Join The Great Toy-Car Drive today ...

The Great Toy-Car Drive takes off Thursday 11 September 2008

Do you want to do something about climate change / global warming by reducing your carbon footprint?

Do you want to participate in an exciting community collaborative sculpture?

Yes that’s right - sculpture!
A life-sized car sculpture made from used toy-cars.

Throughout Spring'08 / Summer'09 artist Brendan Penzer is asking the community to collaborate with him in helping to tackle issues of climate change.

YOU are invited to take part in The Great Toy-Car Drive by simply donating a toy car to this project in exchange for leaving your car at home and travelling by an alternative method of transport such as by foot, bicycle, or public transport.

The project is all about the small steps that individuals and communities can undertake now to make a difference in regards to climate change and the damage that we, collectively, are doing to the planet. The Great Toy-Car Drive, along with being a fun artistic project and an example of community building, aims to illustrate, through a profound symbolic gesture, a commitment to change by the community.

Penzer will take The Great Toy-Car Drive to the people, attending a significant community event in every local government area in greater metropolitan Sydney over the six month period.

At these events, willing participants will donate a toy-car, be photographed and asked to sign a global warming pledge book. The pledge is a statement of intention from each participant in terms of taking ownership of the obligations of change that humans need to make in order to alleviate the human-caused damage to the climate.

The Great Toy-Car Drive is an inclusive platform to engage in conversations about climate change, the resulting documentation will be an important and revealing survey of time and place.

For those that can't make it to the community events, an ongoing central Collection Station is at Newtown's At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art, 565 King Street Newtown NSW 2042. Ph (02) 95192340.

The toy cars collected in the The Great Toy-Car Drive will be used to construct a life-sized car sculpture that will be created over the six month period.

The project will be exhibited in progress at Road:Rode, an art exhibition for the 2008 International Bicycle Film Festival at At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art in November 2008. The end result will be exhibited later in 2009.

Stay tuned to this website for continual updates and progress documentation throughout the project.
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Collection Station 1

At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art
565 King Street Newtown NSW
11 September 2008 - 11 March 2009

Opening Hours: Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday/Sunday 10am-5pm

www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au

Map
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Collection Station 2

Earthdance Sydney 2008
Prince Alfred Park, Surry Hills
Saturday 13 September 2008
9am - 6pm

www.earthdance.org.au

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Collection Station 3

Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2008 (MCAP'08)
Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Pidcock Street Camperdown (next to Camperdown Bowling Club)
Thursday 11 - Sunday 28 September 2008

Opening Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm

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Collection Station - Post

Can't make it in to the physical collection stations?
Why not make the Climate Change Pledge and Post your Toy-Car today?

Email atthevanishingpoint@hotmail.com and request a;
Great Toy-Car Drive Info Pack.

Post materials to;
The Great Toy-Car Drive
565 King Street
Newtown NSW 2042

Work out the postage cost HERE
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Stay tuned for further information coming soon
Email: atthevanishingpoint@hotmail.com