A collection of exhibitions, fashion parades and wearable art performances held in Canberra as a national competition. Four performances will be staged each year, with one major performance and a series of smaller shows.
This is your opportunity to be part of an exciting range of cross arts performances in Australia’s capital city.
We invite all community groups of the performing arts and visual arts to join this special program to discover the very best in the creative arts.
There are a wide range of activities in which you can be involved:
from dance and music, to circus and opera.
A thrilling spectacle of light and sound within the theatre space will be devised for a performance to link into the Canberra Festival in March each year. Works of both fashion and wearable art will be sought from around Australia and overseas. There will be a wide range of awards and prizes to encourage the very best artists to participate.
Apart from the major event there will be a series of concerts / exhibitions / fashion parades / forums and demonstrations, workshops and sales of great variety. We encourage students to enter, and will be providing encouragement awards of workshops with some of Australia’s greatest designers. We encourage teachers to write the categories of themes into their programs for the year.
Wearable art is not simple dressmaking: it is reaching beyond the ordinary to incorporate art techniques to achieve the wildest dreams of the imagination. Even the fashion sections, which will be in the areas of After Five and Evening Wear, will need to be inspired works of art.
It is not only textile arts that we should see – rather it is whatever materials and techniques will best supply the means you need to create your dream. Metal and scrap material as well as plastics and electronic parts, can provide exciting new twists to art for the body.
Please contact us to arrange a special meeting and mini performance for your members or students, and feel free to discuss any ideas for the production with us. Light and sound people, as well as stage designers and chorus costume production will all be part of the network.
Marlene Greenwood Limberlost Photo by Elizabeth Hawke of Capital Magazine
We will be seeking support from the business and corporate community, as well as from art institutions and all arts organisations.
You have seen the many small beginnings of this venture in the local performances with the name of Fashion Flair & Fantasy under the direction of Marlene Greenwood. From now on things are steaming ahead to become one of Australia’s best performances and most enviable competitions.
Please join the fun!