Body Canvas 2010 helping the National Breast Cancer Foundation #Melbourne #geekgirl

Saturday 27th March 2010 – Body Canvas invites you and your guests to celebrate a spectacle of art and colour in an extraordinary event brought to Melbourne for the first time.

Body Canvas is Australia’s largest body paint festival. The event features artists from around Australia who come together to showcase their talent and support a charitable cause. This year’s event is proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

The festival is organised as a competition that will include professional and amateur artists fighting it out in front of a packed crowed and panel of celebrity judges for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. Artists will create their masterpieces in the public forum at the St Kilda Sea Baths, followed by an exhibition and a catwalk parade. There will be a range of category winners announced from most creative to the most outrageous which will be decided by recognised judges from within the entertainment, fashion and artistic community.

Body Canvas festival is open free to public from 12pm to 6pm. The finals will run at the St.Kilda Sea Baths from 6pm to 1am, tickets for the finals cost $35.

Tickets can be purchased on the website http://www.bodycanvas.com.au/.

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Black Harmony Gathering 2010, Sun 21st March, Fairfield Amphitheatre #Melbourne #mysuburb

Multicultural Arts Victoria Presents…
Black Harmony Gathering 2010
1pm – 5pm Sunday 21 March
The Fairfield Amphitheatre
Heidelberg Rd, Fairfield (Melway 30 J12), Melbourne

Held in the heart of Aboriginal land under the gum trees, on the banks of the tranquil Yarra River, at the Fairfield Amphitheatre Multicultural Arts Victoria presents the Black Harmony Gathering; a unique event with the message say no to racism! With Indigenous and multicultural communities coming together in a spirit of reconciliation for Cultural Diversity week. This year the Black Harmony Gathering will launch the first Black Harmonies CD.

Black Harmony Gathering is a showcase for premium professional and talented emerging Indigenous, African and refugee
artists It is strongly supported by Indigenous and non-indigenous artists and communities alike. The Black Harmonies CD will cross the cultural boundaries to create a cultural revolution in the Australian music scene and features artists Kutcha Edwards, Peter Rotumah, Casey Atkinson, Tjimba Possum-Burns, Selwyn Burns, Ajak Kwai, Aminata Doumbia, Michelle Belesy, Joe Geia and Diafrix.

The Black Harmony Gathering will also feature a Cultural Stage led by Indigenous artists Koori Youth Will Shake Spears, Skye Taikato and Friends, Meriki Hood, Johnny Mac and more. With friends from our multicultural music and dance scene, the African Royal Drummers, Narasirato Pan Pipers from the Solomon Islands, Shiamak Bollywood dance group and the soul pumping vibes of African band Blak Roots. MC’s Shiralee Hood and Neda.

The day will be opened with youth forum Skillz at 12pm, a traditional Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy and a smoking ceremony by Robbie Thorpe, followed by the Black Harmonies CD launch and Cultural Stage. There is a Koori BBQ of Kangaroo and Emu sausages, cultural food stalls, children’s activities, workshops and a market place of Indigenous and African wares plus more performers. People from all cultures come together for the Black Harmony Gathering a positive community celebration that is very special and important for the community well being.

Black Harmony Gathering is proudly supported by City of Yarra, Victoria Rocks, Koori Justice Unit, APRA, Victorian Multicultural
Commission, Besen Family and Triple R.

www.multiculturalarts.com.au

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Women of Letters – Melbourne’s news literary event curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire #geekgirl

Women of Letters, Melbourne’s newest literary event, is an afternoon that celebrates a diverse range of strong female talent whilst simultaneously raising funds for Victorian animal rescue shelter, Edgar’s Mission. Women of Letters will be held at Bella Union in Trades Hall on Sunday, March 28, 2010 beginning at 2.30 pm.

Curated by Age writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, this monthly occasion will bring together five of Melbourne’s best and brightest writers, musicians, politicians and comedians in celebration of the beautiful lost art of letter-writing. 

The afternoon will bring the traditionally private endeavour of letter writing into the public arena, seeing each woman address the topic with their unique blend of insight, humour, lewdness and warmth.

The inaugural March Women of Letters will see musician Angie Hart, Black Text publisher Caro Cooper, the Green Guide’s Lorelei Vashti, television’s Myf Warhurst and respected comedian Judith Lucy each reading a letter they have penned to “The Night I’d Rather Forget.”
 
A rotating roster of the city’s finest musicians and DJ’s will provide a musical interlude, during which time the audience are encouraged to indulge in some letter writing for themselves.

Stamps and envelopes will be provided, and in the spirit of participation attendees are further encouraged to pen short notes to Women of Letters themselves. Michaela McGuire will then use these points of discussion as the basis of a free-wheeling panel chat to conclude the afternoon.

Tickets are just $10 and available at the door – Sunday March 28 at 2.30 pm at Bella Union, Trades Hall, corner of Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton South, Melbourne.

