RhiZomiC Poetry

RhiZomiC Poetry

the last Wednesday of every month

Poetry Party and open-mic

Featuring:

Judy Johnson

Judy Johnson has published three poetry collections. Individual poems have won many poetry awards including the Josephine Ulrick, Tom Collins and Banjo Paterson Prizes.  

Her verse novel Jack won the 2007 CJ Dennis Prize in the Victorian Premier's Awards. She lives in Newcastle with fellow poet and poetry publisher Rob Riel.

Wednesday July 27, 7-9 PM

Kerrie Lowe Gallery

49 King St. Newtown

Dan Disney | Sunday Poetry @ 2 | Brett Whiteley Studio | 24 July 2011

24 July 2011 | Dan Disney

Dan Disney was born in 1970 in East Gippsland, where he grew up. He has worked in psychiatric institutions, paddocks, warehouses, and universities, and currently divides his time between Melbourne and Seoul, where he lectures in twentieth-century poetries at Sogang University. Articles and poems appear in Antithesis, Cordite, Heat, Meanjin, New Writing, Orbis Litterarum, andTEXT, and this year his poems have received awards in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize (USA) and the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2nd). His first full collection of poems, And then when the, will be published by John Leonard Press in July 2011, and will be launched at Brett Whiteley Studio. www.dandisney.com.

28 August 2011 | Roberta Lowing

Roberta Lowing was Fairfax Media The Sun-Herald's film and video critic for twenty-three years and covered the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals for ten years, interviewing directors and actors and writing travel stories. In the late 1990s, she produced and directed 80 episodes of the environmental show Green Seen, which she co-founded, for the community television station Channel 31. From 2006 until 2010, she ran the Poetry UnLimited Press Readings in Sydney. Roberta recently completed her Master of Letters at the University of Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Meanjin, Blue Dog and Overland. Roberta's first collection of poetry, Ruin, was published in 2010 by Interactive Press. Fairfax Books has also published a collection of Roberta's reviews from the The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age.

25 September 2011 | Vivienne Plumb

23 October 2011 | Magaret Ruckert

27 November 2011 | Morgan Lewis

Dreamstates & Dreamscapes

Today! 3pm-5pm Saturday 23 July 2011

at Quirk-ability,
Shop 2 The Connection Arcade,
162-172 Church St,
Parramatta
(2 minutes from Parramatta Station)

Please join us for an afternoon of food and drinks and mingling art appreciation!

The results of an open call out, we will be showcasing painting, etching, drawing, collage, montage, photography and sculpture inspired by dream!

Featuring works by Anna Watts, Elisha Babooram, Ella Turner, Lin Tan, Lyndsey Hatchwell, Maria Haren, Merryn Spencer, Terri Tang, Unknown Quantity, Vicki Hedden, Alexis Apfelbaum, Michael Petchkovsky and Sarah Buick.

The show will be running until Thursday 18 August and Quirk-ability is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, see website for shop hours.

On the show this week (3)

18 Lives in Paradise (the installation)
Brook Andrew

More info here!

On the show this week (2)

