Museum of Brisbane LGBT History Exhibition needs your help
You can help make next year’s Museum of Brisbane LGBT History Exhibition a success. Now is your opportunity to share them with the public your fabulous fashion, and all sorts of memorabilia with the Museum of Brisbane (MOB) for its upcoming LGBT History Exhibition scheduled for June-November 2010.
The exhibition will be held at the new MOB gallery space at 157 Ann Street, celebrating the diversity of the LGBT community. It’s the first exhibition of its kind to be held in a major Australian city. Its focus is the history of the LGBT community, documenting our lives and experiences growing up and coming out in Brisbane. There are so many stories to tell and the curators hope to highlight the significance of LGBT history to the wider community through these stories, as well as objects and the visual arts.
MOB is working in partnership with the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (QAHC) and the State Library of Queensland to bring this exhibition to fruition. But your help is also needed.
Contact Carol Low from QAHC on (07) 3403 6170 or Jo Besley from the MOB on (07) 3403 6375 for more information, or to donate or lend items for the exhibition.
Spend the night with pornstars Steve Cruz and Bruno Bond on Friday 27th November.
IN CONVERSATION from 10pm Catch the two sexy men in SAFE SEX conversation with comedian Adam Richard at the Laird Hotel (149 Gipps St, Abbotsford) from 10pm. * Note: Gold Coin entry/donation to PLWHA Location: Laird Hotel, 149 Gipps Street, Abbotsford, Melbourne, 3067
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In action from 1am at Club 80 (10 Peel St, Collingwood) where you can get upclose and personal and catch the boys in action as they premiere their latest feature, Hard Friction. Location: Club 80, 10 Peel St , Collingwood, Melbourne, 3066 Date: Friday 27th November, 10:00pm to Saturday 28th November, 5:00am
Picture a crowd of people who are seemingly going about their business, in a crowded public place, then suddenly engage in a tightly synchronized group dance routine. The trick to the perfect flash mob is to make this well choreographed set up look completely natural so passers by don’t suspect a thing until everyone is suddenly busting the same moves to a grooving beat.
DJ and promoter Dan Murphy enlisted the help of Joyce Maynge and 100 would be flash mobbers on Bondi Beach recently for a home grown flash mob to a camp dance mix medley. The routine went down so well, it has soared through Youtube with 100,000 views in the first three days of its post, and has even been tweeted by Kylie Minogue herself. The Pop Princes tweeted “"Dear Bondi-Flash-Mob. Next time can you start or finish with Slow?” Keep an eye out for further flasmob events organized by the Rock Your Box crew this summer.
Last year Tasmania’s Bay of Fires was named the world’s hottest travel destination by Lonely Planet. Now the Apple Isle has been nominated in the number two spot for the world’s top nine emerging gay travel destinations, pipped only by Punta del Este in Uruguay.
The list, compiled by Hotel Travel Club, looks at cities and regions not normally associated with gay travel and shines a rainbow spotlight on Nova Scotia, Indianapolis, Lisbon, Shanghai, Nashville, Mexico City, and San Luis Obispo County, California.
According to the Hotel Travel Club blog, Tasmania has come along way in the last few years in welcoming gay and lesbian travellers. Over the past few years, locals have put aside their conservative views and have welcomed lesbian and gay residents and travellers alike.
Tasmania celebrated its two-week TasPride Festival recently, attracting visitors from across the country.
No doubt you saw the other flash mob at Bondi beach a few weeks ago, promomoting a video camera, well now a new mob with a difference took place at Bondi. Over 100 dancers surprised Bondi Beach with a Flash Mob on Sat Nov 14 2009, led by one of Australia's most famous and delicious drag queens - Joyce Mayne. Music was put together by respected gay DJ, Dan Murphy.
The Midnight Shift’s refurbished upstairs bar re-opened on Thursday, November 12.
Saddlebar is a leather bar with an Australian outback theme. Special weekly nights will take place including Happy Hour, Leather Beer Bust, a pool comp, and buzz cuts. Trading hours will be from 8pm Thursday-Saturday and from 6pm on Sunday. Better still, entry will be free.
Kaye Sera pulls down the big screen and fluffs the pillows for her fabulous Sunday Arvo Videos.
Arrive at 3pm for candy bar treats, lights go down 3:30pm sharp.
This weeks film is: Sun 22nd Nov The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Next Week: Sun 29th Nov Torch Song Trilogy
Kaye Sera’s Sunday Arvo Videos @ Kaye Seras Bizarre – 108 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda (formerly the premises of Out Video, between Alma Road and St Kilda Junction).
