#Melbourne Art Fair 2010 – #geekgirl

Melbourne Art Fair 2010
4-8the August

Melbourne Art Fair is an exhibition of leading contemporary art, presented by over 80 selected national and international galleries. The biennial event features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media art works of over 900 artists and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.

Melbourne Art Week 2010 will be launched with the Melbourne Art Foundation Lecture presented by a Bill Henson.  This is followed by six days of events, functions and entertainment, including: the Galleries and Collectors Dinner, the celebrated opening night Vernissage and after party, free Lectures, Forums and Artist Talks, receptions for international guests, industry parties, walking art tours of Melbourne, live radio broadcasts from the venue, private morning teas, free Guided Tours, the launch and gifting of the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Project Rooms, Music Music Music! Fair Shake music night, and other public events and functions, and most importantly the Melbourne Art Fair exhibition of over 80 galleries and 10 project rooms held in the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounds.

Drive-In to the #Melbourne International Film Festival #MIFF #geekgirl #zombies

Friday July 30 & Saturday July 31
Shed 4, North Wharf Road
Victoria Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne

Open Channel have joined forces with MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) to present two nights of Drive-In Cinema at Shed 4. Rev up your engines, lay down the front seat and head for the Docklands end of Bourke Street.

Friday July 30, 9.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed! + For Yr Height Only
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
(Mark Hartley, Australia, 2009, 85 mins)
Admission 18+

Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating drive-ins around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations!

The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and – more often than not – no clothes.

Screens with For Y’r Height Only (Eddie Nickart, Philippines, 1981, 93 mins)

This Filipino heightsploitation classic starring 2″9′ action hero Weng Weng is a satire of the James Bond series that – while featuring a hero short in stature – doesn’t fail to measure up in the cheesy action department.

Saturday July 31, 9.15pm
Survival of the Dead + Down Terrace
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Survival of the Dead
(George A Romero, USA, 2009, 90 mins)
Admission 18+

The sixth film in the Dead series from zombie king George A. Romero.

Offering up the flesh-chomping effects enthusiasts have come to know and love, Romero’s franchise continues with a pulpy Western-influenced tale that follows Sarge (a minor character from Diary of the Dead) and his deserter band of soldiers.

After stumbling across an exiled Irishman called O’Flynn, Sarge and his militia head to the remote outpost of Plum Island. What they encounter is a stand-off between O’Flynn and a rival clan over whether the zombies should be annihilated or confined until a cure is found. As the conflict escalates, Sarge’s band find themselves fighting to survive.

screens with: Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2009, 89 mins). Admission 18+

This black suburban comedy slickly marries family drama to crime-flick to produce a cross-genre gem.

Father-and-son gangster duo Bill and Karl, released from a four-month stint in a Brighton prison, settle back into a routine of drinking, pot-smoking and crime. But there’s a snitch in their midst, and the dysfunctional family of thugs are set to explode with violence.

Brimming with menace, Down Terrace stars co-writer Robin Hill alongside his real-life wife and father, and features a chilling crime clan matriarch that puts Jacki Weaver’s performance in Animal Kingdom to shame.

Interactive Sound Exhibition – constellation: a durational chamber work: Liquid Architecture #Melbourne

“constellation: a durational chamber work” by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey at Red Gallery (North Fitzroy, Melbourne) is a set of performance interruptions that occur daily during the exhibition period, accumulating over the entire period. On the first day, one piece is performed. By the last day, all pieces are performed.

Madeleine and Tim commissioned a collection of composers to create new work to become part of a larger piece, responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Artists created a collection of objects, scores, instructions, installations and video which Madeleine and Tim have assembled into an interactive sound exhibition, a chamber orchestra of sound. constellation imagines these entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of people in the process of creation. constellation is supported by the New Music Network, Liquid Architecture and Arts Victoria.

Runs until July 17th, 2010 – check website for more info:

For more information on constellation – including performance times
For all Liquid Architecture programs and event schedules.

Mobile Film – Call for Submissions #Australia

Mobile Screenfest is the first mobile phone film festival of its kind in Australia. Proudly presented by ARAYA PICTURES, this is the first festival where all films and photographs are shot entirely on mobile phones. The festival aims to recognise the growing global phenomenon of shot-on-mobile content. Mobile Screenfest seeks creative shot-on-mobile memories, stories and entries that will set high standards for user generated content in Australia.

This contest is free to enter and there is no training required. Over $10,000 in prizes are on offer.

Deadline is 22 August.

Guidelines and application form for Mobile Screenfest here

2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne

Venues: The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas Melbourne Town Hall ● State Library of Victoria ● City Library ●Federation Square  

Bookings:  www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au

New Festival Director Lisa Dempster is thrilled to announce the the program for the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australia’s only literary event dedicated to writers of all ages and styles.