Edgars Mission

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Lovebytes Digital Art Festival

Lovebytes, an annual international festival of digital art, explores the creative impact of computers, new technology and digital culture. The theme for 2010 is ‘digital craft’; which will look at creative digital culture in the context of traditional art and craft. Exhibitions include Code:Craft at the Museums Sheffield:Millennium Gallery which forms the hub for a programme of special events between January and June 2010.

http://2010.lovebytes.org.uk/

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Second #Experimenta Artist Lab #Melbourne #UtopiaNow #fb

Due to popular demand and overwhelming success, Experimenta will be running a second Experimenta Artist Lab as part of Experimenta Utopia Now, International Biennial of Media Art.

Experimenta Artist Lab is a space for innovation, experimentation, creative collaborations and learning new skills. The ‘workshop’ style lab is designed to give artists, designers and other creative types the tools and skills they need to move their existing practice into the interactive realm introducing them to the basic technology needed to produce physically interactive artworks. The second Experimenta Artist Lab will be run by Jesse Stevens and Tim Humphrey
who both have extensive experience running workshops as well as working with interactive technology in a variety of artistic and creative contexts will facilitate the workshop.

Sunday 14 March, 10am — 5pm
$85 (lunch and all equipment provided)
Melbourne venue – TBC
No experience with microcontrollers/sensors needed

Places are limited, so BOOK NOW  – call: (03)96509977 or email:
experimenta@experimenta.org
Visit experimenta.org for more information

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Wilkins Hill – Windows impersonating other windows #Artspace

EXHIBITION: 5 March — 10 April 2010

Wilkins Hill
Windows impersonating
other windows

Wilkins Hill’s new multimedia installation Windows impersonating other windows addresses the structures of communication through abstracting relationships between words, objects and meanings.  The installation can be understood as extending the artists’ interest in the underlying processes involved in the communication of meaning between an artwork and an audience, building upon earlier works such as The Plague of Inheritance (2006), Sunny (2005) and the True meaning of Christmas (2004).

Throughout 2008 and 2009 Wilkins Hill participated in residency projects in Berlin, Paris and Hamburg during which time they began experimenting with language translation, utilising the inherent gaps and misunderstandings between languages as departure points for creativity. Produced when in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, their video work Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) incorporated speech recognition software and automated translation websites as a way to generate poetic texts and narratives that were then edited into a corresponding visual structure. Windows impersonating other windows incorporates translation devices in a similar fashion, creating a space for deeper consideration of how meaning is extracted from our physical environment.

ARTIST DISCUSSION
Saturday 6 March, 2010, 3.00pm
Wilkins Hill, Sam Smith and Simon Denny will be joined by Reuben Keehan.

Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
www.artspace.org.au

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Robert Forster at PolyEster Books #Melbourne

Robert Forster  will be in Melbourne for a gig but here’s your opportunity to see him up close and personal at PolyEster Books; between 1-2pm on Wednesday 10th March, 2010. Robert will be signing copies of his new book The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll.

Best known as the founder member of the Go-Betweens with Grant McLennan, Robert has released 5 solo albums and reguarly writes for The Monthly and other publications. This promises to be a stimulating lunch hour at PolyEster Books.

Polyester Books
330 Brunswick St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Tel 03 94195223
http://www.polyester.com.au/

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PICNIC OF THE DAMNED – a fond farewell to Kyeemagh beach

Kyeemagh beach, at the mouth of the Cooks River, Botany Bay, has never been a Bondi or Manly, but recently, this small, working class beach has simply disappeared. A victim, not of rising tides and climate change, Kyeemagh beach succumbed to the NSW Government’s desalination juggernaut (whose pipe runs from the plant itself at Kurnell, under Botany Bay to Kyeemagh).

On March 6, 4pm, there’ll be a picnic to commiserate this disappearance, next to this ghostly strip, outside the perimeter of the security fence marking the no-go zone. Bring a picnic basket and blanket, and come dressed a la Picnic at Hanging Rock. Documentation from the picnic will be used for an exhibition in May by Greg Shapley.

WHAT: Picnic of the Damned
WHERE: Near where the beach used to be, next to the Cooks River – opposite General Holmes Drive & O’Dea Ave, Kyeemagh (near Brighton Le Sands), Sydney, Australia
WHEN: Saturday March 6, 4pm-6pm
WHO: Contact Greg Shapley on 0401 152 434 or email gshapley@gmail.com

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Critical Animals is calling for proposals for the 2010 festival.

Critical Animals is the creative research arm of This is Not Art, held each October in Newcastle, NSW. CA welcomes proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances, exhibits, installations and happenings. The symposium is interdisciplinary and unthemed – it is an opportunity to present research material and creative practice with the thought to
generating discussion and collaboration. In particular we look for artists that engage with creative research, challenge their medium or reflect upon their practice.

Details of the callout <> *Applications close Wednesday 31 March.*

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Mary and Max: The Exhibition #ACMI #Melbourne

Free & open daily.

For further details, check out www.acmi.net.au/exhib_mary_max.aspx

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