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This Is: This Is Not Art 2010
Festival Club
Thursday 6pm – Midnight
Join us for the opening night party of the 11th This Is Not Art. Set in our new Festival Club, come together for cheering, frivolity and the inevitable incoherent speech.
Featuring: Caravan of Dooom and Kira Puru and the Bruise
Blip Showcase – Electrofringe
Newcastle Leagues Club
Thursday 7pm – Midnight
The world’s greatest chiptune musicians in one unforgettable night of lo-fi rump-shaking glory. Tickets $12+BF presale / $15 on the door / presale from electrofringe.iwannaticket.com.au
Featuring: Nullsleep (US), Bit Shifter (US) as well as local and international acts
Late Nights at the Gun Bar – Critical Animals
United Service Club
Friday & Saturday 7 – 10pm
On Friday we look at the uses of philosophy for poetry, on Saturday, the poetics of intoxication. Join in as our curated readings and discussion devolve into open debate.
Featuring: Tim Wright, Stu Hatton, Duncan Hose, Jal Nicholl, Bella Li, Corey Wakeling, Joshua Comyn, Tom Lee, Jess Wilkinson, Keri Glastonbury, Nick Keys and Harriet Johnson
Friday Night Showcase
Cambridge
7.30pm – 3am
Featuring: Jason Forrest (USA), Tantrums (Vic), Scattered Order, Geodesic Domes, No Anchor (Qld), PA, Cock Safari and Black Math
Tickets $12 +BF presale / $15 on the door / $20+BF two night festival pass (presale only) from www.moshtix.com, Cambridge Hotel and 1300 GET TIX.
Sketch the Rhyme – National Young Writers’ Festival
Festival Club
Friday 8.30 – 10.15pm
An interactive hip hop gameshow where speed drawing meets rapping meets live hip hop beats. Artists sketch on paper that is filmed and projected live. Rappers freestyle about what the artists are drawing.
Featuring: Sketch the Rhyme, Christopher Downes, David Blumenstein, Patrick Alexander, Rebecca Clements and Amber Carvan
Saturday Night Showcase
Cambridge
7.30pm – 3am
Featuring: Grouper (USA), Songs, Nhomea, Potato Master (Qld), Blank Realm (Qld), They Live, Anna Chase and Bare Grillz
Tickets $12+BF presale / $15 on the door / $20+BF two night festival pass (presale only) from www.moshtix.com, Cambridge Hotel and 1300 GET TIX.
American Gothic Ball – National Young Writers’ Festival
Festival Club
Saturday 8 – 11.30pm
Weird tales of deepest darkest America. Elvis fighting soul-sucking mummies. Cthulhu in Deadwood. Old bluesmen meeting the devil at the crossroads. Brush up on your Joe R Lansdale and Cherie Priest, put on your cowboy hat and neckerchief, and have yourself a rollicking occult time.
Soundclash – Sound Summit
Festival Club
Sunday 7 – 10pm
Showcase of the Soundclash initiative, a program of the Australia Council for the Arts that supports the creative development of music which takes risks and demonstrates innovation within the popular music form.
Featuring: kyü, Holy Balm and Collarbones
Year 12 Formal – Crack Theatre Festival
Crackhouse
Sunday 6 – 11pm
Bear witness to an event of tremendous significance: YOUR YEAR 12 FORMAL. Amidst the turbulent maelstrom of music, dancing and carnage, the audience is welcome to become performer, performer to become audience, woman to become man, dog to become bicycle!
Featuring: Hadley, Spill Collective, Svelt, Dead DJ Joke and every hormone-ridden artist in this city
Blind, As You See It – Crack Theatre Festival
The Playhouse
Thursday 7 – 8pm, Friday 4 – 5pm
A hybrid performance and exploration into the process of losing one’s sight. A visual, humourous yet delicate feast, this journey into darkness blends magic, original music, dance clowning, puppetry and visual (black art) theatre.
Critiquing Criticism: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better – Critical Animals
City Hall: Banquet Room
Friday 10 – 11.30am
A conversation about the role of the critic — nurturer or discerner; impartial judge or cosy coteriean; good cop, bad cop — and the current state of criticism. Co-presented with Macquarie University Faculty of Arts.
Featuring: Fenella Kernebone, Lisa Dempster, Andrew Ramadge, Naomi Milthorpe and Shaun Prescott
ETS’ and Ecosystems: Environmental Writing in an Election Year – National Young Writers’ Festival
City Hall: Mulubinba Room
Friday 1 – 2.15pm
It’s the vanguard of journalism for this generation, but writing climate change is tricky business. Grassroots activists, writers and mainstream journos discuss the challenges of navigating the politics, economics and science of contemporary environmental journalism.
Featuring: Anna Krien, Ben Cubby, Leisel Rickaby, Rebecca Clements and Scott Foyster
The Rimming Club – Crack Theatre Festival
Crackhouse: Grand Lodge
Saturday 7 – 8pm
Four estranged friends reunite on a Greek island, hoping to reclaim the summer that forever changed their lives. But has too much changed? Can you really ever escape the past? What does poo taste like? All your faves ass to mouth NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!!1!!!
Featuring: Sisters Grimm
For further information, please contact Hannah Cooper on 0431 985 018 / media@thisisnotart.org.
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