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Splendid is open to young and emerging artists (under 30 years old or in the first 5 years of their practice) who work in the visual arts, theatre, dance, design, installation, architecture, digital media, sound, text, community arts and other creative pursuits.

The program includes a residential Arts Lab, mentorship and opportunities to promote your work to major festival audiences in Australia and internationally.

Selected cross-artform projects developed in the Lab will be designed to premiere at Splendour in the Grass 2011 and other music festivals.

Splendid Arts Lab: 29 July to 13 August, 2010

Artist Initiated Residencies
Closing date: 4 May 2010

The Inter-Arts office supports artists to initiate residencies for professional development working in interdisciplinary and hybrid arts.

Applications are encouraged from artists in all states and territories, regardless of where the residency takes place.

Inter-Arts Projects
Closing date: 1 December 2010

Inter-Arts Project grants support artists investigating emerging artistic practice through interdisciplinary and hybrid arts.

We welcome applications from artists exploring participatory experiences such as:
live performance and/or inter-activity in networked environments
creative agency for audiences, thus blurring the lines between ‘creator’ and ‘viewer’
mixed or augmented realities that enhance public space and facilitate the interaction between diverse communities.
innovative processes for artistic collaborations that involve new partners and resources
All applicants are encouraged to contact Inter-Arts staff to discuss proposals before applying.

You can also follow the Inter-Arts office on Twitter for more immediate updates

The Black Lung Theatre is a borderline-psychotic not-for-profit Melbourne collective devoted to experimental, devised and avant-garde theatre. Anticlimactic, brutal, and a little unsettling, The Black Lung Theatre are rapidly gaining a reputation as the new iconoclasts of Melbourne theatre, developing a significant cultish repertoire, and winning multiple awards from both the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals.
See Alison Croggan’s reviews of Black Lung’s Melbourne works

Since 2000, Bibi Bulak, the ‘Crazy Goats’ have established themselves as East Timor’s premier performance arts company. In the world’s newest nation, Bibi Bulak creates work that is made by & for East Timorese in the lingua franca Tetum. Based in Dili at the Arte Moris Cultural Centre, Bibi Bulak also runs workshops training young Timorese.

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CULTURAL EXCHANGE

In March 2010 the Black Lung will begin a one week development of a new project with members of Bibi-Bulak in Dili produced by 32˚ – Brown’s Mart Producing Hub.
The two co-artistic directors of Black Lung, Tom Wright and Thomas Henning will be joined by 32˚ Creative Producer Alex Ben-Mayor and cinematographer and filmmaker Andrew Frazer to document this exciting first stage process.

The irreverent and anarchic work of The Black Lung appears to resonate with members of Bibi-Bulak, whom Wright forged connection with during the filming of Balibo and whom he describes as “the first real subculture in Timor, the first outsiders.”

The process of melding two aesthetics from two vastly different theatre companies holds great potential for cultural and artistic pollination and the creation of a unique work made with Darwin’s closest neighbour.

“The possibility of making work with a fledgling company in a fledgling democracy is exciting to say the least” – Alex Ben-Mayor

The second stage will see the company collaborate with a NT based visual artist as designer for the project.

A further month-long development late in 2010 will culminate in a showing of the work in Dili and 32˚ is currently seeking presenters for other seasons of the work across Australia.
It is anticipated that the work will be presented in Darwin in 2011 after national presentations.

The creative team will be posting comments on the development as it unfolds in Timor Leste in the coming weeks (internet permitting!) so check this thread for further updates …

To prepare Territorians for this significant event, the Committee is conducting a series of Forums across the Northern Territory as part of an Information Roadshow.

At the Forums the Committee will provide information on becoming a State and how we can create a new constitution that reflects what we want as Territorians and how you can be part of the 2011 Convention.

It’s the opportunity to design how our system of government works for the next hundred years or more.

All Territorians are invited.

For more information see the website www.ntstate7.com.au

Who: for people over 15 years old.
When:Tuesdays in February and March
Duration: 6 weeks
Cost: $110/80
Venue: Browns Mart

Course begins: 2nd FEBRUARY

Download forms and more here.

Nik Coppin [UK], Marcel Lucont [France], Cath Styles [Melbourne], Craig Zee [Darwin] and John Burgos [Melbourne] bring you Shaggers. A comedy show about…. well… Shagging!

The Age described the show like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get! Reviewers have claimed this show is impossible to review because the line up is always changing. Nik Coppin the brain child behind Shaggers designed it as a late night show for comedians to get on stage after their shows at festivals and just let loose with whatever they wanted.

“Unbridled Comedy!”

Shaggers is in Darwin for one night only with 5 great comics on stage.

Don’t miss this show. Book early. This show WILL sell out.

For bookings go to.

www.darwinentertainment.com.au