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The M.A.C. – Arts and Cultural Activity
The Moonah Arts Centre is Glenorchy’s community arts centre and is part of Glenorchy City Council’s Arts & Cultural Development Section. The Moonah Arts Centre is a focus for arts and cultural activity in Glenorchy City, aiming to provide opportunities for the enjoyment, appreciation and discovery of the arts and culture in our local community Each year the Moonah Arts Centre develops an Annual Program of activities spanning a range of art forms and aiming to reflect a diverse range of ideas, media, artistic styles and practice as well as providing opportunities for the community to have access to and communicate with artists, their work and their processes. Components are:
- Exhibition Program
- Concert Series
- Workshop Program
- School Holiday Activities
- Special Events
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Principals for the new Moonah Arts Centre
The principles for the new MAC were :-
- The new Moonah Arts Centre must remain a facility that provides diverse
community access to participation in the arts.
- It will provide a diverse curated annual program in the visual arts, performance and
live music, a multi arts school holiday program, a multi arts workshop program, entry level presentation and resource opportunities for digital and screen culture.
- It will be a people focused place with the emphasis on social and cultural
interaction.
- It will not be a large scale impersonal or intimidating facility.
- It will be “small and fabulous” at what it does.
- The facility must be able to be managed by a core group of staff and be able to be
used and accessed by a broad range of community groups and individuals.
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Project Funding
In March 2012 the Glenorchy Arts & Culture Advisory Committee, a Special Committee of Council whose role is to provide advice and support to Council on the development of arts and cultural development in the City met with the Independent member for Dennison Andrew Wilkie. The Committee is comprised of two Aldermanic representatives and community and arts representatives from a wide cross section of art forms and practices. This group has been passionate in its support of the Moonah Arts Centre but also passionate about the future opportunities for arts and community cultural development in
- Glenorchy. Their discussion with Andrew focused on the ambitions for a new arts centre and
the limitations inherent in the old facility. It was from this discussion that Council was invited to submit a Business Case and Project Funding Proposal to the Federal Government. The Glenorchy City Council (G.C.C.) received $4.0 million from the Australian Government through the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport in June 2012 to "provide a new facility for the performing and visual arts in Glenorchy to replace the existing Moonah Arts Centre“. G.C.C. undertook a funds management investment program that saw all project funds being invested into a fixed term investment account. This commitment to ensuring that interest funds were re-invested into the project saw the funds available for the project increase to $4.4 million.
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Design Concepts Concept 1 The building as a ‘Stage’ Concept 2 Four spaces designated by simple but distinctive forms Concept 3 Principle spaces are inter- linked and flexible Concept 4 Identity and Communication Concept 5 Enhance the liveable urban space of Main Road, Moonah
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Concept 6 Example of environmentally responsible design
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Environmentally responsible design elements
- The centre is energy efficient leading to substantial ongoing energy cost savings. After
it’s first winter period (with Tasmanian buildings being energy hungry in the colder months) the facility is estimated to have saved $46,000.00 on energy consumption compared to a building of similar size without such features.
- The building was constructed on the principal of being carbon neutral.
- The building has a reduced environmental impact when compared to a congenital
equivalent building;
- The building is a health building through its use of materials and natural ventilation.
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Environmentally responsible design elements
Environmental sustainable features of the Moonah Arts Centre include:-
- Heat recovery systems on external walls that provide natural heating for the cost of
running a domestic sized air fan;
- 20 kW Solar panel system which is linked back into the commercial grid;
- Low energy consumption fittings, including LED exhibition and performance lighting
systems;
- Fully insulated building, including under-slab / slab walls, walls insulation, ceiling
insulation and double glazed windows;
- Only air-conditioned space within the building is the Performance Space. All other areas
are naturally ventilated, including the offices and meeting rooms;
- Hydronic floor and radiator heating system to all occupied spaces that utilises mains gas
supply, but can be switched over to use recycled oil (when it becomes financially sustainable within the Tasmanian commercial sector);
- Natural finishes to building materials. For example concrete benches to the café, zinc
finished wall cladding, natural cement sheet wall cladding, polished concrete floor finishes; etc.
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The building in use
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The building in use
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The building in use
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