05 PM | 30 Mar

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

05 PM | 30 Mar

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

05 PM | 30 Mar

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

05 PM | 30 Mar

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

05 PM | 30 Mar

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