Kids Corner
ARTS in the RANGES
Proudly sponsored by Macedon Ranges Art Group, Phoenix Macedon Ranges Art & Craft, The Gallery Mt Macedon, The Gisborne Singers, Duneira, The Licorice Allsorts, Macedon Music, The Mount Players and the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society, Central Victoria
Macedon Ranges Photographic Society What a great start to the club year with many new faces joining us at the first meeting of the year. On February 13, Adam Brentnall presented a fascinating range of images and photographic techniques at our technical night. He provided detailed information about all the camera settings used for all the images shown on the night – very useful for expanding our expertise in this type of photography The club is holding a Camera Basics Workshop on March 4 from 10am to 4pm. Please contact the club president, Deborah Mullins, if you are interested in attending. Coming up at the March club night, members will be presenting images where they have worked on one photograph only and prepared two versions: one colour and one monochromatic. It will be great to see which version is the most impressive! We will also have a couple of mini tech sessions on ’Exposure – getting it right’ and ‘How to process RAW files’. The Tuesday Tech night – this month being held on Monday March 20 – will be demonstrating the use of the software program 'Lightroom’. Macedon Ranges Photographic Society meets twice a month at the Riddells Creek Neighbourhood House. New members are most welcome. For more information please contact Deborah Mullins on 0411 530 015 or visit www.macedonranges-photography.org.au
Image by John Spring
Macedon Ranges Photographic Society members greatly enjoyed a recent ‘Walkabout’ at Paramoor Winery.
12 Gisborne Gazette March 2017
Favourites return to the Church of the Resurrection FOMAR: Friends of Music at Resurrection
Keri Adcock prepares for the March 10-13 show.
New Phoenix member to join in exhibition Local painter Keri Adcock is the latest artist to join the Phoenix Macedon Ranges Art and Craft group, in time to exhibit her works in the March exhibition. Painting for more than 30 years, Keri began working in oils before trying other media such as pastels and acrylics. “I enjoy mostly painting landscapes, seascapes; often with birds and children in them,” Keri says. “I paint for peace and hope it shows in my works.” She creates framed and unframed works, which will be available at the coming exhibition. “I joined Phoenix because the members all create a wonderful variety of art and craft which makes a refreshing show and display of very clever people,” Keri says. The art group welcomed Keri into the group late last year and will have her work on display alongside other paintings, pottery, glass art, jewellery, woodcraft and textile art at the Old Gisborne Courthouse. All work will be available for purchase. The exhibition opening will be at 7.30pm on Friday March 10 and the show will be open from 10am to 4pm on March 11, 12 and 13. Entry is free. For more information, visit www.phoenixmrac.com or contact Margaret Keen on 5428 2835. Raquel Stevens
This year's concert season begins on Sunday March 5 with the return of the Seraphim Trio presenting their most ambitious project yet. The Trio will explore the greatest piano trios of all time and feature the composers Haydn, Dvorak and Ravel. Join Helen Ayres (violin), Anna Goldsworthy (piano) and Tim Nankervis (cello) in this feast of music. The venue for the concert is the Church of the Resurrection, Macedon; starting time is at 2.30pm. Bookings are on Trybooking.com The second concert will be on Sunday March 26 at 3pm and feature the Australian Chamber Choir presenting A London Coronation to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. The choir will present the marvellous music that helped to make her coronation remarkable and is a veritable treasury of the best English choral music from the past five centuries. The choir will be accompanied by pipe organ, trumpets, brass and kettle drums and will be the closest thing to the “Westminster Abbey experience” that you will ever hear in Gisborne/Macedon Ranges. Intending patrons please note that the last two concerts in 2016 by the choir at Macedon were sold out prior to the event. Don’t miss out, book now at the following website: www.AusChoir.org/book-now Winston Deason
The Australian Chamber Choir will sing in Macedon on March 26.