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WEDNESDAY JULY 30 TONIGHT, IN THIS VERY RING The Awesomeness of Pro-Wrestling (Screening & Infotainment) Come learn why wrestling is THE great artform of the 21st century while watching some of the most spectacular matches of recent years with Sydney's greatest Pro-Wrestling expert, SHANE McGRATH. Between the steroids and painkiller abuse, shitty working conditions, combat-zone mortality rate, and badly-acted, badly-written storylines, pro-wrestling may be literally the worst industry in the world. But that doesn't mean it isn't awesome! From corporate arena spectacle to low-budget shows in high-school gyms, this is a night not to be missed. Oh my God, not the Death Valley Driver onto the ladder! This one's going to be a slobberknocker, folks.
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FRIDAY JULY 25 Loose Space and Circular Time UK film and video veteran Steven Ball will be in Sydney briefly next week. The Teaching and Learning Cinema is delighted to be presenting an retrospective of his film and video work produced during the last twenty years. Lucas from the TLC first met Steven in 2003 during an Expanded Cinema research trip to London. Steven is a research fellow at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, and he helped dig through the archives to find documentation of film performances from the 1970s in London. As it turns out, Steven actually spent a several years in Melbourne from the late 1980s, shooting and organising screening programmes with the Melbourne super 8 group. In London, he is one of the organisers of cogcollective, a group which curates grassroots screenings of experimental film and video work. Steven has prepared a special programme for Sydney. You can view the whole programme in detail here. We’re very pleased to see that the programme includes Super 8 films shot in Australia, some of which he has re-edited recently, drawing together fragments of small-gauge footage in a memory-montage landscape film: The Ground, The Sky and the Island (2008). Our screening event will be the world-premiere of this work! Between the longer pieces, Steven’s programme is peppered with his “videoblog” experimental sketches from the series Direct Language. On his visit to Sydney, Steven looks forward to engaging with local film and video makers, and he will be happy to discuss his participation in the many film and activist groups which he’s been involved in for many years. _________________________________ |
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WEDNESDAY JULY 16 Hello friends and fans of the slideshow night. Our next evening is this wednesday, the 17th of July, 7pm (sharp) at If you wish to attend, please bring with you a thirst for knowledge The program will run as follows: 7.00. "welcome", "introductions" and so on (do not think of skipping 7.30. Bradley Mathers presents - "Iran so far away" 8.00. 5 min break 8.05. David Harris presents- "10 days in outer Mongolia" 8.35. 5 min break 8.40. Mickie quick - "Indo-please-ya" 9.10. short break, and the announcement of the "winner" 9.30. Close We value your participation and feedback, please note that regional We look forward to your company this Wednesday evening. The "slideshow" collective. _________________________________ |
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TUESDAY JUNE 10 New Orleans. Pre and Post Katrina. Dan Ethridge and Rachel Breunlin talk about creative and social organisation and its fundamental role in re-building communities dealing with crisis. Dan Etheridge - ecologist - active in the development of sustainable and affordable housing with Tulane University and Rachel Breunlin ethnographer and co-founder of 'The Neighborhood Story Project.' They will talk about new strategies that have been formulated post Katrina; parades that are part of a long running New Orleans tradition; and projects which bring people together within their shifting environment. Another night of "Infotainment" 7:30pm here at SYDNEY _________________________________ |
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TUESDAY JUNE 3 BACKGAMMON SALOON About the Fagette Duplicator: It's the Little sister of The Big Fag, and the bastard child of social media! A recently acquired stencil press that prints a unique and beautiful quality. _________________________________ |
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THURSDAY MAY 8, 08 BIG FAG PRESS presents the launch of its special edition, collectable, snazzy, BIG FAG PRESS BROCHURE as BIG POSTER To be opened by Glenn Barkley, curator at the MCA and one of the most prominent collectors of zine, posters and art ephemera. BIG FAG PRESS is a collectively owned, ethically operated, non-profit community printing press. No other such organisation has existed in Sydney for many years. Whilst much publicity and communication activity for community groups and artists has shifted its focus to an online environment, there is clearly still a need for physical, enduring documents which are, importantly, artworks in themselves. The gala event will launch a BIG FAG PRESS brochure that folds out to a massive A1+ poster, showing what the press is capable of. A collection of the press' output to-date will also be on exhibition. The launch will also be the chance for the collective to introduce its latest development, THE ACQUISITION OF A RISO MACHINE!, (to be called Fagette - Little sister of the Big Fag!) therefore expanding the facilities of the press and giving an extra needed push to Sydney's independent media. This project was assisted by a grant from Arts NSW, an agency of the New South Wales Government, through a program administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
