Inventing the Tradition is designed to be challenging and, above all, to be entertaining and
stimulating. It is a festival not a conference but it has the serious
aim of investigating the relationship between the mainstream and the
margins, between tradition and the avant-garde. Poets will be reading
from their own work but they will be contextualising their readings by
reference to poets whom they admire and by briefly mentioning the
theories, traditions (or anti-traditions) from which they write.
Readings will mix ‘n match poets from different aesthetic theories and
practices to expose the audience to different ways of thinking about
poetry. It is hoped you will hear poets and ideas that you may not have
met before in Sydney.
We are pleased that the Judith Wright Memorial Lecture will be delivered this year by Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Chris is one of Australia’s most respected poets and academics. He is
also Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre and Interim Co-Chair of
Australian Poetry.
Papers from the festival will be published in a special edition of Five Bells towards the end of the year. They will make a significant contribution
to discussions about the nature and scope of contemporary poetry in
Australia and spread the ideas beyond the festival’s specific time and
place.
Dates: Friday 3rd September – Sunday 5th September
Time: Between 10 am — 5:30pm, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September.
Location: Central Sydney festival events take place in Kings Cross over 3, 4 and 5 September.
The cocktail party: will be held at The Sugar Mill on Friday 3 September
Date: Friday 3rd September
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm, Friday 3 September.
Venue:in the cocktail bar of the Sugarmill Hotel,
Address: 33-37 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross
Main festival events: will take place in the Rex Centre at Kings Cross.
Address: 58A Macleay Street Kings Cross (entrance across the square from the El Alamein fountain and next to the post office, near Baroda Street),
Accommodation: Festival guests are staying at the De Vere Hotel,
Address: 44 - 46 Macleay Street, Potts Point.
Accommodation, restaurants, cafes and pub are plentiful.
CarriageWorks is delighted to be taking part in the Sydney Fringe this September. Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements about shows and events happening as part of the Fringe.
Bursting up from September 10 to 26, The Sydney Fringe is a multidiscipline cultural event that showcases the best in emerging contemporary cultural practice, and profiles the breadth of new art and its artists. The largest alternative arts event in NSW, The Sydney Fringe will be a peek underneath at the urban and the unconventional, with activity ranging from edgy, alternative theatre to major concerts and visual arts openings; from free one-off laneway events, street art and buskers, to all night parties, and performances of all scales. Its curated program of approximately 150 shows and events will encompass performing, literary and visual arts and include theatre, dance, film, poetry, books, digital media, gaming and more.
Taking its home in the theatres, galleries, clubs and public spaces of Sydney’s Inner West, The Sydney Fringe will be highlighting the unique characteristics of our community – its independence, diversity, innovation and authenticity.
The Sydney Fringe has been founded by the Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association (NEPA), an alliance of Inner West arts and cultural venues including Carriageworks, the Seymour Centre, the Enmore Theatre, Newtown and New Theatres, the Factory, Vanguard, Sidetrack, PACT Youth Theatre, Cleveland Street Theatre, the Red Rattler, Madam Fling Flongs, and many other theatre and music venues. The Sydney Fringe is supported financially by the City of Sydney and the City of Marrickville.
This
is part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, supported by Marrickville
Council. Think Reclaim The Lanes reversed. Think night time. Think
ambient lighting and the smell of promise that Newtown can have on a
Friday night. Think about a whole bunch of shit..... As as opening
gambit for the Sydney Fringe Festival, we invite you to come on a tour
of Newtown's environs, from the infamous dogpark down to the Imperial
Hotel for a tour o...f the forgotten bits of the Inner West. Featuring
Vix Brown, Justin Shoulder, Andy Medina, and many more, MC'ed by the
amazing Jess Cook from Token Word Infamy, with mobile soundsystems and
suprises along the way finishing in a flash mob style art fair for 15
minutes only at the end. One-off, never to be repeated, this will
remind you why your environment can still be exciting, and the pure
power of quasi spontaenity. We love our neighbourhood. Come join us....
Featuring SUPER MELODY (Live 4-Piece!) Saturday September 11, 2010 Mad Racket proudly revives the Supa Funn party brand for a super special ultra live performance. Super Melody is the creation of Melbourne’s James Cecil, one-time member of globe- and genre-trotting pop group Architecture In Helsinki. After several years of recording in suburban studios in the garden city, with drum sessions conducted amid ‘tense negotiations’ with neighbours, the debut Super Melody album “Destination Unknown” is ready for the world.
