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

POETRY IN FILM FESTIVAL

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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.

#Poems on #Pillows launched by Australian Poetry Ltd in Association with Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel.

As a partnership with the Sydney Writers’ Festival <http://www.swf.org.au/> and Sebel Pier One Sydney<http://www.sebelpierone.com.au/>, *Australian Poetry Ltd* is thrilled to launch Poems on Pillows.

*Ever dreamed of jumping between the sheets with one of Australia’s top authors?*

*Or getting under the covers with a leading Australian publisher?*

*Well, now is your chance!*

If you live in NSW, you’re invited to submit a poem with the theme of ‘Sweet Dreams’ (maximum of 10 lines). Seven poems will be selected. Over the seven nights of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, a different poem will be placed on the pillows in every room at the Sebel Pier One Sydney hotel, where leading authors and publishers may be staying during the festival.

COMPETITION DETAILS
Entry Fee

$15 AP Member;  $20 non-member; $10 for every further entry by the same poet
(you can enter as many times as you like)

Competition closes Mar 31, 2011 (5pm).

Judging panel
Made up of Australian Poetry, Sydney Writers’ Festival and Sebel Pier One Sydney representatives.

How to Enter
Email your entry or entries (and contact details) to leah@australianpoetry.org . By emailing a submission, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood the below terms and conditions. http://www.australianpoetry.org/blog/2011/02/21/poems-pillows/

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Critical Animals 2011 – call for #proposals #TINA #geekgirl

Critical Animals

 Critical Animals, a creative research symposium held as a part of This Is Not Art, is now calling for proposals to participate in the 2011 festival.

DEADLINE – APRIL 1, 2011
Critical Animals is a forum for students, researchers, writers, artists, thinkers and curious individuals who are critically engaged with creative and experimental art practices.

It’s an opportunity to present papers and ongoing research, as well as to challenge creative practices and work collaboratively with others in the field. Critical Animals aims to strengthen the links between practice and theory with a flexible definition of research that encompasses creative, experimental, interrogative and practice-lead approaches.

The symposium is particularly interested in promoting crossdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. In assessing your proposal they’ll be looking at how they can program you and your work to form interesting conjunctions with other artists and thinkers.

This year’s symposium will take place over three days, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October, in Newcastle, NSW. Papers, panels, presentations. Critical Animals are keen to receive proposals from artists and researchers who are investigating or putting into practice specific areas of theory and philosophy. From explorations of form and methodology, to issues impacting on everyday life, they welcome research material and reflections on poetics, politics, aesthetics, practice-lead research, ecological art and ecopoetics, the social implications of art and the overlap between the arts and the sciences.

Experimental and non-traditional presentations are encouraged.

Submit proposals, questions, ideas and concerns to criticalanimals@gmail.com
www.criticalanimals.org

2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne

Venues: The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas Melbourne Town Hall ● State Library of Victoria ● City Library ●Federation Square  

Bookings:  www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au

New Festival Director Lisa Dempster is thrilled to announce the the program for the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australia’s only literary event dedicated to writers of all ages and styles.

2009 saw 6000 people attend the festival’s 15 sell out events with 300 writers, performers, publishers and mentors contributing to the event. In 2010, the EWF will double in size, curating 30 events and featuring 350 writers and artists as the festival stretches the definition of writing styles to include song writing, copywriting, poetry, prose fiction, comedy, writing for video games, journalism, screenwriting, theatre, experimental writing forms, memoir, blogging, opinion, comic writing and more.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival highlights will include:

First word – BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, 7.30pm, Friday 21 May
The Emerging Writers’ Festival burst into life by presenting the best of the festival – exciting new works by emerging writers, a Call to Arms by romantic fiction writer Toni Jordan, and a comic debate asking  ‘Love Vs Angst – what makes a better writer?’ Come and feel the love!

Zine Bus – various locations, 11am to 5pm Saturday 29 May NEW EVENT 
All aboard the world’s first mobile zine fair! Travelling the streets of Melbourne and culminating in a guerrilla zine market  at Federation Square, the zine bus will be fully stocked with independent emerging zines, with the most innovative displays of art, creativity and DIY ever to take to the streets!

Twitterfest – twitter.com/emergingwriters – May 24 – 28 , 2pm daily  NEW EVENT
Taking the Emerging Writers’ Festival to the world. Daily throughout the festival, Twitterfest will host discussions and interview writers… on Twitter! It’s social media mixed with literary debate – jump online to join the discussion. Hosted by writers from across Australia.