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THURSDAY APRIL 10 For the next installment of the Jimmy Sing's Instore, we are proud to introduce the first ever GOODGOD BALL. _________________________________ |
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MONDAY APRIL 7 Punks With Melody! No, not our Melody, ...Melodic Punks! And not Marrickville, but SYDNEY!! OFF MINOR (USA) the DIAMOND SEA (Melb) with EUCALYPT (SYD) 9pm BYO
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MONDAY MARCH 3 You are invited to the first of a series of slideshow evenings, curated by Sydney's favourite songstress Singing Sadie. This Monday at 7pm (sharp) the following guests will present the Kimberly: Her Mexican Adventure Each presenter will be providing a plate of food from the desination Please send any queries to the organiser, singingsadie@gmail.com _________________________________ |
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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26 We are very pleased to present a Show 'N' Tell by enigmatic Singaporean artist Dennis Tan, who has been visiting Sydney for the past few weeks. Before he goes we are getting him to talk about his work, and about Singapore, and about whatever tangents come from those two topics. Dennis is the founder and housekeeper of the independent artist space The Other House in Little India, Singapore. In a city where every detail of public artistic activities must first be proposed to -and passed by - the government, Dennis will discuss the state of "independant" and subversive arts there today. Tuesday February 26, 8pm, _________________________________ |
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 25 Dorkbot is back at Sydney with very special guest curator and presenter Wade Marinowsky. Wade is a media artist working across installation, audio-visual performance, music and video. Recent highlights include his installation Autonomous Improvistation v1 at Artspace Sydney, 2007, and the demux (http://demux.org) launch at the Performance space, Sydney 2007. Wade will talk about the inner workings of Autonomous improvisation v1. His recent residency at Hexagram research Institute (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada) where he worked with robotic artist Bill Vorn (http://billvorn.com) and his current project involving autonomous robotics. http://marynowsky.net Also featuring Kate Richards with Mr Snow, and Mari Velonaki. Monday February 25. 19:00 for a 19:30 start. Dorkbot _________________________________ |
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MONDAY JANUARY 28 SYDNEY, Big Fag Press, SquatSpace, NUCA, and MICKIE QUICK presents:
A Slideshow/Artist Talk on the Street Art Workers (www.streetartworker s.org ) and their Land and Globalization poster campaign. Slideshow/artist talk on the Street Art Workers (www.streetartworker s.org) and their Land and Globalization poster campaign. SAW's founding member, Claude Moller, is in Sydney promoting SAW, and he will be on-hand to talk about the group, their international poster project, and state of street art in America. Established in the U.S. in 2OOl, SAW is a global network of artists who use graphic art to support social change. SAW makes and distributes posters internationally to publicize the work of local grassroots activism. The group relies on street art to take back cities and towns from the businessmen, cops, and politicians who define public space for their own benefit. Since 2001, SAW projects have talked about prisons, the mass media, and utopian ideas for the future. Claude Moller is the co-founder of SAW. He is a San Francisco-based activist/street artist who has been making murals, stencils and screenprints since the early 1990s. He is the co-ordinator of the SF Print Collective (www.sfprintcollecti ve.com), and the former manager of the Community Art Program at Hospitality House (www.hospitalityhous e.org). His work has been featured in numerous magazines and books, including Stencil Pirates, The Interventionists and Peace Signs. MONDAY JANUARY 28TH, 8PM _________________________________ |
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 It's break time! Time to get down to Jimmy Sing's for a drink and dwell upon 2007... and let us say thanks for supporting us through the year. We have special guest EDU K, all the way from Brasil, taking us through the INFOTAINMENT casual yarn about his baile funk production and multiplicity of cartoon characters tatooed down his arms :) This man put on amazing live shows over the weekend and people were clambering over one another to meet him, so he says let's do it over a beer... Wednesday Evening December 19. 6-9pm
