JUMP
Make Your Artistic Match with JUMP in 2012!

Are you a young Australian artist on the cusp of a great career? You’re producing excellent work in your artform, and know where you’re headed - but do you have the expert advice to match? JUMP can make sure that you do!

Form a mentoring relationship with a professional artist of your choice and join a diverse national network of program participants and alumni making their mark on the industry.

Applications for the 2012 JUMP program are now open! Young and emerging artists from across Australia are invited to make their artistic match and apply.

Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, JUMP identifies and promotes excellence in artistic practice for artists aged 18 – 30 who are in the first five years of their professional career.

Potential applicants should identify a leading arts professional of their choice to help them accelerate their career through a one-on-one mentoring relationship. As Australia’s largest artist mentoring program, in 2012 JUMP offers its highest number of mentorship places yet, with up to 80 positions available nationally.

Updated FAQs and 2012 application forms are now available from the JUMP website jumpmentoring.com.au. You can also join the JUMP facebook page or follow JUMP on Twitter twitter.com/JUMPmentoring.

Applications close 28 October 2011.

Want to Know More? Attend an Info Session!

So you’re interested in applying for JUMP? You’ve browsed the website and read the FAQs, and you’ve got a few more questions?

CarriageWorks will be holding three info sessions in NSW about the 2012 JUMP program in September 2011.

Here, we’ll provide a step-by-step guide to preparing your application, demonstrate the various resources on our website, and answer your questions about being a mentee or mentor in the JUMP program.

Please RSVP to jump@carriageworks.com.au to help us plan seating etc, and advise us of any accessibility requirements.

Lismore
Thur 1 Sept, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Lismore Regional Gallery, 131 Molesworth Street, Lismore

Sydney
Sat 3 Sept, 1pm - 2pm
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh

Newcastle (This Is Not Art Festival)
Fri 30 Sept, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Renew Newcastle Church, 3 Morgan Street, Newcastle

Close Encounters Workshop #1 [Share Your Ultimate Alien Experience]  

Check out what 2011 JUMP mentee Jordana Maisie is up to! If interactive artworks and wireless text messaging technology is your bag, join one of her 2 workshops at PACT this week…..

Have you seen a UFO, experienced an alien abduction, had a ghostly interaction or experienced any alternative paranormal encounters?

Jordana Maisie invites you to help her develop ways for “talking to aliens” and a “how-to manual” for experiencing a close encounter. From 8 - 12 June, she and Ashley Dyer will be in residence at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists where they will test and develop ‘Close Encounters’, due for installation at Splendour in late July.

You are invited to join Jordana & Ashley at PACT between 5 - 8pm on Thursday 9 June or between 12 - 3pm on Saturday 11 June to talk about your ultimate alien experience.

“Seriously, if you had the chance, what would you talk to an alien about? How would its presence best be revealed to you?” - Jordana Maisie

DATE & TIMES
Thursday 9 June, 5pm - 8pm
Saturday 11 June, 12pm - 3pm

LOCATION
PACT Centre for Emerging Artists
107 Railway Parade, Erskineville, NSW

HOW TO REGISTER
Email jordana.maisie@gmail.com to book in for 1 of the 2 workshops.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY SHOW
To celebrate World Environment Day, our friends at Music For Trees are hosting an epic event featuring world renowned environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall, and a host of other cool environmental thinkers. The event will be supported by a fab musical lineup, spread over two great venues!

DATE Sunday 5 June
TIME 4pm - 12pm
LOCATION Red Rattler and Camelot in Marrickville

DR JANE GOODALL AT CARRIAGEWORKS
In celebration the United Nations’ Year of the Forest, the Dr Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is presenting an exhibition at CarriageWorks. The exhibition Saving our Forests: The Trees of Life features over 25 Australian artists including Carlos Barrios, Peter Griffin, Alan Jones, Denise Lithgow, Justin Perason, Claire Waring and Greg Wilson.

Dr Jane Goodall will be opening the exhibition on World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June. The opening is a ticket event, tickets go on sale Wednesday 25 May here. Funds raised from opening night tickets and artwork sales will be invested into the JGI forestation programs in Africa.

