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25.01.2022 To our creative network and beyond! Three residencies are available across the state with the opportunity to immerse and respond to local collections... and one of the places is the North Midlands with the artist residing in Carnamah! It's a 20k package with the residency running September to November this year. Follow the link for all the details... https://bit.ly/34w0LZs. The residencies are being run by ART ON THE MOVE as part of the WA State Government’s Regional Exhibi...tion Touring Boost, and in the North Midlands region supported by the Carnamah Historical Society & Museum + North Midlands Project teams. We're super excited about this and feel very privileged to be part of this wonderful program celebrating history and heritage through the arts. Please share far and wide with your networks :) Museum of the Goldfields - Museum of the Great Southern Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

24.01.2022 Join us in 2021 with a paid residency to advance your artistic practice and create new work while sharing your skills with the communities of the North Midlands in WA's Mid West region. Residencies are open to all creatives throughout WA practising any medium. Find out more at www.northmidlands.org.au/Creative-in-Residence Photo of Cloudy Day by Delys Fraser art workshop at Yarra Yarra Lakes as part of the 2019 Act-Belong-Commit Heritage Festival.

23.01.2022 We've repurposed a squash court inside the pavilion at the Perenjori Community Day! Drop in for a free Act-Belong-Commit basket making workshop, to grab some books or DVDs or to try your chances with a game of giant jenga!

23.01.2022 Congratulations to our 2019 Act Belong Commit youth program trainee Shakira for securing a position in the 2021 Public Sector Commission’s Aboriginal Traineeship Program!! Every success and keep shining Shakira :)

22.01.2022 Pia Harris will be performing at the Act Belong Commit Community Afternoon in Mingenew on Sunday 30 May 2021. Pia is an international Soprano based in Perth, Western Australia after several years in London. Since her Masters at Royal College of Music London and training programme with English National Opera, she has sung extensively with Opera Holland Park London in Holland Park and at the Royal Albert Hall, New York Lyric Opera at Carnegie Hall, The National Opera Center and... Symphony Space, and West Australian Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre, Government House Ballroom and the Supreme Court Gardens. In 2020 Pia performed Gretel in Hansel and Gretel for West Australian Opera’s Opera in the Park, as a part of Perth Festival to an audience of 12,000. Pia was to perform ‘Jou-Jou’ in Opera Holland Park’s Merry Widow and ‘Susanna’ in New York Lyric’s Le Nozze di Figaro later in the year, unfortunately both postponed due to Covid-19. Pia opened the Swansongs Spring Festival to great acclaim, performed in the WAO Standing Room Only concert series and represented Freeze Frame Opera on the Opera Truck. Since 2019 Pia has been part of the incredible West Australian Opera Community Outreach and Schools’ Tours in the Great Southern, Mid West Region and Metro area. For Breaksea, Pia has led numerous vocal workshops bringing her international experience to regional WA, performed as the Soprano soloist in By Other Eyes (2018), the role of the ‘Whale’ in Drift (2019) and performed in Shoal (2019) and Breaksea Singing Festival (2020). Pia is currently delivering singing workshops as part of the View from the Magpie's Nest in Albany and is the coordinator of the Breaksea Youth Mentorship Program. EVENT: Act Belong Commit Community Afternoon in Mingenew from 1pm on Sunday 30 May 2021 on the golf course opposite the Recreation Centre on Showgrounds Road (of if it is raining on the day, at the rec centre).

19.01.2022 We look forward to seeing you at the Act-Belong-Commit TS Community Day this Saturday at Byrne Park next to the Three Springs Shire Office. Free drop in activities start at 11am and time capsule being dug up at 1pm! :)

19.01.2022 During our Act Belong Commit Community Day in Three Springs on 17 October 2020 a time capsule buried 20 years earlier was unearthed! You can now check out its contents online at www.northmidlands.org.au/three-springs-time-capsule

18.01.2022 Our plans were to put on a really special Halloween event this year at the Macpherson Homestead in Carnamah. As some of the entertainment we'd lined up is now unavailable we've decided to put the event back in its box which we'll reopen in 2021.

18.01.2022 You can check out Mikaela's unique crocheted works at The Bank Gallery in Carnamah until 2pm today and 10am to 2pm on Saturday and Sunday of next weekend :)

16.01.2022 We're super excited to be welcoming two fresh faces to the North Midlands Project team! Catie and Stacey are helping design and deliver our Act-Belong-Commit culture, arts, history and heritage activities throughout the region. Please join us in welcoming them to the team. #StrongerTogether

15.01.2022 Act Belong Commit TS Community Day is happening in Three Springs from 11am tomorrow, Sunday 23rd of May in the town hall on Hall Street. The day will include a wonderful free workshop with twig and crochet sculptor Mikaela Castledine, the opportunity to check out and add to the echidna she is creating, giant games including a massive reproduction of the 1940s board-game 'Wheat Convoy', weekend tunes with live DJ, book exchange and the opportunity to have a closer look at the contents of the time capsule unearthed last year.

