Burma Children fundraiser

You are invited to an art auction fundraiser to be held on Friday the 8^th December 2006 from 6pm -10pm at the Rose St Artists Markets, 60 Rose St. Fitzroy, Melbourne. The evening will be showcasing contemporary Melbourne artists, there will be live music, drinks available, a documentary played. Nibbles included in the $5 entry.

The night is to raise money for orphanages and a clinic on the Thai/Burma border which is now the home to several hundred thousand refugees who have fled Burma due to a brutal military dictatorship. Please see http://burmachildren.com/ for more information.

The auction will be silent, starting at 6pm with the highest bid at 9pm the winner. A traditional Karen band ‘Unsound Melodies’ will be playing at 7.30pm and a documentary will be played after 9pm.

So please come along for a drink and help support this needy cause.

We encourage you to distribute this invitation among your networks.

More information can be found at: www.myspace.com/burmaborderrefugees

If you can’t make it on the night, but would like to donate, then please go directly to: http://burmachildren.com/index.php/how_to_donate any amount is of assistance.

Event: Art auction, music and drinks

Date: Friday 8^th December 2006-11-20

Time: 6pm-10pm

Location: 60 Rose St. Fitzroy (between Brunswick and Nicholson St’s at the Rose St Artist markets)

How to get there: tram 112 from Collins St in the city to Brunswick St, or tram 96 from Bourke St in the City, get off the stop after Johnson St.

Price: $5 entry includes nibbles

ULR for flyer: http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/Leyla_lala/fundraiser_RGB_A42.jpg

More information: www.myspace.com/burmaborderrefugees

Rose St: www.rosestmarket.com.au

If you would like to donate any artwork please diliver it to the Rose St markets on Saturday the 2^nd of December.

The Village, Edinburgh Gardens.

"THE VILLAGE 22 - 26 November 2006 Edinburgh Gardens, North Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Edinburgh Gardens! Surely it was designed for us. Melbourne's finest performing artists will be resident in this beautiful park, basking in the late spring warmth, under the shade of the famous rotunda. Takes a glass of wine and choose between the latest glory from Caravan Of Love, Penny Machinations, Short Attention Span and Birdman. Dance to Croque Monsieur and The Wikkimen. Take in delights of the Dog Show (featuring Dog Fashions, Who’s a Good Dog Then? and dog Tug Of War with soft toy…) or just sit in the shade and wonder at the delightful humans and what they can do."

Meredith 2? No. More-edith? No. Golden Plains? Yes.

In the same place as Meredith, at a different time to Meredith, by the same people who do Meredith, with a different name to Meredith.

This new festival is called Golden Plains, and it runs on the long weekend March 10th to 12th.

Hopefully there will be no GOLDEN PLAINS TICKET RAGE! for this one. You can sign up for a chance to get tickets at the golden plains website.

But you won't find out until after Wednesday November 16th if you get tickets.

The TenGooz (Japan)

The TenGooz (Japan)
What happens when musical seeds from Melbourne, New York, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Seattle grow in the fertile but untapped soils of Japan? You get the TenGooz, on the Fringes of salaryman Japan!

Deriving their name from apparitions in Japanese folklaw, The TenGooz appear in the flesh for the first time in Melbourne.

The band has developed a huge following with their wildly eclectic shows. Based in Tsukuba City, an hour from the heart of Tokyo, this band, inspired by Melbourne’s own Ascelin Gordon (The Brown Hornet, Geronimo), helped make possible the explosion of original independent music now taking place in Japan, bearing the torch of Ascelin’s original band, Xenophonia, who defied the LIVE HOUSE system playing original, eclectic music at venues that had heard only covers.

The TenGooz have taught Japan how to party! Their diverse repertoire is highly conducive to dancing, jumping, shouting, howling and smirking.

The TenGooz are:
o Avi - originally from NYC, using Japan as a base to explore the world and its myriad of musical influences.
o HaseG - plays the bass, plays the bass and plays the bass.
o Kenya - a long time jazz trombonist and famous teacher and big band leader.
o Tanaka - a true bluesman in the old sense. You never know what you come across in Japan.
o Jon Hicks - from Nashville, brings passion and a deep love of the rock and roll life-style.

TenGooz are coming to Melbourne Fringe. It’s a long way away. But it feels like going home!

nonstopical - comedy podcast

"Nonstopical is a weekly comedy podcast from Melbourne hosted by Andrew McClelland, Courteney Hocking and Lawrence Leung..."

Take a look at the webpage to have a listen.

Keeping Calm

Keeping Calm is a new show on Melbournes Channel 31 teevee station by Carmine Mastrantone.

The first airing is on at 9pm Sunday 1st of October. You can get an early preview on his site http://www.myspace.com/keepingcalm

"...had a look at your stuff...funny shit..."

Meredith Sold out in a day.

The Meredith festival has been Sold out in a day.

Insanity. There were people queueing up for hundreds of meters from polyester through to nicholson street. The website set aside for selling tickets was failing all morning, and the phone lines were constantly engaged.

MEREDITH TICKET RAGE!

Art crimes, Graffiti and stencil competition.

This FM station wants you to give them free artwork.

Fringe Furniture looking for furniture.

The Fringe Furniture people are looking for people to exhibit their furniture at this years Melbourne Fringe Festival.

"2006 Fringe Furniture: GO FOR BAROQUE

Registrations for this year's Fringe Furniture exhibition are open NOW and close 5pm, Friday August 4.

Download the entry form and thematic details.

Fringe Furniture encourages all those who wish to enter the 2006 exhibition to consider the theme, outlined in the document below. Contemporary furniture and interior design utilises a clever fusion of the past and reinvents elements to create the new. With an emerging trend against stark minimalism now becoming more visible, exhibition participants are encouraged to embrace their own baroque ideals for the Fringe Furniture entries for 2006.

Exhibition dates are 29 September to 15 October, 2006 and the launch will be at the Melbourne Museum on the evening of Thursday 28 September, between 6pm and 9pm.

For further information, contact the Fringe Furniture Producer, Marisia Lukaszewski via marisia@melbournefringe.com.au or phone 03 8412 8788."

Next wave opening pictures

The nextwave festival opened last night at shed 14 on the docklands. Much emerging was done, smiles on faces, and extra kegs ordered.

Also lots of pictures were taken.

Click for some pictures from the night.

Time Bevan

The time bevan is a short film in two parts about a time traveling bevan. Written, filmed, and edited in 16 hours. It's a small master piece of silliness.

Time Bevan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHzY93WBAA

Time Bevan Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9yWbD1YPIs

The Adelaide Festival

The Adelaide Festival of Arts is one of the world's great arts Festivals. It has created a strong tradition of innovation since 1960 inspiring celebration and presenting diverse art from across Australia and around the world. Held in South Australia every 'even' year, this is a large-scale multi-arts event of extraordinary richness and diversity.

Each Festival program includes opera, theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, cabaret, new media events, Adelaide Writers' Week (the largest literary festival in the world), outdoor entertainment, visual arts exhibitions, master classes, forums, a late night club and much more.

For details log onto www.adelaidefestival.com.au