2008 Next Wave Pegboard - 21 Feb

21 February, 2008

All the Next Wave news that matters:

/// Volunteer at NW, for free!
/// TEXT CAMP, call out
/// Penhouse Mouse
/// At the Adelaide Fringe
/// O Projects, call out
/// MFA at the VCA
/// TCB’s latest
/// A Whale Chorus, in Syd
/// A Forest, in Melb
/// Kings’ latest
/// Bec’s Green Room Nominations
/// FULL TILT, call out

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/// DO SOMETHING FOR FREE!

Volunteer at the Next Wave Festival this May.

Doing something for absolutely no pay never sounded so good: volunteer at the 2008 Next Wave Festival this year and see the Festival show you are working on for FREE!

For all the details click HERE
or call Mel at Next Wave on 03 9329 9422.

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/// Next Wave’s TEXT CAMP, now open

Applications are now open for TEXT CAMP, a writing mentorship program for emerging arts writers as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.

TEXT CAMP will be a three-stage program that will involve a workshop, a mentorship and a publication outcome. TEXT CAMP will help emerging writers build networks and will contribute to the critical and creative discourse surrounding the 2008 Next Wave Festival this May.

Applications close 5pm, Fri 14 March 2008.

Click HERE to download our TEXT CAMP info pack (PDF).
More info HERE)

TEXT CAMP is presented by Next Wave in association with Express Media and un Projects.

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/// Penthouse Mouse!

This pop-up shop hosting artists and designers opens this Friday night in Melbourne.

Taking over a dilapidated warehouse in Collingwood, this pseudo gallery/shop will be open as part of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and run until 9 March.

Featuring art by Next Wave’s very own Mel Upton, and a performance by the Roller Grooves, staring Next Waver Tai Snaith.

This Friday night 6 – 9pm
46 Stanley St, Collingwood, just off Smith St
RSVP essential at rsvp@penthousemouse.com
www.penthousemouse.com

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/// Two at the Adelaide Fringe:

Trouble on Planet Earth – Control the play.

Next Wave artists Matthew Kneale and Dan Koerner have collaborated with The Border Project to create this new performance work for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Each audience member has a controller that allows you to choose the direction of the story, events and characters’ actions all in real time. This work blows apart classic narrative, putting you behind the wheel to genre-hop through this story supermarket.

26 February until 16 March
Tues and Wed 7:30pm, Thurs to Sun 6pm and 9pm
Tickets $19/$15
Fringe Factory Theatre (The Crumpet Theatre) Elizabeth St, Adelaide.
www.myspace.com/theborderproject

Gifted and Talented

Every dog has her dance. One more sausage roll and two cans of solo. We are not here to be winners; we are here to be gods.

Tying kitsch suburban dancers to real life torture figures with obscene amounts of lycra, post presents ‘Gifted and Talented’, a new dance theatre work that ventures into the world of institutionalized control… and jazz ballet.
Next Wave artists post present Gifted and Talented at the Adeliade Fringe.

22 February – 9 March, 7:30pm
Fringe Factory Theatre, The Pastry Bakery,
The Old Balfours Pie Factory, Elizabeth Street
$15/$12 (plus service fee)
www.adelaidefringe.com.au

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/// O Projects, proposals call-out

O Projects is a new collaboratively-run artist space situated above Old Bar in Johnston St., Fitzroy, set up by Next Wave volunteer Laura Castagnini and artist Carl Scrase.

O Projects is calling for proposals from visual and performative artists, writers and curators.

Get on it!

www.oprojects.org
info@oprojects.org

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/// MFA at the VCA

The VCA Master of Fine Arts candidates present their work at the VCA Student Gallery.

Now until 29 February
Tues – Thurs 9.30am to 4.30pm, and Fri 9.30am – 3pm
VCA Student Gallery

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/// Front and Back, two shows at TCB art inc

FRONT SPACE: Shape It Any Way You Like by Laith McGregor
BACK SPACE: Kiera vs Kipowka by Kiera Brew Kurec

Now until 8 March
TCB art inc. Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne
Wed – Sat 12 – 6pm
www.tcbartinc.org.au

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/// The Whale Chorus

An epic spectacle of absurd-mundane-magic-heroic proportions.

Next Wave Festival artist Matt Prest presents The Whale Chorus – singing, dancing, fighting and a tempest! Featuring Matt with Janie Gibson, Phoebe Torzillo, Georgie Read and Alex Grady.

Opening next Thurs 28 February until Sun 9 Mar
Wed – Sun 8pm, Sun 5pm
At PACT Youth Theatre, Erskineville, 117 Railway PDE.

For bookings call PACT on 02 95502744 or email pactad@pact.net.au

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/// A Forest

Simple words and beautiful illustrations.

A Forest is a limited edition artist book and exhibition by Marc Martin, a designer associated with the Next Wave Festival.

A Forest is a fable, with watercolour, text and texta, telling a story of progress, development, environment and lifecycle.

Now until 8 March
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm, and Sun 11am – 5pm
Brunswick Bound Bookshop, 361 Sydney Road
http://www.smallandquiet.com/

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/// Opening at Kings

Opening this Friday night at Kings ARI is a set of three new exhibitions by Melbourne’s Haydn Salmon, Sydney’s Kelly Doley and Brisbane’s Amanda Watson-Will.

Fri 15 February, 6 – 8pm
Level 1/171 King St, Melbourne
Exhibitions run until 8 March 2008
Wed to Fri 3 – 6pm, Sat 12 – 6pm
www.kingsartistrun.com.au

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/// Bec’s Green Room Nominations

Bec Reid, Next Wave’s Associate Producer for Dance, has just been nominated for two awards in this year’s Green Room Awards, both in the ‘Best Concept and Realisation in Dance’ category. Bec has been nominated for her work on HOME (together with Stompin’s Artistic Director Luke George), and for 180 Seconds in Heaven or Hell. (180 Seconds returns this year in the 2008 Next Wave Festival in May.)

The Green Room Awards ceremony will take place on 20 April at the Arts Centre, Melbourne.

For more info about the Green Room Awards click HERE.

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And from a supporting partner …

/// FULL TILT: Call for Proposals

FULL TILT at the Arts Centre supports the development of new performance work by independent artists and small-medium companies. FULL TILT is now inviting proposals from artists and ensembles seeking support for new projects. Projects can be multi-artform but must be primarily performance-based. Projects also need to have the potential to eventually be performed in or around the Arts Centre’s venues. Approximately 5 – 7 projects will be selected for development between July 2008 – June 2009.

Deadline for proposals is 19 Mar, 2008

Visit theartscentre.com.au/fulltilt for further information.

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