Sunday, October 28, 2007

tafe at work. rough plans for the LONG NOW weekend


Well Catherine's crew made a good start last week. despite the drizzle :-) looking good!
Hopefully everyone else is beavering away getting their stuff ready for the 10th of November.. I think Getzel is hoping to have most work in by then.. (so .. we won't have a big day on the 3rd as planned, we'll do it on the 10th instead. (the 3rd is Cup weekend, and Marcus and Dore are having a 'do' at their place) .

oh . by the way. we are now listed at the Visit Victoria site: http://www.visitvictoria.com.au/displayobject.cfm/objectid.8B89D58F-3878-4FA7-80EB43AE50837A18/vvt.vhtml

and getting about 50 hits a day on the nowanowa.com website.

and I think i have received a petanque team registration form - yay. sounds like a tournament.

alllsoooo.. we have started mailing out invitations (not doing a huge mailout.. mainly to funding bodies, mayors, councillors that sorta thing).

The plan is that there will be a launch of the LONG NOW weekend (and 'the movie') on the Friday night (6ish), then have a pay for yourself dinner at Mingling Waters aftewards (7ish). (quite a few people are camping Fri-Sun). Just a social affair.. but hopefully with a few starters.

Open for Inspection opens to the public at 9ish on Saturday.. with speeches/cheers at about 10.30. (sorry, I can't remember the exact times..and cant be bothered getting up to find them.. but will be more definite in the next email)... just wanted to give you the gist in advance.


And don't forget, you CAN VOTE in nowa nowa on saturday. (polling booth is usually at the Nowa Nowa Nudes hall )

:-)
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Even John has arrived!


Saturday, October 13, 2007

Work begins in earnest


Bob provides evidence of his credentials.




Another nice day at the house before things get serious.
And yes - things have started to move along nicely. More and more people dropping in to find out what's going on. The toothbrush count is slowly climbing. Donations arriving from all corners of EG.
Oh and while I'm thinking of it.. we are hoping to change the date of the next artist day. I think we are booked for November 3 - but hope to change it to November 10 . Hopefully that won't change people's progress. I think we hope to be fully installed by Nov 10 - to allow time for final tweaking. and general panic.

oh. lots more pix to upload, but will pace myself. Jade and Rhiannon have been and, sadly, gone. They were amazing. and Jade took loads of great pix. will add them over the next few days.

tks everyone. it really is quite fun.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

nowa nowa's artist in residence - Jade Pegler






2 days down. and going well. the stuff looks gorgeous. the room is perfect. lots of nice people dropping in. Jade and Rhiannon coping well with us all.

Jade is here until October 11. We are in the Community Room beside the Health Centre between about 11am-3pm. do drop in. :-)
Next week we might spend more time at 'the house'. over the road.
Oh - and don't forget. artists' day at the house this saturday [the 6th]
We're thinking about what to do for lunch. suggestions welcome.