[ 18 May, 2012 to 20 May, 2012. ]

And so we come to the end of another fun filled week in the Capital.

What’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend?

Just leave your ideas in the comments.

Animator Simon Cottee is calling Canberra home to request your help to make his next animated film:
Hiya riotact!
My name is Simon Cottee and I’m a short film maker and animator. I grew up in Canberra and 4 years ago moved to Brisbane to study animation. Though I still consider Canberra home as all my family [...]

The Canberra Times reports Screen Australia funding for a second feature film based on Anu Singh and the killing of her boyfriend Joe Cinque.
Apparently the Helen Garner book will be the basis of the film.

The Folk Festival is a strange beast for a few reasons:
– It relies on vast armies of volunteers working for free (often in highly professional capacities).
– It charges like a wounded bull. Seriously it hoovers money out of my wallet harder than any casino I’ve visited.
– It pays the most cursory to negligible [...]

[ 11 May, 2012 to 13 May, 2012. ]

As another productive week draws down it’s time to consider the merriment of the weekend.

What is worth seeing and doing around Canebrra over the next few weeks?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

[ 4 May, 2012 to 6 May, 2012. ]

After a rare full week of work there’s a properly deserved weekend coming up here in Canberra.

So what’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments!

[ 16 May, 2012; 7:30 pm; ]

Facebook brings word of returning mayhem:

THIS IS THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! MAY 2012 SPECIAL EDITION INVITATION

That means, prizes, yes, prizes, for poetry, special prizes for poetry

And The Batman

Because we want you onstage with your 2 minutes, your original material, and your no props

ALL SO YOU CAN WIN AT LEAST ONE OF OUR THREE, FOUR, MAYBE FIVE [...]

[ 5 May, 2012; 7:00 pm; ]

Banned by censors, lauded by Sigmund Freud,  now performed live by Justus Neumann at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

FREE Special Fringe Event to the 2012 Audi Festival of German Films

Celebrated Austrian performer, Justus Neumannwill perform a theatrical reading of exerpts from the controversial play ‘Der Reigen/La Ronde’by Arthur Schnitzler on May 5.

Originally [...]

Let’s face it Canberra, we’re not likely to win an NRL premiership any time soon.
But we’re in with a shot in the global Hooping Idol competition.
Following on from the exciting news that we have an entrant, Jasmine has informed us that voting is open again for this week:
Voting has opened for the next round of [...]

[ 17 June, 2012; ]

The Phoenix has sent in the entry form for their upcoming Short Film Festival (which I’m entertaining vague hopes of maybe getting on the judging panel for hence the plug as much as anything).

Here’s the blurb:

The Phoenix Pub is holding a short film festival on the 17th June and we’re looking for short films.

The films [...]

Wild rumours were circulating this morning that the Board of Gorman House had been sacked or resigned.
Gorman House has informed us there have been no sackings or resignations.
So there.

[ 27 April, 2012 to 29 April, 2012. ]

It’s been a damn funny week with a public holiday in the middle to confuse us all.

But the weekend is hard upon us!

What’s worth seeing and doing around town?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

[ 11 May, 2012 to 26 May, 2012. ]

Phoenix Players have announced their upcoming production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the ANU Arts Centre.

There’s also a lengthy info page on the production.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is one of the funniest and most loved musicals of all time. Based on the book of the [...]

ANU has published to YouTube an hour and a half of Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Kraus in conversation here in Canberra with this lengthy note:
Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled ‘Something [...]

[ 20 April, 2012 to 22 April, 2012. ]

It’s not shaping up as a great weekend to be outdoors. So what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend as the wet weather rolls on?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and thanks to Supa Productions reviving the musical even a hyperlocal website can write about it.
I was fortunate enough to be invited to the dress rehearsal. Dress rehearsals are a mixed blessing, depending on how the production went they can be a bit raw, [...]

Last night I was listening to Brisbane community ration 4ZZZ’s chat to slam poet Darkwing Dubs mostly to hear what they had to say about Canberra’s Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! poetry slam.
So I was a bit surprised to learn from this unlikely source that Canberra’s champion of the spoken word, Adam Hadley (aka Hadley, aka Jacinda), is moving [...]

