A Golden Ticket to meet Tim Burton at ACMI #Melbourne

**Deadline: Friday May 21**
[www.acmi.net.au](http://www.acmi.net.au/burton_tour_guide.htm)

Direct from New York’s **Museum of Modern Art**, the exhibition ‘Tim Burton’ is presented as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010 from June 24 at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image). The exhibition explores the full scale of Burton’s career, as director, concept artist illustrator and photographer, through hundreds of artworks that spectacularly illuminate the creative vision behind films such as **Beetlejuice**, **Batman**, **Edward Scissorhands**, **Charlie and the Chocolate Factory**, and **Alice in Wonderland**.

The Australian Centre for the Moving Images – Tim Burton Tour Guide - opportunity is open to under 18′s across Australia. Applications must come in the form of 3 minute videos.

Successful applicants will meet Tim Burton, be inducted by ACMI staff, hear from curators about how he created his art and films, and then take the public on a tour of the exhibition on at least one occasion.

ACMI Screen Events Manager, Helen Simondson, says that applicants should be inventive but also remember that if successful they will have to hold a tour of the exhibition. We want young people to get creative and display enthusiasm and confidence, but we also want them to remember that the best tour guides are informative, interesting and able to speak well on their subject, said Helen. We need to see that you have the skills to be a fantastic tour guide, Knowledge of Tim Burton’s art and films is essential and so, to help budding tour guides, ACMI has supplied a fact sheet of resources on its website.

The application form is available online and must be submitted complete with a link to the YouTube location of the 3 minute application video. It is important both applicants and their parent or guardian read the Application Guidelines before applying. Key in these is that applicants and their guardians must be available to meet Tim Burton in the week commencing Monday June 22 and conduct at least one tour. Each tour will be designed by ACMI staff in consultation with the successful applicant. Successful applicants will take part in a voluntary capacity.

Voulez-vous laugh avec Berty Cadilhac – Melbourne Comedy Festival?

**Wednesday to Sunday until April 18**
Bar Open – 317 Brunswick St Fitzroy
Tickets: $15, $10 (conc)

After sell out shows at the St Kilda Laughs festival, French stand-up comedian  Berty Cadilhac presents his show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010.
 
Berty Cadilhac is a skilled migrant from France.  How do you prove that you are a skilled migrant when your job is stand-up  comedy? According to Berty, the customs officer simply laughed at his accent and approved his visa. This might be true, but again so might be his claim that he travels with a sea-urchin costume, or that his rabbit was killed by a tiny meteorite.
 
With a polished and unhostile approach, Berty Cadilhac tells absurd tales about his experience in Australia, from his failed attempts to be eaten by a shark, to his addiction to a popular Australian food, souvlaki.

Berty never pretends to be French or arrogant. He really is.

Glissando by David Musgrave, #Sleepers #Publishing

A little bit about Glissando:
        When it comes to looking back over his life, Archie Fliess has got some understanding to do. So begins a sprawling reflection on his life during the early twentieth century, starting the day the fortunes of Archie and brother Reggie change when they are taken to be the rightful owners of the property built by their grandfather in country NSW. Along their journey, they are introduced to an odd collection of family and caretakers who don’t always have the best interests of the boys at heart. Archie becomes embroiled in the mystery surrounding his grandfather’s life, and as the two stories “ Archie’s and his grandfather’s“ unravel, we see familiar themes of disappointment and failed ambition. Glissando is a tale that travels along many threads, told in a playful, philosophical voice reminiscent of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, with shades of Patrick White’s Voss. It’s an Australian classic, a satirical romp of epic proportions.

Melbourne launch details:
+ Friday 16th April
+ 7pm
+ The Wheeler Centre: 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
+ Being launched by poet, teacher and literary man-about-town, Kevin Brophy

Sydney launch details:
+ Friday 23rd April
+ 5.30 for 6pm
+ Woolley Building Common Room, University of Sydney
+ Being launched by associate professor, Will Christie

Buy Glissando
If you can’t make it to the launches and you haven’t already got this gorgeous book in your chocolate-warmed hands, step into our online store
http://www.sleeperspublishing.com/shop.html

midlife express

Inspired by archetypes - The Creative and The Daredevil, Sue Bell is the founder of midlifeexpress.

midlifexpress.com is for women between the ages of 35 and 60. The site is a resource for women at midlife and was established because there was nothing for women in this age group on the internet (other than sites about menopause). the site connects women to various events and workshops, reading material, discussion groups and more!!

Sue Bell: Sue has worked as a Lecturer in Information Technology, a multimedia teacher and as an entertainment writer for magazines in Australia and the UK.

Jackie Loeb Sings the Worst Songs Ever Written

Comedian and musical virtuoso Jackie Loeb is back with the world debut of her brand spanking new show JACKIE LOEB SINGS THE WORST SONGS EVER WRITTEN.

Come and laugh at the most cringe worthy musical extravaganza ever to be staged! Comedian Jackie Loeb puts her vocal chops and reputation on the line to perform some of histories most appalling and pathetic excuses for songs.

This promises to worse than a Britney and Whitney concert combined!
So what songs will make it onto the list!!! You have only 5 nights to find out.

