Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films. Show all posts

April 1, 2011

What's on: April

Adelaide * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The Way We Wear Easter vintage fair
Burnside Ballroom, Adelaide
Sat 23 & Sun 24 (10am-4pm), Mon 25 (12-4pm)

Brisbane * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 
Let there be rock film program (April highlights)
Cinémathèque, Queensland Art Gallery  
Martin Scorsese's film concert of The Band The Last Waltz (1978) (Sat 30 1pm)
David Bowie's final performance as Ziggy in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) (Sat 30 3pm)
The Rolling Stones 1969 tour film Gimme Shelter (1970) (Sat 30 6pm & Fri 6 May)

Suitcase Rummage mini-markets
King George Square, Brisbane
Sat 2 (12-5pm)

 Sydney* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 
An Edwardian Summer exhibition
Museum of Sydney, Historic Houses Trust 
(Hurry Closes Tues 26 April!)
 

 Cult Sinema film screenings  
Annandale hotel & nearby Mu-Meson Archives headquarters
(crnr Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale) (Every week)
Check out the Easter theme with killer bunnies in Night of the Lepus (1972)!

Sydney Vintage Clothing, Jewellery & Textiles Show
Canterbury Racecourse
Fri 15 (5.30-9pm), Sat 16 (9.30am-5.30pm) & Sun 17 (10am-4pm)
Adults $14, pensioner $10, children 10-16yrs $5, under 10yrs free, family $30

Paddington Town Hall
Sat 9 April (10am - 3pm) free entry

Melbourne* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Australian Centre for the Moving Image film program April highlights
It came from Kuchar, Fri 15 & 22 (9.30pm) 
The Vampire (El Vampiros) 1957 cult classic, Tue 19 (6.30pm)

ManStyle fashion exhibition
National Gallery Victoria, Fashion & Textile Gallery
11 Mar - 30 Oct
free entry

Vintage Clothes Australian vintage fashion guru Nicole Jenkins talks on ladies fashions 1920s-1960s
Cheltenham branch library, 12 Stanley Avenue, Cheltenham
Thu 7 (2pm)
free with morning tea to boot! (bookings required)



Perth* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Vintage Life Market Held on the last Sunday of the month
Darlington Hall, Owen Rd, Darlington
Last Sunday of the month (10am - 3pm)
$2 admission

Darwin, Hobart * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
please send me your vintage happenings!


Overseas* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Toronto: Get your hair cut into a chic bob while visiting the Bata Shoe Museum's exhibition
Roaring 20s: heels, hemlines & high spirits and watch a film from their 1920s film program 
   
London: admire the The Cult of Beauty: the Aesthetic Movement at the V&A in London

March 3, 2011

'Welcome to Pine Point' and small town memories

This look at memory, identity, the effects of time and change and how communities are built, destroyed an yet sustained is truly amazing - an interactive photo album, funny and moving. Click on the image below to be taken to the National Film Board of Canada's website where you can watch, interact with, and think on The Goggles' Welcome to Pine Point while you enjoy the awesome soundtrack by The Besnard Lakes.

'Memory is funny. 
Specific and vague.
Visceral and unreliable.
Truth and Fiction.

From the moment an event occurs it is simplified and purified in memory. 
We shave off the rough edges and what happened becomes a story or even, over time, a legend.
If we're not careful though, we grind it down to raw superlatives with none of the banalities or compications that make truth feel true.

So often memory depends on who we need to be at the moment of remembrance.
Sometimes it's better to believe that we accomplished the impossible' - The Goggles