Sunday Arts Magazine

15 Nov 2020

Donna Jackson Director of the Art and Industry Festival talks to David about this year’s program.

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Donna Jackson Director of the Art and Industry Festival talks to David about this year’s program.

The 3rd biennial Art & Industry Festival which is taking place taking place from 20 – 29 November with this year’s new look online program delivered via a spectacular suite of live streamed events. The Art & Industry Festival celebrates and interrogates the intersection between work and art, craftsmanship and creativity in Melbourne’s industrial and manufacturing heartland, the historically rich and rapidly evolving Western suburbs.

Festival director is Donna Jackson.

As Donna says: The Art & Industry Festival is about celebrating the old industrial places and uncovering the stories past and present sewn into the fabric of these places – and equally about the present as artists, fashion designers and film makers take inspiration from these stories to create new works.

Opening the Festival is Industrial Fashion, a showcase spectacular of costumes set to dance and music and created especially for the Festival. Taking inspiration from local industries including Mobil and the Williamstown dockyards, 12 designers have pushed boundaries using unconventional materials such as paper, car parts and even x-rays to create wearable designs that connect art and industry

At the heart of the 2020 program is The Song Series Concert, featuring a captivating collection of new original songs inspired by local industries and the rich history of the Western region, performed by some of our finest singer songwriters including Mark Seymour (Hunters and Collectors) Rusty Berther (ex-Scared Weird Little Guys), Jane Bayly (Crying In Public Places), country and western star Sherry Rich and Peter Farnan (Boom Crash Opera). The suite of new songs, written in collaboration with four gifted musicians from Victoria University were created through a series of workshops which began with visits to iconic locations including OI Glass bottle factory (where most of Australia’s stubby bottles are created), Blunts Boats Yard (where since 1858 five generations of boat builders have been building and restoring wooden boats) and the giant bluestone Dockyard in Williamstown, as well as time spent with local historians to learn about the stories and rich history of Melbourne’s industrial and manufacturing heartland.

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