Tired of bowls of fruit and lifeless life drawing classes?

Fancy a scribble but not sure where to start?

Suffering creative inertia and looking to stoke your lost muse?

The world’s premier alternative life drawing movement. Whether you’re an artstar or a scribbling newbie,  Dr. Sketchys is the perfect place to get your fill of drawing fun.  Bringing together students, amateurs and professionals into one space to socialize and create together!

Harxest Mag describes the event as  “a room full of friendly people, an appreciation for art, beautiful models, unreal costumes and a truck load of fun times.” 

Providing a welcoming and joyful space where people come to draw the flourishing alternative scenes that include phenomenal performers and other unique muses that might otherwise be inaccessible to the lone artist.   Spend a few hours sketching them with the aid of drinks and tunes.

Melbourne is now the oldest session in the world beginning back in July of 2006.  A boon to the art scene since its inception, promoting creativity and community in every city that runs one.   

Recent years has seen a formidable array of performers hit the Dr. Sketchy stage, with some of the country’s most unique and inspiring performers we greeted Tim Rogers of You am I, dancers of The Australian Ballet, a string of summer sessions in The Famous Spiegeltent featuring star of BRIEFS – The King of Boylesque Mark “Captain Kidd’ Winmill, and most recently a 4 part pop-up in 2018 with Heidi Museum of Modern Art.

To see all the photos, sketches and the latest news visit
drsketchymelbourne.com 
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Tired of Twitter, textspeak, emojis, tinder, like buttons and canned responses?

This is the slow communication revolution

A mash up of creative writing, mystery, parlour games and low commitment pen pals.

We now express ourselves through the instant communication of clipart, GIFs, and lols. My question is, what is being lost because of this?

Dead Letter Club is my answer.

Pick up a pen and let the ink flow.

“Dead Letter Club was one of the most genuinely creative, powerful and beautiful experiences I've ever taken part in.”  Gemma Jones, Craft Victoria

Sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up at someone’s door. Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your spit seals the envelope. Thoughts revealed through the flourishes and flow of the pen, the texture and lingering scent on the paper.

VISIT DEAD LETTER CLUB to find the latest news and where we are popping up next. One year in and community and creativity is flourishing because of the Dead Letter magic.

Need Dead Letter Club in your town?  Send me a message!

You’re invited to write an open letter to Mel’s project The Library of Letters. Yep, a letter about anything. Mel visits schools, community centres, festivals and aged care facilities sharing your stories from all over the world.

An Archive of Humanity. A global project promoting Community, Wellbeing and Literacy

An intimate yet global experience and opportunity. Never before have we been so connected through technology yet so disconnected.

Combining the community aspect of a library, the intimacy of letter writing, and the modern day connected world we make stories viral in the slowest way possible. 

TLoL strives to promote empathy and a slower way of communicating through the lost of art of letter writing.

www.thelibraryofletters.com

POST YOUR LETTER TO:

The Library of Letters

PO Box 371

ELWOOD VIC

AUSTRALIA

3184

Melanie is a registered Creative Arts Therapist providing one to one therapy and has been facilitating art making and creative workshops with community for over 15 years. Melanie currently works in her private practice Ever Tender and is a supervisor and sessional academic at The MIECAT Institute.

Melanie's practice Ever Tender is an ongoing communal project using creativity, somatic awareness and therapeutic inquiry into the phenomenon of tenderness.

Encompassing both individual and community experiences, Ever Tender invites us all to consider our own tenderness and how making contact and embracing that which is tender in us, and in others, can promote connection and wellbeing.

Notable collaborations for Melanie’s ‘Creative Literacy’ programs include;
Melbourne Writers Festival
Heidi Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Brisbane
Wollongong Writers Festival
Writers SA
MIDSUMMA
The Famous Spiegletent
City of Yarra FreeZa
State Library of Victoria

Mel regularly holds private workshops, this includes in a therapeutic capacity, for education, and for celebration.

Drop a message at hellomelanie@hellomelanieknight.com to talk.