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Puffio Theatro.
What a funny old year it's been, eh lads? Lasses? Oh well, just a thought. It's as well you read this guff because there's several important points to note. Firstly, this is the second last edition of dB Magazine for 2005 - the final edition being a yearly round up sort of thing comes out next Wednesday 21 Dec. At which point holidays are allowed, but only until early January because the first edition for 2006 hits the mean streets on Wed 11 January.
Are you feeling politically motivated and just a little empowered?
Good for you! The Minister for Youth and the Media Resource
Centre are proud to announce the 'Minister for Youth's Young
Filmmaker's Human Rights Award', which is an annual competition
for those between the age of 12 and 25, and requires you to
submit a film that deals with human rights - either from a youth
perspective - or detailing the impact human rights has on young
people. There's $3000 up for grabs, which is awarded at the
Short Film Awards held on Fri 21 April 2006 at the Mercury Cinema.
For entry forms and more info, check out http://www.mrc.org.au/
Do hopeful police persons sing Silent Night plaintively? Has anyone else noticed these paragraphs are all kicking off with a question? What does it mean? Anyway, in 'Carols At The Academy' the South Australia Police present their Christmas Concert down at the Fort Largs Police Academy, wherein you will find free children's amusements, Humphrey Bear, Ticklish Allsorts, Father Christmas, and lots of coppers, obviously. The gates to the fort will groan and creak open at 6pm and entrance is free - mind you, they do request you bring a can of food for a good cause. The date in question is Fri 16 Dec.
In news which seemed plainly contradictory, it was reported
that 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire' had set the Australian
box office on fire! A slight smouldering was more on the money,
since the latest 'Harry Potter' movie grossed $3,203,779 on
its opening day, which we were breathlessly informed equated
to a screen average of $5,804 on 552 screens across the nation.
Further down the page was the further information that this
sum made the movie only the sixth highest grossing of all time
in this country. With what counts as a fairly substantial lead,
the #1 in Australia is 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of
The King' on $5,289,477. Furthermore, the other two The Lord
Of The Rings' movies are up there too.
Coming up through December and January at the Adelaide Festival Centre is the season of summer activities they call the 'Big Backyard', a pot pourri of events and performances and showcases designed to keep things interesting over the summer holiday months. The 'Big Backyard' program offers a diverse range of events performances and activities for everyone to enjoy... and one of those activities is the opportunity to celebrate Indigenous cultures through 'Anangu Backyard: The Art Of Storytelling In Far North South Australia' from Sat 17 Dec and stretching through to mid February in the Artspace. 'Anangu Backyard' will include a free exhibition of new works by established and emerging Angangu artists available for purchase. Additionally, over two weekends in the Artspace on 13-15 and 20-22 Jan there'll be Anangu Artist Story Telling and Workshops conducted. Grab a copy of the 'Big Backyard' program or keep an eye on dB Magazine for details.
Meanwhile, over in TV land, things have assumed a somewhat surreal
air. Can it really be the ABC who are bringing such lifestyle
tripe to your screen? You betcha; they've plumbed the depths
of crass and the vainglorious with the announcement that they
have secured the services of Australian television legend (translation:
old hack) Johnny Young to host a new early evening show 'The
Pet Show'. Yep, you guessed it: mutton dressed as lamb... there'll
be a 'SuperVet' segment for pets, who each week will solve a
different behavioral or medical problem; a Specialist Chef will
be cooking up tasty treats for the pets and talking about nutritional
requirements and loads of other rubbish. Puffio tips a segment
called 'celebrity pet'... Tues evenings around 6.30pm sometime
in March. Pah!
Somewhat laughably, elsewhere the ABC's Managing Director Russell Balding announced "a dynamic array of initiatives for ABC TV in 2006 - everything from new dramas, multi-platform programming for the youth market, to new arts ventures and an irresistible new sports quiz." And pets. Mind you, there are two programs which make the pulse quicken: a new drama entitled 'Bastard Boys', a four- part series about the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute between Patrick Stevedoring and the Australian Maritime Union. You might expect the writs to fly over this one, so no bets are being taken as to whether it will ever make it to TV. However, fans of the often missed and usually slotted into late night oblivion US show 'The West Wing', read on. Series 4 is due on ABC TV sometime early in 2006, presumably because the commercial network who owned the rights previously didn't have a clue how to deliver the show to an audience.
Congratulations to the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), who are
cock-a-hoop that their 2004 initiated 'Jacky Redgate Survey'
and the CACSA published monograph 'Jacky Redgate 1980-2003'
have just been launched at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Sydney.
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