Alison Croggon’s bold new collection, Theatre, uses a range of narratives, fables, monologues and compressed lyrics to examine female identity and the idea of divine experience. Stepping confidently between different registers and a wide range of forms, Croggon’s poetry shows a writer at the height of her powers narrating a female world of folk tales, trials, challenges, transgressions, and mythologies, where rites of passage are both linguistic, spiritual and political, and where persona is stripped back to an essential humility always journeying into fragile and impossibly beautiful worlds.
“Alison Croggon has from the beginning of her career demanded attention (gaining an entry in The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994, on the strength of one book). She is one of the most powerful lyric poets writing today.” —David McCooey: Australian Book Review
Type: Music/Arts – Preview
Time and Place Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Time: 1:00am – 4:00am
Location: Salt Publishing
City/Town: Melbourne, Australia
Winter Solstice — This is aFREE, DYI festival – bring youir favourite skills, materials and toys for an inspiring collaborative creation experience. BYO hardkore survival pak: two spare tyres, lotsa water, food, firewood, gear for extremes of nature. Nearest supplies are 60k away.!!
MBD 2008 will be @ Mutonia Sculpture Park.
Alberrie Creek, SA.
60k north of Maree on the Oodnadatta Track,
overlooking Lake Eyre.
Come early and stay late. Fun to be had…
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Contributors So Far….
The Family Fire Engine play zone,
Mutoid Fire Show,
Hardkor Slakness,
Labrats solar sound system,
Messy Creations,
Prism,
Ohms not Bombs,
Helter Shelters,
Dakini,
Basement Bodega,
The Losers band,
Go Genre Everything,
Blue turban Drummers,
Calmer Sounds,
Figure8 and Regener8
…..more importantly YOURSELF
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For more details, join the earthdream group on facebook,
and/or www.earthdream.net.
Event Info Host: Earthdream
Type: Music/Arts – Rehearsal
Time and Place Start Time: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 8:00am
End Time: Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 1:00pm
Location: Mutonia Sculpture Park
Street: Oodnadatta Track
City/Town: Maree, Australia
Email: mightyburningdemon@yahoo.com.au
Description: To call on the Australian government to make a plan to raise it’s Overseas Development Assistance to 0.7 – in line with it’s commitments for the past 40 years! This is important to realise the Millennium Development Goals and Make poverty history!
Contact Info Email: fred@kevinpoint7.com
Website: http://www.kevinpoint7.com
Date and location is now finalised.
http://skepticssa.wordpress.com/
11–12 October 2008
The Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide South Australia
The convention is planned around a number of themes:
Education
Science communication
The Climate Change debate
Cognition
http://www.skepticssa.org.au/conf08.html
On the blogroll
http://skepchick.org/blog/
Some Web enthusiasts find microblogging service Twitter to be addictive because you can say absolutely anything you want–as long as it’s 140 characters or less. So what happens when “saying anything” translates into harassment?
One avid Twitter user, Ariel Waldman, posted an entry this week on her personal blog, declaring that “Twitter refuses to uphold (its) terms of service.”
She said she started receiving “multiple accounts of harassment” from another user of the microblogging service and that when she petitioned to Twitter’s community manager, he opted to remove the Twitter posts in question from the site’s “public timeline.”
Waldman wasn’t satisfied, especially when the harassment allegedly continued and grew worse into 2008. She wanted to see user account bans of those responsible, and despite insisting that the activity was in violation of Twitter’s terms of service, Twitter executives–including CEO Jack Dorsey–repeatedly said it wasn’t.
Some of the comments at issue were apparently posted through a site that allows users to post anonymous “tweets” to a central account, making it difficult to track them to a specific user.
Blogger Ariel Waldman spurred a lively debate when she claimed that Twitter didn’t abide by its own terms of service. She said it refused to take down an account that harassed her.
Waldman is hardly the average Twitter user. Well-known in geek circles, she’s a “social-media insights consultant” who contributes to tech blog Engadget and runs her own site, Shake Well Before Use, about “art, advertising, sex, and technology.”
In other words, in the bubble-like culture of Web 2.0, Waldman is a sort of celebrity–and with celebrity comes scrutiny and often ugly commentary. If Lindsay Lohan took action every time Perez Hilton and his celebrity gossip brethren scrawled “slut” across pictures of her, her lawyer would be working overtime.
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