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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Melbourne Queer Film Festival #Melbourne

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**Thursday March 18 to Sunday March 28**
Astor Theatre, ACMI Cinemas, Greater Union Cinemas Russell St & Loop
Melbourne, Australia

[www.mqff.com.au](http://www.mqff.com.au/)
        
The 20th Melbourne Queer Film Festival features the best in queer cinema from Australia and around the world. Highlights include features, documentaries and shorts programs, along with panel discussions dealing with issues relevant to the queer community. As Melbourne’s second largest film festival this year’s program is overflowing with outstanding films from around the world.

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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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Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Mobility
Various Locations :: March 18 – 20, 2010

Revolving around the concept of Sustainable Immobility, the festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. The festival aims to realise the fundamental promise of the information age that communication technologies can replace the need for physical mobility, and thus both contribute to ecological stability as well as a more rewarding both deep-local and translocal life-style. The festival asks audiences and presenters to travel no further than local/regional boundaries to attend.

http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/

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Push Over #musical event #Melbourne March 7, 2010

The Push’s signature all ages live music festival Push Over returns to The Abbotsford Convent (Melbourne) on Sunday 7 March, 2010. As always, Push Over will feature over 30 acts across four stages, and some of the best current crop or upcoming “next big things” on the Australian indie rock, hardcore and hip hop scene! Now in its 18th year, Push Over provides one of the hottest and freshest summer line ups on offer – as voted by young people from around the state!

Live acts for the 2010 event include: 50 Lions, Break Even, Built on Secrets, City Escape, Dash & Will, Heroes for Hire, Horrorshow, I Explode Like, Kisschasy, Lovers Grave, The Mission In Motion, The Sundance Kids, Urthboy, Wherewolves, Yacht Club DJs, Young Heretics and Yves Klein Blue; plus nine FReeZA Push Start battle of the bands Regional Final Winners, and multiple MCs, DJs and break-dancers battling it out in the Push It hip hop arena.

Keeping the event way more affordable and accessible than other music festivals thanks to the generosity of the bands, the ticket price will remain at just $30 presale ($40 on the door, if not sold out). Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au, www.oztix.com.au & Ticketek 132 849

For more info head to www.thepush.com.au, call (03) 9380 1277 or email push@thepush.com.au
Push Over is proudly supported by The Push, triple j, FReeZA, FReeZACentral and Victoria Rocks.

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SquatFest #Film Festival is on again

It’s the TENTH year of The SquatFest Film Festival

The basic info is:

*21 Feb, 730pm (same time and day as TROPFEST)

*Secret exciting venue (check our website on the day for location)
[could be anywhere but more likely Sydney]
*BYO films and videos to show

*Do get in touch if you want to help out with organising (dog knows we need it!) on info@squatspace.com

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Deadly Funny – An #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comedy Competition

Get ready to laugh your MOOM off with Deadly Funny – An Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Comedy Competition that celebrates distinctive humour of the First Nations Traditional Owners.

From now until March, 2010 the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is sending some of its finest comedians to ATSI communities to hold free workshops and community showcase gigs with emerging performers in search of the best up-and-coming stand-up talent.

Deadly Funny provides a unique opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to
come together, celebrate and share humour and have their deadly yarns workshopped by a professional stand-up comedian. The workshops provide deadly tips and advice on writing, performance and help boost performers’ confidence to get up on stage.

To register, contact Deadly Funny Producer Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta) info below. For the workshops bring along five minutes of your best comic material. Pretty much anything is ok – stand-up, a music piece, joke or a funny yarn – as long as it’s Deadly Funny. You must be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to enter.

The deadliest jokesters from all six states will play off at the Deadly Funny National Grand
Final in Melbourne April 10 for their chance to win $2000 in cash and a deadly trophy.

Note: You must attend comedy workshops

Details of National workshops and to register at www.deadlyfunny.com.au

Or contact Jason Tamiru on 03 9245 3700.

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The mother of all zine fairs #Melbourne

60 plus zinemakers, 40 tables x 1.8metres of zine real estate, 140 or so chairs, market umbrellas, street exposure, nearby cafes and bars and ZINES, thousands of precious precious zines from all over the country. At the institute we know how to hold a zine fair and we take it VERY seriously. Don’t expect to find any vegan cupcakes or craft felt toys here.

Saturday, February 13, 2010
3:00pm – 8:00pm
City Square, Melbourne

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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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Rabid Tripped-Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas, Australian shorts at the Bangalore Queer Film Festival

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