Mother Artist Network Forum | 25 May

Our friends over at BIG Kids magazine will be at this months MCA Zine Fair on the 25 May to host the Mother Artist Network forum and launch Issue 6 Patterns of Pathways. 

My date for the event will be  the very wonderful Wolfgang and Rose - hope to see you there!

"Artists and co-creators of BIG Kids Magazine Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue will be hosting the first Mother Artist Network forum at the MCA. Joined by artists Emma Magenta and Emma Gale, the panel will explore the challenge and rich terrain of navigating motherhood with an ongoing professional art practice. The Mother Artist Network (MAN)) was launched in 2011 as a platform to provoke dialogue about creative practice and motherhood."

This event is free but bookings are advised.
For more information and to book:  http://www.mca.com.au/events/mother-artist-forum/8772

Arts Rocket Friday Finds

image via Sydney Theatre Company

It's been a while but Friday Finds are back! Film Festivals, Zines, some blocks and a pelican.

• The French Film Festival has some great kids flicks screening and thankfully most of the films outside the family strand are classified so if you have teens there is a wide selection
• Young at Heart  Film Festival has some great classics - my son loved American Graffiti so this is his chance to catch it on the big screen. Get the kids to take their grandparents to the cinema.
• MCA Zine Fair is back in March - great for kids of all ages - get them to make their own when you get home 
• Love these building blocks from Japan Found vis Kidlolly 
• and for later in August - Sydney Theatre Company with Barking Gecko Theatre will be presenting a production of Storm Boy - Ages 6+

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Recorders | MCA

We visited the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Recorders exhibition at the 'under construction' MCA yesterday. Thankfully we just made it in time before it was packed away.   We love exhibitions that allow kids to participate, be involved and get excited about  art.   Recorders ticked all the boxes for us.

"Recorders are artworks that hear, see or feel the public and record and replay memories entirely obtained during the show" Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

We look forward to what the MCA will bring when it reopens in March.