photo: prize night at i heart kirribilli :)

public service announcement: i heart kirribilli

It's still going on!!  You've got two more days (today and tomorrow) to get in and see the art at Church by the Bridge in Kirribilli (just across from Milson's Point station/the Sydney Harbour Bridge -- you can't miss it!).  The exhibition is open 9 am to 9 pm both days, with a prize night on tonight and an open mic night on Friday night.  Hope to see you there!

public service announcement: I HEART KIRRIBILLI!!!

Hey everybody!!!  Today starts the launch of the annual I HEART KIRRIBILLI week at Church by the Bridge in (you guessed it) Kirribilli.  It opens at 9 am today and runs all week long!

Today is extra special because there's the art display PLUS made fair markets PLUS a sausage sizzle PLUS kids' stuff PLUS lots of general festivity and cool people.  Festivities go until about 3 pm today, but the artwork will stay up all day.

Throughout the week, you can stop by and meander in and see tons of local artwork (the theme is DISCORD) in the church from 9 am to 9 pm, today through Friday (though there are a few special events on Thursday and Friday nights that might make it harder to come then).  Friday night is I Hear Kirribilli and there's local artists performing live music ... and dessert markets!!

More information HERE!

photos: sculptures by the sea

(This year the sea was more the focus than the sculptures ... sculptures were a fun excuse, but I've seen better years for the festival.  Still worth going though, obviously!)

public service announcement: the fringe festival!

The Sydney Fringe Festival is coming up next month -- September 7 - 30!!  Time to find fun tickets to buy now!!

photos: further adventures on cockatoo island

 

photos: biennale and cockatoo island

photos: barcelona, day GAUDI!

photos: microperformances at the old fitzroy

Tonight my friend Bec and I went to the Old Fitzroy, which I hadn't been to since playing trivia with The Fanny Pack (which doesn't sound so bad in American English, but is downright risque in Australia) ages ago.  It was really cool -- the upstairs had been transformed into a performance space for microperformances -- lots of little shows happening tucked away in various corners.  We tried to describe the theme and found it a bit tricky -- kind of magical, storybooklike, foresty, hippie, Harry Potter-esque, Renaissance-ish, trippy, melodramatic, creative, dimly lit and Hobbit-y, or some combination thereof.  Maybe the pictures will help you work it out.

We saw three performances -- one of a girl with balloons ("take a balloon and tie it anywhere on the sleeping girl to begin the performance" the sign said -- and when you did, she danced and ended the performance by giving away the balloons used), another of a really amazing magician and a third of a girl dancing over a table (really rather odd).  There might have been a thing or two we missed as well.  It was all very edgy and avant garde and made us feel ten times cooler just for going.