Poet Laureate Telia Nevile – While I’m Away

You’re invited to join a mighty expedition, set against a 1970s slideshow of the world’s greatest sights. Fresh from an acclaimed 2009 Melbourne Fringe season, the awkwardly intrepid Poet Laureate Telia Nevile awaits your arrival for immediate departure on a deliciously ridiculous grand tour of life, love and lyricism for the modern daydreamer.

Venturing after the 5th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Byron and Andy Kaufmann, Poet Laureate Telia Nevile has traveled the globe in her quest to become a complete artist, plumbing the depths of herself against the wondrous background of the wide, wide world. Join this socially inept and endearingly over‐sharing explorer as she poetically salutes the beginnings of young love in ‘Blue Light Disco, Green Light Romance’, explores the laneways of longevity in ‘I Built You a Monument Because You Always Attracted the Birds’, and surveys the ruins of her self‐worth in ‘This Temple of Love is a Renovator’s Dream’.

Telia Nevile is the cult Last Tuesday Society’s Poet Laureate and her subtle character‐based comedy has converted audiences from Federation Square to the Falls Festival. The slides used in the show were collected by her grandmother during overseas trips in the 1970s and are now proudly presented for your viewing pleasure.

Hidden – at Arts Project Australia

Hidden. A significant group exhibition of artwork that will challenge and engage the viewer on many levels, with hidden layers and messages, at Arts Project Australia Gallery until – 24 April 2010.

Hidden has its own logic, its own language of coded form and idiosyncracy hidden within the artist’s mind and located somewhere between the viewer and the artwork. Just as a puzzle or riddle evades us, these works challenge the viewer to decipher or see beyond their initial reading.

“Hidden showcases the symbolic and abstract work of established artists side by side with that of  emerging artists – a striking combination of pathos and humour.” Sue Roff, Director Arts Project Australia.

The artists use symbols, codes and metaphor as vehicles in many of these works. Familiar objects are cloaked, re-fashioned and abstracted into new forms and compositions that are evocative, surprising and mysterious.

Sometimes the subject can be found closer to the surface, others are more subtle, they need a commitment of time to unravel their magic, which might also lie somewhere between meaning and (un)reason.

With work by Boris Cipusev, Ruth Howard, Julian Martin, Rebecca Scibilia, Leo Cussen, Terry Williams, Andrew Barbour, Guiseppe Calcagno, Brendan Slee and Antonella Calvano, Kieren Carroll, Fulli Andrinopoulos and Tim Williams amongst others. Curated by Camille Hannah and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman.

Gallery talk
Sat 10 April, from 12.30-1pm

Camille Hannah and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman in discussion with various artists

Location

Arts Project Australia,
24 High Street  Northcote Vic  3070

Gallery hours
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-1pm

Bike Polo #Melbourne

The Bike Polo crew have been playing in Melbourne for just over 2 years, in vacant car parks and on disused basketball courts, even under freeways.  The crew play every Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon, basically anywhere they can find an enclosed space that’s large and flat enough.

You could say they’re at the same place skate boarders were before there were skate parks, and when people were making equipment themselves.

The Bike Polo crew make their mallets out of old ski poles and plumbing pipe and use street hockey ball and traffic cones for goals.

They ride whatever bikes that they used to get around town, but the more we play, the more we realise we’re spending more time on the court, than on the street, hours and hours at a time, and late into the night, (if we can find a place with lights).  We lower our gear ratios and seats, put protective discs on our wheels and even cut our handlebars short on one side.

Groups like the one in Melbourne have started up in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, and more recently, Castlemaine and Frankston have started up too. Sometimes we play against each other.

Sydney Screening – Rabid Tripped Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas – premiere April 7

Come to the Australian premiere screening of a collection of fun, colourful gender/queer Australian short films from the arty/radical end of the filmmaking spectrum. This program was curated by Anna Helme and Kelli-Jean Drinkwater for the Bangalore Queer Film Festival in India earlier this year.

“Galactic Sex Wars” rockets us into a futuristic sci-fi world where homos and heteros face off across time and space. “Jorey Corson”, “Ultimate! Dance! Video!” and “Drag Acts” address the performativity of gender, featuring queer and transgender bodies in motion, in masks and moustaches, camping it up in the streets of Berlin, tumbling across an empty sports field at night, inhabiting both the intimate and theatrical. “M.C. G.F.C.” tackles the global fashion crisis, evoking Ru Paul’s “we’re born naked, and the rest is drag”. “With Him of All People” takes a relationship drama into parallel universes of alternate gender. “Procession” is a slice of reality, albeit from a bent perspective, from the Camp Betty weekend of radical sex and politics in 2007, featuring a performative “protest”, aiming to dislocate commonplace demonstration cliches, and generally disrupt the suburbs of Melbourne.

The screening is will be emceed by the captivating Kelli-Jean, and is kindly hosted by the charming Keg and alluring Lucas at their seductive new space in Waterloo, at 643 Elizabeth St (entry from laneway off Phillip St). SYDNEY

Join us Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7.30pm for popcorn and a one-hour screening, and stick around for drinks and chats (some of the filmmakers will also be present).

Come check out some exciting work by independent filmmakers and video artists producing work which steps outside the usual queer film festival fare.