Hayley Gillespie
WHAT’S ON in Cairns
It’s the most wonderful time of the Year!!!! And it’s not even Christmas. Time to enjoy art outdoors in our perfect winter climate. As always Cairns gets to indulge in all that is offered during the Festival period.
roving Gypsy hut ridden by the bearded lady. Roll up and be entertained by Madam Mini while you wait to see Physic Extra Small for your spirit animal card reading and illustration, created right before your eyes. This fun event is repeated at Carnival on Collins and is free Cairns Festival is an annual celebration of Tropical to take part. All the details are available on Cairns lifestyle with 10 days of performances, exhibitions, film Festival website along with many more events to enjoy. and the ever-popular Grand Parade and Carnival on Collins. Cairns Art Gallery Do not miss the incredible works coming to Cairns The Library Art Gallery by Patricia Piccinini. ‘Life Clings Closest’, The City Lights program engages local and national Piccinini’s work is drawn from the real world but artists to create large-scale projection and multimedia they are often not anything that we recognise. Their installations in the Cairns CBD. strangeness challenges our acceptance of the different. They are hybrids drawn from the animal Since 2015 the Cairns City Library has been world and beyond, but somehow, we can see ourselves transformed with large-scale projections that in them. transform the historic building into a gallery of pictures, sound and light. Working with different This exhibition brings together works from the last artists each year the City Lights projections speak twenty years of Piccinini’s practice, as well as a new to the culture, history and lifestyle of Tropical North group of works inspired by the unique environment Queensland, presenting unique perspectives from our of Far North Queensland. These works celebrate the creative community. wondrous ecology of the area, but also wonders at how we can cope with the overwhelming challenges The City Library will be on every night of the Cairns facing it. What interests Piccinini is creating stories that Festival from 7pm-11pm and is completely free. Starts reflect what it’s like to be alive today. She is drawn 23rd August until 01 September. to the complexity that arises when the rational, the emotional and the ethical collide. Esplanade Roving the Esplanade on August 25th will be Have a wonderful winter x “spirit animal” reader Crystal Small, look out for her
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