Monday, November 26, 2007

T’ARTS COLLECTIVE IS SEEKING NEW MEMBERS

T’Arts is a collective of some 35 artists, mostly from Adelaide and country South Australia, and some from Interstate. They work together to show and sell their art in a beautiful 3 roomed gallery in Gays Arcade, in the city centre of Adelaide. The name T’Arts is short for Textiles and Arts, and as well as unique textiles and fibre, fashion, wearables, and accessories, the gallery includes fine works in ceramics, glass, sculpture, photography, paintings, prints, jewellery, home wares, gifts, and much more. T’Arts has been running very successfully for nearly 5 years now, with strong sales and an increasingly high profile.
T’Arts is now interviewing for new members for 2008. There is a selection process, and the intake for members to start in March 2008 is happening now, so if you are interested, you need to get your application in SOON! We have a very limited number of vacancies.
If you are interested in applying to become a T’Art, or know someone who might be, please email Liz Wauchope, liz.wauchope@internode.on.net      please pass this information on to any artists you know.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Community Pulp Mill Pledge

Last Saturday’s rally in Hobart was terrific, with over 15,000 people marching through the city. A big thank you to everyone who helped make the rally such a great success. For more details on the event click here.

At the rally, The Wilderness Society launched the Community Pulp Mill Pledge. By signing this pledge you will be sending a clear message to financial institutions such as ANZ and Perpetual that if they fund socially and environmentally irresponsible project activities like Gunns pulp mill, they will bear the brunt of community outrage and opposition. You can sign the pledge online here.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Queer portraiture in the ‘normal’ world, part of Feast Festival

An exhibition exploring queer identity through representations of the self and the outside world. Painting, beadwork, glass, installation, photography and tapestry by JAMES ALDRIDGE, TROY ANTHONY-BAYLIS, TEGAN EMPSON, DAVID LEHMANN, RUSSELL LEONARD, CAMERON LEWCOCK, MARK THOMPSON, HEATHER YOUNG.
To be opened by Russell Starke, OAM, Director, Greenhill Galleries with special performance by Matt Gilbertson (AKA Hans) from Berlin Cabaret Opening: 6pm Thursday 15 November 2007

Nexus Window Space Artist: Paul Stone

Cabaret Season @ Nexus
Don’t forget to book (and dress up for) our 2 fabulous cabaret shows
SHOW ONE- THIS Sat 17 Nov, The Berlin Cabaret - 2 hour show with original cast & band
SHOW TWO - Sat 24 Nov, Miz Ima Starr’s - You Asked For It
Seating is strictly limited to preserve cabaret setting!  
TICKETS FROM VENUETIX (8225 8888) Both shows doors open at 8pm. Shows start at 9pm.

CALL FOR ARTISTS – During Adelaide Fringe 2008 Nexus will present an exhibition and live events focussing on Body Art. We would love to hear from interested artists working in any media (paint, photography, tattoo, etc). Please email ideas/images to Tamara exhibitions@nexus.asn.au
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

global Pakistan emergency petition

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Learn more and start reporting promises today

Don’t you just hate it that every time an election comes around politicians try to woo you with a million promises that seem to disappear into thin air as soon as they get elected?  This year, GetUp is putting an end to all that.
Welcome to our new initiative - Promise Watch - our own ‘wiki’ to make sure all promises are core.
www.getup.org.au/PromiseWatch

This election season you can log every campaign promise that is made. Whether you hear it at your local community hall, read it online or have it shoved into your letterbox, we want you to log it on our new site!
Together we can hold the future Prime Minister - and every other MP and Senator - accountable for promises made. As soon as the new government is formed the Promise Watch clock will start ticking and together we will make sure they deliver on a progressive Australia. www.getup.org.au/PromiseWatch

Here’s how it works: Every time you hear, see, or read about a politician promising to do something - even if it’s just to look into an issue when elected - go to our new and log the promise, so that we can hold them to account. And you can help fund GetUp to make sure these promises are costed and implemented, by clicking here.

Learn more and start reporting promises today: www.getup.org.au/PromiseWatch

From GetUp to Wikipedia, we already know the how the internet can leverage coordinated action and shared knowledge to serve a common purpose.
If each of us logs just one promise over the next six weeks, we’ll have more than 200,000 ways to ‘keep the bastards honest’ long after the usual media scrutiny and election coverage is off the front page.
Let’s harness the power to change the way politics works.

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please help

Burma’s streets are quiet - no mass demonstrations, no riot police. But the calm is an illusion. Change is coming to Burma, and we are all a part of it.
The regime has massacred, tortured, and intimidated its critics at home, and continues its night arrests and brutal interrogations. But while it has momentarily silenced the domestic opposition, its attacks on the revered Buddhist monks ignited an anger amongst the Burmese people that cannot be extinguished. Contacts inside Burma tell us that the demonstrators are steadily regrouping, even in the face of the deadly crackdown.

If you haven’t yet signed the Avaaz petition, please sign at: http://avaaz.org/en/burma_hope_lives/6.php

Some further reading: Voices from within Burma: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7058610.stm and
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/myanmar-burma/ and http://www.mizzima.com/MizzimaNews/Interview/01-Oct-2007.html

Avaaz’s Paul Hilder “People Power can win”: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/paul_hilder/2007/10/people_power_can_win.html

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

SafARI 2008

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SafARI 2008 will present emerging and unrepresented artists across Sydney Artist Run Initiative (ARIs) as an unofficial fringe to the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
Please send a one page cv, 250 word artist statement & 3 jpegs on CD to:
Lisa Corsi & Margaret Farmer, PO Box A593, Sydney South NSW 1235, Australia

DEADLINE: Friday, 16 November 2007
Enquiries ONLY to: safari.2008@hotmail.com. DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS VIA EMAIL.
N.B. Submitted material will not be returned.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

voting…

Time is running out to update address details with the Electoral Commission.
Visit the AEC’s website or call 13 23 26 by 8pm tonight    http://www.aec.gov.au/
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Monday, October 22, 2007

vote for us in the People’s Choice Award

Help Radio Adelaide win an award for the great things we do!
Radio Adelaide has been nominated in the Civic Trust Awards - Human Category, as ‘a model of an ideal society which embraces diversity, accessibility, independence, innovation and localism’.

We need you to go online and vote for us in the People’s Choice Award.
Cast your vote at  http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22575211-5014063,00.html

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Help Radio Adelaide win an award for the great things we do!

Radio Adelaide has been nominated in the Civic Trust Awards - Human Category, as ‘a model of an ideal society which embraces diversity, accessibility, independence, innovation and localism’.

We need you to go online and vote for us in the People’s Choice Award.
 Cast your vote at http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22575211-5014063,00.html

Voting is open for at least a week from now and the awards will be presented on October 26.

Thank you very much for your assistance in helping us win, what we think is well deserved recognition.
www.radio.adelaide.edu.au

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