Chairs for Charity will be hosting its annual gala ball and charity auction in Melbourne on Saturday 13th October 2007.
Award winning Australian artists and designers have joined the 2007 Chairs for Charity project, by painting and decorating chairs to reflect some of the World’s most well known celebrities. Each chair has been autographed and endorsed by an Australian or international celebrity, some of this years names include; Bette Midler, Paul Newman, Eric Bana, Greg Norman and George Michael to name just a few.
These one of a kind collectors chairs will be auctioned at the Chairs for Charity Gala Ball and all proceeds will go to three important Australian charities; Make-A-Wish Australia, the Australian Drug Foundation and the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
The aim this year is to raise over $100,000 which will go directly to our three charities to help conduct vital research and provide much needed care and support to thousands in the community.
There will be a total of 40 unique chairs on display at The Atrium at Flemington Race Course on Saturday 13th October 2007. To view the display and attend the black tie ball or for more information, please visit www.chairsforcharity.com.au or call Chairs for Charity on 03 9538 9231.
Chairs for Charity
Gala dinner & charity auction
Saturday 13th October, 2007
The Atrium
Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne,
7:00pm – Midnight
Dress: Black Tie
Tickets $185 per person
Or $1800 for a table of 10
Contact: Gary Bedford
Ph: 03 9538 9231
Fax: 03 9538 9299
info@chairsforcharity.com.au
www.chairsforcharity.com.au
Performance Anxiety’ a new short video on Bindi Irwin and the death
of Steve Irwin, YouTube mourning and grief in the twenty first
century will be showing at Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney – opens
Wednesday 8 August, 6-8pm exhibition continues to 25 August 2007
Ben Frost, Deborah Kelly, The Motel Sisters, Elvis Richardson, Kate
Smith, Soda_Jerk & Sam Smith, Grant Stevens, Emile Zile
Curator: Daniel Mudie Cunningham as part of the Firstdraft Emerging
Curators Program
” Clip Art showcases artists who make work about clips formed from
fragments of moving and still images or through a combination of
graphics and sound. Clip Art investigates the oppositional nature of
meaning made from clip-based work and responds to the recent
fascination with applying aural terms like sampling and remixing to
the visual domain. Whether witty interrogations of popular culture or
nostalgic trips through the visual archives of the recent past, Clip
Art champions the analogue and handmade as much as it does daring
things with digital technologies. ”
danielmcunningham.com
firstdraftgallery.com
“The Cabinets of Curiosity of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe,
Kunstkammer and Wunderkammer were places for the display of collections of
objects and distinctive epistemic worlds. These were carefully constructed
to reveal the knowledge contained within in a way that worked with poetic
associations instead of the empirical systems used by scientists of the
time. In a similar way, the experimental sculptural devices of Chris
Henschke and Donna Kendrigan portray a playful, dreamlike and haunting
hybrid of fact and fiction, the past and the present, the real and the
illusory. Such a poetic engagement with the world of scientific experiment
conceptually underpins the ‘Unnatural Curiosities’ exhibition at
Wunderkammer.” Julian Holcroft
Chris Henschke & Donna Kendrigan
UNNATURAL CURIOSITIES
3rd August to 29th September
Wunderkammer, 439 Lonsdale Street Melbourne
tel: +61 3 9642 4694
Opening: Friday 3rd August, 6pm
Hours: Tues – Fri 10 – 6
Sat 10 – 4 or by appointment
BABY LOVE – CALL FOR AUSTRALIA’S FAVOURITE LOVE SONGS
Be part of Experimenta Playground even before the exhibition opens!
Six giant teacups, plastic babies and love songs like Marilyn Monroe’s I
Wanna Be Loved by You are all part of a playful and innovative public
artwork that will be installed in the forecourt of the Arts Centre’s
BlackBox venue. The installation is part of Experimenta Playground:
International Biennial of Media Arts. This is the first time that Baby
Love, by international artist Shu Lea Cheang, will be shown in Australia
giving Melbourne audiences the unique opportunity to experience the
captivating interactive sculpture.
The artist invites Australians to visit the Baby Love website to upload
their favourite love songs. http://www.babylove.biz. The uploaded songs
will be streamed to the artwork at the Arts Centre, BlackBox, where
visitors to the exhibition can play the songs as they ride in the teacups.
The Melbourne premiere of Experimenta Playground opens to the public on
Saturday 25 August and runs until Sunday 23 September. Open daily 12noon
to 8pm. To find out more visit the Experimenta website:
http://www.experimenta.org/playground/
WHAT: SOUND OF FAILURE: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era
WHEN/WHERE: TWO VENUES –
Saturday August 25, 6pm:
Petersham Bowling Club (Performances)
77 Brighton St, Petersham, Sydney
Saturday/Sunday August 25/26 11am-5pm:
DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery
(Installations & Endurance Performances)
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd),
Dulwich Hill, Sydney
WHO:
PERFORMERS (Petersham Bowling Club):
Est Et Non, Tom Hall (Brisbane), Lecter Macabre, Marquis De Sound,
Ernst Reiziger (Belgium), Glen Remington, Rolf Schuurmans (Belgium),
Starella, Vilhelm the Tortoise (Belgium), Alex White
INSTALLATION ARTISTS/ENDURANCE PERFORMERS
(Don’t Look Gallery):
Monoperro, Catfingers, Cleaninglady, Gregory Chatonsky (Canada), Wade
Marynowsky, Eva Mueller, Vienna Parreno, Cara-Ann Simpson, Subscape
Annex (USA)
CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
WEB: http://soundoffailure.com and myspace.com/dontlookgallery