13.01.2022 We're looking forward to being part of the Perenjori Community Day at the Sports Complex in PJ from 11am this Saturday. We'll be there with a pop-up book exchange, live DJ, kids art activities and by popular demand, Act-Belong-Commit Bush Basket Making workshops with Glenda Blyth (otherwise known as Basketcase Lady the Second). We look forward to seeing you there :)

12.01.2022 Want to have a go at making one of these? Come along to the Perenjori Community Day on Saturday and join us and the wonderful Basketcase Lady the Second for our free Act-Belong-Commit Bush Basket Making Workshop. Glenda will be there, sharing her basket-making skills, from 11am through to 3pm.

11.01.2022 In 2019 we facilitated a group exhibition on the Scottish and indigenous members of the Macpherson family who left their mark on multiple locations in the North Midlands and across the Mid West region. The exhibition was timed to coincide with the historic Macpherson Homestead turning 150; and was one of a series of exhibitions held across WA under the overarching theme of The Alternative Archive. Last week a survey exhibition with selected works from each exhibition across t...he state was launched at John Curtin Gallery in Perth. Among the pieces selected was the enormous work created by Gabrielle Butler of Perenjori. This impressively large oil and acyclic work spans eight canvases and was sized to fill the largest exhibition wall at The Bank Gallery in Carnamah. It was a special moment to check Gabby's wonderful artwork within such an impressive venue and exhibition. The survey exhibition for The Alternative Archive is showing at John Curtin Gallery until 30th of July. John Curtin Gallery can be easily found using Google Maps and is open Monday to Friday 11am-5pm and on Sunday 12-4pm. You can also check out the exhibition through its catalogue, which can be found on the coffee table at The Exchange in Carnamah. Our 'A Pastoralist Family' exhibition for The Alternative Archive in 2019 is fully available on our website at www.northmidlands.org.au/collection/alternative-archive

11.01.2022 One and all are invited to come along to the free Act Belong Commit Community Afternoon in Mingenew this Sunday afternoon :)

11.01.2022 Over a thousand people visited The Bank Gallery in Carnamah during September and checked out Bridget Baldock's exhibition Act-Belong-Commit Botanical. If you haven't yet had the chance, this free exhibition is open daily from 11am to 5pm until Wednesday 7th of October.

10.01.2022 'The Hills over Yarra Yarra Lakes' by Ben Brennan, created during one of his visits to the North Midlands. This work and many others by Ben, are presently on show at DiVerse Studio at 392 Oxford Street in Mount Hawthorn. Acrylic on Canvas, 76 x 91cm.

09.01.2022 See you 11am Saturday 17 Oct at Byrnes Park Three Springs

06.01.2022 We invite you to join us in Three Springs this Sunday for our Act Belong Commit TS Community Day :)

06.01.2022 Matt Reuben James Ward from West Australian Opera will be performing with Pia Harris at the Act Belong Commit Community Afternoon in Mingenew this Sunday 30th of May. Matt was born and raised in regional Western Australia in Carnarvon, Katanning and Albany, and went on to study at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Opera / Music Theatre) and the Royal College of Music London (Master of Performance, RCM Yvonne Wells Award). Matt now leads an international career a...s a singer, director and artistic director of Breaksea. Matt has directed and produced numerous performances in Perth, regional Western Australia, London and Melbourne. As a performer Matt has toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom to over 75 theatres in numerous five-star shows and as part of two Olivier Award winning productions. Collaborating with other organisations on community outreach, Matt has been engaged by West Australian Opera, City of Joondalup, City of Perth, City of Albany, Operasonic UK, Royal College of Music Sparks Family Orchestra & Chorus London, BBC Symphony Family Orchestra & Chorus, BBC Proms Sing Plus and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Glyndebourne.

05.01.2022 MID WEST ARTS... It's all about strengthening our creative community and we are so proud to be part of this new project. www.midwestarts.org.au

05.01.2022 Lovely article in the Midwest Times and Northern Guardian by Lisa Favazzo about our Act-Belong-Commit TS Community Day. We hope to see you this Saturday at Byrne Park next to the Three Springs Shire office at 11am.

03.01.2022 Are you thinking about starting a new creative community group in the North Midlands, or need some assistance with one already running? Get in touch! We can help with planning, marketing, insurance and providing a space for the group to run activities. #StrongerTogether [email protected] l 0419 766 808... Mural: 'Together We Are Stronger' by Di Taylor and local youth from the North Midlands.

03.01.2022 And a lovely day was had...

02.01.2022 All set up at Byrne Park in Three Springs for the Act-Belong-Commit TS Community Day. Live music, big games, art workshops + activities, sausage sizzle, free book + DVD exchange, vintage cars, gemstone display, wool spinners plus more. 1pm we're digging up the time capsule!

02.01.2022 SPRING is here and so is a series of art, culture, history and heritage activities for the whole family to enjoy. Follow the link to see what's on! https://bit.ly/3gLeFuu Photo taken by Lizzy Robinson Printmaker at our Act-Belong-Commit Creative Thinkers youth program.