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BAM actors win in Sydney TWO actors from Frankston’s BAM Arts have won awards for their performances in a short film. BAM Arts is a creative arts and performance group for people with disabilities. It entered a short film into this year’s Focus On Ability Short Film Festival Awards. At the awards night in Sydney earlier this month, actors Kimba Wall and Pheobe Nowak shared the best actor award. Their film The Healer won best film. The film is about a young girl who heals others by dancing. BAM Arts
CEO Lisa Murphy said she was “surprised and thrilled” to come home from Sydney with the judge’s choice awards. “The film The Healer was made last year in our Thursday filmmaking program. The initial idea was devised collaboratively, and then they worked as a crew and team to put it together with professional lighting, sound, and filmmaking people coaching,” she said. “The film itself is basically about loneliness, the power of dance, and connection. “Kimba and Pheobe have been stu-
dents of BAM for five years each. They do a number of projects - dance, drama, and visual arts.” The Focus on Ability short film festival is in its 15th year. Last year 281 finalists were selected from entrants across 19 countries. On Saturday, 2 December BAM Arts will host an open event with arts and dance classes to mark the international day of persons with disabilities. For more information on BAM Arts visit bamarts.org.au Brodie Cowburn
KIMBA Wall (second from left) and Phoebe Nowak (inset) won awards at the 2023 Focus On Ability short film festival. Pictures: Supplied
PENINSULA Pearls on Peninsula Link. Picture: Supplied
Sculpture commission on offer WORK has begun to create a new sculpture to call Peninsula Link home. McClelland Gallery is accepting expressions of interest for its $300,000 “Southern Way McClelland Commission”. The successful applicant will create an artwork to be installed along Peninsula Link adjacent to the Skye Road bridge near the southbound Langwarrin exit ramp. The new sculpture will be installed in 2025. Peninsula Pearls by Manon Van Kouswijk was placed at the site in 2021. McClelland Gallery director Lisa Byrne is encouraging artists to “think expansively and creatively as to what may be possible for the Skye Road site.” “Don’t be swayed by what has previously been installed. Bring your own interpretation to this process. There is no other public sculpture commission in Australia like this,”
Byrne said. “By inviting artists to submit expressions of interest McClelland aims to deliver best practice, not requiring artists to submit full design briefs, engineering considerations, or detailed budgets. It’s the quality of the ideas and concept that counts. McClelland will work with the winning artist and Southern Way to turn the winning EOI into a reality.” The sculptures are rotated every four years as part of a partnership between Southern Way and McClelland Gallery. In the last month the Love Flower and Reflective Lullaby sculptures have been removed from their roadside sites to make way for new works (“Gnome no more by road” The News 17/10/23). Expressions of interest for the Skye Road sculpture site close on 8 December, 2023. For more information visit mcclelland.org.au/pages/publicsculpture-commissions
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