Today marks the official beginnings of Tiny Stadiums Festival, a mecca of experimental art and performances that takes place in small-ish settings through Erskineville for two weeks of each year. It’s a PACT Theatre production curated by Quarterbred which focuses on “live and site-specific art projects” by a bunch of local emerging artists, whose variegated happenings range from symposiums to installations, from photosohots to film projects, from music to an entire exhibition devoted to the art of the up-do hairstyle.

Our favourites include the Sexy New Urban Design Team, where Applespiel will be constructing their own version of Erskineville, pointing out the suburb’s faults and attempting to fix them; This Waste Land by Hoof and Antler, who mix music and live art scores with ‘the Wasteland’ by T.S. Elliot; Nature League Inner West - a performance in a greenhouse inspired by tiny inner-city parks, pot-plant covered balconies and jungle themed lounge rooms”; and the Hipster-Doofus Party where you get to dress up as an idiot hipster in fluro hats and stupid glasses and retro geometric prints but with even more irony this time. Actually, that last one sounds horrible and we probably won’t go near it.

But do head along to Tiny Stadiums – it’s open now but launches officially with a party on February 23 from 6:30pm at Erskineville Town Hall, and you can click here for more on that.…

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: amy spiers, applespiel, bababa international, emma ramsay, hoof & antler, keith pettigrow, Luke Tipene, pact theatre, quarterbred, tiny stadiums festival, zoe meagher

Here’s one for your little moleiPhoneskincal diary. For next week, because I’m not a geek, I don’t blog on weekends, what are you talking about, that never happened, and you need to know before Monday, so you can plan an outfit!!

Penguin Plays Rough, as you know, faithful blog readers who lap up our every word, hold a monthly night in which writers of short fiction can sit in an armchair and read to a happily seated crowd of people who enjoy listening to other people read stories. Monthly Friend brings together artists, performers, creative types, film installations, and I’m sure a large and perhaps surprising selection of other, more unusual things together to kind of share the creative love every month.

With their powers combined, you get something so exciting, so dangerous, so terrifying and mighty that you may not be able to withstand its awesome force and may be blown back in to the lap of whoever you are sitting cross-legged in front of, possibly covering yourself in wine.

What you actually get is Malcolm Whittaker, Alice Williams, Hossein Ghaemi, Annaliese Constable, Luke Tipene’s curation, a slideshow of a motel room and some creative responses, some wildcards and a zine. It’s called Working Title this time and it’s the twelfth PPR, so come on down and see some good crossbreeding.

It’s at 475 King St, on Monday night, from just before 8pm, for $5.

Posted by amelia in Events, Words

Tags: alice williams, Annaliese Constable, hossein ghaemi, Luke Tipene, malcolm whittaker, Monthly Friend, penguin plays rough, short fiction, writers, writing

We were basically 85% sure that no-one was going to come to our party. We figured that everyone had said yes just to be polite but were actually going to go do more important things, like knit a tiny jumper for the tiny cat they knitted for their real cat. So when we got numbers the next day of the ridiculously large amount of people who came, we were pretty surprised. And hugely delighted…

Posted by amelia and steph in Reviews, Your Face

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids

We’re having a party this Wednesday night to launch this here blog. It’s another Ears Vs Eyes shindig – the first was a fundraiser art auction last year, where we nabbed $3000+ for Heaps Decent by selling art from people like EAMO, Beastman, We Buy Your Kids, Greedy Hen, and Simon Degroot. This one is a digital techy audiovisual extravaganza, because blogs are for nerds. That’s right, we’re calling you names already.

Anyway, the party is being held at our BFF’s house. Our BFF is The Wall, every Wednesday at the World Bar. For all you arty farty party types, the Wall let you exhibit your work for free in a delightful room upstairs, while a party happens around you and below you. They don’t take commission, they help you promote it, and goddamn do they know how to party.

But this Wednesday it’s all about us, because It’s Our Birthday – and you’re invited too. More info, and an uncharacteristically oversized image, after the jump.

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids, You Are All Nerds