lip magazine: for girls who think feel create speak out live

Friday 20 June
8-10.30pm
The Big Damn Turboslam
Hip hop, funky beats and performance poetry! Featuring Miles Merrill, the one-man word hurler from Sydney (www.wordtravels.info). Open mic from 8pm. Poetry Slam from 9pm. Cash prizes. Cash bar operating.
MCs: Hal Judge and Julian Fleetwood. Bogong Theatre, Gorman House, Ainslie Ave, Braddon. FREE

Other youth events during the Festival:
Friday 20 June
9am-11.30am
Hip hop workshop with MC Karuna for ages 12-18.
Bookings essential on 6262 9191. Venue: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Ave, Braddon. FREE.

Saturday 21 June
Zine Fair
Over 25 tables full of creativity!  Magazines, zines, cartoons, graphics, badges, buttons, posters and other crazy stuff.
QL2 Foyer, Gorman House, Ainslie Ave, Braddon. FREE

www.actwriters.org.au for full program of festival!

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Tomorrow there is going to be a zine fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I am having a stall selling lip so be sure to pop in if you’re in the area.
It is a FREE event and goes from 11am to 6pm.
There are set to be around 60 stalls.
You can sell, trade, browse zines, listen to live music and panel discussions.

The art gallery’s website is www.mca.com.au if you want to check that out.

I encourage everyone to come as it will be interesting and fun. Also the gallery space is just a really nice one. Maybe I’ll see you there?

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The ACT Writers’ Centre will be running the first Canberra zine fair in goodness knows how long on the morning of Saturday 21 June at Gorman House, as part of the Canberra Writers’ Festival.

Please email me or contact The Writers Centre - admin@actwriters.org.au / (02) 6262 9191 - ASAP to book a table!

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World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine is a chance to do just that! The 40 hour famine is one of Australia’s biggest fundraising events, giving you the chance to experience what going without something that you rely on - for 40 hours - is like for children in third world countries, who go without the same things everyday of their lives.

The 40 Hour Famine started in 1975 to raise money to help children, families and communities in desperate need. Today it continues to provide both short-term and long-term support as they tackle the causes of poverty in their community. This is your chance to take a step out of our first world luxury and do something worthwhile for people who truly need help. The 40 Hour Famine exists to educate young people on global poverty and motivate them to action through fundraising for World Vision projects. So what are you waiting for?

Check out the website for more details and to find out how you can be involved: 40hourfamine.com

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GEN Y – WHY NOT?
GETTING A GRIP ON GENERATION Y

They’re young and savvy with the world at their feet. But Gen Y is also grappling with a greater range of demands and expectations than any other generation before them.

GEN Y – WHY NOT? is a youth forum for everyone – young people, parents, teachers, students, and anyone who cares about shaping our community into a better, brighter and happier place in which young people will thrive.

In a short afternoon we will explore …

• Body Battles and self esteem
• The intergenerational divide, when parents just ‘don’t get it’
• Fatigue and student apathy in the face of politics
• Steering a path through the turbulent teens and twenties
• Policing the beat and dealing with youth alcoholism
• The challenges faced by Indigenous youth

Speakers: Prof Larissa Behrendt (University of Technology, Sydney); Ms Virginia Haussegger (Journalist, writer and ABC TV News presenter); Ms Jamila Helen Rizvi (President ANU Student’s Union); Ms Rachel Longhurst (Editor Lip Magazine, Canberra); Superintendent Matthew Varley (Crimes Prevention, ACT Policing

Saturday, 10 May 2008 – 3.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Theo Notaras Function Hall, 180 London Circuit, Civic Canberra City.

Free Entry. All are invited to attend.

Register your interest by email: forum.australia@hotmail.com or phone 0434604208, 62625966, 62888747, 0402141771

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International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialised world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.Annually on 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. While there are many large-scale initiatives, a rich and diverse fabric of local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, government activities and networking events through to local women’s craft markets, theatric performances, fashion parades and more.

So make a difference, think globally and act locally !! Make every day International Women’s Day. Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.

For more information visit http://www.internationalwomensday.com.

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Earth Hour is taking place on Saturday, 29 March at 8pm, local time.

We want all of you, your friends and your communities to help raise awareness to climate change by turning off your lights for one hour and changing all of your bulbs to energy efficient, compact fluorescents.

