Woodford folk festival lineup announced.

Just a short list of the many hundreds of artists and presenters featured at the 2007/08 festival

Shooglenifty (Scotland), That 1 Guy (USA), Hawksley Workman (Canada), TeTe (France), Andy Irvine and Rens van der Zalm (IRE), Babylon Circus (France), Bob Brozman (USA), Harry Manx (Canada), Madviolet (Canada), Nano Stern (Chile), The Greencards (USA), The Kin (USA), Moshav (Israel), The Cat Empire, Angus & Julia Stone, The Waifs, Eric Bogle, Sarah Blasko, Tommy Emmanuel, Jackson Jackson, Blue King Brown, Archie Roach, James Morrison, Mia Dyson, Jess McAvoy, Custom Kings, TZU, Urthboy, TinPan Orange, The Toothfaeries, Blue Grassy Knoll, The Red-Eyes, The Angry Tradesmen, The Go Set, Te Vaka, My Friend The Chocolate Cake, Shane Howard, The Last Supperteers, Ernie Dingo, Graeme Connors, Tripod, Doch, The Band Who Knew Too Much, Banawurun, Casey Donovan, John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew, Colcannon, Tjupurru, Chukale, Akmal Saleh, The League of Sideshow Superstars, Mr Percival, The Black Market Rhythm Co., Gurrumul, The Perch Creek Family Jugband, Extended Family, The Space Cowboy, Wild Marmalade feat Deya Dova, Fiddlers Feast, Herb Armstrong, Miguel, Arte Kanela, The Tiny Top, Mojo Webb & Band, Munding Laya, OKA, Odessa, Prof Ian Lowe, San Lazaro , Spacifix, The Great Gondos, Street Warriors, TaikOz, The Counterfeit Gypsies, Dick Desert & The Shotgun Country Club, The Quills, Vulgargrad, Wacko & Blotto, Women In Docs, Worldfly, Circle of Rhythm, Cotterell & Clark, Devil Goat Family String Band, The Uzbek National Folk Puppet Theatre, Ashleigh Mannix, Dream Puppets, Controlled Falling, Dynamic Thrills, Elissa Hawke, Dolly Putin, Ghostboy, Ivan Sen, LightnUp Inc & Krinkl Theatre, La Lola Salon, Linsey Pollak, Mal Webb, Martin Pearson, Mic Conway's Magic Mic, Miles Merrill, Pirate Brides, Puppet Palace, Rich Man$ Hoax, S Sorrensen, Riley Lee, Shaz Lane, Sixpack Puppets, Speed of Purple, Spooky Men's Chorale and many more...,


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Bucket of love - melbourne fringe festival

Kurt Vonnegut - advice for writers

Kurt Vonnegut died recently, but one of his legacies is this advice for writers.

Fitzroy poster photos: 2007/04/17

four more posters: 2007/04/19


Five or six interesting poster photos to look at. Also see last weeks posters.

Cansei de ser sexy - drinking bunnies

A stop motion animation for the band CSS... with bunnies.

A virtuoso busking.

From the washington post: An interesting piece about what happens when you put a virtuoso violinist with a $3.5m violin in a subway station to play.

Fitzroy GIG poster photos 2007/04/11

See a whole lot of gig posters that have been posted around fitzroy.

Towards Creative Activism

An article from the Creative Review magazine about how designers can help green businesses - and about the issues of fake sustainable businesses.

Also here is an article on how software designers can approach developing software with reduced environmental impacts: green pcs in open source free software.

Shorpy - the 100 year old photo blog

"A photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee. One of his subjects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Higginbotham, is the site’s namesake."

Phase03-Play

A free digital magazine as a PDF made by the Phase Collective.

Art. Design. Photography. Illustration.

The Reigning King of Mathematical Comedy Defends his Crown

Simon Pampena, Moosehead nominee and star of last year’s hit The Mathematical Revolution, is back again to take maths kicking and screaming into the 21^st Century. Maths is a grueling sport and nobody knows this better than Simon who, having freshly returned from filming mathematical adventures with ABC TVs Catalyst, is ready to fire-up audiences with his heart-racing, high-jumping, fist-pumping new training program

Little Mathletics.

Australia beaten by Kazakhstan, Moldova and New Zealand

The greatest sporting country - Australia, is falling off the pace when it comes to maths. Look at our shameful performance at last year’s International Mathematical Olympiad. We had our butts whipped by the likes of New Zealand – what a disgrace! But Australians can change.

We can be the best!

