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Art Openings & Free Cheese – Melbourne – June, july 2011

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FRI-24-JUNE:

♥         temp show-pener 292 smith st 6-8pm  http://collingwoodgallery.com.au

♥         Owl&pussycat 34swanSt richmd, 6-9pm

♥         Fat Kids presents BOOMBOX 1st Floor-393 Brnswk St 9pm-5am 

♥         ‘dunny2011′ figurines@ noVacancy janebell la.QV-only day sales methinks, check villain for details?

♥        Rmit 2nd yr OffTheKerb 66b JohnstonSt 6-9pm

♥        REST-LESS Mercat Basement  $10 free entry b/w 10-11pm

♥         Mad Hatter’s After Party Revolt Melbourne Artspace 12 Elizabeth St 7pm-1am 

SAT-25-JUNE:

♥         redbull wreckers yard TRANS TASMAN FINAL -  The Evelyn Hotel – 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 7pm www.facebook.com/wreckersyard

♥         DISCODANCEPARTY DISCOBEANS 238high st 10 PM

♥         opening/launch Beam contemporary lvl1,30 guildford la. 3-5pm

♥         dianne tanzer opener 108/110 Gertrude St, Fitz www.diannetanzergallery.net.au   3-5pm

♥         Sylvia Ji “Ofrendas” Pop Up Exhib Outre-249 eliz st, 5pm-> RSVP to  info@outregallery.com

♥         Gallery 104, 104 Burgundy Street, Heidelburg 3-5pm  http://www.gallery104.com.au/  

♥         ‘Thinking about thinking: Graham Brindley reunites the mind & the brain’ Loft gallery opener Fehily Contemporary 3a Glasshouse Rd Collingwd 3-5pm

♥         Anna SChwatrz opener 185flinders la. 1-5pm? http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com/works/exhibitions?current=1&c=m

♥         Revurt #2 wall session-Cloud Nine Cat Resort 34 Clifton St, Prahran 12:30pm (studio tours 2pm&3pm) http://www.invurt.com/2011/06/24/live-art-revurt-prahran-vic/

SUN-26-JUNE:

♥         Muddy Lawrence Multiple Tape Launch + Diploid, Ross, Manley Pointer +Catfood Press (across the road from the east brunswick club)  Muddy Lawrence diploid; Spasmoslop; Ross; Culm; Lethe; Manley Pointer Doors open : 2:30-5:30pm Cost: $2.50

♥         Glasfrosch Album Launch, with Mandek Penha, Sean M Whelan & Isnod  at Evelyn 8:30-11:30pm Presale tickets $10 on the door $13 …Special Guests:Mandek Penha; Sean M Whelan & Isnodl

♥         GENERAL ASSEMBLY of INTERESTED PARTIES …noise gig,etc Art Beat 211A Victoria St westMelb 4-6pm 

TUE-28-JUNE:

♥         CHECK FLG opener 137flinders la. 5:30-7:30??!

♥         45 downstairs flinders la. opener 6-8pm
WED-29-JUNE:

♥        7th opener 155gertrude 6-8pm

♥        Jenny port opener lvl1,7albertSt Richmond 6-8pm

♥        night and day – new works by Michael Spear Lang Wyndham Cultural Centre Wed, June 29 at 6:30pm

♥        HelenGorie opener 25 St Edmonds Rd Prahran 6-9pm

THUR-30-JUNE:

♥         arT exibiT E55 (55eliz st) 7-10pm

♥         Kick opener 4 peel St,c’lingwd 6-8pm

♥         Hand Held opener, Suite 18 Paramount Arcade, 108 Bourke St  6-8pm

♥         3things’ Hip Hop Approach -Prince Bandroom, 8:00-11:30pm $5

♥         NoNo-pener 14 raglan st, 6-8pm

♥         www.rearviewgallery.com.au 244smith (off Stanley st) c’lingwd 7pm->

♥         Art beat opener 211 victoria st, 6-9pm  CheckCheck

♥         ArtsProjects 24high st, 6-8pm

♥         Gallery smith 174 abbotsford st, nth melb 6-8pm

♥         MARS opener 418bay st, port melb 6-8pm

************************            JULY           ******************************

FRI-1-JULY:

♥          Kaitlin beckett exoskeletons NoVacancy fedSq atrium 6-9pm

♥         FEMME-ALE GROPE SHOW!

