CALLING ALL BUSKERS SHARE IN $10,000 WORTH OF CASH AND PRIZES
QPAC is searching the shopping malls, street corners and parks of Australia for the most innovative, talented and audacious entertainers in the country.
Whether whimsical, witty, wonderful or wacky, buskers have an uncanny ability to grab our attention, delight us with their antics and then wrangle the loose change from our pockets while we cheer them on!
From amateur beat boxers to virtuosic violinists, clowns to contortionists, and statues to stilt-walkers, this unique breed of performers injects an unexpected burst of entertainment into the daily lives of pedestrians everywhere.
Queensland Performing Arts Centre is making a concerted effort to lure talented buskers from across the nation from the street to the stage as part of the inaugural Australian Busking Competition.
With $10,000 in cash and prizes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fill your hat with more loose change than you can carry, balance or juggle.
Online applications close 3 July 2009.
NEWSFLASH – BU$K OPEN
In the lead up to BU$K, QPAC in conjunction with Brisbane Marketing and Brisbane City Council will be holding an additional event – BU$K Open! – to be held at Reddacliff Place in Brisbane Square on Saturday 4 July at 12pm. Successful open audition entrants will be fast-tracked into the heats. A last opportunity for musicians, dancers, sincers, jugglers, hula-hoopers, fire-twirlers, contortionists or any sort of performer to fill their hat, guitar case or bank account with a large cash prize. You must register your interest in this exciting extra performance opportunity by email to busk@qpac.com.au or call (07) 3842 9137 by 5pm Wednesday 1 July.
More info: Queensland Performing Arts Centre
The call for entries in the 2009 create:awards is now open so get cracking and submit your entry before 3pm on July 15th (deadline extended) to share in up to $50,000 in cash and prizes. Now in it’s fifth year the Desktop create:awards have not only spent the past half decade showcasing the best in Australian design from a broad range of industry fields including illustration, photography, website design, animation, print, multimedia, packaging and emerging talent. In 2009 Desktop are looking to take create: to a whole new level by introducing the first ever Desktop design expo to be held in conjunction with the awards event, transforming create: into a huge industry celebration designed to bring together everyone from designers and creatives through to freelance design warriors and advertising agencies, printers and paper merchants, marketing managers and software and hardware developers.
More info from Desktop mag -Create Awards.
Tell Melbourne what you hope for it’s future. Write a message or add a drawing; be its voice and imagination. Help craft a future for Melbourne’s next generations.
City Wiki is based on the concept that the future of design for cities will be strongly centered on human interaction supported by multimedia and technology. The interactive installation is a means of recording collective ideas and personal responses. Photos, video footage and comments of City Wiki are posted online daily, promoting ongoing discourse and further involvement in creating a future for our city.
17 – 24 July, 24 hours
Location: Higson Lane, Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 9654 3644
Cost: Free
Source: State of Design
This free public forum will bring together leading designers and thinkers to explore the future of the city, presenting a series of compelling and confronting ‘visions’ as provocations or considerations.
What will shape and define the nature and livability of the future city? What are the pressures and circumstances – imminent or distant – that will shape the social fabric of the city in 2040 and the subsequent spatial, physical and ecological realm that 2040 citizens will occupy?
2040 City is a rapid fast paced exploration into emerging opportunities, technologies and necessities.
Speakers include Prof. Tom Kovac RMIT, Prof. Lyndon Anderson Swinburne NID, Michael Trudgeon CROWD Productions.
While this is a free event, spaces are limited so please email 2040@stateofdesign.com.au with the subject ‘2040 City – RSVP’ to register. Please provide all names of people planning to attend.
Presented by Design Laboratory and Melbourne Conversations. Melbourne Conversations is the City of Melbourne’s program of free talks.
Wednesday 22 July, 4pm-6pm
Location: BWM Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
Website: designlaboratory.com.au
Cost: Free, limited spaces, RSVP to 2040@stateofdesign.com.au
More from State of Design Festival website
According to what the Sun newspapers claims is a leaked autopsy report, the body of Michael Jackson was ruined by starvation, drugs, plastic surgery and a recent fall. According to the report, Jackson weighed only 112 pounds, was nearly bald (he was wearing a wig when he died), had pills but no food in his stomach and had needle marks all over his arms and legs. The report also said that because of plastic surgery to his face, the bridge to his nose was gone and part of his nose had “collapsed.” Adding to the damage, attempts to revive him caused a long list of injuries to his body as well, including broken ribs.
Source: The Raw Feed
Editor’s note: poor poor MJ. 
Not sure if it’s appropriate to have an AD to lose weight under this article, but I guess Mike Elgan needs to make some dosh somehow! GG