Super Melody will rattle the copper ceiling with a 4-piece lineup that features Cornel Wilczek shredding the lead guitar, and a rhythm section of Sashi Dharann (bass) and Tom Gould (drums and samples) of euphoric party-starters World's End Press holding it all together. Mr Cecil is the unique front man – part crooner, part mad scientist, part tropical percussionist. Don’t miss the first ever Super Melody show in Sydney! Providing the beat treats and the platters that matter will be the Racketeers Jimmi James, Zootie, Ken Cloud and Simon Caldwell.
Spring is in the air, we have a well hung parliament, and Mad Racket Supa Funn Ultra is just around the corner. Things are looking up!
For our next installment we present Melbourne’s Super Melody, a band formed by ex-Architecture In Helsinki member James Cecil. They will be showcasing the quirky electronic pop of their debut album “Destination Unknown” in four-piece mode. Don’t miss their first ever Sydney show alongside the four Racketeers. Check out a recent video clip by Super Melody on our Blog here.
As a little bonus to help you warm up, click here for a live mix by Jimmi James, recorded at Disco Circus in July… Soundcloud link here...
See you under the copper ceiling…
X Racket
MAD RACKET presents “SUPA-FUNN II ULTRA”
Featuring SUPER MELODY (Live 4-Piece!)
Saturday September 11, 2010
Mad Racket proudly revives the Supa Funn party brand for a super special ultra live performance. Super Melody is the creation of Melbourne’s James Cecil, one-time member of globe- and genre-trotting pop group Architecture In Helsinki. After several years of recording in suburban studios in the garden city, with drum sessions conducted amid ‘tense negotiations’ with neighbours, the debut Super Melody album “Destination Unknown” is ready for the world.
Super Melody will rattle the copper ceiling with a 4-piece lineup that features Cornel Wilczek shredding the lead guitar, and a rhythm section of Sashi Dharann (bass) and Tom Gould (drums and samples) of euphoric party-starters World's End Press holding it all together. Mr Cecil is the unique front man – part crooner, part mad scientist, part tropical percussionist. Don’t miss the first ever Super Melody show in Sydney!
Providing the beat treats and the platters that matter will be the Racketeers Jimmi James, Zootie, Ken Cloud and Simon Caldwell.
Australia’s largest and most exciting kite flying festival, Festival of the Winds, is on again this September at Bondi Beach.
The skies will come alive with hundreds of kites of all shapes and sizes from local and international kite-makers and flyers. There will also be fabulous Delta and Free Form kites from the Australian Kiteflyer Society members who will showcase their own designs, as well as kite designs from India, Malaysia, China and Japan.
“It’s not just the experts who come to fly their kites—anyone can join in the fun!” explained Waverley Mayor, Clr Sally Betts.
“If you don’t have your own kite, you can buy a variety of styles from one of the many kite stalls or better still, make your own at one of our kite making workshops, available throughout the day.”
As well as kite flying, visitors can enjoy a dynamic entertainment program in the Bondi Pavilion Courtyard Amphitheatre, with great free multicultural music and dance workshops. There will be children’s entertainment including rides, face painting, an animal farm, wandering minstrels, jugglers, stilt walkers, puppeteers, clowns, craft workshops and rides. Other activities include Pacific Fly Motion Bungy trampoline, multicultural food stalls with food and drink from all over the world, and a spectacular, free of charge, aerial art exhibition in the Bondi Pavilion Gallery.
If you’re up for a great day out, the only place to be on Sunday 12 September is down at Bondi Beach for Sydney’s most colourful, fun-filled, family-friendly Festival of the Winds.
For further information, call the Bondi Pavilion on 8362 3400.
Part of Crave Sydney, the Sydney International Food Festival is a
month-long feast of extraordinary food events, from fine dining at the
city’s leading restaurants to street fairs and night markets, community
picnics, barbecues, cooking classes, tours and tastings. October 1 - 31.
Newtown Festival is an iconic Sydney festival, creating an annual community celebration of creativity, diversity, sustainability and inclusion. Each year more than 80,000 people gather at the festival to become part of an amazing fusion of music, the arts and grassroots community expression. Newtown Festival is organised by the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC) and for more than 30 years the centre has given the festival to its community as a free event.