2009 saw 6000 people attend the festival’s 15 sell out events with 300 writers, performers, publishers and mentors contributing to the event. In 2010, the EWF will double in size, curating 30 events and featuring 350 writers and artists as the festival stretches the definition of writing styles to include song writing, copywriting, poetry, prose fiction, comedy, writing for video games, journalism, screenwriting, theatre, experimental writing forms, memoir, blogging, opinion, comic writing and more.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival highlights will include:

First word – BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, 7.30pm, Friday 21 May
The Emerging Writers’ Festival burst into life by presenting the best of the festival – exciting new works by emerging writers, a Call to Arms by romantic fiction writer Toni Jordan, and a comic debate asking  ‘Love Vs Angst – what makes a better writer?’ Come and feel the love!

Zine Bus – various locations, 11am to 5pm Saturday 29 May NEW EVENT 
All aboard the world’s first mobile zine fair! Travelling the streets of Melbourne and culminating in a guerrilla zine market  at Federation Square, the zine bus will be fully stocked with independent emerging zines, with the most innovative displays of art, creativity and DIY ever to take to the streets!

Twitterfest – twitter.com/emergingwriters – May 24 – 28 , 2pm daily  NEW EVENT
Taking the Emerging Writers’ Festival to the world. Daily throughout the festival, Twitterfest will host discussions and interview writers… on Twitter! It’s social media mixed with literary debate – jump online to join the discussion. Hosted by writers from across Australia.

Wordstock – BMW Edge – 7.30pm Thurs 27 May
New work inspired by the songs of AC/DC. With songs, comedy, short plays and performance pieces, rock n roll will be given a different sort of spotlight. A one night only event and a performance highlight of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Wordstock will reveals a whole new side of AC/DC. It will blow your mind (like dynamite.)  Hosted by iconic Melbourne rocker Clem Bastow.

You Can’t Stop The Musing: Disco Lecture – Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Tues 25 May, 6pm NEW EVENT
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. *Triple J’s Craig Schuftan *presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School

48-hour play generator – Malthouse Theatre – 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May
Six (somewhat) rehearsed readings. Six emerging playwrights are given just two days to write a new play each. Teamed with an established director and team of actors, the results are presented on a Sunday evening of madcap and totally raw theatre. Previous 48 hour plays have developed into full length works.

In the Pub series – 26 May 7.30pm, The Workers Club Fitzroy
I Write What I Want, When I Want. We lift the shroud on the mystery of freelance writing. Our freelance experts talk about their journeys as freelancers, the ups and downs as well as their secrets to success. From journalism to comedy, our panellists will entertain and enlighten. Panellists: Chris Flynn, Ben Pobjie and more. Hosted by Joanna Brookfield. 

The Page Parlour – The Atrium @ Federation Square, 12 to 5pm, Sunday 23 May
Featuring over forty stalls selling everything from posters to books, literary journals to hand-crafted stories – all the good stuff that you won’t find in Borders. The Page Parlour is an independent press fair gathering the undiscovered, the underground, the obscure and the amazing all in one convenient market location.

Town Hall Program – Melbourne Town Hall, 9am to 5pm, May 29 – 30
A range of panels, interviews and conversations about the art, craft and business of being a writer.. Covers all styles of writing, from prose fiction, to song writing, theatre, video games, copywriting, poetry, comedy and more! Guests include: Michi Girl, Guy Blackman, Benjamin Law, Patrick Cullen, Jill Jones, Sean Riley, Julian Shaw, Katherine Charles, Declan Fay, Tom Taylor, Mel Campbell, Jeff Sparrow, Steph Bowe, Jan Sardi, and many, many more!

even books presents: LE FIRST EVER SYDNEY READERS’ FESTIVAL

even books presents: LE FIRST EVER SYDNEY READERS’ FESTIVAL
Start Time: Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Sydney

Description.Writers write, readers read. But do we ever get festivals dedicated to us? No! We do half the work, don’t we? And by work, we mean lounge about in bed with a cup of hot chocolate. Le First Ever* Sydney Readers’ Festival will put you centre stage instead of Stephen King or the guy who wrote the Bible, in a series of events dedicated to the art of reading.

*not necessarily a historical fact, what are we, Google?

FRIDAY 21 MAY: THE LIBRARY OF UNWRITTEN BOOKS – a night in honour of Richard Brautigan’s The Abortion, or, library lovers and amateur writers unite!

From 7pm-11pm, ClubHouse @ Performance Space, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh.

