February 14 2018
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Double anniversary for arts council u by Kent Caddick
Planning is well underway for the Malvern Community Arts Council to celebrate two significant milestones this year. P4
Water heritage on display
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Fun start to the year
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Planning and planting an orchard
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p Malvern Community Arts Council Chair Philip Baldwin (below) is inviting everyone to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield (above) and the council’s 40th anniversary
This year will be the 40th anniversary of the founding of the community arts council while the Selwyn Art Gallery in Darfield, which the MCAC founded, turns 20. MCAC chair, Philip Baldwin, said marking any significant anniversary of a community organisation is a fortunate experience for its members. “Having two such anniversaries to celebrate in one year is most remarkable,” he said. “Not only are we celebrating the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Selwyn Gallery on May 29, 1998, but also the 40th year since the inception of the Malvern Community Arts Council by a visionary steering committee of people interested in promoting the arts in Selwyn. “We all owe a debt of thanks to the original steering committee for laying the
initial groundwork for MCAC when they first met officially on February 8, 1978.” That original steering committee comprised of Moreen Eason, Barbara Vincent, Elisabeth Blackburn, Noelene Pearson, the Rev. Hugh Patterson, and Stuart Martin. To celebrate its 20th anniversary year, the Selwyn Gallery committee, led by Meg Morten, has planned several exhibitions to reflect some of Selwyn Gallery’s history. “In June we are very pleased and grateful to have the artists from our very first exhibition — Simon Edwards, Mike Glover, Svetlana Orinko, Marcia Scott, Pattison Parkin, and Hamish Wright — show their high calibre art work and let us see how their styles have evolved over the past 20 years”, Mr Baldwin said. The July exhibition will feature works by a group of former Year
13 students who exhibited at the gallery in 2004. continued on page 3 …
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