Get Your Art on in Newcastle This Week!
There’s a selection of events going on in the next week to satisfy your artistic itch… Check them out!
Drawing Sessions with The Drawing Room
Held each Tuesday night from 6:30 - 9pm, the life drawing sessions with The Drawing Room at The Royal Exchange are a chance to release your inner artist. For $20 you get 2.5 hours of performance and drawing, and a glass of wine. Relax in the boudoir-style room and draw models from burlesque, ballet, circus, music and acting backgrounds. More info.
Students’ Annual Art Prize Exhibition
Check out the local talent at the University of Newcastle Student Art Prize exhibition that’s currently on display at the Watt Space Gallery. Submissions for the exhibition had to represent this year’s theme: Classify Me. It runs until 11 September. Free entry. Head along to Watt Space Gallery, Auckland St, Newcastle.
Waste Knot: Outdoor Art Exhibition
Waste Knot runs on 3 & 4 September and features recycled waste turned art, which will be displayed along Newcastle Harbour, from the Honeysuckle restaurant precinct to Nobby’s Beach. You can view the works for free between 9am - 5pm on both days.
Special Mention: Regal By The Lake
For those yearning for anything but the latest blockbuster film, this one’s for you. For 3 Saturdays in September (3rd, 10th, 17th), the Lake Macquarie Council, Friends of the Regal and Screen Hunter Central Coast will present an international award winning film at the Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre. Each evening will include a cultural performance, short film, feature film and refreshments. Entry is $10 per person per evening, or $25 for all 3 evenings. The films are The First Beautiful Thing (showing 3/9, made in 2010, Italy), Welcome to the Sticks (showing 10/9, made in 2008, France) and In a Better World (showing 17/9, made in 2011, rated MA, Denmark). Book here.
Have you got an arts event coming up? Make sure you let us know!
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