Tickled Pink in association with the Breast Cancer Network Australia

From 7 – 31 October 2009, Tickled Pink will be hosted at Artereal Gallery in Rozelle (Australia) to support Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) – the peak national organisation representing Australians personally affected by breast cancer.

The director, staff and artists from Artereal Gallery and the broader arts community have come together to organise the Tickled Pink fundraising event, which is an exhibition of work by 25 of Australia’s finest contemporary artists.

Opening night pink drinks with the artists and tasty pink treats will be served on Wed Oct 7 from 6 – 8 pm.

The art work exhibited includes sculptures, works on paper, oil paintings, photographs and mixed media works made specifically for the exhibition by leading local and interstate artists such as Kate Rhode, Claude Jones, Damian Dillon, Andrew Lavery, Christine Polowyj , Cecilia Fogelberg, Glen Henderson, Sarah Parker, Anne MacDonald, Sylvia Schwenk, Ruth Hassall, Nola Diamantopoulos and Cash Brown.

Nola Diamantopoulos has generously donated her time and expertise to hold workshops for women living with breast cancer to explore their journeys through art making and meditation. Some of these works will also be exhibited, and we gratefully acknowledge Tilly’s Art Supplies for donating the workshop materials.

Money raised from the sale of artworks and activities during the event will directly assist BCNA to continue its work ensuring Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer have the very best information, treatment and support possible.

This includes the distribution of the My Journey Kit, a free comprehensive information resource for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. BCNA works to ensure that women diagnosed with breast cancer, and their families, receive the very best treatment, care and support possible – no matter who they are, or where they live.

BCNA acknowledges the tremendous efforts of Artereal Gallery, Art Almanac, Tilly’s Art and Office Supplies, Darling Park Wines, The Art Scene and the artists in supporting our work, and encourages the local community to participate and help to make a difference to women and their families.

Artereal Gallery
Street:  747 Darling Street
Rozelle, NSW Australia

Opens: 6pm. Wednesday, October 7, 2009

#The Yes Men. #Age of Stupid. Climate Action Week in New York.

If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (Even if you don’t, you can sign up to participate in The Yes Men’s  “digital fun squad” by clicking the option on your profile.)

Everyone who shows up Monday morning will get a FREE GIFT you can SHOCK your friends with for years. Even just a few minutes Monday morning will help. Sign up now! http://newyorkbigevent.com/

The Yes Men can’t tell you much about what they”ll be doing, as the element of surprise here are crucial. But they can tell you that it’ll be huge and absurdly fun, and when a hundred world honchos meet the next morning to discuss climate change at the UN, you may have helped set the tone for progress.

Then, that evening (Monday, Sept. 21), we’ll unwind from the action by dressing up in our very best, er, suits and heading to the global mega-premiere of climate blockbuster The Age of Stupid (http://www.ageofstupid.net/). (LA Times: “Think An Inconvenient Truth, but with a personality”)

The premiere will be linked by satellite to 444 cinemas across America and 300 more worldwide,with special guests Kofi Annan, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (singing live), Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham, Moby, James Hansen, Mary Robinson, and the film’s star Pete Postlethwaite.

The Sept. 21 events (http://newyorkbigevent.com/ and Age of Stupid premiere) are part of Climate Action Week in New York. A good way to warm up is to join an “international photo opportunity” coordinated by Oxfam on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20 in Central Park: the Human Countdown.

TINT, call for Interactive Art

TINT, an artist run initiative which provides a platform for open discourse, experimentation and display of digital/analog hybrid art form, is looking for artists, curators and academics with an interest in cross disciplinary art that merges with technology and science.

Deadline: 30 September

For more information go to www.tintarts.org

linux.conf.au 2010

linux.conf.au will be held in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January.

LCA2010 (the conference usually known as “linux.conf.au”, but in New Zealand for 2010) has an initiative to sponsor diverse attendees. Google is sponsoring the LCA2010 Diversity Programme in which Open Source contributors who are members of a minority group, including women, can apply to receive up to NZD1000 towards attendance at LCA2010 in January in New Zealand. Applications for LCA2010 assistance from this program close on Friday 2 October 2009.

