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Ada Lovelace Day, March 24 #geekgirl
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge at Finding Ada and publish your blog post any time on Wednesday 24th March 2010.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; as such she is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.
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Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I’d known in high school) by Rebecca Sparrow #geekgirl #gurls
FIND YOUR TRIBE
High school handed best-selling author, Rebecca Sparrow, some of her most crushing moments:
• No-one invited her to her Year 12 formal
• Despite playing netball since she was nine, she wasn’t even selected for the C-Grade netball team
• She was kicked out of ‘Advanced Maths’ and made to do ‘Maths in Society’
• And – as if all that wasn’t bad enough – thanks to her permed hair she spent her teenage years looking like a cross between Jon Bon Jovi and TootsieAnd yet, Rebecca is one of those rare people who claims to have loved (nearly) every minute of her high school days. The question is – HOW?
In Find Your Tribe, Rebecca outlines the 10 key lessons she believes make the difference to not just surviving, but enjoying, those years, including – finding your tribe (your true friends), trusting your intuition, learning to be resilient, having a positive body image, coping with the pressure of school work, the importance of giving back to the community, the dangers of binge drinking and the delicate issue of young love … making this irresistible and invaluable reading for every teenage girl.
In 2003, Rebecca was asked to write a letter to a friend’s daughter before she started high school – to share some advice on what she thought her friend’s daughter needed to know to survive those joyful but often brutal years. This letter was the seed for her latest book, Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I’d known in high school), a witty, warm and wise roadmap for girls navigating their high school years.
Following the success of her first book, The Girl Most Likely, Rebecca started receiving emails from hundreds of high school girls around the country seeking advice about how to survive their teenage years. As a result, she provides motivational talks to countless numbers of high school girls on the topics covered in Find Your Tribe and she has twice spoken at the National Young Leaders Convention.
Highly engaging, relevant and inspiring, with a few memorable photos here and there of the author, Find Your Tribe is the little black book for every teenage girl … and a must read for every parent too.
Published by UQP / 1 March 2010 / RRP: $14.95 / Non-fiction paperback
ISBN: 978 0 7022 3772 0
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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.
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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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#DJ Spooky Live Performance, March 5th, #Melbourne
Experimenta, Open Channel, Shed 4, Stable and RBMA Radio present:
DJ SPOOKY, THE NAURU ELEGIES
As part of the Nauru Elegies, DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Composed by Paul D. Miller (aka. DJ Spooky), the performance reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated by DJ Spooky and a string quartet.
Tickets on sale now, $25, $20 concession + booking fee:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=34591&ref=Shed4Friday 5 March, 8pm
Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne
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John Waters #Melbourne show
Brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo , John Waters will perform his glorious one man show,’ This Filthy World’ in Melbourne. America’s royal raconteur and director of cult film classics such as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Polyester, Waters is famous and infamous as the “Pope of Trash”. Focusing on Waters’ fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.
‘This Filthy World’ is an essential experience for anyone interested in how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read infamous) and how to shock and make people laugh.
John Waters “This Filthy World”
Saturday 27 February @ 8.30pm
the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
bookings 1300 182 183 or www.theartscentre.com.au
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Triple M to launch #AC/DC digital radio station
Austereo’s Triple M is launching digital radio station, High Voltage Radio, (MIX 94.5) featuring songs and content dedicated to Australian rock band AC/DC.
It will go to air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour and will be broadcast on DAB+ and online at mix.com.au, High Voltage will be the fourth Digital Radio offering from Austereo and will air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour.
AC/DC songs featured will include their big hits, lesser known tracks, live versions and archived Triple M interviews.
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Angie Réhe brings Patsyfox to Guildford Lane for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Patsy Fox 2010
As part of the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, the gallery will host an array of fashion-related works from some of Melbourne’s most talented artists, designers and photographers.
Angie Réhe has been working in the fashion industry since graduating in the late eighties. After years of travelling the world and designing for some of Australia’s favourite fashion brands, she now mixes freelance design and illustration with lecturing, web-based reporting for essential fashion industry news site WGSN.com, maintaining her illustrated blog www.patsyfox.com, and designing cards and stationery.
Angie’s illustrations will appear during Melbourne’s Fashion Festival at Guildford Lane Gallery against a backdrop of fashion events such as forums and launches, and alongside the work of industry contemporaries. Including portraits of the fashionable, the famous and the just plain fabulous, her work will be on display from the 10th – 21st March 2010, with an opening event to be held on the 11th.
New for 2010 and launching during LMFF at the gallery is The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, evening classes in fashion illustration for both beginners and advanced.
Illustrator and designer Angie Réhe brings the beautiful work of her alias, blogger Patsyfox, to Guildford Lane Gallery this March.
www.patsyfox.com
www.guildfordlanegallery.org
www.lmff.com.au
GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000 Australia
PO Box 12179 a’Beckett St., Melbourne 3008
Ph 61 3 9642 0042 Mobile 0422 442 363
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The Undiscovered Press #Zinemakers in Melbourne at Sticky Shop
Unleashing the zine habit to the masses.
12 zinemakers from all around the country are unleashing their extreme and slightly undiscovered zine making practice on to the masses. Evolving into a pretty eclectic show of the art of zinesters, the participating zinesters are Androniki Douramakos, Arlene TextaQueen, Marc Martin, Brendan Halyday, Fergus, Mary-Helen Daly, Sarah Foster, On Wednesday, Diego Bonetto, Pat Grant, Michelle Vandermeer and Mel Stringer.
Any questions? Contact Melissa at theundiscoveredpress@gmail.com or 0448595571.
Start Time: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:00pm
End Time: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 6:00pmSticky ShopDegraves Street Subway, Platform
Melbourne, Australia
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RIP Rowland S Howard Loses Battle With Cancer
The news of Rowland S. Howard’s death at age 50, comes as quite a shock. I personally knew members of the Birthday Party having lived with Phil Calvert (then drummer of the Birthday Party) in the 80s in London. All the guys, at that time, Nick Cave, Tracy Pew, Rowland S. Howard, Mick Harvey and Phil Calvert were quirky and nice, if not, drug fucked and brilliant.!
It is true I hadn’t seen Rowland in many years, but was considering going to the Northcote Social Club to see a performance in line with the release of his latest album Pop Crimes. A mighty effort by all accounts and Rowland’s much anticipated musical venture after a ten year wait.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine this month, Howard admitted that he had liver cancer, and was awaiting a transplant. He told the magazine, “If you’re trying to write about the human condition there is only so many things you can choose from. Being told that you’ve only got a couple of years to live without a transplant is a pretty frightening experience and certainly changes the way you feel about your life, [it] makes things so much closer.”
This except about Rowland S. Howard’s death this morn comes from Mess and Noise
Excerpt: Australia’s music scene has lost a true icon with the reported passing of Rowland S Howard today (December 30). While no official statement has been made by management, close friends of the guitarist have confirmed reports that he lost his ongoing battle with liver cancer at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital this morning.
Howard, 50, was a former member of the Young Charlatans, The Boys Next Door (who later morphed into The Birthday Party) and These Immortal Souls. He penned the underground hit ‘Shivers’ for The Boys Next Door and memorably dueted with Lydia Lunch on Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Some Velvet Morning’.
GG note: At least Rowland you can catch up with Tracy and have a snort! Much respect, you will be missed. rosiex
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