WORLD PREMIERE OF "WESTALL" 66-A SUBURBAN UFO MYSTERY
A DOCUMENTARY BY AUSTRALIAN PRODUCER -CARMEL McAloon
(OF ENDANGERED PICTURES)

SCREENED ON THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, FOXTEL
FRIDAY 4th JUNE 2010
8.30 PM

"Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Endangered Pictures
are thrilled to the tree tops and outer atmospheres and
so proud to announce the world premiere broadcast of the
documentary Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery that will
be initially screened on the "Foxtel" SciFi channel this
Friday 4th June at 8.30pm.

Forty-four years after hundreds of students, teachers and
local residents who witnessed a UFO fly over a well known
Melbourne suburb were silenced by authorities. A tenacious
amateur detective Shane Ryan g0oes back to find an answer
to this very intriguing mystery.

"WESTALL" 66- has been three years in the making,
with thousands of hours of research and more than
250 witnesses contacted, the film delves into the
collective memory of this absolute extraordinary
incident.

Students, teachers and local workers all share, with
clarity and very startling detail. The eye witnesses
recollections of the day’s events will alarm and draw
one in to this previously untold mystery. Many of the
eye witnesses stories are uncovered for the very first
time.

This documentary Unfolds like a classic detective story,
the film is both a riveting investigation into Australiaʼs
own ʻRoswellʼ and a powerful examination of belief, truth,
imagination and memory.

For further information contact:

Carmel McAloon (producer) carmel@endangeredpictures.com

Rosie Jones (writer/director/editor) rgjones@netspace.net.au

linkwww.westall66ufo.com.au/westall66ufo/

Vita

ZUMBA& GOLIATH: EXPO 2010
MAY 22 –JUNE 06 2010

This extraordinary gallery space and exhibition is
set in the heart of Industrial Williamstown Melbourne
Australia. see website below!

linkwww.technoparkstudios.com/

Zumba & Goliath is an exhibition bringing together
an array of artists and artefacts in a showcase of
very now new cultural forms created and communicated
via emerging technologies & "tethodologies."

This inspired show springs from a fascination with
the life of cultural ideas and practices in the world.
The evolvement and re-conceptualization over time, the
very innovative unanticipated, often time that peripheral
adoption by various cultures.

Zumba refers to the dance fitness program created in
Colombia, a hybrid of Latin dancing and aerobics. In
Zumba, the maraca is not an instrument, but a 'fitness
toning stick'. The artists participating in Zumba &
Goliath work within this framework as a part of their
own practices.

Within the show are international and Australian based,
work exhibited and paralleled alongside artifacts that
exemplify this process of cultural ingenuity.

OH LA LA THE METRONOMES RETURN!
ASH WITH FIRE IN HIS HEART & LIGHT IN HIS
EYES!

The exhibition will open with a performance by the
seminal Melbourne band "The Metronomes.: The group
are a revered and integral part of the very early
electronic music scene in what is a extremely well
respected arts/music culture in Melbourne-Australia.

A band established in Melbourne that has have had
an extraordinary longevity bridging two centuries
since 1979.

“Zumba and Goalith” is a new collaborate initiative,
created and superbly curated, by the remarkable and
very inspired Dylan Statham & Rowan McNaugh.

This project is a creative component of the
"TAYLORS LAKE SUPER COLONY." Dylan Statham and
Rowan McNaught, are both well respected Melbourne-
based artists.

Dylan and Rowan are indeed both prolific in their
art, creating project-based and cross-disciplinary
shows, working collaboratively together & on their
own inspired creations.

THE ARTISTS
Ben Coonley James Deutsher Sue Dodd
Kim Donaldson Valentina Fanigliulo
Tim Fleming Chris LG Hill Susan Jacobs
Claerwen Leahy Holly McNaught and
Nicholas Selenography

OPENING:
May 22nd
6 – 8pm
Live Performance: The Metronomes
Techno Park Studios
15 Techno Park Drive
Williamstown 3016
(Melways ref 55D8 )
Ph. +61 3 9397 6344
Gallery hours:
Saturday & Sunday
1– 5pm
Or by appointment

Press enquiries:
info@taylorslakesupercolony.com
Dylan Statham: 0414 351801
Rowan McNaught: 0414 123456

Vita

MEDIA RELEASE
2010 Next Wave Festival
"No Risk to Great" The Lost Living

A dance performance coming to the
"Next Wave" Festival 2010.. Directed by the divine nimble
and elegant Cobie Orger.....

Three mythological figures held captive in purgatory
Thrust from the Heavens into the depths of a mysterious
and compulsive Netherworld...

"Apollo, Artemis and Orion exist in uncertain isolation,
with escalating fear and obsession they construct a way of
living, that blurs the edges of fantasy and survival.

The exploration of "The Lost Living" evolves and unveiled
through am intense captivating journey through an inner city
basement.

The Lost Living is a performance installation that exposes
three interlinking tales of suffering, sacrifice and delusion.
Dance, sound, light and the moving image are woven together to
create an underworld where living forever is not a blessing, but
a curse.

Not only highly visual but deeply experiential, "The Lost Living"
will envelop spectators in a disorientating world, triggering
imagination, vulnerability and curiosity.

link2010.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/123-the-lost-living

ARTISTS
Cobie Orger, Direction
Alexandra Macdonald, Martin Hansen, Ben Hancock, Dance
Simon Charles, Sound
Andy Hutson, Design
Volker Haug, Lighting Design

CONTACT
Cobie Orger
post@cobieorger.com

Festival Publicist: Leith Thomas

lt@leiththomas.com.au

DETAILS

Donkey Wheel House, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne
Wednesday 26 May – Sun 30 May 8pm
Special late shows Fri 28 May and Sat 29 May 10pm

ENTRY
$20/15
Tickets 1300 727 432
Sorry, no wheelchair access

LOGOS/SUPPORTERS
City Of Melbourne
Victoria University
Australia Council
Critical Path
Cargo 103

linkwww.nextwave.org.au

Vita

A Jerilderie Production of La Mama
Delivered splendidly by award-winning
actor Peter Finlay as the Death Mask of Ned Kelly

The Old Melbourne Gaol - Crime and Justice Experience
presents a production of Ned Kelly’s letter to the
world at the very site where he drew his last breath!

“Writer and performer Peter Finlay is one of the under-
appreciated treasures of Australian theatre.”-
The Age (Melbourne) Magazine

Performed at the Old Melbourne Gaol Crime & Justice Experience,
Performed in the anniversary month of his execution

Four Shows Only at the Old Melbourne Gaol
10, 11, 12 & 14 November 2009
At 8pm

Admission: $25 Adult
$15 National Trust Members / Concession
(Booking fee may apply)
For further information and bookings visit

>www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/whats_on


Alternatively, call 8663 7228

Vita

Weave Movement Theatre and Dancehouse present:
Triplicity

Triplicity is the world Premier of a ground breaking
dance collaboration between Weave Movement Theatre
and three outstanding Melbourne choreographers:
Michelle Heaven (Chunky Move),
Kate Middleweek (WMT) and
Gerard Van Dyck (KAGE Physical Theatre).

Triplicity comprises three short works exploring
subterranean undergrowth, chance, mystery, intimacy,
frivolity, claustrophobia and transient passion.

Weave Movement Theatre is an exceptionally talented
and diverse Melbourne based dance company comprising
performers with and without disability.

Weave's work draws on dance, physical theatre, spoken
word and off the wall humor.

Lighting design-Peter Thwaites
Michelle Heaven Lighting Design –
Oscar Seaburgs & Christina Logan-Bell
Costumes

DATES: September 24th, 25th, 26th at
8.00pm
Matinee 27th September 2.00pm

VENUE: Dancehouse 150 Princes St,
North Carlton Mel Ref 2B H4

TICKETS:
Full Price $15 Concession $10
Book through Melbourne Fringe on 9660 9666 or
click on the link below


www.melbournefringe.com.au/

Supported by: City of Yarra, City of Moreland,
Dancehouse, Arts Victoria, The Melbourne Fringe

Vita

La Mama Theatre and Jerilderie Productions present
Australian Global Documents Project 2La Mama Presents

COOK: an exploration
A Jerilderie Production
Adapted & Performed by the splendid and extremely
talented award-winning actor Peter Finlay
Who's works include Teatro Del Mundo,
A few steps, Not here not there,
Portrait of [Dora], Projections,
The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly,
Oedipus: A Poetic Requiem,
Waiting for Godot)

COOK: an exploration Dramatised & Directed
by award-winning theatre-maker Laurence Strangio
alias Grace, Portrait of [Dora], Paradise, Krapp’s
Last Tape, … waiting for Godot, Oh the Humanity
(and other exclamations))

With contemporary indigenous artwork from the
interdisciplinary artist Karen Casey

“All they seemed to want was for us to be gone.”
When captain of The Endeavour James Cook arrived in
Australia in April 1770, he tried “to form some
connections” with the inhabitants.

He fired three shots at them while in Botany Bay and
another while at Endeavour River before things were
“reconciled”

Scenes from Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage
round the world A theatrical journey through the interior
of the Yorkshire man famed for ‘discovering’ Australia.

An explorer, navigator, cartographer and astronomer, Cook
maps the complex narrative of first contact with the country’s
indigenous inhabitants

Bookings: (03) 9347 6142

Or go to the LaMama website below

www.lamama.com.au/

Tickets $25- / $12-
La Mama Theatre
205 Faraday Street, Carlton
September 09 - 20, 2009
Wednesday to Saturday 8pm / Sundays 6:30pm

Vita

The Foot Reader-Our feet reflect our journey

"Such are the intricacies of the human foot that
the great Leonardo Da Vinci described it as ?a
masterpiece of engineering and a work of art?.

GUERIN GROUP AND THE FOOT READER
The Guerin Group have just produced a documentary
for broadcast examining the benefits of the health
practice of reflexology, and the emotional physical
joys that it can brings to the human spirit.

"The Foot Reader" has been produced and directed
by the lovely and talented independent Melbourne
filmmaker, Brendan Guerin..This wee documentary
is a loving look at our feet and their journey.

ELISE'S JOURNEY
The film documents the journey of a 71-year old
woman Elsie Chapman who turned to reflexology
after her own doctors admitted they could no
longer help in her battle against Osteoarthritis,
Osteoporosis, diabetes and other chronic aliments.

We follow Elise?s six weekly one hour reflexology
sessions Elsie speaks of her remarkable improvement
with her health and emotional state.The film examines
the practice of reflexology and its vital role in
modern health practice. An ancient practice given
new life in the 21st century. This documentary is
an exploration into the subtle work of reflexology
and how our feet reveal the hidden parts of us?

The documentary speaks to how the work of reflexology
influences ones well being."What kind of person we are,
how we perceive our self. From an emotional perspective
and indeed the benefits reflexology has on our health.

The ?Foot Reader? shot in 2008 and completed earlier in
2009 a 10 -minute documentary on the beliefs aspirations
and passion of an Australian practitioner Lyn Fava.
A ?champion? of the fledgling reflexology industry.

LYN FAVA ON REFLEXOLOGY
"According to Lyn, reflexology is an effective and safe
way to improve blood circulation, energy flow and natural
healing in the human body. ?Reflexes are located on the
hands and feet that correspond to all the glands, organs
and other body parts. Using ones finger and thumb pressure
techniques on reflex points, one can stimulate the body?s
natural ability to heal.?

?From an emotional perspective, one foot represents the
past while the other represents the present and you can
see if there?s been a change in a person?s life,?.
LYN FAVA

Lyn worked as a trained nurse for 20 years before concluding
that the traditional western approach to medicine was simply
not enough for some people. Reflexology is now filling that
void.

linkwww.perfectharmony.com.au/therapists.shtml

While scientists remain skeptical about the benefits
of reflexology, Elise Chapman and many others who
have benefited from reflexology would beg to differ.
Extensive research is under way in Europe and in
Scandinavia, "that those in the know and see" will
no doubt validate the technique and help lift the
industry.

For more on the Guerin Groups work and to find out
more on this must see documentary click on their
link in Vita's client.. Or click on their logo
on the right..(you may have to refresh the page as
my logo's are rotated...)

Vita

Elissa Hawke ~Illuminati Shill Presents ~
NEW GIRL ORDER

303 Bar ~303 High St
Northcote, Melbourne
PH: 9482 4577

Sun 12th April 6pm
Mon 13th April 7pm
Tue 14th April 7pm

The divine and cutting edge Elissa Hawke is in
Melbourne for Comedy Festival 2009. With a one
?Goddess/ woman? show over 3 thrilling nights at
a favorite arts venue 303 High st Northcote

Elissa is a true and very wise comedic Goddess
at the cutting edge of clear consciousness..This
show is an absolute joy that shakes the cage of
the world behaving badly.

She is extremely confronting with wit, stylish very
shiny Blahniks not to mention a very sharp tongue.
Her charm and candor will entice one to feel less
depressed, disempowered and disenchanted
with the state of ones universe.

This is a ?must see? show that bites back at ALL
the Powers-That?Be, like a bull ant in ones knickers.
Come and laugh at her furious and fantastic attempts
to alter the world with her ?brillante? performance
art.

Elissa examines what freedoms we have and what we
assume we have. This show is a window into what may
take several life times, and much gnashing of teeth
to scratch the surface of, so that we truly readdress
what we value and how we value it .

?New girl order? shows us how caged disempowered, lied
to, brainwashed and controlled we have allowed ?state
and world to become??

The exhaustion of dealing with ?Road tolls, parking meters,
mandatory child vaccinations, ID cards, iris scans, sedition
acts, mobile fingerprinting and microchips.?

?The insidious subliminal messages, mind control,unfounded
fear, nationalistic patriotic corporate government education
indoctrination, false flag psy-ops, the myths of a fractional
reserve banking system, war, democracy, religion? and other
weapons of mass distraction....

AND all for the sickly greed of our so called ?OWNERS?.?

THE WAR IS ON US! THE JOKE WAS ON US! ?..UNTIL NOW

Be ready to be rattled, aurally ravaged and slapped into
a new clarity by Elissa?s show. Some have said it is like
spending 5 minutes in a 747 toilet with Ralph Fiennes.
Elissa will leave you feeling disgusted~ yet? begging for
more!

OTHERS WHO LOVE ELISSA?S WORK
?She?s very funny? I guarantee your satisfaction.?
DAVE HUGHES

"if you can't afford 7 hours with David Icke.. see
Hawke, she's a nutter!" SAPHIA SMEREKA



www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2009/

Vita

Melbourne Comedy Festival is on again in Melbourne.
Darebin Councils most sustainable Councilor the
very talented and delightful Trent McCarthy has
two current and very amusing shows at this years
Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Trent's shows are always insightful current and well
worth a look see....