[ 13 April, 2012 to 15 April, 2012. ]

It’s been a short week (you know you’ve got a proper job when you come to hate the disruption of long weekends instead of celebrating the chance to bludge) but wishing won’t make it otherwise and here comes the weekend.

What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 14 April, 2012 to 5 May, 2012. ]

With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic coming up this week it’s hard to say whether it’s the media or the public with more interest in the photogenic event anniversary.

It could really only be overdone with the introduction of zombies.

But fear not, Canberra will not miss out on the global nostalgia kick! [...]

[ 5 April, 2012 to 9 April, 2012. ]

It’s the longest of long weekends, so what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra?

If you’re so smart you must know about something right?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

Every Thursday morning I click over to The Escapist to see what Yahtzee has to say on Zero Punctuation.
Today he explains in his normal eloquent way that tacking zombies onto whatever you’re doing in the hope of tapping into the zeitgeist has well and truly jumped the shark.
I bring this up because local creatives have [...]

[ 30 March, 2012 to 1 April, 2012. ]

2012 is hotting up (figuratively) and the blockbusters of summer are winding up.

What’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend?

Just share your thoughts in the comments.

[ 29 March, 2012; 6:30 pm; ]

This has come in and is far too good not to share [Video only safe for work with headphones]

Steven Bailey and Tom O’Niel will be hosting a reading of works by the decrepit American poet Charles Bukowski at Smith’s Bookshop

Thursday 29 March, 6:30pm. Wine will be served – teetotallers need not attend.

[ 23 March, 2012 to 25 March, 2012. ]

OK Rioters, we know you’re all very clever.

How about helping out your fellow Canberrans by letting people know what’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend.

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 5 April, 2012; 8:00 pm; ]

Ex-Canberrans Callum Padgham has been in touch to let us know he’s bringing his film “Frienddad” to Canberra for a Dendy Screening. From the facebook page:

WHEN YOUR MOTHER NEEDS A LOVER
AND YOU WAKE UP TO DISCOVER
THAT YOUR FRIEND IS NOW YOUR FATHER…
it’s FRIENDDAD

Frienddad is an Australian made independent sitcom parody, which tells the story of [...]

Yesterday the You Are Here festival transformed the little used courtyard down off Akuna Street (Above where Electric Shadows used to be, next to where Toast used to be) into the venue for an inspired prison rules basketball competition amongst local bands.
Mixing short sets from the bands and very short three on three half-court basketball [...]

[ 15 March, 2012 to 19 March, 2012. ]

OK Rioters, the sun is shining and at the end of a short week there’s another weekend to plan.

What’s worth seeing and doing around town?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

This Saturday the old Toast Courtyard (above where Electric Shadows used to lurk? Erm.. current reference… up the stairs from the Indo Cafe!) plays host to four of Canberra’s most accomplished bands AND a prison rules basketball comp between the bands.
This madness could, of course, only be the product of You Are Here:
Triple J [...]

[ 14 March, 2012 to 11 April, 2012. ]

“A captivating new generation of French filmmakers will showcase their productions in
the Nation’s Capital”(Phillipe Milloux, Alliance Française’s Chief Representative in Australia and Canberra’s
French Film Festival Director)
14 March – 1 April

Australia’s most successful touring film festival returns, with the NFSA’s Arc Cinema again co-hosting Canberra
screenings with the Greater Union Manuka cinemas, with [...]

Upon arrival at Art, Not Apart I spotted crotchet rugs scattered with cushions and striped deck-chairs which were all too inviting on such a sunny day. I stopped a while to listen to the eclectic Goji Berry Jam and peruse my brown paper program. Some walked by quizzically, unaware of Art, Not Apart’s existence until [...]

Canberra100 has announced the start of their big reveal for events in Canberra’s centenary year kicking off in 9 months.
2013 is a special celebration not only for Canberrans but for all Australians.
A special glimpse was launched on 12 March 2012 for Canberra’s 99th birthday.
The planned year-long program will include new and exciting projects, but [...]

Kaylia Payne
What is better than spending an evening spent curled up in a cosy bookstore eating cheese and drinking wine? Spending an evening curled up in a cosy bookstore eating cheese and drinking wine while people read to you.
That is exactly what You Are Here had on offer Thursday night at Smith’s Alternative Bookshop. Forget [...]