Fighting violence with fashion

Fashion designers are invited to participate in the White Ribbon Day fashion catwalk show in Sydney this November. White Ribbon Day is a charity that aims to fight domestic violence and is supported by The Body Shop.

If you’re interested in showcasing your label, or being a model on the catwalk, contact Sharon Garrard by email or on 0404 765 643 before August 31, 2008.

sQuareOne art auction

sQuareOne is a Vibewire-funded not-for-profit youth organisation, who sometimes need a little money to get by. Because of this, they’ll be running their second annual art auction on Saturday, September 13th 2008 at Mori Gallery, Sydney, selling works by local artists.

All works will be exhibited and auctioned on the night, with entertainment, drinks and nibblies. There will also be an exhibition by Matthew Rochford running at the same time.

They’re currently looking for works to be submitted for auction, with 80% of profits will go to support sQuareOne, and artists retaining 20% of sales. If you’d like to donate some work, please email Natalie by August 20, 2008 with a description of your work (and a photo if possible), including title, dimensions and media.

What’s your reason for workplace safety?

That’s the question that WorkCover Authority wants YOU to answer. But only if you’re aged between 15 and 25 and live in NSW. Create a poster that depicts your reasons for staying safe at work and you’ll be in the running to win up to $36,000 worth of prizes.

Entries can be submitted online, and are due by 25 July, 2008.

Hit the pavement with Chalk Urban Art Festival

The Chalk Urban Art Festival is back and bigger than ever, now running for four days from 4 -  7 September, 2008. They are currently on the search for 40 artists to transform the streets around Tumbalong Park, with the Champion Pavement Artist recieving $5,000 in prize money. A People’s Choice Award will also be available.

Artist applications close on 17 July, 2008 and the form can be downloaded from the website.

Design NSW travelling gypsy scholarship

The 2008 Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship gives one emerging NSW designer the chance to study their art in the UK with a bunch of mentors. It’s only open to designers who have less than 5 years experience in product and communication design (not built environment design). The lucky traveller will recieve $18,000 of financial support from the government, which is what we’d all like, really.

To enter you need to register with dhub, then complete your background profile and upload your entry and description of up to 3 designs. Applications close 14 July, 2008, so get cracking!

Be a square with the sQuareOne team

sQuareOne is a new Vibewire initiative run out of Ultimo, Sydney. It’s an art gallery, shop, meeting and office space, and probably doesn’t make sense unless you check out the place itself. They’re looking for talented young things to work as volunteers and interns in their office, specifically:

• Admin volunteers
• Program intern
• Inhouse design intern

Even though these sorts of roles don’t pay the bills, they are great for your cv and you’ll be giving back to the community. Those are the warm and fuzzies that you can’t buy. Apply today!

Zine Scene

Since Aussie Arts was recieving alot of search hits for zines, I thought I’d celebrate the MCA Zine Fair with an entry about the Zine Scene in Australia. If you are unaware of what exactly a zine entails, I suggest you get the full lowdown at Book of Zines.

The Australian zine scene (sorry, I can’t stop saying it) is a funny thing. It’s like Sydney weather – dry one day, flooding rain the next. The entire structure of the scene is run on people’s spare time and money, meaning that previous information about zine stockists, distros and groups quickly becomes outdated. I’m hoping to maintain this entry as a current and relevant list of zine contacts, which I’ll update as information comes to hand. If you are aware of anything that’s incorrect or missing, please send it through to karen.at.karenisafox.com and I’ll make the necessary changes.

GROUPS

Recently Miss Helen (I think) set up a new google email group, Australian Zines and Small Press. It is great, join now.

DISTROS

Beating Hearts Press
PO Box 37
Rochedale South QLD 4123

Flying Machine
Emma
PO Box 4, Enmore NSW 2042
(She is slowly getting back into distro, currently working on only distributing her new zines)

Gato Loco
P.O. Box 190
Seddon West VIC 3011

Spiral Objective
PO Box 126, Oaklands Park SA 5046

Zine Classifieds
(it’s online! it’s awesome!)

ZINE STORES

Arc Art Store @ COFA
COFA Campus (OXford St Corner), Paddington NSW

Paint it Black Records
86 Enmore Road, Newtown NSW 2042

Polyester Books
330 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3065
PO Box 73, Fitzroy, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3065

RubanRat
King St, Newtown NSW 2042

SquareOne
525 Harris St, Ultimo NSW

Sticky
Shop 10 Campbell Arcade
(underneath Flinders St Station via Degraves St underpass)
Melbourne VIC 3000

POSSIBLE STOCKISTS

This is a listing of stockists that once used to stock zines, but now I’m not sure. If you’re looking to stock at these stores, please note that alot of these stores only accept topical zines, eg: music, anarchist, comics etc.