♥         Paradise hills -19 doonside Richmond 6-9pm

♥         PLATFORM degraves subway 6-8pm

♥         Post Lantern Night Market The Parlour, 340 Plenty Road, Preston5-9pm

♥         REARVIEW opener  244smith, 7-10pm=

SAT-2-JULY:

♥         SEARious jones Opens The Faction,Footscray 1-5 wightson st, footscray 6pm-> “rumours of a photoboof and daquaris..”

♥         bLOCKpROJECTS 79 stephenson st, Richmond  2-4pm

♥         Cambridge studio opener 52cambridge st, 4-6pm

♥          ULTIMATE 80S DANCEPARTY! 7pm ?revolt artspace?

♥         ::::End of an era dance party, R&B super club:::Saturday, July 2 at 8:00pm at ex-y3k gallery space & studio

♥         gig/art Hemymusic & Oodlies Royal Hotel 10pm-> http://rush.ly/4i1rl9

Mon-4-july:

TUE-5-JULY:

♥         Catherine asquith 48oxford st 6-8pm?

 ♥         RMIT 1st SITE opener 5(:30) – 7(:30)http://www.link.rmit.edu.au/first_site.html#August

WED-6-JULY:

♥         4walls lvl1,34franklin 6-8pm

♥         ‘+/-’ opener  Incinerator Arts Complex 180 Holmes Rd Moonee Ponds 6-8pm

THUR-7-JULY:

♥         20-24 guildford la opener  6-9pm

♥          AlterEgo. Location: The Deli (?) 6pm

♥         ‘Alone in my room’ opener Colour Factory 409 -429 Gore St 6-8pm

♥         RACKET12 noise gig = MsLibs 34 franklinSt 7pm -1 am

♥         launch of On Paper exhib Town Hall Gallery  rear, 358 Burwood Rd 6-8pm

FRI-8-JULY:

♥         Brnswk Arts opener, 2a Little Breese St 6-9pm

♥         KINGS ARI lvl1,171king st, 6-8pm http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f12ebfed755a0d79b125ff01b&id=7d3f74055f

♥         CHIPMuzak gig La Di Da 577 Little Bourke st, $10 presales  http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4488/0807-soundbytes-9-melb-oz-sydney-showcase/

SAT-9-JULY:

♥        DARK DECIMALS Tape Launch Builders Arms 8:30-11:30pm 

♥        http://www.catherineasquithgallery.com 48 oxford st,c’lingwd 2-4pm “Wine and accompaniments to be supplied by King & Godfrey.”

WED-13-JULY

♥         ‘36views of latte NoVacancy fedSq atrium 6-9pm 

THUR-14-JULY:

♥         BRIGHTSPACE opener 8 Martin St St Kilda 6-8pm

FRI-15-JULY:

♥         Backwoods opener 25 Easey St 6-9pm

SAT-16-JULY:

♥         Revolt gig 12eliz st 8pm->

♥         ROMY/SPEED PAINTERS/OK SURE/GAMBOL & CAVORT DJ SET  Buffalo Club 22 Sutherland StMelb. $10 8PM

♥         40Hands – R.I.S.E Poetry Slam&Book Launch Horse Bazaar 379 Little Lonsdale 6-11:30pm

THUR-21-JULY:

  • Nono 14raglan st 6-8pm

FRI-22-JULY:

♥         VASILI KALIMAN, JARROD AWLINS+TARA RAWLINS LAUNCH PART-NEW GALLERY IN STH YARRA, MELB, 6-8 PM

♥         DO ME munny – submissions due by 22july: exhib opener 5aug  Send in photo’s of your customised Munny to munny@villain.com.au by the 22nd July to be in the running to show your creation at our Do Me! Munny instore exhibition. Mega, mid or mini. Choose your Munny to customise. Open to all. Prizes blah etc

♥         Gillian grant opener 1B Stanley Street, Collingwood 6-8pm

♥         Zero Flag Finally Unfurls… (playing live!)The Dancing Dog in downtown Footscray 8-11pm     

♥         Ger-turd-e St Projxn festy, 6pm->

TUE-26-JULY:

♥         PinUp st* of design opener 15-25keele st 6-8/9pm

FRI-29-JULY:

  • paradise hills 1-9 doonside richmond 6-8pm

WED-3-AUG:

  • forWalls 34franklin 6-9pm

FRI-5-AUG:

♥         Do Me! Munny instore exhib “Mega, mid or mini. Choose your Munny to customise. Open to all. Prizes to be won!” check villain website?

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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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