Tag: "arts"

Interpol
0 Comments. 2,222 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
Early this year, Interpol parted ways with founding member Carlos Dengler – the bassist who had been with the band since their humble New York City beginnings, and who had stayed with them up until (and through) the recording of Interpol’s fourth, self-titled album, but left at a short time after to pursue other musical interests. Although his spilt with the band was, they... Read More
Roby Lakatos And His Ensemble
0 Comments. 2,252 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
When you’re born into a family of generations of famous violinists, what do you do? Mess with classics , of course. Roby Lakatos is one of the most agreeable rebels you’ll find. Nonetheless, he’s often referred to as the ‘devil’s fiddler’.   Somewhere towards the top of Lakatos’ family tree, you’ll... Read More
Ford Fiesta Presents The Melbourne Moonlight Cinema
0 Comments. 3,636 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
What’s better than cuddling up and watching your favourite film? Doing it under the stars in the Royal Botanic Gardens, that’s what. Moonlight Cinema opens on December 16 and has a program packed of old faithfuls and new flicks. Moonlight Cinema started in Melbourne fifteen years ago and every year, we still flock to set up picnic rugs, pour a... Read More
The Wind in the Willows
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  Melbourne’s continues its much-loved tradition of bringing the animal characters from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows home to the Royal Botanic Gardens for a summer of madcap fun.   Since it was first published in 1908, Grahame’s charming tale of Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger and their trials and triumphs in the English countryside has endeared itself to... Read More
Aussie Short Film Shortlisted For An Oscar
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Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan's film The Lost Thing has been shortlisted in the short animation category for the 2011 Academy Awards.   Narrated by Tim Minchin, This 15-minute film is based on the highly acclaimed picture book by Shaun Tan, published in 1999, and it has been in the making for the past eight years.   It is one of ten short films to be shortlisted for the... Read More
Madman Acquires Studio Ghibli's Kari-gurashi no Arrietty
1 Comments. 2,611 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
Madman is proud to announce its acquisition of Kari-gurashi no Arrietty, the latest masterpiece from the Academy Award-winning Studio Ghibli.   This 2010 Japanese anime film is based on Mary Norton's much-loved children's fantasy novel series The Borrowers. It revolves around 14-year-old Arrietty and her family, who are a race of "tiny people" living in peaceful anonymity under... Read More
Discus Thrower's Photo Exhibition
1 Comments. 1,692 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
Australian discus thrower and photographer Calista Lyon is holding a photographic exhibition to raise funds so she can continue to train for the London 2012 Olympics.   The 24-year-old is ranked second in Australia and tenth in the Commonwealth for discus, and narrowly missed out on the Commonwealth Games selection by 35cm.   She recently had shoulder surgery to repair a 270-degree... Read More
NCIS Producer At Screenwriters' Conference
0 Comments. 1,906 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Executive Producer of NCIS, and Creator and Executive Producer of NCIS: Los Angeles, Australian screenwriter Shane Brennan is returning home for the Australian Writers' Guild National Screenwriters' Conference that will take place on Phillip Island from February 16-18 2011.   Brennan is the first Australian to run a prime time US Network television series, and he is also one of only a... Read More
The 48 Hour Film Project
0 Comments. 1,080 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
There’s certainly no shortage of film festivals in Melbourne. The Japanese Film Festival is upon us, the Festival Of Jewish Cinema is coming to an end, and in the criteria of short films, there’s the Hillside Film Festival, Portable and Made in Melbourne. Amongst the sea of filmic festivities that the city has to offer, the 48 Hour Film Project is... Read More
Question Time with Clem Newton Brown
0 Comments. 3,282 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
What are the issues that motivated you to become a candidate at this election?   When I was in early 30s I served as Deputy Lord Mayor in the City of Melbourne. It was an amazing experience where I found that the political process could be used to improve the lives of so many people, be it working with Fr Bob Maguire on homeless issues to developing broadband policies. This... Read More
Craig Hill's Kilty Pleasures
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How much ‘camp’ can you fit into a 70-minute show? Craig Hill packs as much gay content in a short amount of time than thought to be possible. From the get-go, Hill is one big ball of energy, bouncing on stage in a leather kilt while miming to the music of Madonna’s Hung Up. By the end of this perfectly choreographed routine – which even has him down on all fours... Read More
Hola Mexico Film Festival
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Samuel Douek, director of the Hola Mexico Film Festival, has just flown in from Los Angeles, and is feeling a little jet-lagged, tired and hungry. But after exchanging a few pleasantries about the weather in LA it’s down to business to talk about the fifth Mexico Film Festival, which screens at Melbourne’s ACMI cinemas until October 31.... Read More
SOMETHING BLEW
0 Comments. 1,729 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Dance is one of those expressive art forms that can unite, divide and move audiences everywhere. There is something so transcendent and incendiary about powerful and fluid movement that ruptures language, culture, age and gender barriers to communicate something incredibly potent, beautiful and poignant. Adam Wheeler is the Artistic... Read More
Cheap Tickets To See Rent
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Whitehorse Musical Theatre is offering a special ticket offer for the remainder of the season of the wonderful Rent, which we reviewed in this week's issue and generally think is pretty great.   They're offering $30 dress circle tickets, which is quite a steal. It's only available for purchases at the actual box office prior to each performance, so just rock up with your $30 and it should... Read More
The Germinate Project
0 Comments. 1,492 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
“ We turn sunshine into music,” laughs Euan Williamson, one half of the duo known as Creative Environment Enterprises. “That’s the crazy way of describing it, but that is kind of what it is. Sunshine goes in one end of the system and music and lights come out the other end.”   What exactly is he talking... Read More
