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BEANIE wearing weather is here!
Come along to the SoArt Gallery in Narooma over the next three weeks to find or create your own unique, hand-made, head-warming, beautiful beanie.
All proceeds of beanie sales and workshops will go towards six local Yuin Djaadjawan Dancers flying out to the red centre to perform at the opening night of the 19th Alice Springs Beanie Festival and exhibit their very own hand-made beanies at the three week National Beanie Exhibition.
Djaadjawan Dancers members Sharon Mason, Vivienne Mason, Mary Moore, Nyeasha Moore, Jumara Hoskins and Allison Walker have been invited to take part in the Alice Springs Beanie Festival taking local Yuin/salt-water people stories, through dance and their beautiful beanie artwork in needle-felt and crochet, to the red centre for the first time.
The “Yuin Beanies” will be displayed on a wall of their own at the Beanie Festival’s three-week exhibition at the Araluen Gallery in Alice Springs, where the beanie festival is held each year.
The four-day trip also includes an afternoon with artists at Uluru, meeting with elders in Alice Springs to be welcomed on country and two zany days at the Alice Spring Beanie Festival taking part in various workshops across the weekend as well as sharing some local craft techniques of their own.
The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is in its 19th year.
More than 1000 beanie makers from around Australia and the world send in up to 8000 beanies a year for the four day festival held each June.
The Beanie Festival is not-for-profit and the beanie makers receive money from their own beanie sales.
The Beanie Festival’s 30 per cent commission goes towards ensuring beanie workshops continue each year on the remote Indigenous communities throughout Central Australia.
There are currently more than 300 Indigenous beanie artists across many remote communities in Australia.
Beanies are now widely recognised as fine art, a selection of the best travel to galleries around Australia each year and have been on display in the National Gallery and in galleries around the world.
All beanies become a story, a representation of a particular area of country, language group, family or person.
The Alice Springs Beanie Festival Exhibition and open workshop space at the SoArt Gallery will run over the next three weeks.
There will be hundreds of unique, hand-made beanies on display for sale and you can book in for a workshop to make your very own crocheted and/or needle-felted beanie.
The exhibition runs from Saturday, May 30 to Sunday, June 14, from 10am to 4pm.
The $30 Workshops are on Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31, then from Tuesday, June 9 through to Sunday, June 14, from 11am daily.
Call Marg on 0400 442 945 to book in, for more information or to make a donation/offer sponsorship towards the trip.