February crawl

Well our February Event Happens to coincide with a Dr Sketchy's session so that's the place we'll start.

You WILL need to book so see below for details...

Date 7 Feb
Time: 4.00 pm
Ticket price
As a thank you to you, our loyal art monkeys there is a discount price! - $12 with code “borntosketch”

Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com

Duration: 2 hours approx
YANA ALANA Saturday 7 February 4pm


‘She’s frightening, alarming, but very, very funny.’ Melbourne Star

A performance poet and lady-of-certain-talents, Yana Alana is an old fashioned diva with a potty mouth and an outlook which is female-centric and decidedly not politically correct.

Yana Alana is the alter ego of Sarah Ward, also known as MC Sheila from SistaShe. A night with Yana may include tantrums, the hurling of targeted abuse, divine singing, acrobatic dancing and some incisive home truths. She has certainly devoured the boy in flamboyant.

Winner of the Melbourne Fringe Cabaret Award 2007

BITE ME nominated for 7 Green Room awards

**Please note - this session may contain nudity and coarse language**

so please book and rsvp here. you are responsible for your own booking.

Let's meet about 3.30pm at the club as seating is usually crowded.

Saturday 10-th

Hi All,
we will be meeting at 11am at Federation Square as discussed on Facebook.
See you there.

Sketchcrawl 21 announced - Jan 10 2009

Yes the next Official worldwide crawl will be January 10th 2009
And the Melbourne sketchcrawl group will be running again, if you'd like to meet up with us keep checking here or the forum or facebook group for updates.

I'd love to hear some suggestions for where people would like to go? I was thinking Start at spring st and work our way down little bourke through china town?

We had a great turn out last time of about 25 people and we'd love to see you all again!

If you can help with getting posters up at local art shops let us know!

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=3419
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36223981062

Some more pics from our participants!

Well the Weather for saturday is looking a touch average but we will soldier one because you just never know what melbourne will throw at you! there are sheltered spots at the Convent which will provide a place to hide if the rain hits. Anyway a trip to the dollar shop is always a good idea to find a poncho!
taccolina has shared her drawings from the day on her blog - click here.

Karen sent me some of her lovely photos via Tacolina (bev) which I will share with you here.

NOVEMBER EVENT

11am Saturday 8th November
Collingwood Children’s Farm Farmers Market & Abbotsford Convent
End of St Heliers St, Abbotsford. ( GOOGLE MAPS)

Meeting Point: End of St Helier’s St at the Large Wooden Gates too the farm

PLEASE NOTE: $2 fee to enter Farmers Market before 1pm - after 1pm normal farm entry fee of $8 applies
so get there early for cheap entry - pass outs available - Convent is free entry.

This will be a less structured day out, allowing time for the painters to set up where they wish and the
sketchers to roam around. Grab a picnic lunch or something from the bakery at the convent.

GETTING THERE: VIA CAR - We are located at the end of St. Heliers St, Abbotsford.
The easiest way to get here is to go via Johnston St then onto Clarke St. (See MELWAYS Ref 44 G5)
VIA TRAIN - Catch the Epping or Hurstbridge line train and get off at Victoria Park train station.
Then it’s a 5-10 minute walk east along Johnston St.
VIA BUS - Catch the Garden City/Bulleen Bus 200, 201 and 207 which leave from the City in Lonsdale St,
and runs along Johnston St. Get off at Clarke St.
(Just ask the driver if they are going in the Kew Junction direction).

For more info email Janice janice.hook@gmail.com or call 0404 240 602 (if you sms please sign your messages)

Results & Next Crawl

What a great day! we had about 25 people show up for the day and we sketched, wrote and photographed to hearts content! Some of us ended up at a pub by the river exchanging opinions on art supplies (Andrea I think I have your pen!)

I'll post links to everyone's results as they become available but here's a start...

Sketchcrawl Forum - Melbourne results

http://taccolina.blogspot.com/

NEXT EVENT: begins at 11am Saturday 8th November 2009 Collingwood Childrens Farm - Farmers Market

PLEASE NOTE There is a 2 dollar entry to the farm collected by rotary on the day.

http://www.farm.org.au/coming-events/farmers-market.html

Meetup place and further details closer to the event

And a mailing list...

One last thing before we set off tomorrow, I've created a mailing list for those who like to stay in touch that way - it's a google group so conversation is able to be had rather than an announcement only mailing list.
I would encourage people to join especially if they are interested in the community aspect of the sketchrawl.

I know some of you are aware of my hope to extend this group beyound quarterly crawls and into a more regular drawing group. This is one way i hope to acheive this.

Group name: SketchCrawl Melbourne
* Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/sketchcrawl-melbourne
* Group email address sketchcrawl-melbourne@googlegroups.com

Again - see you tomorrow - 10am outside the state library corner swanston and la traboe sts.