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Find out about news and events in the art and sustainability field, alongside updates in the lead up to the 7KO festival. If you would like to contribute news or events, download the contributor guidelines [PDF 78KB].
The Ecologies Project
OPENING FUNCTION
Saturday 20 September at 2.00pm
Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus
With opening remarks at 2:45pm
by Professorial Fellow John Thwaites, Chairman of the Monash Sustainability Institute, and Former Deputy Victorian Premier and minister for Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
Artists include: LAURENCE ABERHART | LAUREN BERKOWITZ | CHRIS BOND | ANGELA BRENNAN | PAUL BUWANG BUWANG | JANET BURCHILL AND JENNIFER McCAMLEY | JOYCE CAMPBELL | MIKALA DWYER | MICHAEL CORRIDORE | PETER DOMBROVSKIS | BRODIE ELLIS | ANNA EPHRAIM | GALI YALKARRIWUY GURRUWIWI | ANDREW HAZEWINKEL | SUSAN JACOBS | ASH KEATING | NICK MANGAN | DHUWARRWARR MARIKA | MANDY MARTIN | VERA MÖLLER | JAMES MORRISON | ANNE NOBLE | HENRY NUPURRA | RAQUEL ORMELLA | FIONA PARDINGTON | LUKE PITHER | ADAM PYETT | STUART RINGHOLT | EWEN ROSS | SANDRA SELIG | ANDREW SINCLAIR | EILEEN YARITJA STEVENS | LISA STEWART | RICKY SWALLOW | CHRISTIAN THOMPSON | MICHELLE USSHER | ROHAN WEALLEANS | ROY WIGGAN | JOHN WOLSELEY | CURATORS: GERALDINE BARLOW AND DR KYLA McFARLANE
HEAT: Art and Climate Change
The RMIT Gallery Board and RMIT Gallery Director Suzanne Davies have great pleasure in inviting you to the opening of the exhibition HEAT: Art and Climate Change.
To be opened by SENATOR BOB BROWN Leader, Australian Greens
With a special address by PROFESSOR MARGARET GARDNER AO, Vice Chancellor and President, RMIT University
6–8 pm THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2008
Artists include: MAX EASTLEY & DAVID BUCKLAND, BONITA ELY, REW HANKS, ASH KEATING AND THE 2020? PROJECT, JANET LAURENCE, SAM LEACH, TONY LLOYD ANNE NOBLE, JILL ORR, SIMON PERRY WITH BEAU EMMETT & CARMEN REID, GREGORY PRYOR, GEORGINA READ, MARTIN RIESER, KLAUS RINKE, CAMERON ROBBINS, PHILIP SAMARTZIS & MICHAEL VORFELD, ROSLYN TAPLIN, MARK WILSON & BRYNDÍS SNÆBJÖRNSDÓTTIR, KEN YONETANI
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festival updates
The 2010 festival done and dusted!
Thank you to everyone who came along to the inaugural seven thousand oaks festival. We really enjoyed all the conversations that came out of it and hope to continue them into the year with more 7KO events.
We will be putting photos up on our flickr account, so watch this space
Buy the t-shirt!
7KO printed off a limited edition of gorgeous organic cotton t-shirts. For $30 grab a mens or women's print.
Men's available sizes are S, M, L, XL
Women's available sizes are XS, S, M, L and XL
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Missed out on catalogue?
There are still a few of the beautifully designed catalogues left, filled with essays from our curators and commissioned writers. If you would like (or a few) sent to you, send an email to
Next up- the SAFE toolkit
7KO is now working on collating the results from its sustainability audit conducted on the festival. These results will form the basis of the Sustainable Arts Festival Educators (SAFE) Toolkit.
