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Arlene TextaQueen – Social Engagement a new show of radical nudes

Description.SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT:
New work by Arlene TextaQueen featuring Textanudes of queer/radical/trans/burlesque performers from Sydney, New York, San Francisco, Montreal and Vancouver including CeliaCurtis, Annie Danger and Singing Sadie.

Opening features performance by featured portrait subject, Sydney’s one and only Singing Sadie.

@ Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art
44 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW

Opening Thurs 6-8pm 29th April.
Exhibition runs until May 16th 2010.

Sydney Screening – Rabid Tripped Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas – premiere April 7

Come to the Australian premiere screening of a collection of fun, colourful gender/queer Australian short films from the arty/radical end of the filmmaking spectrum. This program was curated by Anna Helme and Kelli-Jean Drinkwater for the Bangalore Queer Film Festival in India earlier this year.

“Galactic Sex Wars” rockets us into a futuristic sci-fi world where homos and heteros face off across time and space. “Jorey Corson”, “Ultimate! Dance! Video!” and “Drag Acts” address the performativity of gender, featuring queer and transgender bodies in motion, in masks and moustaches, camping it up in the streets of Berlin, tumbling across an empty sports field at night, inhabiting both the intimate and theatrical. “M.C. G.F.C.” tackles the global fashion crisis, evoking Ru Paul’s “we’re born naked, and the rest is drag”. “With Him of All People” takes a relationship drama into parallel universes of alternate gender. “Procession” is a slice of reality, albeit from a bent perspective, from the Camp Betty weekend of radical sex and politics in 2007, featuring a performative “protest”, aiming to dislocate commonplace demonstration cliches, and generally disrupt the suburbs of Melbourne.

The screening is will be emceed by the captivating Kelli-Jean, and is kindly hosted by the charming Keg and alluring Lucas at their seductive new space in Waterloo, at 643 Elizabeth St (entry from laneway off Phillip St). SYDNEY

Join us Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7.30pm for popcorn and a one-hour screening, and stick around for drinks and chats (some of the filmmakers will also be present).

Come check out some exciting work by independent filmmakers and video artists producing work which steps outside the usual queer film festival fare.

Melbourne Queer Film Festival #Melbourne

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**Thursday March 18 to Sunday March 28**
Astor Theatre, ACMI Cinemas, Greater Union Cinemas Russell St & Loop
Melbourne, Australia

[www.mqff.com.au](http://www.mqff.com.au/)
        
The 20th Melbourne Queer Film Festival features the best in queer cinema from Australia and around the world. Highlights include features, documentaries and shorts programs, along with panel discussions dealing with issues relevant to the queer community. As Melbourne’s second largest film festival this year’s program is overflowing with outstanding films from around the world.

John Waters #Melbourne show

Brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo , John Waters will perform his glorious one man show,’ This Filthy World’ in Melbourne.  America’s royal raconteur and director of cult film classics such as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Polyester, Waters is famous and infamous as the “Pope of Trash”.  Focusing on Waters’ fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.

‘This Filthy World’ is an essential experience for anyone interested in how not  to make a movie, how to become famous (read infamous) and how to shock and make people laugh.

John Waters “This Filthy World”
Saturday 27 February @ 8.30pm
the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
bookings  1300 182 183  or www.theartscentre.com.au

Get your kit off with Spencer Tunick – Opera House – March 1st, 2010. #naked #fb

Internationally renowned artist Spencer Tunick has revealed that he will create an
installation using thousands of nude Australians on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera
House on the morning of Monday 1 March.

The artist is calling on all Australians interested in taking part to register immediately
at The Base to reserve a place.

Tunick’s installation, called ‘The Base’, will be one of the highlights of this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Participation in the art installation however is
open to all Australians, regardless of sexuality. All nude volunteers will be rewarded with
an official Spencer Tunick photograph of ‘The Base.

The US-based artist is the man responsible for gathering people by the thousand and getting them to strip, en masse, in the name of art. Using a sea of naked bodies as his medium, he moulds his groups of willing volunteers into abstract shapes, in various forms and locations, before capturing it on film. He’s attracted huge crowds the world round,
including 7,000 in Barcelona, and 18,000 in Mexico City.

Less is more - Spencer Tunick

Rabid Tripped-Out Psychedelic Lesbian Koalas, Australian shorts at the Bangalore Queer Film Festival

The Best Of The London Transgender Film Festival.Red Rattler.Sydney.

Being held in Sydney, films  of The London Transgender Film Festival exhibit content of transgender, intersex, androgyny, gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons of all natures, all races and cultures, ages and abilities….

