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Conversations Emerald Hill

Do you have a special object, photograph or story relating to Emerald Hill in South Melbourne?

The City of Port Phillip invites you to participate in a pop-up museum and conversation during Heritage Week. Register your interest to bring an object and its local story to share and we will help you to present and document it at the Conversation event, Thursday 19 April 2012 at 6pm, South Melbourne Town Hall.
But you need to register by 12 April - Download registration form

'Conversations at Emerald Hill' is a series of public talks/forums to be held in Emerald Hill that will explore art, heritage and ideas through history and contemporary culture.

It is an opportunity for dialogue, networking and showcasing – open to everyone.  

Stories from the Hill – a Pop-up Museum in Heritage Week

Thursday 19 April 2012

6pm-7.30pm

South Melbourne Town Hall (Theatrette),

208 - 220 Bank St, South Melbourne.

Emerald Hill in South Melbourne is one of Melbourne's oldest suburban areas with hidden stories and treasures. The City of Port Phillip invites you to participate in a pop-up museum and conversation during Heritage Week.   Register by 12 April to be part of Heritage Week by bringing a special object, photograph or story to the Pop-Up Museum or just come along to the Conversation event,
 Thursday 19 April 2012 at 6pm, South Melbourne Town Hall.

  

To enquire about any of the conversations, please contact Susan Strano
Email: sstrano@portphillip.vic.gov.au or Tel: 9209 6653 

It’s free! Book now http://www.trybooking.com/BDPP or http://www.trybooking.com/20009

More information and subscribe to mail list: http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/conversations_emeraldhill.htm

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Previous conversations:

Sustainable Art & Design
Thursday 23 February 2012 from 6pm
South Melbourne Town Hall (Theatrette),
208 - 220 Bank St, South Melbourne.

Artists, designers, businesses and communities are developing innovative ways to work and live in an eco-friendly way. Benefits are environmental, economic, social and cultural. Hear about some of these ideas and be part of the conversation in a dynamic exchange of ideas.

Special guests: Cameron Robbins, artist whose work is based on interaction with natural forces and the elements. Chloe Farmer, eco craft workshop creative pathways to community connections Paul Miragliotta, Manager, South Melbourne Commons Verity McLucas, Sustainability Education Officer, City of Port Phillip.

  Cameron Robbins, artist, musician and nature collaborator, will join us and share some of the work he creates in partnership with the natural forces of the environment. Cameron is based in Melbourne Australia and studied Fine Art (Sculpture) at RMIT and the VCA during the 1980s. Lectured in Art in Public Space at RMIT since 2000. Awarded The Contempora Sponsors Award and the Littoral Edge Award (2008). He is also involved in music performance, and co-director of Down Street Studios, a partnership for art design and installations.
Setouchi International Art Festival, Seto Inland Sea, Japan, and
Southern Marine Music Test Rig, MONA FOMA, Hobart Tasmania, environmental sound installations on piers using sea waves and organ pipes.
Depot  - Co-ordinated with artist Robbie Rowlands site-specific temporary installations at the disused Grendas bus depot  (Dandenong, Vic)
Solar System  - Collaboration with Christopher Lansell, a permanent stone, stainless steel and bronze1:1 billion-scale model of the solar system, placed around Port Philip Bay Heat: Art and Climate Change, RMIT Gallery, created a carbon dioxide vortex larger than human scale.
  Chloe Farmer will help each of us create a simple creative product from waste materials. Chloe completed a Bachelor of Art (Craft) at Monash University in 1996. She has explored varied mediums throughout her artistic journey, including architectural glass, silversmithing, textiles, mixed media, fine art & design, as well as representing artists commercially. Her professional career has involved exhibition curation, and artistic direction on projects within the corporate and not for profit sectors.   Chloe is interested in the possibilities for collective change that emerge at the intersections of art, community and sustainability. She is an active member of local community sustainability group Transition Port Phillip. In recent years Chloe has facilitated creative community projects and eco craft workshops and has volunteered at leading arts, culture & sustainability festivals Australia wide.
  Paul Miragliotta, Manager  South Melbourne Commons.  If you haven’t heard about South Melbourne Commons (our local Art and Sustainability hub) come and meet Paul.  He has been involved at the South Melbourne Commons since its beginnings, when he was a volunteer helping to create the gardens, until presently as part of the Commons management team. Through its painstaking time in development to the successful launch last year, he's learned what it takes to create a community hub and is ready to share that knowledge. During his three days a week at the Commons he's currently working with volunteers, Anna Gould, Amber Pritchard and Cattram Ngyuen,  on an intimate festival that has found a unique connection between sustainability and the arts.
  Verity McLucas, Sustainability Education Officer at the City of Port Phillip.  Alongside her colleagues, she runs community education programs covering aspects of sustainability such as energy, water, and waste.  Since starting at Council 12 months ago, she has wasted no time introducing additional creative aspects, in particular, sustainable fashion and craft.

