02 PM | 18 Oct

Sustainable Living Festival

The Sustainable Living Festival’s creative program invites entries from visual artists, performers, writers, musicians and film-makers and media artists. Applications are now open for the 2008 Festival.

We are seeking to incorporate works that deal with concepts of sustainability.

The Sustainable Living Festival, Australia’s foremost sustainability event, will be held on the 15 -17 February 2008 at Federation Square.

The Sustainable Living Festival is a celebration and showcase of social and ecological sustainability. The 2007 Festival attracted 124,000 visitors and we are gearing up for an even bigger event in 2008.

Submit your application online: http://www.slf.org.au/festival/participate/artists.

Deadline for Submissions: 31 October 2007

For more information please visit our website: http://www.slf.org.au/festival

For Further information: Email: create@slf.org.au Or phone the Sustainable Living Foundation Ph: 03 9249 1888 Fax: 03 9249 1899

02 PM | 18 Oct

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS – new works by Joshua Smith and Store China Heights Gallery, opens Friday, 26 October, from 6 pm

PinXit presents Adelaide artists Joshua Smith and Simon Burt aka Store at China Heights Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition features an amazing collection of Joshua’s burlesque 1960s pin-up-like aerosol stencil artworks and Simon’s intriguing Venus-meets-Femme Fatale mixed media paintings utilising oils, charcoal and pastels. Sexy.

China Heights, lvl 3, 12 – 28 Foster St, Surry Hills, Sydney

PinXit will present Girls Girls Girls also in Melbourne in November. Opens at Per Square Metre Gallery on Thursday, 26 November, 6 pm.

preview: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinxit

web: http://www.pinXit.com.au

02 PM | 18 Oct

LinuxChix

About LinuxChix

LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers.

Chix mailing list Chix@au.linuxchix.org http://lists.au.linuxchix.org/listinfo/chix

About linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au (http://linux.conf.au/) is Australia’s annual technical conference on Free Software. Fun, informal and seriously technical, linux.conf.au draws together Free and Open Source Software developers from across the world. It will be held from January 28th to February 2nd, 2008 at The University of Melbourne.

About Linux Australia

Linux Australia (http://www.linux.org.au/) is the peak body for Linux User Groups (LUGs) around Australia, and as such represents approximately 5000 Australian Linux users and developers. Linux Australia facilitates the organisation of this international Free Software conference in a different Australasian city each year.

01 PM | 18 Oct

1 day RomCom Workshop

Film Victoria and ACMI present a one-day romantic comedy writing masterclass with Stephen Cleary, head of the UK-based script development consultancy Arista Development.

When: Wednesday 7th November 9:15am (for 9:30am start) to 5:30pm (tea and coffee provided).

Where: ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne. Tickets (03) 8663 2583; in person at the ACMI box office (10am to 6pm daily) or online at http://www.acmi.net.au/events.htm (after 18/10/07)

What: $95 General. $75 Students and AWG members.

Why: The commercial success of Romantic Comedies (RomComs), and their ability to translate internationally, makes the genre a compelling one for writers, directors and producers looking to make writing for the screen a viable as well as creative pursuit.

But viability can’t precede craft. Understanding the RomCom genre in all its complexity is the invaluable leverage writers need to bend the genre toward their own unique interpretations. Through this one day event you will learn to identify, examine, and deploy the basic story principles, comic conflicts and structures underlying RomComs, as well as consider what writers, directors, producers and developers need to be thinking about as they work on any RomCom.

In addition, the workshop will examine the Buddy Movie, which shares many of the underlying features of the RomCom. You’ll see how getting under the skin of romance and relationship comedy will help you write and develop any story with a loving (sexual or non-sexual) relationship at its centre.

Who: Stephen Cleary created Arista Development in 1996 and it has grown to become Europe’s largest story development agency. To date Arista graduates have written, directed and produced over 250 feature films and much award-winning TV drama. The Arista alumni includes 2 Academy Award winners, 2 Academy Award nominees, as well as BAFTA, Palme d’Or and Golden Lion winners for films such as The Last King of Scotland, Hush, and Red Road.

Stephen Cleary lectures on screenwriting craft throughout the world as well as being a sometime feature producer and, when time permits, screenwriter. He has provided consultation to a variety of private clients including BBC interactive, Fremantle Media, NOP TV Holland, Thin Man Films and the Danish Film Fund. Right now Stephen is working on formulating an approach to cross-media and multi-platform story development.

01 PM | 18 Oct

Art in the Asylum

ABC Radio National broadcast on Saturday 13 October a story “Art in the Asylum: orphans of the art world? – Part 1 of 2”. This 1/2 hour program focussed on the the Cunningham Dax Collection, including interviews with staff and visitors.

If you would like to listen to the program click on the link below and it will take you to the ABC website where you can access audio & written transcripts of the broadcast.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/2054496.htm

The Cunningham Dax Collection 35 Poplar Road Parkville Vic 3052 t 3 9342 2394 f 3 9381 2008 www.daxcollection.org.au