By Goya Dmytryshchak
The industrial revolution is beckoning.
A series of four workshops is being held for artists who may want to develop a project for the biennial Art & Industry Festival.
Celebrating the western suburbs’ industrial heritage, festival highlights include the Industrial Fashion parade, featuring performances and costumes inspired by local industries.
The last festival included films celebrating the lives of working men and women in Hobsons Bay which were screened in shipping containers. There was also a photographic exhibition about night-shift workers displayed at night.
Festival director Donna Jackson, of Hubcap Productions, said the workshops were a way for artists to meet and collaborate.
“I’m trying to get people to come along who might have ideas for the festival or they might want to do an art project but they don’t know how to do it,” she said.
The workshops will be held around Hobsons Bay on October 6 and 13 and November 3 and 19.
The first will be at the South Kingsville studio of award-winning jewellery and costume designer Anna Kolusniewski.
Twenty places are available. Applications close September 30.
To apply, email donna@hubcapproductions.com.au
