One of Australia’s leading younger generation pianists,Hannah Shin, will play in Cowes this month.
By Carmen Bush ALL eyes will be on the horizon when a flotilla of wooden boats sails into Rhyll next weekend to kick off the first and only Rhyll Wooden Boat Festival. By Carol Young
The first Inverloch Jazz Festival in 1994 featured 13 bands and 61 musicians. Some of those first musicians who will attend this year’s festival, the 25th. By Marian Quigley A request for assistance with a school art project introduced Phillip Island artist Bill Binks to the art of Picasso and the Cubists and cemented his love affair with art. Although Bill had always drawn and painted, he received little in the way of art tuition or inspiration at school. As art was not offered in Years 9-10 at his Melbourne school, he had to attend night classes at Swinburne Technical School to complete Year 10. Here, he was less than enthusiastic that 40 per cent of the assessment was based on written work but believes he managed to get through with his folio. |