MO THE PLUMBER - opens 7th April 2009
Mohammed El-leissy plays a Muslim Australian
?Joe the Plumber?, Trent shines as a political
apparatchik. within the Brumby Government..
With two messy leaks to deal with..... Some
have said It? has touches of "The Hollowmen"
meets Kenny, with a touch of My Fair Lady!

linkwww.trentmccarthy.com/motheplumber/

Tues-Thurs, 7-23 April, 7.00pm @ Northcote Town Hall
$20 full, $15 conc, $10 groups of 10


wwww.northcotetownhall.com.au

or call
03 9481 9500
RETURNING SUDANESE - opens 17 April

This new show is explores former Sudanese refugee
Akoc Manhiem's journey back to his village for the
first time in almost a decade.

Songstress Ajak Kwai and Trent join Akoc on stage
for this hilarious and heartfelt story.

linkwww.trentmccarthy.com/returningsudanese/

Fri-Sun, 17-26 April, 7.00pm @ Northcote Town Hall
$20 full, $15 conc, $10 groups of 10

Bookings for this 2nd show can also be made at the
Northcote Town Hall (Arts Precinct) site above...

"Turning Sudanese," had extremely positive reviews
and was a sell out every night at previous events...
Be quick to see either (or both) of these!

Vita and Trent

The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly
Venue Celtic Club ? 320 Queen St Melbourne
Dates the 8th & 11th of November. 2008,
(03 9670 6472

Coinciding with the anniversary of Kelly's
execution on November 11th, 1880. and as an
aside Goughs sacking as Australia's Prime
Minister in 1975.......

General Enquiries:
peter@jerilderieproductions.com

Or click on the site below for more about
this extraordinary letter another piece of
Australian history brought to life by the
absolutely amazing Melbourne actor Peter Finlay

This production is essential viewing !!!

jerilderieproductions.com/
Black Pepper Vita and Alison all recommend a
viewing of the divine and remarkably talented
Peter Finlay in his latest performance of the
?The Jerilderie Letter?

BACKGROUND TO THIS WORK
The Letter:
The text for this unique production is it's
entirety from the original version of "The
Jerilderie Letter" that was handed over in
1879 by the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly at
Jerilderie, New South Wales.

The letter was then donated to the Victorian
State Library, Melbourne.
by Bronwyn Binns in 2000.

The Delivery:
"A performance space in the middle of which is
the death mask of Ned Kelly atop a wooden plinth.
To one side is a sign on a stand that reads:
"DEATH MASK OF EDWARD (NED) KELLY (1854 - 1880)".

The Moving Image:
Video images are projected onto the space for each
Act of the Delivery.

Act One: Four horses grazing on the horizon.
Act Two: Two white horses resting in the shade.
Act Three: Open country with hills and trees
on the horizon.
Act Four: The exterior and interior of the Kelly
Housein Beveridge.

Act One: HORSES
The death mask of Ned Kelly has its eyes closed. It
softly hums a snatch of an Irish air. Then it begins
to speak........to US .....

Dear Sir
I wish to acquaint you with some of the occurrences of
the present past and future.

An absolute must see this Spring in Melbourne......
Vita

Weave Movement Theatre is "Weaving a new
"WEB" of dance performance...

Weave Movement Theater's new show for the
Melbourne Fringe.

Weave's new show "WEB" creates a dynamic
dialogue with the band "Everything is New
Now."

WEB is spun from dance, storytelling, music and
physical theatre. The show incorporates objects
from everyday life and conjures magic from them.
Small worlds, caught images, sideways glimpsed
where musicians and performers subtly influence
each other in real time.

Weave Movement Theatre involves performers with
and without disabilities in its bizarre, ingenious,
cliche-shattering journeys.

Choreographer: Kate Middleweek, in collaboration with
the company.

Dates: October 2,3,4 at 9.30 pm
Venue: Northcote Town Hall
Tickets: $10

Bookings: 03 9660 9600,

www.melbournefringe.com.au/season/2008/

Vita

Preserve and Protect La Mama
Always giving benefit where
benefit is due!

Monday September 15 @ 7.30pm,
At The Athenaeum Theatre,
188 Collins St.
Melbourne

linkwww.lamama.com.au/

SEE THE VENUE FOR THUS EVENT BELOW

linkwww.melbourneathenaeum.org.au/

Save La Mama Big Benefit Bash!
Monday September 15 @ 7.30pm,
At The Athenaeum Theatre,
188 Collins St. Melbourne

This Splendid and imperative night, is a ?must be seen
at and be involved in event.? It?s all hands on stage,
in an all out effort to keep the show and the theater
alive into the 21st century?

To reach La Mama?s target amount we need to raise a
further $300,000! So support our ?Lovely La Mama? an
integral part of Theatre in Melbourne?Play a role and
come along to this event or donate if you can?

THE EVENT
Save La Mama Big Benefit Bash presented by the incredible
Mike Bishop and gorgeous Greg Carroll Highlighted and
present on the night will be an accomplished, medley of
marvelous Melbourne talent. Past and present LaMama people
will be present at this fabulous event?

Their support shows us a generosity of spirit that is an
established love for La Mama Theatre?La Mama?s illustrious
iconic status, in Melbourne?s Theatre world will be matched
by the likes of the?.very.lovely and amusing Denise Scott,
the superb Steve Blackburn, the gorgeous Kate Kendall, Paul
Norton, Gary Samolin, Eddie Perfect and a plethora of exciting
surprise guests!!!

All tickets $55.00
Book now on:9650 1500 or through
Ticketmaster:1300 136 166

BUY TICKETS HERE FOR THIS ESSENTIAL EVENT
linkwww.ticketmaster.com.au/

We would be thrilled to encourage direct donations to ensure
La Mama Lives on and on into the 21st century?.So give little
if you can and drop in cash /Post cheques to

LA MAMA, 205 Faraday St, Carlton/
P.O.Box 1009 Carlton 3053

Receipts will be posted back. All donations are tax deductible.

We urge people to show their support by attending this
imperative event at The Athenaeum on September 15th 2008.By
contributing one is assisting La Mamma?s ongoing life/Vita
either by donation or coming on the night.

One can be proud to assist in maintaining an integral part
of Melbourne Theatre..This event will be the event to be seen
at, in September 2008.

Don?t ask what the arts have done for one; ask what one has
done for the arts!

Vita

One of my favorite magical and very dear Goddess
friends has taken a higher step on the mountain
of VITA/life. She is a true ?vessel of compassion..?
A lioness who is full of great wit and wisdom..

She has celebrated yet another triumphant year ?
We here at Vita may well present it to government
as a must have public holiday...Bless you my dear
and all who reign with you? May you remain supreme
and continue on ones path of bold beautiful
bawdiness...(frank, humorous, and often very very
naughty...and of course entirely divine?)!!

Hidden Voices and intimate connections
Establishing closeness in ones world/working relationship
requires effort and genuine connection?It just does not
bode well to simply agree to keep the peace or avoid
conflict??

Intimacy only develops when it is genuine and a
goal into itself. One can only have an opportunity
to deepen ones friendships and love when one engages
FULLY?..

ONE will not be able to attain real connection if
ones mind wanders and is on simply getting ahead
AND creating false hope and fantasy for ones self.

Be present in every moment be genuine in what one
offers to the other. Just being with someone we enjoy
love and respect without having an agenda is the best
love and always enough??

COMMUNITY VOICE VIA RADIO
3RRR RADIOTHON 2008

?Roll up, roll up for the Triple R annual radiothon
on August 22nd 2008. The Triple R BIG TOP is being
raised high in Brunswick for the station's biggest
fund-raising and promotional event of the year.

Triple R is a non-profit organization that relies on
listener subscriptions and sponsors to operate. The
station does not receive government funding. Our annual
subscription drive at radiothon time is critical for the
station to keep paying its bills for the next 12 months.

The station maintains a passionate commitment to the
essential Melbourne creative industries....This is achieved
through the dedicated efforts of over 200 volunteer...This
includes broadcasters producing live & local independent
radio 24 hours a day.

This year's radiothon has a fantastic range of prizes to
encourage listeners to join the Triple R Circus & support
the station for another year!

The proceedings have begun the popcorn's popping, the
human pyramid is being fully rehearsed and collapsed in
hysterics and, as usual. There are a few clowns creating
a bit of chaos on the Triple R airwaves.


The radiothon runs from August 22nd - 31st 2008.

See the site below for more details on this essential
Melbourne Radio station and more on the radiothon....

www.rrr.org.au

Having a genuine transparent voice

Vita

We must always be vigilant if not honorable to our
conviction and passions to ensure that our lives
have true meaning and genuine substance ?

Every action needs a narrative. We must always
consider the commitments, we have made to the
other and ourselves.

We must reflect on what we value and with whom we
share those convictions and passions. Never let ones
self disappear or stray from what one came to change
love and offer the world ??

Melbourne International Film Festival

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN?
Time: Sun 3 Aug 08 5:00 PM
Venue: Capitol
113 Swanston St
Melbourne, Vic, 3000

www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/films?film_id=10077

Vita

Crime & Justice Literature Festival at the
Abbotsford Convent 2008

The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly

Come see the divine Peter Finlay and hear the
music of Malcolm Hill, in another splendid
and very moving performance of.....

The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly

8:00 pm Saturday 19 July 2008
The Rosina Function Room
Abbotsford Convent
1 St. Heliers St
Abbotsford

Website:

www.jerilderieproductions.com

Tickets:

www.malthousetheatre.com.au/

Vita

La Mama ? A Melbourne Theatre Arts Icon
is up for sale and needs our financial
help !!!

La Mama, in Carlton is a remarkable arts
icon that has been a fundamental backbone
of the Melbourne arts scene for over 40 years....

The building is up for sale and needs our
support to continue it's vital vibrant part in
Melbourne's Arts community ...

We All have an opportunity to play a meaningful
role and be part of maintaining La Mama's future....

As you maybe aware, La Mama?s landlady of 40 years -
Rose del Monaco died in November last year. Her
estate has offered us first option to purchase the
La Mama site.

Whilst thrilled at this offer, the terms make it
IMPERATIVE that we call for help from those who are
able and prepared to contribute financially to the
La Mama Trust fund -

Our goal is to raise the deposit at very short notice!
We are suggesting 1000 friends contributing $1,000 each..
However all financial contributions whether less or more
are very welcome and appreciated....

We are part of the way there and would be extremely
pleased if Lamana's friends and audiences could
contribute to the future of the Theatre......

We have already secured generous financial donations
from dedicated supporters of LaMama but still need
more to ensure we continue our important role in
Melbourne's theatre world....

Be part of history and Please do consider this
request... We have a deadline to raise the total
deposit by May 27th 2008.

To date Our Trust Fund a/c current has covered
just shy of half the total amount needed however
with LaMama supporters help we endeavor to reach
our goal successfully by May 27th 2008..

So be part of history and contribute to Lamama's
future......

Once we have the deposit in place, we are confident
a number of large stakeholders will come to the party.
This includ federal, state and municipal arts funding
bodies and philanthropic bodies.

Please note that all contributions to the LaMama Trust
are totally tax deductible, and your donation can be
made electronically:

For further details on how to contribute
contact LaMama on 9347 6948

OR

email bree@lamama.com.au

to find out how to make your contribution and
maintain LaMama's future

www.lamama.com.au/

Vita

DUTCH COURAGE, 10th - 12th April,
Melbourne's Theatreworks, Acland Street, St Kilda.

DUTCH COURAGE farewell fundraiser this week only

Join us this Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at
Theatreworks for a special presentation of the
Australian Musical DUTCH COURAGE before it lights
up New York City. The opportunity for an Australian
musical to be performed in New York is rare indeed.

www.nyfa.org/

Creators of DUTCH COURAGE, Sean Peter and Barry Lowe,
now join an elite group of Australian musical theatre
writing ambassadors.

Help us fundraise for this exciting and very important
initiative.With World War 2 as a backdrop, DUTCH COURAGE
presents 'a unique view about surviving ...in a world
where Gypsies, Jews, Blacks and Gays lived in danger
of extermination.

Dutch Courage succeeds in treating these issues with a
good deal of sensitivity...' Adelaide Advertiser

Director, Will Conyers, says: 'This show is full of
laughs and entertainment. That being said, it's a
graphic tale of personal identity, the pursuit of
equality, persecution of minorities and the cement
of friendship,loyalty and redeeming the human spirit.'

Not able to join us? Contribute the amount of a
ticket price to the Dutch Courage fundraiser and
help support the work in a very real way.

Magnormos is working with the Australian Business
Arts Foundation to make your donation of $2 or more
tax deductible. Every contribution helps.

More info email m@magnormos.com

Bookings:

www.magtix.com/Default.
htm?uid=2816328&acl=15986&guid=96686a6b9593aa

Genuine, heartfelt intention is the most compelling
animated creative action one can take Having a clear
optimistic vision and far-reaching inspirations are
what give us hope and meaning in our world.

This clarity is an opportunity to create choices that
determine and value the life we choose to live & share
with others?

This does not need to be predicament when one develops
trust in ones self and others.When one practices the
truth and expresses that truth one can witness others
truth and create meaningful dialogue and genuine
futures?

This from New York

For Immediate Release

Drawn Apart: An Evening of Animated Short Films by
Immigrant Artists

NYFA Celebrates New York?s Immigrant Animators
at the April 17 Film Festival

Part of New York City?s Immigrant Heritage Week
New York, NY (March 31 2008...Free and open to
the public, this event features animated short
films by award-winning immigrant animators who
live and work in New York.

The filmmakers represent countries such as Russia,
Korea, Thailand, Latvia, Mexico and Serbia.. All
will be on hand to answer questions and discuss
their work.

Presented and hosted by the New York Foundation
for the Arts (NYFA) is an integral part of New
York?s Immigrant Heritage Week, an initiative
of the Mayor?s Office of Immigrant Affairs

Celebrating the important contributions to the
City by it's many immigrants.

WHEN:
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

WHERE:
New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Ave. of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10013

WHO:
The lineup of short films was curated by 2005 NYFA
Fellow and animated filmmaker Latvian Signe Baumane
It also includes films by several acclaimed animators,
each of whom works in New York.

www.signebaumane.com/sbbiog2.html

They include: Felipe Galindo, whose work appears on
Nickelodeon and in The New Yorker; Youngwoong Jang,
who does animation work for a unit of FOX entertainment;
Alex Bodovsky, whose animation work includes music videos,
commercials and educational shorts for children;

Ms. Baumane, whose film ?Teat Beat of Sex? was the
"most watched film" of the 2007 Cannes Online Film. She
is one of the founders of Square Footage Films, a group
of New York independent animators.

New York Foundation for the Arts is the nation?s largest
provider of funding, information and services to artists
in the United States? Annually awarding nearly $6 million
to hundreds of artists throughout New York State and the U.S.


