The Capricornia Arts Festival will be an 8-day festival showcasing the region's talent, offering workshops with local groups and professional artists.
Capricornia Arts Festival
The inaugural year
A group of artists from across the region have banded together to form a committee to set up the first Capricornia Arts Festival.
The festival will run from Friday 16th October through to Saturday 24th October 2015. This event will include an Arts Trail winding through Yeppoon and Rockhampton. It will be an eight day event with lots happening along this trail.
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The festival would kick off on a Friday night with a wine and cheese night at a local venue showcasing many works of local artists.
There will be art workshop days where professional Australian artists will run workshops in many different mediums and styles of art at various locations across Capricornia. These workshops will cater for artists of all ages and levels.
More workshops would be held throughout the week, in the day time and at night.
Market Day by Jenni Kelly, who will be holding an Acrylic workshop during the Capricornia Arts Festival
Workshops
The art workshops will be 3 to 4 day workshops run by professional artists.
The artists in Capricornia Arts Festival 2015 include:
Jenni Kelly, Julie Simmons, Liz Wilson and Lyn Diefenbach.
To learn more, head to the Workshops page.
A ring by Liz Wilson, who will be holding a silversmith/jewelry workshop during the Capricornia Arts Festival
A watercolour painting by Julie Simmons, who will be holding a Watercolour workshop during the Capricornia Arts Festival
The committee is calling for Expressions of Interests from art groups who would like to run workshops throughout the festival, businesses who would like to sponsor the event, Australian artists from across the country who would like to travel to the region to run workshops, musicians who would like to perform at events and performing artists who would like to perform at events.
An oil painting by Lyn Diefenbach, who will be holding an Oil painting workshop during the Capricornia Arts Festival