Wordstock – BMW Edge – 7.30pm Thurs 27 May
New work inspired by the songs of AC/DC. With songs, comedy, short plays and performance pieces, rock n roll will be given a different sort of spotlight. A one night only event and a performance highlight of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Wordstock will reveals a whole new side of AC/DC. It will blow your mind (like dynamite.)  Hosted by iconic Melbourne rocker Clem Bastow.

You Can’t Stop The Musing: Disco Lecture – Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Tues 25 May, 6pm NEW EVENT
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. *Triple J’s Craig Schuftan *presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School

48-hour play generator – Malthouse Theatre – 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May
Six (somewhat) rehearsed readings. Six emerging playwrights are given just two days to write a new play each. Teamed with an established director and team of actors, the results are presented on a Sunday evening of madcap and totally raw theatre. Previous 48 hour plays have developed into full length works.

In the Pub series – 26 May 7.30pm, The Workers Club Fitzroy
I Write What I Want, When I Want. We lift the shroud on the mystery of freelance writing. Our freelance experts talk about their journeys as freelancers, the ups and downs as well as their secrets to success. From journalism to comedy, our panellists will entertain and enlighten. Panellists: Chris Flynn, Ben Pobjie and more. Hosted by Joanna Brookfield. 

The Page Parlour – The Atrium @ Federation Square, 12 to 5pm, Sunday 23 May
Featuring over forty stalls selling everything from posters to books, literary journals to hand-crafted stories – all the good stuff that you won’t find in Borders. The Page Parlour is an independent press fair gathering the undiscovered, the underground, the obscure and the amazing all in one convenient market location.

Town Hall Program – Melbourne Town Hall, 9am to 5pm, May 29 – 30
A range of panels, interviews and conversations about the art, craft and business of being a writer.. Covers all styles of writing, from prose fiction, to song writing, theatre, video games, copywriting, poetry, comedy and more! Guests include: Michi Girl, Guy Blackman, Benjamin Law, Patrick Cullen, Jill Jones, Sean Riley, Julian Shaw, Katherine Charles, Declan Fay, Tom Taylor, Mel Campbell, Jeff Sparrow, Steph Bowe, Jan Sardi, and many, many more!

Poet Laureate Telia Nevile – While I’m Away

You’re invited to join a mighty expedition, set against a 1970s slideshow of the world’s greatest sights. Fresh from an acclaimed 2009 Melbourne Fringe season, the awkwardly intrepid Poet Laureate Telia Nevile awaits your arrival for immediate departure on a deliciously ridiculous grand tour of life, love and lyricism for the modern daydreamer.

Venturing after the 5th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Byron and Andy Kaufmann, Poet Laureate Telia Nevile has traveled the globe in her quest to become a complete artist, plumbing the depths of herself against the wondrous background of the wide, wide world. Join this socially inept and endearingly over‐sharing explorer as she poetically salutes the beginnings of young love in ‘Blue Light Disco, Green Light Romance’, explores the laneways of longevity in ‘I Built You a Monument Because You Always Attracted the Birds’, and surveys the ruins of her self‐worth in ‘This Temple of Love is a Renovator’s Dream’.

Telia Nevile is the cult Last Tuesday Society’s Poet Laureate and her subtle character‐based comedy has converted audiences from Federation Square to the Falls Festival. The slides used in the show were collected by her grandmother during overseas trips in the 1970s and are now proudly presented for your viewing pleasure.

Streamflow Conditions and Timestamp. An online exhibition, 24 hours of networked #writing starts Dec 5, 09.

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks
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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press
http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
José Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST]

Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Denver, Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means.

Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists’ individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, “timestampstream” and intercepted at Subito Press. You are invited to follow along and respond.

The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6.

*see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

SITES: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

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twitter.com/timestampstream (follow/respond)

STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS

Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves).

**gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site.

TIMESTAMP SHIFTS
[ use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]

1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze

2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher

3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres

4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre

5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover

6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley

Beautiful Waste the poems of David McComb

Brilliant songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids, David McComb, died in 1999 at the age of 36 leaving behind a legacy of evocative music. Always more than a pop musician, McComb was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical.

Collected and published for the first time, this is the poetry McComb wrote during his 20s and 30s when the Triffids’ musical output was at its height.

