DRAFT: Schedule may change.
Sydney Schedule:
Day 1: 23 July Monday
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08.30 am Meet Jetstar terminal Tullamarine (Your own transport) BRING PHOTO ID
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10.10 am Flight departs Melbourne JQ508
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11.35 am Flight arrives Sydney
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11.55 am Free Bus transfer to YHA The Rocks.
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12.15 pm Leave bags at YHA (check in 2pm).
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01.00 pm Lunch at the Rocks.
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02.00 pm Meet outside MCA at Circular Wharf
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02.10 pm MCA
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05.00pm Conclude visit to MCA
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05.10 Free time
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07.30pm Meet at local roof top pub for dinner Glenmore rooftop hotel Approx. cost $15 - 20
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08.30pm Free time
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Day 2 : 24 July Tuesday
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08.00 am Free Breakfast Leave YHA at 8.45am
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09.00 am Take free ferry from MCA to Cockatoo Island – Sydney biennale
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10.30 am Meet Lyndal Jones for preparation of Ark performance (bring long dark coat).
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11.30 pm View artworks and lunch on Cockatoo Island
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02.30pm Ark performance Cockatoo Island
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05.00pm Ferry back to Circular Quay via Quay
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06 30pm Free time or visit Darling harbour at night (meal in China Town 7.30 pm - optional )
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Day 3: 25 July Wednesday
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08.00 am Free Breakfast
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08.30 am Bus to Brett Whiteley studio
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09. 30 am Brett Whiteley Drawing Studio tour of studio and figure drawing workshop.
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12.30 pm Lunch in Surrey Hills
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01.00 pm Walk or shared taxi to Art Gallery of New South Wales (free) Talk
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03.30 pm conclude visit to Gallery NSW
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03.30 pm Free time or The Australian Centre for Photography
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05.30pm Free time
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Day 4: 26 July Thursday
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06.00 am Optional Early morning photography excursion
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08.00 am Free Breakfast. Vacate rooms and take luggage.
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09.30 am Local bus (cost) from circular quay to The White Rabbit Gallery (free)
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10.30 am Arrive at White Rabbit Gallery (organise own lunch before 12pm) store luggage
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12.00 pm Talk by Education officer
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01.00 pm Conclude tour at White Rabbit Gallery.
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01.15 pm Bus pickup (free) from White Rabbit Gallery to airport.
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03.40 pm Depart Sydney Airport JQ521
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05.15pm Arrive at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport. Arrange own transport home
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Excursion 2012
Dates: Monday, 23 July – Thursday, 26 July 2012
4 days - 3 nights
COST: $325
Accommodation: YHA The Rocks
Stay at Sydney Sydney Sydney Harbour
COSTS:
$325 includes shared accommodation (4 persons), breakfast, Sydney
Non returnable deposit $175 (to be paid by 10 March to secure place).*
Final payment $150 ( to be paid be 9th May).
*Full amount can be paid by the 10th March
What’s On:
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
The 18th Biennale of Sydney, all our relations, intends to focus on inclusionary practices of generative thinking, such as collaboration, conversation and compassion, in the face of coercion and destruction. With the creation of conditions for an encounter in consonance with our surrounding world, this event will bring emphasis to what is already happening at large. Drawing on the possibility of the present, the Biennale will emerge from the engagement of all participants by using a model that begins with two curators in dialogue. This matrix of conversation will extend to both artists and audiences in a multi-vocal correspondence.
All our relations will rely on these various exchanges, affinities and empathies as its dynamic structure – the vascular and cellular structure and sinew of a kind of living, breathing organism – from which the Biennale’s meanings will grow. Artists will work in a context that allows for mutual recognition and audiences from differing backgrounds will be part of this continual development, finding their own direction in these connections. It is in this altered attention to one another – in the meeting and making of ideas together – that constructive consequence can follow.
The 18th Biennale of Sydney will be rooted in storytelling as it is currently being re-imagined as a coming-into-being in relation. In the reciprocity that is storytelling, both teller and listener inhabit the space of the story. Telling stories connects us and allows us to care, to be; it fosters collaboration; it aggregates knowledge and generates new ideas; it ignites change; and, ultimately, builds community. In this matrix, the different projects can be compared to a set of story lines, which artists, curators and audiences relate and translate. Through this process, a collective composition or new Gesamtkunstwerk is accomplished in the active generation of meanings realised by all those who take part, each taking their stories home and beyond ...
Venues include: MCA: Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of NSW: Sydney Biennale, Art space, Pier 2/3 and Cockatoo Island (free ferry) from circular quay near MCA.
About the Biennale Of Sydney
We are moving on from a century in which the radical in the arts largely adopted principles of separation, negativity and disruption as strategies of change. Where once there was an emphasis on alienation and separation, there is now a renewed attention to how things connect, how we relate to each other and to the world we inhabit.
