JULY ARTNESS:
THUR-1-JULY:
♥ GORKER GALLERY opener: The40Thieves3: the 3rd offence. 6:30-8:30pm 395 gore st (cnr Kerr)
♥ no vacancy opener 6-9pm 34jane bell la. QV
♥ Exhibition launch: WEAPONS OF MASS CONSUMPTION Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
♥ James Makin Gallery opener 67 Cambridge St [3june, 1july, 4aug, 12aug, 9sept, 7oct, 11nov]
♥ *last ever show 4 w.t.* Wasted Truth, Pathetic Human, Fusinato, Occult Blood. 8:00pm Workers Club, cnr brnswk+Gertrude
♥ Westspace Opening. Lvl 1, 15-19anthony st. 5-7pm Semantic Clutter refers to the creative detritus generated throughout an artist’s work process. This exhibition is one of three alternating exhibitions as part of the Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Arts
♥ Alice Euphemia Crap/OPENING, Shop 6, Cathedral Arcade, 37 Swanston St
♥ NoNO op-ening 14 raglan st, nth melb. 6-8pm Drew Pettifer, ‘Hold on to your friends’ Drew Pettifer has photographed naked young men in the most hostile terrain of all: regional Victoria
♥ TOTEpener? I thort it was shit/I mean shut… ? Tote, 71 Johnston St, Collingwood. Doors 8pm. $8 on the door. // Week 1 has some high-end harmonious support from the likes of Otouto, Ev and Shags and Isle Idore, and DJ Mint DJ-uke spinning vinyl until he is forcibly removed from the premises. Don’t miss this housewarming
FRI-2-JULY:
♥ Threw A Kiss In The Ocean’, Irene Grishin-Selzer’s Outré opener 249eliz st, 7-9:30pm
♥ ‘Antarctica’ exhibition opening . Michael’s Camera Shop gallery, cnr Elizabeth +Lonsdale St, 5.30-7.30pm, free
♥ ‘SUB12′ opening The Substation, 1 Market st, Newport. Open 6-8pm, free entry Substation opens its newly renovated galleries for a three-month exhibition series.
♥ Criticsmiles opening-rearview Rear 244 Smith St, Collingwood. Opening 7-9pm, free entry // Kez Hughes and David Coles have a new exhibition at Rear View. They make art that refers to the experience of looking at art
♥ ‘PRIVATE’ as in “penis” and “vagina” privates? Privately I think that privates are disgusting…GUILD OPENER 6-9pm free vodka. Fuk it – lettuce crash! – or at least bum rush dis ssshitt http://www.threethousand.com.au/out/ketel-one-house-private-opening/
♥ REMEMBER TO – NOT GO TO: shit gorker gallery ‘cool’ clothing sale. Ohwowow-70% of “who gives a fuck” if I wanna look at fashion, I’ll just check out the hot yopung nubile things loitering around brnswk st. coz I do not go south of da Yarriver. Theoretically i support local designers. Financially not. Nor interest-wise either. i cannot support myself in the fast paced fashionsphere… if i cannot keep in control and up to date with my own body hair and bikini line *that shit goes ALL the way down, baby – and so should you. Just try not to ingest anything, that’s my recommendation.* then i’ll be fucked if i could give a fuck about keeping track of what not to whore, i mean wear from season to stupid season.
Actually i take that back. Whore is much more appropriate.
♥ BJORk nyt – red hot shorts 1st b’day – Cinema 2, ACMI, Fed Square. 7.30pm. $10/$12 acmi.net.au // For the RHS first birthday screening it’s all about the swan-wearing Icelandic pop pixie Bjork and short films from Sundance
♥ The Clothing Exchange noVacancy Gallery, 24-40 Jane Bell Ln, QV 6.30pm check-in. $25 clothingexchange.com.au // Swap your clothes for other people’s clothes, and get to pay money for the priviledge, (blurgh)
SAT-3-JULY:
♥ Lovely Ladyease BDAY – keep sat 3rd july arvo/ evening free
♥ Dysphemic launch @MISS LIBERTINE w. MARK N, WASABI, BARON VON ROTTEN, KODIAK KID. 10pm-5am $10.
