Creative Connections Opening at Warwick Centro

photos: Tibor with video camera; Val Shields opening the exhibition; Sue Clennell in blue, myself with sheets of paper; Flora Smith reading; Glen Phillips and myself

This afternoon, Maureen Sexton and a team of volunteers put on an exhibition of art from differently abled people from various hostels. This art event is an annual event called Creative Connections - Invited poets responded in recent weeks to individual paintings, and today was the opening of the July exhibition. There will be another exhibition in September for National Poetry Week, complete with booklet marrying the painterly images with the poems that go with them.

The exhibition will run from Thursday 10th July to Saturday 12th July during normal trading hours at Warwick Centro Shopping Complex, Beach Road and Erindale Road, Warwick.
There will be a second exhibition in September.

The aims of the project are:
- to demonstrate through creative pursuits, the diverse abilities
and personalities of people who are differently-abled
- to enable differently-abled people, the community and
community groups to connect with each other.


Here are a couple of my poems which I hope to team up with their images, when I get permission.

ARTWORK NO 28
ARTIST: Michael Hoey


so much depends
upon Nature
dancing

force that through
the green world
pulses

sunlight that licks
the leaves of
grass

bark and low and gobble of
all creatures, great and
small

so much delight in
the garden of our
Earth


ARTWORK NO 50
ARTIST: Katie Bassett


Action! Lights!

yellowness of yolk echoes
yellingness of children
laughter of birds

The painter is painting
Psychedelic jellyfish
Beyond words

we’ve let out
our thoughts
to play

Action! Lights!