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24 July, 2008

THIS MONTH
Next Wave amps up its post-Festival goings on with two major events: a series of free workshop for emerging artists in central Victoria in a few weeks, and the launch of the TEXT CAMP Reader, Next Wave’s critical art journal by emerging writers.

And, 2008 Next Wave Festival alumni build on their Festival success too with shows that re-contextualise their work and open it up to new audiences. Details, and links to more info, below ….

TEXT CAMP, launched at Hell
SWEET WORK, in Bendigo
HOUSE PROUD, at the Melbourn Art Fair
A SPOONFUL OF DIRT, online
WHALE CHORUS, in Brisbane
TAR GANG, in Melbourne

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Next Wave’s TEXT CAMP Reader Launch

Next Wave is proud to launch its latest publication, the TEXT CAMP Reader.

Edited by Rosemary Forde and designed by Chase & Galley, the TEXT CAMP Reader features written responses to over twenty 2008 Next Wave Festival projects by emerging writers.

The TEXT CAMP Reader looks and reads great, and next Thursday’s launch at Hell Gallery will feature special one-off artworks and performances, and a free bar and sausage sizzle (in addition to Steven Rendall’s current exhibition).

DETAILS here.

6 – 8pm, Thursday 31 July, 2008
Hell Gallery, 5a Railway Place, Richmond (off the laneway behind Coles Supermarket on Swan Street – map)

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Next Wave’s SWEET WORK, in Bendigo

Got an art idea that needs sweetening up?

SWEET WORK, Next Wave’s free workshop and mentoring program for central Victorian artists aged 30 years and under, is on this August. Artists are invited to learn about collaboration and working across art forms.

MORE DETAILS here.

REGISTRATION here (pdf).
Deadline Monday 4 August.

CONTACT
Tamara Marwood, Next Wave’s Associate Producer – Regional Projects
tamara@nextwave.org.au

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HOUSE PROUD at the Melbourne Art Fair

The 2008 Next Wave Festival hit project, House Proud, features as part of the Project Room section of the the Melbourne Art Fair next weekend.

Curated by Next Wave’s Tai Snaith for the 2008 NWF, House Proud was a series of art installations across eight domestic venues around Melbourne. At the Melbourne Art Fair, selected works from House Proud will be reconfigured and feature together in one presentation, in a kind of House Proud greatest hits show.

DETAILS here.
Melbourne Art Fair, 30 July to 3 August

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David Short’s SPOONFUL, online

2008 Next Wave Festival artist David Short has a curious new project titled Spoonful of Land where he is asking people to post him spoonfuls of land so he can test, measure, weigh, and price them.

DETAILS here.

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THE WHALE CHORUS, in Brisbane

A bunch of 2008 Next Wave Festival artists feature in The Whale Chorus at the Brisbane Festival Under the Radar next week.

Jealous Guys dance-off against operatic death maidens…all aboard a sweaty alien warship, dressed to kill, in this punchy self-titled show fresh from the Underbelly Festival in Sydney.

“Whale Chorus is mysterious and chaotic, a dream mutating into nightmare…it was exhilarating to see a young ensemble performing with total commitment.“ RealTime Magazine

Performed by Janie Gibson, Matt Prest, Phoebe Torzillo. Sound by James Brown.

DETAILS “here“http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/e_thewhalechorus.html.

Next Tuesday 29 July at 8.30pm
Then, Wednesday 30 at 12.30pm and 8.30pm, and Thursday 31 at 12.30pm and 8.30pm

Studio, Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, Brisbane, CBD.
$15/$10 + b/f
Tix thru OzTix 1300 762 545
www.brisbanefestival.com.au

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New shows by THE TAR GANG, in Melbourne

In their first major appearance since unleashing the sellout Four Rogues at this year’s 2008 Next Wave Festival, Pete and the Tar Gang bring their redeveloped musical storytelling show, Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon to The Butterfly Club, for two late night shows in the first weekend of August.

In one hour of ramshackle madness, the Gang regale a stunned and spellbound audience with ‘wild old musical tales’ of ghosts, nefarious characters, the sea, monstrous ‘Carbon Towns’ and Scottish yetis.

DETAILS here.

Pete and the Tar Gang’s Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon
The Butterfly Club
1 and 2 of August at 10:30pm
$20/15

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