RSVP:
Free, but seating is limited.
To attend, please rsvp to
Andreia Davies, adavies@nyfa.org.

www.squarefootagefilms.com/

Vita

The Bones Love Gringo

If you?re interested in seeing great theatre,
then Lady Muck?s current season of :
The Bones Love Gringo, is at a must see now
playing at 45 Downstairs. For tickets see the
details at the bottom of this press release

www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/

At once epic and intimate, funny but profound,
The Bones Love Gringo is a provocative comedy
about the search for lost Australians in Cuba,
A search for meaning in lost Australians.

Two misfit Aussies are banished without money or
means to a communist country they?ve never heard
of. To get home, and to escape ?the Cuban menace?,
they must find the one Australian ally that they
know of ? but he?s stuck in Guantanamo Bay.


Playwright: Tom Maclachlan
Director: Sarah McCusker
Designer: Marg Horwell

SEASON: 20th Feb 2008 - 2nd Mar 2008 -
Tues - Sat at 8pm, Sundays at 5.30pm

VENUE: 45 Downstairs
PRICE: Full $25 / Conc. $20


Playwright: Shannon Murdoch

Director: Sarah McCusker
Designer: Melanie Liertz
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre

Theatreworks ltd.

14 Acland St, St Kilda

Office: 03 9534 4879

see vita's quick links for the theatreworks website

Vita

Magnormos Prompt Musicals Program

Presents THE THING ABOUT MEN

April 3rd - 12th 2008

Following its recent successes with MARY BRYANT
and FLORA THE RED MENACE

MAGNORMOS Melbourne International Comedy Festival
debut with the Australasian premiere of the Off-
Broadway sensation

THE THING ABOUT MEN (Joe Di Pietro, Jimmy Roberts).

"Tom, a creative director at a top advertising
firm is cheating on his wife Lucy (with several
women). Lucy is cheating on her husband Tom (with
artist Sebastian).

Tom moves out on Lucy and,in disguise, moves in
with Sebastian...He will stop at nothing to win
back his wifes affections... nothing...

This is a often-moving, but always light hearted
musical comedy, THE THING ABOUT MEN is the eagerly
anticipated follow-up work from the writers of the
mega-success

I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

Directed by Aaron Joyner (Mary Bryant, Flora the
Red Menace, The Beauty Spot) with Movement
Direction by Jessica Enes (Mary Bryant, The Beauty
Spot, Archy & Mehitabel).

"Magnormos is unique...Joyner's production runs
like clockwork. He deftly composes the stage."
Cameron Woodhead, The Age (Mary Bryant)

"I haven't had so good a time at a musical this
year" Owen Richardson, The Sunday Age Age
(A Bunch of Ratbags)

THE THING ABOUT MEN
April 3rd - 12th 2008
8:00pm Thur - Fri and Mon
2:00pm and 8:00pm Sat
4:00pm Sun

Theatreworks, St Kilda
14 Acland Street St. Kilda

$30 Full $25 Concession and Groups (10+)
Special rates for Magnormos Contributing Artist

Bookings: 9352 0232

link www.magtix.com/Default.htm?uid=2697551&acl=
6513&guid=9666726c9796a3

Vita

Mayhem at Theatreworks
Mayhem Cabaret # 14 Ritual
February 28th and 29th
and March 1st 2008

"A vaudevillian feast: Exploring the culture,
myths and facts of Ritual. Revolving around
the four elements: air, water, earth and fire

Cabaret acts relate to: smoke, tea, burial and
sacrifice. With rituals from ancient to current
times, Mayhem will discover their significance
in building the foundations to our society as we
know it.

With humor, dance, music, circus and the alluring
and ever-present touch of mayhem"

This is a delicious and divine ritual you?ll
want to repeat again and again!

Acts will include:40 - piece choir 30 ? piece
Tap troupe Circus Roller skating Belly dance
Surrealist theatre Stand-up comedy a live band
(with original music)and the delightful and indeed
mysterious wicker man.

Directed by Klara McMurray:
Produced by Antonella Ripani:
Designed by Suzi Alexopolous

Dates: Thursday 28th &
Friday 29th February
Saturday 1st march
Time: 8pm

Bookings: 9534 3388 between 12-3pm, Tuesday to Friday.

Or @ www.theatreworks.org.au

Tickets: $20 full and $16 concession + booking fee
Venue: Theatreworks 14 Acland St, St Kilda
Office: 03 9534 4879

As of Tuesday 27th November, Theatreworks Box Office
will be open Tuesday to Friday, 12.00pm to 3.00pm.

Vita

Chaos & Revelry
Counihan Gallery
Brunswick until
Sunday 10th February, 2008.

233 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Moreland's key arts precinct
in Melbourne Brunswick

WILLIAM ALWAYS SPEAKS FROM THE HEART
ON ALL THINGS GREAT AND GORGEOUS

The lovely talented and divine William Eicholtz
will share pearls of wisdom, love height artistic
textures form and very NOW materials today at
Counihan Gallery.....

Come along to free/sacred ethic floor talk as
opposed to roof top talk, by the divine not to
mention always wonderful William Eicholtz

TODAY!!
Counihan Gallery
Brunswick
2pm onward
Saturday 2nd February, 2008.

www.dishboydreaming.com/

'William Eicholtz is one of eight artists featured
in the 'Chaos and Revelry' exhibition currently on
at the Counihan Gallery Brunswick."

This is an opportunity to meet this lovely artist
and to discuss his work.There is also an opportunity
to meet the other artists and community members over
a fresh light afternoon tea.

Will's Biography
William Eicholtz is a Melbourne-based sculptor who
exhibits his work throughout Australia and of course
internationally.

Eicholtz's works are featured in endless art collections
and in 2005 Will won The prestigious Helen Lempriere
National Sculpture Award for his splendid sculpture,
The Comrade?s Reward.

"Exploring and working with new materials in a variety of
innovative ways, Eicholtz's many public and various private
commissions vary from small-scale pieces suited to indoor
display, to large-scale, outdoor works.

He has long been exploring contemporary Australian identity
through the ornate and erotic language of the baroque.

William Eicholtz is represented by MARS
[Melbourne Art Rooms]."

Vita

The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly

The gorgeous and supremely brilliant
Peter Finlay & Malcolm Hill are being
Directed by Lloyd Jones in the this
inspiring piece of Theatre...

February 06th to February 16th 2008

?Remarkable. . . mesmerising.? -
Alison Croggon of The Australian

?Hypnotic. . . electrifying.? -
Chris Boyd of the Herald-Sun

BRIGHTSPACE at the St Kilda Festival 2008

Performance details
Wed 6th Feb - Sat 9th Feb (8.30pm)
Wed 13th Feb - Sat 16th Feb (8.30pm)
$20/$10

bookings T: 03 9593 9366
E: tickets@brightspace.com.au

Opening Night Wed 6th Feb
(8pm drinks, 8.30 pm start)
Special Introduction by guest
Raconteur & Australian musical
outlaw DAVE GRANEY.

BRIGHTSPACE- CONTEMPORARY ARTS VENUE
Level 1 8 Martin St
St Kilda Vic 3182
(03) 9593 9366

www.brightspace.com.au/

Bright Space Gallery Hours
12pm ?6pm Wed ? Sat & 1pm ? 5pm Sun

Proudly providing complimentary ?Opening Night?
food and wine, are the Gilgamesh Connections
& Claypots Restaurant, St Kilda.

Vita

I have just had some very very sad new from
my people in New York in the West Village.
Young Australian actor lovely talented and
courageous Heath Ledger has left his body
and his mountain at 28...He obviously had
reached the pinnacle of his "NY" mountain.

Was it sadness, the fast intense seductive
pace of New York? A tragic accident or was
the heady life of "acting" out being a BIG
"movie star", just all too confronting and
consuming??

Expressing ones emotions and truest feelings
rather than resisting them is inevitable.This
tragically is something Heath obviously did
not allow himself to do..

So always be brave and let ones truest fears
hope and dreams to arise. Share these hopes
and burdens without fear of rejection or of
ridicule.

Share with those one trusts, then all false
fears will fade away naturally and trust and
hope will always return.

Sharing ones deepest feelings and hurts is
always a difficult choice. One can make
life easier to manage once everything is
expressed .

All will be revealed and his life revalued
& respected, for his heartfelt contributions
to the Australian film industry and indeed
the international stage he stood on...

He has returned to the great film set in
the sky?I will have more news about the
very talented Heath later from VITA?We
are still in shock here?.

I will be in constant contact with my
Manhattan people, to reveal the facts
of the matter....

May the great goddess in the sky take
Heath in her arms and love him until
his next life.....

for his daughter Matilda

www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/bio

Vita

Relationships, like all the best things, in ones
life, are works in progress. Illusions of urgency
can be ones greatest enemy, So take ones sweet
delicious divine time??

Signals of personal inner harmony and current
loving reconciliation with ones love, is always
present and yet also BE in the fullness of time.
Travel the road less traveled. Always give ones
self and the other right timing. Allow ones self
room to breath and manifest the best of love and
life?

One can enjoy life when we walk past and let go
of old uncertainties that create reminders, of
ALL our negative outdated experiences.

Reexamine ones reactions and responses to any
given situation that creates fear of the unknown..
Consider and create new ways of enjoying each
divine moment one has been given to have and
share with the other....Let go of perceived
pressure to react quickly.

As the Buddha says "every moment is perfect"..
Listen and revalue ones actions to create
purposeful renewed interest.Listen and enjoy
love that resonates in the heart mind body
and soul.

Pay attention release what beliefs and
fears that no longer relevant nor useful
to one!! Always nurture the self and enjoy
what is necessary and yet extremely nice!!

www.the1secondfilm.com/node/20930

Always ready to listen feel & breath in
genuine passionate and poignant love....

Vita

FOR AMAL AND ALL THOSE THAT STILL HAVE HOPE
HOPE HAS ARRIVED!!!

We are pleased to announce that "HOPE" Steve Thomas'
and Sue Brooks' documentary about Amal Basry and the
SIEV X, will be screening at the inaugural Human Rights
Arts and Film Festival

Capitol Cinema,
Swanston Street, Melbourne
Sunday 2nd December at 3.40pm.

http://www.hraff.org.au/

Tickets are now available online at

/
www.greentix.com.au/evinfo.php?eventid=20362&sid=.

Hope was sold out at the Melbourne International
Film Festival and many people have been asking
when they can see it.

We are planning a more general release and hoping
for some cinema screenings in 2008 but the HRAFF
screening is the last opportunity to see the film
on the big screen this year.

In conjunction with this event and the imminent 2007
Federal Election, we have posted a pertinent scene
from 'Hope' on ?You Tube? for the world to see.

You can view the clip and comment on it at:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PnC23zC5Bg

Steve Thomas & Sue Brooks (Producers

HOPE SYNOPSIS (from the HRAFF Program):

Amal Basry watched The Titanic at a cinema in
Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. Months
later the people smuggling boat she was on, that
became known, as the SIEV-X.

sievx.com/

The boat sank between Indonesia and Australia and
350 people drowned in Australia?s largest maritime
disaster since WWII. Amal was one of only 7 survivors
who made it to Australia, after spending 22 hours in
the ocean clinging to a floating corpse.

In public, Amal became an advocate for the survivors
of the SIEV-X. In private, she fought to reunite her
fragmented family, cope with the personal consequences
of the disaster and return to Indonesia to find what
I lost in the ocean.

Following its sell-out screening at MIFF, Hope shows
us the human face of one of the most horrific and
controversial, yet unpublicized, events in modern
Australia.

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT "HOPE'

Some stories shake a nation. Others slip away -
Katherine Kizilios, The Age.

Seeing HOPE I wept: the extraordinary Amal deserved
just such a testament.

"We expected to come away shamed once again by our
country's attitude towards people who come to Australia
looking for protection, and while that shame remains
We marveled instead at Amal's beautiful
life, someone whose generous spirit seemed
able to transcend her circumstances.

"Hope is the best type of documentary: activist
without being preachy; Simple without lacking
complexity; effective staggeringly so, without
being gimmicky. It commanded. and rewarded my
whole attention."

"The scenes in Indonesia were among the most moving
and the connection between the silver haired Australian
and the feisty Iraqi woman desperate to get her story
told became more and more compelling as the film went
on."

"The film stayed with me all weekend, and I think that
makes it special."

"There are moments in the film when our hands find our
mouths and our breathing stops: we might not expect
that the lives of people fleeing persecution turn to
bliss as soon as they?re granted a visa, BUT even still,
it doesn?t seem fair that someone of Amal?s basic
human goodness must fight the battles she?s asked to
fight."

"Although others had told the story of the SIEV X,
Amal's story was hers alone and she wanted it told her
way. Amazingly, HOPE is Amal's film as much as the
filmmakers'; it's suffused with her presence, will
and charisma."

"The hope of 'HOPE' is that stories such as Amal?s
will continue to be told - Not for the sake of
telling but in the hope that through their telling
something might change...If not today, then maybe
tomorrow."

www.hopedocumentary.com.au

'Hope' Flying Carpet Films P/L.

Vita

Black Pepper invites you to the launch
of Caravan Story a new book by Wayne Macauley

with A VERY SPECIAL GUEST.....

Monday 12th November 6.30 pm

NORTH FITZROY STAR

32 St Georges Rd South Nth Fitz.
Cnr Newry St Mel. 2C/A3)

LAUNCH PRICE $20 (RRP $24.95)

Early complimentary drinks and refreshments

Special bar wine price $3

Dinner ?Bar and Bowl? (Bookings Essential 94826484)

See Vita's quick links for more on Black Pepper publications

Vita

SPECIAL OFFER AT THEATREWORKS FOR

MAGIC SALLY the "FAERIE ROCK BAND!!!'

Sunday 7th and Sunday 14th of October

Mention the secret password ?GOBLIN ROCK?

to get half price children tickets!

That makes children?s tickets ONLY $5!

(For more info about MAGIC SALLY go to the theatreworks website)

http://www.theatreworks.org.au

Theatreworks

14 Acland Street

St. Kilda 3182

Bookings: (03) 9534 3388

Office: (03) 9534 4879

e: foh@theatreworks.org.au

Vita

SHORT FLICKS 07

Short Flicks 07 is a collection of 9 short films
created by La Trobe University students, as part
of the annual filmmaking program run by the Student
Theatre and Film Office.

Students from La Trobe University have been making
films as part of this program since 1996. Run by
the Student Union, now called The Guild, students
are offered assistance, equipment and funding to
create their own film projects that are separate
from their course work.

In this time over 100 films have received support.
This year the collection offers a broad range of
stories and balances equally between narrative
driven plotlines and abstract visual forms.

Heartless / Senseless Joel Baldini
What would you do if you lost your heart, or your
common sense?

Darkness Brendan Wan
Inside every fighter, there is a battle within.

Live from the House Martin Dunlop
Every now and then reality television gets it
wrong, very wrong.

Night Sky Nathan Senn
In beauty there is death. In death there is
beauty.

