Extra Curricular magazine dedicated to showcasing people who do interesting creative projects in their spare time #geekgirl

Created in Auckland by Ellie Smith, Extra Curricular is a publication dedicated to showcasing people who do interesting creative projects in their spare time as well as encouraging those who wish they did.

Whether they have a 9-5 job, a fledgling business or a young family, the people profiled in Extra Curricular are connected by their passion for keeping the right side of the brain active in their off-hours. They do it for the love of it – driven by a creative urge, they stay up late and work weekends in order to complete their latest side project.

Source:> Women in Business.

Some people are gay. Get over it!

Gaydalf?

Voiceless an independent non-profit think tank dedicated to alleviating the suffering of #animals in Australia. Grants now available

Voiceless – Grants (Category three)

The Voiceless Grants Program offers financial support to non-profit organisations, councils and universities for the design and implementation of projects which improve the lives of animals in Australia.

Over the past six years, Voiceless has awarded over $1 million to an amazing array of projects spanning the country for a variety of high priority animal protection issues.

Closing date: 16 July 2010

Open Call: Learn to Play – Call For Proposals – Build Your Own World #geekgirl

Submission Deadline 31 July 2010 :: Cupertino, USA

Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere? Learn to Play is calling for submissions around games as art on the theme ‘build your own world’. Learn to Play will be opening this fall as parallel programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

http://learn.toplay.us/

Symposium on #Body, #Art, #Bioethics – #Perth

The Body, Art and Bioethics is a symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy. Speakers include Dr Catherine Waldby (University of Sydney), Elizabeth Costello (writer), Dr Ethan Blue (UWA), Kathy High (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dr Ionat Zurr (UWA), Dr Stuart Hodgetts (UWA), Oron Catts (Director SymbioticA).

Friday 6 August, 2010. $110 (including GST) registration. Students and unwaged free.

For more info email, sym@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
Or visit, http://www.bodyartbioethics.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/#

Open Call Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells, Yogyakarta International Media Festival

OPEN CALL CELLSBUTTON#04: INVISIBLE CELLS
YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
27 JULY – 7 AUGUST 2010. 
 
“That the modernist tradition of progress and ceaseless extension of the frontiersof innovation are now dead. Originality is dead. The avant-garde artistic traditionis dead. All religions and utopian visions are dead and resistance to the status quo is impossible because revolution too is now dead. Like it or not, we humans are stuck in a permanent crisis of meaning, a dark room from which we can never escape. Humans will not be visible, humans will be invisible.
(Inspired by Kalle Lasn’s Contemporary Society) – Irene Agrivina, 2010″ 
 
The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) are proud to present Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells – Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival. Cellsbutton#04 will take the theme of “Invisible” as part of Education Focus Program curriculum in 2010. 
 
Cellsbutton#04 will consist 12 days duration of the festival, focussing on educative artistic activities engaging local and global development and application in art,science and technology. As an annual international community-base festival, Cellsbutton#04 will be a cross collaborative starting platform for  international artists, communities, scientists, researchers, lecturers,  inventors, theorists, activists practitioners, to exchange knowledge that beneficial for the society. 
 
Cellsbutton is an annual community-base organized international media art festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia initiated by HONF.  

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) is a media art laboratory run by a community in Yogyakarta. They implemented a methodology called Open Community which is mostly concerned to the needs of cross-collaborative actions responding to technology development and practical use in daily life. 

 How to Apply
Please send an email to cellsbutton@gmail.com before 25 May 2010
an  A4 size pdf format files containing information of:
 1.    Applicant’s Name
 2.    Applicant’s Short Biography (100 words max)
 3.    Project Title to be presented in Cellsbutton
 4.    Project Description
 5.    Brief Explanation on how the project would be beneficial to local communities
 
 For more info and Terms and Conditions contact HONF 
 new media art laboratory (HONF)
 Jl.wora wari A80/6
 Baciro – Yogyakarta
 Indonesia
 T : +62 (0) 817468621
 F : +62 (0) 274 564276
 E : venzha@yahoo.com 
 venzha@natural-fiber.com
 URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com/
 
 http://www.myspace.com/electrocore_indonesia

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/

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

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.

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 Tootsie

And 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