NEWS DESK Sharing is just part of her culture
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FRANKSTON resident and Willum Warrain Elder Aunty Jen Armistead has appeared in a feature story by Museums Victoria. Aunty Jen has inspired and brought joy to many by sharing plants from her garden and handwoven baskets, pictured, outside her Frankston home. Her heartfelt way of raising people’s spirits during lockdown has turned into a revolving neighbourhood nursery of kindness and sharing. “In our culture, sharing is very important. It’s not ‘That’s mine, you’re getting nothing’. In the Indigenous culture, you share. And you must share,” Aunty Jen said. Read her story at https://fal. cn/3ic7W
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Kerryn gets the coaching call up KERRYN Mitchell, of Frankston and District Basketball Association, pictured, has been named Victorian Under-20 Women’s head coach for next year’s Australian Junior Championships. She previously served as assistant coach. The team’s assistant coach is Jo Wood, also of Frankston. Ben White, of Southern Peninsula Basketball Association, has been named team manager of Victoria Country Under-18 Men and the development coach is Scott Ramsey, also of Southern Peninsula. Team Manager of Victoria Metropolitan Under-16 Men is Paul Groat, of Frankston and District Basketball Association, and assistant coach is Scott Christiansen, also of Frankston.
GALLERY TALK Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery has been successful with a $300,000 Federal Government, Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund grant to deliver an ambitious public art project celebrating key sites and stories on the Mornington Peninsula. This project called Front Beach, Back Beach, will take place across the Mornington Peninsula in November 2022 with an exhibition at the Gallery in the Summer of 2022/23. Front Beach, Back Beach is a public art project, presented in partnership between the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and Deakin University’s Public Art Commission. Through film, sculpture, sound, performance, participation, and installation this multi-sited event will commission 15 Australian artists/ collectives to respond to fifteen sites and stories that have shaped the Peninsula. From Monmar (Point Nepean) to Wonga (Arthurs Seat), Western Port to Cape Schanck there are hidden histories of national significance that channel our collective past and future. Front Beach, Back Beach will activate these histories and sites using contemporary art to speak to current issues, brought on by the pandemic, climate change and the shifting sands of our social relations. The project will focus on community engagement, collaboration and the power of contemporary art to tell stories across time and space.
We are really excited about this project and are thrilled to have received this major funding. The Gallery continues to remain closed to the public. We have made the decision to extend our planned Spring program of exhibitions through Summer until 13 March. This will give visitors the opportunity to experience five amazing new exhibitions, including our unique Wall Drawing project featuring eleven contemporary Australian artists making work directly onto the walls of the gallery. Visit the MPRG website or sign up to the Gallery’s e-newsletter to find out more about our upcoming programs and activities. While you are online, you can also check out our free kids’ creative activities, listen to a podcast with an MPRG-exhibited artist, or do a linocut workshop with renowned printmaker David Frazer, which has had over 17,000 views. We are looking forward to welcoming you back to the gallery hopefully soon.
MPRG Gallery Director Danny Lacy
mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au Civic Reserve, Dunns Road, Mornington Ph 5950 1580
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Frankston Times
21 September 2021
Basketball Victoria announced the coaches for the 2022 State Team Program last week. It said newly appointed head coaches as well as those returning to the program “highlight the strength of the Basketball Victoria
State Team coaching group in 2022”. Basketball Victoria CEO Nick Honey said it was pleasing to have an “amazing pool of elite coaches put their hands up for Victorian state team positions, especially throughout the difficulties of 2021”. “Even in the midst of a challenging year with lockdowns and restrictions, we continue to be impressed by the calibre of coaches who want to be part of the state team program and appreciate those who applied for positions,” Honey said. “Selecting coaches from an elite group shows the great position Victorian basketball is in and we’re excited to have the best coaches and staff to support Victoria’s state teams next year.”
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