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Plastic – Alison McDonald – Environmental Artist

This Artist inspires me!

 

Source: Plastic – Alison McDonald – Environmental Artist

2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative

This project gives me hope for future similar projects here in Cairns.  This Such project aims to change perceptions through eco-conscious public art.

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2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative

Source: 2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative

Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air

I am always thinking about different ways I could re-use the little electric things inside big electric things!  This exhibition looks like fun, I wonder if it is taged-and-tested?

 

Taking the all-fan casemod to the next (il)logical extreme, Dutch art concerns Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fa

Source: Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air

Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks Art Centre Photos by Colyn Huber

Cairns Childrens Festival 2015 LogoAnd finally, after many workshops, collaborations, and much making the day of the Cairns Children’s Festival came around.

Over 2000 people came through the labrynth, many added their own names, drawings and artwork.  Children played in the boxes, speeding through the many twists and turns.

Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks by Ruby Bou

Rocket-A-Maze Workshops

TINKERING TANK @ CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015
WORKSHOPS: 7 APRIL – 7 MAY

CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015: Sunday 10th MAY

MAZE VISITS: 11 – 29 MAY

For the 2015 CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Tank 4 will become a recycling solar system where visitors travel through a cardboard maze of space, planets and rockets to a reimagined alien world.

The maze will be a sustainable dream, constructed from donated, found and repurposed materials – a cacophony of interspatial ideas facilitated by artist-in-residence Ruby Boussard.

Workshops to help build the giant rocket and maze are being run in March and over the school holidays.  Participants will be instrumental in the final outcome at CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015 – Sunday 10th May.

WORKSHOP VENUE:

Pump House,  on the Collins Avenue promenade
Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Queensland Australia

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM

DATE:

Week 2 – Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April  (10am – 2pm)

COST:

$40 per child per day (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $20 per child, adult free.

EXTRA : BUILD THE ROCKET-A-MAZE OPPORTUNITIES

DATES:

Sat 25 April & Sat 2 May (10am to 12noon)
Tues 28 April & Tues 5 May (10am to 12noon)
Thurs 30 April, & Thurs 7 May (10am to 12noon)

COST:

$20 per child per session (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $10 per child, adult free.

SCHOOL TOURS AND WORKSHOPS:

DATES: 11 – 29 MAY

2 hours; up to 60 children; 2 classes with teacher and adult supervision; ages 6-12.

COST:

$150 per group

CALL OUT FOR DONATIONS:

– old desk top printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– half empty tins of paint