Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops
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Come and Join us on the Tarralla Creek Trail
Bring your family and friends and join us for some fun, creative arts workshops where you get to explore, create, learn, share and even inspire others, with your stories or ideas for Tarralla Creek.
Tarralla Flow is a creative community arts project developed in partnership with Melbourne Water and the Reimagining Tarralla Creek project.
Workshops will be held from 30 March to 14 April, 2019. Check out our program of events to the right of this page, for all the details on each workshop which will be led by our very own local artists:
- Anne Riggs
- Aunty Irene Norman
- Aunty Daphne Milward
- Richard Holt
Don't miss this great opportunity to get involved! If you have a story to tell about Taralla Creek you can also choose to submit it below.
For further information about the Taralla Flow project, please telephone our Arts and Culture team on 9298 4545.
Come and Join us on the Tarralla Creek Trail
Bring your family and friends and join us for some fun, creative arts workshops where you get to explore, create, learn, share and even inspire others, with your stories or ideas for Tarralla Creek.
Tarralla Flow is a creative community arts project developed in partnership with Melbourne Water and the Reimagining Tarralla Creek project.
Workshops will be held from 30 March to 14 April, 2019. Check out our program of events to the right of this page, for all the details on each workshop which will be led by our very own local artists:
- Anne Riggs
- Aunty Irene Norman
- Aunty Daphne Milward
- Richard Holt
Don't miss this great opportunity to get involved! If you have a story to tell about Taralla Creek you can also choose to submit it below.
For further information about the Taralla Flow project, please telephone our Arts and Culture team on 9298 4545.
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Aunty Irene Norman, Aunty Daphne Milward and artist from Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link25 Mar 2019From the exhibition Too-roo-dun
Aunty Daphne is a strong Yorta Yorta Woman and artist. She provided the artwork and story for the Ringwood Secondary College Indigenous Garden, which allows the Indigenous students at Ringwood and the wider community, a culturally safe space. She has a long list of achievements, and was instrumental in starting the MMIGP Choir.
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Aunty Irene Norman
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link25 Mar 2019Pair of woven vessels
Aunty Irene is a proud Wailwan/ Wiradjuri Elder with a passion for cultural expression through art and music, recognised for producing moving works that have been inspired by her life and connection to country.
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Anne Riggs
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link25 Mar 2019Community textile painting from ‘Make Do Tell’ Nepal 2018
Anne practices her art in many ways. She paints, works in clay, constructs, draws, takes photos, works with mosaics and makes artist books.
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Richard Holt
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link25 Mar 2019Blackboards - ringWORD (installation view)
Richard is a writer and visual artist who creates text-based, installations, performances and interventions for public spaces. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and his short story and microfiction collection, What You Might Find was published by Spineless Wonders in 2018.
Some of our Artists work
Program of events
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30 March 2019 - Tarralla Lines: Writing and storytelling
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Richard Holt
Time: 10am to 3pm with a break between 12-1pm
Location: Croydon Wetlands near the footbridge
A site-specific writing project with a difference. Participants will be invited to write texts in response to the creek and its environment which they can turn into temporary public artworks along the trail pathway.
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31 March 2019 - Whispering in the wind: Make and decorate flags
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Anne Riggs
Time: 10am -3pm with a break between 12-1pm
Location: Croydon Wetlands (near the footbridge)
In response to Tarralla Creek, Anne Riggs will take participants through the creation of unique flag artworks which can be taken home or displayed at locations along the trail
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3 April 2019 - Awash with words: Pop-up performances
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Richard Holt
Time and Locations:
- 2pm near Eastfield Road
- 3pm near Eastfield Park,
- 4pm near Croydon Wetlands
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6 April 2019 - Weaving Workshops
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Aunty Irene Norman, Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place
Time: 10am to 12 Noon
Location: South end of Eastfield shops, near Bayswater Rd
A hands-on workshop looking at weaving as it is practiced in Indigenous handicraft traditions inspired by natural materials
Also join in Gum leaf and Boomerang Painting
Creative Lead: Aunty Daphne Milward, Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering PlaceTime: 10am to 12 Noon
Location: South end of Eastfield shops, near Bayswater Rd
Celebrate the Tarralla Creek’s winding path through bushland and suburbia while creating your own artwork on a gum-leaf or boomerang canvas.
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7 April 2019 - Weaving Workshops
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Aunty Irene Norman, Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place
Time: 10am to 12 Noon
Location: South end of Eastfield Shops, near Bayswater Road
A hand on workshop looking at weaving as it is practiced in Indigenous handicraft traditions inspired by natural materials
also join in the Pebble Drawing Tarralla workshop
Creative Lead: Aunty Daphne Milward, Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place
Time: 10am to 12 Noon
Location: South end of Eastfield Shops, near Bayswater Rd
Drawing with natural materials informed by Indigenous techniques and inspired by the Tarralla landscape.
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10 April 2019 - Awash with words: Pop-up performances
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Richard Holt
Time and locations:
- 2pm near Croydon Wetlands
- 3pm near Eastfield Park
- 4pm near Eastfield Rd
‘Walter Waite’ has promised his editor a mystery novel set on Tarralla Creek. Help him find the clues to build his story.
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13 April 2019 - Tarralla Lines: Writing and storytelling
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops has finished this stageCreative Lead: Richard Holt
Time: 10am -3pm with a break between 12-1
Location: Croydon Wetlands (near the footbridge)
A site-specific writing project with a difference. Participants will be invited to write texts in response to the creek and its environment which they can turn into temporary public artworks along the trail pathway
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14 April 2019 - In the water: Small sculptural artworks from natural materials
Tarralla Flow - Free Creative Community Workshops is currently at this stageCreative Lead: Anne Riggs
Time: 10am -3pm with a break between 12-1pm
Location: Croydon Wetlands (near the footbridge)Anne leads participants through the design and construction of small artworks inspired by the natural environment and stories of Tarralla Creek