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Make your own handmade Christmas cards this year i

Make your own handmade Christmas cards this year in the Printing Festive Cards workshop with artist Jo Hollier. In this 3-hour workshop on 14 December at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Jo will introduce you to drypoint etching and teach you how to create beautiful, unique hand printed designs. Her technical knowledge and expert tuition will have you using stencils, chine colle, monoprinting and gold leaf printing methods to create a series of joyful cards and gift tags, full of colour and texture. Try something new, be creative and make something unique. Suitable for beginners, all materials provide. Limited spaces available. Book now: https://www.tickettailor.com/.../tuggeranongartsc.../1248471
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It’s Christmas in less than 4 weeks! Why not buy

It’s Christmas in less than 4 weeks! Why not buy something handmade by an artist who lives or practises art in the Tuggeranong Valley. These are just a few of the beautiful items for sale in TAC’s new shop. Echo print scarves and shawls by Pinal Maniar, handmade ceramics by Sarit Cohen, silk scarves by Chris Cranston and cute-as-button earrings by Jenny Blake and Rechelle Turner. Prices range from $20 - $200.

US Bassist Gene Perla, who was part of the iconic

US Bassist Gene Perla, who was part of the iconic 1972 Live at the Lighthouse performance in California, and a top-notch band of Australian jazz players invite you to step back in time as they recreate the music from this quintessential gig and live album recorded at the Lighthouse Café by jazz drummer Elvin Jones. The album was released on the Blue Note label – originally as a double LP and subsequently released on two CDs. It features Jones and his quartet: saxophonists Dave Liebman and Steve Grossman, and bassist Gene Pearla.
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Sambra, track 3 off the album, spotlights legendary Gene Pearl on bass! Can’t wait to hear him perform live with Melbourne based saxophonist Andy Sugg, New Zealand based Roger Manins on Tenor Sax, Brett Williams on Piano and Mark Sutton, at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Saturday 14 December.
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Remembering Elvin Jones Live at the Lighthouse concert will be a night to remember. Tickets will sell out. https://tuggeranongarts.com/the-jazz-haus-gene-perla-usa-14-dec/
Book now to avoid disappointment.
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Join Tuggeranong Arts Centre and Woden Valley Comm

Join Tuggeranong Arts Centre and Woden Valley Community Council for an evening of celebration in Woden Town Square. Enjoy live music by Gugan Gulwan’s students, Sing with Toby Choir, The South Canberra Wind Orchestra and Latin American Music Ensemble Pachamama. Explore your creative side in a puppet making workshop with Eleanor & Giovanni or decorate a star mobile with paint pens. A free BBQ will be provided by Woden Valley Community Council and Helping ACT.

Wednesday 4 December 5:30 – 7:30pm
Woden Town Square

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Pop in and check out the curated screening of shor

Pop in and check out the curated screening of short films made by award winning artists this Saturday. Showcasing: multi award winning stop motion animations: Imaginé (remastered) and Tunning by Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar; A Chorus of Wonders by Tom Moore, Jonathan Nix and Grant Hancock, and Tom Buckland’s Space Oddity. This program will delight viewers in a visual, sound and sensory feast.

Saturday 30 November
Gallery walkthrough 3pm
Screening 4pm
Free, bookings required
Bookings: https://buytickets.at/tuggeranongartscentre/1265008

Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar are an award winning animation team working primarily in stop motion and hands on traditional animation processes. They have been working collaboratively since 2017. Since then, Eleanor and Giovanni have produced award winning animated projects, music videos, workshops and animated educational content for children.

Tom Moore began working with glass in his late teens and graduated from Canberra School of Art, ANU in 1994. Tom is fascinated with hybridity, mutation and our environment. Plant–birds, tree–cars, flaming pickles and potato–fish merge the animal, mineral and vegetable worlds. He has collaborated with photographer Grant Hancock and animator Jonathon Nix to produce the digitally animated ‘A Chorus of Wonders’.

Tom Buckland is an artist who deals in a correspondence of worlds.. Working with recycled materials such as cardboard and salvaged electronics, Buckland creates playful, interactive and experimental installation, video and performance work that invites the audience to embark on a journey of discovery, transporting them to other dimensions across space and time, provoking introspection about their own existence and the world they inhabit.

This program will feature in the 2024 Canberra Short Film Festival.

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Jazz Haus Canberra and Tuggeranong Arts Centre are

Jazz Haus Canberra and Tuggeranong Arts Centre are delighted to host Remembering Elvin Jones: Live at the Lighthouse. Revisit powerful music from the iconic 1972 Live at the Lighthouse gig with one of the group’s founding members, bassist Gene Perla (USA). When the Elvin Jones group, which included David Liebman, Steve Grossman, and Gene Perla, played this famous gig at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California (LA), it was recorded and released, and it instantly became a seminal recording in jazz!

