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JUNE

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Throughout June

Betty Airs Residency @ OAF, Free

with various and diverse supports.

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Until 17th June

Monstrosity Portraits Exhibition @ Monstrosity, Free

Darren Wigley, Rebecca Murphy, Todd Fuller and a whole host of incredible artists from Sydney and beyond, set the walls on fire with their provocative / beautiful / weird approaches to the age-old genre of portraiture. Among them there's a giant rabbit, a furry woman, a spider/woman, a woman covered in ash and tar, a futuristic caveman, a man with a box for a head, and chairs as well. Open 10 - 6 every day except Tuesday.

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Until 26th June

Vernon Treweek - UV:3D @ CarriageWorks

Avatar hasn't got shit on this amazing LSD style 3D trippy art by Vernon Treweeke.

READ MORE HERE

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Friday 11th

Abducted Teddybears' Picnic @ Monstrosity, entry by donation of plush toy

A picnic on the floor of the gallery for you and your beloved teddy or fluffy creature.

Selected artists featured in the PORTRAITS exhibition will give a floor talk about their work, and finally, all applicable fluffy toys will be ABDUCTED and imprisoned inside a perspex lightbox, becoming part of our permanent collection, on the front of the Gallery!

Picnic foods and rugs are provided.Entry is by donation of plush toy/s (Old, new or handmade!)Children are welcome, and must be accompanied by an adult.Bookings essential. Please email info@monstrosity.com.au Subject: Teddybear. Numbers are limited!

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Thursday 6th

Secret Wars 8 Artist Battle @ Name This Bar

Amuse vs. Max Berry

READ MORE HERE

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Friday 25th

Believe You/Me - Philip Soliman @ Monstrosity, free, 6-9pm

On Friday June 25, from 6-9pm, Monstrosity Director Philip Soliman launches his solo exhibition of photography, video and installation entitled Believe You/Me.

Philip Soliman uses the traditional "documentary" media of video and photography, combined with immersive installations, to ask questions about human beings, and our fundamental beliefs about ourselves, each other and the world.

His solo show Believe You/Me brings together three of his current projects.

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Wednesday 16th

Bridezilla, Domeyko/Gonzalez, Step Panther @ OAF, $5, 8pm

Bridezilla headline a show at OAF for next to nothing!

MORE HERE

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Thursday 17th

Here We Go Magic @ OAF, $45, 8pm, supports TBA

TICKETS HERE

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New

pprSixteen :: Oliver Bryce Yates

pprVolta :: Switch



pprBridge Stehli :: Animal Graff


musicfeedsMatt Huynh :: Asperatus


hodgeSound Series :: Crab Smasher


nwaPenguin Plays Rough Gatecrash :: Harry Wynter

Your Face

spawnCabins Showcase @ Mitchell Rd Auction Centre :: 02.06.10

spawnThe Peel @ Name This Bar :: 27.05.10


spawnYelling At Stars DVD Launch @ The Clubhouse :: 27.05.10

spawnSound Series 2 @ Hardware Gallery :: 15.04.10

spawn700 Photos @ The Darlo Bar :: 15.04.10

spawnArkestra Residency @ OAF :: 05.10


spawnTiger Lillies @ Cockatoo Island :: 20.05.10

lanewaySurvey Show @ 231 Wilson St :: 21.05.10

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    Indie Bandwagon :: Vanquish

    ...04.08.09

    Newtown is a strange suburb. When you wake up after midday and some of the shops aren’t even open yet and you accidentally stumble in to a street party and by that time it’s night and you’ve got a few options left which are basically the Townie, the Courthouse or someone’s couch and Xbox, that’s a typical Newtown kind of day.

    So it’s pretty refreshing to see a venue in Newtown jumping on the indie bandwagon and bringing us a night where some of the well regarded bands can play a small, small but lovely venue other than the Hoey… The one thing the suburb really lacks is a good venue for bands to play at, and if Vanquish at the Vanguard kicks off nicely this Wednesday, we might see the once-relegated-to-middle-aged-people-watching-cover-bands venue up its indie cred pretty quickly.

    So far the bands that they’ve got lined up seem to be a mix of ol’ Sydney fave’rites and Newtown-newcomers, with this week featuring Halal, How Are You?, Lillies, Sleep Debt, and The (temperamental) Pocket.

    Who knows, maybe this might expand the band scene a little bit? Or just extend its filthy beer-swigging, arm-crossed loitering, earplug-plugging tentacles in to the inner-west…

    Vanquish hosts indie bands at the Vanguard, Newtown, from 7pm on the first Wednesday of every month.

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    1. Vanquish :: Back To Howl Again « Throw Shapes :: Sydney says:
      February 1, 2010 at 3:02 pm

      [...] night called Vanquish started up last year and the one we went to was really quite lovely, transforming Newtown’s The Vanguard in to a veritable hotbed of indie tunes rather than a [...]

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