Renew Newcastle featured on last night's edition of Stateline, NSW. It's a great story on a project that according to host Quentin Dempster has "recycled, reinvigorated, revived, revitalised, recreated and reimagnied the city."
This video is hosted on facebook for embedding purposes. The original is actually here.
If you are interested to know more about Renew Newcastle and how it works, we’ll be talking about the nitty gritty, the successes, and the opportunities to get involved - at the following This Is Not Art events, this weekend, held at the Renew HQ, 3 Morgan St:
Saturday 03 October
2.00 - 3.30pm Mall rats unite: Renew Newcastle walking tour
The Hunter St Mall ain’t what it used to be … come see Newcastle’s creative community making city revitalization their business. Join us for a tour of the 24 spaces which are changing the feel of the city, all local and all unique: galleries, retail, offices and studios – there’s even a Tea House.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson
Sunday 04 October
3.00 - 4.30pm Vacant buildings = temporary cheap art space: Renew Newcastle
Last TINA this was just a crazy idea. Twelve months down the track there are 37 creative projects in 25 otherwise vacant properties. But it is more than just a bunch of artists & empty shops, it's a series of strategies, legalities & activities that has made once unavailable space available cheap. Find out how it works, the thinking behind it and how similar ideas might work in other areas.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson, Roderick Smith
Plus... Renew Newcastle spaces are playing host to This Is Not Art events and presentations across the weekend. So, you get to see more of the festival program while simultaneously checking out how the Renew Newcastle initiative works:
Location: Shop 1, 111 Hunter St Mall
Saturday 03 October
2.30 – 4.00pm Distro How-To (NYWF Rountable discussion)
A roundtable for all of us who make book-shaped objects to discuss the best way to get them into the hands of people; even new, exciting ones we haven’t met! Share your experiences or ask questions of representatives from Australian small press publishers, online distributors, zine shops.
Sunday 04 October
4.30 – 5.30pm Curatorial How-To (NYWF Roundtable discussion)
Wranglers, hoarders, dropouts, show-offs, very talented circle of friends! Wanna figure out how to get all gallery on that shit? CURATORIAL is part of NYWF’s new series of informal, abnormal, but very, very practical roundtable how-tos.
Featuring: Ianto Ware, Anthony WP O’Sullivan, Lev Diatschenko, Nimble Fox Trappings, Emily McCulloch Childs, Maddy Phelan, and Natalie Aylward.
6.00 – 7.00pm The One Hundred and Fortieth Birthday of the Postcard
Participate in the collective penning and posting of 140 postcards plus eating cake and other regular birthday party activities. The event will double as a book launch for ‘from sometimes love beth’ a postcard compendium by Beth Sometimes.
Presented by Beth Sometimes: misssometimes@gmail.com
Monday 05 October Come rest your weary head as we serve up some hot brews and cool tunes. Let’s just take it easy today.
Location: Level 1 / 111 Hunter St Mall Newcastle (Access via Morgan St)
Sunday 04 October
3.00 – 5.30pm New Weird Australia/Sound Summit
In borrowing terminology, New Weird Australia shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle.
Artists: Lucia Draft, Brutal Hate Mosh, Go Genre Everything, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts
About: New Weird Australia is a radio show on FBI and a free compilation series of new, eclectic and experimental Australian music. Compilations will be made available to download on a bimonthly basis. Australia has a long and vital history of experimental music, however until the birth of the internet age, this rich seam of avant-garde audio remained largely confined to its geographic borders. Over the last ten years, emerging Australian artists have found new avenues and new audiences thanks to international digital distribution, and New Weird Australia seeks to continue and extend that paradigm with a regular release schedule and accessible format.
www.newweirdaustralia.com www.soundsummit.com.au
Location: 109 Hunter St Mall
Friday 02 October **
6pm ** Exhibition Opening: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
The exhibition runs through to the 24th of October and will be open from the Friday night, Saturday, Sunday & Monday (12 - 5 pm) during the TINA festival.
Saturday 03 October
2.00 – 3.00pm CURATOR'S TALK
THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS curated by Neil Jenkins, exhibited by d/Lux MediaArts as part of the Electrofringe festival.
