Closure of art gallery for exhibition installation

16 October 2018

The Ipswich Art Gallery will be closed to the public from 19-30 November to enable the installation of a major exhibition, Playing with Light.

The temporarily closure will enable the efficient installation of the exhibition and negate risk to public safety involved with the movement of large objects in a public space.

The Playing with Light exhibition will be on display from Saturday 1 December. It features a range of interactive and technology-based exhibits which offer visitors of all ages an immersive experience with creative opportunities to play with light.

Local arts projects benefit from RADF grants                                                    

Ipswich City Council, in conjunction with the State Government’s Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), has provided grants to two local artists this month. Council provides funding matched dollar-for-dollar with Arts Queensland.

Daniel Philippe is a composer and improvising musician whose project Music of Silence is a creative partnership between himself, Reflectiv (ambient jazz band) and Ipswich City Symphony Orchestra. The concert will be recorded and streamed. He was awarded $8,320.

Jane Rand is an Ipswich based professional artist who sought funding to support a concept development project titled Living In Ipswich to study homes from an historic viewpoint and undertake research about current occupancies. She will photograph and sketch specific homes. She was awarded $5,830.

The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Ipswich City Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

The Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, contributed $2.08 million to the 2017-18 RADF partnership across 59 councils statewide.

Administrator and Acting CEO representing Ipswich

Interim Administrator Greg Chemello and Acting CEO Charlie Dill will represent Ipswich City Council at the upcoming Local Government Association of Queensland annual conference, to be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 29-31 October.

This year’s conference theme is ‘Onwards and Upwards’ denoting the tough past 12 months Queensland local governments have endured and their strong commitment to build better communities into the future.

Attendance at conference panels, forums and discussions will allow Mr Chemello and Mr Dill to learn new approaches to managing current and future local government issues, learning what other local governments are successfully achieved and their learnings from initiating new projects.

State Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe will provide the conference with an update on local government/council matters.

Council continues support for A-League hopefuls Western Pride

Western Pride Football Club, the National Premier League 2017-18 champions, has received $5,929.50 funding from Ipswich City Council to assist with the cost of events held at the Briggs Road Sports Complex.

Due to the lack of disability access at the clubhouse, the upper level of the complex has been closed until a plan can be formulated to rectify access issues. While Western Pride is able to use the lower level of the complex, which has a canteen, the club advises it has lost revenue due to cancelled fundraising events at the complex function rooms.

The funding from council will go towards the rental of food vans for training and game days, and infrastructure hire for presentation days.

Household chemicals and gas bottle drop off in June 2019

Ipswich City Council will continue with its annual Household Chemicals, Gas Bottle and Listed Items Drop-off Day, to be held at Riverview and Rosewood Recycling and Refuse Centres in June 2019.

Almost 200 customers take advantage of the program each year, discarding on average about 3 tonnes of items.

Council had considered a second drop-off day, for December, but further investigation revealed there would not be any substantial community benefit in increasing the frequency of the event.

And, while a second collection could result in lower volumes of waste for disposal, the set-up costs would be the same and therefore potentially double the council budget.

Council hopes to appoint swimming pool inspectors

Ipswich City Council will look to appoint two full-time officers as part of its proactive pool inspection program. It will carry out a 12-month review of the program to determine if it is then continued or expanded.

Council recently carried out a trial program in Camira and Wood End to test inspection procedures and to determine the average time to conduct a pool inspection. A range of compliance issues were identified and appropriate enforcement action was taken.

There are about 8,000 swimming pools in Ipswich and council believes about two inspections could be carried out per day by one compliance offer.

The real value in the swimming pool inspection program is the awareness and education of the public in relations to the safety requirements for residential swimming pools – especially to reduce the risk of drowning for infants and young children within the Ipswich community.

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