Don’t be put off by the title; you only need to be willing to expel stories, not babies! This swinging sixties classic is a parody of the romance genre in which a librarian falls in love with a traffic-stopping beauty. Love leads to sex, sex leads to babies, babies lead to Tijuana … but the real point is the sweet library that Brautigan invents, to which anyone can submit a story; sketched in crayon, daubed with jam, heaving with mathematical calculations. Anything goes! We’ll have a real-live librarian on hand to accept your manuscripts, along with the psychedelic strains of local shoegazers, a listening corner, Tijuana tequila times, human dioramas and more.

SATURDAY 22 MAY: READ THIS SCREEN! Movies that make love to books that don’t star Harry Potter. Or Edward Cullen.

From 7pm, CuriousWorks Studio, 402/11 Randle St, Surry Hills.

A gentle night-time soiree of celluloid curated by the lady who knows Too Much about movies, Sunday afternoon FBi host Kate Jinx. Think soft cushions, strange visions, and a Saturday night you can actually tell your Nana about.

SUNDAY 23 MAY: READING RECLAIMS REDFERN – a roving readathon with prizes per station around the streets of Redfern.

Meet at 2pm @ the big red letters in Redfern Park.

Hey, you, sport-lovers! Look at us read! What up, beer swillers! Watch me skol this Sartre! BYO butt-pillows, blankets and of course books, as we move en masse around various venues in Redfern, reading as we go. We will be accompanied by acoustic sets, some impromptu readings, and hopefully visited by pastry-makers, latte trucks and kindly beer eskies.

ONGOING: READ THIS ZINE! A special one-off publication with reader profiles, how-tos, best places to read in Sydney, lofty excerpts and ruminations on readings.

ONGOING: READER INSTALLATIONS – find yourself reading somewhere? Of course you do, it’s an excellent pastime. Send a picture + brief description to sydneyreadersfestival@gmail.com and we’ll include it on our blog, where people can read about it. Geddit?

Also check out the even books Facebook Page

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

Voulez-vous laugh avec Berty Cadilhac – Melbourne Comedy Festival?

**Wednesday to Sunday until April 18**
Bar Open – 317 Brunswick St Fitzroy
Tickets: $15, $10 (conc)

After sell out shows at the St Kilda Laughs festival, French stand-up comedian  Berty Cadilhac presents his show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010.
 
Berty Cadilhac is a skilled migrant from France.  How do you prove that you are a skilled migrant when your job is stand-up  comedy? According to Berty, the customs officer simply laughed at his accent and approved his visa. This might be true, but again so might be his claim that he travels with a sea-urchin costume, or that his rabbit was killed by a tiny meteorite.
 
With a polished and unhostile approach, Berty Cadilhac tells absurd tales about his experience in Australia, from his failed attempts to be eaten by a shark, to his addiction to a popular Australian food, souvlaki.

Berty never pretends to be French or arrogant. He really is.

Jackie Loeb Sings the Worst Songs Ever Written

Comedian and musical virtuoso Jackie Loeb is back with the world debut of her brand spanking new show JACKIE LOEB SINGS THE WORST SONGS EVER WRITTEN.

Come and laugh at the most cringe worthy musical extravaganza ever to be staged! Comedian Jackie Loeb puts her vocal chops and reputation on the line to perform some of histories most appalling and pathetic excuses for songs.

This promises to worse than a Britney and Whitney concert combined!
So what songs will make it onto the list!!! You have only 5 nights to find out.

Poet Laureate Telia Nevile – While I’m Away

You’re invited to join a mighty expedition, set against a 1970s slideshow of the world’s greatest sights. Fresh from an acclaimed 2009 Melbourne Fringe season, the awkwardly intrepid Poet Laureate Telia Nevile awaits your arrival for immediate departure on a deliciously ridiculous grand tour of life, love and lyricism for the modern daydreamer.

Venturing after the 5th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Byron and Andy Kaufmann, Poet Laureate Telia Nevile has traveled the globe in her quest to become a complete artist, plumbing the depths of herself against the wondrous background of the wide, wide world. Join this socially inept and endearingly over‐sharing explorer as she poetically salutes the beginnings of young love in ‘Blue Light Disco, Green Light Romance’, explores the laneways of longevity in ‘I Built You a Monument Because You Always Attracted the Birds’, and surveys the ruins of her self‐worth in ‘This Temple of Love is a Renovator’s Dream’.

Telia Nevile is the cult Last Tuesday Society’s Poet Laureate and her subtle character‐based comedy has converted audiences from Federation Square to the Falls Festival. The slides used in the show were collected by her grandmother during overseas trips in the 1970s and are now proudly presented for your viewing pleasure.