FotoFreo 2008 Bus Tours
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Bus Tours
Because of the significant increase in the number of participating art galleries in the Perth metropolitan area, there will be a series of Bus Tours during a good part of FotoFreo 2008. These have been designed to visit primarily the more isolated core venues and others nearby.
The bus tours will be operating from Monday the 7th of April through until Sunday the 13th of April and there after during the weekends19/20 of April and 26/27 of April. If there is the demand we will consider additional tours.
Unfortunately, with over 60 venues participating in the festival it has not been possible to arrange tours to include every venue. However, comprehensive maps have been prepared identifying the locations of all venues. These can be downloaded and printed from the website. We would like to encourage viewers to organise their own tours – do the rounds, so to speak.
We are particularly keen to have teachers of both secondary and tertiary institutions interested in photography along on these tours so that if they wish they can arrange there own tours for their students. To this end we will provide a free tour to any teacher that wants to come along. All you need do is advise us of your intention and nominate the tour and date.
All tours depart and return from the front of the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. Travel will be via Cascade Tours 32 seater, air conditioned coaches. Each tour will be about 3 hours long. There will be one in the morning commencing at 9:30am and another (with a different itinerary) in the afternoon commencing at 1pm. Four galleries are included on each run. Guides will accompany each tour and provide information relating to the exhibitions prior to arrival.
Below are the details of the tours on a daily basis.
MONDAY 7th APRIL
Gallery Tour #1: Departs the Esplanade Hotel at 9:30am and returns about 12:45pm. The first stop is the Film and Television Institute in Fremantle to view the work of Chinese photographer Wang Gang / then to the Johnston Gallery in Mosman showing Polixeni Papapetrou / Monart in Dalkeith with the AIPP Masters exhibition / the Gadfly Gallery (almost next door) exhibiting Gerhardt Thompson / before finishing with French photographers at Alliance Française in Nedlands and then returning to Fremantle.
Gallery Tour #2: Departs the Esplanade Hotel at 1:30pm and returns about 4.45pm. It begins at the Freight Gallery on the Swan River / then Code Red Art Gallery featuring four photographers / John Curtin Gallery with the multimedia work of Brook Andrew / before finishing with images by Agnès Dherbeys at the Murdoch University Art Gallery and then returning to Fremantle.
TUESDAY 8th APRIL
Gallery Tour #3: Departs the Esplanade Hotel at 9:30am and returns about 12:45pm. Commencing with a run to / the Central TAFE in Northbridge and its War Photography followed by / a short stroll to the Roger Ballen exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA / French photography Denis Darsaqc at the Perth Centre for Photography and / finishing with the exhibition by Darren Siwes at the Turner Gallery.
Gallery Tour #4: Departs the Esplanade Hotel at 1:30pm and returns about 4:45pm. This tour surveys the Fringe photographers in the Northbridge area and begins at Central TAFE. Visitors will be presented with a walking tour map and suggestions to visit a diverse number of Fringe exhibitions in Northbridge. The Coach will be waiting at the Shamrock Hotel on the corner of James and Milligan Streets by 3:45pm for the return trip to Fremantle at 4:00pm sharp. Please note that the bus will leave promptly, but if you miss the bus you can easily return to Fremantle by train.
WEDNESDAY 9th APRIL
Repeat Gallery Tour #1 and Gallery Tour #2
THURSDAY 10th APRIL
Repeat Gallery Tour #3 and Gallery Tour #4
FRIDAY 11TH APRIL
Repeat Gallery Tour #1 and Gallery Tour #2
SATURDAY 12TH APRIL
Repeat Gallery Tour #3 and Gallery Tour #4
SUNDAY 13th APRIL
Gallery Tour #5
Departs the Esplanade Hotel at 9:30am and returns about 12:45pm. The first stop is the Maritime Museum on Victoria Quay / on to the Film and Television Institute in Fremantle to view the work of Chinese photographer Wang Gang / then to the Johnston Gallery in Mosman showing Polixeni Papapetrou / Monart in Dalkeith with the AIPP Masters exhibition / the Gadfly Gallery (almost next door) exhibiting Gerhardt Thompson / then finishing with Chinese photographers, Shi Guorui and Zhu Hao at the Cullity Gallery in Nedlands before returning to Fremantle.
Gallery Tour #6
Yet to be arranged
The gallery tours for the following weekend (the 19th and 20th) will be determined after an initial assessment of operating the tours during the first week of the festival and the details will be advised on the website.
The cost of each half day tour is $10 per seat (not $15 as shown in the programme) and bookings can be made by email mail@fotofreo.com or by phone 9335 9590. Tickets will be collected and paid for when boarding the bus. Reservations are advised.
Download copies of the Fremantle Location Map and the Perth City Location Map here
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