Port Macquarie couple Phil & Vicki Langsford were surprised to discover some little known facts about their very own family history in the recently opened Women Transported exhibition at the Glasshouse.
“We were watching the news and saw a glimpse a women we thought must be Constance – we have an image of the same photograph in the exhibition,” said Vicki Langsford, a descendant of the Trudgett line. “My cousin in Orange (NSW) has been researching the family history and has lots of information about Constance and her family. I knew she was a convict but I had no idea that she had been factory woman.”
“My cousin’s mother was a Trudgett and one of her daughters now lives in Lake Cathie so there is another local connection to the exhibition. It is very exciting to see a relative of mine featured in the exhibition.”
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The Glasshouse Gallery in Port Macquarie presents a spectacular seven-metre high hanging installation that fills the entire ground floor of the gallery space. The artwork, called Just like drops in time, nothing, by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, is an out-of-this-world construction made from lycra and pungent spices – that has to be seen and smelled to be believed.
Tony Bond from the Art Gallery of NSW has been in Port Macquarie all week supervising the installation of the artwork. The exhibition opening is tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 6pm, and the installation work is now nearing completion.
Tony Bond is available today (Wednesday) for interview and photo opportunities with the installation.
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Dynasty Dance is presenting what will be one of the most entertaining dance school concerts this year, at the Glasshouse on Sunday 13 December at 11am and 4pm. Featuring a mini musical based on the hit stage show, Wicked, the show will also showcase fabulous costumes and fun dance and theatrical performances as well as a variety of dance styles from classical to funky jazz.
Each concert opens with Wicked with students dancing, singing and acting their way through some of the hit scenes of the show. The talented lead actors Jamie–Leigh Johnson and Genevieve Dinham will have you in tears of laughter and emotion, in their portrayal of the beautiful good witch Glynda and the wicked witch Elphaba. These two talented young performers will be supported by Angela Johnson as the manipulating Madam Morrible and Nathan Brown as the dashing rogue, Fiyero.
Acts two and three of each concert feature over three hundred of the Dynasty students performing in all styles including Jazz, hip hop, song and dance, tap, modern expressive, acrobatics, classical ballet and theatrical performances. One of the highlights will be a lavish production of ‘ Be our guest’ from Beauty and the Beast. See the forks, plates and spoons come alive in this entertaining number.
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The Glasshouse Gallery in Port Macquarie presents a major survey of photographic works by documentary photographer Ricky Maynard, encompassing more than two decades of the artist’s practice.
Portrait of a Distant Land features more than 60 evocative and captivating photographic works, drawn from six bodies of work, which document the lives and culture of Maynard’s people, the Ben Lomond and Cape Portland peoples of Tasmania.
The exhibition is curated by Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs Keith Munro and is presented at the Glasshouse from 19 November until 24 January 2010. The exhibition has toured around the world, including stops in Paris, South Korea, New Zealand, Sydney, Hobart and Cairns.
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One of the opening exhibitions at the Glasshouse has been awarded a prestigious Museums & Galleries IMAGinE Award for Excellence in Exhibitions.
At the awards ceremony in Sydney on Saturday the 17th, Black & White: Selections From the Thomas Dick Collection was recognized as the finest exhibition for 2009 curated by an organisation with six paid staff or less at the 2009 IMAGinE awards.
Gallery and museum representatives from across NSW and the ACT converged on the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour for the presentation. Now in their second year, the awards celebrate the achievements of the museum and gallery sector in NSW and the ACT and those who work within it.
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ARTEXPRESS, an exhibition of artworks created by students for the Higher School Certificate Examination in Visual Arts in 2008, is now on display at the Glasshouse Gallery.
Last year, 9,665 students submitted artworks as part of the Higher School Certificate Visual Arts Examination, from which 50 works were selected for exhibition at the Glasshouse.
The works presented are imbued with vibrancy and make contemporary comment on the young artists’ understanding and experience of the world. They demonstrate exceptional quality across a broad range of subject matter, approaches, styles and media including painting, photography, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, documented forms, textiles and fibre, ceramics, digital animation, film and video, and collections of works.
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Port Macquarie’s wonderful new Glasshouse facility delivers the high quality, acoustically perfect artistic performances that the local community has long deserved. While many performances will be sourced from outside the region, The Glasshouse is also a huge step forward for our local talent.
Hastings Choristers, who have been bringing the joy of song to Greater Port Macquarie since 1990, are thrilled and delighted to announce their debut concert series in The Glasshouse – an association sure to bring enhanced enjoyment and pleasure to the audiences of this talented and versatile ensemble.
The Bach to Broadway concerts will take place at 8pm on Saturday 31 October and 2pm on Sunday 1 November, and will celebrate five centuries of amazing and much loved music.
The Hastings Choristers choirs, Cantorus and Cantabile, are eagerly awaiting their first full production in the fantastic new venue. These choirs make an impressive sight, as well as sweet sounds, and both have a large local following of music lovers who appreciate fine music – the Bach to Broadway program will certainly not disappoint.
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Just in time for Port Macquarie’s own racing carnival, a celebration of the Melbourne Cup is taking place at the Glasshouse Gallery.
The Melbourne Cup trophy of 1888 was known as the Centennial Cup and was commissioned from England. This valuable award is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia and features three magnificent horses cast in solid silver, each weighing 800 grams, mounted on a large silver-plated base. The trophy was particularly large due to the importance of the centenary and because the Melbourne Cup was at the time the most valuable handicap in the world.
1888 was the one hundredth anniversary of British settlement in Australia and, although the various colonies were not yet welded into one federated nation, all the colonies joined in a year of celebrations to mark the first century of the new land.
In Melbourne the climax of the celebrations was the Centennial Fair and the Melbourne Cup.
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Port Macquarie-Hastings Council’s Glasshouse, Arts, Conference and Entertainment Centre has won a major building award at the Newcastle Master Builders Association Excellence in Building and Construction Awards.
The Glasshouse took out the award on Friday night for Commercial Project over $20 million. The award was presented to the builders, Hansen Yuncken.
Council’s General Manager Andrew Roach said, “With all the blood, sweat and tears that have been attributed to the Glasshouse, winning this major award is certainly well deserved.
“The judges recognised the state of the art building as being a building that will go a long way toward defining Port Macquarie through the 21st century,” Mr Roach said.
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Seats are now on sale in the Glasshouse Theatre—and not just for a single performance. The Play A Part Seat Endowment Program gives the community an opportunity to be directly involved in the historic opening of the Glasshouse Arts, Conference and Entertainment Centre, by endowing a seat in the name of a person, group or loved one.
The endowment (of either $1,500 or $3,000) will see the name of the person or group etched into a plaque that will be attached to the front of one of the seats in the theatre and will remain in situ for the life of the seat (approx 20 years). People also have the opportunity to choose which seat they would like to endow.
“Endowing a seat will help ensure future programming in the Glasshouse,” says Lesley Atkinson, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Director Community & Cultural Development. “These donations are a way for groups or individuals to make a contribution to the community. The money will support education programs and community activities that now have a worthy home in the Glasshouse.”
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