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30 Intense Nest presents: CD Launch of F.I.S.T. (Freedom In Shit Together) by ALWAYS With guests Knitted Abyss and Circle Pit. It will be really lovely here at Sydney, a night of far-from-conventional music to delight your ears. Friday Novemver 30 9pm $7 BYO
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TUESDAY OCTOBER 23 DORKBOT-SYD : OCTOBER Two super presentations this month! And a show+tell. 1. Stephen Jones will be demonstrating and talking about a number of video synthesizers that he built between 1978 and 1986 (see pictured below for one). Stephen used these synths when performing live with Australian electronic group Severed Heads and in other projects. 2. Nick Wishart will be presenting CeLL, a MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra he has created in collaboration with Miles van Dorssen. They will be opening up CeLL to new composers via a new software interface that can receive compositions by email, play and record the composition then send that recording to the composer. Usual time and place. See you at 19:00 for a 19:30 speak off at SYDNEY, 302 Cleveland St, Sth West Surry Hills. For the uninitiated: DORKBOT is "PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY" Dorbot brings people together from different fields who are interested in doing strange things with electricity; be you artist, engineer, musician, electrician, software developer, hermit, whatever. Regular meetings pose as an opportunity for public discussion, peer review and exploration of ideas, experiments and finished works and also to solidify and invite growth, encouragement and collaboration in a Be there and be square! _________________________________ |
OCTOBER 2007 Raise the Bar is a community campaign for you to voice your opinions on new liquor licenses being proposed for NSW. The new laws will be decided upon in the coming weeks so we must act fast. Dave from Digital Eskimo who is spearheading the campaign says: "We are SO CLOSE to reaching our target of 5,000 virtual drinks to MPs in the Raise The Bar campaign's first action and we want to get there by friday for a media announcement ..." "so .. can you please send a drink and fwd this to your networks if you haven't already .. . i'll buy you a drink in the first new little cafe/bar that opens as a result of the changes!" There you have it folks. Hopefully that might be our very own beloved SYDNEY! http://www.raisethebar.org.au/ campaigns/send-your-mp-a-drink From: Digital Eskimo . Considered Design Level 4, 16 Foster Street, Tel: +61 (0) 2 9212 3366
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TUESDAY 25th SEPTEMBER DORKBOT-SYD : SEPTEMBER It's the annual Dorkbot Social! Our very special guest... To the left is a photo of a member of Sonton, who played with Toydeath at Bullets Bar in Tokyo Toydeath Be there and be square!
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 ATTENTION!!! THE NEXT INTENSE NEST IS AT SYDNEY!!! Intense Nest #5
Intense Nest is a monthly showcase of some of Australia's most diverse, confronting and weird music acts...This month we celebrate the album launch of the noisy guitar and drum improvisationalists, XNOBBQX,
302 Cleveland St, Surry Hills. $6. All ages. Intense Nest is the name of a project that aims to support Australia's experimental, weird, punk, underground music scene by organising music and performance events, and if all goes to plan, eventually releasing music by some of these artists.
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Check below for Nasty Tek's comic account of the first Old Gold session in the store...classic material :)
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SATURDAY AUGUST 25 REGGAE OLD GOLD time is on us once again! If you haven't experienced the Nasty Tek Sound System way of running things tomorrow night is the time! In true winter heating style down at Jimmy Sing's, the Old Gold sessions are always a solid mix thru of reggae and rocksteady gems. And this time, Nasty Tek's Judgement promises us we'll be picking it up for a good dose of early dancehall crankers as well! NASTY TEK'S REGGAE OLD GOLD VOL.3 Check out more info on Nasty Tek at:
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TUESDAY 21st AUGUST This month DORKBOT are having a screening of an extraordinary collection of fascinating footage! Bring along munchies and drinks and if there is something you would like to show bring it! THIS TUESDAY 21st! From 19:00 till Late at SYDNEY: 302 Cleveland Street, South West Surry Hills For the uninitiated: DORKBOT is "PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY" Dorbot brings people together from different fields who are interested in doing strange things with electricity; be you artist, engineer, musician, electrician, software developer, hermit, whatever. Regular meetings pose as an opportunity for public discussion, peer review and exploration of ideas, experiments and finished works and also to solidify and invite growth, encouragement and collaboration in a be there & be square! Every 3rd Tuesday of the month at SYDNEY
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MONDAY 16th JULY Be there & be square! http://dorkbotsyd.boztek.net/ _________________________________ |
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WEDNESDAY 11th JULY HERE WE COME with a BIG late announcement!