How we will regain our Glory

Through an hour of high-energy performance, Simon will coach Australia’s rising stars to realise their true mathematical potential. The audience will learn the skills to play maths with their sporting instincts. What it means to work as a team against an equation. Why it is their intellectual obligation to exploit every loophole and bend every rule in sport and maths because winning is everything. Assisting in this highly visual and interactive endeavor will be the musical addition of Raceless from Aussie avante hip-hop pioneers Curse OV Dialect. After all, the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad is only one year away…

It’s time to get back to basics. It’s time for Little Mathletics.

For more information go to:

www.numbercrunch.com.au

LISTING INFORMATION

Venue: Eurotrash Bar 18 Corrs Lane Melbourne

Dates: 5^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 12^th, 15^th, 16^th, 17^th, 19^th, 22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th,

26^th and 29^th April, Previews 5^th and 8^th April

Tickets: $18.00 Full, $15.00 Conc., Groups of 10+ & Previews.

Times: start 7.30pm finish 8.30pm - Except Sunday shows

on 8^th, 15^th , 22^nd and 29^th April only start 6.30pm finish 7.30pm.

Bookings: 0424 462 702, www.numbercrunch.com.au or at the door.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Monique Pockett - M 0417 600 844 W (03) 9340 3447 E mail@angrymathematician.com

Confessions of a talkback junkie.

Trent McCarthy is doing a Comedy Festival show for anyone who loves calling up talkback radio shows.

"Ever wondered who all those opinionated people calling up talkback radio really are? Or Maybe they're just the same person?

Trent has a 12-step program to overcome his talkback addiction. Still, it's going to be a tough night ahead. You can be part of it!"

Brunswick is the new Brunswick street?

The Sydney road festival, held in Brunswick was on last Sunday.

Click for more pictures of the sydney road festival.

WOMADelaide - World Music Festival.

"WOMAD stands for the World of Music, Arts & Dance.
Over three days, WOMADelaide runs six outdoor stages featuring performances and intimate workshops by around 35 groups from over 20 countries. It also presents a KidZone, visual arts and street theatre programs, and an amazing Global Village of 100 arts, crafts, international cuisine and educational display stalls and three bars.

The magical ambience of WOMADelaide is indescribably lush; thousands of people of all ages bliss out as they enjoy the sounds of the planet while catching up with friends in the sunshine, lazing under the trees, shopping, eating, drinking and having fun with their family (kids under 12 are admitted free)."

Jet Of Blood - At the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

‘Surreal avant-garde perfection… a genuinely profound experience’

THE AGE

‘Reckless and exuberant… an excellent production’ THE HERALD SUN

2006 MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER - “Best Ensemble”

Shocking, bizarre, erotic, disturbing, thrilling, hilarious.

After 80 years, Antonin Artaud’s nightmarish vision, thought by many to be unperformable, is brought bursting to life in this stunning, critically acclaimed debut production by Melbourne based company, Ignite.

A young man falls asleep and wakes to find himself in the surreal landscape of his subconscious. Jet of Blood is the story of Everyman's journey towards self-realisation.

Written in 1926, Artaud’s Jet of Blood is either a work of genius or the ravings of a madman. Out of three and a half pages of fantastical stage directions and explosive dialogue, director Olivia Allen and company have conjured a strange and wonderful theatrical experience that had Melbourne audiences enthralled.

Antonin Artaud's surrealist classic Jet of Blood is the inaugural production of Ignite, a company of WAAPA and VCA graduates. In just four years, the young team has already accrued an impressive range of individual credits with such companies as Melbourne's MTC and Malthouse theatres, Sydney's Belvoir Street and Bell Shakespeare and Perth’s Black Swan Theatre Company.

Directed by Olivia Allen

Performed by Amelia Best, Roderick Cairns, Grant Cartwright, Austin Castiglione, Simon Corfield, Katherine Tonkin, Mark Tregonning and Lara Tumak

Design Adam Gardnir Lighting Design Luke Hails Sound Design Hayley Forward

Listing Information

Venue: The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, King William Road, Adelaide, SA
Dates: 6 March – 11 March, 2007
Tickets: $25 Full, $19 Conc./ Inspace members (+ service fee)
Times: Tuesday – Saturday 8.45pm, Sunday 7pm.

Bookings: FringeTIX outlets, Ph.1300 FRINGE or 08 8418 8666, www.adelaidefringe.com.au or through BASS 131 246 or www.bass.net.au

Media: for further information, please contact Olivia Allen on

0414 348884 or igniteprods@yahoo.com.au.