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Welcome to Keep Australia Colourful!
Keep Australia Colourful is a campaign developed by Graffiti Artists and lovers of Graffiti in response to the NSW State Government's ‘Graffiti Action Day’. On May 2nd 2010, the State Government plans to reduce graffiti by painting over as much as they can and encouraging community groups, schools and local businesses to get involved.
On the same day, we will be standing up for Graffiti as a form of art and culture. The government wants to ‘Keep Australia Beautiful’ by painting our streets, lanes and public spaces various shades of beige – but we want to Keep Australia Colourful!
It’s time that we stood up collectively for Graffiti as a form of art, to dispel the myth that graf = crime, and to show how our city could look if there were more places for artists to create pieces legally.
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Written by KACadmin
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:32 |
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Graffiti Action Day This Weekend ... and KAC is Back!
Posted by KACAdmin
Graffiti Action Day is on again this weekend! So KAC is back in action. Below I've posted a copy of the announcement we are sending around to our lists, calling on people to get out there and support KAC anyway you can as we continue to Keep Australia Colourful.
Cheers,
KACAdmin
[**please circulate this message as widely as possible**]
On May 15, Keep Australia Beautiful is teaming up with the NSW State Government for their second 'Graffiti Action Day'. Their aim is to mobilise volunteers all over the state to paint over as much graffiti as they can.
On the same day, we urge you to join us and take a stand on behalf of Graffiti and Street Art as valuable forms of art and culture. The government wants to 'Keep Australia Beautiful' by painting our streets, lanes and public spaces various shades of beige - but we want to Keep Australia Colourful! Let's show people how great our cities could look if there were more places for artists to create pieces legally.
If you want to join us, here's what to do...
Graffiti/Street Artists: find a space, and make it look colouful on May 15.
Whatever you decide to paint, poster, stencil, knit, sticker ... be sure to include a reference to Keep Australia Colourful in your piece. Yes, people ... you can put aside your ego for one day and join the KAC crew, we know you can do it!! :-) Of course, we are not encouraging you to do anything illegal! Then, upload your flicks on our website:
http://www.keepaustraliacolourful.org/
If you can tell us where you are going to be painting beforehand, even better - we can plug your session on the website/facebook too. And if you want to be available for media comment on the day, send us your details, and we will add them to our press release.
Graffit/Street Art Lovers: write a letter to your local council, and/or to the
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, telling them why you love graffiti and street art and why you want to see more of it.
For more info, see:
http://www.keepaustraliacolourful.org
http://www.facebook.com/keepaustraliacolourful
This community service announcement brought to you by Kurt Iveson, Cameron McAuliffe, Mini Graff, Mistery, Numskull, Pudl, Roach, Saynt, Spice
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:58 |
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Written by KACadmin
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Monday, 17 May 2010 06:23 |
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KAC in Surry Hills
By KACAdmin
As a part of Keep Australia Colourful's events of May the 2nd, SAYNT pulled together a crew including himself, BEASTMAN, NUMSKULL and ROACH to redo a wall in Foveau St Surry Hills, right near the intersection with Crown St. The high profile position in this gentrified suburb of terrace houses caught the attention of quite a few passers-by (including a few journalists!) as the guys did their thing.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 02:13 |
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Written by KACadmin
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:57 |
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Legal Walls Work
By Kurt and Cameron
For years, legal graffiti walls have existed alongside other more punitive responses to graffiti. Now, thanks to the efforts of some reactionary politicians working in cahoots with the growing anti-graffiti industry, legal walls are under threat. Many have been closed down, and even more are on the chopping block, on the grounds that they don't work. So, here's our defence of legal walls and why they do work...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 07:55 |
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Written by KACadmin
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 05:38 |
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The KAC-Mobile!
Many thanks to Gould's bookstore, Newtown, who donated their truck for the day on May 2nd so we could convert it into the KAC-Mobile. PUDL and SET took to the truck and turned out a piece of mobile graffiti for us to drive around the city. Photos by Cameron.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 09:40 |
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