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/

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

Hmm… Hand Made Musical Festival #Melbourne #experimental #music #geekgirl

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Curated and organised by dedicated experimental instrument builders Rod Cooper, John Jacobs and Ben Kolaitis, the Hmm… festival celebrates all things handmade in contemporary experimental instrument building and design.

With talks, workshops, performances, makers market and installations Hmm… will showcase unconventional and surprising sound devices from circuit bent toys, handcrafted resonators, hacked TV’s pirate transmitters and fruit controlled synthesizers!

The festival will feature installations and performances from a diverse line-up of renound local, interstate and international experimental sound artists.

Let them help you be the future of sound, it’s in your hands!

Melbourne, 9-28th August 2011

Special performance by electronic poet and Hmm… festival curator John Jacobs.

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John will be performing his experimental comedy on ridiculous cracked robot toys at KIPL – 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne on Saturday evening 20th August

Trouble magazine says: “John Jacobs has been making different types of electronic music in Sydney since the early 1980’s, from industrial noise through to the dance-floor. Deeply involved in the radical politics and strategies of the Post-Punk subculture, John produced experimental radio on SkidRowRadio, 2JJ and 2SER. At the same time he was engineering for ABC Radio National where he now produces the critically acclaimed Night Air and Pool a site for collaborative arts projects.

Committed as always to the DIY spirit of the counter-culture John believes entirely in the benefits of the hands on magic of improvised circuitry. A certain mystical zeal underpins his work, this zeal extending out to the work of his colleagues. He makes instruments that are art-objects fused with comedy, wonder and irony, many integrating into the bodily electronic circuit of the player themselves.”

Other things to check out:

Hacked robots<>, bent toys<>, recycled resonators<>, fruit synthesisers<>, recombinant violins<>, even human circuits, they all make music!

For more information contact: handmademusicfest@gmail.com

The 2011 *Hmm… *(Hand Made Music) festival is a grassroots, maker’s initiative proudly supported by *Next Wave*, *BUS Projects*, *KIPL* and *West Space*.

Splendid Think Tank :: Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 #artlab #thinktank #geekgirl

Splendid Think Tank :: Keynote Address, Panel Discussions & Public Art Lab _Lismore, NSW :: 4 – 5 August 2011 _

The Splendid Think Tank  is a two-day event bringing together contemporary art practitioners with key festival representatives from across Australia, to explore the risks and rewards of embracing new art, ideas and experience in a festival context.  As a finale showcase event for the Splendid program, the Think Tank is a way to connect with and fuel future collaborations between festival directors and artists.  The Think Tank will explore Splendid Arts Lab as an exportable model for developing conceptually strong, interdisciplinary, large-scale public artworks that are participatory and can be marketed effectively to mass audiences.  Limited spaces are available and bookings are essential.

http://splendidthinktank.org

Poetry in Film Festival #poetry #Melbourne #film #geekgirl

POETRY IN FILM FESTIVAL

Entries Close: September 9
More Info

The Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) aims to raise awareness and appreciation of poetry in popular culture while showcasing the talents of up-and-coming Australian independent filmmakers. This year, PIFF held a national competition for writers to create a poem on the theme
“communication”. Out of 150 entries the winning poem is “Four Letters, Three Words.” by Belinda Hilton.

Filmmakers are asked to interpret the winning poem into a four to seven minute short film. The PIFF Screening and Awards Night will be held at the Palace Cinema Como in Melbourne. The best films will be shown at the Screening and Awards Night on Sunday October 9 at Palace Cinema Como.

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival needs your support! #opensource #donate #NZ #geekgirl

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival needs your support!

The 11:11:11 UpStage Festival will take place on 11th November 2011 (with a bit on the 10th and 12th, depending on where you are in the world).

This is the 5th annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage
// please forward widely – appologies for x-posting //

UpStage is a web-based platform for live, collaborative performance, presenting an annual international festival of cyberformance by artists from around the world. The platform is free and open source, and it’s free for you to attend the festival – online, wherever you are. UpStage is currently unfunded, with everything done by dedicated volunteers.

We are now working towards the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, and we warmly invite you to contribute to our donations campaign. This is to enable us to provide appropriate technical, artistic and organisational support to the wonderful artists whose work has been selected for the festival (for more information about the festival and the artists, visit http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2350).

If everyone who reads this email contributes just 11 [insert your local currency here] we will easily reach our target of NZ$10,000 (that’s about €5000). Whatever amount you are able to donate will make a difference – whether it’s 11, or 111, or more, all donations are gratefully received.

** If you’re a New Zealand tax payer, you can claim a tax rebate on your donation – just ask us for a tax receipt.

To make a donation with a credit card or via PayPal, click here: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278

For more information about UpStage and the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival, visit http://upstage.org.nz

Thanking you in anticipation, on behalf of the UpStage community,

Helen Varley Jamieson & Vicki Smith

The Carbon Festival plus Ladie Killerz #Melbourne #killerz #hiphop #aerosol #party #geekgirl

BETWEEN APRIL 29TH AND MAY 1ST, MELBOURNE WILL PLAY HOST TO CARBON, AN EVENT THAT BRINGS TOGETHER SOME OF TODAY’S MOST INTERESTING CREATIVE MINDS TO PRESENT, DISCUSS AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH LOCAL AUDIENCES VIA A SERIES OF FOUR DISCUSSION FORUMS, EACH FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC ASPECT OF CONTEMPORARY STREET FASHION, DESIGN AND CULTURE. THESE FORUMS ARE SURROUNDED BY MULTIPLE SIDE-EVENTS INCLUDING ART SHOWS, PARTIES AND CONCERTS.

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Exhibition & Event – Ladie Killerz #4 – VIC
This weekend (April 29th) Footscray hosts the massive event Ladie Killerz #4, and what an event it looks set to be. We caught up on all the details and got a few words from one of the organisers, Joske, and have put together a small run down on the event.

“Ladie Killerz is a weekend long, travelling festival,” Joske remarked. “We’ll be celebrating ladies and their killer skills in all things art, music and film and we’ll be showcasing woman in hiphop, and in particular graffiti. Confirmed aerosol artists currently number at around twenty five, with ladies travelling from; Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide – and many more female artists are submitting work into the art exhibition.”

http://acclaimmag.com/carbon/

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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

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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