By showing these films its aim is to increase trans visibility and acknowledgement, question the gender binary, to dispel ignorance and demystify stereotypes, unite and support a diverse LGBTQIH community and celebrate trans spaces and their friends.

21st & 28th Oct
Screening Red Rattler, Newtown
6 Faversham St.
Marrickville NSW 2204

Sydney 21st Oct, Wednesday
Session One – 83mins
7-8.30pm

Short – I Am Not A Boy.
Dir: Julie Joyce, Johnny Khan, Matthew Khan.USA. 6min
Feature – The Believers
Dir: Todd Holland, USA, 77mins

Session Two – 94mins
9pm – 10.30pm

Shorts Programme
Genderwot? – Dir: Joie Rey Jana Lynn Cohen. USA. 12mins
Felicia – Dir:Tim O’Hara.USA. 8mins
Two Spirited People – Dir: Michel Beauchemin, Lori Levy & Gretchen Vogel. USA.20mins
Playing With Gender – Dir: Ashly Altadonna. USA.7mins
The Bond – Dir: Michael Connell. USA. 6mins
Fagette – Dir: Ali Cotterill. USA. 4mins
Thorn In Your Side – Dir: Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. USA.5mins
Not So Black Or White – Dir: xyzcruise.Aust. 4mins
Are You A Girl Or What?- Dir: Mathilda Piehl. Africa. 30mins

28th oct Wednesday
Session One – 80mins
7 – 8.30pm

Short – Odd One Out, Very Normal Really: From Lucas to Luus
Dir: Charlotte Hoogakker. HOLLAND. 20mins
Feature – Against A Trans Narrative
Dir: JulesRosskam. USA. 60mins

Session Two – 80mins
9 – 10.30pm
Short – Trannymals
Dir: Dylan Vade. USA. 3mins
Feature – U-People
Dir: Hanifah Walidah and Olive Demetrius USA. 76mins

Director/programmer
Col Cruise

Tickets $10 full / $7 concession per night @ door

Doors Open 6.30pm.

Red Rattler website

The Laramie Project a tribute to Matthew Shepherd

RED STITCH TO REPRESENT VICTORIA IN
GLOBAL READING OF HISTORIC WORK,
THE LARAMIE PROJECT – 10 YEARS LATER

In a 24 hour period, over one hundred theatre companies worldwide will take part in a historic reading of the epilogue to the seminal work, The Laramie Project to

On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted the violence and prejudice lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face.

A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the seminal play, The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. The work has been seen by more than 50 million people in the US alone. Recognised as a modern classic, it is one of the most acclaimed and frequently staged plays of the past 10 years.

Tectonic’s eagerly awaited epilogue, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later will be performed in over 100 theatres in all fifty states of the USA, in Canada, UK, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia on October 12/13, 2009. Red Stitch is honoured to have been invited to take part.

The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes new interviews with Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard and Mathew’s murderer Aaron McKinney, who’s serving two consecutive life sentences. The writers also conducted many follow-up interviews Laramie residents from the original piece.

“The Tectonic Theater Project set out to find out how Laramie had changed in the ten years since the murder of Matthew Shepard. When we arrived, we were forced to confront the question, ‘How do you measure change in a community?’ One of the things we found when we got there, which greatly surprised us, was how many people in Laramie were trying to say this was not a hate crime,” said Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.

Performance Date: Tuesday 13 October, 7.30pm
Venue: BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne, AUST
Tickets: $10
Bookings: www.redstitch.net, tel: 03 9553 8083
Media enquiries: TS Publicity on (03) 9419 8837

A bespoke season of film dedicated to Marc Jacobs at ACMI

Drag queens, porn stars, washed-up rock stars, A-list fashion personnel and D-list celebrities - Marc Jacobs has a coterie of followers that hang onto him tightly, despite his insistence that he’s not cool. The designer who brought grunge to the catwalk is celebrating 25 years in the fashion biz, and continues to successfully operate mostly on intuition, Moxie soft drink and a dose of self-induced terror.

To applaud the man behind the superbrand ACMI has hooked up with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009 to weave together Marc Jacobs on Film,  dedicated to the designer’s career, creations and collaborations. The season kicks off with the Australian premiere of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. Director Loïc Prigent turns his camera lens towards the designer extraordinaire and Creative Director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton just in time for the birth of the handbag to beat all handbags – made up entirely of earlier Vuitton handbags!

The four screenings of this film will be introduced by festival guest Bryanboy who came to notoriety for his cybermusings on all things fashion. The internationally-adored superblogger is here to brag about the ‘BB Bag’ created in his honour for the Fall 2008-09 Collection by Marc Jacobs.

Saturday 29 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
Full $13 Concession $10
3 Session Package: Full $30 Concession $24

Full film program at ACMI.