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This is always a winner on a sunny day or warm evening.  Whilst the sculptures are always impressive to look at – this is also set along the fantastic coastal walk between Bondi Beach and Tamarama.

Sculpture by the Sea is Australia’s largest annual outdoor ‘free to the public’ exhibition of sculpture. The 2008 exhibition features over 100 sculptures from 7 different countries and will run for a total of three weeks.

A great day for the family or with friends.

Remember: Sun screen, water and the camera!

For more details – check out the official website here.

Entry is free.

TONIGHT:

- Night Noodle Markets  (Civic Park, N Sydney)
Happening every Friday night from now until April. Good chance to get the taste buds going, before the Night Noodle Markets start in Hyde Park next Thursday. (More on that next week)
(From Leanne S)

- Black & Blue Gallery (Surry Hills)
David Withers & Lachlan Anthony – Make Yourself at Home
We’ve heard this is meant to be a pretty cool show.

“A piquant show of installation, sculpture and photography that interrogates artefacts which fill domestic and urban fields of contemporary experience. Reconfiguring the scale, location and state; of furniture, clothing and products, affects an uncanny climate in which the audience is asked to re-think the significance and potentiality of previously understood objects. Whilst humorous at first encounter, upon closer engagement these surreal reconfigurations intimate a more malevolent undertow.”
(From Edwina S)

THE WEEKEND:

- Australian International Motor Show  (Darling Harbour)
9th – 19th October

- Crack the Code! @ Sydney Olympic Park (Kids)
Using a compass, orienteer yourself around the centre of Sydney Olympic Park.  Collect the clues along the way, decode the message and collect your prize from the Visitor Centre.
(from Tara W)

- The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair (Hunters Hill)
Hunters Hill Town Hall/Masonic Temple/RSL Hall
$12 Adults / $6 Child / $30 Family
The fifth ‘The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair’ with dealers from all over Australia in three separate buildings selling two hundred years of fashion and fashion accessories.
(from Yvonne G)

- C-90 @ Palmer Projects (Darlinghurst)
Mark Drew (China Heights founder) explores cassette related artworks through a variety of installations, prints and canvas.
(from Ed Q)

- Art & About Activities (across Sydney)
Lots of stuff going on here, including Live Lanes and Sydney Life previously covered in the blog.

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It’s nearly here folks.  Are you counting down the hours until the day ends and you officially start a long weekend.?  Let’s just hope the weather holds out!

If you’re feeling a bit arty this weekend, why not check out Art & About 2008?  Has it really been a whole year since the last one?  Wow.

Starting this weekend (Sat) you can check out ‘Live Lanes – By George’ & ‘Sydney Life’ – the first of many events for Art & About.

Live Lanes – By George
4th October – 31st January (don’t worry if you miss it this weekend then!)

With work by artists from the City of Sydney’s artist run initiatives By George! explores the potential of the City’s laneways, bringing them back to life with creativity, innovation and new energy. 

Sydney Life (Central walkway, Hyde Park North)
4th October – 26th October

Sydney Life, the annual photography competition held in Hyde Park as part of Art & About, is stronger than ever in 2008.

There were many passionate arguments from the four judges during the judging. The result is a fascinating collection of different moods, observations and styles. There is humour, comment, portraiture, darkness and domesticity.

Sydney Life is proud of its record of showing a mix of emerging and established artists. This year is no exception. Many well-known photographers entered, several of whom have been selected in previous years. There are also the works of many new and up and coming photographers included in the final selection.

The location of Hyde Park continues to be the star of this popular public art event. I am delighted that Sydney Life is once again enlivening this much-loved green respite in the middle of the CBD.

Sandy Edwards Curator, Sydney Life

For the full Art & About calendar of events – check out the Art & About website.  We’ll highlight some more of the events nearer the time.

Have a great long Sydney weekend folks.  And remember – let’s hear all about where you went and the experiences you had over on RAYV.  All reviews written throughout the month of October are automatically entered into our ‘Bowl Us Over’ – Strike Bowling competition.

See you on the other side.

Ian

Hope Street Markets is now known as The Finders Keepers.  Due to their popularity, they’ve also moved out of their old home – the Hope Street building in Surry Hills and have now moved in to the larger and rather impressive location of  the new contemporary art centre in the CarriageWorks.

From The Finders Keepers website:

Why the change?

The Finders Keepers change of name was based mostly on our decision to work in association with CarriageWorks. Our original start was at the Hope Street building at Surry Hills with only 20 stalls, we have now grown to support over 60 stalls! HopeStreet is a charity based in Sydney so we were originally based under their name. We are very excited to announce that the CarriageWorks is the new home of the markets in Sydney and we also plan to expand our markets into other areas of Australia, we now have our own name and will become relevant Australia wide not just based in Sydney. Due to the overwhelming growth and response of the original markets in its first year, we have successfully built a strong following in which we hope to grow and foster under the new name.The Finders Keepers aim is to continue to provide new innovative product, through our news, networks and market events. The Finders Keepers also aim to connect with others through resources and projects.

Finders Keepers will continue to remain as a non-profit organisation that gives back to its supporters by putting every cent that our designers pay in stall fees, back into our events.

We are community minded and still aim to help those less fortunate by us. Over the past year we have donated over $8,000 to Hope Street via raffles at our market events and will continue to donate to other causes via our markets.

The next market is to be held on the 5th and 6th December 2008.  If you want to get a stall, the applications close on 25th October.

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