Pineapple Smile Rowena Douglas-Smith
The journey of a fifty-dollar note.

Sad Man?s Heart Melissa Magaricci
Every now and then we fall in love with
shadows.

Subtitles Josh Humphreys
Sometimes the words take on a life of their
own.

YingYang Yi Nan Shen
An encounter between the human world and
the spirit world.

Attack of the Millennium Bugs Wayne Hassleman
What do YOU make of that?

Short Flicks 07 premieres at

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Federation Square
Monday October 8th 2007 at 8pm.

Tickets are priced at $5 for guild members,
$10 concession and $15 adult.

Please not that due to film classification
restrictions no one under the age of 18 will
be permitted entry into the cinema.

For bookings phone 8663 2583

For more information about Short Flicks 07
to this event, please contact the
La Trobe Student Theatre and Film office on
9479 1198

or email s.hillman-stolz@latrobe.edu.au

Vita

BLACK PEPPER PUBLISHING LAUNCH

BOOK LAUNCH

FEAR of TENNIS
David Cohen

A novel about the impossibility of avoiding sport.
The back of Jason Blunt?s head filled me with
unease. I could already feel my chest muscles
tightening. I could almost hear them tightening ?
a creaking sound, like someone had inserted a key
in my back and was slowly winding me up.

Launched by ANGELA PIPPOS,

ABC television sports presenter & author of
The Goddess Advantage

MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER, 6 for 6.30 pm

Readings Books & Music Carlton

309 Lygon Street, Carlton (Tel: 9347 6633)

REFRESHMENTS SERVED
SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE $23.95 (RRP $25.95)

BLACK PEPPER DETAILS
403 St Georges Road
North Fitzroy Victoria 3068
Telephone: 9489 1716
Facsimile: 9489 5318
Email: bpepper@blackpepperpublishing.com

see Vita's quick links for other 'blackpepper'
publications AT the black pepper website..

Vita

'Capsule' by Weave Movement Theatre

'Civilised' humans are the ultimate
control freaks. We clock, cramp, crush
and cage our wild natures. Yet we are
clutched by breathless urges to break out,
take flight.

From Icarus to Aristophanes to our
obsession with jetting away from it all
in a claustrophobic capsule.

Weave Movement Theatre is an inclusive
company of performers with and without
disability, combining dance, physical
theatre and inprovisation.

They dance on the edge. They break out
into motley characters who vehemently
expound a skewed view of reality.

When you bend something out of shape,
it doesn't break, you might just create
something more interesting.

September 2007
13th 14th 15th 8PM 16th 5PM
Tickets $15 &$10
Bookings: Dancehouse 03 9347 2860
Dancehouse 150 Princes Street Carlton

Supported by the City of Yarra and
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC)

Back from New York to see the dance of
Melbourne
Vita

Friends of La Mama...

Conversations at La Mama

Enjoy a drink by the open fire and settle
in for an evening of informal discussion
as the divine Persian writer Mammad Aidani
explores the relationship between guest
Writers and the nature of their work....

Tuesday June 26 @ 7.30pm

Performance poet Pi O came to Australia from
Greece with his family around 1954. His work
ranges from stand up rants to 'conceptual' page
poetry, with a heavy emphasis on wordplay and
capturing the vitality of everyday speech.

Thematically he commonly portrays the issues
of migrant working class life. He has had
numerous books published since his first,
Fitzroy Brothel in 1974, more notably the
epic verse novel 24hrs.

From 1978 to 1983 he was involved in producing
the radical poetry magazine 925 in Melbourne.
He is a fixture of the city's performance poetry
scene and has edited an anthology of performance
poetry (Off the record) for Penguin
(Wikipedia, 2007).

He has also been a regular reader at La Mama
Poetica's since the 1970s.

Tuesday August 14 @ 7.30pm

Gary Foley is an indigenous Australian activist,
academic, writer and actor. He is best known for
his role in establishing the Aboriginal Tent
Embassy in Canberra in 1972 and for establishing
an Aboriginal legal service in Redfern in the 1970s.

Foley also co-wrote and acted in the first indigenous
Australian stage production, "Basically Black"
(Wikipedia, 2007).

Tickets $10 full / $5 concession
Bookings: 9347 6142 or
bookings@lamama.com.au

See Vita's quick links for all things great
and multicultural @ LaMama

Vita

Full Dress Productions is delighted to announce
that Hannie Rayson's epic masterpiece Inheritance
is returning to the Union Theatre
University of Melbourne
from June 16th -30th, 2007.

INHERITANCE

COUNTRY LIFE AND INHERITANCE

"In the Mallee country in rural Victoria, the Hamilton
and Delaney families gather to celebrate twin sisters
Dibs and Girlie's eightieth birthday. But these have
been heartbreak years in the bush and the cracks are
beginning to show" - between parents and the children
they birthed. Between those who have toiled and been
loyal to the land, and those who have left it for the
city lights.

Creating conflict between those dedicated to the earth
and committed to the harvest, and those who moved on to
low maintenance gardens and consumer lifestyles, in the
big smoke....INHERITANCE is an opportunity to examine
what is it WE VALUE...What is it we bequeath to our
children and what are their needs and why..The key
question apparently being asked is "Who will get the
farm?" and WHY...??

Director | Chris Bendall
Producer | David Frazer
Set Design | Peter Mumford
Lighting Design | Nick Merrylees
Costume Design | Joh Kelly & Peter Mumford
Original Music & Sound Design | Kelly Ryall
Stage Manager | Michaela Deacon

Featuring an outstanding cast including
The fabulous funny and divine Val Lehman,
Cliff Ellen, Chris Bunworth, Jim Daly,
Brenda Palmer, Andre Jewson, Grant Durham,
Anna McCrossin-Owen, Jenny Seedsman, Amy Sanders
Heidi Valkenburg and Hunter Perske

HOW TO BOOK
Contact Full Dress Productions on (03) 9329 0006
during their business hours email

enquiries@fulldressproductions.com.au

Or go to

linkwww.fulldressprodcutions.com.au/

PERFORMANCE DATE & TIMES
Opening Night June 16th
June 16th i 30th 2007

Season:
June 16th 3.00pm - PREVIEW
Mon - Wed | 10am & 3pm
Thurs - Fri | 1pm & 7.30pm
Sat | 7.30pm

Duration: Two and a half hours (includes 20 min interval)
Venue: The Union Theatre - Ground Floor,
Union House ? The University of Melbourne,
Parkville

Tickets:
Students / Group Bookings: $22 (incl. GST)
Adults: $25 (incl.GST)

Bookings policy:
Single Tickets: Payment can be made, upon
collection of tickets, however we strongly
recommend you book prior to the performance
by phoning 03 9329 0006

Groups: For group bookings of 10 or more
Full Dress Productions requires a 25% deposit
at the time of booking, with payment required
in full at least 2 weeks prior to the
performance. A tax invoice provided..

Full Dress Productions accepts payment via Cheque,
Money Order and Electronic Transfer.

Life is no dress rehearsal so act on ones inheritance

Always be the bright light on the earth
See you on opening night....
Vita

LOVE EQUALS - One Week to Go

23rd-26th May
@ 8:00pm
Theatreworks,
14 Acland Street
St. Kilda

Music, Lyrics and Book by Craig Christie
and Kristin Keam

"It is impossible to be a mathematician
without being a poet in the soul" Can we
use mathematics to predict life?

Love Equals magically brings together four
remarkable women from history's pages; all
mathematicians, all marvelous and magical.
An oracle from ancient Greece, Byron's
ungovernable daughter, the leader of the
French enlightenment and a headstrong
Russian come together to solve the riddle
of foretelling the future.........

As the debate unfolds their extraordinary
individual stories are revealed but one
member of the quartet has an urgent quest.....

LOVE EQUALS launches the new Magnormos
Prompt Musicals program. The evolution of
Music Theatre Readings Program.

Season subscription information below.

DIRECTOR: Nic Clark
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Sue Goessling
FEATURING: Sally Bourne, Kristin Keam,
Amanda Levy & Wendy Stapleton

BOOKINGS

linkwww.magtix.com

or 95343388

OR AT at Theatreworks Caf?/Box Office
12-5pm Thursday and Friday
Corner Acland and St Leonards Av
St Kilda )
see the Theatreworks link at VITA"s quick links

Vita

Fund raiser for Cecil Street Studio,
The Jolly Good Show

A Benefit Concert to support the continuance
of Cecil Street Studio, as a thriving centre
of improvisation, dance, physical theatre &
movement arts*

It's huge, it's sprawling, it's kaleidoscopic,
it's a unique opportunity to see a broad range
of Melbourne's best improvisers : dancers,
physical theatre artists and musicians -

All on one amazing, spectacular, star studded night.

Performers:
Al Wunder with Alice Cummins
Andrew Gray
Anne O'Keefe and Karen Berger
Born in a Taxi and friends
David Wells and Neil Thomas,

Directed by Merophie Carr and Thalia Thomas

Ian David, Dani Cresp, Sarah Cathcart,
Noelle Rees-Hatton
Joey Lehrer and Ann-Maree Ellis
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey with
"Samples for toy piano and pocket trumpet"
Peter Trotman

With guest MCs Maureen O'Dear and Rovert P Nudd

* Cecil Street Studio has been developed loved
and nurtured by Martin Hughes and Fiona Cook,
over the past 10 years, as a vital centre and
community for improvised and physical arts.

Now that they are moving on, a committee from the
Cecil St Studio. Other Cecil St Community members
are taking up the call to keep Cecil St 's dance "ALIVE."

Cecil St Studio's need your support to help keep this
essential and vibrant dance studio running/ dancing into
a viable ( able to live) and divine future....

Where: Dancehouse,
150 Princes St , Carlton
When: Saturday, May 26, 7.00 PM
Cost: $20
Enquiries: 03 9416 9673

We'd like to acknowledge the generous support of Dancehouse
and of all of the artists involved ....

See Vita's quick links links for "dance house' & more on
the history of Cecil St Studios's at the "ausdance" the link

VITA

RED GALLERY
Contemporary Art Space- coming up at red gallery

Kate Hendry @ Clair Dougherty ? Box Folly
Daniel Armstrong @ Melinda Capp ? Dark light

Heather Clugston, Annemarie Schweitzer &
Leanne Baker ? cell4 - Btu

You are invited to the opening night reception
Wednesday MAY 9th 2007 at 6pm

Exhibition duration: may 8th- 26th, 2007

157 St Georges Rd,
Fitzroy North,
Melbourne (opposite Edinburgh gardens)

Hours: Tuesday -Saturday 12 - 6pm
+61 3 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

linkww.redgallery.com.au

Vita

Well it is complete and done, as it is on Jupiter.
The lovely funny and prolific Mathew Saville has
climbed yet another of his mountains. Matt has NOW
completed and released his first feature film ?NOISE?.

Madman Pictures Pitch
"From director of ROY HOLSDOTTER LIVE, Matthew Saville's
first feature length film is a murder thriller set in
(elegant)Melbourne,"

The film is "about a young male cop struggling to control
the pressure of his job as well as a deafening noise
growing inside his mind."

VITA's swing on "Noise"
Mathew?s film is an exploration of the ?Noises? in our
heads. The film examines beliefs, that include
integrity ones self- responsibility and control.

Who has control who does not? What is it ANYWAY?
Control and over what? An episodic tale of ?ordinary
life? or is it? Graham one of ?Noise?s? key character
is a young police officer battling with the controlling
behavior in his work environment

(Or it could well be out dated 20 century forms of old
leadership styles)

Graham is also dealing with his internal battle of self-
identity and his connection to the whole, with a very
disconcerting intimidating noise inside himself....

A pinnacle moment in "NOISE" is when Graham discusses
with Dean (whose girlfriend has been murdered?) An
intimate discussion that covers the issue of HOW we
perceive, our moments between life, death?, and the
effect that has on us?

Graham is privy to murder fear despair and anger in his
world?Graham is indeed, very tortured, witty, and yet
a conscious man. Graham is dealing with complex issues
of LAW and order. He is witnessing a world behaving badly.

While listening to the torture and noises in his own
head ?.

?Noise?, explores community / society?s horror, and
inability to face ones, own demons. ?NOISE? examines
dis/empowered, communities, their response and power/
lessness anger and frustration, ?Noise? asks us to
examine who must act on the situation that ensues in
this film?

There is a tragic sense that some one else ?should fix?
the problem ? Or worse still is it someone else?s fault??

Most importantly and yet less examined, within the content
is Lavina?s experience? ?Lavina Smart? witnesses a mass murder,
is stalked and confronted with her own mortality TWICE ? The
incredible ?lack of duty care? by the police to what Lavina
Smart experienced as the ?witness ?to the horrific murders?,
is gop smacking in its neglect?

Who is the victim who is the oppressor?.we must ask ourselves?

Noise is a dark and visually confronting piece.The film has
great night scenes, Visually feels like the less elegant
aspects of Melbourne.Matt may well be branding Melbourne as
the New York of film locations?

Mmmm? got to love that ?Strong performances by the rather
handsome Luke Elliot the powerful Maia Thomas and rather
amusing understated and lovely Simon Laherty.

Like patriarchy ?Tinnitus itself is not a disease but a
symptom and has many causes?. There is always a cure ?We
must as Matt believes behave as ?decent? human beings and
love the other as we would have ourselves loved?

linkwww.imdb.com/name/nm1234242/

See Vita's links for Matt' link Noise site coming soon from "madman pictures"

"Jupiter radiates more energy into space than it
receives from the Sun."
Be aware of the light and noises in ones head
Vita

"I would argue, being a writer myself, that as a director working
with someone else's script, I'm probably more sympathetic to a
writer than maybe someone who's purely a director, because I
understand the process.

I wanted, in this case Christine Roum, in Vancouver with me
the whole time; I really wanted her on set. I like that dialogue.
I think that's often how you get the best movies, when you have
another voice in the mix."
The Invisible director David Goyer

"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I
understand."
Chinese proverb

Vita

Friends of La Mama...

$5 tix
Wed April 25th @ 6.30pm
Thu 26th/Fri 27th /Sat 28th @ 8pm

Her Secret Face
at the Carlton Courthouse)

Written by Vanessa Chapple @
Josephine Lange

Directed by Vanessa Chapple
Performed by Josephine Lange

"She is a monster. Or so it apppars!!!You
can see the spikes underneath her blouse.
Josephine?s mother is terrifying. Or is
she terrified of her self....??

Music is Josephine's means of escape Her
hiding place "is in the belly of her piano.
When Josephine?s mother dies she expects to
feel relieved. Elated, even. But all that?s
left is a terrible void."

Can music remain a refuge? Or is Josephine's
only escape to leave everything in search of
a life truly her own?

Nominated for Best New Australian Play, 2005
Green Room Awards.

