Emma Davis’ new single ‘Machines’ – very cute – you’ll like it! #music #geekgirl

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In the lead up to her debut record, Emma Davis releases ‘Machines’; a stunning track that combines Emma’s rich melodies and natural story‐telling with the humble sound of a Casiotone.

For the last year the London‐born Sydney songwriter has worked with acclaimed troubadour Brian Campeau (Angus and Julia Stone, Melanie Horsnell, Elana Stone, Cuthbert and the Nightwalkers) to piece together a record of her stories and give her sweet melodies and subtle turn of phrase the delicate treatment that they deserve. Over the year, musical friends have piled into Brian’s home-made studio in Newtown to lend their own voices to the stories that were once so personal. It is a record made up of the quiet moments shared between people; stories of awkward conversations, mistaken loves and unfathomable friendships, told with such honesty that you can’t help but see yourself in them.

Machines is a beautiful track which showcases Emma’s gorgeous folky voice, her subtle turn of phrase, and her sweet melodies – alongside the humble sound of the casiotone.

http://www.myspace.com/emmadavismusic

The 2011 Birds Eye View Film Festival is seeking short film submissions from women #London #geekgirl

Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 (London, UK)
Earlybird applications close: Friday October 1
Regular applications close: Friday November 5
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

The 2011 Birds Eye View Film Festival is seeking short film submissions from women filmmakers from around the globe, to be part of an innovative and inspirational celebration of talent. Screenings will be held at leading London film venues, including the British Film Institute (Southbank) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 will open with a special gala screening of short films on March 6. The rest of the festival will include retrospective screenings, live music, workshops and master-classes, feature and documentary screenings and Q&A’s with inspirational women in film.

For more information visit the website or email  submissions@birds-eye-view.co.uk

Capital Letters: the NGA #zine fair – Proudly organised by the Sticky Institute #Canberra #Australia #geekgirl

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Saturday, October 30 · 11:00am – 4:00pm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parkes Place
Canberra, Australia

A zine fair of over 30 zinesters from around Australia at the nation’s capital, in conjunction with the NGA’s mighty launch of their street art exhibition, Space Invaders.

Organised by the Sticky Institute:
Sticky Institute are ardent defenders of zine culture based in Melbourne’s underground. We are home to the docucenter III C3100 copier, a typewriter pool, badge machines, long arm staplers, and an online mail order department. Go nuts.

Fund raiser for PBS 106.7 FM – Pash album launch – female hip hop – girl brigade #Melbourne #geekgirl

Pash is the presenter of Very Necessary on PBS FM 106.7, a show about girls getting their groove on, in the musical sense. On 14th October, 2010 at The Order of Melbourne, Pash will be presenting a night of Melbourne’s best in female hip hop and electronic music.

Catch Multicultural women’s DJ collective Lady Fingers serving up a cross-cultural blend of beats, including bhangra, hip-hop, reggae, electronic, soul, funk, and more, plus local electro dance duo Girl Brigade, hip hop nusoul glitch beat team Syreneyiscreamy & Able, Hailey Cramer and global party stylings from Ms Butt.

There’ll also be provocative projections courtesy of VJ Inxile, and Pash will add further spice as she launches her highly anticipated debut album.

If you are passionate about women in music and love the sounds of community radio then you will find it very necessary to attend this special event. Funds raised will go to PBS, Melbourne’s number one supporter of underrepresented and diverse music.

7pm sharp. $7 entry.
The Order of Melbourne
2/ 401 swanston street
Melbourne, Australia

Bloodbath – Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League #geekgirl

BLOODBATH
http://bumpp.net/

Saturday 9 Oct  6.30pm – doors open 5.30pm
Tickets through ticketek

BLOODBATH is a collaborative distributed artwork by Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League. BLOODBATH features five artists – Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini and Sarah Waterson. At an all girl flat track   roller derby game, sensors on the helmets of players feed data to the five artworks, generating digital elaborations of the moves and  
collisions on track.

All girl flat track roller derby is a raucous, irreverent game that usually results in minor injuries. It runs in bouts of 30 minutes, each bout being made up of 2 minute ‘jams’ in which one member of each team, the ‘jammer’, attempts to pass the pack and so score points.

For Bloodbath, the packs also have a virtual life, from robust wireless sensors (wiimotes) installed on the heads of players, collision, speed and rotational information is sent to a server and from there, on to data driven artworks. The artists are making their artworks live on site, in real-time, and these are projected as the game is played out.

Bloodbath builds on investigations into our human tendency towards, and attraction to, violence – these trajectories creating   technological  elaborations of our delighted riveted engagement in battle and its dynamics of attack, revenge, defence, collapse, victory, deceit and subterfuge. The artists will be working with digital manifestations of speeding flesh and programmed digital  activity. These works both follow and break the rules, embodying the generative repercussions of a fracas.