 

Creative Neighbourhoods
Thursday 24 November 2011 from 6pm
Auspicious Arts Incubator,
1st floor, 228 Bank St, South Melbourne

What makes a creative neighbourhood? And how do artists, cultural organisations and activities contribute to the economic, social, cultural and environmental fabric of community? Emerald Hill in South Melbourne is one of Melbourne's oldest suburban areas and was one of the first to adopt full municipal status. Today, Emerald Hill is fast developing as a creative hub. The Butterfly Club, Tapestry Workshop, Arts Access, Auspicious Arts Incubator, Australian National Academy of Music and more operate out of this historic precinct.

Speakers include: Eleni Arbus, Creative Spaces Program Manager, City of Melbourne,and John Paul Fischbach, Executive Director Auspicious Arts Incubator

Eleni Arbus Eleni Arbus is the Manager of the City of Melbourne's Creative Spaces Program. Creative Spaces underwrites cultural production by brokering, letting, subletting and developing affordable space for the creative industries. The program has developed over 80 studios and manages 100 artists in its facilities. Creative Spaces also manages a website www.creativespaces.net.au that lists available and affordable space for the creative sector in Victoria. The website is presently being rolled out nationally. Creative Spaces is developing a number of concepts and projects for sites in Melbourne with both the private and public sectors.
John Paul Fischbach

John Paul will be our MC for the conversations. He is an international producer and director of theatre, festivals and site-specific events. John Paul came to Melbourne in 2005. He is currently helping arts organisations, charities, small businesses and independent artists improve their business and marketing skills through the Auspicious Arts Incubator which he created in 2007. John Paul divides his time equally between the incubator and his own creative projects. Most recently JP launched True Secrets – 7 digital augmented reality theatre experiences of Melbourne’s notorious past delivered over your smart phone at specific locations in the CBD.

In 2010 John Paul joined forces with Arts Access Victoria and together they built a case for maximizing the potential of the Emerald Hill arts precinct and created the Inclusive Arts Hub on Bank St.
David Read

David Read is well known in cabaret circles through his successful efforts in saving The Butterfly Club from closure and turning it into an internationally-renowned iconic venue which discovered and nurtured the likes of Tim Minchin and Eddie Perfect and has presented more than 6,000 performances. From there he went on to produce and tour cabaret shows around the country including several at the Sydney Opera House and internationally at the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe (winning a Festival award). He also founded Short+Sweet Cabaret which has been going for four years and more recently the Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Currently presiding as the head of the Green Room Awards Cabaret Panel and on the national Helpmann Awards, David is often asked if there is anything in the cabaret scene he wouldn't do ... to which he replies "yes ... get on stage". In his spare time David consults to arts organisations, predominantly in the fields of social media, marketing and public relations.

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival burst onto Melbourne's arts landscape two years ago to boundless acclaim, presenting the likes of Helpmann Award nominated "Songs From the Middle" (with the Brodsky Quartet, Eddie Perfect and students from the Australian National Academy of Music), Toni Lamond AM, the famous Steve Ross from New York and the infamous Le Gateau Chocolat from the UK. The Festival would not have come into being without the strong support of a diverse and innovative range of local partnerships.