Wed April 25th ? Sat April 28th
Bookings: 9347 6142
bookings@lamama.com.au

Or see the LaMama link in Vita's quick links
for more splendid LaMama Productions

A must see do not be terrified of the self
We are all as one.....Look into the void @
find the emerald green in ones life....
Vita

Friends of La Mama...

$5 Easter treats!!!
Thu April 5, Fri April 6,
Sat April 7,
Sun April 8 only:

B File
Written by Deborah Levy
Directed by Paulo Castro
Performed by Jo Stone, Paulo Castro, Karen Lawrence,
Paulo Dos Santos, Silvia Coelho Pinto @ Madeleine Lawrence

Wed/Sun @ 6.30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat @ 8pm
At the Carlton Courthouse:
349 Drummond St. Carlton

The First Step On a Tram Is Hell
As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2007:

linkwww.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2007/

Written, directed and performed by the lovely @ local
Sue Ingleton

Wed/Fri/Sun @ 6.30pm; Thu/Sat @ 8.30pm

At La Mama: 205 Faraday St. Carlton

See the LaMama site in Vita's quick links

Vita

MANIFESTING HOME TRUTHS
What's on at St Ambrose Hall
3 Dawson St
Brunswick (Melbourne)

" According to legend, Saint Ambrose immediately @
forcefully stopped heresy in Milan"

HOME TRUTHS 2 NIGHTS LEFT

Four one act plays by Local Playwrights

Breakfast by Jonathon Griffiths

Keeping your spirits up by Kath Harper

The Bet by Michael Mezza

Poet Cornered by Michael Mezza

St Ambrose?s Hall
Dawson St Brunswick
(opp Brunswick Baths ?Melways 29GB)

TICKETS $15.00 WAGED $10 UNDER-WAGED

FRIDAY 23RD MARCH @ SATURDAY 24TH MARCH 2007

8.00PM (DOORS OPEN 7.30PM)
BOOKINGS @ INFO 9386 0048

Email plays@moreland.org.au

linkwww.moreland.org.au

ALWAYS aware of impeccable truth myth and she/roic behavior

Vita

What's on at LaMama this week
$5 tix this week only
Wed 21 ? Sun 25th of March

SINNERS
Written by Ramiz Tabit and Johann McIntyre
All four characters are performed by two actors? blurring
and challenging our notions of cultural and religious
difference.

Wed/Sun @ 6.30pm
Thu/Fri/Sat @ 8pm

At the Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond St. Carlton

Directed by Melanie Beddie
Performed by Osamah Sami and Gemma Cavoli

Abdou, a Middle Eastern farmer, shocked by his mother?s death-bed
revelations, is forced to flee his own country, taking his Aunt
Fatma with him.

On the other side of the globe,Julia, a pastor with a suburban
Pentecostal church, is surprised by her husband?s secret ambitions
and desires. When Julia and Abdou meet an unlikely liaison is born.

see Vita's quick links for the LaMama site
Vita

BLACK PEPPER PUBLISHING
invites you to a

BOOK LAUNCH & XMAS PARTY

THE APPARITION AT LARGE by the lovely K.F. PEARSON

To be launched by DAVID TACEY Associate Professor of
Humanities and Social Sciences La Trobe University.
He teaches courses on spirituality and cultural studies,
analytical psychology, and literature, and is the author
of eight books including Edge of the Sacred &
ReEnchantment.

The Apparition at Large.

"The ghost is back in K.F. Pearson?s The Apparition At Large.
Sexy without a body, caustic without a cause, a stateless
commentator on an unfortunate eternity ? it is through
his deceased eyes that contemporary Australia ironically
becomes alive. Enjoy his epigrams, his wit, his spiritual
insights and aphorisms."

"Already posthumous, I know I am ignored.

Unlike pulp fiction I am pulped

or found, perhaps, in a remainder shop.

A poet is a figure nailed to wood,

a public sculpture held in private storage."

LAUNCH PRICE: $20 (RRP $23.95)

TUESDAY 19th DECEMBER 6.30 pmTHE PURPLE TURTLE,
166 Johnson Street, Fitzroy (Cnr Napier St)


XMAS SPECIALS: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE* / $10 SPECIAL PRICE*
* Selected Titles"

MAIL ORDERS XMAS SPECIALS Prices include postage and
free bonus book: $20 The Apparition At Large,
Folly & Grief, Other Summers, Midden Places;

$10 All other titles

Consult the Black Pepper website in Vita's quick links
for title details,

COMPLIMENTARY DRINK & NIBBLES / $3 HOUSE WINE
Purple Turtle meals available from 6 pm

Vita

Friends of La Mama...

MUSICA @ La Mama - 2 special concerts in association
with The Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival
2006. As 2006 draws to a close, LaMama are presenting two
splendid performances in conjunction with the Melbourne
Women's International Jazz Festival.It's been an
extraordinary year of highly creative work at MUSICA


Monday 11th December, 7.30pm:

Noriko Tadano - Solo Shamisen
Noriko is a fine vocalist and musician, playing the
ancient Japanese stringed instrument, the Shamisen.
Noriko has performed at Festivals all over Australia,
and in this concert will perform both traditional tunes
and free improvisations.

MORE MORE MORE..........

Dur-e Dara Ensemble
Dure Dara - percussion
David Tolley - electronics
Ren Walters - guitar
Anita Hustas - bass

Dure Dara is an inventive creative music practitioner
with a unique, highly developed instrumental voice.
Working with long time collaborators David Tolley,
Ren Walters & Anita Husta. Dure presents a unique
performance of spontaneous composition at its finest.


Tuesday 12th December, 7.30pm:

Tania Bosak - Solo Percussion
Tania Bosak has for may years been immersed in music
of traditionaldrumming cultures of Asia, Africa and
South America. Informed by her experience as a performer
and musical director of theatre she will present a dynamic
solo set of improvisations using Korean, Brazilian
and Latin percussion and voice.

THEN

Shannon Barnett Ensemble
Shannon Barnett (trombone)
Xani Kolac (violin)
Eugene ball (trumpet)
Joanne Cannon (bassoon)
Chris Hale (bass)
Ben Hendry (drums)

This ensemble was formed by Shannon especially for the
La Mama MWIJF concert, and presents her new work which
investigates and attempts to musically illustrate concepts
of 'techno-utopianism', 'techno-Luddism' and the seemingly
middle ground -'techno-realism'.

A three part suite which draws it's inspiration from
several different sources - musical and otherwise -
including communication technology and how it has impacted
the way we interact; the music and philosophies of John
Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet; and Barnett's recent forays
into other groove-based musics.

Tickets $15 full, $10 Friends & Conc.,
Bookings Ph. 9347 6142, or at the door from 7pm.
Tea, coffee, wine and nibbly treats available at the
venue.


The Carlton Courthouse: 349 Drummond St, Carlton


Please join the LaMama crew and performersto celebrate
the array of wonderful artists in Melbourne during this
Festival time.

Vita

MILESTONES are back!
This Saturday 2nd of December

Venue
Palookaville,
416 Brunswick St. Fitzroy.
8.30pm and go till 11.00pm

There'll be new songs. Instead of Olaf on keys,
Trent on guitar. Come for a drink or even a meal.

FREE ENTRY

Hope to see you all there.


Vita

Get up and help the survival of Burrup Peninsula

"Take a moment to imagine a cultural icon six times
older than the Pyramids, eight times older than
Stonehenge. Imagine probably the earliest surviving
rock carvings on this planet: close to a million images
of ancient faces and our earliest fauna,spread throughout
a group of small islands alongside the west coast of
Australia.

linkwww.burrup.org.au/

Most Australians have never even heard of these
rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula - and have no
idea this silent world treasure is at risk of being
needlessly pulled apart and destroyed from blind
industrial development.

But we can tell Australia's Environment Minister
now that we want to save the remaining rock art from any
further destruction, and help Burrup become what it
should be:

Burrup Peninsula
One of the world's most well-known and safely-visited
heritage sites.

linkwww.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveOurHeritage

Burrup, or Murrijuga by its Indigenous name, also
happens to be the site of a liquefied natural gas
plant (LNG). This operation is jointly owned by
the largest petrochemical companies in the world &
managed by Woodside Energy Ltd.

It's a $20 billion venture, which currently provides
almost two-thirds of WA's gas supply and export. But
Woodside now has plans to expand on their own, with a
new LNG facility set to cut straight through this
prehistoric university.

So far, at least 10,000 rock carvings have already
been lost from uncontrolled development.

New industrial plans could lead to the loss of thousands
more, with federal and state government authorities are
admitting up to 40 per cent of the rock art could be
dismantled or destroyed to accommodate expansion.

It's like splitting Stonehenge or the Pyramids in half,
drilling for oil and packing the nicest bits in a nearby
quarry.

The truth is,we don't have to choose between destruction
or development. Experts agree new gas can still be
extracted offshore, but processed at a different location.
If enough of us speak up now we can save the remaining rock
art without dampening the economic development of Western
Australia's growing industry.

www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveOurHeritage

Thankfully, Australia's Federal Minister for Environment
and Heritage, Ian Campbell, is now calling for public
submissions on whether to grant the Burrup Peninsula
national heritage-listing status.

This would immediately open the way for a world heritage
listing - the World Monument Fund has placed the rock art
on its list of 100 most endangered heritage sites.

But because so few Australians have ever heard of Burrup,
much less Senator Campbell's timely call for submissions,
it could be destroyed before the world ever gets the
opportunity to appreciate it.

Now advocates of a 'win-win' solution for Burrup and our
economy include the most unlikely allies: a former Labor
Premier of WA and a former Liberal Minister for State
Development both argue Burrup should become a heritage
site, with further development moved to more economically
profitable locations and traditional custodians consulted.

We have a once in a generation opportunity to rise above
old, unimaginative thinking to save an Australian & world
heritage treasure.

Submissions are due in a matter of days: this is the moment
we can give Australia's richest, unknown island the chance
for a different future.

Click on the link below to be part of GetUp's submission,
and you can also write your own.

www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveOurHeritage

Thank you for taking action today that will matter to
generations far into the future"

from the GetUp team

Vita

State of Flux's upcoming season.

STATE OF FLUX DANCE COMPANY & BRONWYN RITCHIE

AT NORTHCOTE TOWN HALL

"Late November, early December sees renowned dance
improvisation company State of Flux present a
season at the hottest new venue in town, the
Northcote Town Hall.

As part of this season, they have invited Melbourne
dancer Bronwyn Ritchie to perform a solo.

State of Flux has been researching, teaching &
performing improvisation for the past decade during
which time they co-curated Melbourne's only regular
forum for performance improvisation, Conundrum. They
have performed around Australia including at the
Choreographic Centre, Canberra and the Performance
Space, Sydney.

Their work, while heavily influenced by Contact
Improvisation extends to an amalgam of related body
performance techniques. They are one of the first dance
companies in Australia to have a member with a physical
disability, and notably the age range of the five dancers
spans more than 3 decades.

As in their 3D season at Dancehouse, State of Flux will
be working with internationally acclaimed musician and
composer, Rae Howell.

Bronwyn Ritchie has been making and performing dance for
the past 15 years. She has been performing for Shelley
Lassica since 2002.

She has also worked with Rosalind Crisp & Danni von der
Borch."

Dates: Thursday 30th November, Friday 1st & Saturday
2nd of November at 8 PM"

Venue: Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall, High St, Northcote
Tickets: $15 for one show or $30 for a season ticket
Bookings: 03 9481 3797

linkwww.northcotetownhall.com.au/

Vita

Press Release from Theatre Works
Jet of Blood-Tight-arse

Tuesday 26th September only-All tickets $15 at the
door

Jet of Blood by Antonin Artaud

In a new version by Ignite

"A Young Man falls asleep and wakes to find himself
in the surreal landscape of his subconscious. In this
sometimes nightmarish world he embarks on a quest for
the unknowable where he meets a procession of eccentric
characters, who confront him with his deepest fears.

Jet of Blood is the story of everyman?s journey of
self-realization which is only glimpsed in the world
of our dreams."

Comments about igniting the blood
?Discombobulating and always entertaining mayhem?
Owen Richardson ? The Age

?Like a ride in an old fashioned ghost train?
Lola Macmillan ? Melbourne Stage

FOUR STARS ? The Age

linkwww.theatreworks.org.au

WHERE THEATREWORKS
14 ACLAND STREET
ST.KILDA (off Fitzroy street)
Bookings 03 9534 3388

OR by clicking on the site below
linkwww.melbournefringe.com.au

Vita

SHARING THE DANCE OF FUTURE HAPPINESS

Well it is done ?as it is in heaven???.. Westgarth Cinema
was ?officially? relaunched. By PALACE-CINEMAS.
Last night well over 300 people attended the Westgarth
Winter soir?e, at the grand old lady of Westgarth.

We at the Vita ?com? pound are thrilled to the tree tops
with and for them..... All involved must be thanked and
thrilled, for what could only be seen to be a ?triumphant
success???

LETS wish them well and hope it will make a remarkable
difference, to the future of Westgarth Village. WE can
but hope PALACE Cinemas will retain/maintain the
organic & elegant approach that is synonymous with what has
gone before??

"WESTGARTHIANS" and film goers alike look forward to a
long & illustrious RENEW/ed viewing schedule at the revitalised
Westgarth ?PALACE???.. May all who gather at the ?PALACE,
share the dance of the future!!

May the integrity and splendour that makes OUR cinema &
community great/,be upheld. As we welcome OUR new tenants
may all have a mutual understanding to greatness and much
to say on the issue of kind acts and gratefulness??

Whats on the menu what s in the BOX?

The menu and the crowd were arguably? an exotic
mix of international flavours and "stars"....
From the Greek islands to Shanghai not to mention
the Thai style noodle ?BENITO? boxs??

With the occassional sighting of Chicago style gangsters
from Melbourne's growth corridors!"

ANAS REVELATION

However the revelation on the night was NO doubt ?the main meal,?
a NEW Australian feature film.....BY writer/director,
Ana Kokkinos. It is a heart stopping film,

The Book of Revelation..

An impeccably strong cast with gob smacking visuals that
may leave one shaking with fear about the facts of the matter...

A film that raises ugly truths in a intoxicating and TRUTHFUL
WAY!! Ana and her team have served up a remarkably insightful
film that has content that is cutting edge.....very
NEEDED and very NOW...... Ana takes US to the places
that we would prefer to disregard. Revalations that are
dense, intense and difficult to bare let alone live with..

OTHER considerations on Ana's film

An absolute MUST see concise & hard to bare/stomach

Powerful potent and all consuming???

Full ON film very complex and confronting. A tad to
long unless one can take and LIVE that level of
pain......

Characters that just disappear yet some are lost and
then are re/found....... An extremely profound and at
times confounded messages......What do we hold sacred
and what is it we scared of?? What is love and what is
lust? Do we dance into the future or dance our last dance?

