Contributors - Sophie Tarr - Concrete Playground Sydney

film Balibo

Friday, 14th August - Wednesday, 30th September
@ Various cinemas

Actors who announce, with much ado, that they have decided to work on such-and-such a film for free tend to get on my nerves: as if film stars who deign to play at make-believe pro bono deserve special veneration. And then along comes an actor like Anthony LaPaglia, in a...

performing Rock, Paper, Scissors

Wednesday, 29th July - Saturday, 22nd August
@ Old Fitzroy Theatre

The unrelenting onward march of technology. The thrill of unbridled power. And, er, puffins. Forty-six million, two hundred thousand puffins.Rock, Paper, Scissors takes us way back to 1995, to a lighthouse on Muckle Flugga, Scotland. It’s home to Pat (Rob Flanagan) and Ronnie (Sean Barker), a whole lot of birdlife,...

film The September Issue

Tuesday, 18th August - 3AM
@ Various cinemas

It’s been said that the British royal family’s descent into irrelevance began in the late 1960s, when they agreed to be involved in a television documentary cunningly titled Royal Family. Anna Wintour, Queen of Fashion, had better hope The September Issue doesn’t sound out a similar death knell for her.This...

art free COFA Spring Fair 2009

Sunday, 20th September - 3AM
@ COFA Paddington Campus

Spring is definitely sprung. We know this partly because the grass is riz and lambs are getting frisky and what not, but the main clue is that over at COFA, folk are getting stuck into preparations for their annual Spring Fair.Live music, exhibitions and food will all be on offer,...

film Go! Go! Kill! Kill! A Russ Meyer Retrospective

Saturday, 12th September - 11AM
@ Chauvel Cinema

The late director Russ Meyer has had his work described as sexist, degrading and exploitative. This is pretty accurate. His work also happens to be a little bit brilliant. Kitschily, inexplicably brilliant.Over five weeks, the Chauvel Cinema will be bringing Meyer’s 60s and 70s aesthetic to Sydney in this over-the-top...

art film free travel music performing play This Is Not Art Festival

Friday, 2nd October - Monday, 5th October
@ All around Newcastle

Granted, the folks behind Newcastle’s This Is Not Art festival are doing a lot right, but you’d think that by their tenth year they might have realised the jig is up. So, a little friendly advice, TINA: we’ve heard that ‘not art’ schtick before, and baby, we’re not buying it.TINA...

free Launch: How to Make Trouble and Influence People

Thursday, 3rd December - Saturday, 5th December
@ Various

We all remember that time you stole Georgia Hutchison’s shoes after PE, and she came out of the shower all kind of confused and it took her ages to realise they were actually out in the playground being poked by curious ibises. She was kind of a mean kid and...