Artists: Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Andy Deck (USA), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Tale of Tales (Belgium)
An exhibition of historic and contemporary artists' computer games. Jorge Luis Borges' 1941 short story "The Garden of Forking Paths" predates the Internet but its notions of non-linearity, the storyline surrounding an infinite, labyrinthine book that realises multiple paths and futures are echoed in the information age with hypertext, the World Wide Web and the form and structure of computer games. Just as Borges and his contemporaries pushed the envelope of the narrative form, so too artists have been creating and modifying computer games, experimenting with the notions of what a game is and exploring alternate approaches to interaction and play methodologies. This exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary examples of games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules.
Also featured at Loop Space Project Gallery is K-COUNTRY - A Sci Fi Comic turned single channel video installation, adapting comic narrative with sound and music in a post Brechtian fusion. Written by Mark Hobby, Illustrated by Stephen Colloff, Music by Solange Kershaw.
For full details see Loop website and the d/Lux MediaArts website
Location: 3 Morgan St
Friday 02 October
1pm – 3pm Mouth Camp
Think OTHER people read crappily? Well, wait until they get a load of you. Bring some work down to our intensive readings coaching/boot camp, where our panel of experts runs your reading right through the gauntlet. It's like Idol, except these people really want to help you. Like Scientologists!
Featuring: Sally Breen, Josephine Rowe, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, ... and everyone else (including you!)
6pm – 7:30pm Quiet Appreciation
In the serene surrounds of the Renew Newcastle church TINY VIPERS (Sub Pop, US) and GUY BLACKMAN will deliver reimaginings of folk through captivating performance. This will be both free and incredible.
FEATURING: Tiny Vipers, Guy Blackman
9:30PM – 11PM BLESS ME READER, FOR I HAVE SINNED
Keep your flaws and fears shrinkwrapped in a room behind an iron door? Writers of confessional work don’t. They write them down, read them out - share them in a shine of honesty. Tonight let’s cringe, and bask in their insightful and embarrassing splendour! Or grab a mic and CONFESS my child.
Facilitator: Stop Drop and Roll’s Sean Wilson. Featuring: Patrick Pittman, Simon Cox, Amber Fresh, Matthew Lowe, Tom Cho
Saturday 03 October
2.00 - 3.30pm Mall rats unite: Renew Newcastle walking tour
The Hunter St Mall ain’t what it used to be … come see Newcastle’s creative community making city revitalization their business. Join us for a tour of the 24 spaces which are changing the feel of the city, all local and all unique: galleries, retail, offices and studios – there’s even a Tea House. With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson
3PM – 4PM SUBURBAN GIANTS
Suburban Giants is a large-scale projection that turns buildings into blank canvases. In this talk its creators will discuss the work and research involved in its development.
Featuring: Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, Jo Kerlogue
6pm – 7:30pm Quiet Appreciation Mark 2
Settle in for the calm before the storm, as Christian Haines pays homage to Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and Steve Reich via mobile phone interface, and Pimmon presents lush electronics in a rare intimate setting. Free admission – this one’s on us.
Featuring: Christian Haines, Pimmon
Sunday 04 October
11am – 12 noon CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT - CONCLUSION
Dancer Alison Currie talks about her experiment in public performance to unsuspecting audiences, where dancers perform a choreographed solo to a specially-composed ringtone.
Featuring: Alison Currie
12:30pm – 2pm So I married a struggling artist
Going out with another creative person would be totally ideal, right? They forgive you when you wake them up at 4.30am after working late on yet another of your all-consuming projects. And they never get jealous or feel neglected, ever, EVER. ... Wait. Let's all double-check this. On a stage.
Featuring: Marieke Hardy, Dion Kagan, Christopher Downes, Dion Kagan, Ira McGuire, Matthew Lowe
2.00 – 3.00 pm MOBILE PHONE ART: RESTRICTION AS POSSIBILITY
A discussion of the philosophy driving various works developed using mobile phones, their aesthetic goals and issues associated with developing the mobile phone platform. Particular emphasis is placed on sound works and the idea of developing participatory spaces, collective contribution to artistic process and the ubiquitous technology of the mobile phone.
