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  • #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.

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  • #Melbourne #Juggling Convention 2010: Call out!

    This is the 4th year of the Melbourne Juggling Convention, which brings with it an innovative new structure integrating workshops, forums and shows to form the  MJC 2010 Act Devising Program

    The essence of this year’s convention is performance art, where we wish to empower convention participants in creating a performance within the depths of juggling, object manipulation and circus arts. The Act Devising Program, free to anyone attending the convention, is designed to assist people with a passion for performance, inviting them to create and ultimately showcase their new piece of work on the dedicated ‘works-in-progress’ Creative Edge show.

    ‘Clown’, ‘comedy’, ‘voice’ and ‘improvisation’ are a small number of the specialisation areas showcasing as part of the act devising program, bringing in leading practitioners in their field to facilitate them. In addition to our 5 headlining guests, another 15+ Melbourne-based guest artists have been invited to help run the forums and workshops as part of this program. Places are limited and already filling up, any person interested in taking part in the Act Devising Program is urged to go to the convention website to register their expression of interest.

    MELBOURNE JUGGLING CONVENTION 2010
    17-20 September, 2010
    Collingwood College, Melbourne

    Website: www.mjc.juggling.net.au
    E-mail: mjcinfo@gmail.com
    Early-bird 4-day passes:
    On sale now, until 31st July. Cost: $90 (+ bf). Price increases from 1st August.
    The BIG Show:
    Date: Saturday 18th September (2pm & 8pm). Cost: $20 (+ bf)
    Juggling Olympics:
    Date: Monday 20th September (11am-1pm). Free event

    Source: Artshub

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  • 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.

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  • Australiana exhibition on at Arts Project Australia #Melbourne #painters #disabilitynot

    Australiana image
    Steven Worrell
    Dame Edna 2010
    gouache on black rag paper
    38 x 28.5cm

    Australiana is a loud, bold and colourful exhibition of a loud, bold and colourful land.  Far removed from notions of patriotism, politics or nationalism, this collection of works reveal a great love, an adoring lens through which the wonder and hilarity of our Great Brown Land can be viewed.

    Created with a loving hand and an innate, familiar knowledge of the subject, these works catch the eye, capture the heart and make us feel at home.  Australiana – like our country itself, is really an experience, not just a show.  Upon entry, viewers will become immersed in the tastes, sounds and sights of the kitsch, the entertaining, the sporting and the clichéd; the rock, the sails, the bridge.  Amongst this virtual tour of the Great Down Under there are truly some stand-out; Steven Worrell’s haunting portryal portrayal of Ned Kelly, Michael Trasancos’ loving and painterly cataloguing of native mammals, and Lisa Reid’s detailed, near photorealistic rendering of the Big Pineapple, to name just a few.

    Venue: Arts Project Australia
    Until: 21  July 2010

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  • Lee-Anne Raymond – Painting 10A – are the burqa and nica a matter of fashion or choice? #Melbourne #painters

    isochronos metamorphosis with nicab

    isochronos metamorphosis with nicab by lee anne raymond

    Lee-Anne Raymond currently exhibiting in a group show Painting 10A, at the Brunswick Street Gallery #Melbourne. A range of artists will be represented, all are painters. Lee-Anne has created 4 new works challenging the misconception that the burqa and nicab are a matter of fashion or choice providing the wearer with security and empowerment.

    Painting 10A
    Until 14th July, 2010
    Brunswick Street Gallery
    2/322 Brunswick St
    Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

    www.leeanneart.com
    Humanist Transhumanist Catalogue

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  • 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.

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  • I Need More … from the Tim Burton Wonderland Flickr Gallery

    I Need More by Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

    Chris Cote, Ink, 11in x 14in.

    Tim Burton Wonderland Gallery

    Source: http://tinyurl.com/2fvsee4

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  • The Memorial – Death be Kind #exhibition #Melbourne #arts

    The Memorial
    A display-case collection of inherited objects from
    over 100 people, plus accompanying zine.

    June 29th – 25th July, 2010
    The Memorial

    For the first exhibition of DEATH BE KIND Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson in collaboration present The Memorial an elaborate display-case housing a collection of beloved objects that once belonged to a deceased relative, friend, acquaintance or lover chosen by over 100 people from all walks of life who have kindly participated in this project.

    The Memorial presentation is reminiscent of the small private museum and employs the language of display to create symbiotic dialogues through the relational placement of the works. A complex display case has been constructed so as to elevate the importance and meanings of the beloved objects and gently navigate the viewers experience of the gallery space.

    The Memorial retells the stories behind the objects that we keep to evoke memory of the deceased, how these objects maintain ongoing relationship with the dead, and how these material possessions remain important in memory making. Each object has been documented and texts collected from the holder about their object to create a catalogue of texts that caption the objects personal meanings in a zine.

    DEATH BE KIND is a twelve month project by artists Claire Lambe and Elvis Richardson.

    Upstairs @ The Alderman - 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia
    the gallery will feature a series of curated exhibitions bringing together artists and ideas around the circumstance of death.

    Opening hours:
    Tuesday 6-8pm
    Saturday & Sunday 2-6pm
    Or by appointment 0401 346520
    www.deathbekind.com

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  • Free digital media workshop with UK artist – Robin McNicholas, 30th June & 1st July, #Melbourne

    Join UK digital media artist Robin McNicholas in a workshop on making moving images through craft techniques and digital media. The workshop will explore alternative ways of making images using unusual and everyday materials. Young artists, designers, musicians or performers interested in digital media, animation or music video production are invited to participate. The workshop is free, eligible participants must have a Healthcare card, not be in full-time study and be aged between 16–28.

    Two day workshop 12–3pm on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1 July.

    Robin McNicholas is a UK based artist and member of Flat-e, www.flat-e.com. Supported by the British Council in partnership with
    Jesuit Social Services, Artful Dodgers Studios.

    Numbers are limited, please contact Artful Dodgers studios to book in, or for more information.
    T: 03 9415 8700
    E: forest.keegel@jss.org.au
    W: www.Artfuldodgers.tv
    Artful Dodgers studios, 1 Langridge Street,
    Collingwood, Melbourne 3066.

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  • Sum of these holes: new pinhole works by Steph Tout #Melbourne

    until – 1 July 2010
    Brunswick Street Gallery, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

    An exhibition exploring perceptual processes through dreamlike photographs of place, taken with a camera made from a biscuit tin. Photographer Steph Tout has used simple hands-on technology drawn from more than a century ago to create stunning images that immerse the viewer in a variety of intricate, non-linear yet cohesive landscapes.  Impressions have been gathered from sites both wild and urban, from Kinglake’s regrowth to the cobbled streets of Brussels. Tout’s photographs from the past two years are brought together in her first Melbourne solo show.

    www.stephtout.com.au
    www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au

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