I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain

Presented by Dancehouse this evocatively titled new work is Gabrielle Nankivell’s choreographic debut as a solo artist and an exciting entry to the Australian choreographic scene.

I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain is a performance that examines struggle as an inherent quality of being human. The audience is invited to experience intense physicality and haunting words framed by Benjamin Cisterne’s (Bluebottle) design and a striking soundtrack by Luke Smiles.

Harnessing the imagination as a physical force, I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain is a visual poem for anyone who has taken the enchanting qualities of their broken world and built a fairytale as inspiration to survive.

Gabrielle Nankivell belongs to a generation of international artists that are creating work across multiple countries. Originally from South Australia, Gabrielle Nankivell has returned from working in Europe with the likes of Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), OX – with Jurij Konjar (Slovenia), Alexander Baervoets (Belgium), Aaben Dans/Thomas Eisenhardt (Denmark), Ballet Braunschweig (Germany), Thomas Steyaert (Belgium) and Raul Maia (Portugal). She has also worked in Australia with Garry Stewart’s Australian Dance Theatre.

Her goal is to ignite the imagination of audiences and create continuing avenues of dialogue on the topic of performance.

Venue: Dancehouse
Address: 150 Princes St, Carlton, Melbourne (Australia)
Dates: Wednesday 8 – Sunday 12 July
Time: Wed – Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm
Tickets: Phone/Door Full: $22 Conc: $18, Members: $15
Online: Full: $20 Conc: $16, Members: $12

Bookings: www.dancehouse.com.au or 03 9347 2860

Video Art at Conical

The Body Electric project comprises a series of new works by Meredith Turnbull and Ross Coulter made in response to Walt Whitman’s 1867 poem by the same title. The project seeks to explore aspects of the human condition within an existential context.

runs until May 9
Conical Inc
Upstairs, 3 Rochester St, Fitzroy, Melbourne

Go to www.conical.org.au/current_exhibitions/current.html to find out more.

PaCo Autonomous Poetry Generating Robot

It seems to look like a very stiff Stephen Hawking in a wheelchair. Not sure if this bard will do it for you, but hey bring it on oh mighty metal wordsmith!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfAQBuFgw4&e

Read more at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/vida10/paginas/v7/epaco.html

Animal Remembrance Day – Sunday April 26th.

Remembering the animals lost in the recent devastating Victorian bushfires.

RSPCA, in conjunction with Rochford Winery are holding an Animal Remembrance Day – Sunday 26 April 2009.

The Black Saturday bush fires devastated many areas of Victoria and many animals including pets and native wild life lost their homes, habitats and their lives.

The Animal Remembrance Day is an opportunity for the community to come together to remember the beloved pets that were lost or injured in the fires. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the devastating and unprecedented loss of over 1 million animals and native wildlife on Black Saturday.

Organised by the RSPCA, the Animal Remembrance Day will be held at Rochford Winery on the outskirts of the Yarra Valley. This free outdoor event will bring together Victoria’s fire affected communities, emergency services, animal aid organisations and the general public for a morning of reflection and contemplation.

Through music, readings and visual presentations, the Animal Remembrance Day will be an opportunity for the community to acknowledge the animals affected by the bush fires. This event will acknowledge the emergency services, animal aid organisations, volunteers and the public who rescued and cared for countless animals affected by the fires.

When: Sunday April 26, 2009
Where: Rochford Winery
Cnr Maroondah Hwy & Hill Road, Coldstream, Victoria, Australia

Click here to secure your FREE tickets to this special event

If you are from bushfire affected regions please call 03 9224 2222 to secure your FREE ticket and to arrange transport if needed.

Pets are welcome!
Dogs on leads and other animals in pet carriers please.

Tinariwen – guitar poets at Hamer Hall

Tinariwen are guitar-poets from the southern Sahara desert. They fuse the influences of the blues with the rhythms & sounds of their traditional culture.  Their rolling yearning grooves and uncompromising messages of simplicity and freedom, distilled over twenty years of struggle, rebellion & exile, have earned them two BBC World Music Award nominations, countless accolades, the attention of high-profile fans such as Robert Plant, Santana, Edge & Thom Yorke, & the enduring respect of their own people, the nomadic Touareg of  the Sahara.  

