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DECEMBER 2011 Issue O

Wishing you all a very

Merry

Christmas!Christmas break off Friday 23/12/11

Back Tuesday 3/1/12

NEWS BY THE ART SENSE WORKING GROUPS IN THIS ISSUE

Firstly I would like to take thisopportunity to acknowledge theElders, Traditional Owners andthe Island communities ArtSense currently operates in.

The initial Art Sense team is stillon deck after nearly 6 monthsincorporating all 36 staff fromCoconut, Hammond, Mabuiag,Masig, Murray, Saibai, Thursday,Warraber and Yam Islands. Given

the complexities of setting up anew program this large it makesme proud personally that theentire team is still together.

Id like to thank the Art Senseteam for accepting VanessaGoggin in taking over the ArtSense management role. By allreports there is a strongconnection between all theteams and Vanessa.

2012 is looking very encouragingin many ways; tailored trainingspecific to each Art Sense staffmember has been endorsed byCEA and will be rolled out in thefirst half of next year. With therecent commencement of a CEACommunity Development Officer

a more streamlined materialsupply and mentoring processhas been implemented for thearts and crafts working groups.

Art Sense is a business that setout to empower the Torres StraitWorking Groups in terms ofmaking localised decisions onworking group operations andsustainability in the art sector.

The future of the Arts

Engagement Strategy centers onour staffs constructive feedback,loyalty and commitment.

Merry Christmas and a happynew year!

Tim Cram

The above featured picture wataken at the Art Sense stainduction held on ThursdaIsland. Please note Murray Islanstaff were unable to attend arnot pictured.

Dear

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Hammonds Muraleferino Sabatino, Art Sense staff proudly

walks past one of many structured activitiesurrently being conducted on Hammondsland. This mural is located at Our Lady ofhe Sacred Heart Hammond Island Campus.

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FOCUS ON: Masig Islandn this issue we take a close look at Masigsland. Each Edition will Focus On aifferent island to allow a snap shot of theersonal achievements and activities whichre being conducted.

Picturedabove istheMasigIsland ArtSense

Teamfrom theleft:SimonNaawi,

LeilaMosby,RyanCrow,

Josephine Naawi and Yessi Mosby. Page 3

HammondsMuralby Seba Sabatino, Art Sense

Over the past few weeks KirririArts and Craft Art SenseHammond Island have beenconsulting with the HammondIsland Community Councilor, CEACommunity DevelopmentOfficer, and CEA HammondIsland Supervisor and ProjectOfficer. We have been workingtogether discussing whatprojects we can do that maydraw interest in the community.

We are currently working on amural at the local school OurLady of the Sacred HeartHammond Island Campus. Thisproject was put forward to us bythe school teacher and we gladlyaccepted. We saw this as an

opportunity to get the childreninvolved by helping with thepainting. The children very muchenjoyed this activity and themural is coming along verynicely. All materials for thisproject were supplied by theschool and at this stage themural is half way completed.Hopeful during the school breakwhistle the teachers and children

are on holiday we will have thmural completed.

As well as finishing the mural, ware organising to work conjunction with the VacatioCare Holiday Program over thChristmas break. We will bdoing Christmas art activitiewith the children such aChristmas Cards, Little Giftsinging, etc.

For more information please feefree to contact the HammondIsland Art Sense team on:[email protected]

DID YOU KNOW?

All the Art Sense workinggroups have their own islandnames.Hammond Island KirririArts and Craft
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Yessies Art Work

Yessie Mosby is one of them wellknown Artist on TI. Most of hisart, like the Dhari he is holding inhe picture are already makingheir way overseas. The Dharihat Yessies holding was

displayed in the UMI Arts

exhibition in Cairns, August thisyear.

Above: Yessie Mosby, Art Sense

JOSEPHINE NAAWIS ART WORK

Josephine Naawi is a very talented ladythat does her art work out of naturalmaterials. She spends time walking onthe beach and in the bushes looking atwhat different things she could use tomake her art look better. This is asample of what she has made.

BELOW

Art Work by Josephine Naawi

FOR MORE INFORMATION

If you would like more informationplease feel free to contact theMasig Island team on:[email protected]

FOCUS ON: Masig Islandby Simon Naawi, Art Sense

At this present time, we are expecting arts resources that we haveordered from Gab Titui. Once our order will arrive, the Arts Mentors &Support Workers will start doing craft work. We will also be goingaround the community to take some photos of all of the beautiful sightof the island to place on some post cards.

Bringing Skills to life TRAINING COURSE ON MASIG

The ladies collecting Pandanus leaves in preparation of making amat. CDEP had training on Masig from the 7th Nov to the 2nd Dec.The ladies enjoyed every moment of it. Theyve all learned new things everyday and are looking forward for the next year.LEFT: Ruth Naawi, Mowe Billy, TCA Trainer Lulu and Nancy Mene

ART SENSE AND CEA CDEP ARTS AND CRAFT

WORKING TOGETHER

ByDarleen Fell Regional Manager, CEA

The aim of the CDEP Arts & Crafts program is to provide CDEP participants and community members (if interested) skills and training in Arts & Crafts, there is also an opportunity through the Art Sense training to assist the Communset up their own Arts & Crafts Working Group to eventually manage this (building capacity in the community). The ASense workers will be leading the Arts Working Groups providing structured Activities for the CDEP participants withproviding the avenue for training and development in various arts and crafts areas.

Jenny Millen is our Community Development Officer who coordinates the Arts & Crafts program for CEA, for any furtinformation or if you want to know more about the Arts & Crafts program, please give her a call.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

If you would like more information please feel free to contactJenny Millen:[email protected]

The above featured picture was taken bySimon Naawi, AfternoonSunset on Yorke (Masig)Island.
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Ghost Nets on SaibaibyMairanna Babia

Ghost nets are fishing netsthat have been left or lostin the ocean by fishermen.

Here we can see LilyNomoa, Art Sense, cuttingthe floaters off an oldwashed up ghost net toin preparation for the Art and Craft activitiesThe floates will be used as mobiles and thnet will be recycled and used to weave bagand other projects.

AcknowledgmentBy Vanessa Goggin, Art Sense Manager

would like to thank all the team who have been involved in the newsletter and for all the stories and pictures, keep themcoming in! Special mention goes to Steven Keane our Social Media Support Worker, who has spent many hours chasing upstories and photos for this newsletter.

This Newsletter has been created to share the good news stories between the staff, their families and the communities.Please be advised the stories provided by the staff have not been altered in anyway.

invite Elders, Traditional Owners and the general community to be involved in the next issue. Please feel free to contact mdirectly.

Art Sense would also like to take this o ortunit to thank the communities for our su ort and wish ou a ver Merr

Yam Island CDEPActivitiesby Chantelle Thaiday

Well at the moment so far we are doing beading,ino and cross-stitch, we have few CDEPparticipant working with us and its going good sofar, two of our ladies are in cairns doing CertificateV in Financial Services (Accounting) and its goinggreat they had 3 Block Study and this is their lastone for this year, and yeah apart from everythinggoing pretty good.

Above: CDEP participant Freda working on abeading project.

Above: CDEP participant Mauga working on alino print.


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Vanessa GogginManagerMobile: 0488 048 685Email: [email protected]

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