Havana Suite
Mia Salsjo developed multi-layered and collaged silkscreen prints during a residency in Havana, Cuba, last year.
The Havana Suite exhibition captures her response to Cuban design, life and politics.
- Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, corner Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong. Thursday 4 to Saturday 27 August. 11am to 5pm Monday to Friday and 11am to 3pm Saturdays.
Small Studies exhibition
Melbourne-based, Japanese-born artist Chaco Kato is best known for large, playful site-specific installations using string.
In this small and modest show, Kato explores some new ideas with cotton thread on paper.
- Heritage Hill Museum and Historical Gardens, 66 McCrae Street, Dandenong. Until Wednesday 31 August, 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday and noon to 4pm on the first Sunday of the month. Call 9793 4511 for more information.
Venation in art
Five contemporary Australian artists explore the veins of histories and customs in this exhibition, though photography, tapestry and printmaking.
Venation refers to the arrangement of veins, as in a leaf or in the wing of an insect.
- Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, corner Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong. Thursday 4 to Saturday 27 August, 11am to 5pm weekdays and 11am to 3pm Saturdays.
Seussical The Musical
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, with Salesian College Chadstone, will present this Dr Seuss musical about an elephant, his friends and adversaries, an abandoned egg and an irresponsible bird.
- Drum Theatre, corner Lonsdale and Walker streets, Dandenong. Friday 5 August, 7pm, Saturday 6 August, 2pm and 7pm. Tickets are $5 for children aged under six years, $16 concession and $22 for adults.
Rhythm of the Weave
Tim Gresham is an unusual tapestry artist.
He’s a man in a predominantly female field and his work is abstract, looking to minimalism rather than figuration and representation.
- Heritage Hill Museum and Historical Gardens, 66 McCrae Street, Dandenong. Until Wednesday 31 August, 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday and noon to 4pm on the first Sunday of the month.
Open Art Day
Make, see and do at Heritage Hill Open Art Day, part of Cultural Threads.
Visitors can take a heritage tour, see the All Her Thoughts are Tactile installation by Thea Jones, and create their own pieces.
- Heritage Hill Museum and Historical Gardens, 66 McCrae Street, Dandenong. Sunday 7 August, noon to 4pm. Entry is a gold coin donation.
