Pretending Things are a Cock #MCF #comedy #geekgirl

Pretending Things are a Cock (Still cocking after all this year)

After critically acclaimed performances to sell out audiences in festivals around the world, AND over 12000 Facebook fans – Jon Bennett brings his Just for Laughs – Best Comedy Award nominated show of over 200 pretend cocks back to Melbourne!

A unique stand-up experience, ‘Pretending Things Are A Cock’ is part photographic exhibition, part pot-holed journey into the idiosyncratic world of Jon Bennett.

This is a show unlike any other in the festival. It takes the form of an exhibition opening, with a gallery tour, live stories accompanied by live classical cellist, and cock shaped hors d’oeuvres. And of course Cocktails (Some supplied by our sponsor; Tequila Tromba). “Every picture tells a story”, thus does every pretend cock and these cocks come from all over the world.

“A worldwide phenomenon!”

“Could possibly be the most ambitious project of the festival”

“Delightful and enthralling” – Australian Comedy Review

“Bennett will have you completely engrossed” – Montreal Mirror

­­­­LISTING INFORMATION

Venue: Tuxedo Cat and Bertha Brown

Dates: April 14^th, 16^th, 17th, 19^th, 20^th, 21^st and 23rd at Bertha Brown

Tickets: $18.00 Full, $14 Conc, $10 Tightarse Tuesdays

Times: 9:00pm – Bertha Brown

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

Anna Lumb: Big Shoes to Fill at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival #girlcomedy #retroschtick #geekgirl

Anna Lumb - Big Shoes

Big Shoes to Fill: An Exposé of a 50 Ft. Woman

Direct from the cabaret circuits of Melbourne, London and Edinburgh,  and a critically acclaimed audience hit at the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Anna ‘Pocket Rocket’ Lumb brings her sassy solo show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time.

Bringing her world-renowned circus and cabaret skills to her home town, the Pocket Rocket cheekily presents the story of an over-sized woman in a normal sized world, and really does have big shoes to fill as she sets out to follow the footsteps of some of comedy’s biggest female stars to bring some girl power to the typically male world of the Comedy Festival.

A colourful slapstick circus delight, Big Shoes to Fill is a message of self-confidence for the down-trodden and different, delivered via a package of unique hilarity and outstanding physical feats.

How does she get into a taxi, or find shoes to fit?  Where does she find places to eat out?  Let alone a date…!

A hilarious parable of strength, fragility, challenge and triumph featuring strongwoman feats, hula hoops, slapstick, lycra, bananas and an eclectic soundtrack with the title track by Mikelangelo and music mixed by DJ Lazer Ferrari.

‘Adorable retro schtick.’   Helen Razer, The Age

‘A tidy little packet of fun by a feisty rising starlet.’ RHUM Magazine

LISTING INFORMATION
Venue: Trades Hall – Old Council Chambers, Cnr Lygon and Victoria  Streets (Melbourne)
Dates: 12th – 24th April (not Mondays), Preview 12th April
Tickets: Full $20.00, Conc/Group $18.00, Preview/Tight Arse Tuesday/ LaughPack $15.00

Times: 7:00pm (6:00pm Sundays)

Bookings: Ticketmaster or www.comedyfestival.com.au

Electrofringe 2011 call for proposals #TINA #Newcastle #geekgirl

Electrofringe is calling for proposals for the 2011 festival as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) group of festivals in Newcastle. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. Proposals are accepted from a broad range of investigations including cross-disciplinary practice, media-based practice, networked and online collaborations and much more. Visit Electrofringe’s website for more detail and to download and application form.

Proposal deadline []:
31 March 2011

Electrofringe: 29 September – 3 October 2011

Taylor Callery featured on Kinofest 2011 #festival #film #art #geekgirl

Identity-Theft

Taylor Callery is a 29 year old illustrator, from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (USA).
His designs combine traditional and digital skills.
His portfolio includes collaborations with The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Billboard Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Progressive, Toronto Life, Report on Business, Dirt Rag Magazine, and more.

Philosophy: Stay Humble, work harder than you ever have, and stay true to yourself.

http://tcalleryillustration.com/home.html

http://kinofest.com/exhibition/taylor_callery.html

Check out Kinofest for how to submit to this #awesome Digital Film Festival

Queer Fruits Film Festival #queer #geekgirl

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**Early Bird Entries Close: March 31**
[www.queerfruitsfilmfestival.org]()

The international Queer Fruits Film Festival wants your fabulous film. Whether it’s innovative or entertaining, intelligent or celebratory, a short or feature film send it to them now! To be eligible to enter QFFF, the film must be either by or about GLBTIQ persons, themes, or issues, that are relevant, recognisable, or of interest to the GLBTIQ community. Films from queer filmmakers and films with queer themes.

Emerging or Established queer filmmakers are equally welcome to enter.

MUFF 12: Melbourne Underground Film Festival #muff #geekgirl

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**Entries Close: June 15**
[www.muff.com.au]()

Your favourite trouble making Independent Australian Film Festival is back to cause fresh headlines and make waves in 2011. MUFF has survived criticism, condemnation, censorship, public outrage, Police Raids, stalkers and yet is still miraculously standing (a little wobbly granted) and back for more trouble in ’11. You know you love it!

Subtle Technologies Festival – call for submissions #geekgirl

Subtle Technologies Festival :: 2 – 5 June 2011

Toronto :: Call for Submissions :: Deadline 12 December 2010

In 2011 The Subtle Technologies Festival celebrates its 14th year of bringing people together to promote wonder, incite creativity and spark innovation across disciplines. The festival provides a forum to pose and explore questions and inspire work at the intersection of art, science and technology  through symposia, exhibitions, workshops, screenings and performances.  For 2011 the festival will be moving away from a single theme in an attempt to foster new relationships and create new inter-disciplines and a diverse program will be assembled to represent a wide range of subjects and disciplines.  What does the future hold in terms of interdisciplinary work? What approaches can we take to foster inter-cultural exchanges  when it comes to science or technology based work?  How do we make complex  scientific systems more accessible to artists as tools for creating new work? The festival is interested in hearing successful stories from artists and scientists working together – and is equally interested in hearing about some of the issues that prevent disciplines from having stronger collaborations.

http://www.subtletechnologies.com
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Bio:Fiction #Science, #Art & #Film Festival #geekgirl

Call for entries :: Vienna, Austria :: Deadline 1 December

Synthetic biology aims at creating new forms of life for practical purposes.  Bio:Fiction want to encourage filmmakers to produce and share their cinematic visions of a present or future society shaped by synthetic biology. Entries can be on science, fiction, or science fiction – live-action short film, animation, experimental or documentary film.

http://www.bio-fiction.com

Mess & Noise Bike Fest – curate a night of bands for the upcoming Bikefest #Melbourne #festivals

Mess & Noise:
http://www.messandnoise.com/news/4117764

Bike Fest website:
http://www.melbournebikefest.com.au/

See bicycle parts, frames and components transformed from their typical functionalities into works of art. The Circular Bike comprises donated bicycles from Monash University’s Uni-Cycle bike share scheme. The bikes have been deconstructed from their singular bike form and reassembled to create a single, circular structure that can be ridden and enjoyed by many.

Contrasting the traditional chandelier with the functional form of the bicycle wheel, the Bicycle Chandelier merges the mechanical with the decorative to create a suspended work of art. Created using lights, wheels and aluminium rims donated by Velocity Wheels.

Fest runs (cycles through to): 25th – 28th November, 2010