Plover, through the medium of the classic murder mystery. Shane the Foyster Hooded Sandy and Wendy, two sisters from Melbourne, arrive at the seaside Plovers? village of Hoodton to find their summer beach shack unlocked. Sandy, convinced another holiday maker has stolen her favourite radio, starts suspecting the elusive characters who have been their neighbours each summer: the lonesome figures of Felix, Belinda and Gary. At the same place, 30 years earlier, a police officer, Constable Perry Duckbill, and the local doctor, Iris Ibis, investigate the mysterious disappearance of Polly Ann Plover, the last remaining child of the once populous Plover clan, who previously inhabited the entire coastline. Together they unravel a mystery that has haunted Hoodton for decades: what became of the Hooded Plovers? Close Event Evening Tea and Drinks for Guests Artist Artist Biography Joel Joel Carnegie is one of Australia’s much loved presenters and performers. As a multi-award winning Carnegie personality, performer, musician and feature maker, Joel is currently working as a presenter on ABC Classic FM, and making features, documentaries and podcasts for the ABC and BBC. As a performer/actor, writer and musician, Joel is also developing a number of theatre/music/cabaret and multidisciplinary projects. www.facebook.com/hellojoelcarnegie Simon Artist, teacher and practitioner in the commercial art world. Simon plays along the spectrum of Macauley experience and imagination to explore and demonstrate his place in the world. Moving between education and practice Simons work has included teaching at a secondary school level and his current work is as the display and transport coordinator for an Australian leading art auction house. Barry Hill Poet, historian, novelist, critic and librettist, Barry Hill, had been writing full-time since he moved to Queenscliff in 1976. He is perhaps best known for long narrative poem Ghosting William Buckley and Broken Song his multi-ward winning biography of the anthropologist TGH Strehlow. In recent years he has been living and travelling in India and Japan to write Peacemongers, his major book on Rabindranath Tagore. His essays, Reason and Lovelessness have just been published. Rose Rose's connection to landscape was ingrained in her growing up on flat grass plains of inland Bygrave Victoria and then in the summer, holidaying in Point Lonsdale. She has been a professional musician for the last 40 years. Beginning in a local band The Salty Dogs, then joining the acclaimed Goanna band in the early 80's and in more recent years as a solo performer, her work has taken her around the country many times where she has gained profound and unusual access to aboriginal culture through her many indigenous friends. Her songs are a direct reflexion of connection to place in all its elemental forms. She is currently finishing of a new CD called The Yabbie Catcher. Her work in available at https://rosebygrave.bandcamp.com/ Jane Jane Flowers is an award winning Australian artist who specializes in oils on canvas. A keen Flowers sailor, diver, and beachcomber Jane is passionate about the beauty of nature and sharing it through her particular vision. Jane travels widely to immerse herself in new environments and collect inspiration for her works, filling sketchbooks and taking photos as reference for her contemporary land and seascapes completed back in her studio Looking over Port Phillip near Indented Head. She has been a professional artist for twenty years after careers in teaching, advertising and graphic design. Jane has won numerous awards, particularly for her maritime themes. She is widely collected throughout Australia and the world. www.janeflowers.com e [email protected] fb janeflowersartist Margaret Margaret Griffith, Project Leader for the Barwon Estuary Project, has had a career in Griffith Community Education. Prior to theoretical retirement, she worked at Melbourne Museum for 17 years and managed their Public Programs. She now works in Barwon Heads in a Daniel voluntary capacity supporting the environment, refugees, grandchildren and a productive Vella permaculture garden. Archie Daniel Vella has worked in Education for 23 years and has been a Principal since 2010. Currently the Principal at Barwon Heads PS, Daniel has been committed to developing and Oskar strong links with local communities. He hopes to build on the success of the partnership with the Barwon Estuary Project, linking with other organisations that can add value to student learning. Archie and Oskar are in Year 6 at Barwon Heads Primary School. Last year, they were in the creative team of 72 Year 5 students who contributed to the school's Estuary Diary. www.facebook.com/barwonestuary https://barwonestuaryproject.wordpress.com Peter Peter Haffenden has been working and volunteering in the museum industry for more than 30 Haffenden years. He was Director of Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West from 1997 to 2008. In that role he produced many events, exhibitions and projects. The Living Museum had always encouraged artists to participate in the interpretation of history Before that Peter had worked as a photographer and a journalist and has photographs in the Victorian Government image collection. Peter’s family has been holidaying at Point Lonsdale for more than 100 years and he is currently President of ‘Friends of Buckley Park’, which is basically the dunes system between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove. Kerrie Kerrie Poliness has been working as an artist since the early 1980s. She is known for her large-scale, Poliness geometric, abstract, drawings installed by groups of participants. Her work has appeared in over 180 exhibitions in Aus¬tralia and elsewhere. Over the past twenty years Poliness has developed a number of site-specific public artworks including Volcano Dreaming, about the critically endangered flora and fauna of the Victorian Volcanic Plains, and currently an integrated artwork to the new Drying Green Park for Green Square, City of Sydney which is under construction in 2018. Kerrie is currently a board member of the Living Museum of the West, West Space and Friends of Buckley Park and is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery. Gillian A long-time resident of the Geelong region, Gillian is a respected artist in Australia and Turner Ireland where she has been awarded five Artist Residencies. She has lived in Clifton Springs for ten years, and has a studio there. Gillian received a Professional Development Arts Grant from the City of Greater Geelong to support her residency at Cill Rialaig, Ireland in 2014. She has won many awards for her work, including a gold medal in the 2015 VIGEX International Photographic Exhibition. She has had exhibitions in the Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, and most recently been involved in the Natimuk Frinj Festival 2017.