Featuring: Christian Haines
3.00 - 4.30pm Vacant buildings = temporary cheap art space: Renew Newcastle
Last TINA this was just a crazy idea. Twelve months down the track there are 37 creative projects in 25 otherwise vacant properties. But it is more than just a bunch of artists & empty shops, it's a series of strategies, legalities & activities that has made once unavailable space available cheap. Find out how it works, the thinking behind it and how similar ideas might work in other areas.
With: Marcus Westbury, Marni Jackson, Roderick Smith
5.30 – 7.30pm New Weird Australia
In borrowing terminology, NWA shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle.
Featuring: Go Genre Everything, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts, Brutal Hate Mosh, Lucia Draft, Alps, kyü, Moonmilk, Castings, Blastcorp, smRts, Gugg, Holy Balm
Monday 05 October
11am – 12:30pm Moving Units
Pushers of good writing everywhere! Forget SHOULD we sell - ask only HOW. Take some marketing tips and tales from people who have the smarts and the souls. By the time they're through with you, you'll be able to sell the whole thing right back to 'em.
Featuring: Angela Meyer, Geoff Lemon, Krissy Kneen, Ryan Paine
12:30pm – 2pm Writing The BIG One
So you've dabbled in mini-masterpieces and now everyone’s wanting you to beef up, go BIG. How do you begin piecing together research? How does a novel happen? Writers discuss how they bridged the gap between ‘Uh-oh’ and ‘Opus’.
Featuring: Caro Cooper, Michaela McGuire, Christopher Currie, Patrick Cullen, Thomas Benjamin Guerney, Christelle Davis
This Is Not Art is supercharged convergence of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and DIY culture makers in a showcase featuring over 400 local, national and international artists. Happening in Newcastle 01 - 05 October 2009.
Full program online www.thisisnotart.org.
A summary of the October Exhibition period for Renew Newcastle projects:
Dates: 1 -4 October
Installation: DJ Smallcock’s Vinyl Arcade
Description: The Vinyl Arcade is a participatory play-set, playing off vinyl fetishism, video arcade mystique and the machismo of motor sports. An immersive sound instrument putting you in the drivers seat of a tiny remote control car with styli attached as it navigates its way through a landscape of disused vinyl records. Please bring any non essential vinyl with you to throw in the pit!
The Vinyl Arcade
Co presented by Electrofringe www.electrofringe.net and Renew Newcastle for this years This Is Not Art festival. www.thisisnotart.org
Time: Open Daily 3-6pm
Location: Shop 45, 164-170 Hunter St Mall
Dates: 1 - 21 October Exhibition: Decks
Artist/s: Kris Keogh and David Collins Curator: Nick Nelson
Description: Kris and David have been friends for years. They both skated in the day, and have taken their beloved Posca pens to abandoned skateboards for their work in this show.
Decks at Upcycling
Opening Night: Thursday 01 Oct 2009
Time: 6pm
Project: Upcycling Gallery
Location: Shop 2, Silk House, 200 Hunter St Mall
Dates: 2 – 24 October
Exhibition: The Garden of Forking Paths
Laurie Anderson in The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition at Loop Space
Artist/s: Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Tale of Tales (Belgium), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Andy Deck (USA) Curator: Neil Jenkins
Description: An exhibition of historic and contemporary artists' computer games.
Opening Night: Friday 2nd October
Time: 6 – 9 pm
Project: Loop Space
Location: 109 Hunter St Mall
Dates: From 2 October Exhibition: First Works in Silver Artist: Lula Description: The artist’s first exhibition of works using sterling silver. Handmade jewellery using fine filigree techniques. Demonstrations and workshops available during normal opening hours.
Opening Night: Friday 02 Oct
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Project: Art Brasil
Location: Shop 24 Market Square Terrace Level, Hunter St Mall
Dates: 2 -10 October 2009
Exhibition: Male
Artist/s: various, local contributors. Curator: Mark St. Clair
Description: Celebrating the male in all his forms, coinciding with the men’s health conference.
