Kaleidoscope of imagination — Mudfest paper-free – student art festival #Melbourne #Uni #geekgirl

Artist Bree O'Dwyer

About

Mudfest is the University of Melbourne’s student arts and drama festival and in 2011 will run from the 18th – 28th August.  Over 21 years Mudfest has grown to become the largest student arts festival in Australia, and the program includes theatre, creative writing, dance, cabaret, visual art, opera, musical theatre, installation and performance and everything in between! The theme for this year’s festival is the ‘Kaleidoscope of imagination’ - celebrating and showcasing the creative and imaginative talents emerging from the University of Melbourne.

The Mudfest student arts and culture festival has grown to encompass all forms of artistic expression since it began in 1990. Presented every two years by the University of Melbourne Student Union, Mudfest nurtures, encourages and supports new and innovative arts practices amongst the students, whilst also providing them with professional and creative development opportunities.

Ten days of unbridled, back-to-back artwork. It’s by the students, for the students. Show us how you see the world.

Mudfest 2011: 18^th- 28^th August.

For tickets, program details and further information visit: http://mudfest.org.au/

http://twitter.com/#!/mudfest2011

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This year Mudfest is also a paper-free festival!!

Craft Cubed Satellite Event Call Out #craft #HYBRID #geekgirl

Craft Cubed is Craft Victoria’s annual festival. The event promotes experimental, skilled and ideas-based craft and design and provides a broad platform for participation and exchange across the entire craft and design community. Craft Victoria invites applications for national satellite events including exhibitions, installations, open studios, workshops, and other projects that take place during the festival period. The theme for Craft Cubed 2011 is HYBRID. Recognising the fluidity essential to experimentation, the theme will explore collaboration, new technologies, cross-disciplinary practice and emerging forms of craft and design.

The Super Maker project will see The Social Studio transform Federation Square’s Atrium into a magical tent featuring dynamic textile design. The Social Studio is a creative space in Collingwood that incubates fashion design talent from new and emerging migrant communities, creating employment and training opportunities.

Apply here.
Application deadline: 30 April 2011

IBM FITT #Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23, 2010 #geekgirl

IBM FITT Melbourne FREE Networking Event – Feb 23

Hmmmmmm, senior female IBM executives…

   – Janet Matton – IBM Vice President Sales Operations And Executive
   – Nicole Crooks  – IBM Vice President, SO & Global Technology Services
   – Robyn Woodley – IBM Client Director BHP
   – Jane Chen  – IBM Executive IT Architect

The IBM panel will discuss matters related to their careers in the ICT industry, and the challenges and opportunities they see for business in 2010 and beyond.

After the presentations we will have question time for the audience to ask questions to the panel and then networking time and refreshments.

For more information, goto FITT website<>
(Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications)
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Date & Times:
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Arrive: 5.30pm
Finish: 7.30pm

Venue:
The Arts Centre
Level 8, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

The Arts Centre is a couple of minutes walk from Flinders Street Station
Or take any tram (except tram no.1) along St Kilda Road and disembark at the
Arts Centre. Stop number 14.

Go Home On Time Day on November 25

Every year Australian workers give their bosses a $72 billion gift in the form of unpaid overtime, research released this week has revealed. The Australian Institute says a typical full-time employee is working 70 minutes of unpaid overtime a day, which equates to six-and-a-half standard working weeks. In response, they have launched national “Go home on time day”.

Why Go Home On Time?

Around half of all employees work more hours than they are paid for. On average, a typical employee works 49 minutes of unpaid overtime per day. For full-time workers, the average daily amount of unpaid work is 70 minutes, which equates to 33 eight-hour days per year, or six and a half standard working weeks. Put another way, this is the equivalent of ‘donating’ more than your annual leave entitlement back to your employer.

Overwork can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health, your relationships with loved ones and your sense of what is important in life.

Where did the idea come from?

Go Home On Time Day is an initiative of The Australia Institute, the country’s most influential progressive think tank. Based in Canberra, it conducts research on a broad range of economic, social and environmental issues in order to inform public debate and bring greater accountability to the democratic process.

Find out more here and lodge your Go Home on Time pass: http://www.gohomeontimeday.org.au/

Women in Games, Sydney event

AIE Sydney will be hosting a Women In Games event in November for High School girls in grades 10, 11 and 12 to find out more about the games industry. Female guest speakers from the industry will be invited to the event to talk about what the industry is like for women and why it is important for more girls to get into games. There will be networking opportunities throughout the evening and will be extremely beneficial to girls wanting to  pursue a career in the games industry.

