A program of poetry & exhibition of art
presented by the One in Five Creative Arts Association

The One in Five Creative Arts organisation in the Upper Mountains and Lithgow area has been operating since June 2010. This association has an eclectic membership made up mostly of those in recovery from mental illness.
Our name, one in five, represents the number of ordinary Australians who will at some stage in their lives, experience mental illness. 

We aim to encourage creativity in our members and welcome poets, artists, photographers, writers, musicians and all creative people with a lived experience of a mental illness, as well as their carers and support people.

We meet once a fortnight on Tuesdays at 12:30pm at the Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre.

Announcing: Ash Wanders to perform in the Vociferous Tent this Ironfest.

Singer-Songwriter Guitarist Ash Wanders' music takes influence from bands such as Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Church, Mazzy Star, and Augie March. His recent originals were written in the wilderness on a 16 month stint camped in the Jameson Valley.

Ash is also a freelance music producer, collaborator, venue operator and multi-instrumentalist.  Originally from Melbourne, he developed his musical prowess in Bondi over 9 years and he now Lives in the Blue Mountains. His music ranges from finger-style roots and blues to Ethereal art-rock and possesses a voice that ranges from a deep Leonard Cohen to a soaring Jeff Buckley. He is also widely known in the Blue Mountains for his views on non-violence and globalist politics which are often expressed in his music.

Ash has performed variations on his present solo originals show since 1995 in Melbourne, Adelaide, North Coast, South and Central Coast, Sydney and Blue Mountains at The Clarendon, Tres Elis Nightclub, The Savoy, Isobar Jazz Cafe, Mountain Ridges, Niche Noshe, @ Petes Ridge festival, @ Ironfest, Blue Mountains Winter Magic Festival, @ the Annual SOS Three Day Festival, Darebin Music Festival, The Cruelty-free Festival, Down to Earth festival, @ The Blue Fringe Arts Festival, The Blackheath Rhodo Festival, The Festival of Joy, Blackheath Day and @ Gulgong Folk Festival among others.

He has two well received albums out and two coming out soon. Don’t miss his show which will feature the cream from all of these on Saturday and Sunday from  12:30 to 1pm and from 3 to 3:30pm.

For examples of his material and collaborations visit: www.altruismusic.com

Announcing: Garth Clifton will be taking part in Vociferous at Ironfest 2012.

Garth was one of the very first members of 1 in 5 Upper Mountains. He has been writing poetry for decades and is known affectionately as The Bard of Blackheath. In his poetry he reflects on natural beauty and supernatural wonder, often seeing one in the other.Garth has been published in “Celebrating Life 2011”, a Blue Fringe publication and is a regular reader at Poetry in the Pub at the Ivanhoe Hotel in Blackheath monthly on a Sunday.

To read Garth’s poetry is to acknowledge life, love and the wonder of it all.