Frontyard

Enjoy Public Art Gallery opened their August exhibition Purpose-Built this week with Dat Library, Louisa Afoa, Hyperreadings, Tim Larkin, Abe Hollingsworth and Frontyard's contribution of a 5 kg selection of books from our decommissioned library. This is an exchange collaboration and Enjoy will send us a selection of books in return. Looking forward to it! Purpose-built August 16 ŌĆō September 8, 2018 Curated by Sophie Davis and Louise Rutledge

Tomorrow, Saturday! Drop in or stay for the day and dinner afterwards.

Drop in or stay for the day. All voices are welcome.
Frontyard and our library has been invited by Enjoy Public Art Gallery (Wellington, NZ) to be a part of their upcoming August exhibition. They were initially interested in having a curated selection of books from our library as part of the exhibition. The history of our library, built of rescued books from the Australia Council collection, is one that aligns with some of the current changes to libraries in Aotearoa (specifi...cally the announcement that the Elam Fine Arts Library would be closed).
We thought that this presents a great opportunity to support Enjoy in bringing attention to the increasing hostility towards libraries and public spaces generally. We proposed a simple process of exchange and entanglement. We will be sending Enjoy a selection of our library - precisely as much as equates to a shipping cost of $75 - which will become a custodial collection within their own small library. In return they will reciprocate - sending us a new selection of books for our collection. Enjoy and Frontyard will care for each otherŌĆÖs books.
This is a call out to everyone who has a working relationship with our collection or library interested people (past and future) to come together and select books, as well as to collectively write an accompanying Letter of Agreement between Frontyard and Enjoy.
In response Enjoy will host an event/afternoon tea during the exhibition to decide on what to send in return (equivalent to the freed-up shelf space created by the publications we send). We are curious about what it means to circulate a non-lending collection with care. Does a collection need to be physically located to retain integrity?
Labour involved: Book selection, accompanied by discussion reflecting on the selection decision Writing the Letter Getting and packing the box
Things we need: a box, scale, and some tape.
This day in the library will be followed by a communal dinner to celebrate our artist fee and declare our selection.
Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided during the day.
imaget: JMH Residency, 8-21 January 2018
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This Saturday you can learn the traditional techniques of weaving with New Zealand harakeke (flax), discuss the processes, traditions, Tikanga (protocols) around weaving as well as how to nurture the plant and how to harvest sustainably. All materials and resources are provided.
Register for workshop here: https://www.jtol.com.au/events/syndey-nsw /form Alice's website... www.artandwellbeing.com.au
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Come learn to wiki and help us improve our digital tools and access at Frontyard THIS SATURDAY JUN 30, 10am-4pm. The garden needs some work too. YouŌĆÖre welcome to come and work on the garden, or move between the garden and digital tasks. Feel free to arrive late or drift in and out through the day. All welcome.

Our first Frontyard Digital Gardening Bee. All welcome.
https://wiki.frontyardprojects.org/everŌĆ ”/Digital_working_bee
Come along to learn some new skills, hang out in the garden, help tend FrontyardŌĆÖs wiki, catalogue the Library, or anything else that needs doing. The garden needs some work too. YouŌĆÖre welcome to come and work on the garden, or move between the garden and digital tasks. Feel free to arrive late or drift in and out through the day.
... You can see our working list of activities to do here https://wiki.frontyardprojects.org/eveŌĆ” /Digital_working_beeŌĆ”
What to bring If you'd like to work on our digital documentation or tools, it would be best to bring a laptop. Cataloguing the library requires a laptop, smart phone or tablet.
There's plenty of weeding to do in the garden too, so you can just bring your hands if that suits.
Rough Plan 10am : Collect all the activities that need doing / that people would like to do today. 10:15am : Divide into groups for the different activities. 1pm : lunch break 3:30pm : Celebrate our achievements and then clean up
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* frontyard* will be open on Sunday. Come by to talk about your possible residency over a cup of tea, check out the library and garden or just have a chat #openhouse #housekeeping

For those of you who care about free community services like local libraries, come along to this Saturday's *read-in* at Waterloo Library to help save it from closure!

Come count your cookies in the morning and learn about protecting your digital information and communications. Stay to count with The Countesses in the afternoon! Tomorrow at Frontyard.

Before you come to count for Countess, come to count your cookies and learn about how to protect your personal data and communications in the wake of new digital legislation. From 1030am at Frontyard. Countesses start at 2pm.

Countess is hosting a community counting session at Frontyard this Saturday. All welcome.

OPEN HOUSE at Frontyard today 1-3pm (because we were away on retreat last weekend). Curious humans and future residents all welcome.

This Saturday!!

We (Julia Bavyka and Benjamin Forster) are off to Russia this coming Monday morning to present a new ŌĆ£projectŌĆØ (HyperReadings) at the Moscow Biennale of Young Art. We are planning on doing a small trial run at *Frontyard* this Saturday (the 2nd of June) and would love to invite you to join us. This is both to share this project that we have been working on slowly and silently with you, our friends and local community, but also to help us iron out the presentation before headi...ng off to Moscow next week.
For more context on HyperReadings - here is a super long essay that Sean Dockray and Benjamin wrote recently - https://sdockray.github.io/hyperreadings/
### Loose Schedule for the day: *1-3pm* Work in progress/coding HyperReadings/writing and editing with us *3-5 pm:* Introduction to HyperReadings and generation of reading lists. (bring a laptop - if you have one - if not you can share with us) *5-6 pm:* Reading together (bring your own text, image, shopping list- or grab one from the library) *6-7 pm:* Dinner (bring some food to share)
We (Julia and Benjamin) will be at frontyard from 1pm working. You are welcome to join us earlier if you would like to labour with us on the HyperReadings.
Come and join us for all the day or just the parts that interest you.
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This weekend!

We have published our book 'Conversation Piece', made in just a few days last year at HOBIENNALE. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Connie Anthes Julia Bavyka Alexandra Crosby Ilaria Vanni Tom Blake Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa Beth Sometimes and all the other generous souls. Truly a collaborative work. A fast book is a slow book. Celebrations to come. For now, accessible online here https://archive.org/details/CP2018