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This year marks the tenth annual This Is Not Art festival and to celebrate we are going all out! Music highlights include: raw pop collages of Ducktails (US), the lovable scuzzy surf punk of the Vivian Girls (US) and Ripley – a Cali based DJ/ academic just back from Jamaica, Susan Gray and the Katies – fresh faced and fashioned up direct from the sales in Melbourne, The Burning Brow (Brisbane), Bum Creek(VIC), don’t ask just watch and listen, and one super fine 1920’s style ‘big band’! |
The Octapod zine library had another sorting and cataloguing session during TINA and is looking a lot better for it. We are now having monthly cataloguing sessions, so come along to the next one on Saturday 14th November, 2 - 4 pm. No skills are necessary, just an interest in the zines. During the school holiday we ran some zine-making workshops for kids at the Newcastle library, where zines were made on a range of topics from the recent earthquakes to looking after dogs. Come in and browse the zine library any time, or use the space to make your own zines. Upcoming zine-related events at Octapod Zine cataloguing session: Sat 14 November, 2-4pm. At Octapod. Zine-making events: Octapod (www.octapod.org) and Bird in the Hand zine distro (100a King St Newcastle, http://zines.wordpress.com/) will be holding monthly zine-making events on the fourth Saturday of each month alternating between locations. |
Currently showing: 'between you & me'. A video installation by Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir & Mark Wilson. |
*Register as a member of CultureHunter between June 1st - July 31st 2009, and you will automatically go in the draw to win a number of great prizes, such as: |
The Cultural STOMP Festival is on again! In 2009 it will bring together performers and activities with energy and creative vigour to explore the theme of "Be The Change". |
CultureHunter will be holding an arts and services forum on Thursday 18th June, from 5.30-7.30pm, at Newcastle Panthers, Cnr. of King and Union Streets, Newcastle West. The evening will take place in the upstairs ‘Skylights Room’, and will begin with light refreshments served at 5.30pm, with speakers beginning at 6.00pm. |
ART SOUNDS, the monthly performance event held in art spaces around town, will be held at Performing Arts Newcastle (PAN) this Friday night , 15 May, (not at Octapod) due to unforeseen circumstances. Come along for a fun night, with performances by Fiona Magee and Gargamel's Cat, complete radness in the form of a fun guitar-driven lady fronted garage band! 5.30-7.30pm. PAN. 5 Auckland St (just down the road from Octapod). |
Octapod is holding a brainstorming session as part of its strategic planning weekend on 16th and 17th May 2009, and everyone's invited! Date: Saturday 16th May. Time: 1-3pm. Where: Octapod. Upstairs, TPI House, cnr King and Auckland Sts, Newcastle. To register your interest in attending, please contact Christina on 4927 0470 or podadmin@octapod.org. |
'ver-sur-mer' photographs and prints by Izabela Pluta |
‘abstraction of what’… Photographs by AARON BELLETTE.
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