♥ ‘SUPER MARKET’ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy. 11am-4pm. Free! // A currency-free barter with artists and collectives over superfluous wares. Bring along whatever you have to offer, be it a an old shoe, your finger-knitting skills, or a sleazy smile, and swap it for something new. – REJ
♥ Bum Creek, No Zu, Blank Realm and Table Mountain Yah Yah’s, 99 Smith St, Fitzroy, doors 8.30pm, $8//What or where is Bum Creek, exactly? I can’t get a handle on it, but they sure do float my boat. No Zu are also killing it, as are Blank Realm and last but not least, Table Mountain – some interesting one-man Adelaide shit. – MO
♥ C Grade 2nd Birthday Party! Mercat Basement, 456 Queen St, Melbourne. From 10pm to 8am. Entry $5 from 10-11pm, $10 from 11-midnight, $15 after midnight // It’s two years since C Grade started, and to celebrate they are having an ‘I’m a celebrity cardboard cutout under the sea’ party! Last one until September though because Otologic and Lewie Day are going to Europe. – Us
♥ Houlette farewell party with Geoffrey O’Connor Band, Hot Little Hands (duo), Steph Brett and friends
♥ Brother Rat Fink’s Shop, 217 St Georges Rd, Northcote. Doors 8m, entry $5 // Geofreey O’Connor band, Hot Little Hands and Steph Brett are all playing a farewell to Houlette in a shop called Brother Rat Fink’s. – Us
♥ Mid Season Sale – Limedrop, Who Am Eye, Trimapee, Lenko and Thom Finch 2nd Jul 10 – 4th Jul 10 at Gorker Gallery, 395 Gore St, Fitzroy. Fri and Sat 10am-6pm, Sun noon-5pm. Up to 70% off. CASH ONLY! // Gues what you did this weekend? You went on a three-day bender to the Limedrop, Lenko, Trimapee, Who Am Eye and Thomas Finch Mid Season Sale and saved up to 70% off quality dresses, tops and slacks. – Us.
♥ Mission Control, Sambrose Automobile, Hollow Everdaze, POON DJs The Toff, Lvl 2, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne, doors 9pm, $10//Mission Control sound kinda like a more tuneful Happy Mondays. Accompanying them here are a couple of skate-related projects: Sambrose Automobile featuring Ambrose Kenny Smith, Hollow Everdaze and the Poon DJs, who are the dudes who skate out the front of the State Library every day, the uncrowned kings of Melbourne. Expect Roky Erickson, Pet Shop Boys and, um, maybe some songs from skate vids. – MO
♥ Monster Skate Sale 1st Jul 10 – 4th Jul 10 Moorabin Town Hall, Cnr Nepean Hwy and South Rd, Moorabin, Thurs noon-7pm, Fri 11am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-6pm, Up to 80% off retail//Lush Productions are clearing out 11 pallets of gear – clothing, shoes, skateboards and snowboards – and selling it dirt cheap. We’re talking CHEAP. Brands on offer include Circa, Vans, Zoo York, DC and Santa Cruz. – MO
♥ The Native Cats with Super Wild Horses and The UV Race The Birmingham, 333 Smith St, Fitzroy, doors 8pm, $10//The Native Cats are an intriguing blend of stolen basslines, Casiotone beats and what sounds suspiciously like a melodica. They’re playing with the kick-ass Super Wild Horses and wildly entertaining UV Race, so your tenner will be well spent. – MO
♥ The Shock of the New The Order of Melbourne, Lvl 2, 401 Swanston St, Melbourne. From 9pm-3am, free! // A journey into the “darkest depths of dystopian synth and indie”. Also synthpop, new beat, neue Deutsche welle, electronic body music, dark wave, Krautrock, Italo, Dutch electro, new wave and synthgaze. – Us
♥ The Sirens of Venice, ‘The Sirens of Venice’ Northcote Social Club, 301 High St, Northcote. Doors 8.30pm, tickets $12 +BF from northcotesocialclub.com // Sirens of Venice launch their album ‘Sirens of Venice’ with support from Minibikes and Boarders. – Us
SUN-4-JULY
≠ ‘Death of a Scenester’ issue #2 fundraiser 591 High St, Thornbury (opposite Human Powered Cycles). 3pm-8.30pm. $5 donation. // There will be musical endowment to the term of Julia Deans, Jimmy Tait, Little John, and Raul Fuzz, and the bake sale will be back due to popular demand. Bound to be several kinds of delicious.
≠ Mid Season Sale – Limedrop, Who Am Eye, Trimapee, Lenko and Thom Finch 2nd Jul 10 – 4th Jul 10 at Gorker Gallery, 395 Gore St, Fitzroy. Fri and Sat 10am-6pm, Sun noon-5pm. Up to 70% off. CASH ONLY! // Gues what you did this weekend? You went on a three-day bender to the Limedrop, Lenko, Trimapee, Who Am Eye and Thomas Finch Mid Season Sale and saved up to 70% off quality dresses, tops and slacks.
≠ Monster Skate Sale 1st Jul 10 – 4th Jul 10 Moorabin Town Hall, Cnr Nepean Hwy and South Rd, Moorabin, Thurs noon-7pm, Fri 11am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-6pm, Up to 80% off retail//Lush Productions are clearing out 11 pallets of gear – clothing, shoes, skateboards and snowboards – and selling it dirt cheap. We’re talking CHEAP. Brands on offer include Circa, Vans, Zoo York, DC and Santa Cruz.
