CultureHunter.org is a website dedicated to arts and culture in the Hunter region. This is more than just a ‘What’s On?’ for Newcastle, it is a space where anyone can log on and share their ideas, opinions and suggestions about anything and everything related to arts and culture.

NEW CULTUREHUNTER PROJECT OFFICER WANTED

Octapod is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of CultureHunter Project Officer. This part-time role (7 hours per week) is responsible for coordinating culturehunter.org – a website dedicated to arts and culture in the Hunter region.

For a full Job Description: Email podadmin@octapod.org or call Christina on 4927 0470.

Applications close 5pm Friday 12 March 2010.

Your application should include:

1. A brief cover letter (1 page max),

2. A Statement addressing the 'Essential Qualifications and Experience' as listed in the Job Description (2 pages max),

3. A brief cv (2 pages max), and

4. The contact details for 3 referees.

Please send your application to the Octapod Association:

VIA EMAIL: To podadmin@octapod.org

VIA POST: The Octapod Association, 3/231 King St, Newcastle NSW 2300

For more info: Email Christina via podadmin@octapod.org or call 4927 0470.

It’s the five days of the year where you get to share your ideas, passions and saliva with like-minded crew from all over Australia.

A place for media makers to play and call their own! Offering low-cost media production facilities and independent self-publishing resources.

Octapod launched its new Community Media Space in mid September 2008 with a digital storytelling project in partnership with TAFE Outreach. Course participants learnt interviewing and video production techniques, and acted as Octapod's media team at the This Is Not Art Festival in early October. Go to www.culturehunter.org to see the short digital story produced about the festival - an interesting insight, highlighting the diversity of events and interviews with key festival directors and festival goers.

VIDEO EDITING FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR HIRE: Octapod's Community Media Space is available for hire - just $5 per day for Octapod members! If you need access to cheap, reliable audio and video recording and editing equipment, contact Christina.

The Cultural STOMP Festival is Newcastle's annual celebration of community, cultural diversity, the environment and social justice.

STOMP began in 1997 as a peaceful protest alternative in response to the launch of the One Nation political party in the Hunter Region. Throughout the years the festival has gone from strength to strength to become Newcastle’s premier community cultural event, celebrating unity and multicultural and social justice perspectives and the arts.

STOMP provides a unique opportunity for all members of the community to share their culture, their message and their creative voice. It is an open invitation to a collaboration between artists and all communities to participate in a celebration of the city and to create a unique and sustainable social environment for the future.

The Festivals key activities are: Market, Food and Info Stalls, Wellness Zone, Music, Visual and Performing Arts, Forums and Creative Workshops.

 NOW SHOWING AT PODSPACE:

image: "Lucidity" (detail) by Mathew Reed

Blood, Actually

featuring the work of: Abbie Lane, Robyn McPherson, Julie Lee, Mathew Reed, Antonia Gore and Emily Mitchell.   Please join us for the opening on Thursday 25 February 6-8pm.

PODSPACE is a non-profit gallery run on a voluntary basis by a group of emerging artists and curators, with the support of the Octapod Association.

Octapod has a collection of over 2000 zines - apparently the largest collection of its kind in Australia. The zine library started with a call-out for zines as part of the This is Not Art festival in 1998, when the New Pollution anthology was created. Since then the library's growth has been organic and sporadic.