Friday 27 January, 10.30am. ACCA‘s annual bookshop sale is on. Get in there and get 20% off all ACCA publications. This is a great way to bone up on artists you pretend to know about – especially if you get a set of catalogues from the annual NEW exhibitions dating back to 2003. Those guys in the old NEWs are famous now! Also, as an introductory offer, they might as well be setting fire to the current Pipilotti Rist catalogue for $16. Ends 30 January.
Friday 27 January, 9am. The good people at Melbourne BikeFest have launched their 2012 program. It might seem like it’s been a long time coming, and it has! Because they changed the annual date from December to February, so they skipped 2011. This year’s festival will run from 17 February to 17 March and present more than 30 events including the fierce Better By Bike design comp, the ol’ favourite Bike Runway, a three-day market at Birrarung Marr and a new interactive Road Harmony project incorporating hilarity by Oslo Davis on takeway coffee cups. The full program is now online. Don’t forget to click on ‘satellite program‘ because that’s where it gets into the real nitty gritty. Like knitting, and a full moon Yarra River expedition and naked people.
Monday 16 January, 9.43. Joe Miranda and our friends over at the Hard Workers Club (beware, endless photo clicking) are putting together an event called the Independent Photography Festival, which we’re pretty stoked to be co-presenting alongside Parts & Crafts and the HWC’s sister site Tourisms. It’s happening in Melbourne from the 2nd to the 8th of April, and right now submissions are open for the inaugural IPF Photo Prize. All accepted submissions will be exhibited as part of the IPF 2012 program with prints on sale to the public by silent auction – and all proceeds from works sold returned to the artists.
Joe says, “We’ve also asked some of our more local friends to help us create a set of relevant and righteous prizes for our three prize categories (Judge’s Panel 1st & 2nd Place and a People’s Choice Award) and we’re gunning for a couple more big boy prizes to add to the mix, so until we have all that locked in, we’re holding back on what’s on offer, but rest assured we’ll look after you. We might try and make a publication of the work after the event, too.”
Click through here for the photo submission form, keeping in mind it’s a call out for printed images rather than digital files. Entries must be posted and received by Thursday 1 March, 5pm. But stay tuned for more IPF program updates before then.
IMAGE: By Ben Goddard
Sunday 15 January, 10.15pm. You may remember us banging on about the Tote calendar. The idea was first floated in 2010, then revived in late 2011 when Amanda P re-issued the call-out for photos. Now, without warning, it is here. Twelve months worth of black and white images celebrating 30 years of The Tote, a one-page introduction and Tote history by music writer Patrick Emery, boxes with the dates marked on them and a handy hole to hang it up with. Get yours for $15 from the Tote front bar.
Submitted by Robert, The Thousands cat reporter – seen here scoping out the Tote last week.
Wednesday 11 January, 1.20pm. Melbourne’s newest artist-run space Chapter House Lane is on the lookout for artists and curators to join their 2012 program. Aside from being super nice they offer artists space to show and sell work (taking no commission), help with exhibition installation, promotion AND launch nights. And they are next door to Alphaville in Flinders Lane.
What can do you do? “Well, I make a mean collage. And if you could just see me…” Don’t tell us! Tell them! In your exhibition proposal submitted by 31 January 2012. Have a lookie here for gallery floor plans and submission details.
IMAGE from Jelena Telecki, Radio, oil on canvas paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2011.
Tuesday 10 January, 1pm. Your bank balance must be informed of two events.
First, Arnsdorf, Dress Up, Carly Hunter, TV and above are having a one-day sale this Saturday 14 January at the Grace Darling. They will take up to 80% off everything including samples and one-offs.
Second, Alice Euphemia will be closing in February… FOR A MAJOR RENOVATION! We had you there for a minute didn’t we. To make room for the builders they’re holding an “everything must go” sale starting on Thursday 19 January at 9am, with 80% off dozens of labels and 30% off jewellery.
IMAGE (on left) from ARNSDORF ‘1979’ 2012 A/W southern hemisphere/ S/S northern hemisphere.
Tuesday 3 January, 6.17pm. WINONA WEEK. Rooftop Cinema is doing Winona Week and it starts tomorrow. Heathers (bitchy Winona), Edward Scissorhands (next door Winona), Mermaids (gumboots Winona) Beetlejuice (goth Winona) and Black Swan (stabby Winona).
The bad news is Heathers is sold out. Which is a shame because I got a note of Kurt Kelly’s. I need you to forge a hot and horny but realistically low-key note in Kurt’s handwriting, and we’ll slip it onto Martha Dumptruck’s lunch tray. Okay forget about Heathers. Mermaids is the one. It has amazing and weirdly current (amirite?) outfits, good song and dance advice and that hot cherry-popping scene in the church tower.
Tuesday 27 December, 4pm. Craft Victoria are looking for a Coordinating Curator. Is that you? Can you step into the fabulous departing shoes of Nella Themelios (figuratively, she’s taking her actual shoes)? You will need to know how to develop an exhibitions program and a public program and also manage budgets, eeep. Download the position description here, send a cover letter, a statement addressing the key accountabilities and a resume including two referees to CEO and Artistic Director, Joe Pascoe jpascoe@craftvic.org.au. Enquiries about the position can be made after January 9, applications are due by 12pm January 16 and they’ll interview people on January 23. Once you have jumped through all these hoops you can start using your staff discount at the Craft Victoria shop. Totally worth it.
Thursday December 22, 4.20pm. Ladies, there’s someone special you’ve forgotten to buy a present for. That someone is… you! DRESS UP didn’t forget. They’re giving all you special ladies 30% off all items in their web store, but only until December 31! If you are feeling special on January 1 it will be too late.
Tuesday 20 December, 4.06pm. As usual, Sticky will be holding their annual Festival of the Photocopier in February, but this time the zine fair won’t be in the Degraves Street Subway (can you spell crowded). Instead it will be in the capacious environs of the Melbourne Town Hall. Table registrations are now open. As always, stalls are free but booking is essential. Email downstairs@stickyinstitute.com asap. (Well, they say, “as soon as you can”.)
