The Sydney Festival 2008 will be held between January 5-26.
"For three weeks each January the Festival offers a rich program of around 80 events involving upwards of 500 artists from Australia and abroad covering dance, theatre, music, visual arts, cross media and forums...
Sydney Festival also presents a number of quality, free outdoor events such as the long-running Domain Concerts which attract up to 100,000 people a time. From 2008 the Festival will take to the streets with a new free event entitled Festival First Night, a large-scale celebration of music and performance which will draw up to 200,000 people into in the heart of the city..."
W: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au
Events listing page: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/events.htm
art, design, web culture, ideas, inspiration, community, lifestyle, environment
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Anne Wendlandt of Enna
Anne Wendlandt of Enna-online is a designer, craftster and shop owner. Her illustration work and the products she makes is beautiful, colourful, and cute. Her physical store is in Hannover, Germany.
Decor8 interviewed her recently: "She has an etsy store, a DaWanda shop, and a store on her website. In addition to all of this, she creates many things by hand, she's a talented illustrator, and a graphic designer along with a shop owner, so Anne is a busy lady.
What does Anne design? I guess a better question is, what doesn't this girl do? :) She does so much. She crafts earrings out of polymer clay that she then hand paints, she designs postcards, pillows, shirts, hoodies, and onesies for baby, plates, iron-on patches, wrapping paper, softies, marketing materials for her business, her website, the signage on the window of her shop, the list goes on and on. She is inspired by so much, she certainly doesn't want to limit herself to just one thing. .."
Anne Wendlandt interview on Decor8's blog: http://decor8.blogspot.com/2007/10/meet-anne-wendlandt-of-enna-hannover.html
Anne Wendlandt interview on etsy 29/11/07: http://www.etsy.com/featured_seller.php?featured_user_id=5035742
Enna store's website: http://www.enna-online.com/
Decor8 interviewed her recently: "She has an etsy store, a DaWanda shop, and a store on her website. In addition to all of this, she creates many things by hand, she's a talented illustrator, and a graphic designer along with a shop owner, so Anne is a busy lady.
What does Anne design? I guess a better question is, what doesn't this girl do? :) She does so much. She crafts earrings out of polymer clay that she then hand paints, she designs postcards, pillows, shirts, hoodies, and onesies for baby, plates, iron-on patches, wrapping paper, softies, marketing materials for her business, her website, the signage on the window of her shop, the list goes on and on. She is inspired by so much, she certainly doesn't want to limit herself to just one thing. .."
Anne Wendlandt interview on Decor8's blog: http://decor8.blogspot.com/2007/10/meet-anne-wendlandt-of-enna-hannover.html
Anne Wendlandt interview on etsy 29/11/07: http://www.etsy.com/featured_seller.php?featured_user_id=5035742
Enna store's website: http://www.enna-online.com/
Thread Den - Melbourne
Love the idea of Thread Den in Melbourne.
"Thread Den is a sewing lounge and clothing retail space. Owned and operated by local designers and sewing enthusiasts, we are committed to providing an outlet for locally made and unique clothing...
Thread Den is equipped with sewing machines and overlockers for casual in-store hire. Mend, alter, or re-fashion your clothing; try your hand at making something new; or meet with friends to work on your projects together. There will always be friendly assistance available. For all your special projects, Thread Den have a great range of vintage fabrics and sewing accessories available for sale...
Thread Den aims to become a hub for local emerging designers and fashion enthusiasts..."
Upstairs, 16 Errol Street, North Melbourne, Access via Webbs Lane
W: http://www.threadden.com/
"Thread Den is a sewing lounge and clothing retail space. Owned and operated by local designers and sewing enthusiasts, we are committed to providing an outlet for locally made and unique clothing...
Thread Den is equipped with sewing machines and overlockers for casual in-store hire. Mend, alter, or re-fashion your clothing; try your hand at making something new; or meet with friends to work on your projects together. There will always be friendly assistance available. For all your special projects, Thread Den have a great range of vintage fabrics and sewing accessories available for sale...
Thread Den aims to become a hub for local emerging designers and fashion enthusiasts..."
Upstairs, 16 Errol Street, North Melbourne, Access via Webbs Lane
W: http://www.threadden.com/
akira fabric sale - dec 6-8
Fashion designer akira is having a sample archive fabic sale from 6th - 8th December from 9am - 5pm.
Address: Suite 5 Level 1, 2-12 Foveaux St, Surry Hills.
