Melbourne Arts & Culture Group

Art x Mindfulness x Social Impact
Come and celebrate Vincent van Gogh’s genius with us!

We will look at his early works, explore how his artistic practice developed over time, and investigate the aspects of his late artworks such as composition, brushwork, colours in an easy and comprehensive format.

You will learn the story of his world-famous “The Starry Night”, when and where it was made, and what inspired Vincent.

You will have a go at creating a simplified version of the painting. It will be a step-by-step process that will allow you to combine your own artistic knowledge and skills with van Gogh’s techniques.

You will come out with a better understanding of what made his work special and how to create more art inspired by van Gogh.

Tea & Snacks: Available for purchase

Materials: included

About the Host:
Flowwa
The Not-For-Profit Arts Organisation for social change:
Flowwa is a survivor-led, nonprofit organisation that runs art x wellness workshops, nature retreats and peer-support for violence survivors (especially focused on family violence and human trafficking). Healing from trauma is a long up and down journey. Flowwa offers survivors calming and uplifting workshops and art therapy for free of charge.

Our funds come from donations and ticket sales of public workshops like this one. We host a range of multicultural art, culture and cooking events. So, the more you come to our events, the bigger positive impact you're making on someone's healing journey.

After an entirely sold-out run in Australia, Edinburgh and London, your favourite consultants are back with an all-new, all-in, all-hands meeting.

Wankernomics are masters at skewering the buzzwords, bureaucracy, banality and bulls**t of modern work. So find some extra bandwidth, synergise your stakeholders and pop some time in the diary for the most outcomes-focused, value-added, best-practice, deep-dive yet into the realities of the working world. Don’t miss this show!

Praise for previous Wankernomics shows
'Probably the best Fringe comedy show we’ve ever attended.' Steven K, Adelaide

'The most original show we saw this year.' Nicola G, Edinburgh

'Finally, a show fully aligned to my values.' James C, Edinburgh

'Life changing.' ★★★★★ Weekend Notes

'Wickedly clever satire.' ★★★★★ On The Record

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Price Category Two, Dress Circle Seating

Art x Culture x Social Impact
Nesting Doll (Matryoshka) Hands-on art-making experience

Matryoshka dolls, also known as nesting dolls, Russian dolls, stacking dolls are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.

Did you know there was a connection between Matryoshka and Kokeshi, the Japanese wooden dolls?

The workshop facilitator Anna from Russia will share with us intriguing historical and cultural aspects of Matryoshka. Then we all get to design and paint our own sets of the dolls in this fun, hands-on art-making workshop.

We will see the picture of the very first one ever made, talk about its inspiration and the symbolism of the ‘nesting idea’, look at nesting dolls in modern times and see great new designs and cheeky interpretations.

Options:
A: You will follow simple step-by-step instructions to draw your own doll and colour it with paints on PAPER.
B: Design and paint on stacks of wooden nesting dolls. (Purchase the set of dolls at $20.00)