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Monday, 29 June 2009

Brunswick Women's Theatre


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Discovering the need to speak and speaking the unspoken -
one of the 'real' reasons why Brunswick Women's Theatre was created by Catherine Simmonds in the northeast suburbs of Melbourne. Today BWT successfully promotes cultural and community development through public performances, Forum Theatre and workshops.

There is no process of audition in BWT and performances do not rely on talent, but more the powerful and raw stories of the women and the broader community. With every new project women are recruited by community networking. Women are assisted in staging a performance with the direction of Catherine Simmonds, enhancing self esteem and breaking dowm isolation. Members of BWT come from all backgrounds and diverse cultures.

Brunswick Women's Theatre is determined to inspire and touch the hearts of it's members and audiences.

Brunswick Women's Theatre
15 - 29 Buchan St Meadow Heights 3048
Phone: 03 9513 2882
Mobile: 0439 336 893
Postal Address: 3 - 13 Hudson Circuit Meadow Heights 3048


Tuesday, 9 June 2009

My Rock painting find

My son and I, fond this rock near Jacksons Creek in Brimbank park Victoria,
not sure if it is an original Aborigine painting but it looked real to me.
The area was home to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.




The rock art that redraws our history

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Ship-shape … Daryl Guse, from the Australian National University, with the long-hidden rock art at Djulirri in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land.

Ship-shape … Daryl Guse, from the Australian National University, with the long-hidden rock art at Djulirri in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land.
Photo: Rick Stevens

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Rock Art Window into the past
Audio slideshow: An amazing discovery of Aboriginal rock art dating back more than 15,000 years, gives voice to the indigenous population and how they dealt with change.

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James Woodford
September 20, 2008

HIDDEN in rugged ranges in north-west Arnhem Land, a spectacular treasure-trove of Aboriginal rock art is set to rewrite the history of Australia.

In a find that has stunned archaeologists and anthropologists, a vast wall of about 1500 paintings chronicles the history of Aboriginal contact with outsiders, from Macassan proas and European sailing ships to 19th-century steamships and a World War II battleship.

Alongside exquisite rock art more than 15,000 years old are paintings that capture some of the 19th and 20th centuries' most important technological innovations - a biplane, bicycle, car and rifle - as well as portraits of church ministers, sea captains and traders.

This indigenous version of a history book rivals anything similar in the world and holds the key to Australia's ancient and modern history, according to scientists who have just returned from an expedition to the Djulirri rock shelter in the Wellington Range. The Griffith University archaeologist Professor Paul Tacon, one of five scientists who travelled to Djulirri, said it was of international significance, unprecedented in artistic and technical merit and telling a new story of contact between Aboriginal people and the world.

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Finding Leichhardt in Arnhem Land

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin
March 7, 2009
Traditional owner Fred Hunter with rock paintings in Arnhem Land.

Traditional owner Fred Hunter with rock paintings in Arnhem Land. Photo: Glenn Campbell

HIDDEN for almost 200 years, a rock painting of an early Australian explorer, believed to be Ludwig Leichhardt, is to be exposed to non-Aboriginal people for the first time.

The Aboriginal artist who drew the painting on the ceiling of a rock shelf in rugged stone country in Arnhem Land had never before seen a horse or a white man, experts believe.

The artist reveals his fascination with a four-legged animal that lifts its tail to urinate, has knee and chest guards and has a weird-looking figure sitting on its back.

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Saturday, 30 May 2009

Davin Ellicson

Davin Ellicson (b. 1978) is working on a long-term project about the transformation of rural life in Eastern Europe as the European Union expands. He lived and farmed with a peasant family for a year in the Maramures region of northern Romania, the most traditional area of Europe, and is now pursuing stories throughout the Balkans. Davin received a BA in Modern European History from Carleton College in 2001 and earned an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from The London College of Communication in 2006. He has completed assignments for The International Herald Tribune, Courrier Japon, Bloomberg News and Intermediair Magazine and his work has appeared in the books ‘East’ and ‘This Day of Change’, The New York Times, Der Speigel, TAZ, Die Presse, Vision Magazine, Blueeyes Magazine and du Magazine. Davin is based in Bucharest, Romania and represented by the Anzenberger Agency and Wonderful Machine (US).

