Media Releases July 2009 - Go Troppo Arts FestivalFrom now on we will be bringing you several media releases each month; there are many stories to tell as October rapidly approaches. 1. Artists prepare for festivalSuch activity behind the scenes as the annual Go Troppo Arts Festival prepares to host art lovers from the region, interstate and overseas 2 - 11 October.Artists work on their paintings, scripts and musical compositions while planning continues for arts workshops that span the range of arts disciplines, from art glass and oil painting to sculpture, theatre, music and dance. Workshops in scenic locationsWorkshops will be held in scenic locations, either at artists’ studios in rainforest or mountain settings or at the romantic old sugar wharf at the entrance to Dickson’s inlet in Port Douglas – and even on the tiny tropical coral cay of nearby Low Isles.Accommodation houses are offering great packages and restaurants getting into the spirit of celebration as they develop special menus for the festival’s ‘epicurean trail’ around the small resort town. The festival developed as the result of a visit by a group of artists to Low Isles several years ago to observe the coral spawning at full moon, when they decided to spawn some ideas of their own. Drunken lorikeetsThe annual renewal of life, centred around the full moon in October or November, when the corals right across the Great Barrier Reef spawn in unison and the ocean is alive with luminescence, flows through to the season of plenty just before the Wet season every year.Flowering trees blossom in a riot of colour, mangoes and other tropical fruit are in profusion. Even the brilliantly coloured lorikeets get into the act as they gorge on nectar and over-ripe fruit – and lurch drunkenly about! Artist paints under-water
Port Douglas artist and Go Troppo Arts Festival curator, Stephanie Milne, was on a trip with Haba Dive when she was photographed by Christian Botello, Haba's official photographer. Stephanie has been experimenting with the concept of painting with oils whilst underwater - although she says it is much more difficult than photographing or sketching. Here she paints branching coral on the Great Barrier Reef at a depth of 13 metres, using Scuba.
2. Play reading - Max and Diana of the NautilusRight-click to download this PDF file here.
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