Beyond Age - A MAP Group project in conjunction with the Shire of Murrundindi
Beyond Age exhibition dates
Kinglake West Mechanics Institute Hall
1055 Whittlesea-Kinglake Road
Kinglake West
20th-21st May 2010– 12.30pm-3.30pm
22nd-23rd May 2010– 10am-4pm
Yea Shire Hall
High Street
Yea
27th May 2010 -12.30pm-3.30pm
Strath Creek Hall
Ferguson Street
Strath Creek
29th-30th May 2010 – 10am-4pm
Alexandra Masonic Lodge
Cnr Nihil and Webster Street
Alexandra
2nd June 2010 – 12.30pm-3.30pm
4th-6th June 2010 – 10am-4pm
Taggerty Mechanics Institute Hall
Intersection of Maroondah Hwy and Taggerty-Thornton Road
Taggerty
12-14th June 2010 – 10am-4pm
Marysville Tavern at Crossways
4 Woods Point Road
Marysville
19th -20th June 2010 – 10am-4pm
World Trade Centre
Melbourne
October, dates TBA
MAP Group Photographers involved in this project include Alan Attwood, Julie Bowyer, Andrew Chapman, Rodney Dekker, Susan Gordon-Brown, Brent Lukey,Morganna Magee, Dale Mann, Jaime Murcia, Kristian Scott and Ellen Smith, with writer Hanna Mills.
Beyond Reasonable Drought
MAP Group Vice-President Andrew Chapman is never one to let an opportunity pass. HIs description of how and why the picture at left came to be follows:
On Monday May 3 2010, Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was visiting Berwick in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs. During a street walk he dropped into Collins Booksellers and offered to sign a few copies of his biography. Well, I wasn't going to let an opportunity like that go by!
I quickly looked around and found a copy of "Beyond Reasonable Drought" and said... “Tony, here is a book you should buy”. He had a quick look and agreed. So I asked The Age photographer Angela Wylie (thanks Angela) if she would mind snapping a photo or 2 for MAPs facebook site and webpage.
Abbott has caused much political havoc through the climate debate this year, so hopefully he'll sit down by the fire, put his slippers on and have a good read, then phone up Malcolm Turnbull for a long chat............... weeeeelllllllll.................. maybe not.
But if a pic is worth a thousand words, then a couple of hundred pics in BRD might change some of his thinking.
Picture by Angela Wylie - The Age
One of the aims of the ‘Beyond Reasonable Drought’ project was to raise funds to help people affected by the drought. Recently, MAP Group Co-Secretary, Collin Abbott and Vice-President Andrew Chapman met with Val Lang from AWIA (Australian Women in Agriculture) www.awia.org.au - to present the organisation with a cheque for $5400.00, which represents half of the royalties from the sale of the book of the project.