Melbourne International Arts Festival
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The overture to the Melbourne International Arts Festival has begun, with the 2010 Festival Program officially launched last night. Beat spoke exclusively to Artistic Director Brett Sheehy in the lead-up to the launch about his second year in the job, and managed to prise a few hot-ticket nudges in the process.   "I've got the best job in the world!" exclaims the... Read More
An Anthology Of Optimism
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With his novel Candide, or Optimism , Voltaire provided the literary entree to the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s target was the optimistic philosophy espoused by the dominant thinkers of the day; by the end of the novel, even Dr Pangloss – the character used by Voltaire to personify the discourse of optimism – has quietly renounced his own philosophical position.... Read More
Cinema's Other Room
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Take a peek behind the velvet cinema curtains of your local multiplex and with the right sort of eyes and mind, you will find Cinema's Other Room, a one-man experimental film show that aims to open and expand the perception of what the medium of cinema is capable of.   With works from noted experimental filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, the films incorporated in this program are... Read More
Burlesque through the eyes of Minsky Malone
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It’s getting hot in Northcote as twenty-five talented performers sing, dance, and strip their way through Burlesque Through the Eyes of Minsky Malone’s sizzling stage. For five nights only, Northcote Town Hall will play host to Minsky Malone’s tantalizing display, surely only releasing its breath after the nipple tassels, garters and champagne glasses have retired from this... Read More
Home?
0 Comments. 2,694 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
  New York City is famed for its ability to attract a mix of people so eclectic, so oddball, that ultimately those myriad types meld into one another, combining to form a character we recognise instantly—the clichéd New Yorker. The magic in tonight’s performance lies in Jono Burns’ ability to bring this character collectives before the audience’s eyes, without... Read More
The Hillside Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,588 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Showcase your talent as a young filmaker...and score some sweet prizes! Fancy yourself as a bit of a film making extraordinaire?   The Hillside Film Festival is giving young people the chance to express themselves through film, and to showcase their artistic and creative talents in a competition that will captivate audiences state wide in 2011.   The festival encourages filmmakers... Read More
Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition
0 Comments. 1,827 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition is still waiting to hit the proverbial iceberg, but for now it’s Australia’s most popular museum exhibition ever.   Since opening in Melbourne on May 17 this year, the exhibition has sold over 333,000, trumping the A Day In Pompeii exhibit last year, which held the previous record for most tickets sold.   The exhibit showcases over 280... Read More
Melbourne Fringe: Girls@Work
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Theatreworks in St. Kilda have taken their opportunity at the Fringe festival this year to showcase the wild and wonderful women of Melbourne theatre, covering straight performance to Cabaret, from serious subjects to do with immigration and feminism, to the dissection of the female orgasm. Entitled Girls @ Work, and encompassing five separate performances, as well as two workshop-based events... Read More
Twelfth Night
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With rambling drunks, cross-dressing characters and a love triangle, Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night could be described as bogan-meets-literature.   The contemporary setting of the Shakespearean comedy truly lifts what could potentially be a dated and drawn-out performance. The talented cast of seven, whether playing one part or three, excelled in their acting both individually and as... Read More
Tomorrow When The War Began
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Seven teenagers from a small town go away on a weekend camping trip to have a bit of fun. When they return home they find that their town has been taken over by a heavily armed invasion force. The teens form a guerilla army to fight back.   No, this is not John Milius's 1984 action adventure Red Dawn, which featured a hot cast that included Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell and Charlie... Read More
Dark Contrasts
0 Comments. 2,241 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
Comics and graphic novels are often purveyors of the darker side of life. Their hidden nature, confined to shop shelves or the houses of those who buy them give them leverage to tackle subject matter that lay more dormant to other mediums of art. So how are they received when they enter the more general public arena and are displayed in a gallery? Beat checks out Dark Contrasts... Read More
Overload Poetry Festival
0 Comments. 3,896 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
When you think cool, accessible and multi-media you probably don't think poetry. You also probably don't think a bunch of stuffy guys from the 18 th Century sitting around in drawing rooms and writing by hand is your cup of tea. Well it's not Luis Gonzalez Serrano's, director of the Overload Poetry Festival in Melbourne, either. The Festival is running now until Sunday... Read More
Cartoon Goulash
0 Comments. 3,709 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
We don't need to tell you everything great in Melbourne is tucked down a laneway. But you're perhaps less inclined to be popping down alleys once you get out Hawthorn way. That needs to change. Long-time friend to local and 'unusual' art, Kustom Lane Gallery, presents Cartoon Goulash, complete with in-person appearance by Californian cult cartoon master,... Read More
Greek Film Festival
0 Comments. 2,788 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:12am.
Greece: islands, Mount Olympus, Athens...  and a growing film industry. You may be wondering why you'd ever want to leave, though thankfully some did because without them we may not have the Greek Film Festival.   Palace Cinema Como, on the corner of Toorak road and Chapel street in South Yarra, has the soul honor of showing the 17th Greek Film Festival which kicks off in Melbourne and... Read More
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