Sticky Shop benefit for Romalang 17 – long reach stapler – April 23rd

THE STICKY ROMALANG 17 LONG REACH STAPLER BENEFIT.
Type: Party – Benefit
Start Time: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Pony bar
Street: 68 Little Collins Street
City/Town: Melbourne, Australia

Description.This is a fundraiser show Sticky is coordinating to raise cash for a Romalang 17 long reach stapler from Italy and import it to Sticky for public use.

The Romalang 17 is the mother of all long arm staplers and is capable of pushing staples through as many pieces of A4 as any zinemaker could imagine.

Playing on the night will be OUCH MY FACE + GO GENRE EVERYTHING + THE CHURCH OF HYSTERIA & there will be a STICKY ZINE STALL. First band is on at 10pm and it is $7 to get in. All money raised goes towards bringing the Romalang 17 to Melbourne.

To Write Love on Her Arms Day – April 21st

To Write Love on Her Arms Day That’s right, another TWLOHA day!!

To Write Love on Her Arms is a “non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.” The idea of a TWLOHA day is quite simple: write the word “love” on your arm on April 21st. The goal is to raise awareness of those who are hurting as well as promote TWLOHA’s work to provide hope, help, and support. Please join us as we come together to support the love movement and invite your friends.

Excerpt from TWLOHA’s vision statement: The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence. The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles. The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world. The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need. The vision is better endings. The vision is the restoration of broken families and broken relationships. The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love. The vision is graduation, a Super Bowl, a wedding, a child, a sunrise. The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change. The vision is the possibility that your best days are ahead. The vision is the possibility that we’re more loved than we’ll ever know.

The vision is hope, and hope is real. You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.

To view TWLOHA’s full vision statement and learn more, visit http://www.twloha.com/vision/

GREEN THUMBS BY KOTOE ISHII – APRIL

Green Thumb is a new work by Kotoe Ishii that will introduce a simultaneously innocent and disturbing intimacy to the public space of Federation Square, (Melbourne) and is the penultimate Next Wave Time Lapse work.

Adapted from the 1950s children’s picture-book of the same name, Green Thumb is a short video using photographic stop-motion techniques, created on a loop. There is no dialogue, just natural, ambient sounds. Continuing Kotoe’s long-held investigations into the physical effect of repressed emotions on the body, Green Thumb sees a series of repeated actions/movements in public space. Specifically, the video features Kotoe’s own thumb, shot in close-up, inserting itself into various holes in the urban landscape. As she does this, plants and trees sprout from the holes.

Find out more at next wave

AFTRS Comedy Filmclub with Paul Harris #Melbourne

From slapstick, the irreverent wit of screwball, romantic comedy and the deadpan hilarity of the mockumentary join other film fans to learn and laugh your way through some wonderful films and fascinating discussions with Paul Harris.

Every Friday night
April 9 - May 21 6.30-9.30pm
2 Russell Street (corner of Flinders) Melbourne 3000
Cost: $290

For more information and how to apply:
Website: wwww.aftrs.edu.au
Phone: 03 9602 8300
Email: aftrsopenprogramvic@aftrs.edu.au

Miss Despoina’s Hackspace Hobart – opening up the hood. #gurls #geekgirl

Our 2nd workshop 2010 – 17 April. Saturday 10:00 – 16:00
Moonah Arts Centre 65 Hopkins St   Moonah TAS 7009

All info @

Most of us work with computers one way or another processing programmes and surfing the net, but how often does someone not familiar with computers look inside the case and touch things?

After we pull apart the old computer hardware and name it, what then? This workshop is about making accessories with old computer electronics, mobile phones, tape recorders, even kitchen appliances.

Transform these old favourites into trinkets, wearables and all the while learn about computer or machine hardware.

Hardware is a mystery, may seem difficult but is actually a lot of fun. While involved in hand-on demolition and reconstruction learn about masters and slaves, the difference between memory and storage and the components of your computer.

Workshop involves:
Opening the guts (taking stuff apart
Fishing for components (choosing trinkets)
Making a wearable, (and even functioning), accessory
 

Things to bring:
An object to dismantle (and re-incarnate)
A piece of clothing to modify (optional)
Tools eg drills, screwdrivers, pliers (some will be provided)
Want to know more?

Want to be involved? http://sistero.org/mdhhh/

FLY-ON-THE-WALL THEATRE presents Half A Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths #Melbourne

“I was looking for love and then I found love, but heaven knows I’m miserable now”

Written by ALEX BROUN
Directed by ROBERT CHUTER
Music Re-creation by SIMON POLINSKI & COLIN BERWICK
With MARK TAYLOR as William

William is a young man with three obsessions: very strong long blacks, pining for his lost Salome, and listening to The Smiths. He only exists to devour coffee, despise people and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing ­ Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Just like his idol, the world he occupies can be cruel and lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or even just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obstructive agent of seduction who slithers her way into his life, and entices his addictive personality. Meanwhile, the best friend, Rick, whom he takes for granted, is struggling with his desire for William while confronting his own mortality.

A dark and funny play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just half a person.

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Dates: Thursday 20 – Sunday 30 May 2010
Times: Wednesday-Saturday 8.00pm, Saturday matinees 2.00pm & Sunday 6.30pm Tickets: $28.00 [Full] & $24.00 [Concession] (+ transaction fee) Bookings: 8290 7000 or www.chapeloffchapel.com.au

Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist @ The Republic #Hobart

Supercollider Symposium – Call for Works

Submission Deadline  26 April 2010 ::
18 – 22 September 2010 :: Public welcome

Works, Installations, Papers, Workshops submissions are invited for submission to be presented at the Supercollider Symposium, which will introduce SuperCollider (SC) to new users, show the current state of development, and host talks and presentations of a variety of artistic and/or scientific projects realised with SC. The four-day conference will be preceeded by five days of workshops intended as community service to help beginning programmers, composers and artists with specific SuperCollider techniques.

For more information – http://supercollider2010.de/calls/13-calls-general

Visions from the future – International Festival of Sound Visions – Call for works #alchemy

Submission Deadline 23 April 2010 ::
Festival 28 – 30 May 2010 :: Torino, Italy

Visions from the Future, inspired by cosmological and cosmogonic visions, explores the alchemy of our earth, our history, the social evolution, spirituality and the mysteries surrounding (wo)man. They are calling for content makers to create, shaping image and sound, works that pass through us to imagine IRIDESCENT WORLDS. Including Short Film, Video Art, Computer Art, Audiovisual Performances.

http://www.cronosferafestival.com/visionidalfuturo_2ENG.htm

Interactivos?’10: Neighborhood Science – Call for Projects and Papers

Submission Deadline 19 April 2010  ::
Workshop: 7 – 23 June 2010 ::
Medialab-Prado, Madrid

Interactivos?’10 is a workshop which develops projects gathering and putting into action collaboration and local urban knowledge networks using free software and hardware technologies and “Do it yourself” (DIY) and “Do it with others” (DIWO) methods. A maximum of five theoretical works will be selected, among theoretical and research papers, presentations and analysis of the experiences about the proposed subject matter. Subjects include: Urban Infrastructure (mobility, transport, urban and telecommunication networks); Health and environmental issues (quality of the air and water, meteorology, nutrition, gastronomy and recipes, urban gardens); Social relations and cultural production (games, education and learning in the street; exchange of services and knowledge).

For call guidelines and submission forms http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_ciencia_de_barrio