DATE Saturday 4 - Saturday 18 June
LOCATION Bay 19, CarriageWorks
TIME Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm, Closed Sundays

CarriageWorks’ Sustainable Works | Saturday 28 May

This month there’s two more great workshops you can get involved in with CarriageWorks Sustainable Works. Workshops are from 10am - 12pm. You can register from 8.30am at CarriageWorks’ barn doors, opposite Eveleigh Farmers’ Markets. Class sizes are limited, first in, first served.

Workshop 1. Myrtle Street Walking Tour
Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs will take workshop-ers on a walking tour of the sustainable street gardens of Myrtle Street, Chippendale.

Workshop 2. Behind Eveleigh Farmers’ Market
Get to know the in’s and out’s of the Eveleigh Farmers’ Markets, meet and greet local NSW farmers and artisan food producers, sample seasonal produce, and watch a pasta making demonstration.

Don’t Miss ~ TedxSydney Forum
If you’re coming down for a Sustainable Works workshop, stick around and watch the live simulcast of TEDxSydney in the CarriageWorks foyer. The TedxSydney Forum includes: Q&A sessions, where you can engage directly with the speakers; video interviews with TEDxSydney participants (maybe including you!); and live music and performances. Best of all its FREE! If you’d like to know more about TEDxSydney head to our website.

SOO MUCH TO DO… SO LITTLE TIME

This weekend at CarriageWorks is crazy-jam-packed-full of creative stuff to do… get your votes in early then come down and get involved!!

At 9am join CarriageWorks’ Kitchen Garden Club and wax-lyrical about organic home grown veggies, composting, soil prep, seeds and worms; and more. Meet-up outside CarriageWorks’ cafe. More

From 10am - 12pm take part in one of three brilliant workshops in our Sustainable Works program. The three workshops are Introduction to Composting with Michael Mobbs; Basic Bike Maintenance with Cheeky Transit; and Chimes for the Trees: Public Sculpture Workshop. Register from 8.30am at CarriageWorks’ barn doors, opposite Eveleigh Markets, first in best dressed. More

Then set aside from noon-5pm for a free afternoon of local musical talent with CarriageWorks’ spankin’ monthly music series Unplugged + Uncomplicated. The incredible line-up includes Rosie Catalano, Leeroy Lee, Missing Children, Lois Mares and Melanie Horsnell.  Plus, bring your kiddy-winks along and we’ll entertain them with a free craft workshop while you relax. More

If you’re a hip-hop-head, don’t miss Platform Rocks the Block. Redfern Community Centre and CarriageWorks have put together a monumental program of Indigenous Hip Hop artists in a full day festival of music, dance and celebration culture, family and community. It’s all happening at the Block in Redfern as part of Family & Culture Day. From noon-6pm. More

At 8pm in the Bay 20 Theatre, its closing night of Funk It Up About Nothin’, a hilarious, outrageous hip-hoptation of the Bard’s classic comedy Much Ado About Nothing. It’s been getting rave reviews, check out the latest review here. More info & bookings

2011 JUMP mentee Ashleigh Garwood’s photography project is in full swing. Follow her journey on her blog.

ashleighjump:

Test #1 w/ Henry

Beautiful sunny day at CarriageWorks today

This is Bravo Child, Sydney MC/poet, and Bboy Ill Will from USA, at last night’s Flexing Skillz.  Part of Platform Hip Hop Festival, which takes over CarriageWorks this weekend. Great night. Looking forward to more super-crazy hip hop action in all its forms today!

More photos from the night here.

Stephanie

Round peg square hole

I have had the joy of dealing with the changing face of parking at CarriageWorks over the last few weeks. There is not a lot of parking on site so when we have a large show with a large audience it may be near impossible for us to accommodate every one, if they drive.

But that is the great thing about being so close to public transport. 5min to King St, 10 min to redfern station and if you live in Bondi it’s only 45min on the pushie.

It can be done! I’ve just done over 60km this week, on the pushie, in the pursuit to commute.  So think green and leave the car at home. Walk or ride it’s good for the environment, your wallet (and your waist) and good for the neighbourhood. Plus there is plenty of push bike parking out front. Even Kermit rides a bike, give it a go …  you just might enjoy it.

Marko