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Jacky Cheng, a visual artist from Broome, WA and Soula Veyradier, Program Director from SPACED will be presenting an engaging artist talk about the thematic residency Rural Utopia along with Jacky’s practice and her presence in Margaret River.

Light refreshments will be provided after the talk with a chance to mingle with the presenters. All welcome. The library is an easily accessible venue. Please RSVP your attendance to amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au or Ph: 9780 5600.

Artist in Residence: Jacky Cheng

Jacky with Margaret River’s local host producer, Francesco Geronazzo from Margaret River Printmaking Studio has started engaging with some community members in local conversations through their workshop delivery on the making of Orizome, a Japanese fold and dye paper art. This collaborative effort between Jacky and the community not only enables skill-sharing but also evokes fascinating interrelationship of social connections between Broome and Margaret River. The Orizome is in the progress of becoming a community ‘Paper Patchwork Blanket’.

About SPACED

Spaced commissions context-responsive and socially engaged art projects across the whole of Western Australia and beyond. Our programs are grounded in artistic practices that explore everyday life issues and histories through a dialogue with diverse social groups. Through our programs, we create diverse and challenging experiences for artists and communities through contemporary visual art. For over 20 years, our organisation has been delivering programs that build connections between contemporary art and non‐specialist audiences, especially, but not exclusively, in regional and remote communities. The art projects we commission as part of these programs emerge from residencies that enable artists to engage with specific social, environmental, and historical contexts.

Rural Utopia

Rural Utopias is a program of residencies and exhibitions in rural and remote Western Australia. Artists are developing new works alongside their host communities, responding to new social, environmental, and historical contexts

Artist talk: Thursday 19th May, 6 – 7pm followed by light refreshments

Join Rashida Murphy for this intimate discussion exploring the themes of identity, heritage, history and the growing pains of the migrant experience that form her latest book, ‘The Bonesetter’s Fee and Other Stories’. Rashida’s characters remake lives in shifting terrain where sometimes it is barely possible to speak, let alone be heard and echo unspoken, misremembered and intentionally forgotten events, that ripple across time and place. Presented by Ana Brawls

This is a FREE event hosted by Shire of Augusta Margaret River for the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival. Space is limited so please register on the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival Website

https://mrrwfestival.com/tickets/34-in-conversation-with-rashida-murphy/

Mark Greenwood workshop in Augusta

Write a poem. Write a song. Write a book. Find your rhythm and step to your own beat. Like music, language has resonance – a quality captured by words that makes writing meaningful and important. Join award-winning author and percussionist Mark Greenwood for a masterclass on imaginative storytelling. Hone your creative skills and discover the beating heART of your story.

This Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival event is hosted by Shire of Augusta Margaret River Libraries. This is a FREE event but places are limited.

Register on the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival Website

https://mrrwfestival.com/tickets/30-write-to-the-beat-of-different-drum/