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.

Fortnightly Fridays from September 5th- 31st October inclusive

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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

$160 easel x 4 week term

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

strictly no cameras

SESSION 2: positive/ negative space

MODEL 2: Cam Tītokowaru Venn www.camvenn.com Insta: @camvenncomedy

Cam Tītokowaru Venn is a Naarm-based performer (Ngāruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Tūwharetoa, Welsh, Irish) working across comedy, theatre, clown and physical performance. His award-winning solo shows (Balls Deep, Charles Horse Lays an Egg, Shark Heist) blend body, sexuality, absurdity and elaborate handmade props. Cam has toured nationally, studied extensively with leading clown teachers, and works both as a performer and teacher of clown. His practice often sits at the intersection of play, vulnerability and provocation.

As a Māori artist and practitioner of mau rākau (Māori weaponary), Cam brings both vulnerability and strength into the space. His body of work has celebrated nudity, queerness, sexuality, and community, and he now shares that same energy in the life drawing studio, offering artists a chance to engage with a body that carries stories of culture, comedy, and lived experience.

HOSTS 2 : Miss 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 unseeded 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.