BLOODBATH
http://bumpp.net/
Artists: Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kate Richards, Francesca da Rimini, Sarah Waterson
Producers: Linda Dement, Kate Richards
Original  idea: Linda Dement
Technical development: Mr. Snow, House of Laudanum 
Publicity: Deborah Turnbull, New Media Curation

TWLOHA – To Write Love on Her Arms – Sept 25th #Australia #love #geekgirl

http://www.twloha.com.au

On the 25th of September, 2010 there will be an Australia-wide To Write Love On Her Arms Day.

What is To Write Love On Her Arms? (TWLOHA for short)

TWLOHA is a movement dedicated to helping the fight against depression, addiction, self-harm and suicide. A non-profit, non-commercial and non-religious. TWLOHA is people helping people, nothing more and nothing less.

What do I have to do?
Quite simply; write the word LOVE on your arm. That is all we ask of you. If you’d like to take a photo of it and post it to our group, we’d love that. We’d love you to tell your friends and family why you’ve written it there, and we’d love you to help them write love on their arms as well.

If you’re in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart or Launceston and wish to get more involved, then please seek out the TWLOHA representatives in your area.

Can I get more information?
Yes you can! Check out our website at http://www.twloha.com.au/, post a comment on the wall of this event or the TWLOHA Australia group, or email support@twloha.com.au

Wanna get involved, help us out, offer your services, or be in one of the groups on the ground? Let us know and we’ll help you out.

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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.

Remember; Love is the Movement.

Help save orang-utans and help save ourselves #donate #geekgirl

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Please give generously to help these awesome orang-utans.

DONATE GREENPEACE US

Stay in touch and informed and  how you can help locally; via Australian Zoos. And contribute to the Zoos Victoria Foundation Orang-utan Conservation Fund.

Editor’s note: Animals in all shapes and sizes humble us. Even the little mouse that has inhabited our home makes me smile. Not because she poos everywhere and eats our cheese and chocolate. It’s because she is small, vulnerable and like us all, scurries around just trying to survive. Each time you help an animal cause you help humanity understand the great chain of connections we have to each other, and the richness we all share while alive. Loving animals is a sign of loving ourselves. *HUGS* GG

NCPIC Short Film Competition express your ideas about #cannabis #pot #maryjane #geekgirl

Entries Close: October 20, 2010
ncpic.org.au

The NCPIC Short Film Competition gives young people aged between the ages of 16 and 25 years the opportunity to showcase their creative talent and express their thoughts and ideas about cannabis. This year the competition will focus on cannabis and its impact upon young people and their educational achievements.

The film can be in any style or genre (i.e. drama, comedy, documentary, science-fiction, etc.), but must creatively explore the issues associated with the use of cannabis and its impact upon educational achievement.

Editor’s note: hmmm not sure if NCPIC understand people enjoy weed. Hopefully this can help inform the debate AND legalise marijuana. GG.

French live cinema collective SUPERFLUX team up with #Melbourne AV collective STREAM #fringe #geekgirl

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16MM PROJECTIONS. HOME-MADE INSTRUMENTS. LIVE VIDEO. NOISE TOYS

French live cinema collective SUPERFLUX team up with Melbourne AV collective STREAM for a night of performances.

Artists:
RICHARD BOKHOBZA (Fr)
ETIENNE CAIRE (Fr)
MARCO CHER-GIBARD (Aus)
ROSALIND HALL (Aus)
MARCIA JANE (Aus)
LIONEL PALUN (Fr)
GAËLLE ROUARD (Fr)

SAT 25 SEPT
8.00pm (2hrs)
FREE

Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre cnr Sydney & Glenlyon Rds, Brunswick, Melbourne

Presented by RMIT Union [Arts]

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010

http://lionelpalun.com/superflux/indexE.html
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=126878077361438
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/superstream
http://streamcollective.wordpress.com/

Quite Contrary a new show by The Women’s Circus for Melbourne Fringe #geekgirl

The Women’s Circus, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, presents the premiere of their latest show, Quite Contrary, directed by Debra Batton.

When a chorus of over 100 women take hold of the circus the lines between backstage, upstage, onstage and downstage become blurred. We all know that the women run the show, let us rub your nose in it! Where flying through the air is part of the daily grind/mind, smiling upside down is a face lift, notions of normal are twisted and difference is celebrated.

Quite contrary is mostly performed & crewed by volunteers. Over 100 women ranging from complete beginners to emerging circus performers volunteer their time and energy, drawn together by their strong ownership and love of the Women’s Circus community. In their day to day lives they are students, mothers, lawyers, health professionals, unemployed, public servants, animators, vet nurses, arts workers , it workers, community workers and much more. But for these 2 weeks their lives go on hold as they transform into aerialists, tumblers, jugglers, musicians, riggers, sound crew, bar staff and just about anything else that is needed to produce a circus show.

There will be a fully licensed Bar and Hot home made food!

Venue: Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Season Dates: 23-26 Sept 2010 & 30 Sept-3 Oct 2010 @ 7.30pm
Times/Notes: Doors Open for pre show drinks and performances at 6.30pm with seating from 7.15pm
Tickets: Conc. $27.00, Full $33.00

Bookings: Festival Tickets: 03 9660 9666 or www.melbournefringe.com.au