It’s been a tough couple of years for Sydney Dance Company. But as revered guest choreographer Kenneth Kvarnstrom, who has created a new worked for the troupe, says, the dancers are a resilient lot.
When Rafael Bonachela took the reins of Sydney Dance Company as Artistic Director at the beginning of the year, he announced that the work of guest choreographers from around the world would make up a significant proportion of the company’s creative output. True to this word, Kenneth Kvarnstrom’s Mercury will premiere next week at Sydney Theatre.
Sydney Dance Company has been through a tough couple of years. The retirement of co-artistic directors Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon after three decades at the helm in 2006 was cruelly followed by the tragic death of newly-appointed artistic director Tania Liedtke the following year. As the company again went on a world-wide search for Liedtke’s replacement, 2008 saw three new works by three guest choreographers. But the dancers, Kvarnstrom says, are very resilient.
Finnish-born Kvarnstrom is one of Europe’s most revered and cutting-edge choreographers. For several years he was the director of the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company and the esteemed Dansens Hus in Stockholm. He now heads his own company, K Kvarnstrom and Co, and has created works for Gothenburg Ballet, Helsinki Dance Company and Finnish National Ballet. Mercury is his Australian debut.
Like Bonachela, Kvarnstrom does not create narrative works. But physically their choreography is very different. “We don’t tell stories, so in that sense we’re both abstract,” he muses. “I think we both like to convey different emotional states to an audience, and I like to work with the subconscious. Rafael is very technical. I work in a more circular way, throwing the energy out, but also catching it back.
Kenneth Kvarnstrom’s Mercury, Sydney Theatre (Hickson Road, Walsh Bay) from November 17 – 28. For bookings call 9250 1999 or visit www.sydneytheatre.org.au.
For quite some years now Shayne Budgen (City Gym) and Sasha Mitrovic (Future Entertainment & Productions, SA) have been staging Adelaide’s Sleaze Ball. So, what have they got in store for us this year? Read on…
Every year we look forward to putting on this most prestigious event for the GLBTIQ communities and open-minded people of Adelaide… but this year has truly been special for us. We’ve managed to secure as a venue the holy grail of SA Sleaze, The Old Adelaide Gaol (Jail)!
This venue will be fondly remembered by some of our scene’s founding brothers and sisters and more to the point has not been used in the gay scene for over 15 years! Most of us out there have never had the opportunity to experience this truly awesome venue in full flight with Sleaze Ball pumping its walls, corridors and cell blocks to full capacity! We will feature three dance floor arenas, an entire wing for our Mistress of pleasure and pain, Gabrielle and a VIP lounge area. There’s a stall hall, food, adult entertainment supplied by Risqué and Ms Love, an unforgettable show from Essential Talent, singers, other performers and artists together with our lighting and sound specialist Andy J. All this will bring this most amazing venue to life in a way that is unique and not to be missed!
The theming is an obvious choice considering the venue – a Uniform Party (Not to Conform!) But the catch is of course to sex it up, dress it down, get sleazy with it and (as always) less is best! Check out the kink and uniforms available from Costume Land, Adult Super Store or Love Mechanics as all have a great variety to choose from!
We’d like to thank our regular sponsors and welcome aboard a few of the newbies. Fresh 92.7 and Pimpjuice both joined us this year as our naming rights partners. We’re sure this will mean our biggest event so far. We are quietly optimistic 2009 could tip the scales as the biggest Sleaze in SA history. Our continued major sponsors Gay Destination, Andy J Lighting and Sound, The Strand Café @ Glenelg, Unicorn Brewery, Essential Talent and NAP Finance have, together with our many other sponsors and supporters, guaranteed the financial future of this event.
Don’t forget we are proud supporters of our unique scene here in SA with $5 from each ticket and $2 from every bottle of water sold going to ACSA (AIDS Council of SA). Again we’re sure we’ll be able to hand over to ACSA our largest donation to date.
We have secured Live on Light Square as our official after party venue – which proved very successful and popular last year. Free entry to all our Sleaze Ball attendees! Otherwise $20. $2 from every water sold will also go to ACSA from the After Party.
Tickets are still available through our many outlets at $70. They will also be available at the door (if not sold out but will go up to $100). Ticket sales have been record breaking, so don’t hesitate or you may miss out!
Enjoy the Feast Festival and we look forward to seeing you all out and proud.
DJ LINE UP
Main Room - MESS HALL
All things Commercial - dance, Top 40, Hand bag, house/dance/elektro & Trance!
