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To: Hon. Penny Sharpe
Save Mount Omei Gallery and Precinct, in Leacock Reserve Casula
Problem: Save The Mount Omei Arts Precinct from closure, the Action Group (MOAPAG) bring to your
attention issues of gross negligence by the NSW NPWS and its refusal to implement the findings of a Heritage Assessment report prepared for it on Mount Omei in 2016, as required by the Leacock Regional Park Plan of
Management.'
Action: Take Signed petition to Parliament to Save The Mount Omei Arts Precinct from Eviction and Closure. Call on the government to implement the Plan of Management .
Why: To save The Mount Omei Arts Precinct from closure, the space is for Community and Artist alike , conserve the park so as to maintain and enhance significant landscape values and to conserve natural and cultural values.
attention issues of gross negligence by the NSW NPWS and its refusal to implement the findings of a Heritage Assessment report prepared for it on Mount Omei in 2016, as required by the Leacock Regional Park Plan of
Management.'
Action: Take Signed petition to Parliament to Save The Mount Omei Arts Precinct from Eviction and Closure. Call on the government to implement the Plan of Management .
Why: To save The Mount Omei Arts Precinct from closure, the space is for Community and Artist alike , conserve the park so as to maintain and enhance significant landscape values and to conserve natural and cultural values.
Why is this important?
"BODIES ON THE LINE TO SAVE HISTORIC MOUNT OMEI MODERN ART GALLERY".
MOUNT OMEI ARTS PRECINCT ACTION GROUP join together with artists and community members to protest NSW government legal action to destroy historic art gallery.
ACTION & KEY SPEECHES:
SAT 2ND MARCH, 2024, 2:30PM & SUN 3rd MARCH, 2024, 12PM.
Established in 1976 by artist Alice Klaphake, the Gallery has been wholly run by volunteers and artists for the past 8 years.
Artists, musicians, curators, historians and concerned community are banding together in a last-ditch campaign to save Western Sydney’s first privately owned art gallery from destruction by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
'In 2016 a Heritage Assessment was prepared for NPWS, as required by the Leacock Regional Park Plan of Management. NPWS have ignored the findings of that report which identified the historic significance of the Mount Omei Modern Art Gallery as the first western Sydney commercial art gallery and ignored its recommendations for an future community use associated with that significance and also have now, after a lengthy Tenancy Tribunal process,
evicted Alice Klaphake's botanist and sculptor son Van who is himself included in the Statement of Significance in that Heritage Assessment 2016.'
MOUNT OMEI ARTS PRECINCT ACTION GROUP join together with artists and community members to protest NSW government legal action to destroy historic art gallery.
ACTION & KEY SPEECHES:
SAT 2ND MARCH, 2024, 2:30PM & SUN 3rd MARCH, 2024, 12PM.
Established in 1976 by artist Alice Klaphake, the Gallery has been wholly run by volunteers and artists for the past 8 years.
Artists, musicians, curators, historians and concerned community are banding together in a last-ditch campaign to save Western Sydney’s first privately owned art gallery from destruction by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
'In 2016 a Heritage Assessment was prepared for NPWS, as required by the Leacock Regional Park Plan of Management. NPWS have ignored the findings of that report which identified the historic significance of the Mount Omei Modern Art Gallery as the first western Sydney commercial art gallery and ignored its recommendations for an future community use associated with that significance and also have now, after a lengthy Tenancy Tribunal process,
evicted Alice Klaphake's botanist and sculptor son Van who is himself included in the Statement of Significance in that Heritage Assessment 2016.'
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