Cooktown Art Festival 2007
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th August
Art Festival Poster
Cooktown Art will be on Show during the weekend of 10th to 12th August.
Come and experience the Art and Culture of Cooktown and Surrounds with many different Art Sectors coming together for one weekend.
Involve yourself in indigenous Painting workshops and rock art tours. View the works from local artists including, painting, sculpting, pottery, photography, music, poetry and crafts, plus many more. There will be opportunities to purchase some of the works and take a little piece of Cooktown home with you.
Various public halls and businesses will be exhibiting works and holding demonstrations.
Listed here a just a few of the exhibitions and events happening at different venues.
Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery
Opening night celebrations including an auction of local artists works
Natures Powerhouse
Hope Vale Artists Exhibition on Verandah
Jazz at the Powerhouse Saturday Night Please book $30 per head or $25 for Jazz Club Members
Poets Breakfast Sunday morning from 9.30pm brought to you by Cooktown Writers Group
Local Artist - Waratah Nicholls opening her silk painting exhibition
Sovereign Resort
Tess Buhmann Photography Exhibition
Cooktown Creative Arts Association (Old Railway Building)
Various Exhibitions
Jewellery making demonstrations
Card making demonstrations plus more
Cooktown CWA Hall
Not Over the Hill Group exhibition
Devonshire Tea
Lions Hall
Rossville & Bloomfield Artists
Shadows Restaurant
Local Artist Kerry Pallot Demonstrations and painting
Exhibition of own works and other artists
1770
Sculpture
James Cook Museum
Pots in the Chapel
Bell Boyton Pottery Exhibition
Potting wheel demonstrations Saturday & Sunday 10-12 & 2-4pm
True Colours of Indigenous Art
Gallery Open both days - Local artists Joseph McIvor
Cook Shire Hall
Cooktown State School Exhibition & Art Auction
Joseph McIvor Workshop – Didgeridoo making and painting
Helen Gordon & Michael Conrad – Exhibition and demonstration
Youth Club
Disco for teens and pre-teens Saturday evening
Cooktown Hotel (Top Pub)
Wallaby Creek Musicians
Masquerading Street Musicians
The Buskers
For more information on events please contact Cooktown School of Art Society
on 07 4069 5322 (phone/fax) or email: bazbetatmay@bigpond.com.au
