{"id":115,"date":"2020-01-14T21:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-06-02T05:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:37:21","slug":"art-matters-for-a-healthy-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/art-matters-for-a-healthy-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Art matters for a healthy community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MerryCrisis.png?resize=525%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MerryCrisis.png?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MerryCrisis.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MerryCrisis.png?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MerryCrisis.png?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Scotty Marsh&#8217;s Merry Crisis mural now available printed on a t-shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading\nany newspaper or social media channel over the few weeks its pretty hard not to\nbe confronted with horrific images of the devastation of the bushfires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, amidst all this sadness, artists all over the country are banding together to support the victims and the brave firefighters, offering everything from selling t-shirts, free gigs, donations from sales  and raising funds by any means possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the amazing fundraising efforts by notable people such as a comedian raising millions of dollars in donations, to street artists such as Scotty Marsh raised over $50,000 in t-shirt sales for the Rural Fire Service as a result of \u2018Merry Crisis\u2019 his Chippendale mural that went viral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have read about\ncraft and knitting groups knitting socks and pouches for animals, Musicians\nholding fundraising gigs across the country, jewellery makers, screen printers,\nhairdressers, chefs and restaurants donating their profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nsee time and again when crisis hits, the fighting and supportive Australian\nspirit shines true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone\ninterested in continuing the support Time Out Sydney has a list of\nevents whose proceeds will all go towards bushfire charity fundraisers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/sydney\/things-to-do\/bushfire-relief-fundraising-events-in-sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bushfire Relief Events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melbourne folk can wine and dine while doing their bit to help. A\nlist of food and beverage places whose proceeds are helping the cause can be\nfound here on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadsheet.com.au\/melbourne\/food-and-drink\/article\/bushfire-relief-spend-these-melbourne-venues-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Broadsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporting each other is what the people and the arts do best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading any newspaper or social media channel over the few weeks its pretty hard not to be confronted with horrific images of the devastation of the bushfires. However, amidst all this sadness, artists all over the country are banding together to support the victims and the brave firefighters, offering everything from selling t-shirts, free gigs, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/art-matters-for-a-healthy-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art matters for a healthy community&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6,12,3,10],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art-and-community","tag-melinda-vassallo","tag-perfect-match-street-art-of-the-inner-west","tag-street-art","tag-walking-the-streets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}