This symbol, the largest voluntary power down in the world, will show that united together we can each make a difference in climate change.

Sign-up to participate at www.earthhour.org

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- by Josefine Kristensen

These works question consumerism and the concept of homosexuality being a lifestyle choice. Using a well known consumer product that is marketed worldwide brings to light how advertising appeals to the longings of consumers and in turn questions the concept of homosexual love being a “lifestyle choice”. The work’s conceptual thinking is a comment on society and love. There are three cans that have been labelled with three identities of love and each ask: Do we have a choice on how we feel and who we fall in love with? Do we really have the ability to feel love for any human being? Saying homosexuality is a lifestyle choice implies that love is a choice and is controllable. It implies that both homosexuality and heterosexuality are changeable lifestyles.

Wouldn’t this mean we could fall in love with whoever we choose? And, wouldn’t it imply that we all feel equally homosexual love and heterosexual love? Advertising targets the desires of the consumer and makes products/services desirable by appealing to the sensibilities of the consumer. Wouldn’t then advertising use homosexual scenarios just as much as heterosexual scenarios to target consumers if we had a choice and were able to feel equally homosexual and heterosexual love? Wouldn’t these scenarios be appealing to all if it was a choice?

Exhibition Details:
Dates: Tuesday 1st Jan –25th Jan 2008.
Opening night: Queer City Launch - Wednesday 16th of January 6pm beginning at 45 Flinders St. Finishing at the after party at Loop.
Festival participation: Midsumma Visual Arts - Queer City.
Venue work is at: PLATFORM SHOWS: Degraves-Flinders Station Subway.

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This Australia Day weekend, Television Records brings you a showcase unlike any other: Carry Nation, Edward Guglielmino and Lucien Simon will join forces in an eclectic mish-mash of rock, pop, folk and noise.

Ms Nation offers her audiences a piece of her mind, transforming the room she occupies with each gig. Although she has only been a part of the scene for nine months, Carry Nation is a Fortitude Valley veteran, having played all the main stages throughout the district.

Asked about her success as a musician, she prefers to remain coy, replying: “Look over there!” while pointing behind you – when you turn around again she is gone.

Ed Guglielmino uses an arsenal of cheap guitars and effects in a stream-of-consciousness storytelling with an indie-kid twist. Think Robert Smith meets Thom Yorke meets Kurt Cobain meets Jeff Buckley.

Lucien Simon - who was the primary songwriter and singer for bands like DUST (1995-1997), Z-Grade (1998) and the The Drowning Pool (1994) - plays with his band “The Front”.

The Television Records Showcase will be broadcast at the East Brunswick Club on 25 January from 8pm, featuring local supports from A Friend Of Mine and Sundown and/or Last Stand, tickets $10.

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During Easter weekend, Exhibition Park in Canberra once again becomes home to the National Folk Festival. This year the National not only celebrates its fortieth birthday, but also introduces a brand new youth venue: AXIS.

Following forums with young festival goers invited to discuss what they would like to see in a dedicated youth venue, festival director Jenny Simpson took some suggestions on board to bring a new twenty-four hour acoustic youth venue to the festivities. AXIS is an alcohol-free venue run and programmed by young people, available as a space for young performers to meet, chat and jam. AXIS will also offer up daily blackboard workshops, such as Body Percussion; Songwriting; and Ballads, Beatbox and Beyond.

The National hosts plenty of young performers this year who can be caught at the various festival stages. Canberra favourites One Night Jam and Quagmire will be serenading audiences with their lovely songs, as well as Dahahoo, whose vibrant musical mix has been known to get everyone dancing

‘The Italians in Australia’ is the festival’s 2006 theme and brings traditional Sicilian puppetry to the festival, as well as The Black Nonnas and Kavisha Mazzella. In addition to great music, the National offers dance workshops and displays, instrument and singing workshops, street parades, shops and an atmosphere full of fairy wings and busking.

If, as I do, you already count the National as one of the highlights of your year, I am sure you are looking forward to the new opportunities for merry-making and participation AXIS will bring to young performers and their audiences. If spending five days listening to a variety of great acoustic bands and songwriters, dancing with friends, making music and celebrating into the evening with steel drum fires and steamy beverages sounds like just the way you want to spend your holiday, then check out the National Folk Festival, on from 13 to 17 April.

See www.folkfestival.asn.au for ticketing and other information.

Hope to see you there!

Rachel

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