The most compelling of films, not seen since the "Proposition?

linkwww.thepropositionfilm.com/

Heart- breaking gut wrenching, and imperative viewing.

linkwww.thebookofrevelations.com.au

See more on the screening details of Ana's revealing film
on the ?Palace Westgarth website on the right??

Deeply soul destroying, for those that know, what
?Daniel? knows??(Tom Longs chararcter)

Brave and brillant content that cuts to the heart of
our unspoken fears A film that makes US examine the
pain, shame and stain that could well be seen in
patriarchy.......

Vita

Black Pepper & THE AGE MELBOURNE
WRITERS? FESTIVAL 2006

Launch of ?Folly & Grief?

DATE Sunday 27 August, 3.15 pm

VENUE Bagging Room, Malthouse Theatre

113 Sturt St Southbank (Melways 43 G12)

See the Black Pepper website on the right
for more on their honourable and dedicated
work..........

Vita

Words of Wisdom - from CS Weekly

"As a country, it's a collective psyche thing, that
we were attacked. In a sense, the nation was raped
that day. I think the film is confronting some of
those feelings and saying, look, go back to the
"therapist" and start talking to "them" about what
it was, who was the attacker? What was the day like?
What is it you fear? Describe to me the rape, so to
speak. And I think in doing that, the patient often
unlocks the armors that keep their fear within."
Oliver Stone, on revisiting the 9/11 tragedy through
World Trade Center

linkwww.oscarworld.net/ostone/

"No, I'm not. I certainly respect how complex it is, & how
much focus is required. There will be some very hard times,
with tons of pressure but you work through it. I am so
invested in it from a creative standpoint that my eye just
stays on the end goal. I keep focused on making it exactly
how I want it and treat every day as a path to that final
product."

Director Neill Blomkamp, asked if he was nervous
about tackling his first feature-length assignment
HALO


The future of Westgarth Film Festival

Word on the Mountain is that Westgarth Film Festival
WILL be going ahead in the near future. It is well
into Pre Production, we are NOW sourcing new films
genres venues cast and crew.....

(NO,James may well have left MIFF for ever...and
quite busy at the AFI for some time to come... Or
maybe considering of shore proposals (Venice maybe).
Somewhat more elegant than little Johnnie's flawed
options.

(see more on this below......)

However a NEW format and formula is being developed
for the RENEWAL and REVALUING OF WCFF and could well
be announced shortly...

What John said in the the AGE Newspaper today on his
HIGHLY OPPOSED MIGRATION POLICY

"I believe in it very strongly and I believe the community
believed in it."

But did John go to the Mountaintop? Belief is a very very
personal/ particular business....One wonders what community
could John be speaking of? Has he asked the people of Naru
or any where for that matter....

Maybe he asked in, Gympie and Nambour....? Prime regional
target towns ripe for revitalisation. With possibly a
need for a major rethink of their belief systems as well....
It may well appear he has asked for of shore advice on the
matter........

PPS Building dams in the regions will NOT bring rain
Peter!!!.

Always passionate about community creativity and renewal of
beliefs

VITA

Lovely Louisa & Josephine are currently showing their
divine art work at the stylish and light RED GALLERY.......

Josephine Fagan and Louisa Jenkinson are definitely
2 Goddess?s willing and very determined NOT TO fall
through any possibe ?fissures? (cracks nor crevices),
of Mr Howards Australia......

In fact I would be happy to say they are very much
at the cutting edge of all things great and gorgeous!!!
Vibrant clean and a majestic works that speak to us
very clearly in ?black & white?. Through their strong
images on canvas.....

They could both, well be compared with the divine and
brave Joe Simpson- the famous english mountain climber.

See Vita' Mountains July 20th 2004 for more info on
Joe Simpson....

They will make the distance, by continuing to make
decisions and take NO line of retreat, in pursuit of
their art for life??

Never inactive committed to a life?s work. Passionate,
about their art? Willing to live / love fully. Able
to get their teeth and swirl into every stretch of
their developing works on canvas.....

Doing so with beauty and definition using charcoal and
paints in their work. Thus showing the spirit of the way
of a Goddess's work... Prepared to go knee deep in to
the canvas of their life?

Both deeply committed to the view from the mountain top??

Ah ya ya?.. Very much worth a look- see ??
Be quick or miss OUT

The transient fissures - AT RED GALLERY

NOW UNTIL AUGUST 12th 2006

157 St Georges RD
Fitzroy North

Gallery Hours
Tues to sat 12.00pm til 6.00pm

linkwww.redgallery.com.au

Ps Happy Birthday to All my favourite Lionsand Lioness's
(NO not footabll).....

Vita

"Style is simply gratuitous form with no content; it's for
commercials. So I don't think of myself as a stylist.
My attitude is that the audience is a human organism
sitting there in a dark room, and that everything
affects the way people feel and perceive a movie.
Style only gets you seven minutes of attention."
Michael Mann, on style versus substance

Another man of substance-Heng Tang

THE LAST CHIP screened at The Melbourne International
Film Festival
on the 29th July at 3pm
ACMI, Federation Sq.

"It has been billed as "the Chinese-Vietnamese Golden
Girls..." by SBS TV representative and John Saffran loves
it to!!!

linkwww.melbournefilmfestival.com.au

Vita

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving
ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise Hay

Love as much as you can from wherever you
are. Thaddeus Golas
(Discreetly in open spaces......)
Vita

Allow the Small Poppy inside oneself to to
fully BLOOM and love flat out.......
LJK

linkwww.shortpoppy.com/tickets.html

Vita

A Darebin Theatre Project Production:
Fear and Misery and the Howard Reich

An evening of Brecht and Brecht inspired performance

"Bertolt?s Brecht?s classic short plays The Informer
and The Chalk Cross are taken from his Fear and Misery
in the Third Reich a collection of 26 short plays that
detail how fear and misery comes to dominate ordinary l
ife under the fascism of the Nazi government. Over 70
years.

His plays bring disturbing parallels to current life
in Australia, where the lives of ordinary Australians
are being radically changed by the draconian legislations
of the Howard government."

The Plays: Directed by the absolutely divine and
extremely talented: Steve Pereira

The Exception and The Rule by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Eric Bentley and by special arrangement
with Dominie Pty. Ltd

A merchant races through the desert with his carrier and
guide determined to gain the rights to a newly discovered
oil field. Driven by the promise of untold wealth, the
merchant cruelly exploits his crew and a murder is committed.
At the subsequent trial, the notion of guilt and innocence
is turned topsy turvy in the new World order.

The Informer by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Eric Bentley and by special arrangement
with Dominie Pty. Ltd

The government has engaged in campaign to rid the state
of subversive elements and is encouraging its citizens
to inform on each other. An entire society is paralysed
in fear. In a middle class household, a respectable man
and his wife chafing at the restraints of the new order
are suddenly thrown into a panic when they wonder if
their own teenage son has turned on them.

The Chalk Cross by Bertolt Brecht Translated by Eric
Bentley and by special arrangement with Dominie Pty. Ltd

Nazi Germany: in the kitchen of the house of a rich
industrialist,a member of the Nazi Paramilitary, visiting
his fianc?e is provoked into a series of revelations as
to how the totalitarian regime manages control of some
potentially subversive elements.

"Shades of Kafka, the play is a chilling indictment of how
individuals are co-opted into National ideologies."

And including: Shorter but no less sharper Original
work...........

Althusser's Theory devised and performed
by Sandrine Dower-Hansen and music by
Anthony Chessells

"A sharp theatrical deconstruction/reconstruction of
Althusser?s theory of socially constructed identity."

Fish devised and performed by Gemma Collett with cast
A lyrically disconcerting movement piece about?people?
society?people and society.

Pirate Jenny devised and performed by Catherine Scobie

?You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking Maybe
once ya tip me and it makes ya ...? Cabaret has rarely
been so raw and so dark?"

The Box devised and performed by Catherine Scobie with
Sean Louth-Robins

"A twisted, fractured not-so-fairy tale about power &
possession and more..........."

For six nights only, 7.30pm on
July 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th,
21st & 22nd, Studio 1,
Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street,
Northcote, (Tram 86, stop 31). Tickets
$10 & $15.

For tickets please contact darebintheatreproject@yahoo.co.au

Telephone: 9388 8354.

Vita

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival is heading into
it's 7thyear. This year MUFF has an ecclectic range of
sessions on. The opening film highlight this year is
the fabulousJon Hewitt's (of Bloddlust fame), new film
"Darklove Story".

Opening Night
Thurs 6 - July 7pm
The Spanish Club

linkwww.innersense.com.au/mif/hewitt.html

DARKLOVESTORY
Dir: Jon Hewitt | 60 mins approx | Australia

"Jon Hewitt?s third feature (well mini feature) is a
breathless, flipped-out tale of crime, fate, mayhem &
love. Completely shot on the mean streets of Sydney?s
Kings Cross"

"Starring the talented Belinda McClory and Aaron Pedersen
as star-cross?d lovers chasing a happy ending.
"Darklovestory? is a dialectical fairytale about story
telling wrapped in a crime thriller dripping with s.x,
violence and subtext!

"Set over one frantic night in the mythic neon realm of
Australia?s infamous red light district, Jon?s assured
direction has a slightly surreal and dream-like edge
that adds to the overall trance-like and fairytale feel
of the film."

Be at opening Night for the World Premiere of Jon's
"third opus, darklovestory. It is dark indeed."

Starring Belinda McClory, Aaron Pedersen, Anthony Phelan,
Paul Capsis, Sandy Gore, Ian Roberts, Chris Baz, Don
Atkinson, David Bo.

MUFF also has a number of other great sessions
on, new features by Jason Turley, Bill Mousoulis
Tom McEvoy.

Check out the MUFF site for more details -

linkwww.muff.com.au

Or find out more about the creator
linkwww.innersense.com.au/mif/wolstencroft.html


Invole and engage in creative relationships
that have the potential of lasting value.
Be more joyous, spontaneous,and natural in
ones relationships.

Courage creativity & curiousity will
increase ones resources. By taking
command and asserting ones self will
capture and attract, what one needs
to support ones evolving image......
Vita

DRAMA FOR PEACE IN EAST TIMOR
7pm Thursday June 22 - Theatreworks,
14 Acland St., St Kilda

A press relaease from: Friends of Suai

Friends of Suai the Port Phillip community
group. are helping rebuild the East Timorese
town of Suai. They are hosting a night of
film, poetry, music & talk to raise money
for the Dili-based drama troupe. Bibi Bulak
(the Crazy Goats),to perform in refugee camps
within East Timor

linkwww.discoverdili.com/communityprojects.html


The fundraiser, to be held at 7pm Thursday
June 22 at Theatreworks, 14 Acland St.,
St Kilda

This event will feature a talk by Annie
Sloman, the arts administrator & theatre
circus trainer at Bibi Bulak, a short
performance from Bibi Bulak on film,
and poetry and music by the divine
Melchior Dias Fernandez (Mely),- The
lead singer of one of Timor's most well
known bands, Galaxy.

Admission is by gold coin donation &
tickets are available at the door. Ms
Sloman, who was recently evacuated to
Melbourne due to the violence in Dili,
is using her time here to talk about the
work of Bibi Bulak and raise money.

"While the country is in crisis, the
emerging art scene in East Timor is working
overtime to help empower the youth and keep
people's minds on positive peaceful ways to
deal with their trauma," she says.

"Bibi Bulak, which is composed mostly of
young people, wants to perform at the thirty
or forty refugee camps that have sprung up
in and around Dili. The performances will
promote messages about health and women's
leadership as well as simply just providing
entertainment to take people's minds of what
is going on around them. We hope it will help
heal people who have already been through so
much.

"Our group is mostly young people and we
want to say loud and clear that young people
have a lot to contribute. They're not all
troublemakers. They can shine a light on
the long road to peace."

East Timorese artist, musician and writer
Melchior Dias Fernandez is also in Melbourne,
following performances at the Sydney and Darwin
Writers' Festivals. He's usually based at the
Arte Moris (Living Art)Cultural Centre, home
to both Bibi Bulak and the free art school,
Arte Moris.

Throughout the recent crisis the art school,
Arte Moris, and performance group Bibi Bulak
have carried on, running workshops and
performances in the camps. Arte Moris has
also become a refugee camp itself with over
600 people currently camped at the cultural
centre.

Ms Sloman said she'd been in regular contact
with her friends and workmates in Dili since
her evacuation. "I rang Arte Moris the other
day and the students were in the midst of a
class, trying to carry on their lives as
normally as possible despite the gunfire in
the background."

"Many of the students' families lost every
thing when their houses burnt down, so
they're now living at the centre. Arte Moris
is using all its reserves earmarked for art
supplies and classes to feed the refugees,"
she said.

According to Ms Sloman, Bibi Bulak and Arte
Moris have become havens for the young
people of East Timor since being set up
in 2000 & 2003 respectively.

"Bibi Bulak and Arte Moris have attracted
everyone from street kids to gang members,
ex-Falintil fighters, young women, students,
and even taxi drivers. The arts have proved
a positive way to channel their energy and
provide hope for the future.

"Many of the students say if it weren't for
these organisations, they would be out on
the street creating the violence that is
currently engulfing Dili. Bibi Bulak and
Arte Moris give them a voice as well as a
living."

Ms Sloman said that youth are the forgotten
people in East Timor. "Half the population
is under the age of 21 and around 75 per cent,
I think, are under the age of 27," she said.

"Unemployment amongst young people is up
to 80 per cent. Most were educated under
the Indonesian system so don't speak
Portuguese or English, virtually making it
impossible to get a decent job. On top of
this, the government and many of the aid
agencies appear to have largely forgotten
them. They are incredibly disillusioned
and disempowered. Many see no future.

"It's simply great that Bibi Bulak want
to try and do something positive within
this entire catastrophe." When life
settles down again, Bibi Bulak will set
up the first theatre group in Suai, a
coastal town near the border with West
Timor. Funded by Friends of Suai, it will
be based at the Suai Youth Centre.

linkwww.portphillip.vic.gov.au

Vita

"You can win as long as you chose your
battles. You can win more arguments
then you might think as a writer, even
though you legally have no recourse, &
your script can get muddied and altered
in any way possible.

You can use reason, logic, and passion
to argue persuasively for a case in your
favor. So what I've learned is to just
basically not buckle, not be belligerent,
not be angry, not throw fits, but just
not buckle.......

Though there are times where you have to
stand up and yell. If I've got to throw
a chair, I'll throw a chair. There was
a meekness about me when I started, and
I think the meekness has sort of
evaporated. I hope that it's left behind
a more passionate person, not a meaner
person.

So I guess that's what I've learned."

Shane Black (whose Kiss Kiss, Bang
Bang came out on DVD this week)on
the most important thing he's learned
about the writing game...
Vita

WINTER SOLSTICE SOIR?E

AN EVENING WITH PHIL LEASK
THURS 22nd JUNE 6.30 PM

Phil Leask is visiting from London where
he writes and works as a consultant in
urban regeneration & community development.

