Manificent Manga

It’s not everyday you see your ideas made into a large scale public artwork, but that’s exactly what’s happening at Morisset PCYC. Local girl Lillian Webb, 16, dropped into Morisset’s newly opened Art Experiment, a temporary cultural space next to Woolies, and showed resident artist Margrete Erling some of her sketches. Margrete was so blown away by the images that she asked Lillian if she could use them in a PCYC community art project.

The drawings are executed in the uber hip Japanese Manga style, a style which originates in hard core comic book action, with a dose of High School The Musical thrown in for good measure. They'll be used as the design for a mosaic mural to be installed at Morisset PCYC. Lillian has drawn a boy and a girl, so we’re going to use the funky girl outside the PCYC ladies toilet and the cute guy outside the gents. Going to the loo will never be so much fun!

Margrete is already hard at work preparing the mosaic mural for Friday’s  Morisset PCYC opening (3-6pm on Friday 21^st October: not to be missed!) and you’ll have your chance to add your pieces to the design on the day. Come along and help bring Lillian’s design to life. You don’t need any experience with mosaics or murals, or any particular skills, as Margrete will be on hand to help out. 

art2264 photo shoot at Morisset PCYC!

We’re looking forward to the launch of art2264 @ Morisset PCYC and today, to promote the event, we hosted a hip hop photo shoot. A great posse of local dancers turned up, led by Ashlee, a dance tutor from the Deborah Lee Dance Academy. As a photographer from The Lakes Mail and The Newcastle Herald snapped away, we’re pleased to announce that all of our crew were thoroughly professional, doing some amazing dance moves and striking poses that would make even a yoga Jedi weep with envy. 

Thanks to everyone who came along, particularly Deborah Lee and Ashlee and their students, many of whom arrived in costume and stage make up. This is doubly impressive given that they managed all this within half an hour of the end of school! We are officially in awe of the helicopter move and have been practicing it on the kitchen floor (works on linoleum, just plain dangerous on tile). 

Also great respect to those who came direct from school, wearing their uniforms, and still managed to have a good time.  

Finally, we’d like to thank the Mums, who delivered everyone to the venue and got everyone home again safe and sound. We’d like to celebrate your undervalued role as semi-professional taxi drivers: we know that if you guys ever stop doing what you’re doing, the whole world would stop!