Thursday 19th November 2009
6pm till 8pm
Level 2, Wentworth Park Grandstand
Wattle Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007

More info: sydney@aie.edu.au

Website: women in games

Academy of Interactive Entertainment

Entrepreneurs Week 7 to 14th August

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new businesses or organizations, generally in response to identified opportunities or problems.

Entrepreneurs Week is an initiative of Student Entrepreneurs, a student-run organisation based at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with other organisations committed to promoting entrepreneurship and innovation on university campuses around Melbourne.

Kicking off with the Opening Ceremony on Friday 7 August, the events include presentations by prestigious speakers, panel discussions, workshops, mini-competitions and the signature event of the week, the Innovators’ Challenge in which teams are asked to create as much “value” as possible from an assigned everyday object and implement it in only six days.

Source – EWeek

Japan’s Robots Face Hard Times

Japan’s legions of robots, the world’s largest fleet of mechanized workers, are having a tough time finding work as the country suffers its deepest recession in more than a generation.

More from the New York Times

“Impostor Syndrome” hampers women’s rise to top of IT tree

A keynote speaker at the Connecting Up conference in Sydney, May 11-12, 2009 will present a case for the “Impostor Syndrome” as a key reason women do not embrace success in IT careers.

Jody Mahoney, Vice President, Business Development, at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology: http://www.anitaborg.org, will discuss the syndrome reported by many successful women that they often feel as if their achievements are a fluke. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_Syndrome

Jody will also explore in another presentation “tools to engage in the dynamic, fun, unpredictable, and always interesting world of raising money on behalf of NGOs”.

The 3rd annual Australian Community Technology Awards will be presented at a gala dinner on Monday May 11.

Tracey Fellows, managing director of Microsoft; Google Australia’s head of engineering, Alan Noble; and Martin Stewart-Weeks, Chair of the Australia Social Innovation Exchange, join the international speaker lineup, which also includes:

Cheryl Kernot – Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW
Mark Pesce – Social network guru, writer, New Inventors panelist
Monique Potts – Digital Media Project Manager at the ABC
Peter Deitz – founder and Executive Director of www.socialactions.com
Allen Gunn – Executive Director Aspiration www.aspirationtech.org

A full program of workshops and breakout sessions is available at http://www.connectingup.org/conference/program.

The conference will be held at the Novotel Brighton Le Sands, Sydney, Australia from May 11-12.

About Connecting Up Australia
Connecting Up Australia is a community-based nonprofit organisation. It operates the Donortec technology donation program for nonprofits (http://www.donortec.com.au),which has channelled over $40m in technology donations to nonprofits in the past two years, the annual Connecting Up conference on nonprofit technology issues and the annual Australian Community Technology Awards. In 2008 its CEO, Doug Jacquier, received the Innovator of the Year award in the Equity Trustees Nonprofit CEO Awards.

PhD scholarship at RMIT

RMIT University, School of Applied Communication (Melbourne) are seeking a communication/interaction designer who is familiar with social networks and networked media environments to work on an ARC Linkage project with Parks Victoria. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the project’s objectives and to collaborate with a PhD candidate in the field of geospatial information interventions for geoplaced knowledge management. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the School of Mathematics and Geospatial Science at RMIT.

This research is aligned with the RMIT Design Research Insitute’s Geoplaced Knowledge Program. Applications are sought for either Masters or PhD investigations.

The associated researchers include Adrian Miles, Jeremy Yuille, Dr Brian Morris, Assoc. Professor Laurene Vaughan, Assoc. Professor Colin Arrowsmith and Professor Bill Cartwright.

If interested please send an outline of your interest/experience and a brief CV to:  laurene dot vaughan at rmit dot edu dot au and cc it to adrian dot miles at rmit dot edu dot au

PhD Scholarship, full time (approx. AUD22k per annum tax free).

Job Radio FM – Talent, fearing your boss and your wow factor

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Joe hosts an exclusive interview with Tawny Labrum of BINC, a professional headhunting organization, as she shares some of her favorite 20 Facebook Applications that can help your job search.

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Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, vice-president of research at i4cp.

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6. CAREER COMMUNIQUE: Whats Your Wow Factor?
Join Annemarie Cross and Keith Keller as they interview Colette D. Ellis from InStep Consulting LLC. Colette will show you how to leverage your strengths and “create a buzz”

Source and casts: Job Radio FM