The 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations, curated by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster, will generate a dynamic new exhibition model to explore the possibilities of this renewed attention. Beginning with two curators in dialogue, all our relations is based on a collaborative framework, allowing conversations to extend to both artists
and audiences.
Through this framework, the exhibition encourages new stories, thoughts and patterns to emerge, as international artists come together to collaborate and create works that relate as if evolving from each other. Artworks unfold in a sequence through the Biennale Art Walk, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to the newly redeveloped Museum of Contemporary Art, then Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay and finally to the world heritage-listed Cockatoo Island.
ARK - Lyndel Jones
Cockatoo Island Students to participate in performance.
10.30am and 2.30pm 24 July.
Lyndal Jones is currently developing a large-scale installation with incidental performances for All Our Relations: Biennale of Sydney, from 27th June – 16th September.
The work, Rehearsing Catastrophe: the Ark in Sydney involves construction of an ark in the Joiners Shed at the highest point of Cockatoo Island (where ships have traditionally been built in Sydney). It also involves engaging with hundreds of people who will be invited to rehearse, over the 21/2 months of the Biennale, their preparation for managing future disasters. As only animals are to be accepted on board, those involved in these rehearsals will need to disguise themselves as animals (with long coats and hand luggage) as part of this preparation. Animal masks (created by Jones) will be provided, along with a short session on the day in some important performance principles to be employed. The masks, are assemblages of the sorts of materials that might be available from the home. The image is taken from the story of a refugee from the siege of Sarajevo who had to wait in the snow for 6 hours to escape. She had only her hand bag in which she carried everything she could fit to take with her in leaving forever.
REHEARSING CATASTROPHE; THE ARK IN SYDNEY
A work by Lyndal Jones for ‘All Our Relations’, the Biennale of Sydney, 2012
You are invited to join me in presenting this work for the Biennale.
Here is your chance to plan and rehearse for future possible catastrophes.
You are invited to join the queue at the ark any afternoon in complete animal disguise.
Here’s the work:
An ark is being constructed in a shed at the highest point of Cockatoo Island
in preparation for the rising waters forecast to accompany the increasing storms.
The ark, of course, is for animals only.
And only 2 of each animal will be selected when the boat is ready to depart.
Only hand luggage can be taken on board.
Two stories are pertinent here.
One is the story of Noah’s ark… a story of flood and survival through preparation
The other is Milijana’s story. Milijana escaped from the siege of Sarajevo is 1995.
To do so, she was instructed to wait, in the main square with her fake documents,
for a UN transporter to arrive. She was required to stand there, looking nonchalant,
at the risk of capture and death, for 6 hours until the bus arrived. Everything she
could take was in her handbag. It was snowing.
What would you be prepared to do to escape catastrophe? What will you take in your hand luggage?
Animal masks will be supplied. These are all assemblages from around the house. Things you
might put together at the last minute in a desperate attempt to be included.
You will need to bring your hand luggage and a dark, full length coat if you have one. (We can
supply some of these).
You can book individually and join a group or you can come with friends as a group.
No acting is required.
The White Rabbit Art Gallery
Group tour of exciting new exhibition http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/
The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.The White Rabbit Gallery, a specially converted knitting factory near Sydney’s Central Station, has four floors of exhibition space as well as a theatrette, a library and a teahouse. Only a fraction of the Collection is on show at any time. The entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year. An excellent group tour has been organized.
The Brett Whiteley Gallery - Figure Drawing Workshop
The Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills, was the workplace and home of Australian artist, Brett Whiteley (1939–92). Since 1995 it has been managed as a museum by the Art Gallery of NSW
A drawing workshop has been organised for the group. Drawing material provided.
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY – group tour (optional).
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia & the UK
The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) is a national centre for the presentation, dissemination and creative learning of photo-based practice. With over 35 years of experience, it is the longest running contemporary art space in Australia.
257 Oxford Street Paddington NSW 2021 Hours: Tue-Fri 12.00pm - 7.00pm
Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm Creative Learning Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-6.00pm
Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm Creative Learning Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-6.00pm
DRAFT: Schedule may change.
Sydney Schedule:
Day 1: 23 July Monday
|
08.30 am Meet Jetstar terminal Tullamarine (Your own transport) BRING PHOTO ID
|
10.10 am Flight departs Melbourne JQ508
|
11.35 am Flight arrives Sydney
|
11.55 am Free Bus transfer to YHA The Rocks.
|
12.15 pm Leave bags at YHA (check in 2pm).
|
01.00 pm Lunch at the Rocks.
|
02.00 pm Meet outside MCA at Circular Wharf
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02.10 pm MCA
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05.00pm Conclude visit to MCA
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05.10 Free time
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07.30pm Meet at local roof top pub for dinner Glenmore rooftop hotel Approx. cost $15 - 20
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08.30pm Free time
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Day 2 : 24 July Tuesday
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08.00 am Free Breakfast Leave YHA at 8.45am
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09.00 am Take free ferry from MCA to Cockatoo Island – Sydney biennale
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10.30 am Meet Lyndal Jones for preparation of Ark performance (bring long dark coat).