Introduced by renowned poet John Kinsella, the poems will delight fans of popular music and contemporary poetry alike. Beautiful Waste illuminates a hitherto neglected aspect of McComb’s creative brilliance.

Fremantle Press and Fremantle Arts Centre will launch Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb and Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids.

Readings of David MComb’s poetry by John Kinsella.

Music by Jill Birt, Martyn P. Casey and Alsy MacDonald.

Special guests: The Morning Night.

Fremantle Arts Centre, Thurs 10 September, 2009
Doors open @ 6pm.
1 Finnerty St
Fremantle, WA Australia

The newly published collections Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb and Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids, both edited by Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy, are available direct from the publisher, Fremantle Press, and from leading booksellers. Both books will also be available for sale on the night.

Media inquiries: Claire Miller / cmiller@fremantlepress.com.au

National call for mobile phone poetry

RMIT University is calling for poems that will be bluetoothed to peoples’ mobiles during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Poems need to be 140 characters or less, in any style or subject matter. Twitter page to follow from August 22nd, 2009 is #RMIT_Poetry.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 31 July

For more information, visit

Mobile Textualism

<http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/poetry>

Long Live Whoever

IF you didn’t know where to look, you might never notice the 100-square-foot storefront gallery on East 88th Street near Second Avenue, (new York) even though it has been there for a decade. In the window lies a diminutive homemade coffin bearing an enormous artillery shell and a tombstone inscribed with the word ‘Whoever.’ The walls of the space, which is called Gallery 221, are papered with scores of laminated obituaries, which have been clipped from The Economist magazine.

‘They’re precise,’ said Michael Brod, the gallery’s owner and the creator of the installation. ‘I like the uniformity of them. To be able to encapsulate a life in a thousand words, and to do such an eloquent job, it’s very democratic.’

Mr. Brod, a tall, dark-haired 67-year-old, was until last spring a man of high finance on Wall Street. In the early 1980s, he left his life as a potter and a poet in California after receiving a phone call from his weeping father in New York, whose fifth wife had just died.

Mr. Brod had not set eyes on the man since his parents separated when he was an infant, yet he traveled east to see him. Seduced by the life of Wall Street, Mr. Brod spent 10 years at his father’s stock brokerage firm. Art was relegated to Plan B.

During that time, father and son shared an office, seated at opposite ends of a long walnut conference table. Mr. Brod also discovered that he, like his father, was good at finance, and in 1986, his father handed him the reins of the firm. He left in 1992 to work first at a brokerage company, then as an independent consultant.

‘What I liked about Wall Street,’ Mr. Brod said, ‘was that it’s full of manic-depressives. There are a lot of artists who are manic-depressive. And there’s a lot of creative people in Wall Street.’

It was not the downward spiral of the economy that drove Mr. Brod a year ago to go back to work full time at the gallery he owned and where he had occasionally worked in the evening. Instead, it was a recent birthday, along with his growing collection of obituaries and a desire to lead a life that seemed to have more value than one devoted to crunching numbers.

‘The point of the Street wasn’t me trying to get rich,’ Mr. Brod said. ‘It was me trying to figure out who I was.’

The other day, Mr. Brod stood at the window of the gallery, assembling the words of a poem in crisp, adhesive letters on the glass in preparation for the opening of his funereal installation on May 12.

‘Whoever on the road,’ the poem reads. ‘Whoever still traveling. Whoever says whatever. Whoever is dead. Long live whoever.’

http://www.whoeveremerges.com/
Gallery 221
Upper East Side
221 East 81 Street, New York
USA

Ballarat Cross Cultural Collaboration Exhibition

A coming together of Victoria’s visual artists, poets, writers, filmmakers and performers. A range of artists books, multi-media, 2D works and installations will be showcased across the University of Ballarat’s Post Office Gallery and the City of Ballarat’s Mining Exchange.

Collaborations include:
Elizabeth Presa with performance dancer Janette Hoe; Lauren Berkowitz with Fabrice Meliquot (France); poet Dominique Hecq with sound artist Catherine Clover; Bruno Leti with poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe;  as well as, installation artists Dr Domenico de Clario, Dr Colleen Morris and Jeanette Mc Whinney.
Until ­ Sat 27 June
Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
Cnr Sturt & Lydiard St Ballarat, VIC 3375

Check out the details at
<http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/artsacademy/pogallery/index.shtml>