Filmmakers get your shorts on
Peninsula Short Film Fest is now open for entry and next year’s Festival is set to be the biggest and best yet. Filmmakers of any level are invited to submit a short film of up to eight minutes in length by Friday 18 December. We’re anticipating a crowd of 5,000 people at the Village Green next year,” festival director Steve Bastoni said. “This is a great opportunity for filmmakers to have their short film seen by a large crowd,...
Salon success
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS Mornington Peninsula artist Christopher Pyett feels fortunate to have attended art school at a time when art education focused almost entirely on technique encompassing everything from colour theory, portrait, life and landscape painting to anatomy and drawing full-time. And it shows over the life of his long career. A consummate colourist, extraordinary draughtsman and brilliant watercolour painter, Pyett’s...
Fun Art Fair
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS Showcasing original painting, photography, pastels, drawings, sculpture, mixed media and jewellery, Somers Arts Fair combines the best aspects of an affordable art show, auction, local market and country fair celebrating the creative diversity of Mornington Peninsula artists and artisans. One really unique feature of this fair is its original hand carved cypress totem poles generously donated for auction by the...
Footy Drama
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS On and off the field AFL inspires highly charged emotions. What better place to play out the love and loathing of Aussie rules football than on stage? Reserved Seating Only is the hilarious story of a football fanatic and the woman sitting next to him who hates the game and all it stands for. But my how things can change… Starring real-life husband and wife, the highly accomplished David Ross Patterson and...
Power and Passion
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS Australian musical theatre star, Maria Mercedes, performs her dream role as iconic opera diva, Maria Callas in Terence McNally’s Tony award-winning play, Masterclass. Bringing to life the passion, drama, drive and artistic genius of Callas is for Mercedes, the greatest of honours because she has always admired not only her incredible talent, but also the honest and uncompromising way in which Callas lived her...
Artists’ Isle
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS Since the dawn of tourism, the allure of the tropical island paradise has drawn writers and artists to sandier shores. Something about swaying palm trees, balmy breezes and exotic cultures sow the seeds of artistic inspiration. Bali is the siren song of many Australians, but particularly its artists. In that vein, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery presents Australian Artists in Bali: 1930 to Now. Put...