Source: SMH Nov 29, p19 of the Essential Style section
Akira's website: http://www.akira.com.au
Address: Suite 5 Level 1, 2-12 Foveaux St, Surry Hills.
Source: SMH Nov 29, p19 of the Essential Style section
Akira's website: http://www.akira.com.au
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
More Ikea stores in Sydney maybe
In an SMH article, it says that KAustralia's Ikea boss, Kent Nordin "wants Sydney eventually to have four Ikea stores, all bigger than the 25,500 square metres at Rhodes.
The next store will be built in the city's south-east, possibly on the old Tempe tip, on the Princes Highway. The company is also considering areas around St Leonards, in the city's north, and Liverpool, in the south-west..."
W: http://smallbusiness.smh.com.au/starting/sales/ikea,-i-conquered-905833888.html
The next store will be built in the city's south-east, possibly on the old Tempe tip, on the Princes Highway. The company is also considering areas around St Leonards, in the city's north, and Liverpool, in the south-west..."
W: http://smallbusiness.smh.com.au/starting/sales/ikea,-i-conquered-905833888.html
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Dulwich Hill Street Fair - Dec 2
The Dulwich Hill Street Fair will be on Sunday 2 December, 10am - 4pm.
"This year's theme is 'Creating Community', which celebrates the creativity, diversity and character that makes locals so proud to be part of this unique community.
Marrickville Road and Seaview Street will pulse with excitement, bringing you entertainment, children’s activities and rides, demonstrations and workshops, and a wide range of stalls featuring arts and crafts, homewares, clothing, plants, food, jewellery and accessories, information, giveaways and much more.
W: http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/events.htm
"This year's theme is 'Creating Community', which celebrates the creativity, diversity and character that makes locals so proud to be part of this unique community.
Marrickville Road and Seaview Street will pulse with excitement, bringing you entertainment, children’s activities and rides, demonstrations and workshops, and a wide range of stalls featuring arts and crafts, homewares, clothing, plants, food, jewellery and accessories, information, giveaways and much more.
W: http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/events.htm
11th Japanese Film Festival 2007 - Nov 29-Dec 8
The 11th Japanese Film Festival will be on in Sydney starting November 29th. For more infomrmation about the films that will be showing at the George St cinemas, go to the website.
W: http://11thjff.jpf-sydney.org/
Asimo's Australian tour
Asimo is the humainoid robot developed by Honda. He's currently touring Australia. He's at Darling Harbour today and then he goes onto Parramatta, then onto Brisbane.
In the performance, Asimo shows some of the things he can do including shaking someone's hand, kicking a soccer ball, carry a drinks tray and putting it down on a table, mimicking some dance moves, and talk.
W: http://www.asimo.com.au
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
How should I vote? - Federal election Nov 24
GetUp have put together a questionaire to help you figure out which candidates most match your stance on various issues in the upcoming election.
"Enter your postcode and dive straight in to our quick twenty question quiz. It will match YOUR answers to the candidates in YOUR electorate and produce YOUR own unique personalised how-to-vote card based on which candidates are most like YOU!
How does it work?
We've asked every candidate in each electorate to answer twenty questions that cover a wide range of issues that are of interest to voters. Now you can answer the same quiz and compare your views to the people you are considering voting for. "
W: http://howshouldivote.com.au/
"Enter your postcode and dive straight in to our quick twenty question quiz. It will match YOUR answers to the candidates in YOUR electorate and produce YOUR own unique personalised how-to-vote card based on which candidates are most like YOU!
How does it work?
We've asked every candidate in each electorate to answer twenty questions that cover a wide range of issues that are of interest to voters. Now you can answer the same quiz and compare your views to the people you are considering voting for. "
W: http://howshouldivote.com.au/
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Interesting South conference - Nov 22 Bondi
"This conference is not about brands, advertising, blogging or twitter but a wide variety of interesting, unexpected, original things. We've found 19 fascinating people and asked them speak for 3 or 10 minutes about something they care about. We want to replicate the experience of clicking from one really good blog to another, ranging across sciences, arts, music, jokes and whatever. The idea is to be informal and fast paced."
The line-up of speakers and topics sounds really interesting. Tickets are $25.
When and where: Thursday, 22nd November 2007. From 6.00pm - 9:30pm, Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach.
W: http://interestingsouth.com/
The line-up of speakers and topics sounds really interesting. Tickets are $25.
