Good news!

The caravan has been sealed up tight against the rain, and the electrician came and went and was satisfied that everything is running smoothly again. So “Good Vibrations” is back on the MCA’s front lawn and fully operational.

On Friday morning, under ominously grey skies, the ribbon was cut, coffee and bikkies handed out, as the Good Vibrations caravan finally came home to the front lawn of the MCA. Loaded up with images, sounds and movies from all the locations we’ve visited, (not to mention bumper stickers from each place too!) the mobile art workshop has now become a fully fledged interactive art installation in its own right.

To make sure we arrived on time at Nepean High School, the “Good Vibrations” crew parked up overnight at the Nepean River Holiday Village caravan park in Emu Plains.

Royal Far West School already boasts a very strong art program, and we were pleased to be able to slot right into it. The school welcomes students from far and wide who are having treatment at the Royal Far West Children’s Health Scheme.

Today we hit the road for Wyndham College in Quaker’s Hill. We were greeted with great hospitality, cups of tea, trays of sandwiches, and some excellent year 11 art students who assisted us with the workshops. Seedpods, a wobbly bridge over the creek, and an old well were our musical instruments…
Check out all the photos over here.

Tony, one of the guys who helped out down at The Block in Redfern on Saturday. He had an amazing head for music, in more ways than one. Besides modulating sounds by striking his skull with the xylophone mallet, Tony could make a metal grate sound like a frog…
[more pix from Redfern excursion here.]