All the purchases made and left in the current YaccaDoodle exhibition are now available for collecting from 12 Yacca Way. Thank you for leaving them there for us to display. 

Annette & the YaccaDoodles - Ph: 8557 8180

The Yaccadoodle Art Group are intending to enter SALA (South Australian Living Artists) event in August.

We are having a meeting next Monday 15 March, 7.30p.m. at 12 Yacca Way, to plan our entry.

If other artists would like to join us for SALA, they would be very welcome.  However, once we have put in our entry, it would be TOO LATE to join us, as everyone would need to be in the planning stages.

All interested, please either come to the meeting, or if unable to, please contact me by phone on 8557 8180 or email  

Annette & the YaccaDoodles 

Our exhibition at 12 Yacca Way will not only be open from Thursday 4 March to Sunday 7 March, but Monday 8 March as well.  This is because Monday 8th is a public holiday. 

Thank you for all the support we have already received, and particularly those who attended our Official Opening on Saturday, and cheered us on. 

Annette & the YaccaDoodles - Phone: 8557 8180

Just a reminder that the Fringe Art Exhibition ‘ella-mental’ continues at 16 Yacca Way THIS week, from Thursday 4 March to Sunday 7 March from 10.00am to 5.00pm (see ATTACHED invitation).
100218 Invitation ella-mental

And the Village Arts Group ‘YaccaDoodle’ will also be exhibiting at 12 Yacca Way on the same days from 9am to 4:30pm.

To the Yacca way neighbourhood group, the landscaping team and others who have cleaned the street made flags and wind sculptures, this gesture of community togetherness has been very inspirational for us artists and we thank you very much. 

The Village has attracted outside interest for our arts programme, and ‘ella-mental’ made great effort to make it a memorable arts and social occasion.

All are welcome to our opening and hope to see you there.  

Maria B

See the ATTACHED invitation and media information sheet:
invitation ella-mental
ella-mental mr2

The Yaccadoodles would like to invite our fellow villagers, to view our exhibition THIS coming weekend (20 and 21 Feb)

If any villager would like to make a purchase, we are offering (for this weekend only) a 10% discount for all art works in the exhibition, and a 50% discount for any of Justin's garden sculptures.  

If you can’t visit the exhibition during the weekend, you can still ring me and I can arrange a visit for you, during the week - only until the official opening on the 27th - and you can still receive the special “Villager Discount”. 

However, we would like whatever you purchase to remain in the exhibition (with a red sticker on it) until the end of the exhibition.

Annette & The YaccaDoodle Art Group - 12 Yacca Way; Ph: 8557 8180

Hi fellow Villagers,

We now have flyers ready to distribute.  Anyone who would like a master copy of the flyer that they would like to use to print / photocopy etc. to distribute to friends or anyone you think could be interested, please contact me by email or phone (8557 8180).

Our first open day is Saturday 20 February, followed by an Official Opening on Saturday 27 February.  We are really pleased that the Mayor is coming to open it, and John Hill has also said he'll attend.

The dates of the exhibition are:  20, 21, & 27, 28 February; and 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 11, 12, 13, 14 March; 9.00-4.30. It is at 12 Yacca Way.

We would love to see our fellow villagers at the opening, and on the first day would be great, to give us all encouragement in our new endeavour.  

We also want to thank all the wonderful people of Yacca Way and its surrounds who have given up their precious time to help make decorated bicycle wheels and tidy up the street; particularly Richard & Gillian Clampett, who have not only encouraged, but found hanging stands, worked on the beautiful flags, and many other jobs.  This is a such a supportive atmosphere to live in!

Annette & The YaccaDoodle Artists 

Music stands are needed for use by village musicians in our Village Harmony group.

If you have a music stand to give away or you would like to loan one to the group, please get in contact with Annette Inwood (Ph: 8557 8180) or drop it off at Annette`s house.

Thanks from Franka G - for the Harmony group.

Just a reminder to Neighbourhood Groups from the Arts and Culture Committee about making (or supplying) bird baths in all the various NG areas:

It’s an opportunity for creativity, and it will be so much appreciated by our birdlife now that other water sources are drying up.