When and where: Thursday, 22nd November 2007. From 6.00pm - 9:30pm, Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach.
W: http://interestingsouth.com/
Florence Broadhurst doco on SBS tonight - Nov 18
SBS are screening 'Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst' tonight at 9.00-10.30pm.
"In this spirited and highly original documentary, acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of one larger-than-life woman - flamboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst.
Born in outback Australia in 1899, she was a singer and dancer in Shanghai in the '20s and ran her own fashion boutique in London in the '30s before sweeping into Sydney society as a painter and charity queen. But it was in her last incarnation that she really made her mark, shaking up conservative Australia with her bold, exotic wallpaper designs. Now, with her prints in huge demand internationally, the times have finally caught up with this glamorous, complicated, unconventional woman, whose brutal murder in 1977 has never been solved." Year: 2006.
Signature Prints sells Florence Broadhurst designs including fabrics, wallpapers, bags, cushions etc: http://www.signatureprints.com.au/aboutus/aboutus_flobro.html
ABC Commercial website: http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/s1581658.htm
"In this spirited and highly original documentary, acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of one larger-than-life woman - flamboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst.
Born in outback Australia in 1899, she was a singer and dancer in Shanghai in the '20s and ran her own fashion boutique in London in the '30s before sweeping into Sydney society as a painter and charity queen. But it was in her last incarnation that she really made her mark, shaking up conservative Australia with her bold, exotic wallpaper designs. Now, with her prints in huge demand internationally, the times have finally caught up with this glamorous, complicated, unconventional woman, whose brutal murder in 1977 has never been solved." Year: 2006.
Signature Prints sells Florence Broadhurst designs including fabrics, wallpapers, bags, cushions etc: http://www.signatureprints.com.au/aboutus/aboutus_flobro.html
ABC Commercial website: http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/s1581658.htm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Growing Up Camper
Article in Metropolis magazine online on the Camper footwear brand.
"Spain’s family-run shoe manufacturer confronts the pains—and perks—of being a truly global brand.. For a brand of footwear built on heritage, Camper has shown a remarkable willingness to innovate and even, in a recent series of counterintuitive moves, to challenge its original business paradigm..."
W: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2984
"Spain’s family-run shoe manufacturer confronts the pains—and perks—of being a truly global brand.. For a brand of footwear built on heritage, Camper has shown a remarkable willingness to innovate and even, in a recent series of counterintuitive moves, to challenge its original business paradigm..."
W: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2984
Generation C - Feb 1 to Mar 8, 2008
"Complex, contrary, creative: this exhibition showcases work by young photomedia artists from mainland China who reflect the ambivalence of their times. Born in the seventies they are the first 'me' generation - consumerist, connected and self-aware. They are vain yet vulnerable; wired yet lonely. They ride the rollercoaster of 'progress' while wistfully dreaming of the past. Abandoning any notion of the photograph as a document of the real each work is a performance, a visual fable that finds its truth in imaginative resonance rather than hard evidence.
Playful yet earnest, while some artists wield satire like a sword others evoke a quiet melancholy for lost tradition. Others still, weighed down by the burden of duty to family, ancestors, community, state and the competitiveness born of consumerism, simply imagine what it would be like to fade into another world or fly away like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis."
Saturday 1 February to 8 March 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 1, 2 & Foyer
Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
T: 02 9332 1455, F: 02 9331 6104
Curated by Alasdair Foster
IMAGE © Liu Lijie Another Episode 2006 Courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
W: http://exhibitions.acp.org.au/exhibitions/future.php
Forgot to Remember exhibition - opens Nov 21
"Jessica Porter, Fil Molitor, and Kate Beckingham are three Sydney creatives encouraging you to explore your Surroundings, past, and present.
If you're looking to take a trip through memories, personal experiences and the subconscious, then head to Somedays for Forgot to Remember, launching Wednesday 21st November.
Whether abstract or graphic is your bag, come and check out a mixture of ink, paint, and photography. The exhibition will get you in the mood with complimentary drinks and bangin' music."
Somedays Gallery: http://www.somedays.net.au/
W: http://myspace.com/forgottoparty
Roses Only story - Nov 29 Sydney
Last Thursday Club talk: How to build a business that outguns the rest
"This month, discover how to leave your competitors behind by building a business that outguns the rest! James Stevens will tell the story of how he founded Roses Only and built it into Australia’s #1 online flower business.
