A Dinner to Die For – interactive evening of murder mystery and mayhem

Lord Quinten Daventry invites you for an interactive evening of murder mystery and mayhem all served up with a delicious 3 course dinner.

We’re not talking molecular gastronomy here, but rather a wickedly funny Murder Mystery Dinner. Bare Elements Productions, based in Melbourne, present their first Australian show.

Become part of the show whilst watching the show – set in 1928 you are invited to be a guest of Lord Quinten Daventry at his birthday bash. The rumour going around social circles is that he will announce his engagement to Miss Fanny Farquar.

It’s Agatha Christie in spirit – all cut glass accents, strings of pearls, flapper dresses, army outfits, dinner jackets and monocles – with lashings of sexual innuendo and double entendres.

When: Saturday 4th, 18th or 25th April 2009
From: 7.30pm
Dinner & Show $80 pp

For further information or to book call The Retreat Hotel on 03 9417 2693 226 Nicholson St,(near corner with Johnston St) Abbotsford, Melbourne

Or go to www.adinnertodiefor.com

Proudly associated with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: www.comedyfestival.com.au

Jaimie Leonarder – Synchromysticism and the decoding of mainstream Hollywood cinema – Melbourne

Jaimie Leonarder, aka Jay Katz of Sydney’s Mu-Meson Archives, presents a pastiche of film excerpts mashed up by today’s most prominent advocates of Synchromysticism: Soundlessdawn, Labyrinth of the Psychnaut and Hollywood 911.

Have you ever thought there were just too many coincidences for it to be a coincidence? Looking directly at the modern Hollywood blockbuster, we may be able to see that the revolution will not only be televised, but designed through popular culture to condition us to the end of the world as we know it.

Could ‘they’ be laughing at us every time we purchase a movie ticket? Be warned: you will never watch a movie the same way again.

Fri 3 Apr 2009, 10pm
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Cinemas

18+
Full $13 Concession $10
or phone (03) 8663 2583
buy tickets

Texas Chainsaw Trivia – it’s Sydney’s most eccentric Trivia Night

Wednesday 1st April – where everybody is a winner JACKPOT JACKPOT JACKPOT!

There’s a massive jackpot of prizes building at Texas Chainsaw Trivia that must be won in the coming weeks –
BOOKS, CD’S DVD’S AND OTHER REMARKABLE GOODIES
PLUS THE USUAL PRIZES – DARLO DOLLARS AND BOTTLES OF WINE

Every Wed 7.30pm
Darlo Bar – ROYAL SOVEREIGN HOTEL Cnr Darlinghurst Rd. & Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, Sydney.

SPECIAL APRIL FOOLS DAY TRIVIA with JAY KATZ, COFFIN ED and MISS DEATH!

Friday 10th April
In Celebration of Good Friday
The Jesus Guy

Barefoot, and clad in a white robe, he’s walked through 47 states [and 13 countries] on a 16-year mission that’s captured media attention Yet who is this solitary figure who inspires faith – and attracts controversy? The Jesus Guy covers the mystical journey of America’s “Barefoot Evangelist.” In a nation that worships money, he’s penniless. In a culture that idolizes celebrities, he’s forsaken his identity. Plus some choice Christian Educational propaganda. Mu-Meson Archives Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale, Sydney at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone 02 9517-201

For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site http://www.mumeson.org

Beck Wheeler gets Crafty

The brilliant Beck Wheeler has an installation of new 3d works in the encounter window space at Craft Victoria (31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne). The installation is up till the 12th April. So if your in that neck of the woods, make a bee line to the patch of sidewalk outside Craft Victoria and have a look in.

A link to more info, a little interview/writeup and some pics is below:
http://craft-victoria.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-beck-wheeler.html

Beck Wheeler’s website: www.beckwheeler.net

Bendigo Easter Music Festival

In conjunction with the usual Easter festivities which take place in the enchanting goldfields town of Bendigo (130km north-west of Melbourne), the first annual Bendigo Easter Festival will be held on Saturday 11th April at Tom Flood Arena. Featuring Paul Kelly, Augie March, Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins & Matheson

Saturday April 11th, 2009 – Tom Flood Arena, Bendigo, VIC

Doors open 2.00pm – Finish 11.00pm.

General Admission / All Ages Licensed
Tickets on sale NOW ($55 + Booking Fee) and available from The Capital (Bendigo)
Tel: 03 5434 6100, www.thecapital.com.au; Oztix Tel: 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au

For more information go to : www.bendigoeasterfestival.org.au

SymbioticA: Call for Expressions of Interest

Expressions of Interest are being sought across all art forms to undertake residencies as part of SymbioticA’s art and ecology project:  Adaptation. Lake Clifton, situated in one of the fastest growing Australian regional cities is home of one of the last remaining colonies of the very slow growing Thrombolites (or ‘living rocks’).  Adaptation presents an exceptional opportunity for artists to engage with a number of potential narratives.

For further information go to http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/adaptation

Columbia Livia By Catherine Clover

Columbia Livia is an audiovisual installation. It is one of a series of investigations into our relationship with our feathered friend and foe, the common pigeon.

4th March – 15th April 2009
Window frontage of 569 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, Melbourne 3054
24 hour viewing
Further info: www.ciclover.com

International gay marriages to be recognized in Japan

An interesting legal change has been announced by the Justice Ministry in Japan. While it is still illegal for Japanese gay couples to marry here, it will be legal when one of the partners is a non-Japanese and where the marriage occurs in a country where gay marriage is legal. Countries that allow gay marriage include Spain, Holland, Belgium, Canada, South Africa and some states in the USA.

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The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship

Valued at $60,000, is intended to enable an artist, at the outset of their career, to undertake further art studies overseas at a recognised art institution, or to undertake a study program with a senior artist, for one to two years.

Artists living in NSW and working in any art form are eligible to apply. For the purposes of the award the outset of an artists’ career is deemed to be within the first five years of their professional practice.

Applications to the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship are to be submitted to Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 by Monday 4 May 2009.

Application forms and guidelines are available from Arts NSW
Tel: 02 9228 5533, Free-call 1800358 594 or www.arts.nsw.gov.au

Alexander Calder in Paris

Finally it is back in Paris! Its presence alone justifies, dare we say imposes a visit to the exhibition! We are talking of course of the Circus, the masterpiece Alexander Calder created with pieces of metal, strings and tin, arousing the admiration of the surrealists and which Calder transported in a suitcase. He gave shows at friends’ houses, making the acrobats jump and the lions roar (to be seen again in the films by Jean Painlevé and Carlos Vilardebo). The Circus, which sums up both the wanderings, the taste for all that is mechanics, poetry and humor had been kept for decades as a major masterpiece at the Whitney Museum in New York with no possibility of leaving it. Next to this major work, the exhibition on the artist’s Parisian years shows the passage from figurative sculpture to abstraction that made him famous.

Alexandre Calder, les années parisiennes 1926-1933 at Centre Pompidou until 20 July 2009