SPECIAL EVENT
International Rose Garden Festival Morwell
Community Program
The 2020 International Rose Garden Festival Morwell will be a hybrid style event encompassing a light installation in the rose garden and an online virtual event live broadcast on the 14th and 15th November.
The virtual event will feature many of the previous festival’s elements you know and love such as talks, workshops, stall holders and children’s entertainment however, the new and exciting element of the virtual experience is that it is interactive for viewers. You will be able to engage with the presenters, post questions, take part in polls, live chats and workshops all from the comfort and safety of your home, anywhere in the world.
VIRTUAL TOUR
Poetry Tour of the Morwell Centenary Rose Garden
Community Program
Latrobe Regional Gallery asked local writers Karen Howie Casey, Joseph Lis, Yakub Ogunsina, Alanah Andrews, Catherine Webb, Jessica Obersby, Jeanette Waight Severs, and Patricia Flores to submit poems in response to several varieties of roses that are featured in the Morwell Centenary Rose Garden. The selected roses featured in these poems include the Mutabilis, Olde Fragrance, Paul Cézanne, Soaring Spirits, Ingrid Bergman, Darcey Bussell, Pierre de Ronsard, Blueberry Hill, Victoria Gold, and the Daydream Rose.
Image credits: Jessie Pittard, Indigenous Plants of Melbourne, 2014, mixed media, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist.
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
Jessie Pittard
Community Program
Latrobe Regional Gallery presents a series of workshops by Melbourne based artist Jessie Pittard, coinciding with her paper installation on display in Latrobe Regional Gallery’s front windows from 31 October to 29 November, as part of the Morwell International Rose Garden Festival.
Jessie Pittard invites you to create your own whimsical garden through a series of online workshops. Use the instruction sheets and watch as Pittard guides you through the techniques to designing and creating your own floral elements that you can use to form an installation of your own. We suggest making a day of it with your family and a friend or two! Take some inspiration from the Mutabilis rose captured by friend of the Morwell Centrenary Rose Garden Bev Maguire
See more of Jessie’s work on Instagram @jessiepittard or visit her website www.jessiepittard.com
We’d love to see your floral creations by sending us a photo or sharing via social media. Tag your photo with #LRGRoseGarden for your chance to have your work featured on the online gallery!
WORKSHOP: THE MUTABILIS ROSE
Part 1: Creating the Base
WORKSHOP: THE MUTABILIS ROSE
Part 2: Creating the rose
WORKSHOP: THE MUTABILIS ROSE
Part 3: Assembling Your Installation
ART CART AT HOME:
Flora Portrait
Petal Characters
Stylised Rose
Latrobe Regional Gallery's Education and Public Programs are generously supported by Opal.