Meredith Music Festival Dec 14-16 in central victoria www.mmf.com.au
Narelle Walker has one regular weekend for the (sat and sun only) $150. 
also has a full weekend (fri, sat & sun) $200.
These are genuine sales as folks have pulled out of our group and I have only rounded the costs up - not making a profit.  I will be registering with Paypal for payment.
Narelle Walker: mob 0432 982 213 / land 8234 6771 / work 8302 1256    emails narelle.walker@unisa.edu.au OR narellelouise@hotmail.com

Golden Plains is a Premium Festival Experience on an Epic Long Weekend in the Greatest of Outdoors. It is staged by the team behind the cult-popular Meredith Music Festival, and is held at the same place in the same manner. It’s a one-stage, three-day, no-sponsors, celebration of music and nature.

Golden Plains goes all day and night (twice) and everything takes place from the one stage, so you can experience every minute of all that if you so desire.

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, WEEN, THE VINES, IRON AND WINE, BEIRUT, OPTIMO, THE BANG GANG DEEJAYS, THE DIRTBOMBS, CROOKERS, BRITISH INDIA, THE BAMBOOS, SOUTH RAKKAS CREW, BUFFALO TOM, JAY REATARD, SCIENTISTS OF MODERN MUSIC, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, JANE BADLER AND SIR, KAMIKAZE TRIO, PIKELET, THE SEA AND CAKE AND MANY MORE.

TICKETS  The first allocation of tickets is being sold via a Ballot, before they go on public sale. You are welcome to enter the ballot, its free and easy.  To enter the Ballot, visit www.goldenplains.com.au before midnight on Wednesday 14 November.

All that, and more, plus all the best campgrounds, fabulous facilities, world’s-best-practice amenities and Trademark Atmosphere of the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre…all bathed in glorious Autumnal light. Epic.

Golden Plains At the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Meredith, Victoria  March 8 – 10, 2008

For more of everything visit www.goldenplains.com.au

You are invited to two different exhibitions featuring artworks by Leith Semmens.
 
In Adelaide: Pick n’ Mix  Premier Art Gallery , 284 Rundle Street
To be opened Friday 9th November at 6pm by Judy Potter CEO SA Great.
Then running for two weeks as part of the 2007 FEAST Festival.
 
In New York :   Postcards From The Edge   James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street
Opening Friday 30th November and running for two weeks.  Proceeds from this exhibition go to the New York VisualAIDS Program.
 
represented by Tess Pike Art Management.  Tess can be contacted on info@tesspike.com.au or www.tesspike.com.au

 In September 2007, breast cancer survivors from around the world will meet in Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for the biggest dragon boat festival ever held in Australia.

 

 The Abreast in Australia dragon boat regatta, Friday 28^th to Sunday 30^th September 2007, gathers together breast cancer survivors from all over the world including those friends and family who have been touched by the disease. It is a weekend of celebration that gives a huge presence and public face to the breast cancer issue while serving to promote the message of being able to enjoy a wonderful and full life despite breast cancer.  

 

Participation in this extraordinary event is strictly limited to survivors of breast cancer. Currently there are 60 teams and over 2000 entrants confirmed from all over the globe including from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Canada.

 

 Since 1996, the sport of dragon boat racing has been used by breast cancer survivors as a source of rehabilitative physical activity and show of support for others who have endured treatment and live to tell the tale. Staged for fun and participation more than for competition, Abreast in Australia will create heightened community awareness of the breast cancer issue and the need for early detection. More importantly it will serve to show that having breast cancer is not a life sentence.

 

  www.dragonsabreast.com.au/Australia_2007/index.htm         

Something bold / Something new / Something bright / Something blue

Key events include:

• Melbourne’s public art is a defining feature of our urban landscape. Site Unseen will present the personal commemorations of a group of visual artists in a range of temporary artworks across inner Melbourne. Discovering the works and uncovering the personal stories behind them will leave a lasting impact, changing perceptions of the urban environment forever. FREE EVENT

• For the duration of the Festival an enormous, playful, interactive sculpture will fill St Paul’s Court at Federation Square for a unique visual arts installation presented by Melbourne Fringe. small revolutions examines intergenerational perspectives, as older people from the community share their stories with a younger generation. FREE EVENT

