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COLOURS OF LIFE
Art Exhibition - July-August 2008
To be opened by Professor Fiona Stanley AC, Director Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Chair Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
Friday 25 July to Sunday 3 August 2008
Moores Building Femantle
Opening Night: Friday 25 July, 6.30pm to 8pm
There are, on average 2 suicides per month in the East Kimberley’s.
The Colours of Life art exhibition is hoping to lower this statistic and give kids of the East Kimberley the chance to live productive, positive, and abundant lives by donating 35%* of sales to Save the Children’s Youth at Risk Project.
The Youth at Risk Project works with young people from indigenous communities of the East Kimberley. The project aims to increase young people’s ability to make positive choices about their lives through a range of challenging and educational activities which simultaneously establish pathways for them to access education or employment opportunities.
Colours of Life will be opened by Professor Fiona Stanley AC, Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and will be held at the Moores Building, 46 Henry Street, Fremantle. Opening Night Friday 25 July 2008. The Moores Building, thanks to the City of Fremantle, has donated the gallery space for the entire exhibition which runs until 3 August 2008.
Exhibiting Artists
- Marie Hart (daughter of the Late Pro Hart) from South Australia
- Michael Whitehead from Queensland (who appears courtesy of Gadfly Gallery)
- Ralph Stanton (WA)
- David Giles (WA)
- Emerging WA artists Neil Elliott and Eva Varga
Opening night will be by invitation only.
If you would like to attend opening night please fill out our feedback form before 15 July 2008.
Colours of Life is the lead up exhibition to the East Kimberley Arts Workshop Project and Art Exhibition 2009, which will launch the 90th Anniversary of Save the Children. The Arts Workshop Project’s aim is to give youth at risk in the region an outlet for self expression and the opportunity to experience the possibility of life as an artist. It will involve Eva Varga and another prominent Artist going to the East Kimberley’s and working with Wyndham’s and Kununurra’s Aboriginal youth on a variety of art works. These works will be brought to Perth and exhibited alongside prominent West Australian Artists’ works. Part proceeds of the Exhibition will return to the communities. We are aiming to bring the youths involved to Perth for Opening night.
Sponsors
We would like to acknowledge the following companies for their generous support for Colours of Life.
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