Opening Night: Friday 02 Oct
Time: 7pm
Project: Gallery Raw, House of Photography
Location: 147 Hunter St Mall Newcastle
Dates: 2 Oct – 5 Nov
Exhibition: Wonder Chamber: a collection of the curious, wondrous, and whimsical
Artists: 7U?, Textaqueen, Emily Hasselhoof, Leigh Rigozzi, Helen Nehill, Neil Tomkins, Ace Wagstaff, Chris Tamm, Kake Geck, and Licky the Cream… (until Nov 6th)
Opening Night: Friday 02 Oct
Time: 5pm – 8pm
Project: Totoro’s Teahouse
Location: Shop 1, 111 Hunter St Mall
Dates: Until 9 October
Exhibition: The Twilight Girls present ‘Wet Walls’
Artist/s: The Twilight Girls Curator: Penny Thwaite
Description: A site-specific installation situated on the glass windows of the Silk House shopfront. The Twlight Girls bring a mix of the tactile, the architectural and classic 70s design to the windows of Silk House. Come down and see this unusual installation……is it water? Is it glass? How did they do it??
Wet Walls at Silk House ARt Projects
Special Wet Walls Movie Night: Friday 02 October, 6pm
Project: SilkHouseARtProjects
Location: Shop 1, 200 Hunter St Mall
Dates: 12 Sept - 5 Oct
Exhibition: TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Artist/s: Kalindy Williams, Nicholas French, Kell Derrig-Hall, Erech Overaker, Marnie Vaughn, Elizabeth Nagy, Demi Iacoptta, Stephanie Cola, Morgan Cabot, Luke Johnston, Grant Hunter, Daniel Hogan, Eli Partridge, Matt Niccoli, Mike Foxall, Andrea Lam, Sam Witek, Jen Tait Curator: Grant Hunter
Description: The current exhibition of natural history at the ARThive Gallery is titled TYRANNOSAURUS REX. Amateur paleontologist Grant Hunter has unearthed a large collection of new specimens on his latest dig, and has kindly decided to share them.
Project: ARThive
Location: Level 1 / 111 Hunter St Mall Newcastle (Access via Morgan Street)
View or Download the Full Exhibition Listing for October 2009
This weekend Renew Newcastle will launch its series of twilight events in the City – First Friday. On the First Friday of the month in October, November and December the Renew Newcastle art and creative projects will host a collection of special events in the early evening 5 – 8pm.
Laurie Anderson in The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition at Loop Space
This month on Friday 02 October there will be 10 free simultaneous events taking place, including gallery exhibition openings from 6pm: international gaming art at Loop Space sound and digital media gallery; a photographic documentary in conjunction with Men’s Health Week at Gallery Raw – Newcastle House of Photography; a new show of works using posca paints on skateboard decks at Upcycling Gallery.
Decks at Upcycling
Silk House Art Projects are having a night of jaffas and cinema at their Wet Walls exhibition (until 6 Oct); ARThive are offering a live experimental and collaborative music presentation to accompany the TYRANNOSAURUS REX exhibition (until 5 Oct); and Totoro’s Teahouse are offering tea, cakes and a unique forum on “The Philosophy of Disco”, hosted by Triple j’s Craig Schuftan. Emerald Arts is having an Art Party with party games, including pin the badge on the Widget and Pass the Parcel along with drawing competitions and delicious snacks.
Wet Walls at Silk House ARt Projects
For the first time ever all of the Renew Newcastle shopfronts will be open for trading at the same time for special late night shopping – Surfhouse Photography is offering a 10% off sale, Art Brasil’s artisan jeweller is showing his first works made using sterling silver.
Art Brasil works in silver
Mad Hatter Millinery are hosting their official shop opening party. Makespace have declared "This Is Not Tart" and are showing off their baking as well as their art and crafting. Makespace Invitation
A guided tour of all of the spaces in the mall will take place 5-6pm beginning at the Renew Newcastle HQ, 3 Morgan St. The tour introduces a new short-term installation presented in conjunction with Electrofringe for This Is Not Art festival – Lucas Abela’s Vinyl Arcade – An immersive sound instrument putting you in the drivers seat of a tiny remote control car with styli attached as it navigates its way through a landscape of disused vinyl records.
DJ Smallcock's Vinyl Arcade
This brings the total number of projects that Renew Newcastle has placed to 37, cleaning up and occupying 25 empty shops and offices to date across the CBD. Come along to see how Newcastle’s creative community is making city revitalization their business, and enjoy the city in a new way at twilight on the First Friday of the month.
View and download the full list of events for Friday 02 October.
