Gaff on the Green

GAFF ON THE GREEN

We would like to inform you of an event to take place in the centre of Gosford City, and to invite you to join us.

The event is Gaff on the Green, and will take place on Saturday the 1st of December in Kibble Park. It is part of a series of contemporary art activities collectively titled “Click Here” organised by Brown’s Cows Art Projects and carried out in conjunction with GAFF (Gosford Art Flux Forum) incorporated.

We will be joined for Gaff on the Green by eO incorporated, the Central Coast Contemporary Art Initiative.

Gaff on the Green, as part of “Click Here,” is supported by a Cultural Grant from Gosford City Council.

Marie Andrews, member of state parliament for Gosford, will open the GAFF at 3pm.

The directors of Brown’s Cows and GAFF are working to bring art and cultural activities into the heart of the town; to contribute to its regeneration and redefinition as a vibrant regional capital, and to involve local emerging artists in practices and issues at the leading edge of art.

For Gaff on the Green, a tent will be erected on the “hill” in Kibble Park, where discussion groups and forums will take place in the afternoon, with a visually illustrated seminar, “at the Still Point” scheduled for the evening.

Discussions will canvass a number of issues concerning local artists including:

Resources for contemporary practices.
Priorities in infrastructure support planning.
Future art.
Keeping and nurturing emerging artists in the region.
A “Creative Gosford” action taskforce.
The Spaces and Places Framework Report.
The Creative (?) Industries
Provision of education for contemporary art professionals.
Etc. BYO

If you have any issues you would like to have added, forward them to us, or bring them along on the day.
Outcomes from the discussions will be taken forward appropriately.

Schedule at this stage:
2pm. Artists and artists groups Open Discussion.
3pm. Short addresses by Maries Andrews MP for Gosford, Gosford Councillors and Debra Schleger, Manager Art and Culture.
3.15. Key note address. (Surprise guest)
3.30 –4pm. sessions for future plans and strategies as a consequence of ideas emerging from previous discussions and conversations.

In the evening we will hold a “seminar” presentation on the subject of live art; performance, body work, dance and hybrid forms. It will take place after dark so that video projections can be used to complement the discussion.

For further information, contact:
gaff@brownscows.com