Kimono: Osaka’s Golden Age - Immigration Museum
Date: Saturday 9 August 2008
Venue: Immigration Museum
Time: 10am–2pm
Address: 400 Flinders St, Melbourne
Consultant: Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $80.00
Catering: A light lunch will be included
Discover breathtakingly beautiful kimono and accessories from the glory days of Japan. This extraordinary exhibition, highlighting the wealth and prosperity of the Edo and Meiji periods (1850-1900), is showing exclusively at the Immigration Museum. Direct from the Osaka Museum of History, the stunning collection celebrates the Immigration Museum’s 10th birthday and 30 years of the Melbourne-Osaka sister-city relationship. A tour of this amazing and inspiring exhibition Kimono: Osaka’s Golden Age will be the beginning of a morning of enlightenment and fun. Join Tania in her enthusiasm for textile art and discover what possibilities there are in simple techniques.
Looking at Landscapes Heide Museum of Modern Art
Levels: 3–5
Date: Monday 11 August 2008
Venue: Education Centre Heide Museum of Modern Art
Address: 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen
Time: 10am–3pm
Consultant: Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $90.00
Catering: A light lunch will be included
Following a guided tour of the exhibition Hinterlands Albert Tucker’s landscapes 1960 -1975, Tania will take you on a walk of the gardens surrounding the galleries and use this as inspiration for creating 2 and 3 dimensional works of art using a combination of natural and man-made tools and media. Participants are asked to bring their own digital camera, wear sensible clothing and foot wear for walking and collecting found objects of nature.
For more workshops in your area see also...Zart Art, Big Draw, Bookweek, and Christmas Term 4 workshops