The Renew Newcastle creative projects are all keen to share their skills and give their customers insight to the crafts they are passionate about.
This weekend Upcycling begin the first of their practical workshops - the first is on Book Making.
The workshop involves making a visual diary or writing diary from lovely recycled materials, and is hosted by Carli Hyland and Nick Nelson.
Date: Saturday 26 Sept
Time: 10am - 1 pm
Project: Upcycling Gallery
Location: Shop 2, Silk House, 200 Hunter St Mall Newcastle (opposite David Jones)
The workshop will teach two book binding methods: an A5 long stitch journal with a card cover and an artists' sketch book, chain stitched with an upcycled hard cover.
All materials will be supplied but participants are encouraged to bring along interesting paper, packaging and recyclable supplies to create their own unique covers and details.
Cost is 25 bucks - which includes all materials and a bite to eat
To book your space, or sign up for future workshops contact Nick on 0414 560 011
About: Upcycling Gallery is a place to showcase art and design made with recycled material in imaginative ways.
Normal Gallery Opening Hours: Wed – Sat 11am – 3pm or by appointment 0414 560 011.
Download the Book Making Workshop Flyer (PDF)
More workshops from the Renew Newcastle projects - get in touch with each project directly to find out about future workshop dates:
Gallery Raw - photography techniques and digital media
Emerald Arts - childrens drawing and painting, including a school holiday program
Art Brasil - artisan jewellery
Loop Space - media production
Bird in the Hand Zine shop - zine making afternoons
Renew Newcastle Gallery projects present their September shows:
Dates: 05 - 25 September
Exhibition: Off With Our Heads
Artists: Kane Ewin, Maree van-Tent, Bianca Hayden, Nicholas French, Michelle Maartensz, Jarrod Skene. Curator: Jarrod Skene (and chance, neccessity, etc.)
Description: A small group show involving a core of artists linked directly to the emergence of this space. Drawing, painting, photography, sculpture.
Opening Night: Saturday 05 September Time: 7pm
Project: Vox Cyclops
Location: 515 Hunter St (near Union St, next to the Rock Shop)
About: Vox Cyclops is an independent record store and gallery specializing in underground music and emerging and experimental art. Gallery Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday 11am to 5pm
Contact: Vox Cyclops on facebook, voxcyclops@gmail.com
Dates: 12 September – 09 October
Exhibition: The Twilight Girls present ‘Wet Walls’
Artist/s: The Twilight Girls Curator: Penny Thwaite
Description: A site-specific installation situated on the glass windows of the Silk House shopfront. The Twlight Girls bring a mix of the tactile, the architectural and classic 70s design to the windows of Silk House. Come down and see this unusual installation……is it water? Is it glass? How did they do it??
Opening Night: Saturday 12 September
Time: 6pm
Project: SilkHouseARtProjects
Location: Shop 1, 200 Hunter St Mall
About: SilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects. The works will vary in material and process. You may find the artist is working in the space during setup and throughout the exhibition.
Gallery Opening Hours: Works viewable 24hrs & open to visit 10-5 each Saturday.
Contact SHARP by email info@silkhouseartprojects.com www.silkhouseartprojects.com
Dates: 12 September – 5 October
Exhibition: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Artist/s: GRANT HUNTER, MARNIE VAUGHN, NICHOLAS FRENCH, ELI PARTRIDGE, ELIZABETH NAGY, ANDREA MARIA LAM, KELL DERRIG-HALL, ERECH OVERAKER, MIKE FOXALL, MATT NICCOLI, JEN TAIT, DEMI IACOPETTA, MORGAN CABOT, SAM WITEK, STEPHANIE COLA, KALINDY SPARKLE, LUKE JOHNSTON, DANIEL HOGAN Curator: Grant Hunter
Description: New art concerning dinosaurs.
Opening: Saturday 12th September Opening Night Music Performances by SIMO SOO & COCK SAFARI Time: 6pm – 9pm
Project: ARThive ARI
Location: Upstairs, 111 Hunter St (entry off Morgan St)
About: ARThive – a gallery and studio complex maintained by a zany collective of Newcastle Artists.
Gallery Opening Hours: Weds – Sat 12pm – 5pm.
