Get ready to laugh your MOOM off with Deadly Funny – An Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Comedy Competition that celebrates distinctive humour of the First Nations Traditional Owners.
From now until March, 2010 the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is sending some of its finest comedians to ATSI communities to hold free workshops and community showcase gigs with emerging performers in search of the best up-and-coming stand-up talent.
Deadly Funny provides a unique opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to
come together, celebrate and share humour and have their deadly yarns workshopped by a professional stand-up comedian. The workshops provide deadly tips and advice on writing, performance and help boost performers’ confidence to get up on stage.
To register, contact Deadly Funny Producer Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta) info below. For the workshops bring along five minutes of your best comic material. Pretty much anything is ok – stand-up, a music piece, joke or a funny yarn – as long as it’s Deadly Funny. You must be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to enter.
The deadliest jokesters from all six states will play off at the Deadly Funny National Grand
Final in Melbourne April 10 for their chance to win $2000 in cash and a deadly trophy.
Note: You must attend comedy workshops
Details of National workshops and to register at www.deadlyfunny.com.au
Or contact Jason Tamiru on 03 9245 3700.
Bringing together five of the best young unsigned comedians in Melbourne, comedy cartel Vigilantelope has burst onto the festival scene and is stealing hearts, minds and biscuits from the biscuit tin. Weaving music, dance, stand-up and sketch into a whimsical narrative, Vigilantelope’s new work “Tale of the Golden Lease” is as cerebral as it is silly.
Join Vachel Spirason, Joel Tito, Pat Miller, Tim McDonald and Nick Russell (Monash Law Revue Gold alumni) in their debut outing for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on a high energy romp through a fanciful narrative which sees two heroes attempt to save earth from the clutches of moderate evil. The story evolves through a series of chapters in which the bureaucratic nonsense of Heaven Pty Ltd, the ambitious ineptitude of the Underworld and the realities of life on earth collide. Scores of characters come to life in this rampage through Heaven and hell and everything in between.
In the tradition of Monty Python, the Doug Anthony Allstars, the Goons and the Goodies, Vigilantelope are fast becoming cult heroes of the new wave of Australian fringe comedy. With a reputation for smart, fast-paced writing, charismatic performances and slick, imaginative production, Vigilantelope uses comedy as a story-telling device.
Weaving music, dance, stand-up and sketch into whimsical narratives, these five insanely versatile performers fit more into an hour’s performance than they do into an hour’s sleep. Innovative, fast-paced, dynamic and ridiculous, Vigilantelope are the crew to watch this festival.
Vigilantelope, http://www.comedyattrades.com.au/
7pm, 14 – 25th April 2009, No Mondays.
Quilt Room, Trades Hall (Cnr Lygon & Victoria St) Melbourne
Tickets selling fast.
Most of current information and computing systems are developed to handle logical information, and most virtual reality technology related to culture are mainly related to heritage applications. However these systems and applications do not consider deeply the contents, form, and meaning of cultures. Until recently it has been believed that a complex and non linear system such as culture could not be modeled by computers.
Through culture technology with virtual reality we can develop novel forms of cultural activity in the arts and humanities, for example creating virtual instruments which merge Electric Guitar with Japanese Shamisen. Or combining intelligent virtual characters of different eras or cultures (e.g. Confucius with Plato) and see new types of interaction that is impossible in the physical world. Essentially this could lead to new forms of transformation and blending of the domains of science, arts and humanities.
In this special issue we call for scientific based virtual reality based research which has a goal to create and disseminate transformative, innovative cultural works and will lead to new paradigms that will positively transform culture.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following areas:
• VR for modelling culture
• Using VR to transform historical and contemporary or pop culture
• Generating new virtual cultures
• New interfaces that can develop in VR for cultural computing (e.g. new virtual musical instruments)
• Complex and dynamic systems of cultural computing
The special issue will appear in the Springer journal Virtual Reality (www.springeronline.com/journal/10055).
Please direct correspondence to email address: adriancheok (at) mixedrealitylab.org
Papers should be submitted to http://www.editorialmanager.com/vire/ under the relevant special issue category.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of full papers: 24th April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2009
