Foodies and wine-lovers, brace yourself, it’s that time of year again – the annual Ambiwerra festival. Touted as Brisbane’s premier food and wine event, Ambiwerra has a large following of loyal citizens who make the trip out to Corinda each year. This year expect to see a strong musical line-up, headlined by Mark Sholtez, Peter Cupples and Richard Clapton. Get your Ambi-dollars ready!
Those who are yet to discover the soothing paper-folding meditation process that is origami, try this on for size. Australian designer Magdalena Czarnecki has created a collection of empty paperbags, containing simple step-by-step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, in order to become a sustainable designer toy in paper. The cost of the bag is directed to the WWF to help save the endangered animal and its dying population.
Arts, crafts and vintage design buffs heed this: an opportunity to free your inner bowerbird while doing the greater good. Next Saturday 1 August, the annual Karuna arts market will spill a glorious trove of original and pre-loved art, crafts, jewellery and clothes upon Brisbane. Retro, deco, vintage, modern, all under $75. Last year someone unearthed a Pro Hart original on a Bible cover. All proceeds will help Karuna to support Brisbane families to care for a terminally ill loved one, at home and at no cost. Karuna - a Sanskrit word meaning ‘compassion‘ - provides free round-the-clock nursing, family counseling, equipment loans, respite care, bereavement support and spiritual care.
Knowing what you want to do with your life is hard. Finding your dream job is even harder. If your dream career involves fashion and New York, then achieving your goals has been made that wee bit easier. A foundation has been set up, aptly titled The Australians in New York Fashion Foundation, which is designed to connect young Australians with their dream jobs in New York through scholarships and work experience. Set up by successful fashion ex-pats, such as Laura Brown, Malcolm Carfrae, Rob Newbould and Antony Todd, the AiNYFF is sure to open many doors for aspiring fashionistas.
The year is 1967 and the referendum to include Australia’s indigenous population in the national census is about to take place. At the same time, a touring theatre group is preparing to perform Hamlet at the local School of Arts. When the group’s leader, Bronson Savage, decides to spice up the performance with a loaded gun and is accidentally wounded, he sparks a chain of wicked events. Written by legendary Queensland playwright Bille Brown, The School of Arts has the warm air of small-country town life played out in an extraordinary time in Queensland’s cultural past.
Julie Powell’s first post to her blog, The Julie&Julia Project, sparked incredible interest when she started it in August 2002, in an attempt to lift herself out of her soul-destroying secretarial job. As age 30 loomed, she decided that in a year’s time, she would attempt to cook every single one of Julia Child’s recipes from her classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. (Note: Julia Child is responsible for bringing French cooking to the American people.) Watched by thousands of people online, Julia was cheered on everyday as she tangled with eggs, cakes, breakfasts and tricky French fare. Her successful blog following led to the inception of her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Never would she dream that her book would then be transformed into a movie. Continue reading ‘julie & julia’
The High Line in New York is a project that is transforming an old elevated rail structure and making it into a beautiful 2km park. Stage 1 opened in June and I just had the wonderful pleasure to live out a dream and see it in real life. I ran up the Gansevoort St stairs like an excited child, knowing there was going to be a magical treasure up there. When I reached the top, and strolled several blocks of the unique and themes spaces, I found out magic was indeed real.
Now you can balance your finger food and your glass of Champagne with these neat little fingerplates. Yes, they are slightly ridiculous, but wonderfully kitsch at the same time. The mini plates look like something found at an 80s dinner party along with a creamy prawn cocktail, chicken wings and banana daquiris.
Once referred to as the “Australian Bob Dylan”, Kev Carmody has been soothing the aching souls of the oppressed and the suffering through his music for the past 24 years. As one of the most respected singer/songwriters in the country, Carmody has well and truly earned a spot in history as a revolutionary voice for Aboriginal rights in Australia and social issues that have shaped this country. On August 1, some of our most celebrated musicians will salute Carmody with a tribute concert to be held at the Brisbane Riverstage. Carmody will be performing along with the likes of Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Missy Higgins, John Butler Trio and Tex Perkins to showcase the songs and events that have formed his career. A role-call of the best Australian talent will be performing at the twilight concert, honouring the contribution that one man has made not only to the music industry, but to the community.
From the people who brought you Pecha Kucha, comes a Japanese bath-house of a different kind – one where you don’t have to feel self conscious about exposing your nether regions to the world. The Klein Dytham Architecture virtual sento creates a whole new experience when it comes to online information exchange.
