TIDELAND Art+Word Project Launch

Name: TIDELAND Art+Word Project Launch
Start: 2025-02-28T17:30:00+1100
End: 2025-02-28T19:30:00+1100
Location: South East Centre for Contemporary Art

Fri, 28 Feb, 5:30pm - 7:30pm AEDT

South East Centre for Contemporary Art

Bega NSW, Australia

South East Centre for Contemporary Art

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Please join us for this special launch of the TIDELAND Art+Word Project - An Evening of Art, Performance and Poetry.

Selected Ekphrasis poem submissions will be announced.

Be the first to hear new spoken word poetry by established local performance poets:

Gabrielle Journey Jones, Rae Kennedy and Nick Whittock.

See the new artwork commission by artist Caren Florance or join the experience and share your words in the Poetry Open Mic!

Friday 28 February, 5.30pm - 7.30pm.

FREE ENTRY, all welcome, please register.

Open Mic registration available at the door.

Pictured above: Julian Meagher 'Inlet #13',2017 donated to the SECCA Collection. Gabrielle Journey Jones by Robert Knapman, Nick Whittock by David Rogers Photography, Rae Kennedy and Caren Florance image courtesy the artists.

This project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts NSW.
The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional, remote and very remote Australia.

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The new South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is a purpose-built contemporary art space, located on the traditional lands of the people of the Yuin Nation in the pristine landscapes of the south east corner of NSW. The 30-year-old site formerly known as Bega Valley Regional Gallery has undergone major redevelopment and expansion to create the new SECCA Gallery. Designed by award-winning Melbourne-based architecture practice Sibling, SECCA will include 500m2 of exhibition, archive, storage and workshop spaces alongside a new façade. The gallery will feature a significantly larger exhibition space, expanded from 180m² to 290m² and will include a state-of-the-art main gallery space for touring exhibitions. SECCA is home to the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, one of the most pre-eminent awards for portrait in the county and the historic Bega Valley Arts & Crafts Society collection. The cultural heart of the South East, SECCA will connect the local community to global conversations in contemporary art and inspire an ever-widening audience to experience the best local and global contemporary visual culture. The build has been supported by a $1.67 million investment from the Australian Government’s Building Better Regions Fund.

SECCA is principally funded through the Bega Valley Shire Council.

SECCA is supported by the NSW Government through CREATE NSW.