10 – Vixen
11 – Tomboy
12 – Fraser
"Uniform Party" floorshow at 1am
1 – Mike Evans (VIC)
2 – JoSH
3 – Ruby (Sydney)
Exercise Yard:
Underground Deep house, Dirty house, House, Elektro & Tuff Elektro!
10 – Jon E
11- Ezee G
12 – Majik
1 – Jason Lee
2 – Fazz
3 – James Corbett
4 – Lil Miss K
CELL BLOCK 1:
Progressive Trance, Vocal Trance, Trance, Hard Dance & Hard Bass!
10 – Jordan
11 – Frost
12 – Shane Cross
1 – Datman (Systembot)
2 – Damage
3 – Fusion
4 – Adrian V
SLEAZE RECOVERY – LIVE @ LIGHT SQUARE:
5 – DJ LC
6 – Angel
7 – Fraser
8 – Mike Evans
9 – Lil Miss K
Saturday November 21, 10pm-late at the Old Adelaide Gaol, 18 Gaol Road, Thebarton. www.sleazeballadelaide.com.au
NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW is a show about things we don’t say. Dreams and secrets – happy dreams and scary dreams, secret crushes and secret fears – nothing is sacred and nothing is concealed. Two voices and one piano explore a vast range of song material from the pens of Noel Coward, Rogers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, Tom Waits and more. For a night of intimate cabaret, Caro Mio Cellar Bar is like having the performers in your own lounge-room!
Dates: 5-7 Nov and 12-14 Nov 8pm Caro Mio Cafe – Cellar Bar 598 Stanley St Woolloongabba Bookings 3844 8306
Glasshouse to Return to Full Time Lesbian Venue Again
Melbourne's iconic Glasshouse Hotel is set to return as a full-time lesbian venue after a change in management. Libby and her partner Rachel will return the venue to its roots as a full-time women’s venue.
There’s a lot of themed nights around now… but I think for an actual pub, .”
With Libby’s 15 years experience in hospitality and Rachel’s business background, the pair plan to put their own stamp on the Glasshouse, starting with the introduction of pub meals in December, as they believe what's missing on the scene is a place where gay families can come and eat.
Libby also scotched rumours the venue might suddenly become staunchly women-only, saying the approach is to create a gay space where everyone, including men, gay and straight, are welcome.
Renovations are taking place, with air conditioning and more toilets being installed.
The Glasshouse will extend its opening hours from 11am–1am during the week and all day on Saturday and Sunday.
For more information, visit www.glasshousehotel.com.au
Sculpture by the Sea 2009 is underway, taking place at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Take the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk to see one of the most beautiful beaches in the world taken over by amazing sculptures.
The Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Prize went to May Barrie, a 91-year-old Australian artist. The Transfield Kinetic Artist Prize went to American artist Tim Prentice. If you're in the Sydney area, you must check out this inspiring event.
Sculpture by the Sea runs until 15th November For more information goto: http://sculpturebythesea.com
Ok... so Canberra isn't generally renowned as Australia's capital when it comes to partying, but here's something worth taking the hike there for.
The Foreshore Summer Music Festival is Canberras premier music event. Foreshore 2009 will see some of the biggest artists from Australia and around the world perform at what has been described as Australias most astonishing festival location.
Saturday 28 November 2009 will see Foreshore Summer Music Festival return to Commonwealth Place.
With a line up unrivaled by any weve ever assembled, what better way to celebrate the end of exams, the start of summer and another amazing year of amazing music!
FIRST AND SECOND RELEASE SOLD OUT! 3RD RELEASE ONSALE NOW!
Foreshore Summer Music Festival 2009 is excited to announce:
EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Foreshore Summer Music Festival 2009 Full Lineup:
Empire of the Sun Deadmau5 (Canada) Axwell (Swedish House Mafia) Crookers (Italy) Stanton Warriors (UK) Miss Kitten & The Hacker (France) John Dahlback (Sweden) Zombie Nation The Only Chris Fraser (Syd) Jaytech Sam Scratch (Syd) Marky Mark & King Lee (Syd) Club Junque (Syd) Derty Rich (Syd) A Tonez (Syd) Ashley Feraude Biggie Bricksta DJ Just 1 DJ Peekz DJ Kiz Fourthstate Hubert Luke Ellis RyFy Shane Burgess Shifty Business Sean Kelly Staky Tim Galvin
All information on artists performing, Foreshore event information, as well as opportunities to win VIP passes, bar-tabs and other great prizes will be available exclusively first to members of www.lexingtonmusic.com.au
