Let's Organise Your Leisure - Floatilla Workshop - Horizon Festival 2023

Let's Organise your Leisure (LOYL) is a participatory art project aimed at an intergenerational audience with a focus on seniors and their friends.

Join artist Kathy Mackey on a guided walk along the water’s edge at Maroochydore River to discover natural and pre-planted man-made materials commonly associated with leisure activities, such as pool noodles and yoga mats.

You will then work with Kathy to construct large sculptural artworks in a series of site-specific workshops for the Float-Off Finale, where you will launch into the water of the Maroochydore River alongside your sculptural creation.

LOYL explores assumptions about organised leisure and the spaces between retirement and non-retirement, public and private, and natural and artificial environments along Australia’s coastline.

Through the physical acts of walking together, constructing the work, and being a part of the work in the water, participants are encouraged to share stories about art, leisure, and wellbeing.

FLOAT-OFF FINALE
Participants are invited to return on Sun 3 Sep at 10am for a final Floatilla finesse prior to the Float-off Finale

CREATIVE TEAM:

• Kathy Mackey

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• Commitment: Book in to either the morning or afternoon workshop on Sat 2 Sep, then return the following day to finesse the Floatilla structures and participate in the Float-off Finale at the waters-edge of the beautiful Maroochydore River.
• Where to meet: Cotton Tree pier, adjacent to Festival hub.
• What to bring: Hat, sunscreen, water, and a towel.
• Workshop duration: 90 minutes.