Gene Perla performs at Tuggeranong Arts Centre with Andy Sugg, Roger Manis, Brett Williams and Mark Sutton on Saturday 14 December.
Concert 7pm
Tickets $45/38
Bookings: https://buytickets.at/tuggeranongartscentre/1248476
This event is supported by Live Music Australia

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A sample of what Canberra Textile artists are work

A sample of what Canberra Textile artists are working on, It’s a Wrap exhibition showcases a scarfs made from eco-print, dying, weaving, knitting and more.
Drop in to the Arts Centre to enjoy this wonderful selection and vote for your favourite in the people’s choice award.

It’s a Wrap is showing until 11 December.

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Join Classical Guitarist Callum Henshaw for the fi

Take your art outdoors and experience Plein Air Pa

Take your art outdoors and experience Plein Air Painting in Woden with Canberra artist John Hart over two weekends.

After graduating from the Printmedia and Drawing workshop at the ANU School of Art in 2010, John spent many years as the Press Studio Manager at Megalo Print Studio, establishing himself as a highly skilled printmaker. Since 2018 John has focused on his painting practice, taking commissions and developing new work while continuing to teach all forms of printmaking, drawing, watercolour, and oil painting.

These workshops will provide technical training as well as providing an opportunity to meet in a relaxed, informal creative atmosphere. Participants will be provided with a kit containing watercolour paint, watercolour pencils and an A5 sized watercolour paper pad. Participants will also receive a kit containing water colour pencils, paints and an A5 pad of watercolour paper for ongoing exploration beyond the time constraints of the workshop.

Saturday 23 and Saturday 30 November, 9am – 12pm
$50 pp (2 classes)
Bookings: https://buytickets.at/tuggeranongartscentre/1280522

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Curator and textile practitioner Chris Cranston is

Curator and textile practitioner Chris Cranston is the guest presenter at this Saturdays Southside Arts meetup. Chris’ stunning series of vibrant wraps that are currently displayed in, “It’s a Wrap”, in the Tuggeranong Arts Centre Foyer Gallery. Come along to find out more about her vibrant surface designs, which are created using thickened dye paste and stencils for a layered, painterly application of colour. Chris’ scarves are also on offer through TAC’s newly established Shop space, an ongoing opportunity for locally based artists and designers.
Artists working in any artform are warmly invited to attend, to meet like-minded creatives and enjoy some afternoon tea.
Southside Artist Meetup
Saturday 23 November
1:30 – 3:30pm

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For the final Lakeside at 5 event of 2024, Eric Aj

For the final Lakeside at 5 event of 2024, Eric Ajaye and Lachlan Coventry will be presenting their own compositions as well as treatments on a few compositions by some of their influences in music. Don’t miss out on what is guaranteed to be a fabulous evening!

Eric Ajaye was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Los Angeles, California, with his family at an early age. He studied violin for nine years before switching to bass. Eric moved to Australia in 1998 and has worked with many of Australia’s top jazz artists accompanying them at jazz festivals, in jazz clubs, and on recording sessions. Eric is the curator of the Jazz Haus Canberra and is the presenter on ABC JAZZ for the programs Jazz Legends and Classic Albums.

Lachlan Coventry has played with Australian luminaries such as Bernie McGann, William Barton, James Morrison, Carl Orr, Miroslav Bukovsky, Dale Barlow, Nick McBride, Zoe Hauptmann, Ben Hauptmann and many others. He received an emerging artist grant in the early 2000’s from the ACT government to record his first album ‘Star of Light’. He started the experimental rock band ‘Fire on the Hill’ releasing their album ‘Endless Smiley Sunstar’. Lachlan has taught guitar and theory at the Australian National University since 2018 and is currently undertaking a creative PHD study at ANU.

Friday 22 November
5:30-7:30pm. Bar open from 5pm
Entry by donation

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TAC’s Grand Day Out on Saturday was a huge succe

TAC’s Grand Day Out on Saturday was a huge success!

The weather turned its best self on, and we were lucky enough to have a glorious (and a little too warm in the sun) spring day. The lakeside lawn entertained the audience as well as the lakeside users. Belle Whyte, Gugan Gulwan Music Students, Fresh Funk, Bellyup Belly Dance, The Tuggeranong Vally Band, Sing with Toby Choir and the Battle of the Bands participants all performed to enthusiastic applause. Inside the centre, classes for Dance, Drama and Art were booked out and participants got the opportunity to sample what happens during the TAC enrolment classes. Drop in activities were busy, visitors made yarn puppets with Eleanor and Giovanni (did you see that perfect stage the puppets performed in?) and zines downstairs while upstairs, robots were created out of cardboard with Tom Buckland and quieter participants learned indigenous weaving techniques with Rechelle Turner (and got a private performance from Belle Whyte. The Theatre kept the music flowing with music videos from Battle of the Bands followed by a singalong with Leisa Keen.
A huge thank you to everyone that came along, listened to music, and participated in the activities. It was wonderful to see the centre buzzing with all the activities and smiling faces! We hope you visit again. ❤️

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