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The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship keep changing the rules without considering reality. If this keeps up, I may no longer be able to be the Merch Girl - I have a permanent residency application pending and the rules already disadvantage me (no provisions for the creative industries). This makes me SO MAD.
The first Gentlemen’s Tea Party on the 14th of February has SOLD OUT!
Due to immense response, a second date has been announced!
Gentlemen’s Tea Party (all ages and genders welcome)
Woolloongabba Antique Centre, 22 Wellington Rd (cnr Nile St), Woolloongabba QLD
1:30pm to 5pm : 20th February 2010
$15 / $25 couples (inc tea and cake)
Tickets are highly limited - so get in touch at rubyfizz@hotmail.com now! I’m helping with bookings so get in touch with me too.
This is some awesome data! Margaret Simons has basically done extensive research on what freelance writers in Australia are paid, by publisher. Even Crikey, her host, isn’t spared. Thanks Margaret!
OzBurn Seed 2010
June 10th- 15th
(June long weekend 2010)The first ‘Australian Regional Burn’ !!!
Huh, I always figured that Woodford was Australia’s answer to Burning Man, but there you go. I might give it a go, so long as I had people to go with - I fled Woodford early in 2008 because I had the flu and couldn’t cope without medication! (and some other reasons, but hey.
It’s like Kickstarter, only more international. Right now it’s film-heavy but I’d love to give this a go for a future project. Now to think of one.
Performing the World 2010: Can Performance Change the World? September 30- October 3, 2010
New York CityThe sixth Performing the World conference will be held in New York City from Thursday, September 30 through Sunday, October 3, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference is: “Can Performance Change the World?”
With this theme, we ask performance activists and scholars to reflect on and address the political aspects of their performance work; at the same time, we invite social change activists to reflect on and address the performance aspects of their political activities. We are looking for proposals —for panels, workshops, performances, demonstrations, installations, etc. — that address this overarching question.
The sponsors of Performing the World — the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and the All Stars Project, Inc. — are based in New York City. For decades, both organizations have worked to create a performance-oriented culture and community, in conscious and direct relationship to progressive social change. Our activities involve all neighborhoods and social strata in New York City, and have created an international network of connections.
We envision Performing the World 2010 as a three-day “performance of conversation” with people from all over the world — scholars and researchers; teachers, therapists, social workers and community organizers; doctors and other health workers; theatre and other performance artists; union activists and business leaders; economists and political activists — on the subject of performance and the transformation of the individual, the community, and the world.
The question “Can Performance Change the World?” suggests many themes and topics. Here are a few:
- Does performance contribute to people seeing the world in new ways?
- Play, performance and learning in and outside of school
- Community, therapy and community therapy
- Playing at work and working at play
- New health care performances for connecting mind and body
- Therapy, performance and emotional growth
- How is the economy performing?
- What does performing on stage have to do with performing off-stage?
- Group creativity and social change
- Performance, activism and revolution
To submit a proposal, click here. Proposals are due March 1, 2010.Conference Fees (fees are for the entire conference; there is no day rate)
Before July 1, 2010: US$215
After July 1, 2010: US$245A key part of the Performing the World experience is the person-to-person connection — building new relationships with people from around the globe. If you need a place to stay during the conference, our International Host Committee will make every effort to find you one in the home of a New Yorker. Housing request forms are available here.
For any questions please contact conference producer Madelyn Chapman at mchapman@eastsideinstitute.org or 212-941-9400, ext 385.
Queering Sexual Violence seeks 20- 25 LGBTQ writers who are interested in submitting pieces that confront the current state of our anti- sexual violence climate. Part memoir/ part criticism/ part call to action, this anthology seeks to address the limitations of a society that is not only unequipped to deal with rape culture but also unable to look at it without the lens of heterosexual privilege and through the interests of a gender binary system. The anthology seeks to destroy the image of the “perfect survivor” and motivate the anti-sexual violence community to embrace a more radical perspective in order to foster sustainable change.
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Please send submissions and/ or questions to queeringsexualviolence@gmail.com by March 31, 2010. For extension requests, please write.
This whole “people I disagree with are stupid and look they talk funny” shit is dependent on the idea that the way the most privileged people in society speak and write is correct and all other ways of communicating are degenerate and wrong and indicative of a person’s intelligence (and thus their value).—
This is something I try to remember now, though I’ve definitely forgotten it in the past.
(via katoleary)
All the self-proclaimed “grammar nazis” I know (and I know quite a few) need to read this. I’ve actually been in an argument with someone who argued that people who use Ebonics are stupid for using “improper” English. Who decides what’s popular anyway?
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.— Ellen Goodman (via nihilnoetia) (via kendalllouise)
Agent Provocateur: Matinee Black
I think I’m developing a taste for black body lace, because look at this - AIEEEE PRETTY.
