SHEBANG! sessions: Life Drawing 14

SHEBANG! sessions: Life Drawing

hosted on Wurundjeri/ Merri Merri land 

A curated class-meets-happening, join us for a lesson in Life Drawing SHEBANG! style.  All levels of drawing experience welcome. Fierce (role)models serving you classic and experimental poses hosted by experienced sassy artists/ teachers. Materials provided.

Our learn-by-doing approach to mark making and covers a different topic each session.  2 hours of live model poses structured to build up skill and confidence.  Paper, boards, pencils and charcoal provided.  Refreshments available to purchase from our speakeasy bar ** in collaboration with our favourite neighbours Minimum Wines.

The first Friday of each month.

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6:30pm doors open

7pm-9pm doors locked - latecomers to wait in atrium for entry during the first break

9:30pm venue closes

various professional models & different mark-making lesson each session- see ticket link for more information. SHEBANG! studio is a current Life Models' Society Convenor Member.

$55 seat with board (may BYO easel)

or

$60 easel with board

or

'multi-pass' discount x multiple months

class size intentionally intimate, please sign up quickly to avoid disappointment

strictly no cameras

SESSION 14:  fire & ice

MODEL 14: @kittycatally (Insta) www.radfitness.com.au

Having discovered the joys of latin dance fitness in the early days of Zumba, Ally Cat was sitting in her car one sunny day in 2012 listening to Beat It when she saw the matrix. Suddenly she understood how dance fitness principles could be applied to all her favourite songs. From this pivotal moment, she created (and began teaching) her own retro dance fitness classes (RAD fitness), leaving behind her career as a Naturopath to pursue a life of leotards and legwarmers.  

Ally is also the co-owner of the Australian Pole Dancers Magazine, founder and creator of Pandemonium pole and aerial showcases in Melbourne, and co creator of Australia’s hottest new online pole teaching platform, PoleSphere & has featured in the APDM Top 50 Most Influential list of the Aussie pole community.

Ally is also a passionate creative, and loves bringing her constant stream of ideas to life. When she isn’t living the lycra dream, you can usually find Ally working on her other business endeavours with a chai tea in one hand, and one (or both) of her cats Jazz and Bowie in her lap.  MEOW!

HOSTS 14: Comrades Marina Perkovich & Erin Veronica Ender

Miss Marina Perkovich (she/her) www.marinaperkovich.weebly.com

Miss Marina is an accomplished visual artist engaging many mediums including drawing, printing, fabric manipulation and ceramics. She was also a prolific music photographer during the 80s and 90s, documenting musicians and bands including Nick Cave, Venom P. Stinger, The Seminal Rats, Corpse Grinders, Gas Babies and The Sacred Cowboys. Many of Marina's photos can be viewed in the Facebook group: "I got drunk at The Crystal Ballroom". Marina's body of photographic work is currently with the Victorian State Library being digitised for their collection and will be available on their website in due course. 

Erin Veronica Ender (she/her) www.heandeve.com

Designed and built in 2015 by Henrik Ender and Erin Veronica Ender (he&eve) BIGBANG x SHEBANG! studio was architecturally engineered for social and cultural change.  Erin grew a love for the power of inspiring students while tutoring and designing content for students in Architecture, Interior and Spatial Design for RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Uni for 2 decades and counting. Erin's artistic practice is centered around the production of ephemeral environments (eg. happenings/ exhibitions) showcasing the audience's everyday theatre (eg. behaviours/ costume) contributing to our collective cultural identity here in so-called Australia.

IMAGE CREDIT: Guy Ritani @taniwha. ritani SHEBANG! showcase 2022 photographed by Kennie.

**in collaboration with www.minimumwines.com

Hosts acknowledge that these happenings are performed on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri-willam and Merri Merri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We pay deep respects to Elders past and present- this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.