Contact ARThive on Facebook or 0410 115 736
SPECIAL EVENTS
Date: Sunday 13 September
Time: 6pm – 9:30pm
Project: ARThive & The Hive Studios
Location: Upstairs, 111 Hunter St (entry off Morgan St)
Event: The Penis Tower Anti-Slam
Description: This is YOUR SPACE – for one night only!
Bring along your free verse, rap, spoken word, ballads, haiku, brutal rhymez, shopping lists, tarot readings, diary entries about your ex, fairy tales, dad jokes, stand-up routines, soapbox rants, instruments, whatever voice you’ve got & sign up for the PENIS TOWER ANTI-SLAM - you could win A PRIZE, you could win THE UNCONDITIONAL ADORATION OF YOUR PEERS, you could win PUPPIES, or WHATEVER’S BEHIND THIS DOOR – what’re you waiting for!
About: ARThive – a gallery and studio complex maintained by a zany collective of Newcastle Artists. Gallery Opening Hours: Weds – Sat 12pm – 5pm. Contact ARThive on Facebook or 0410 115 736
The Renew Newcastle project has featured on JJJ's current affairs program Hack this week:
Click to have a look and listen.
We've created a Flickr group for photos of Renew Newcastle and need your help to fill it.
Our aim is to collect as many before, during and after photos of Renew Newcastle projects, people and properties. If you want photos of our projects for your article or web site it's a great place to get them. If you're a photographer and you have photos of our projects and you don't mind sharing them with us and letting us use them in media we'd love it if you uploaded them.
The group can be found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/renewnewcastle/
This weekend Renew Newcastle will launch another series of art and creative projects which have opened in the CBD this month. A collection of events over two days will celebrate the talent and hard work of the artists involved in cleaning up vacant shops to use for a range of creative projects.
The events, all held in the Newcastle CBD, include art exhibition openings, shop opening parties, a walking tour of the new projects, and a rare open studio show by visual artists, all designed to show-off the diversity of Newcastle’s creative talent.
The guided tour of the new projects on Saturday 15 August introduces 15 new projects in 12 new properties in the Hunter St Mall area and will begin at 3pm at the Biami Mara Indigenous Art Gallery, Shop 3, 200 Hunter St Mall.
The group of new creative projects which you can visit on the day includes: an indigenous art gallery; a landscape photography gallery; a zine shop; the headquarters and display space for Newcastle Fashion Week; a tea house art gallery; a dance costuming workshop; a retail gallery selling locally made, hand made art, clothing, jewellery and household objects; the newly reinvented gallery space of the ARThive collective; and the individual working studios of 7 visual artists.
The walking tour has become a “don’t miss” event, with large numbers of local visitors joining in on the guided tour of new and existing sites around the Hunter St Mall area. The tour is presented by Renew Newcastle founder, some time ABC TV presenter, and This Is Not Art festival founder Marcus Westbury.
Two additional new projects located outside of the Hunter St Mall are an office and workspace for an interior designer (by appointment!) and a retail record store and gallery space located at 515 Hunter St. The record store will host its own special launch on Friday 14 August.
These new enterprises bring the total number of projects that Renew Newcastle has placed to 36, cleaning up and occupying 24 empty shops and offices to date across the CBD. Renew Newcastle is currently seeking additional properties to add to the initiative.
Renew Newcastle will also present a new map of the spaces, which you will find in each of the shopfront windows, and is downloadable from the website so that you can complete your own personal walking tour of the sites.
Full list of Events this weekend:
Friday 14 August
Time: 6.30pm
Project: Gallery Raw, House of Photography
Location: 147 Hunter St Mall Newcastle
Event: Exhibition Opening - ARTOGRAPHY: a series of work through the eye of a fish Description: A photography exhibition shot with a Lomo Fisheye. By Amy Scruton.
Exhibition period: 01 – 31 August 2009
About: Gallery Raw, Newcastle House of Photography – an art photography gallery. Gallery Opening Hours: Thurs – Sat 10am – 4pm or by appointment 0413 348 528. Contact Gallery Raw by email admin@galleryraw.com. www.galleryraw.com
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Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Project: Vox Cyclops
Location: 515 Hunter St (near Union St, next to the Rock Shop)
Event: Shop opening
Description: Launch of the Vox Cyclops Record Store (join them after 9pm at the Croatian Club Albert St Wickham for ALPS of NEW SOUTH WALES album launch)
About: Vox Cyclops is an independent record store and gallery specializing in underground music and emerging and experiemental art.
