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Minigras @ The Joan

27/02/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Music, Play, Theatre

MINI GRAS is a night to gather, to listen, to speak and to be heard. While the Mardi Gras festival burns brightly in the inner city the Joan will play host to a small spark of creative energy designed to engage the LGBTI community of Western Sydney and our allies.

New writings will make their way to open readings, local musicians will share the songs they love to share and community leaders will discuss, debate and debunk some of the mythologies around what it means to be ‘out’ and out West.

Saturday, Feb 28 2015 6:00pm

6.00 – 7.00pm: The Wild Wild West

Join us for a panel discussion on art, Western Sydney, gathering spaces and the LGBTI community with speakers from ACON, Headspace, NSW Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby and the Joan.

7.30 – 8.30: Uncle Harold (the Naked Young Man)

Sit in on a play reading of a new work by established, local playwright Dale Turner. Uncle Harold is a presently poignant story of past sexualities, history and family.

8.30 – 9.15: Queer Sounds

Grab a drink and listen to the sounds of John Milligan. John is an up and coming musician and musical theatre maker who will be playing some of his favourite anthems to round out the perfect Mini Gras experience.

Tickets here.

Munt Collective Online

22/01/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Design, Fashion, Graphic Design, Illustration, Music, Photography, Play, Video

'Estonia', 2015, Photography by Alice Dolling

‘Estonia’ (Detail), 2015, Photography by Alice Dolling

Presented, curated and created by Alice Dolling, Carl Jiorjio, Anastasia Grace, Zac Svendsen and Tom Christophersen.

Featuring new photographic and audio visual works which, upon consumption – can cause swelling and drooling. Then you can purchase some lovely things.

Updated monthly.

Answers to no-one.

Now live(s) HERE.

Hijinks

29/08/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Music, Theatre

Search for sunken treasure in a sparkling underwater city filled with dive bars, fascinating sea creatures and Sydney’s hottest young artists.

The underwater tunnels of SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium open after-hours for limited-edition 18+ events run by non-profit arts company The Festivalists. Experience some of the best emerging local artists against a magnificent backdrop of sharks, stingrays and sea jellies.

Take on the role of a buccaneer as you are challenged to search for sunken treasure throughout the Aquarium’s mysterious underwater corridors and caverns, home to astonishing marine life from dugongs and sawfish to penguins and seahorses. Take selfies with Bitches of the Sea, learn something untrue about Penguins and find Quint’s lost undersea booty.

Grab a drink at the pop up bars serving Little Creatures beers or SKYY Vodka cocktails, take selfies with Grey Nurse sharks, chat with marine biologists or simply get a head start on the weekend. SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium is one of Sydney’s most surprising, awe-inspiring sites. HIJINKS is a unique opportunity for local residents to reclaim the aquarium as their own over the course of a wild and eventful evening.

Thursday September 11th at 6.30pm – 9.30pm at the Sydney Aquarium.

More info and tickets here.

Westbrook

29/08/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: TV

WESTBROOK

Westbrook

The Crime & Investigation Network.

Starts – Thursday August 28 at 8.30pm

Concludes – Thursday September 4 at 8.30pm

Encores – Sunday August 31 at 8.30pm and Sunday September 7 at 8.30pm

Westbrook is the horrifying story of a modern Australian slave labour camp where for many years in the 1950s and ‘60s, teenage boys were imprisoned, systematically brutalised and sexually assaulted. Many had escaped from violent and dysfunctional families only to face years of deprivation and humiliation, degraded day-after-day in a regimen designed to break their spirit.

This the story of Westbrook, a notorious hell-hole at Toowoomba, Queensland, where boys were beaten till they bled, dragged at night from their dormitory beds to be raped by guards and older inmates; the screams of the victims echoing over the other boys lying terrified and weeping.

When a boy managed to report the abuse to authorities he was disbelieved and beaten even more harshly. The few who managed to get away were quickly re-captured and put into the horrifying confinement of a terrible cage called “The Compound”.

Through re-enactments and interviews with the survivors, Westbrook exposes the criminal behaviour of supervisors with unrestricted power over all aspects of the boys’ lives.

Westbrook is a documentary all Australians must see. It reveals a legacy of violence and misery that continues to this day; a trail of homelessness, unemployment, substance abuse, mental illness and emotional breakdown.

Dessin Sur Papier

18/07/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art

Dessin Sur Papier at Juxtapose Studios

Sunday, 10th August 2014
As Part of SALA Festival

Dessin Sur Papier (Works on Paper) features a variety of skilled local artists exploring drawing mediums on paper in an themed open studio setting at Juxtapose Studios (SA). All works are for sale and each artist will be selling a limited run of affordable archival prints of selected works.

Meet selected artists behind the works 9th and 10th August.

Cosmo Antenucci, Michelle Avery, Glenda Bowen, Tom Christophersen, David Court, Alice Dolling, Janette Humble, Alessandra Jordan, Simon Tait, Viray Thach, Alina Vlasenko, Cuicui Zhou, Claire Foord

Light refreshments served.

