Collage Club

The Collage Club presented by Lismore Regional Gallery & facilitated by Claudie Frock. Generously supported by The Lismore Produce Market and The Quad. Every Thursday 3-6pm - On the grounds of the Northern Rivers Conservatorium - 152 Keen St, Lismore. All materials provided.

Recovery Grants For Creatives

• Provide targeted support to individuals and groups in the ‘small-to-medium’ arts and cultural sector in communities that have been directly impacted by the 2022 floods or extreme weather conditions in NSW.

• Mitigate the direct impact of the floods or extreme weather conditions on the livelihoods of artists, museum workers, arts/cultural organisations and groups in NSW.

• Create greater to generate revenue and income in the cultural and creative sectors to build resilience against future shocks.

International Dance Day

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2022 AT 11 AM – 4 PM

Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre in collaboration with Lismore QUAD are proud to be hosting a free inclusive community event for International Dance Day on Thursday May 5th, 11-4pm.

IDD celebrates dance in all its many styles, genres and flavours. We are excited about the diversity of dance practice and dancing communities that exist on the Northern Rivers. We also recognise the need to be sensitive to the current challenges our broader community is facing. We believe in the potential for dance to unite, uplift and connect and hope we are able to provide a small simple moment of joy.

The event features three inclusive, joy-filled workshops led by Sprung!! Ensemble artists, demos from local community dance artists/organisations, interactive dance games and Creative First Aid (Resilient Lismore) offerings.

If you are a Northern Rivers dance artist, facilitator or organisation and would like to be involved in IDD (with a demonstration, display or free participation in our ‘directory of dance’ - an information station were you can display fliers, timetables and class descriptions.) Email: katie@sprung.org.au

Story Catching

Sharing your story can help to process a traumatic event. Lismore Flood Stories storycatcher Jeanti St Clair offers one-on-one story-catching sessions and group workshops. Based on the impactful Lismore Flood Stories audio project, which explored how people were impacted and recovered from the 2017 Lismore Flood, these story-catching sessions and workshops are designed to support people to process what has happened to them, their family, friends and community. 

Claudie Frock

Claudie Frock is a Northern Rivers based multi-disciplinary artist, educator, performer, community engagement practitioner, and accessibility advocate. Her practice spans, drawing, painting, soft form sculpture, natural printmaking, collage, collaborative art engagement, writing and performance. Claudie currently works as the Lismore Regional Gallery Community Engagement Officer and is the creator of Peggy Popart - art tour guide extraordinaire, who has been entertaining and introducing kids and their families to art for over ten years. 

She is also a Co-Founder of 100 Wonder Place and Co-Producer of The Arty Party Kids’ Festival. And Founder and Curator of Arch Studio Gallery in the Lismore Quad. Claudie is dedicated to creating accessible spaces and events and worked as the Arts Facilitator and Studio Coordinator at REDinc’s Supported Art Studio for over a decade. She has worked closely with members of the Lismore Deaf community to produce events and exhibitions in community and within Lismore Regional Gallery’s exhibition and public programs.

Claudie is passionate about the role of cultural and creative connection to support the recovery of the Northern Rivers community.

Round About Theatre

Roundabout Theatre is one of Australia’s most popular outdoor theatre companies.  Since 2005, from their base in Mullumbimby, they have toured shows to hundreds of festivals and events nationally, delighting tens of thousands of people. 

Roundabout theatre shows are made to inspire human connection, playfulness and imagination and to bring magic and creative adventure into public spaces. 

ACTIVITIES FOR QUAD 

Interactive games, magical treasure hunts and big collaborative craft projects for kids 3-8 years.

Meraki Music

Unashamedly queer, non-binary singer-songwriter, storyteller and part-time comedian Meraki presents a live show that could quiet a football field. Meraki's music weaves a rich tapestry of activist sentiment that follows the love story between nature and spirit and explores the depths of capitalism, the patriarchy and colonialism in a way that will make you laugh and cry simultaneously. From outstandingly charismatic and intimate to energetic, all-encompassing and funky, their silky, heartfelt voice and melodic lines will take you deep inside your heart for a moment of raw storytelling.

Overtopping

Dance, performance, multimedia, exhibitions, workshops and more! Lismore’s artists are about to transform an empty CBD shop space at Lismore Central into a creative hotbed called The Overtopping. The Overtopping is a studio that welcomes people to engage as creative collaborators, participants or simply spectators in an inspiring creative response to the recent Flood in Lismore.

The Overtopping is an artist-led initiative that invites the public to creatively engage with some of Lismore’s most talented emerging and professional experimental artists to explore the power of resilience, connection and community to create a new, stronger, more accepting and freeing community

Real Art Works

A post disability arts company

Realartworks inc. Is a not for profit arts company dedicated to developing creative arts projects utilising the skills of artists of varying abilites to interact with other professional artists or marginalised groups (culturally socio-economically or geographically) to create multi art form outcomes with a high level of ‘quality’ that foster creative culture and  encourage social awareness.