NSW

Gallery Serpentine
Shop 2/116 Enmore Rd, Newtown NSW 2042

MacLean’s Booksellers
69 Beaumont St, Hamilton NSW 2303
PO Box 130, Hamilton NSW 2303

Red Eye
66 King St, Sydney NSW 2000

QLD

Ace Comics
Level 2, 121 Queen St, Brisbane QLD 4000

Comic Warriors
Shop 18, Annerley Arcade, 478 Ipswich Rd, Annerley QLD

Rocking Horse Records
245 Albert St, Brisbane QLD 4000

Trash Video
1/73 Vulture St, West End QLD 4101

TAS

Play by Wire
Shop 23, Yorktown Square, Launceston TAS

VIC

Barricade Books
1st floor of Irene Community Arts Warehouse, 5 Pitt Street, Brunswick VIC 3056

Collectors’ Corner
240 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Eltham Bookshop
970 Main Road, Eltham VIC 3095

Friends of the Earth
312 Smith St , Collingwood VIC 3066

Greville Records
152 Greville St, Prahran VIC 3181

Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville St , Prahran VIC 3181

Missing Link Records
Basement 405 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Paperback Books
60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Peril Underground
Basement 17-19 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Synaesthesia
Level 1, 28 Block Place, Melbourne VIC 3000
GPO Box 1117, Melbourne 3001

WA

78 Records
914 Hay St, Perth WA 6000

Dada Records
36 Pier St, Perth WA 6000 
 
Quality Comics
872 Hay St, Perth, WA 6000
PO Box 7742 Cloisters Square WA 6850

LIBRARIES

Zine Libraries are places you go to read and photocopy archived zines.

Copy and Destroy Zine Library
Visible Ink, Fortitude Valley QLD

Murdoch University science fiction zine collection
South St, Murdoch WA 6150

National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600

Octapod
3/231 King St, Newcastle NSW 2300

State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

FESTIVALS & MARKETS

Festivals can be a one off thing, or an annual thing. Markets on the other hand are pretty regular, and are good if you’re stocking other crap.

ACT

Canberra Writers Festival Zine Fair
Run by the ACT Writers’ Centre, the Zine Fair will be held on Saturday 21 June, in the foyer of Gorman House.

NSW

Consolador de dos Caras DIY Markets
Every Wednesday, 8pm
la Campana, 53-55 liverpool St, Sydney NSW 2000

Kino Zine Fair
A new initiative of Kinokuniya, the giant bookstore in Galleries Victoria. It’s held this year on 28 June 2008 in store.
Level 2, TGV, 500 George St, Sydney NSW 2000

Newcastle Zine and Independent Press Fair
The National Young Writers’ Festival is held as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) Festival, during the September/October long weekend of every year. A key highlight of the Festival(s) is the Zine fair, which attracts zinesters from all over the country. This year the fair will be on Sunday, 5th October 2008.

Penrith Regional Gallery Inaugural Spring Zine Fair
Last year this was held on the 1st September, as part of a Zine Factory program the gallery was running.

smARTarts Art & Cultural Festival
The smARTarts Festival is a National Youth Week initiative run in and by Pine St Creative Arts Centre. One of the features of the festival is a zine fair. This year the festival was held on 12 April.
Pine St Creative Arts Centre, 62 Pine St, Chippendale NSW 2008

Verge Arts Festival Zine Fair
Verge Arts Festival is run annually by Sydney Uni, and the Zine Fair is booked to run on the 11th September, 2008.
Sydney University, Camperdown NSW

Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair
First was during National Youth Week earlier this year (13 April, 2008).

SA

Pt Augusta Zine Fair
Every year Pt Augusta has a writer’s festival, and in July ‘08 they had a Zine Fair.
The Barracks, Beachamps Lane, Pt Augusta SA

VIC

Independent Press and Zine Fair
The flagship for the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne, this year the Zine Fair was held on the 11 May at the Atrium in Federation Square.
Melbourne, VIC 3000

Mercado Art Market
Bi-monthly art market selling all bits of DIY, run by the good people at Forepaw.
275 High St, Northcote VIC

Sticky’s Festival of the Photocopier
This annual festival run by Australia’s best zine shop was held earlier this year on February 6th, in the Degraves Subway under Flinders St station.

Yeah Write! Zine Fair
Held by the City of Boroondara, Yeah Write! Zine Fair occurred last year on the 24 November at the Hawthorn Town Hall.
358 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC

Big ups to the Australian Zines and Small Press group and Keg De Souza’s MCA Zine Fair program for the wealth of info, some which has featured here.

Performance workshops for the learned

Located at 56 Cope St in Redfern, Sydney, the Nussinov Gallery is opening its doors to the public for Cope56. Cope56 is a creative workshop for students or graduates in performance art to develop performance acts and multimedia presentations individually or collectively.

So if you’re into acting, mime, dance, speech, singing, dancing or writing, take a look at Cope56. The entire initiative is made for artists to work organically and safely, with plenty of stimuli and participants. They meet every Tuesday night, and the deadline for artist applications is 30 June, 2008.

To find uot more, contact Micha Nussinov on 0413 592 940.

It’s art… you can wear…

You might remember Sydney’s Chalk Urban Art Festival last year for its interesting mix of chalk artists dressing up the pavement along Darling Harbour’s bridge. Well, this September the festival is back with an even bigger program.

This year they’re introducing a Wearable Art Competition, where the top 20 finalists will have their works paraded in an evening fashion event extraordinare at Tumbalong Park, with music and dancing and theatre and who knows what else.

Chalk are currently accepting expressions of interest up to the 15 June 2008. To enter, email your name, contact details and a picture of your completed work to helen@frockfashion.com.au

Rights, camera, action

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival will be travelling around our wide brown land at the end of this year, stopping off at Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Canberra. One of the highlights of the festival is the film program, and the organisers are looking for feature documentaries, narratives and experimental films for this year’s competition. Plus, there a thousands of dollars in prizes that will be awarded to winning entries.

Submissions must engage in human rights and social justice issues, and are due 14 July, 2008. Submission form and guidelines can be downloaded from the website.