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Space for art, but not on the Moon
VICKI Sullivan’s Moon Goddess was sent aboard a rocket to the Moon. Picture: Daniel Haritos
FOR 10 days earlier this month it seemed there was no limit to the heights Vicki Sullivan’s art would reach. Tucked safely in a time capsule aboard a lander being carried upwards by a Vulcan rocket, the digitised artworks seemed destined to be among the first to land on the Moon. However, although Sullivan’s works made it into space, they also made it back to a fiery end on reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Technical problems saw the Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission 1 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with the Artists on the Moon or Annex 9, exhibition fail to make its planned Moon landing (Art destined to be out of this world, The News 9/1/24). “Peregrine Mission One has concluded. We look to the future and our next mission to the Moon, Griffin Mission One,” the project’s organisers Canadian physicist, entrepreneur, and storyteller Dr Samuel Peralta and art publisher Didi Menendez, posted online on 20 January. Sullivan is just as optimistic, saying she was the first women with their art in space and the first Australians, “so that’s pretty cool”. Rather than burning up, she felt it would have been “more romantic to drift around in space”. “There are more launches planned and I have quite a few more pieces in those.”
THE Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula has members from business and not-for-profit groups. Picture: Supplied
Hear candidates over breakfast TWO of the candidates for the Saturday 2 March Dunkley byelection will speak at the next breakfast meeting of the Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula on Thursday 1 February. The meeting from 7.30am at Commonfolk Mornington will be the second breakfast meeting for the newly merged group, which provides “strategic leadership, advocacy and influence to help attract government support and investment in the regions”. The two Dunkley candidates are Labor’s Jodie Belyea and Liberal Nathan Conroy, the mayor of Frankston. CEO Josh Sinclair said the committee’s new not-for-profit member, Fusion Mornington Peninsula, will make a presentation about youth homelessness in the region.
Fusion provides accommodation and support for young people experiencing homelessness between the ages of 15 and 21. “They have a special presence in our Frankston and Mornington Peninsula community, and the committee will be supporting Fusion where we can throughout the course of this year,” Sinclair said. The event will provide an important opportunity for businesses and community leaders to learn more about Fusion’s work and what the community can all do to support their efforts. Sinclair said the Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula was planning a full calendar of meets for 2024, including a Future Forum on 16 April to discuss with industry and civic leaders what Frankston and the peninsula “looks like” in two decades time.
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