Meet the boy from Brisbane who has written
of Hamburg, a city of the displaced,
waiting anxiously for the long winter
to thaw.

(Olhovsky, Prince of Hamburg); the 1802
French connection with Tasmania and of
its wilderness
(The Slow Death of Patrick O'Reilly);
far north Queensland and politics in post-
WWII Europe (By Way of Water).

PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION

READING by Phil Leask from By Way of Water

READING from Olhovsky, Prince of Hamburg
by actor Peter Finlay

READING by Phil Leask from The Slow Death
of Patrick O'Reilly

SUPPER AND MUSICAL INTERLUDE

DRAW OF FREE RAFFLE

JENNIFER HARRISON IN CONVERSATION WITH
PHIL LEASK

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

MUSIC

SPECIAL BOOK OFFER: $10 per title,
3 titles $20.00
MAIL ORDERS (postage included) Orders
Black Pepper
403 St Georges Rd Nth Fitzroy 3068

linkwww.blackpepperpublishing.com

VENUE: THE PURPLE TURTLE 166 Johnson St,
Fitzroy (cnr Napier St) tel. 94165055
DINE UNTIL 9 ON EXCELLENT MEALS AT PUB
PRICES

This project has been assisted by the
Commonwealth Government through the
Australia Council, its art funding and
advisory body.

Vita

Follow the Leader

A screening of three films by
Jason Turley and Mark La Rosa

Wooden Heart 18 mins. (Turley)
Best Short, 2004 RMIT Media Awards
Nominated Best Short, 2005 Berlin/Asia Pacific Film
Festival

Dirty Work 30 mins. (Turley)
Best Actor, 2003 RMIT Media Awards
Best Actress, 2003 RMIT Media Awards

The Captives 57 mins. (La Rosa)
7:30 pm Thursday, June 22nd
Erwin Rado Theatre
211 Johnston St. Fitzroy

Tickets $10/8

Inquiries: Tel 9304 4906

Vita

A Theatreworks Company Initiative
2006

Stuck Pigs Squealing presents

Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries
of the Volcano

Written by Lally Katz

Directed by Chris Kohn

Design by Adam Gardnir, Sound Design by
Jethro Woodward, Lighting Design by
Richard Vabre

Featuring Christopher Brown,
Margaret Cameron, Anthony Johnson,
Brian Lipson, Luke Mullins,
Jennifer Priest & Gavan O'Leary

with live music by Jethro Woodward &
Chris Kohn

June 2 ? 18, Tues ? Sat @8pm; Sun @5pm

Tickets $25 (full) $18 (conc)

Preview Thurs Jun 1st $15 all tix

Bookings: 9534 3388 or site below

Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of
the Volcano is the new show from award-
winning independent theatre company,
Stuck Pigs Squealing (The Eisteddfod,The
Black Swan of Trespass).

"It is a metaphysical fairy tale for adults,
in three timezones, set in a post-apocalyptic
Canberra. Featuring a rich live sound score
by Jethro Woodward and a fantastical design
by Adam Gardnir, the audience is taken on a
ride into a bittersweet world of memory,
love and loss."

"The story of the play follows an unnamed
childhood catastrophe involving a boy named
Lally and a girl named Wendy. This trauma
blows open a portal to a fantastical, fluid
and terrifying place peopled by ghosts,
lovers and cargo cults. It is another
Canberra, trapped in an eternal landscape
of tropical palms, church halls & volcanic
ash."

Theatreworks
14 Acland Street St Kilda
PO Box 1205 St Kilda South Vic 3184
Ph: 03 9534 4879 Fax: 9525 3593

linkwww.theatreworks.org.au

Vita

A revised media release from Greg Pakis
on The Garth Method

Melbourne film maker supports Amnesty

linkvic.amnesty.org.au/home/candleday_day

The Garth Method
A film about fighting the odds and never giving up!

The Garth Method was well attended at it's fundraiser
screenings in March/April 2006. The screenings raised
$500 for kid's cancer charity, for CAMP QUALITY.

"We are still looking to liase and assist more charities,
create media contact (radio, mags, papers etc..)" to broaden
our reach and connect community human rights and the arts.....

So if you have an organsiation that could need support
contact Greg Pakis ... (details below on his site)

Come along and support Candle Day this weekend
We have two more screenings!!

tix BY DONATION to Amnesty International Candle Day.

This film has played at film festivals in Australia
and the USA winning 6 awards including Best Actor
and Best Director!

CHARITY FILM NIGHT presents

The Garth Method (82min)

Directed by Gregory Pakis

Screening @ The Old Colonial Inn, 127 Brunswick St.
Fitzroy (near cnr Gertrude St)

SAT MAY 13TH - 5:30PM

SUN MAY 14TH - 6:30PM

Festivals include..

5th Melbourne Underground Film Festival, July 2004
Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing (Gregory Pakis)
Best Male Actor (Garth Petridis)

Fiery Film Fest, New Mexico, U.S.A. 2004
Finalist

Atlanta Underground Film Festvial, U.S.A. August 2005

8th Annual Oxnard Independent Film Festival, LA, U.S.A. 2005
Best Actor (Garth Petridis)

Woodstock Museum Fim and Video Festival, NY, U.S.A. 2005

See the trailer below

linkwww.thegarthmethod.com

Vita

The fabulous Voxbandicoot present
Kung Fu DaPu (pronounced DuPWA of course)
Kids Comedy

"Set in Melbourne's marvellous sewer system ? this
is the world's first ever Hip-Hopera, drama, seweroke
and puppet show! Come and play Trivial "Poosuit",
applaud the "poolice" and be regaled by no fewer
than 187 puns ? ewe count ?em!"

Starring Melbourne's much loved, award-winning Vox Bandicoot.

Script by the fantastic not to mention funny &
splendid Frank Fitzgerald-Ryan,

Music by Liam Barton,
Puppets by Graeme Davis.
Artwork by Sharyn Madder/Liam Barton.
Performed by the gorgeous Nic Glenie,
Aaron Hocking,
Cam Venn
Bea Lewis

Funny, family friendly and free EDUtainment

Brought to you by Melbourne Water ? working together
to ensure a sustainable water future.

linkwww.voxbandicoot.co.au

Venue: Umbrella Revolution, out door venue
Federation Square, Melbourne


linkwww.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2006/whatson.php?day=today

Prices: Free

When: 14th Apr - 7th May

Duration: 45 minutes

Times: Tue,Fri & Sat 4.00pm
Sun 12noon

More on this show later...........

San Jose

Listening is more important than anything else because
that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and
you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
Carla Bley

linkwww.fahrenhuitultralounge.com/

Muisc and Laughter sustaining life
Vita

More than a blush and a Prrr at the Kitty Club

The next Kitty Sessions is happening
Thursday April the 06th

We'd love to see you there, as as the Kitty
Club is curling up into their baskets for a
well earned rest for 2 months.

The Kitty Sessions will return to the Wesley Anne
in July!

So come along and Prrr....with the cat people . . .

A great line up featuring
Poets
Ruth Sancho & Lee Kofman

Guest musician
Etoile Marley

linkwww.underbellydance.com/african.html

Plus the devine.... MC Meg Dunn and the weird
and wonderful DJ Val - Veeta.

When: Thursday, 6th April, 8pm.
Where: Wesley Anne (250 High St, Northcote)
How Much: $5 Entry

Open Mic Section - Welcome to all
Vita

films4charity presents
The Garth Method (82min)
Directed by Melbourne filmmaker
Gregory Pakis


"In 2001 unemployed actor Garth Petridis was
imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes
in Australian history.

Desperate for success he kidnapped members of
the public and forced them to perform in a bizarre
movie intended to make Garth a household name.
He kept a video diary of the whole process.

Upon his release from jail he convinced filmmaker
Gregory Pakisto recreate the story of his
life before his crimes and the outrageous stunts
he would pull 'method acting' to get 'sexy and tough'
to win parts.

Shot on Super 16mm, The Garth Method is a combination
of Garth's REAL video diary and the re creation of
his comic struggle to become an actor that drove him
to such a dangerous method of achieving acting fame.


"The Garth Method flies high and all the performances
are exceptional..a perfectly written screenplay.."
FILMTHREAT

The Gath Method will have 7 screenings during
March @:

The Old Colonial Inn, 127 Brunswick St.
Fitzroy (near cnr Gertrude St)

Fri March 17th, 7:30pm.

Sat March 18th & Sun March 19th, 4:30pm.

Fri March 24th, 6:30pm.

Sat March 25th & Sun March 26th, 4:30pm.

Fri March 31st, 6:30pm.

linkwww.innersense.com.au/mif/pakis_garth.html

Vita

"I think the thing is, a) don't give up.

b) find something you're passionate about and that
you have a relative advantage on, that you know
more about and you're more interested in and write
about that.

c) Don't fall in love with your own words. That's
a common mistake, where writers will finish a script
and think, 'God, this is perfect.

They should film it just the way it is.' That's not
how, in my experience, screenwriting works. It's an
endless process. I go through draft after draft after
draft before I show it to the first person.

Then I go through more. You have to commit to the
ride and not to the destination."
William Broyles, Jr., whose Jarhead hit DVD this
week, on the best way to get ahead in writing

linkmovies.about.com/od/jarhead/a/jarheadas102705.htm

"I didn't want in the movie to judge the middle-
class couple, other than to say that none of us
can feel comfortable in South Africa behind our
gates without talking to the other, even if we
don't like them. This notion of good and evil is
not helpful.

How are we going to engage the poverty?

Well, you just have to do a little bit. You don't
necessarily have to be Mother Theresa, but you
can't completely cut yourself off.

Compassion is a useful tool."


Gavin Hood, whose Tsotsi just won an Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year from
South Africa

Vita

The Kitty Salon is purring on the mountain
again in March 2006.......

When: Thursday March 2nd, 8pm
How much: $5
Where: Wesley Anne (250 High St, Northcote)

Press Release for the Kitty Club

"The time has come again to be thrilled shaken
with pleasure and throughly entertained at the
fabulous Kitty Club.

Let yourself slip into a world of creative
women. Singing dancing and reading their pearls
of wisdom. Articulate enterprising creative women
stepping out ! and sharing their art. Laughter,
music,candle light, and intoxication. . .

Yes,it's that time again for the next delightful
Kitty Session

So, slap on some decadence slip into a gown let
your hair fall free, and come and be seen at the
Wesley Anne "Kitty Night."

This Kitty Sessions will feature:

MUSICIAN - MICHELLE HINES

"Singer/songwriter Michelle Hines will perform
her original songs for us. Her funk inspired guitar
playing and soul filled vocals, makes Michelle a
musician you don't want to miss.......

POETS
MEG DUNN

A regular MC of Kitty Sessions, this month, Meg
will be a feature poet. Meg Dunn is well known
for her poetry. She has performed her work in
Melbourne venues for many years.

Her award winning one woman show "Brave" was
performed as part of the Overload Poetry Festival
two years in a row. Drawing from a theatre background,
Meg's performances always take the audience on an
unexpected and delightful journey, one well
worth embarking on.

ELA FORNALSKA
With a strongly observational flare, Ela's work is
heavily influenced by the Haiku tradition. She has
been involved over the years in various bi- lingual
poetry projects. Her work explores global issues as
well as the smaller details in everyday life.

GEMNASTICS
Gemnastics' work reflects our relationships, bringing
out the more kooky aspects of our everyday interaction.
A performer of both prose and poetry. Gemnastics is
a charismatic and bold performer."

There is also an open mic section
(welcome to all)"

linkredlobster.nat.org.au

Vita

Six?FRESH? films not to be missed in the next
month on SBS television In Australia. Films that
may well have a touch of "VITAOLGY" and a will
and tenacity to be seen out and about on the
international film circuit...If you have not
seen these films, do so!!!

THURSDAY?S at 8.30pm on SBS
23rd of February UNTIL
the 30th of March 2006


linkwww20.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html


STRANDED screens TONIGHT on SBSTV
(23rd FEB) at 8.30pm

DIRECTED by Stuart McDonald,
WRITTEN by Kathleen O?Brien
PRODUCED by Beth Frey of Circe Films

JEWBOY screens on SBS TV on 2nd MARCH 2006

DIRECTED by Tony Krawitz,
PRODUCED by Liz Watts

Tony Krawitz made his first short film, Zero,
while studying at the Sydney University of
Technology. He went on to study directing at
the AFTRS where he directed the short films
Customs (2001). Together in the Middle of
Nowhere (2001) and Into the Night (2002).

Since graduating from AFTRS Tony has been
directing music videos and commercials.
Tony won an award for Jewboy in 2005
at the AFI

BEST SCREENPLAY IN A SHORT FILM

THE HEARTBREAK TOUR screens on SBS TV
9th MARCH

WRITTEN & DIRECTED by Ben Chessell,
PRODUCED by Jason Byrne & Joanna Werner
More on this later...........

Martha's New Coat screens on SBS TV
16th MARCH

DIRECTED by Rachel Ward (repeat)
THE GLENMOORE JOB screens on SBS TV
23rd MARCH

WRITTEN & DIRECTED by the rather insightful
and intriguing Greg Williams,
PRODUCED by Melanie Coombs
of Melodrama Pictures

?It's not that Warren doesn't like Glenmore.
It's just that after doing time, he'd rather
be lying under a palm tree up north. But he's
here to deliver on a promise he made to his
cell mate Sumo.

"So now he has a photograph of a girl, a
house, not to mention a psychopathic guard
dog to make friends with. This one last
job must be done. In law-abiding Glenmore,
as part of his parole, Warren is forced to
join a local support group." One wonders
are they characters with any intrigue for
Vita-ology??

linkwww.vitalogy.com/

Melanie Coombs Producer Company Director of
Melodrama Pictures. Melanie produced the
delightful Harvie Krumpet.

Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Short Film -
Animation.

She is also very busy talented Goddess, one who is very
familiar with the art of Vitaology and useful verbs such
as pampering.... a must do!!

linkwww.melodramapictures.com/

Roy Hollsdotter Live screens on SBS TV on 30th MARCH

WRITTEN & DIRECTED by the lovely talented busy....
if not a tad tardy Matt Saville.Matt is
presently in production on the featre film NOISE.


linkwww.madman.com.au/incinemas/releases/noise.html


PRODUCED by Trevor Blainey of Retro Active Films
more on these films as they appear on SBS

Vita

Ah ya ya ?.on ward and upward for Jamie Clennett and
"MR MONEY?. From Melbourne Film Festival 2005,The Port
Shorts to award winner at the first Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought 2005". Mr Money is NOW on his way to
Stuttgart in 2006.