TUE-6-JULY
≠ flinders lane gall. 6july… ? 137flindersLa.?
≠ Bus Projects and Craft Victoria present ‘The Sound Playground’ opening night fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Opening 5-7pm, free entry // For their first off-site project since they’ve moved out of Bus Gallery, Bus Projects have collaborated with Craft Victoria to present The Sound Playground as part of the Liquid Architecture Festival. Sound art! Artists include Rod Cooper, Albert Mishriki and Ros Bandt, Emma Lashmar and Rowan McNaught. – Us
WED-7-JULY:
≠ ‘The Pines’ film premiere 7th Jul 10 1000 £ Bend, 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne. 6pm-midnight. Screenings at 6.30pm, 7.30pm and 9pm. Free! // This looks to be one of creepy cautionary tales that do so well on the festival circuit, and you can see it in 1000 £ Bend’s mezzanine cinema space before it starts doing its laps
≠ Human Abstract 7th Jul 10 Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse, 113 Sturt St, Southbank. Begins Wed Jul 7, runs until Sun Jul 11. Tickets $37 from www.m-tix.com.au // Some of the best dancers from The Australian Ballet are trying something new. With choreography by Lucas Jervies, ‘Human Abstract’ will explore manifestations of fear and confrontation
THUR-8-JULY:
♥ Counihan gallery opener at brunswick town hall 233 sydney rd 6-8pm(?)
♥ The Sound Playground 45 Flinders La Thursday July 8, 5:45-7:15pm; Wednesday July 14, 5:45-7:15pm; Friday July 16, 5:45-7:15pm; All tickets $15.
FRI-9-JULY:
♥ Grotesque erotique 696 syd rd 6-9pm
♥ little memories exhibition 2A Little Breese Street, Brnswk 6pm->
SAT-10-JULY:
♥ THE BRUNSWICK SHOW 2010 DONKEY WHEEL HOUSEl; 673 BOURKE ST (near southern cross station) 7-10pm
SUN-11-JULY:
≠ Matthew Barney on Film – ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne. From 3.30-9.42pm, tickets $35. // ACMI screens Matthew Barney’s entire Cremaster Cycle in one sitting. Having done this will give you a quiet confidence you can carry to art fairs for the rest of your life. – Us
WED-14-JULY:
≠ GORKER wineTasting: The 40 Thieves 3 6-7pm 395 gore st (cnr Kerr)
FRI-16-JULY:
≠ The Inaugural Australasian Ginger Festival Where: Jules Bar, 81 High St, Westgarth When: Fri Jul 16 and Sat Jul 17, 8pm How much Free! Description: Instead of staying in and watching stupid vicroads ads or wildly ‘confronting’ MIA clips this weekend, celebrate the wonderful pheomelanin pigmentation as beheld of many of our finest citizens. The IAGF is offering free cocktails to redheads all weekend, ginger DJs including the fresh off the plane skills of Caroline ‘George Street Clowns’ Anderson, and much more. Julia Gillard has been invited, though who knows if she will show. Their may be some gay people in attendance, after all
SAT-16/17??-JULY:
♥ “EMBOLISM”@ the Mercat X basement 10pm-6am DISLASYSTEM [syd]; SADO; ERRORIST; SEMTEX DISRUPTOR; TODDAK [ex autonomous]; DJ EARBLEEDER; NULL HYPOTHESIS; more TBA ; Live videoed farts by VJ iCandy; Sculptures by Futurelic. $10 entry
MON-22-JULY:
♥ “‘The secret of life’ group show ARTISTS WANTED” ENTRIES DUE mon 22 JULY [ Tues, Aug 3 at 6pm, SJS GALLERY] – costs dumb $40 to enter.
Tue-23-july:
♥ MelbWriterFesty =volunteers wanted? http://www.mwf.com.au/2010/content/mwf-2010-home.asp?, http://www.threethousand.com.au/out/melbourne-writers-festival-call-for-volunteers/ , http://www.mwf.com.au/2010/content/mwf-2010-standard.asp?name=volunteer
THUR-29-JULY:
♥ flinders la. gall opener 5:30-7:30pm 137flinders la.
THUR-5-AUG:
♥ “‘The secret of life’ group show OPENS 5th aug 6-9pm 120alexandra pde
♥ No Vacancy – acorn show or Go Font Yrself 6-9pm http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126166927413203
Fri-6-AUG
♥ Th Sideshow ‘art’ Competition @ 696 Ink,closes fri 6 aug (no larger than A2).
Fri-13-AUG:
≠ 696 sYdney rd tattoo opener 6-9pm *(?)
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