Tinariwen @ the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall Wed 8 Apr, 2009. 8pm

Tix: $30-$79 Bookings: theartscentre.com.au, 1300 136 166, the Arts Centre box office or ticketmaster

Poetry Prize – The Hidden Life of Suburbs theme

The Williamstown Literary Festival (www.willylitfest.org.au)

The 6th Williamstown Literary Festival will be held 1st-3rd May 2009 and will be bigger and better than ever. The Festival is a popular local cultural event focusing on literature, drama and writing which presents established and emerging writers and literary figures.

In 2009 the Festival will be located in two places, due to major renovations of the Town Hall. Some sessions will take place in the Town Hall and others in the Mechanics Institute in Electra Street. Keep in touch with the event and subscribe to the e-news.

Poetry submissions will be based on the topic of “The Hidden Life of Suburbs”.

Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009

netwurker mez does blogetry

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netwurker mez: http://netwurker.livejournal.com/115535.html

Mu-Mesons — Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story

Friday 30th January – 2009

Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story “Your Poetry Set to Music!” “Songs into dollars!” Off The Charts documents the “song-poem” phenomenon in which ordinary folks send their heartfelt and often bizarre lyrics to companies advertising in the back of tabloids, which, for a fee, turn their poems into records. This unusual pen pal collaboration of amateur songwriters and studio musicians has produced such oddities as ‘I Am a Ginseng Digger’, ‘Jimmy Carter Says Yes’, and ‘A Blind Man’s Penis.’ We are introduced to some of the quirky writers, the producers and studio musicians who crank the songs out, and aficionados of the records.
Mu-Meson ArchivesDoors 7.30 for 8pm start

For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site http://www.mumeson.org

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale – Sydney - at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.

Phone 02 9517-2010

There Goes The Neighbourhood – fundraiser

This gig is a fundraiser to bring some of the international artists out to Sydney for There Goes The Neighbourhood.

Are you yet another person who has had the rent jacked up and been outpriced and outed of your own space?…Inspired by this global phenomenon of gentrification, There Goes The Neighbourhood is an exhibition, film festival, workshops and publication about the politics of space happening in May at the Performance Space.

The project brings together a group of local and international artists who have worked on various projects that have explored the relationship between community and space and we’re inviting them to develop these issues further in the contested local environment of Redfern, Sydney.

The artists involved are: Daniel Boyd, Brenda Croft, Lisa Kelly, SquatSpace, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Ned Sevil and friends (Australia), Temporary Services (USA), Jakob Jakobsen (Denmark), 16beaver (USA), Miklos Erhardt and Little Warsaw (Hungary), Michael Rakowitz (USA) and Bijari (Brazil). We will also be doing a re-enactment of Allan Kaprow’s Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann (with thanks to the Allan Kaprow Estate) and hosting a Gordon Matta-Clark film screening.

For more information on There Goes The Neighbourhood: visit www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org

Featuring:
SUZANNE GRAE & THE KATIES (MELB)
Inspired by their namesake fashion icons responsible for bringing shoulder padded style and geometric glamour to the suburbs of eighties Australia, Suzanne Grae and the Katies are a 6 piece all gal sleaze rock band based in Melbourne, Australia.

JUSTICE YELDHAM
Fresh back from 3 months eating dumplings and making noise in China, catch Justice Yeldham’s first gig back in Sydney. This guy is never sticks around for long before he’s off again- so don’t miss ‘the glass guy’ himself, even if he is a pane. http://www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham

HOLY BALM
If you like dancing under a blanket to Black Sabbath shoeless in the grass then you will love Holy Balm.  (Don’t forget the honey-ed mushrooms) http://www.myspace.com/holybalm

EMCEE PASH
Freshly back from shows in Vietnam we are proud to have this incredible female emcee up in Sydney for one show only!!! – and look out for her debut album which is about to be released!

“ she’s the femcee that’s gonna make you wanna smile – she got you foot tappin, lip smackin, rappin pash stylez!” http://www.myspace.com/emceepash

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Serial Space
Street: 33 Wellington Street, Chippendale
City/Town: Sydney, Australia
Email: kegkicks@yahoo.com
$8

The little girl giant-playing in the park

Source: www.youtube.com

Enchanting, spectacular, beautiful piece of fairytale that I think I’ll ever see. Giant figure puppet girl doll stands at 11-12 meter high. So cool, and amazing.. You won’t believe your eyes.