Suffering for our Art? Achieving work/life balance in the Arts

July 2011

6.00-8.00pm, Monday 25 July 2011 Australia Council, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills A recent University of SA survey showed that most Australians are increasingly unhappy with the balance between work and life. Working in the arts brings its own particular challenges. For artists it often means practicing their artform and working another job to earn a living. Arts managers are often in the position of working a fulltime job but then having to attend evening performances. Working in the arts can offer more flexibility but it can also be an area where the demands beyond office hours are extensive. Is it harder to find a balance working in the arts? Do the rewards of doing a job that you’re passionate about make the juggle worthwhile? Or is that just a myth to keep us working harder and longer? And then how do you manage all this when you have a family or other caring responsibilities. Penny Miles discusses the challenges of juggling your art practice, work and family and the opportunities for arts organisations to meet the needs of their employees with a panel including artists, arts managers and a social policy academic. The panel includes: Teresa Bell is a writer, actor and director. Her play "Taizé" won the George Fairfax Award. She is Founding Director of the Australian Poetry Centre and her first book "36; formless writings" was released in 2009. She is currently doing a doctorate in Creative Writing at Wollongong University, falling in love with Elvis and being mum to a lively three year old and an incredibly busy six year old. Her next book of poetry "Under a Nightingale's Wing" will be launched at the Byron Bay Festival in August. She was also Artistic Director for Playworks and Mainstreet Theatre in Mt Gambier and was a producer for Performing Lines. George Catsi has an extensive and diverse 25 year background that overlaps film, theatre, film business, health and education and is currently completing a Doctorate in Creative Arts at UTS. He is the 2010 Kit Denton Writing Fellowship winner for his satirical evangelical piece I Want to Be Slim. George has performed in comedy, cabaret, stage and TV. As Executive Producer, he created RPAtv, an in-house health and wellbeing TV channel. RPAtv was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Award in 2006. George originally trained as a nurse before moving into the arts. From 1997-2001 George was Co-owner/Executive Producer of Flickerfest International Short Film Festival. He played a key role in restructuring and repositioning the Festival, achieving huge increases in audiences and building it into Australia's premier short film festival. In 2005 he was a juror for the 33rd International Emmy Awards and has been a pre-selector for various festivals including Flickerfest and Dendy Awards. George has a partner and two children, both boys. He refuses his children pets. Associate Professor Lyn Craig is Deputy Director at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. She has researched work-family balance, the time impacts of children, parenthood and the gender division of labour over a period of ten years, using time use analysis as her primary methodology. Lyn has held a Time Use Fellowship from the Office of the Status of Women (2005-06), an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-09) and currently holds an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (2010-14). She is a member of the NSW Premiers Expert Advisory Council for Women and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Statistics Advisory Board, and is author of Contemporary Motherhood (Ashgate, 2007). RSVP: Janelle Prescott info@samag.org or (02) 8250 5722 (msg only). FREE ENTRY for 2011 SAMAG Members / $10 for non-members / $5 for students. Please pay at the door - cash or cheque only. Half-yearly membership forms can be downloaded from membership page . SPECIAL EVENT Monday 29 August, 3.30-7.00pm THE POWER OF PEOPLE: ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE ARTS with Eliza Muldoon, an awarded lecturer at the School of Art History and Art Education within the College of Fine Arts (COFA). For further information visit SAMAG website. Visit us on facebook / twitter

Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group E info@samag.org T (02) 8250 5722 W www.samag.org P PO Box 18, Leichhardt 2040

On the show this week (1)

We have these guys:

BILLY BLUE YOUNG DESIGNERS IN COLLABORATION WITH OXFAM AUSTRALIA PRESENT
DESIGN4CHANGE EXHIBITION
Vibewire Enterprise Hub, 21 July – 28 July.
Design4Change, is an initiative of Oxfam Australia’s Youth Engagement team 3things, and works with design, communications and business students in their final year of study to create inspiring and innovative social justice campaigns, designed to create change.

Developed in 2007, the program has been successfully running in Sydney with UTS, UWS and Billy Blue students collaborating on a range of campaigns such as climate change and access to clean water.
This year’s projects focus on communicating and advocating for fair workers rights and better working conditions for people living in the poorest communities around the world.

Oxfam Australia is part of a global campaign to persuade sports brands to respect workers’ rights. Workers producing for companies like Nike, Adidas and Puma, commonly face low wages, long hours, verbal abuse, dangerous working conditions and denial of trade union rights.
Oxfam’s Labour Rights work aims to help workers, particularly women, build sustainable incomes, ensure that their rights are respected and that they have a voice in influencing decisions which affect their lives. We do this by supporting local organisations to educate workers about their rights and how to obtain them, and by campaigning to influence companies to respect workers' labour rights.
Please join us to open the exhibition and to celebrate the power of creativity, collaboration and Design4Change at 6pm, on Thursday 21 July, at Vibewire Enterprise Hub, 525 Harris Street Ultimo.

Industry guest speakers include:

Ben Peacock,
co-founder of Republic of Everyone

Matt and Pip,
Directors of the Loop.

MORE INFORMATION at www.3things.org.au/

MEDIA ENQUIRIES ABOUT DESIGN4CHANGE AND OXFAM AUSTRALIA Please contact Oxfam Australia Media Coordinator Charlotte Greig at charlotteg@oxfam.org.au

11k Raised For Largest Release Of Borneo Orangutans

We had Rebecca Murphy one of the artists featured in this event on the show a couple of weeks ago.

Check out pictures from the event here.