Vi C - for ACC

Yes, it’s another new birth For the Village!

Yesterday, a new group was created.  It is to be called the YaccaDoodle Art Group.  And a photo was taken to commemorate the occasion - see below.

We are having an exhibition during the fringe (see previous January Village News Feeds) and we can still welcome some new members.

Phone Annette 85578180, or email

Hi there,

ATTACHED is an invitation to a group show I am in:

“Vintage” at Red Poles, McLaren Vale, 6 February to 5 April.

Love to see you there!

XXHeidi
Vintage

Just a reminder that Vi C and Sue E will be doing mosaics every second Tuesday afternoon from 1pm, starting THIS Tuesday 8 December, and you are welcome to come and join us.

Bring your own project, or we can help beginners.

Just turn up to Sue E’s carport (at 24 Dianella Way) on the days you wish to come.

The Arts and Cultural Committee would like to see each Neighbourhood Group with a bird bath made by artists and members of Neighbourhood Groups.
 
This would not only benefit our precious bird life over the Summer, but be a great way to build community in the creation process.
 
Violet Carpenter has kindly offered to co-ordinate this and would like to come to each NG when they next meet to talk about the idea. It would be helpful if Neighbourhood Group leaders could contact Vi to let her know when their next meeting is to be held.
 
Vi's number:  8556 5752 

Arts and Cultural Committee Meeting Report:
 
Some ideas discussed at the ACC meeting last Saturday 24 October:

1. Bird baths to be made for each Neighbourhood Group area.
2. An Art prize for the Village
3. Exploring the possibility of re-establishing the Arts Market on an annual basis
4. Money from the ACC budget to go to the building of a rock wall animal with plantings and climbing rocks for children

Next Meeting: Saturday 28 November in the Sharing Shed at 3pm

Congratulations to Heidi Karo on winning the Advertiser Business SA Contemporary Art Award at the SALA Festival - what a wonderful achievement!

Read about it in Adelaide Now:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,,25950008-5006301,00.html
and in yesterday’s Advertiser:
Heidi in Advertiser

Well done, Heidi. Your Village is proud of you!

From the Indaily News - Creative cover story

The first general manager of the Adelaide Festival Centre, Anthony Steel, will feature on the cover of the 2009/10 Adelaide White Pages directory. Mr Steel, who was the artistic director for five Adelaide Festivals during the 70s and 80s and has a long history of involvement with SA arts orgnisations, was chosen under this years theme Creative Australians: Inspiring Our Communities.

Congratulations Anthony - it’s a significant recognition, well deserved!

The playground design meeting last Saturday produced some great ideas towards developing a whole of village playspace design to be presented to villagers soon.

During the meeting Justin led a workshop with the kids and parents, and together they built a temporary humpy (see photos ATTACHED) as an example of a natural playspace. The humpy will be reviewed in 3 months to decide if it is to be maintained or removed.

If you would like to know more about the playground progress, please contact me.

Kat W - 8556 5855
Stick Humpy

Muir Commons was the first purpose built Cohousing in the USA. It was also McCamant & Durrett's first Cohousing project. It was designed through a process starting with ads in the media in 2001, and built in 2002. Their big solar array went up in 2003. There are 26 units of clustered, attached housing facing across a central path. There are good details & photos at: http://www.muircommons.org/Brochure.html

Statistics are a very dry way to present information. Art, on the other hand, is one of the most powerful tools we have for linking a message with emotional impact. Have a look at this link sent in by Sue Wiseman. Art is cleverly used to portray statistics as a very scary message!
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id

Last Sunday, Julie, Anne, Elizabeth, Sandra and Vi gathered at Sue Gebhardt's house for a Creative Writing Workshop as part of the Arts and Cultural Committee's workshop program.

We had an enjoyable time doing 10 minute writing exercises and sharing what we'd written. (See pictures ATTACHED.) The group wants to continue and will meet again in July.

Sue G.
080529 Writing worshop 25 May

Here (ATTACHED) are some photos from the site specific dance workshop held at the Village on Sunday 13 April. The event, led by dance artist Kat Worth, was one of a regular monthly series of creative workshops held by the Arts and Cultural Committee of AAEV.
Dance Workshop 080413