They’ve also just announced their programme (I co-chaired the selection committee, but aggravatingly can’t attend due to conflicting commitments re bringing new life into the world, talk about poor timing kid). Women speakers are:

• Angela Byron, Drupal Under the Hood
• Anne Chin, The implications of using FOSS under Australian copyright & contract law
• Claudine Chionh, Unlocking the ivory tower: Free and open source software in collaborative humanities research
• Gabriella Coleman, Tuesday keynote
• Selena Deckelmann, Survey of open source databases
• Liz Henry, Hack Ability: Open Source Assistive Tech
• Emma Jane Hogbin, Self Help Guides for World Domination
• Denise Paolucci, Build Your Own Contributors, One Part At A Time
• Silvia Pfeiffer, HTML5 video: how to process and publish video in an open format
• Sarah Sharp, SuperSpeed me: USB 3.0 for Linux
  

Source: Geek Feminism Blog

Introduction to free software by Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry does his take on understanding free software, and software freedom.

Saturday 19 September is International Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day aims to promote and inform about programs that are freely available to everyone to install and use.

For more information:

General information.    http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Information about the Canberra events http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/Canberra
Information on some of the programs being given away http://www.theopendisc.com/programs/
Open Source as alternative      http://www.osalt.com/
One of the distributions of Linux available on the day http://www.ubuntu.com/
Another distribution of Linux available on the day http://fedoraproject.org/

Open Call – New Life Happening

Propose a happening or event for 10.000 participants in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Conference. Your concept should involve collective action and will be implemented alongside New Life Happenings by artist groups Superflex (DK) and Signa (DK/A) among others. The Submission deadline is October 1st 2009. The official Opening of New Happenings is December 7th 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. To submit, please visit: www.wooloo.org.

ANAT has announced launch of Filter online

The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is now publishing its magazine ‘Filter’ online!

Designed to encourage engagement and dialogue, the site is stocked with the latest Filter content plus favourite past issues – so get reading and posting today!

First published as the ANAT Bulletin in July 1988, Filter has been informing and inspiring a global network of creative innovators for over two decades.

Each issue is guest edited and thematically investigates an area of emerging practice or an art form of the future, exploring the new creativities which are occurring across community, culture and industry. Filter also keeps you up to date with the latest news from each of ANAT’s Core program areas.

The print version of Filter uses 100% soy based inks, with the goal to lessen its carbon footprint.

Filter Online

Screen Producers Association of Australia launches new Fringe Social Networking Site

SPAA Fringe is pleased to announce the launch of its dynamic new social networking site, The Melting Pot. This year also sees the introduction of Speed Dating; two brand new initiatives introduced to promote creative partnerships between filmmakers. The Melting Pot and Speed Dating will be added to the extremely successful Roundtables and One-on-One’s as ways for delegates to access top industry professionals including television commissioning editors and distributors.

“The opportunity to meet people is what makes Fringe most useful. You move forward through networking and things happen when you pay attention to growing your professional relationships.” Gaylee Butler, SPAA Fringe Director

The Melting Pot is an online portal where filmmakers can collaborate, network and discuss screen projects. Delegates can post their projects to attract resources, investment, marketing opportunities and likeminded peers for collaboration. If you’re a producer looking for crew, a writer looking for a producer or a director with a creative vision to share, the Melting Pot is the perfect access point to find your dream team.

For more details click here: www.meltingpot.spaa.org.au/

The Cove Movie and the Dolphin Research Institute

IN LESS than two weeks, an annual event that environmental activist Ric O’Barry calls a genocide will begin. By the time it ends in March, as many as 23,000 dolphins will have been ”harvested” in Japan.

The lucky few will be shipped off to aquariums around the world, to spend the rest of their lives performing. The unlucky ones will be brutally slaughtered, their carcasses butchered for sale in Japan – often deliberately mislabelled as whale meat – or merely dragged out to sea and left to rot.

This grim scenario is laid bare in a documentary, The Cove, which follows the efforts of Mr O’Barry and his colleagues to reveal what goes on at the Japanese fishing port of Taiji.

More from Karl Quinn’s article at The Age

Other links:

• Petition – www.takepart.com/thecove

• www.thecovemovie.com

• If you’re on Facebook, check out The Cove group – lots of daily updates and comments from people around the world about the movie and reactions

Dolphin Research Institute -  1300 130 949

Heath Ledger Directed Music Video For Modest Mouse with Anti Whaling Message