Pick Me Up is your guide to arts, culture and events in Yarra. Our latest guide is now available as an accessible PDF or printed booklet, and features events from July until December 2018. 

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un Projects is delighted to announce Wiradjuri woman, artist and writer Hannah Donnelly as the inaugural un Writer in Residence. A new initiative from independent arts publisher un Projects, the un Writer in Residence program offers an emerging-to-mid career Australian arts writer a five-month paid writing residency.

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Applications are now open for the annual ROI Art Prize. The annual prize of $10,000 is a recognised and valued prize. Artworks in the media of painting, limited edition printmaking, photography and drawing, and created within two years of the closing date, are eligible, and is open to artists living, having a studio, or exhibiting in galleries within the Cities of Yarra, Darebin or Moreland.

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A group of keen community members with interests in heritage, architecture, urban planning and local history have been appointed to Yarra’s Heritage Advisory Committee.

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Bus Projects have partnered with Collingwood College for the third year in a row, to develop a project as part of Bus's Concentric Curriculum program. Students are developing games with artist Lee Shang Lun.

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 Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program

Yarra City Council is proud to announce our new Room to Create artists in residence Michelle Mantsio, Andrew Atchison and Kati Javan. Council’s Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program, commenced in late 2017 as a pilot program, across three under-utilised spaces within council owned buildings.

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Check out the recently announced performance times for next week's inaugural CHANGES event.

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Australian singer-songwriter Laura Imbruglia joins an impressive line-up of talent performing at this year's Leaps and Bounds Musical Festival, celebrating live music in Yarra.

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A marker for the Stolen Generations was launched in the Atherton Gardens Housing Estate on Saturday 26 May, the 20th anniversary of National Sorry Day.

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un Projects is now calling for proposals for un Magazine 12.2, co-edited by Maddee Clark and Neika Lehman with sub-editor Daniel Browning, to be published in November 2018.

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The Women’s Art Register have partnered with volunteers from Melbourne University’s Grimwade Centre to embark on a conservation project which will rehouse 8000 photographic slides which form part of the WAR archives. The slides contain images of artists work from the 1970s until the 90s. 

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Our Victoria Park projector is on the move. Since 2011, the projector has been lighting up the Bob Rose Stand at the former home of the Collingwood Football Club. In 2016, the projector relocated to Peel Street Park in Collingwood for a very popular series of projections over the winter months before returning to the Bob Rose Stand in 2017.

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Entries are now open for the 2018 Australian National Brooch show. This exhibition is an initiative of the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, and will be on display in the Fitzroy library from 6 July to 31 August. 

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A new mural by Mike Makatron, Andrew Bourke and Bryan Itch has been painted in Clifton Hill. Wilderness on Wellington depicts animals and plants of the Great Forest National park, alongside a tribute to the buildings' former life as a bookshop. 

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Next Wave is a biennial festival of contemporary art made by emerging artists from around Australia with a focus on creative risk taking. The 2018 Next Wave program includes performances, exhibitions and events across a number of locations around Melbourne. 

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Applications are now open to exhibit, and to be part of the emerging writers program at SEVENTH gallery. Applications close on Sunday May 20th. 

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The Emely Baker Centre will be used for the upcoming exhibition Wayfind, as part of the Next Wave Festival, 2018.

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Registrations to participate in the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival (13-30 SEPT 2018) are now open, and close on 28 May.

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The Print Council of Australia are now inviting submissions from emerging and established art historians, curators and writers, to write an original research essay that considers an aspect of Australian print culture over the past 50 years. 

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