Arts society celebrates

The Geelong branch of Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (ADFAS) has celebrated 30 years of local art appreciation.

ADFAS members marked the occasion with food, drinks and a 30th anniversary cake on Monday of this week.

The festivities at Newcomb Hall followed the society’s annual general meeting and a lecture from Dr Kathleen Olive on Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock masterpieces and Japanese sensibilities for snow.

Olive has more than a decade’s experience of university lecturing and a further 15 years of public speaking on topics ranging from the Italian Renaissance, to modern art and the gardens and architecture of Japan.

Hiroshige is noted as perhaps the last master of the Japanese woodblock printing technique known as ukiyo-e, and is famed for his series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.

ADFAS Geelong deputy chair Claire Hewitt said her group had been providing wonderful arts and cultural experiences for Geelong and the region’s residents for three decades, and had supported community groups such as Young Arts and the Geelong Symphony Orchestra.

ADFAS groups across Australia are not-for-profit organisations run by volunteers, providing illustrated, informative and entertaining lecture presentations by local and international experts in the field on many diverse topics relating to the arts – visual arts, architecture, fashion, music, literature and more.

ADFAS has about 6,500 members in 38 societies across regional and metropolitan Australia and enjoys close ties with its UK counterpart, now known as The Arts Society, and draws many of its overseas lecturers from the Arts Society Register.

For more information on ADFAS Geelong, head to adfas.org.au/societies/geelong present ~ Hiroshige’s Woodblock Masterpieces and Japanese sensibilities for snow~

6pm on Monday 7th November, 2022.

Newcomb Hall

This fabulous lecture will follow on from a short AGM at 5.30pm.

After the fascinating 1hour lecture there will be a great spread of festive food and drinks and a 30th Anniversary cake for our Geelong Society.

New members and visitors are most welcome. (Visitors $20)

Make sure you put this in your diary!