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Saturday 15 August
Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Project: Renew Newcastle Tour
Location: Biami Mara, Shop 3, 200 Hunter St Mall
Event: Start Here: Renew Newcastle Projects Launch Walking Tour
Description: A guided tour of new creative projects located in the Hunter St Mall area, led by Marcus Westbury. No need to book – meet us out the front!
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Time: 5.30pm
Project: Ciao Meow Gallery
Location: Shop 2, 111 Hunter St
Event: Shop opening party
Description: Celebrate the opening of the Ciao Meow retail shop, with your opportunity to meet the artists and designers who have made the objects for sale.
About: Ciao Meow has collected all her favourite local artists and makers of clothing, jewellery and household objects. ciaomeow.etsy.com
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Time: 5.30pm – 9.00pm
Project: ARThive & The Hive Studios
Location: Upstairs, 111 Hunter St (entry off Morgan St)
Event: Exhibition opening – THRIVE, curated by Anthony Ferris
Description: This is the official opening of the ARThive gallery space and Hive studio complex – a night jam packed with music, art auction, and studio tours. THRIVE is an exhibition of new works from the diverse range of artists operating within the ARThive collective, featuring work by: Anthony Ferris, Jake Penn-Cullen, Nicole Chaffey, Sam Hughes, Simone Sheridan, Angus Crowley, Grant Hunter and many more…
About: ARThive – a gallery and studio complex maintained by a zany collective of Newcastle Artists.
Gallery Opening Hours: Weds – Sat 12pm – 5pm. Contact ARThive on Facebook or 0410 115 736
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Time: 5.30pm – 10.00pm
Project: Totoro's Tea House
Location: Shop 1, 111 Hunter St (Cnr Morgan St)
Event: Pre-opening party
Description: With cupcakes and cups of tea by donation, this is a pre-opening party held in the space that will soon cocoon and grow into a colourful creature. Live acoustic set by Maddy Phelan and some totes hot tracks by special guest DJ Craig Schuftan (Triple J).
About: Totoro's is a Tea House Gallery soon to be stocked with sumptuous sweets and fresh-brewed teas. We will be working hard during the month of August to fancy the place up, but we'd like to say hello to Newcastle and make some Renew friends. Please come for a cup of tea or to shake your booty.
The Renew Newcastle gallery projects would love you to come along to their next exhibition openings:
@ SilkHouseARtProjects
Shop 1 / 200 Hunter Street Mall Newcastle
DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN”T BUY
A film/text/sound installation filmed and recorded on location in Newcastle, featuring: dissimilitude a film/sound installation by Ryszard Dabek; and groeten uit zandvoort a text/object by i.j.oog.
For more information on Ryszard Dabek and his work see http://ryszard.net/
Opening night: Saturday 01 August 2009
Time: 5pm
Exhibition period: 01 – 22 August 2009
NEWS FLASH - SPECIAL NIGHT VIEWING - WEDS 12 AUGUST - 5-7PM
@ Gallery Raw, Newcastle House of Photography
147 Hunter St Mall Newcastle
ARTOGRAPHY: a series of work through the eye of a fish
a photography exhibition shot with a Lomo Fisheye. By Amy Scruton
Opening night: Friday 14 August 2009
Time: 6.30pm
Exhibition period: 01 – 31 August 2009
ALSO SHOWING AT GALLERY RAW
"Home & Abroad" showcases a collection of local photographer Matt Streatfeild's favourite travel images, from the vast plains of the Serengeti in Africa to the heights of the Andes in South America.
@ ARThive
Suite 2, Upstairs 111 Hunter St
THRIVE
an exhibition of new works from the diverse range of artists operating within the ARThive collective, curated by Anthony Ferris
Featuring work by: Anthony Ferris, Jake Penn-Cullen, Nicole Chaffey, Sam Hughes, Simone Sheridan, Angus Crowley, Grant Hunter and many more…
This is the official opening of the ARThive gallery space and Hive studio complex – a night jam packed with music, art market & art auction, and studio tours.
Opening night: Saturday 15 August 2009 Time: 5.30pm