• Fringe Furniture returns with the theme Material/ism to inspire the creation and artistic development of contemporary furniture, lighting and furnishings. Presented at Melbourne Museum, Fringe Furniture is Australia’s only open access furniture exhibition and offers a fresh and imaginative perspective from Australia’s finest emerging talent. FREE EVENT

• Reflecting on 25 Years of Melbourne Fringe, Fringe Framed is an exhibition of published photographs at the Arts Centre’s Curve Bar, providing an engaging snapshot of Melbourne Fringe’s first quarter century. FREE EVENT

• The Festival Hub in North Melbourne will be home to an artistic web of more than 50 events across artforms, with the ever popular Opening Night 2 for 1 tickets and Tightarse Tuesdays attracting big crowds.

• Last year the Festival Club saw capacity crowds lapping up FREE entertainment night after night. Festival Club events in 2007 are destined to thrill and are sure to make your toes tap with themed nights and special surprises, making the Club a favourite destination for any Melbourne Fringe devotee. Festival Club highlights: ‘Don’t try this at home’ with The League of Sideshow Superstars III; the Opening Night Carnivale with trapeze, magic and funked up beats; and the big numbers with a twist, Lost Vegas. FREE EVENT
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW by calling 03 8412 8777 or visiting www.melbournefringe.com.au

The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival  26 September – 14 October

Fringe Framed Opening 15 September
Festival Opening 26 September
Site Unseen Opening 26 September
Small Revolutions Opening 26 September
Festival Hub Opening 28 September
Mid Festival Madness Party 6 October
Fringe Awards Night 13 October
Fringe Closes 14 October

DIRTY THREE Sun 5 Aug – Byron Bay, Splendour in the Grass

Community Cup (melbourne)
On Sunday 24 June, the historic Junction Oval come alive as The Espy Rock Dogs take on  their old rivals, the 3RRR/PBS Megahertz in Melbourne’s best example of charity Australian  Rules football, the Sacred Heart Mission Community Cup XIV. Over the past fourteen years, the Sacred Heart Mission Community Cup has come to  embody the spirit of grass-roots football in Melbourne, bringing the community together in  a truly unique celebration.

QUEEN’S B’DAY WEEKEND!
 YOUTH GROUP, DEXTER, MU-GEN, MAFIA, EVET, OH MERCY!, LITTLE RED, ANTONY OF THE FUTURE, SAINT JAMES, MORALS OF A MINOR + MORE TBA
 Saturday 9th June Entire Venue - From 9pm

Tickets $12 +bf From The Espy Bottle Shop, Faster Louder, Missing Link & Polyester

As always, for everything Espy check out www.espy.com.au!

DOWNTOWN ART SPACE (Adelaide): AS IT IS AS IT CAN BE
Matt Bradley, Bridget Currie, Peter McKay & Mark Siebert |
Opening Tuesday 10/04/07 6/8 pm Until 21/04/07    Wednesday/Friday 12/6 Saturday 12/5
At first glance this exhibition of four Adelaide artists might appear to be an unlikely grouping. Matt Bradley projects a video documenting an encounter between two eccentric custom bicycle clubs from Adelaide and Canberra respectively. Bridget Currie contributes candid photographs capturing shiny objects, such as a police vest at night or a sword clutched by a school girl, alongside a delicately crafted installation of metallicised grape stalks. Peter McKay presents dark, colourful photographs reminiscent of distant galaxies, though they are actually of glitter encrusted oil stains in car parks, as well as messages to aliens written in tea light candles. Lastly, Mark Siebert shows carefully selected album covers of bands he has studied thoroughly, deftly reproduced in watercolour, hung alongside a large oil on canvas reworking of an iPod advertisement. What links these artists is something more fundamental
than subject or medium: what links these artists is something of their belief in the world and in art…
This may sound dull. We are often tired of the world, bored of its regularity, routine and disappointments. But perhaps we are tired of the world not because of its lack, but because of our own: because we fail to look at it; because we fail to explore it; because we fail to refresh and expand our experience. This exhibition affirms both the value of art, and existence, through defining a few simple but unexpected pleasures of the imagination grounded very firmly in reality. Here the belief is that the world, as it is, and as it can be, is a world one and the same if we make it so.
Bus 117 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 http://www.bus117.com