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MONDAY 25th JUNE 2007 Dorkbot will now be held at SYDNEY. Dorkbot is "people doing strange things with electricity" Dorbot brings people together from different fields who are interested in doing strange things with electricity; be you artist, engineer, musician, electrician, software developer, hermit, whatever. Regular meetings pose as an opportunity for public discussion, peer review and exploration of ideas, experiments and finished works and also to solidify and invite growth, encouragement and collaboration in a Please come to 302 Cleveland St Surry Hills at 19:00 for a 19:30 speak off. This month’s presentations: CONDUCTOR has just completed a Studio Residency at firstdraft gallery and will discuss developments made to their project during this period. MAX BREEDON who will be talking about his work The Indifference Engine. An absurd machine: a serial computer that makes a lamp flash pseudo-randomly using a non-linear mathematical formula adhering to the principles of chaos theory. be there & be square! Dorkbot will then happen at SYDNEY on the THIRD MONDAY OF EACH MONTH!
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WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL PLAY 2 UP HERE !!! Hosted by Toecutter who has this to say about it: ANZAC Day means fuck all to me except a chance to play the only gambling game which I find highly engaging. I've played it every year and never lost any money except up in The Cross ($60 in as many seconds!) However, it is said that there hasn't ever been any problems with addiction to two-up (except me!), which I reason is due to the unflinching fairness of the This year I asked Sydney if I could host a game at their fine establishment and I hope you can join me for an afternoon of side-betting, unusual wagers and NO CARLTON DRAUGHT! See you there,
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MONDAY 23 APRIL A WEED WORLD Nobody's ongoing project to reconnect people with plants (i.e. migrants with weeds) in an attempt to remind us all that the romantic view of an "Idillic Australian Landscape" is somewhat nationalistic. And Iriz-A-Maz from Germany, have been touring the Antipodes look for the weedy global players that share their interests. Iriz-A-Maz write: "in the industrialized western countries everybody talks about the globalisation of world trade, Iriz-A-Maz want to show that plants already did it. Outside everybody's front door: the globalized urban vegetation." Weedy Tea served from 7.30pm | Presentation from 8pm For more info: Iris-A-Maz: http://www.pioto.de.vu/ _________________________________ |
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SATURDAY 21 APRIL REGGAE OLD GOLD: INNA BLUES DANCE STYLE Sydney's premiere dancehall reggae veterans, Nasty Tek Sound System, are bringing their Reggae Old Gold blues dance to SYDNEY for the second time. After the sweet vibes of our first oldies dance, Mikey Glamour, Prince Andrew, Judgement and Laylo are returning for a free night of rocksteady, roots reggae, ska and early dancehall. There's also a rumour of the Japanese masters, Gold Finger Oceanz Gang, helping with the selection! So come round to Sydney inna yardie mode! First tune at 8pm with an earlish wrap at 1am! Bring friends and family: all welcome!
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SUN APRIL 1 THIS TIME: Films & Re-Enactments from London and Sydney Marvel at the stamina of those who were there for the 24 hours of the ‘Long Film for Ambient Light’ (March 16-17, The Performance Space) when Lucas and Louise show their time lapse video (where one hour becomes one minute) and invite those who were there during the event to share their “mental residues”. For details of other films/re-enactments to be viewed see the Teaching & Learning Cinema's website. |
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SAT MARCH 17 Captain Ahab: Up Close And Personal We are hosting an evening instore meet'n'greet slash OFFICIAL LAUNCH of the CD / VINYL of Los Angeles' fantastical raving loony duo CAPTAIN AHAB ! It's made to be the boys' perfect first night in Oz. Where the Ahab die-hards meet their heroes and the yet to be Ahab die-hards make up their mind. Opening at 8pm, Captain Ahab will be selecting some tunes, then at 9pm they'll be showing their hilarious video clips. After that, enjoy a Jimmy Sing VS. Toecutter turntable set. No, Ahab won't be performing live (because that's what they'll be doing the next Wednesday at Torso Corso, Club 77 and Friday at LanFranchi's Memorial Discoteque) but they'll be getting live for sure. Please join us for the fun.
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SUN MARCH 18 An evening with persistent friends: But this is anime at the highest level of storytelling. A hedonistic cockroach utopia becomes cockroach hell as an analogy about Japan's position relation with The United States: once holocaust victims of the latters military might, now living it up in boomtime decadence, but what if the US were to turn into an enemy again? Be forewarned: after you watch it, you might not want to swat or spray that roach in your kitchen quite so fast again. _________________________________ |