Queensland Theatre Company presents an education performance of David Brown’s Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed – a modern-Australian comedy which follows Macca, Dayne and Doug, a trio of misfits who are all trying to escape the town of Mayoonderie and follow their dreams. At a lonely bus stop, Dayne is waiting for a bus to the Gold Coast, even though he says he doesn’t have enough money. He’s joined by Macca who’s been thrown off the XPT for stopping the train. And finally, Doug arrives, furious because his plastic merchandising has been rejected by the local bowling club. Covering the harsh landscape of prejudice, isolation and cultural stereotypes, Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed offers a sharp, yet humorous insight into the realities of being a bloke in regional Australia. The show is an education performance – part of the Queensland Theatre Company series of shows for high school students – but this year the education performances are open to the general public, for the keenly enthusiastic theatre-goer.
Beneath Singapore’s glamour and modern façade, a quirky and interesting picture is painted by its countrymen. Deanna Ng, a freelance photographer specialising in documentary photography, portraiture and offbeat travel photos, begins to show the other side to Singapore. Diana always tries to find the other side of the story. Her travel series Phsat – Siem Reap profiles the people that make up this Cambodian town and what happens here apart from the many tourists visiting Angkor Wat. Deanna’s latest work on hospice patients endeavours to see the difference in normal situations too, but this series is much more confronting yet, strangely, still beautiful. Continue reading ‘deanna ng photography’
Yes, it’s that time again. This year’s Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut, hosted by IMA, was open to artists up to six years out of school who have not shown at the IMA before. Shortlisted artists, who received $5,000 each to create works for the show, include photojournalist Aaron Burton, pop-culture vulture Sarah Byrne, genre-bending T.P. Kerr, and fetishist Hiromi Tango. This year’s show is big on video – three of the four artists work principally in the medium.
Times, they are a changing. Pictured above is a message to models about to strut their stuff for the Givenchy Fall/Winter 2009-10 Haute Couture show in Paris. So while nourished models might be making a comeback, the customary over-the-top extravagance of the haute couture collections seems to be out of fashion. Over the past few weeks, the world has seen a much more reserved and subdued showing from the top designers, so much so that the Christian Dior collection did away with pants and skirts!
We’ve written before about the powerful documentary The Burning Season here on Street Editors, but if you didn’t get the chance to catch the film when it screened on the ABC, you can now see it in cinemas. Dorjee Sun, a young Australian entrepreneur, believes thereʼs money to be made from protecting rainforests in Indonesia, saving the orangutan from extinction and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his carbon-trading scheme. It is a battle against time. Achmadi, the palm oil farmer is ready to set fire to his land to plant more palm oil, and Loneʼs orangutan centre has reached crisis point with over 600 orangutans rescued from the fires … The Burning Season is an eco-thriller about a young man not afraid to confront the biggest challenge of our time. This film is a must-see for anyone with a passion for the planet and is showing exclusively in Brisbane at Dendy Cinemas – make it part of your weekend!
Los Angeles’ much-lauded The Actors’ Gang travels to Brisbane this September to present The Trial of the Catonsville Nine exclusively for Brisbane Festival 2009. This acclaimed script by poet priest Daniel Berrigan brings to life the dramatic 1968 trial of two catholic priests and seven fellow catholic activists who committed an act of civil disobedience. In an act of protest against the Vietnam War, The Catonsville Nine walked into a selective service office, grabbed hundreds of draft files and burned them with home-made napalm. The subsequent trial and publicity galvanised the anti-war movement. While condemned as criminals in a court of law, they were hailed as patriots in the streets. See it at Brisbane Festival 2009 from September 24–27.
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Via: Treehugger. Sails from sailing ships have been used to craft bags, rubber from tyre inner tubes can do the same and glass can be recycled into jewellery. With inventive thinking, just about anything can be recycled and made into a new product. Milkmuny is just one company that has taken a simple disposable item and transformed into something reuseable. Its business model explained in the short YouTube clip (above) is exemplary – Milkmuny pays for cartons to be collected from charities, schools and groups who need fundraising capital. It then washes the cartons and engineers a couple of designs for multi-pocketed wallets. These are sold for about $10 and a portion of the sale finds its way to 1% For The Planet. This way, plastic waxed cartons stay out of landfill, community groups get funding, people have more items made out of reused material to buy, 1% of the profits is donated to a charity group and Milkmuny creators make some money. If anything, Milkmuny is a great example of social enterprise and how you can make money from an ethically-conscious business model if your intentions are honest and fair, and your approach is clever and can prove to be beneficial to your market. The wallets look great and can be purchased at www.milkmuny.com.
For those people who are having trouble getting their heads around the concept of Twitter, take a look at this tutorial from Common Craft. Sometimes paper cutouts make things so much easier to understand.
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