DIY wotz on guide for the weekend of the 16th of August 2013

Friday – Elisha Bones @ The Polish Club

https://www.facebook.com/events/203338739825761

Pastel Galaxy Dreams Art Exhibition opening tonight!

http://juliettedudley.com/2013/07/28/pastel-galaxy-dream-art-exhibition/

From my facebook:

Thursday:

— VICES // REASON TO CARE Canberra @ The Basement

— ‘Snake Bite’ by Christie Thompson– Canberra Launch, Paperchain Manuka

— Daniel Savage -The Fall of Icarus – Drill Hall Gallery

— Pastel Galaxy Dream @ The Studio in Gungahlin

Friday:

— HellosQuare Presents: Andrew Tuttle (Anonymeye) @ Smiths

— A-TONEZ + OCEAN ‘Game Changer Tour’ – Fri 16th AUG – Trinity Bar

Saturday:

— Ornella Gourmet Pasta Tasting @ Foodlovers Belconnen

— Blahnket Pres. OISIMA/ELECTRIC SEA SPIDER/PRIZE @ Trinity

— Subsquadron @ The Clubhouse

Tuesday:

— Shadowhouse Pits @ Smiths

Open Day at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Centre (AKA Tidbinbilla Tracking Station).
http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/Archive/SOD_2013/sod2013.html

Everything free, bus tours of the complex, secial treat for Star Wars fans.

(BUT make sure you turn all communications devices OFF or in Flight Mode before you leave the main road. Phones and even Bluetooth devices can interfere with the deep space communications and the dishes are working in daylight hours, unlike visual observing.)

At the Phoenix:

Thursday 15th 9pm
Isaac Graham
Revellers (Acoustic)
Pete Akhurst

Saturday 17th 9:30pm
Wolfpack
Wretch
No Assumption

Sunday 18th 5pm
A Very Queer Frosty Festival
3 Dykes and a Mic
Speed Acquainting
Queer Talent

Monday 19th 8pm
Birds Love Fighting Present The Bootleg Sessions
Cracked Actor
Waterford
Central West
Cold House

From Facebook:

Thursday:

— Welcome Back To Messy Hands! @ La De Da

Saturday:

— Warbands Tournament @ National Library

Sunday:

— New Super Canberra StreetPass Meetup 6!

— The Ellis Collective Winter Residency

If you haven’t been, the Museum of Democracy (Old Parliament House) has free entry at the moment because of the election (usually $2 per person).

Otherwise, Geoscience Open Day Sunday.

From our Calendar:

Thursday:

— The People’s Parliament at Old Parliament House

Saturday:

— Learn to skateboard this Saturday. for FREE @ Tuggeranong Skatepark

— Short + Sweet returns to Canberra @ the Courtyard Studio

— Rufino and the Coconuts at the Polish Club

Sunday:

— CSIRO delivers free lectures for Science Week

— A Very Queer Frosty Festival

— Decades. The Sunday session with an awesome soundtrack @ Transit

All Weekend:

— Exhibition of Kevin Gilbert’s works at Civic Library

— Lichtenstein at the National Gallery

— 2113: A Canberra Odyssey @ CMAG

— Telephones at CMAG

— Turner to be the Winter Blockbuster at the National Gallery

— Design 29: Creating a Capital at the National Archives

— Behind the Lines, political cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy