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Falls Festival with Organiser Naomi Daly
0 Comments. 2,756 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
What’s the site looking like with all the rain over the past six months?   “Green! Although it is always green. Our site gets a lot of rain throughout the year so it is a bit like water off a ducks’ back.”   With Falls being one of the first festivals to progressively adopt greener ways of operating – are there any new environmental-helping aspects to... Read More
Short Stack but full of Goodness
0 Comments. 2,253 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
Undoubtedly Australia’s biggest pop-punk sensation, the Sydney trio of Short Stack have stolen teenage hearts and dominated radio stations nationwide for the past two years. After rising to a blinding and rapid success, vocalist and guitarist Shaun Diviney shares the origins of group, explaining “We all met on a train to school one morning. We lived about an hour away from where we... Read More
Melbourne International Arts Festival
1 Comments. 2,702 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
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
Falls Music And Arts Festival
0 Comments. 1,927 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
 Is there any better way to bring in the New Year then with that feeling of hope, love and inspiration that surrounds and infiltrates you while listening to the music of The Falls Festival? Well if you haven’t entered the ballot for tickets you may want to wake up early and line up on Thursday September 9 for the final release to go on sale for this iconic festival in Victoria and... Read More
Emilie Simon
0 Comments. 704 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
The French post modernist philosopher and cultural critic Jean Baudrillard once described New York as a city where the mad have been set free. Baudrillard's observation had some genuine historical currency - thirty odd years ago, a number of New York's mental institutions were closed and the inmates left to assimilate into mainstream society... Read More
Dark Contrasts
0 Comments. 2,159 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. 3,742 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. 3,618 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
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