MOVEMBER

It’s hair lip for some, and Tom Selleck to others (HOT 80’s private eye) - word up to the men doing it for health bits this MOW-VEMBER. Some seriously ugly moustaches parading around Sydney at the moment. 

Other news: We are so proud of Bill and George crew member Rhoda and her team at Little and Loud. www.littleandloud.org

Little and Loud is currently focused on supporting Fote Primary School in the Solomon Islands. Please check out their stories, videos and photos, donate and spread the word! News.com.au feature on them: http://www.news.com.au/adoptavillage

ARTSLAB is hurtling towards the tail end of its occupancy and hence towards something something fabulous. Its called Keepin it Smoochy Smoocy. AKA KISS CLUB. DECEMBER 5. Stay tuned for excitement (and more details)

::SPECIAL EVENTS AT BILL + GEORGE::

Gang Re:publik Book Launching

SUNDAY DECEMBER 7. Live Music. Food and Drinks. 5PM

gang re:Publik (indonesia-australia creative adventures)

Gang Re:publik is a brand new anthology of creative exchange from Indonesia and Australia with 200 pages of previously unpublished essays, stories, conversations and illustrations from over 40 fabulous contributors. Edited by Alexandra Crosby, Rebecca Conroy, Suzan Piper, Jan Cornall

((Gang Festival and creative exchange is an artist-led initiative celebrating the deep links between Indonesian and Australian community arts. Gang Festival takes as its theme the Indonesian word for alleyway. It straddles a dual reference to small roads and particular social groupings; it refers to the space betwixt and between more permanent and conventional roads and roles. In Indonesian communities, ‘gang’, forms a critical artery in Kampung culture, where local trade and communities thrive in close proximity to one another. Gangs also evoke images of crevices, margins, and a rich density of peripheral culture. We also draw from the English meaning of the word to describe an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between a large number of art workers who situate their work on the margins of commercial art practice in Australia and Indonesia.))

 

 

UTP RESIDENCY

Urban Theatre Projects (Bankstown)

Check out the call for residency applications!

intersection09.pdf

peepin & squeakin

Today was Peep Show Chippendale. We lifted our skirts for approximately 40 strangers. And showed them our underbelly - actually we just poured them cups of tea and offered them scones with cream and Jam. And then they looked in zine library while several people danced the tango. How lovely. Thanks to Sami and James at Queen Street for making it possible!! Now we best be getting off to the street party.....

xxx 

08.08.08

Lets imagine that it’s the 8^th of the 8^th month in 2008 and we got this web news out in time.

Instead we were probably stitching up a fabulous meeting with the next round of artSlab-ists who we are proud to announce are: Performance making duo Kaz Therese and Lizzie Thompson; and visual artists Skye Gibson and Claire Conroy. Together these creative ventures will collude and cross fertilise occasionally, trading and sharing ideas as they work on their respective projects in the space. WELCOME!

CHIPPENDALE IS HAVING A PEEP SHOW

On the 19th October the creative skeletons of chippendale will open up to the public for a tour of spaces and industries in a crafty murketing slash networking slash community exercise. Part of Art and About (City of Sydney), Peep show has been in development for some time, taking in ideas from collaborating organs and artists about how to show off and start some serious conversations about getting networked and robust in a local economy kind of way. Bill and George are taking part even though we do straddle the fringe of chippendale, but we still feel a kind of ethnic heritage to the area from the wedding circle days and when Gang festival first roamed the laneways of chippo way back when....so stay posted and tuned.

UPDATE ON FRASERS

Errr....there is none...errr

UPDATE ON UPDATES

Bill and George is still trying to put up its curtains. If anyone knows anyone with some spare tab tracks lying around, pray tell....

Our dream of getting a version of a sprung floor has just taken a gigantic leap forward with news of some dedicated sponsorship. We will announce this when the details are locked in. Suffice to say we are elated. And so are many dancing knees across Sydney. But particularly Hosi's knees, which we can hear squealing with joy right now.

POSTS POSTS AND POSTS: exciting things moving

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JURA BOOKS – POSTER DESIGNS NEEDED!

Calling all imaginative and talented artists and activists! Could you or someone you know create a political poster that can stand alongside the great political posters of the past, and is also meaningful and relevant to the future?

Jura Books is looking for artists of all ages, styles and levels of experience to submit entries for a political poster design competition. The general theme of the poster should be to explore some aspect of the past 30 years of radical struggle in Sydney, and/or imagine what you would like the world to look like in 30 years time. The poster must also celebrate Jura Books in some way - past, present and/or future, and include our name and website (or street address) somewhere on the poster.

Jura Books has been operating as a centre for social change and innovation for 30 years, and we currently combine a bookshop, library, food co-op and organising space. Over the years we have supported a vast range of political collectives and struggles - feminist, youth, enviro, art, publishing, workers control, and many more. We have put on hundreds of events, from film nights and punk gigs to political actions and worker organising conferences. Jura is also home to one of Australia's best political poster archives. (check out images and more about our politics on our website).

The poster design competition is about commemorating this history, and also building towards an even better future. The entries will be exhibited at Jura and we will produce 1000 copies of the winning design. The winner will also receive a book prize pack valued at $100, as well as the satisfaction of helping a worthwhile cause, and eternal fame/notoriety. The winning design will also be used to help promote and raise money to improve Jura and the political poster archive.

Posters Due before 30th September

Design Size: A2 (59.4cm x 42cm)

For the more info: http://www.jura.org.au/node/728

The Jura Collective

440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham

www.jura.org.au

9550 9931

Opening hours:

Thursday 11am-7pm / Friday 11am-7pm /

Saturday 12pm-5pm / Sunday 12pm-5pm

JURA Books currently stocks all 3 Breakdown Press Poster Series!