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Armchair arts tour

1/10/2020

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PictureThe Coastal Connections project combines words, images, music and film.
Music in the Bass Coast Air
 
Spring is here, the blossom is out and there is music in the air. Nature writer Michael McCarthy thinks of spring birdsong as blossom in sound. We’d like to hear how you experience the songs and sounds of the natural world.
 
The call out to Bass Coast composers and musicians for the Coastal Connections project is generating some wonderful conversations and collaborative possibilities. We have heard from multi-instrumentalists, acoustic guitarists and digital artists who create experimental music with loops and pedals. We have listened to the recordings of a musician who interweaves sounds of nature into his compositions; birds at dawn, frogs at dusk and ocean waves in which smooth pebbles in the water rub against each other and create a percussive sound.  A local musician has shared a draft of a composition in which he has set to music the words written by a community member about her special place by the sea.

If you are a composer or musician interested in responding to the sound of the green and blue places we love in Bass Coast, you can find out more at …
https://www.basscoastpost.com/laura-brearley/the-places-we-love
https://www.basscoastpost.com/arts/the-bass-coast-sound
https://cmvic.org.au/projects-programs/coastal-connections
 
Expressions of Interest from composers and musicians for the Coastal Connections project close on COB Friday 9th October 2020. If you would like to talk through your ideas, contact the project coordinator, Dr Laura Brearley at laura.brearley@tlc21.com.au 
- Laura Brearley
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Bass Coast Non-Fiction Prize

Five days before entries closed for the second Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction, we had received just 11 entries and were starting to get nervous.

The COVID crisis has knocked the stuffing out of so many events and we thought it had probably cruelled the prize as well.

We had forgotten the way most writers to hang on to their babies until the last possible moment. Then there are the writers who can’t even start writing until a deadline is breathing down their necks. In the last three days, the entries flooded in, finally surpassing last year’s total by two.

The three judges, Geoff Ellis, Anne Heath Mennell. and Catherine Watson, are now deeply immersed in reading the 44 entries which include memoir, local history, natural history and poetry. 

They will get together later this month to select the three prize winners, who will be announced in November.
 
The prize, sponsored by Phyllis Papps to encourage Gippsland writers, is one of the richest non-fiction prizes in Australia, with a $5000 first prize, $3000 for second and $2000 for third. 
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The prize in one of the richest non-fiction prizes in Australia, with $5000 first prize, $3000 for second and $2000 for third. The winners will be announced in November.
- Catherine Watson
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Vasy Petros
5/10/2020 03:27:23 pm

Hi, I'm interested in submitting a poem to the Bass Coast non fiction prize.
Is poetry depicting the Bass Coast permitted and if so is it too late for entry.
I submitted my poem together with my artwork 'twilight inlet' for Laura Brearley's call for images for 'Coastal Connections',
unaware there was a separate call out for literature as well.
I look forward to your reply.
Regards,
Vasy Petros

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Phyllis Papps link
9/10/2020 08:34:57 am

Hello Vasy,
thanks for your enquiry. The Bass Coast Prize for Non-fiction 2020 was promoted widely since April this year and the closing date was 4th September.
Unfortunately your entry for 'Coastal Connections' (which is a quite separate competition) doesn't fulfil the criteria for the Bass Coast Prize for Non-fiction because long form Non-fiction articles or poems need to be within the word range of 4,000-10,000 words.
Jusst keep on writing...
Regards, Phyllis

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