Branch Blog - Auckland, New Zealand
After a slight delay to proceedings (alright, Leda forgot part of the costume) we were off with a bang. The perfect start to the Halloween weekend, we joined forces with Cassette 9 Markets to indulge our sketchers in an afternoon of free booze, creepy cupcakes & VAMPIRA!
A big thanks to Karolina Kat for being an amazingly hot lady, even covered in the blood of babies. Oh & thanks Becks for all the free beer. You bring vampires & artists together.
Dr. Sketchy Auckland arrived at Manukau Women's Prison only 20mins late despite numerous to & fro-ing on the Southern motorway. Who would have guessed that the friendly 'this exit Rainbows End' sign was the one to take? Well apparently it makes a twisted sort of sense. As we were gleefully informed by some of our erstwhile sketchers "you know what they say about the water in the women's prison!"
After a quick stripping down of metallic objects and a pat down to make sure I wasn't hiding a machete in my rather fitted 50's style pants we were given pencils, sketch pads, erasers and sharpeners (one for each of us, prisoners aren't allowed control of such dangerous objects). Ushered into a room not unlike my high school classroom we are told to sit tight, the guard will bring them to us shortly.
It is worth noting that Brett
Security clearance arrived yesterday evening & we were informed not to bring cellphones, recording devices, weapons (I worry that sharp pencils could be considered a weapon), laptops, drugs/alcohol (coffee?) or chewing gum. No inappropriate footwear (damn it! I said goodbye to my June Carter costume plan of 5" high heels), singlets or spaghetti straps or inappropriate slogans on tshirts. We are given some references as to what not to wear.
The first example being David (the only gay in the prison?) from Little Britain. In his skin tight leathers in red & blue, he is provocative & sporting gang colours. A BIG no.
It's Dr. Sketchy at it's bare minimum! However, we have been informed we can give cookies away as prizes. Sweet, sweet cookies. In prison this is like money. We have farmbake brand. They are $100 bills in a world
This Saturday: Dr. Sketchy "Auckland" goes to PRISON!
One of NZ's South Island cities, Christchurch was hit with a 7.1 earthquake last Sat 4th Sept. Aftershocks have been continuing throughout the week (between 11 - 35 a day ranging from 3 - 5 on the richter scale). Because of this there has been evacuations to a lot of buildings in the city as many are no longer safe to live in.
Christchurch's female prison is one of these buildings. They have evacuated all the prisoners to the Auckland female prison & are looking for activities to occupy the overflow of inmates (many of whom are now double bunking). To help, Dr. Sketchy Auckland will be donating our time to provide a Dr. Sketchy session for the female prisoners.
Wish us luck! We will be updating regularly on this project as per Headmistress Molly Crabapple's request.
Hey SKETCHERS! As we said last night, PINK NOISE, the art zine is featuring Dr. Sketchy Auckland in its pages in the near future. The wonderful Katie has offered you lucky members the chance to design the cover for Pink Noise, to appear on the cover of the issue featuring the Dr. Sketchy article.
To submit work for the cover of Pink Noise you need only do the following:
- put together a portfolio of your work which must include one sketch done at a Dr. Sketchy session
- submit the portfolio to myself & Brett at either the Sketchy session on the 18th Sept or (if you cannot make that session) email a copy of it to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/*= 0)out += unescape(l[i].replace(/^\s\s*/, '&#'));while (--j >= 0)if (el[j].getAttribute('data-eeEncEmail_ipbEagbyty'))el[j].innerHTML = out;/*]]>*/ by the