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Thursday, 28 May 2009

Sergio Rodrigues, Brazil (*1927)

Sergio Rodrigues, Brazil (*1927)

At the end of the forties Sergio Rodrigues, while still at the School of Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, perceived that Brazilian architecture was experiencing a moment of major signifi cance. At the same time, he realised that the interiors of these groundbreaking houses and buildings, designed by great architects such as Oscar Niemeyer, Lúcio Costa and their colleagues, did not live up to the buildings’ innovative spirit. “They used colonial-style furniture or imported pieces. Furniture was lacking the national identity achieved in architecture”, he recounts. In 1956, Rodrigues founded ‘Oca Industries’in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, a brand that for two decades was the hallmark of modern furniture in Brazil. ‘Oca’ was conceived as a studio of interior design, decoration and set design, combined with an art gallery and a showroom for furniture designed by Sergio Rodrigues. Seeking a personal means of expression, Rodrigues took recourse to traditional materials such as leather, bamboo and the wood of the Jacaranda tree. The proximity of his creations to icons of Brazilian culture and his self-assured evocation of the contemporary spirit were factors that prompted the jury at the ‘IVth Concorso Internazionale del Mobile’ in Italy in 1961 to award fi rst place to his ‘Mole’ chair (also marketed under the name ‘Sheriff’) and MOMA in New York to add the chair to its permanent collection. Rodrigues left Oca in 1968 and since then has been working for his own design studio, creating furniture for industrial production, along with architecture and interior concepts for hotels, residences and offi ces. During a half century of work and research Sergio Rodrigues has produced more than 1,200 furniture models. His overt passion for wood led him to create a versatile modular architecture system that permits assembly of the most simple constructions as well as highly complex buildings. Among Rodrigues’ many design projects, the most notable include the Brazilian Embassy in Rome, the Universidade de Brasilia, the Palacio des Arcos, the Teatro Nacional in Brasilia and the headquarters of Editora Bloch in Rio de Janeiro.

Monday, 18 May 2009

Joana Pires


Joana Pires

Joana Pires

Joana Pires

Patrick Dougherty


Na Hale 'o waiawi
(Roughly translated from the Hawaiian language to mean: Wild Dwellings Built from Strawberry Guava).
The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2003.
Photographer: Paul Kodama.


{I can imagine myself as a child playing in this cubby houses}
Around the Corner
University of Southern Indiana, New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN, 2003.
Photographer: Doyle Dean



Close Ties
Brahan Estate, Dingwall, Scottish Highlands, 2006.
Photographer: Fin Macrae.


Childhood Dreams

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona, 2007.
Photographer: Adam Rodriguez.


Crossing Over

American Craft Museum, New York, New York, 1996.
Photographer: Dennis Cowley.


Doin' the Locomotion

Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, 2004.
Photographer: Ricardo Barros.


Nine Lives

Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio, 2006.
Photographer: Greg Sailor.


Holy Rope
Chiba, Japan, 1992
Photographer: Tadahisa Sakura

Combining his carpentry skills with his love for nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn more about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material.

In 1982 his first work, MapleBodyWrap was included in the North Carolina Biennial Artists' Exhibition sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of Art. In the following year, he had his first one person show entitled, Waiting It Out In Maple at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His work quickly evolved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental scale environments which required saplings by the truckloads. During the last two decades, he has built over 150 works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Saturday, 16 May 2009

Dietmar Busse

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Thursday, 14 May 2009

“5 Investigations. 7 Countries. 1 Conclusion.”


More videos from Animals Australia

About this video:
In December 2007, Animals Australia conducted a fifth investigation in the Middle East, exposing industry claims of 'improvements' and 'isolated incidents of animal cruelty' as just another desperate attempt to defend a brutal trade in animal misery.

We have spared you from the worse images (no slaughter footage is shown).
Via Voiceless

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