You’ll also learn one of the most powerful emerging tools of influence in business today—storytelling. Emotional selling needs story telling. Facts tell, stories sell. So how can you use stories? by Gabrielle Dolan & Yamini Naidu, Directors of One Thousand & One.
W: http://www.lastthursdayclub.net/
"This month, discover how to leave your competitors behind by building a business that outguns the rest! James Stevens will tell the story of how he founded Roses Only and built it into Australia’s #1 online flower business.
You’ll also learn one of the most powerful emerging tools of influence in business today—storytelling. Emotional selling needs story telling. Facts tell, stories sell. So how can you use stories? by Gabrielle Dolan & Yamini Naidu, Directors of One Thousand & One.
W: http://www.lastthursdayclub.net/
Welcome to the CBD: all arteries, no pulse
"Venture into the the heart of Sydney and you'll find it is lacking ticker. Urban Affairs Editor Catharine Munro launches a Herald investigation into what is wrong with the CBD..."
W: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/11/1194766506269.html
W: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/11/1194766506269.html
Cut & Paste tournament - Nov 17
"Hitting eleven cities worldwide this Fall 2007, we’re out to prove that immersive design is good cause for cultural gathering.
Watch as eight designers go head to head, Wacom to Wacom. For the crown, they’ll have to spin an idea with their own style in three, 15-minute rounds as projectors stream their living designs across the venue.
Each designer is equipped with an Apple® MacPro Workstation, Adobe® Creative Suite 3, and a Wacom® Cintiq® interactive pen display."
Try your own round at a workstation onsite for a shot at our Audience Design Contest. If you’re stuck at home, tune in via global webcast. Five all-star judges will make the call for the Jury Prize, but all will have the chance to vote for an Audience Prize online or by SMS."
Sydney Contestants:
Daryl Prondoso http://ieyeayelove.sacredpeanut.net
Dave Follett http://davidfollett.com/
Haline Ly http://symple.com.au/
Andrea Innocent http://otoshimono.org/
Matt Huynh http://stikmancomics.com/
Michael Birchall http://some-things.net/
Morten Rowley http://munkmotion.com
Oat Montien http://myspace.com/oatmontien
When: Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Doors open at 7PM, Competition from 8 - 11PM
Where: The Metro Theatre, 624 George St
+02 9550 3666, http://www.metrotheatre.com.au
General Admission: $10 presale / $15 on door, Must be 18+
W: http://www.cutandpaste.com/events/sydney.html
Glebe Street Fair - Nov 18
The Glebe Street Fair is on again this Sunday between 10am-5pm, on Glebe Point Rd, Glebe.
They'll be the Sydney Performers Challenge 2007, lots of food stalls and other market stalls.
W: http://www.glebestreetfair.com.au
They'll be the Sydney Performers Challenge 2007, lots of food stalls and other market stalls.
W: http://www.glebestreetfair.com.au
Mag Nation - Melbourne
Mag Nation is a magazine store in Melbourne's CBD. It has over 4000 titles. It also encourages you to browse the magazines and have a coffee. If only there was such a store in Sydney..
Where: 88 Elizabeth St, Melbourne
W: http://www.magnation.com.au
Where: 88 Elizabeth St, Melbourne
W: http://www.magnation.com.au
Destfest - Nov 24, Dec 1, 8 - Sydney
"CarriageWorks, Sydney’s newest centre for contemporary arts, presents the inaugural Destination Film Festival. Three Saturday afternoons of film + talk, curated by Megan Spencer (Triple J, SBS’s The Movie Show). Launching on Saturday 24 November, each week will present a program of dynamic, unique films from everywhere - Australia, the rest of the world, and cyber-space. The films are followed by a panel discussion with film-junkies of all types from the yolk and fringe of Australia’s film industry.
DestFest is a showcase of new and old films, and the obsession with GOOD FILM. Spencer has uncovered cutting edge new films that are exploring and pushing the boundaries of contemporary film-making. There are also rare, lost and unseen shorts that have been liberated from garages and bottom drawers of the industry’s most innovative and creative film-makers...
The industry is changing, film-makers are evolving, and we will explore the new movement towards technologically advanced film-making and distribution methods, and how the film world is adapting with the times.
Dates: Saturday 24 November, Saturday 1 December, Saturday 8 December
Time: From 2pm
Where: CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
Tickets: On sale through Moshtix www.moshtix.com.au
The site also has a blog with entries by Megan Spencer.
W: http://www.destfest.com/
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