Four Winds Festival with the Community
BERMI TALKS:
This surprising, innovative, community-led project is being developed by internationally recognised, award-winning Melbourne sound designers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey. They will collaborate with the Bermagui community on a series of sound walks that will inform the creation of a public art installation. It's a complex and exciting project, with the sound installation due to be unveiled at the official launch of the 2012 Four Winds Festival in November this year.
The sound walks will be fun and help locals identify what it is they hear that makes Bermagui and the Far South Coast such a special place to live. Maddie and Tim created and directed the sound installation, the megaphone project, which toured nationally in 2009/10 and will tour internationally this year.
Learn more about the project and register for future Soundwalks at http://bermaguisounds.com/
INSPIRING:
Inspiring is the perfect name for the Four Winds schools music program that will unite the Sydney Children's Choir with local schoolchildren in a September concert that will be sure to move you and be a memorable moment for everyone. One of Australia's most promising young artists Dan Walker has been asked to compose a piece for the performance.
Inspiring has already led to a trip to Sydney University for three local music teachers to observe the Gondwana Choirs at the National Choral School earlier this year. Bega's Heartsong choir master, Geoffrey Badger was one of the three and he came back from this event truly inspired to re-form the Bega Valley Children's Choir. He says children's choirs empower children and give them a voice they might otherwise lack in our culture.
http://www.sydneychildrenschoir.com.au/main.htm
BRAIN FOOD:
Brain Food public conversations series will address relevant issues and hopefully inspire new ways of thinking. We'll be bringing a great line-up of speakers to Bermagui to talk- and listen - people who have made a difference through their creative thinking and relationships, and who have wisdom to pass on about different models of collaboration, sustainability, participation and engagement in rural, regional and coastal communities.
In a major coup for Four Winds, the first speaker in the series is the internationally-acclaimed social entrepreneur Rachel Botsman. Her book What's Mine is Yours, the Rise of Collaborative Consumption was recently included by Time Magazine in the US in its list of Ten Ideas That Will Change the World. Oxford and Harvard educated, Botsman, who lives in Sydney, is a former director of the William J Clinton Foundation in the US and recently briefed David Cameron's senior advisors at Number 10 about how her ideas could be integrated into his Big Society policies. She is in high demand from the corporate sector as a speaker and consultant on the power of collaboration and trust.
BRAIN FOOD is curated and hosted by journalist and broadcaster Caroline Baum who lives on the south coast.
http://www.rachelbotsman.com/
http://www.carolinebaum.com.au/
Feed your mind, your soul and your heart — Podcast coming soon!
Two remarkable musical dynamos talk candidly about what drives them
Artistic Director Genevieve Lacey and...
...star of the Box Office smash hit documentary Mrs Carey's Concert, Karen Carey
in conversation with well known journalist and broadcaster Caroline Baum
Genevieve and Karen share stories from their musical lives beyond the concert stage – from schools to prisons, from the Opera House to the outback. Listen to two of this country's most inspiring and passionate cultural ambassadors talk about leadership and transformation, collaboration and creation, followed by questions and discussion.
The Four Winds Festival Program for 2012 was also launched at this event.
Friday, 4 November, 2011 5.30pm Bermagui Community Centre, Bunga Street, Bermagui
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through
the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Creative Industries
A BVSC Cultural Planning Committee Public Event that Four Winds Festival was a partner in.
Download Flyer as PDF from the Four Winds Festival Media Page
Whether you are a visual, performance or literary artist, a designer, organise a festival, go to a book reading, create beautiful food products, run a cultural or tourism business or a community enterprise, or are just curious about the future for your community, you'll be interested in this seminar.
It was an exciting seminar with presenter Professor Brad Haseman, to begin the planning for our regions social, cultural and economic development, and learn what the place of creativity is in transforming the Bega Valley for the 21st century.
Professor Haseman's presentation and open discussion at the seminar challenged participants to begin the journey of developing a unique and targeted approach suitable for the Bega Valley. This will contribute to driving the framework for the Bega Valley's next Cultural Action Plan which recognises that creative industries can make a significant contribution to business and tourism, and contribute to social benefits for our community.
New futures for the Bega Valley 2030
| Location: | Bermagui Community Centre |
| Date: | Saturday, 15th October 2011 |
| Times: | 11:00am – Registration and morning tea 12pm to 1:30pm – Keynote presentation – Professor Brad Haseman 1:30pm to 2pm – Lunch and Networking 2pm to 3:30pm – Workshops – facilitated by Sheena Boughen, Chair Bega Valley Shire Council Cultural Planning Committee 3:30pm to 4pm – Feedback and wrap up – where to from here |
| Cost: | Free!!! |
