Is now open for applications. It’s a one-off scholarship for women doing a computing-related degree, either undergraduate or postgraduate, in Australia or New Zealand. (You do not have to be a citizen, just studying in one of the two countries.) The winner receives $5000 and a trip to the Grace Hopper conference, finalists receive $1000 each and a trip to Google Sydney for a retreat with the other finalists.
Information at http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/anitaborg/
The Arts Centre and Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Terrasphere Productions presents as part of MIX IT UP! Strictly Roots & Reggae Music from around the world!
Featuring direct from Kingston, Jamaica International Reggae Legends:
HORACE ANDY, LUCIANO & MIKEY GENERAL with FULL BAND
One Melbourne Show Only!
SUNDAY 25th MAY 2008
Arts Centre, Hamer Hall
Free activities from 2pm; Show at 5pm
Support by Australia’s Indigenous & Reggae Massive including: Mista Savona, The Red Eyes, Bart Willoghby (No Fixed Address, Mixed Relations) Chant Down Sound, Natty Sistren Sound, Heartical Hi-Fi Crew, Tjimba Possum-Burns, Redda Red, Ranking Yoni, Troublemaker and Deline Briscoe
Tickets: $35 – $50
The Arts Centre Box Office Phone: 1300 136 166 or theartscentre.net.au or Ticketmaster outlets
Wednesday 30 April – Sunday 4 May 2008
Arts House, Meat Market
Blazeblue Oneline is a genre defying collision of raw dance choreography, explosions of light, sound, colour, music and graffiti.
Created and choreographed by Antony Hamilton, Blazeblue Oneline draws on the hybridisations between visual art and dance, specifically the links between Melbourne’s distinctive contemporary dance and street art scenes, in order to create an explosive art form like no other.
Featuring mutant b-boy dancers, re-animated toy robots and other moving objects, Blazeblue Oneline explores the potential of inanimate objects and materials used in street art – cardboard, paper, adhesive tape, pens and paint – and their partnership with the human body.
Blazeblue Oneline is Hamilton’s first full-length work as a choreographer. Hamilton is also a visual artist, having exhibited works in both Adelaide and Melbourne. He has a deep interest in exploring the physical side of graffiti, which is often virulent and brash. Similarly, he is interested in the visual nature of dance choreography, which he likens to moving sculpture. From this premise, in Blazeblue Oneline, Hamilton has created an abstract snapshot of everything he loves to see, hear and feel.
Dates: Wednesday 30 April – Sunday 4 May 2008
Times: Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6pm. 50 minutes – no interval
Tickets: $25/$18
Bookings: www.easytix.com.au/artshouse or 03 9639 0096
More info: www.artshouse.com.au
Arts House, Meat Market
5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne Mel Ref: 2B A9
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is proud to announce a retrospective season of films by one of the icons of the French New Wave, François Truffaut.
Running from April 16 to 30 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ‘François Truffaut, Child of the Cinema’ will provide audiences with the opportunity to see some of the most important and iconic films of the early nouvelle vague on the big screen, including The 400 Blows, which catapulted its lead actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, to instant stardom and introduced the world to Truffaut’s own semi-autobiographical creation, Antoine Doinel. In this season of specially imported 35mm prints, The 400 Blows will screen alongside such classics as Jules et Jim, The Bride Wore Black and the Academy Award-nominated Day for Night (one of the best films on filmmaking ever made). It will also include works which demonstrate the extraordinary range of Truffaut’s lyrical cinema (Mississippi Mermaid, Les Deux anglaises et le continent).
Wed 16 Apr
7.00pm Day for Night (1973)
9:10pm The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Wed 23 Apr
7.00pm Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
9:15pm Jules et Jim (1961)
Wed 30
Apr 7.00pm The 400 Blows (1959)
8:50pm Les deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
For membership & other information, please visit the Melbourne Cinémathèque website at www.melbournecinematheque.org
Marcus Westbury has finally taken the plunge and created a website! Wow after all these years – who would have thunk it. !! Anyway check out his media projects/tv series and now the world’s biggest public art mapping project.
