Tutti News
August 17, 2010
Tutti Visual Arts and Design at SALA
Tutti Visual Arts and Design is thrilled to report on a very succesful SALA Festival 2010! Our exhibition "Paperworks" at The Pepper St. Arts Centre, Magill was attended by a large number of guests. Adelaide artist Laura Wills opened the exhibition with a thoughtful and sensitive speech, and sales were strong. The small "wearable Art" pieces proved particularly popular.
On the strength of "Paperworks", we were awarded the inaugural Rip It Up Publishing Special Art Award. This was in response to our entries in the SALA Rip It Up Youth Award. A decision was made to create a new category for young artists with intellectual disabilities and/or the organizations that support their arts practice. This is a fabulous achievement for us and a real gesture of inclusion into the Adelaide Visual Arts Scene.
Tutti Visual Artist Kimberly Sellers is to be congradulated for having two paintings, "My Identity" and "Chinese Garden of Friendship, Sydney" selected for the "field" 2010 Rob McNamara exhibition, "Beyond First Impressions: what changes if you get to know me?". The exhibition opens in Melbourne, Friday August 27th at the Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood.
Congratulations to all in the Visual Arts and Design Program!
Tutti would like to congratulate Tutti Artist Jackie Saunders on winning the award for Young Person of the Year at the NAIDOC Ceremony, Monday 5 July.
Jackie Saunders is a remarkable young Wirangu artist who has great ambition and drive. Jackie’s interest is in traditional dance and performance and she has learnt much about cultural practice through Warriparinga Kaurna Centre in Adelaide.
Since 2006 Jackie has been heavily involved with Tutti Arts where she performs regularly with her sisters in the choir. She also studies drama and visual arts there. Jackie played a heyoka in Tutti’s first production of Northern Lights, Southern Cross in 2007 and travelled with the show to Minneapolis in 2009. She has taken leading roles in The Little Blue Parcel (2007), In the Doghouse aka The Psychology of Lonelines( 2009) and the South Australian Learning Centre’s film production of Forms of Abuse. Jackie is also an accomplished visual artist whose exhibitions include Mosaic Clouds( 2008), Reflection (2007) and an exhibition at the Hawke Centre Gallery in 2009. Jackie is currently working on works for an exhibition called Paperworks in the Pepperstreet Gallery for SALA.
Jackie regularly does the official acknowledgement of country at Tutti events and has gained enormously in confidence and poise. She has proved as comfortable in front of a Carols by Candlelight audience of thousands as she is at a smaller launch or performance.
Apart from being an aspiring artist Jackie has demonstrated a wonderful capacity for caring and advocating for others. She is a great mediator and peace maker, often speaking up when she sees injustice. She is increasingly looked up to by other young indigenous artists with disability as someone who can give them encouragement and advice.
Congratulations Jackie!
From Channel 2 News, Sunday 4 July, 2010
An Adelaide creative group known for its performance art is now turning heads with artistic endeavours of a different kind.
Works from the Tutti Visual Arts and Design Program are about to feature on Adelaide's biggest public screen, the Rundle Lantern, offering a glimpse into the world of disability.
As well as being on the Rundle Lantern display in the city from next Friday (corner of Rundle and Pulteney Streets), the group has works in a national travelling exhibition and at the South Australian Living Artists event.
See the following link for the full story
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/07/04/2944409.htm
Dougie wins the Allan Sloan Young Citizen Community Service Award
Dougie Jacobssen a participant in the Tutti Arts program has won the inaugural Allan Sloan Young Citizen Community Service Award for his outstanding efforts in sponsoring artistic development for the disabled and for his other voluntary community efforts.
The Honourable Tom Koutsantonis minister for Youth and Volunteers presented the award to Dougie at a dinner held at the Premier's Award presentation dinner as part of the celebrations for Service Club Week. Dougie was nominated by the Zonta Club.
A very excited Dougie was able to share the news with his radio audience on the Peter Goers show afterwards.
Congratulations Dougie from all of us at Tutti
"Extensions" The Tutti Visual Arts and Design Program for SALA 2009
The exhibition is to be a showcase of artworks about environment, both natural and emotional. It is also about the Tutti VA&D program in action as a vibrant local community program. Imagery from the sand-dunes environment of the Minda campus and more general depictions of SA flora and fauna on canvas, paper and as "soft sculptures" will feature. The exhibition is also to include photographs of artists at work on the program and a digi-tech screening.
Venue: Mezzanine Gallery, Bay Discovery Cente, Holdfast Bay
Opening: Thursday August 6th, 6pm. Wine & nibbles. Access lift.
To be opened by multi-award winning designer Gaelle Mellis.
Concludes: Sunday 4th October.
The Australia Council for the Arts Key Producers Exhibition
The Australia Council for the Arts Key Producers Exhibition will open in Sydney on 4th March. Held in the Foyer Gallery of the Austalia Council for the Arts, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, NSW, the exhibition is intended to increase the profile of the Key Producers and community-based arts and cultural development practice as a whole.
It is to be a quality exhibition which will tour nationally from June through to August. Tutti will feature a listening station of music and performance projects and 15 artworks from the Visual Arts Department. This is a significant event on the Tutti calendar!
The Shouting Fence a cantata for youth and community choirs and professional singers.
Written by Richard Chew and Orlando Gough, this work was premiered at the South Bank in London and has been performed many times throughout the UK and the Netherlands.
The Shouting Fence is about real events in the village of Majdal Shams on the Israel-Syrian border, which was divided by a stretch of no-man’s-land during the war, and where the separated occupants shouted news to each other across the divide. Every Friday evening they were allowed to gather on either side of the fence to converse. To hear each other they communicated across fifty metres of no-man’s land.
The themes of separation and loss provide a creative focus for communities to explore the issues from the point of view of the villagers themselves. The score devised for a libretto was constructed from letters, messages and poems written by the people involved in the conflict.
Two large groups of youth and community singers, led by small groups of professional singers and accompanied by oil drums, commune across an open space and swap stories of sorrow, persecution and hope. By turns raucous and lyrical, energetic and poignant, The Shouting Fence compels its audience to become a part of the musical community of the performers.
The SA Opera Studio
216 Marion Rd Netley 5037
March 19,20,26,27 @ 7pm
March 21 & 28 @ 2pm & 6pm
March 22 @ 2pm
Tickets from Fringetix (www.adelaidefringe.com.au) Download the Flyer
Tutti Artists perform at the Australia Day lunch.
Tutti Artists were invited by Jonathon Welch from the Choir of Hard Knocks to sing at the Australia Day lunch at the Adelaide Town Hall on Friday 23 January, 2009. Singers from Tutti received a standing ovation, and famous comedian Dave Hughes ran up to congratulate them!