Events
It kinda crept up on us, but yeah, our monthly drawing thing Trails in on this Tuesday night the 26th of Feb, from 7pm until 11 or so.
As always, bring pens, beer, jokes, friends and your special drawing gloves.
Sabbatical presents the launch of Pre-Flight Jitters by Evelyn Morris, otherwise known as Pikelet. This EP features material recorded at Head Gap studio in Preston with Marcus Cook in May 2007. Pre-Flight Jitters pursues some unexpected textural qualities and compositional approaches, while maintaining the rich layering typical of Evelyn’s recent work. On this occasion Pikelet is joined by Paeces and Bum Creek.
Saturday Feb 23. 8pm start, $6 Entry. Copies of the EP will be available.
Wow. We’re very excited to let you all know ‘bout this one. Visitors from the Musicyourmindwillloveyou nexus up in QLD far-northern NSW have arrived in Melbourne and will be playing this Friday night, the 22nd of February, at Forepaw. These guys do a pretty convincing line in psychedelic space-goop on record, and we can’t wait to experience it live. The full line-up is:
6majik9 (NSW)
Blank Realm (NSW)
No Guru (NSW)
(Not much internet-luv out there for No Guru but did find this snippet on the OtherFilm site: “exotic and ragged free-raga afternoon permutations for krar, mbira, pandabox and homemade bass…”)
Lakes
Collapsed Toilet Vietnam
Show starts at 8pm. $7
Gang Festival is an artist-led initiative celebrating the deep links between Indonesian and Australian community arts. Gang Festival takes its theme from the Indonesian word for alleyway — referring to small roads and particular social groupings; the space between more conventional roads and roles.
Nova is one half of TwinSista, a female hip hop outfit from East Java and the daughter of the guitarist from Indonesia’s legendary rock band Suami.
Exi Agus Wijaya and Djuadi Suami are members of a collective in Java called Anakseribupulau — a community of artists and activists across Indonesia working against the destruction of the environment. Exi is a writer and musician while Djuadi’s work ranges from performance art to wood carving.
Gangways is a feature-length documentary by Carli Leimbach that takes us to the Indonesian cities of Jakarta, Bandung and Jogyakarta, finally returning to Sydney. It follows the development of the creative relationships between Australian and Indonesian arts communities.
Artist Talk, Screening & Performance
7pm Friday
15th February
Presented by Tape Projects & Gang Festival.