BUILD a bamboo house for BANKSTOWN:LIVEThe BANKSTOWN BAYANIHAN HOPPING SPIRIT HOUSE is a cross-cultural art project that explores bayanihan, the traditional practice of community spirit and cooperation in rural Philippines. This is most commonly invoked when a family relocates, calling on the community to literally help them move.

Filipino artist Alwin Reamillo will be building a bamboo hut using locally-sourced bamboo and other materials gathered with the help of the local community. The BANKSTOWN BAYANIHAN HOPPING SPIRIT HOUSE aims to recreate the spirit of bayanihan by first building and decorating a bamboo hut, and then carrying it to a new location on Northam Avenue during BANKSTOWN:LIVE, part of Sydney Festival 2015.

How can I be involved?• You can help donate materials to decorate the house (see back of page).• You can attend a chime-making workshop to make wind chimes or bells

from found and recycled materials. Feel free to drop into a workshop for as long as you like.

• You can help carry the house during BANKSTOWN:LIVE.

BE AVOLUNTEERTHIS SUMMER

QUESTIONS/INFORMATION

For more information or to register your interest, please contact:

Alwin Reamillo on 0401 276 709

Tian Zhang at Urban Theatre Projects on 02 9707 2111 or tian@urbantheatre.com.au

Chime-making workshops: 10am-1pm, Fri 16 Jan1pm-4pm, Sat 17 JanBankstown Senior College, Antwerp Street, Bankstown

Dress rehearsal: 21 January 2015BANKSTOWN:LIVE: 22-25 January 2015

DATES

www.urbantheatre.com.au

Participants are encouraged to bring any of the following materials to the workshops to help build and decorate the house:

- Bottle tops, particularly coloured tops- Plastic soft drink bottles- Old umbrellas, particularly the material- Small bells- Small tin cans, including lids and can rings- Small glass jars, vials, medicine bottles - Plastic toys with small plastic parts- Bric-a-brac- Thin bamboo sticks- Clear light globes- VHS tapes- Used cotton fabric, e.g. bedsheets, canvas- Used clothes

- Rice or flour sacks- Tarps, clear plastic sheeting, etc.- Sewing kit sets, thread, safety pins- Fishing line, twine, galvanised wire, etc.- Cotton ropes, nylon cord, etc.- Rubber inner tire tubes- Acrylic paint- Latex primer paint- Small turnbuckles- Ocky straps