|
11.30 pm View artworks and lunch on Cockatoo Island
|
02.30pm Ark performance Cockatoo Island
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05.00pm Ferry back to Circular Quay via Quay
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06 30pm Free time or visit Darling harbour at night (meal in China Town 7.30 pm - optional )
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Day 3: 25 July Wednesday
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08.00 am Free Breakfast
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08.30 am Bus to Brett Whiteley studio
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09. 30 am Brett Whiteley Drawing Studio tour of studio and figure drawing workshop.
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12.30 pm Lunch in Surrey Hills
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01.00 pm Walk or shared taxi to Art Gallery of New South Wales (free) Talk
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03.30 pm conclude visit to Gallery NSW
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03.30 pm Free time or The Australian Centre for Photography
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05.30pm Free time
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Day 4: 26 July Thursday
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06.00 am Optional Early morning photography excursion
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08.00 am Free Breakfast. Vacate rooms and take luggage.
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09.30 am Local bus (cost) from circular quay to The White Rabbit Gallery (free)
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10.30 am Arrive at White Rabbit Gallery (organise own lunch before 12pm) store luggage
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12.00 pm Talk by Education officer
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01.00 pm Conclude tour at White Rabbit Gallery.
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01.15 pm Bus pickup (free) from White Rabbit Gallery to airport.
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03.40 pm Depart Sydney Airport JQ521
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05.15pm Arrive at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport. Arrange own transport home
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What to Bring?
- Photographic ID (student card/driving licence)
- Medicare card number
- Carry on luggage only. Suggest small backpack.
Please do not be overweight/oversize as we have limited space on the transfer bus.
Cabin baggage
Only 1 (one) small item of hand luggage per person, weighing no more than 7kg and with dimensions of less than 54cm x 38cm x 23cm, may be carried into the aircraft cabin. Any cabin baggage over 7kg will have to be carried in the hold of the aircraft and forms part of the total checked baggage allowance.
Passengers are also permitted to carry one laptop free of charge but will only be accepted on a 'limited release' (i.e. entirely 'at your own risk' for damage or delay) basis. You may therefore wish to ensure that you have suitable private insurance cover in force for such items.
Please limit your valuables. Bring a small lock for locker. Avoid bringing laptops.
- Shoes for walking
- Minimal clothes for four days
- PJ’s
- Toiletries (towels provided)
- Ear plugs (if you are a light sleeper!)
- Camera /small lightweight tripod/ small torch
- Small sketchbook / pens/ pencils
- Protection for wet weather/rain
Miscellaneous costs:
- Local transport (please have change and student card).
- Lunch /dinner
- We will have a group dinner on the first night and a final group lunch. Cost $ 15 – 20.
- There is a kitchen at the youth hostel accommodation. You can make yourselves a packed lunch, tea etc.
- There are no costs involved with gallery entrance fees.
Guidelines:
This is a student activity arranged by the Art department at Chisholm Institute. The guides lines and code of conduct as stated in the student diary therefore apply.
Additional guidelines:
· Any problems or accidents to be reported to teachers or in last resort to reception desk at YHA who will contact us.
· The Youth hostel is off limits to any friends, persons not connected with the group. Do not bring people/strangers to your room.
· You will be sharing rooms, please be considerate of others… loud music etc. there is a lounge area/TV is you want to stay up late.
· Free time: no longer a Chisholm activity and you are responsible for yourselves.
· It is advised that when you go out that you stay in groups. Please let others in the group or teachers know where you are. Please keep your mobiles switched on.
· Free Breakfast is a compulsory meeting time. Please be there at 8 am. It will be our planning time and roll call.
· Photography: In galleries please ask first before photographing artwork ,as there may be a copyright issue.
· There is internet at the youth hostel, you need to purchase a card.
· Please keep to the itinerary. If you are late for flights, you are responsible for purchasing alternative transport.
· On some days there will be some walking, so please dress comfortably. Be prepared for winter weather. It can be cold at night.
· How to get to Melbourne airport: Skybus from Spencer Street $26 return journey takes 20 minutes. Asked to be dropped at T1. There is long term car parking at Melbourne airport: cost; $69 .Airport-Dandenong bus Tel (03) 9782 6766 5.30am from Dandenong Station– arrives 6.45 am $25 one way (need to book.). Suggest car pool.
Any comments or suggestions can be posted on the blog: Sydneytrip2012.blogspot.com
ESSENTIAL INFO:
ACCOMMODATION: Sydney Harbour YHA 110 Cumberland Street, The Rocks, Sydney 2000 Phone: (+612) 8272 0900