Website: www.juxtaposestudios.com.au

Email: admin@juxtaposestudios.com.au

Shop 6 Cinema Place, Adelaide, South Australia 5000

Gallery Opening Hours

Wednesday to Friday 9:30am to 2:30pm
Friday evening 6pm to 9pm
Saturdays 1pm to 5pm
Sundays 1pm to 5pm
+61 08 8223 3947
Or by appointment.

Business Unfinished

10/07/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Theatre

Photography by Carl Giorgio

‘Business Unfinished – part of PACT’s 2014 Vacant Room Season, is an interwoven collection of performed, pre-recorded, verbatim audio interviews conducted with Inner West residents who have experienced a range of paranormal phenomena. It is an exploration into the domestic spectacle, lip-sync and unexplained phenomena that may or may not be explainable but most definitely cannot be ignored.’

Vacant Room offers three interdisciplinary artists/groups a month long residency at PACT providing these artists with an opportunity to develop an idea or project with artistic mentoring, guidance and space. Vacant Room is about artistic process, giving an idea space to germinate, new possibilities and opening up new avenues of practice. These artists will have the input of specialist mentors and engage in weekly peer conversation and professional exchange. Three groups will share the space in 2014 between Sunday 27 July – Saturday 23 August 2014. An opportunity for discourse and feedback, the creative development period will culminate in a showing for an invited audience.

Be A Part of Business Unfinished:

DO YOU HAVE A GHOST STORY?

Wanna donate your ghost story to my new show?
Wanna see me lip-sync your spoken word?
Wanna get me to recreate your most frightening memories at PACT centre for emerging artists?

Click HERE to download the ‘Business Unfinished Submission Pack’ with new instructions on how to submit your story.

Mr Kolpert

10/07/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Theatre

Photography By Benjamin Brockman
Collage by Antoinette Barboutis

Presented by pantsguys Productions
Directed by James Dalton

Writer David Gieselmann
Translated by David Tushingham

“Shocking and shockingly funny… Glitters with exceptionally clever comic writing.” The Times

“Comedy doesn’t come much blacker or better than this.” The Guardian

Ralph and his wife Sarah invite Edith and Bastian to their home for an evening of mind-games and manipulation. Things take a dark turn when Ralph jokingly mentions that he and Sarah have killed their co-worker, Mr Kolpert.

A large chest rests in the middle of the room. What happens from here is not normal, as the couples travel further and further down an absurd path of violence, delusion and insanity itself. As the characters push the boundary of jokes and reality, they are forced to ask themselves the difficult question: “How far would you go to feel alive?”

Pantsguys are back at ATYP following their hugely successful seasons of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (2011) and Punk Rock by Simon Stephens (2012). Punk Rock won three 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards, including Best Independent Production. Don’t miss this one.

Starring Paige Gardiner, Garth Holcombe, Edan Lacey, Claire Lovering, Tom Christophersen, Tim Reuben.

Recommended for ages 15+

Season: 30 Jul 2014 to 16 Aug 2014
Time: Wed – Sat: 7.00pm, Sun: 5:00pm
Duration: 80 minutes – No interval
Venue: ATYP Studio 1, The Wharf
Tickets: Tickets $30/ Earlybird Tickets $20 Dates Preview: 30–31 July Opens: 01 August Bookings: atyp.com.au/ 02 9270 2400

Mayhem

28/04/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Art, Music, Play

A night of dangerous glamour and wicked indulgence.

As darkness falls on the city, step out of the shadows for an evening of dangerous glamour and wicked indulgence at the Justice & Police Museum.

Travel back to the underworld of 1920s and 30s Sydney and be entertained by mysterious illusionists, burlesque dancers, speak-easy musicians and fortune tellers.

Spend time in the lockup with a true-crime storyteller, shoot your own silent-film scene or have your mug shot taken in the charge room. Unleash your dark side and design your own tattoo, contribute to a City of shadows crime-zine and learn razor-sharp card tricks.

A Boy and a Bean – Dublin

03/04/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Play

Jack likes David. David likes Jack. The story seems simple enough. Add to this a public debate about how they like, why they like and what they like; Jack and David become confused quickly. Emerging Sydney based artist Nick Atkins enters a world where giants dwell in the suburban houses of Australia, beanstalks take root in corrupted soil and a boy called Jack strays between love, marriage equality, legislation and folklore. “Atkins’ script is superb. It’s original, it’s funny throughout and when it needs to, it certainly gets you thinking:” The Brag, Sydney.

Cough

03/04/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Tom Christophersen | In: Play

Photo by Ben Brockman

I say please because it makes people give me things.

In an anonymous child care centre, somewhere in the city, there’s a nasty cough going around. At the same time four children gather to tell stories of Brian, a monster that lives at the top of a newly-sprung tree. Soon this innocent playtime curdles and infects the lives of three parents whose own sense of reality comes into question.

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Sunday, 10th August 2014 As Part of SALA Festival

Sunday, 10th August 2014
As Part of SALA Festival