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The Basement nightclub in Sydney will see folk, country, rock, jazz, pop and electronica all on the same stage on August 21 to celebrate the 7th birthday of a female music community. The ‘PopTarts 7′ event will also see the official launch PopTarts TV for TVS.
PopTarts 7 will feature live performances from PopTarts’ founder and Lounge/Electronic Pop artist Amanda Easton, Jazz Popster Sarah J Hyland, Country/Acoustic singer songwriter Caitlin Harnett and Alternative Folk Rockers Little Pleasures fronted by Tania Murray.
Easton released her second album ‘Chanteuse’ last year on her own label WildCat Records and as well as her own theatrical pop, has performed as a backing singer with some of Australia’s most popular artists including Wendy Matthews, Marcia Hines, Powderfinger and Richard Clapton.
PopTarts – a Sydney-based collective of hundreds of independent original female pop music artists – has included more than 550 local and touring artists at almost 350 regular showcase nights since July 2001. Other PopTarts’ ‘One Night Stand’ events have included ‘Tarts on Tour’ interstate shows and ‘Tarts for Timor’ charity gigs.
Fully self-financed artists like Easton are using PopTarts to follow a more independent path to success. In order to compete with shows like Pop Idol, PopTarts has produced its own 13 episode TV series featuring live performances and cheeky behind-the-scenes interviews with unsigned artists who have performed at PopTarts showcases.Easton hosts PopTarts TV, which she has also co-produced. The air date for the show – on TVS – will be announced at the PopTarts 7 event where it will be officially launched and previewed.
The regular PopTarts showcases are on the first Tuesday of every month at Balmain’s Unity Hall Hotel, Sydney featuring five different independent artists each show.
‘PopTarts 7’ will be held at The Basement in Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney from 8:30pm (doors at 7:30pm) on Thursday August 21, 2008. Tickets will be $18 plus booking fee from the Basement on (02) 9251-2797 or at www.thebasement.com.au, or Moshtix outlets.
Tujiko Noriko (born Noriko Tsujiko in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese avant-pop, experimental musician, sometimes compared to múm, or Björk. Much of her music consists of repetitive layers of samples and electronic beats and melodies being gradually added on top of each other, with her singing on top of that. The lyrics are in Japanese and English. She has worked for the Austrian label Mego, and the German Tomlab. In 2004 she teamed up with Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg to form DACM making the album Stéréotypie. She is currently living in Paris and is also working on experimental short movies. According to an article in The Japan Times, she has completed two movies: Sand and Mini Hawaii and Sun.
Aug 22, 8pm 2008 at Sydney Opera House ‘Studio’. Tickets can be booked via the Uber Lingua website.
geekgirl is currently in discussion with the leading manufacturer of the world’s first biodegradable USB drive. We’ve been following the flurry of media coverage: and in an effort to monitor our readers’ interest and discover how popular green-friendly geek this really is, please comment or lodge interest by emailing us at geekgirl.
Below is a bit of information about the product being manufactured by Hoshino.
1. This USB Disk is made from a new, biodegradable material which is called Polylactide (PLA). PLA uses annually renewable plant resources (corn) as raw material, which is fermented and distillated to produce lactic acid. Followed by the process of dehydration polymerization, high-temp depolymerization, refining and finally polymerization, lactic acid is then transformed to PLA. Its products can be degraded to carbon dioxide and water by microorganisms in the soil after use and do no harm to the environment.
2. The USB is not completely bio-degradable, just the casing. In the natural environment, it won’t disintegrate if one keeps it for a long time. Only upon contact with soil, it will 71% disintegrate within 108 days.
Thursday 21 August at 6pm
Venue: Cunningham Dax Collection
35 Poplar Road Parkville, Melbourne 3052
Melways 29 D 11
Refreshments provided
Historians Dr. Belinda Robson and Dr. Ann Westmore will discuss the origins of formal art-making within psychiatric hospitals, both in England and Australia, and the history of Victorian mental health system.
Dr Belinda Robson
Dr Belinda Robson is a Research Fellow at the McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Wellbeing. She completed her PhD on the life and work of Dr Eric Cunningham Dax in 2000 and in 2006 wrote “Recovering Art: A History of the Cunningham Dax Collection.” She has also had published numerous articles about the history of psychiatry, Dr Eric Cunningham Dax and the Cunningham Dax Collection. Dr Robson has also worked in the non-government sector,including a period as a policy officer at VICSERV, the peak body for psychiatric disability support services in Victoria, and has also worked as a Senior Policy officer within the Department of Justice. She is currently undertaking research at the McCaughey Centre, regarding families and mortgage stress in the outer northern communities of Melbourne.
Dr Anne Westmore
Dr Ann Westmore is the author of “A Century of Psychiatry & Mental Health Services: Victoria, 1900-2000””. She completed her PhD in the University of Melbourne History and Philosophy of Science Department in 2002. Her thesis, titled ‘Mind, Mania and Science; Psychiatry and the Culture of Experiment in Mid-Twentieth Century Victoria’, acted as the springboard for the co-authoring of a book on the history of psychiatry in Victoria in the 20th century, which will be published in 2009. In her other life, Ann is a medical writer and the author of numerous books, focusing on the areas of women’s health and sexual health. Increasingly she has fused writing history with writing about health and medicine through her involvement in a number of web-based history of Australian medicine projects.
The Art of Making Sense
Until 1 November 2008
The Cunningham Dax Collection
35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Melbourne VIC 3052
Gallery hours: Wed, Thurs, Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 1 – 5pm
Admission FREE
The Art of Making Sense takes a uniquely critical approach to the display of creative works by people who experience mental illness and/or psychological trauma. It includes over seventy creative works from the Collection including paintings, drawings, collages, textiles and sculptures, dating from the 1950s to recent acquisitions. In addition, historic photographs,archival documents and other writings provide a glimpse into daily life in a Victorian asylum.
For more information email info@daxcollection.org.au