Stuttgart Animation Film Festival
APRIL 27th ? MAY 02nd 2006

The lovely talented and entrepreneurial Jamie Clennett
has taken his fabulous film "The Fabulous Adventure of
Mr Money" to the Stuttgart International Festival of
Animated Film (ITFS), which is the largest event for
animated film in Germany.

linkwww.itfs.de/

?Title: The Fabulous Adventure of Mr Money
The Diary of an Entrepreneur

This is a partial exxtract from theDirectors
Statement on Mr Money

"Mr. Money is about the Australia that I understand it
to be. I believe there is no fixed, solid history.
History is fluid interpretation of the past, which should
be robust enough to withstand scrutiny.

This point is currently being debated in the "history
wars", between various academics of Australian history,
both from the left and right of politics.

History is always written by the victors, although some
historians believe it?s time to re-write some errors or
make Australian history less Anglo-centric. On the other
hand, some think Australian history must remain as it is,
serving the national interest by strengthening an
"Australian" identity.

Hmmm what is identity and who's we ask??........Vita

I made Mr. Money to be an illustration of how I
see Australian history. I don?t claim that this is
the right and true version. Apart from the fact that
Mr. Money is a collection of metaphors for the
settlement of Australia to the present

I don?t intend for this to be a visual essay of the
horrors brought to this country by Europeans. I suppose
I would prefer people to identify the issues for people
to make up their own mind.

If you agree with Darwinism, we all share a common
African ancestor. Taking such a long-term view,
can anyone really claim to be truly indigenous to
Australia anyway?

Perhaps it?s more valid that all humans are natives
of the planet rather than one specific place. Therefore
we are all natives or none of us is."

Creative: Jamie Clennett
In 1999 Jamie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
University Of Tasmania, School of Art. He then enrolled
in design at NIDA. After graduating in 2003 Jamie has
established himself as a Theatre and Film Designer,
Graphic Artist and Animator.

Animation credits include? animated 2D & 3D graphics
for Tom White directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos (April 2003;
A 7-minute film titled Sacred (Jan, 2003); a 2 minute
film titled Two Men Called Mr Business (May, 2004); &
his latest film "The Fabulous Adventure of Mr Money"
(November, 2004). Mr Money premiered at the Melbourne
International Film Festival (MIFF) for 2005.?

Vita

FRESH FILM IN MELBOURNE THIS WEEKEND

FRESH is a one day festival of the freshest films &
filmmakers touring Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and
Adelaide during February 2006.

See THE GLENMOORE JOB and four other FRESH dramas before
anyone else does!!! This touring film festival is not to
be missed!!!!

b>The George 12th FEB BRIS: Centro 12th FEB ADEL:
Mercury 25th FEB

ONE DAY FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday 12th of Feburary at the George Cinema
St Kilda Tickets at the door
Starts at 4pm!!!

Day pass $15 or $5 per Films are exempt from
Classification: 18+ only.

Fabulous new films from inspirational filmmakers
mentors of the past and of the future

FRESH: This is drama that celebrates new voices &
visions. New directors and spanking new directions.

FRESH showcases the Academy award, IF, Silver Lion,
and AFI award winning filmmakers latest, longest and
newest films!

The festival will feature fresh faces Emily Browning
(Lemony Snicket?s A Series of Unfortunate Events),

Saskia Burmeister(Hating Alison Ashley) Anthony Hayes
(Look Both Ways) and Simon Lyndon (Chopper)

This extreme one day film festival provides a unique
opportunity to meet the filmmakers as they introduce
their films and offer insights into their creative
processes! The pain the passion and the persistence.

"From heartbroken friends to Lebanese Rappers to a
unique suburban self-help group these films are
grappling with the bittersweet confusion of love and
lust,family and separation."

Supported by SBS and the AFC,

Melbourne: Sunday 12th FEB:
Palace George Cinema,
135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda

4.00pm Stranded: writer/ Kathleen O?Brien,director
Stuart McDonald, producer/ Beth Frey

5.15pm The Heartbreak Tour: writer/director Ben Chessell,
producers/ Jason Byrne & Joanna Werner

6.30pm Jammin'in the Middle writer/Howard Jackson direcor/
Kim Mordaunt producer/Enda Murray

7.45pm Cable: writer/director Roger Scholes, producer
the lovely Lucy Maclaren

9.00pm The Glenmoore Job: writer/d Greg Williams,
producer /the divine Melanie Coombs

For further information contact:
Melanie Coombs or Miranda Edmonds

melanie@melodramapictures.com or
circe_me@bigpond.net.au

linkwww.melodramapictures.com
Vita

The rather dashing and talented Australian writer/
director, Heng Tang has won yet another award
for his moving and sometimes tragic short film
"The Last Chip".

The portrayal of 3 women's addiction to gambling.
An insight into the betrayal and insidious lure of
what "The Last Chip"could offer.......

Heng Tang also won the best film award for
the "Last Chip"at the in augural Westgarth
Film Festival "Food for Thought", In November 2005."

The "Last Chip" has this weekend past been awarded
the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Clermont Ferrand Film
Festival

Vita

Developing a cocoon is a natural and essential part
of being a caterpillar. But the time comes when the
cocoon softens, wears out, and opens up.
William Martin in A Path and a Practice

To Practice This Thought: Contemplate what it would
mean for you to move from the cocoon stage of ones
development to being a butterfly.

Out and about at ACMI

My PA and confidante took a sustainable chose and
slipped out of the Westgarth Village last night and
was seen at ACMI, discussing the importance of genuine
traditions and the meaning of true love at ACMI.

Waxing a little lyrical with one of her ALL time
favourite directors the brillant loving and prolific
Laurence Johnston.

Rumour has it she was discussing the potential of
being one of the next home coming Queen"s in Grafton,
with a her long lost twin Ms Mel!!!

Laurences Film

"Dream Of Love
Australia (26 mins)
The joys of love last but a short time. Through
remarkably direct and intimate interviews, Melbourne
filmmaker Lawrence Johnston allows us into his family
as they ruminate on love and explore its joys and pains,
based on the 59-year marriage of his parent."

The response to our first film festival

Westgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005' continues
to sparkle and delight the village and those in LOVE
with film. The village is aglow with pride if not a
tad weary from the accolades and keen attention being
cast their way.

"linkwww.abc.net.au/melbourne/evenings/team.htm

linkwww.rrr.org.au

TODAY IN WESTGARTH

Below are some of my must see's on todays program
at Westgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005"

2pm: Garths Place

Spotlight on Female Filmmakers
Short Film showcase by female directors and screenwriters.
Films: Reflections on Rain, Magritte?s Promise,
My Shadow, Push, The Girl Who Fell, Forsaken, Freeway,
A Proposition from Damp, Glorial?s Pumpkin Breath & Grandma,
The Calling, Desert, & Parts of a Horse.

8pm: Let's Dance

Live Music to Dance to and Entertain

8pm: Dean Champ's images and a variety of exotic and alluring music

9pm: Jazz Quartet Westgarth's own "Milestones"

Click on the site below for the full program

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

Vita

An Ode to Westgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005"

Otherwise known as cinematic bingo

While the Picnic at Hanging Rock is not far away
?Tis not the only reason to be here today
Though not what "I expected" we?re now on "Terra Firma"

No longer "Besieged" nor "Lost", by organisational
?dilermma? We hid behind our "5.0 Clock Shadow" ?n?
thought we?rin strife. "We are juggling the elements"
but "love our dreams for life'?.

We will never love again as god is our witness
With "Countess Dracula" ?n? our Maid to order issss".
"decent generous tolerant, open minded people"
Here at the base of Darebin?s steeple
We no longer look to "California Dreaming" but seek
out a "NU Country".

In our Indian Summer" of Westgarth's "Spring Rhapsody'.
We did have such a"gay ole time in the park?.
To ensure the F?n?F Fest will be such a lark
As intriguing as some "parts of a horse".

We?ll now get to see the "Forest" for the trees,
of course we dream longingly about "Steinbeck editing
and wonder what mentors of the future will sing.
We think of "Tibet" and bet for a cert
That "Suzie's in the mix," for our "Dessert"'

We are intolerant to the "Dismissal" and look forward
to fun And can only imagine the "green dragon" in "Melbun"
We are very aware of "nature?s revenge", her capacity
to pillage And that this Festival?s a triumph of the
folks of the Village

Highlights and my favourites of todays Program

4pm: Traffic
Screening of Nu Country
A film directed by Nick Brenner
Producer Angela Borrelli

5pm: Northcote Town Hall
Screening: Lost (20 mins) followed by Screening of
The Forest
Forum: ?The transition from Short Drama to Features?
Jo Kennedy and Christine Rogers

Jo and Christine will discuss the 50 minute drama ?
how effective is it as a stepping stone to making
feature-length dramas?

7pm: Northcote Town Hall
Screening of Dreams for Life + Forum: ?Finding the
Character?
Maria Mercedes
Actor Maria Mercedes will talk about her acting
technique, the rehearsal process, and her starring
role in the AFC funded film, ?Dreams for Life?.

8pm: Caf? Najla
Australian Documentaries ? Dinner & Screening
Different perspectives of what it is to be ?Australian?
Films: Australia?s Muslim Women, California Dreaming,
No More Than Four, Decent, Generous, Tolerant,
Open-Minded (White) People, A Life Like Crystal
Kim and Harley and the Kids.

Choose from a Vegetarian Banquet ($20), Chicken
Banquet $38.00 or Fish Feast Banquet ($45).
Each banquet includes a complimentary drink

8.30pm: Northcote Town Hall
Screening of Beseiged ? The Ned Kelly Story
A Film by Film Projects
Gregory Miller and Georgia Wallace Crabbe
linkwww.bailup.com/FilmsDocumentaries.htm

Due to clitches in the system today I am unable to make
links to sites about Jo Kennedy or Angela Borrelli work

Vita

Pearls from Alex
I think it's very easy to get branded in Hollywood.
We grew up on Lethal Weapon and Die Hard, and those
were very character-driven movies. Whatever action movie
we're doing, the first question we have to ask ourselves
is, 'What is the character story here? Could we make
an independent movie out of just that character story?'

Then, when you apply that to the action genre, it's really
special and interesting. That's kind of the barometer we
use to decide what we're going to do."
Alex Kurtzman

Sunday 6 November
What's on today in Westgarth Village
The program on day 3
2pm: Fruit Peddlers
Local Produce>
Films by local filmmakers, set in the local area
and/or about local issues.

Smelling the Jonquils, Virus, The Tan, Pour L?Amour de Velo-
City, Food for Thought, The Majesty of the Wetlands, Souls
on Board, Rowing on the Yarra, Gracie, Eyes on the Road,
Xavier Crudd, A Friendly Wager, Going Home & Seamus Spilsbury.

Must sees at
2pm: Garth?s Place
Mixed Bag Shorts 1
Dramatic & comic shorts from local & Australian
filmmakers. Films: The Drop, Pets, Out of Time,
The Figures, Lullaby, Alaina, Indi, One More Sleep,
The Watch, Over the Hill, Mr Grimm?s Umbrella, Tide,
The Date &........

Mr Money .
Director: Jamie Clennett
A story of progress versus human attitude. A traveller
realises after a time that he lives with nature, rather
than atop it.

linkww.sohoshorts.com/shortlist_announcement.htm

Ah yes then we have politics of living in the arts

3pm: Northcote Town Hall
Forum: Politics of Funding
Luigi Acquisto and Stella Zammataro from Abracadabra Films
Luigi and Stella will discuss drama projects as social
documents.

Must sees

4pm & 9pm: Traffic
Australian Documentaries
Different perspectives of what it is to be ?Australian?.
Films: Australia?s Muslim Women, California Dreaming,
No More Than Four, Decent, Generous, Tolerant, Open-
Minded (White) People A fantstic film and film maker.
A Life Like Crystal & Kim and Harley and the Kids.

4-6pm: Jika Jika
(cnr Union & Plant Sts, Westgarth
Workshop: Lighting, Framing & Shooting Your Short Film
in the Digital Age
Phivo Christodoulou

5pm: Northcote Town Hall
Screening: Spring Rhapsody+ Forum:
?The Independent Filmmaker?
Bill Mousoulis

linkwww.innersense.com.au/productions/mousoulis/screenings/

Spring Rhasody has been travelling about with festival
screenings this year in the US and the Philippines,
not to mention....... its local premiere at the
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Winning prizes for Special Jury Prize and Best Sound.
Now it is back home and will screened at the first
Westgarth Film Festival. "Food for Thought 2005"

Following a screening of Spring Rhapsody film, "Bill
will discuss the independent filmmaker in Australia.
Apart from stamina and a passion for film making what
is required to keep going?"

9pm: Bar Nancy
Best of the Fest: Winners of the Yarra Trams Short Film
Awards Includes Commended, Highly Commended, Best Local
Film & Best Overall Film.

9pm: Traffic

Australian Documentaries
Different perspectives of what it is to be ?Australian?.
Films: Australia?s Muslim Women, California Dreaming,
No More Than Four, Decent, Generous, Tolerant, Open-Minded
(White) People, A Life Like Crystal & Kim and Harley and
the Kids.

9.30pm: Alphabet City
Les Enfantes Terribles: The Exorcist"
Vita

Well what a wild and wonderous night we had at the
Launch of Westgarth Film Festival. 500 hundred people
filled the Grand old Duchess of Westgarth (Cinema) on
Thursday night..........Surrounded by those we love
and those who will grow to love us in Westgarth. We
laughed we cried, we saw and were seen. Frank was a
hit as was the whole cast and crew

Mary was a no show, Cliff was divine Yarra trams may
well pull back on inspections and become quite well
known for being philanthropic.

My PA's driver was extremely popular on the night and
could well be defined as the best boy she's ever known....
(WE do love multi talented chaps with good follow
through....Prepared to love and be loved, pitch in at
ever turn. With only screams of pleasure not complaint...
Mmmmm......

My PA and that same best boy can be heard waxing
lyrical with the charming Paul Harris on RRRR this
very day at 12.00pm

Tune in you may just score some Westgarth Film Festival
product and some titalating bits and pops on the 10
program. Not to mention more delightful commentary
on "what really happened to my PA and others on opening
night".......

linkwww.rrr.org.au

Thanks to my darling Meg who kept her cool and documented
the whole thing on digital .... Photo's coming soon

Part of today's program at the Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought 2005"

1pm: LUPA
Smooth Moves: Movement & Dance
Short films incorporating dance and movement plus
a live dance performance.
Films: Sketches 1, Mercury Stole My Fire, Dance for Me,
Industrial/Organic, Tuesday, Moments of Clarity &
The Restless Imperfect.

2.30pm
Special Guests (At Garths Place)
"Staircase" Melbourne's newest and naughty band

3.30pm: Garth?s Place
In the Mix: Suzy?s Cooking Show
A children?s cooking show, including a live kid?s band
and films by kids and for kids. Films: Xavier Crudd,
Sam, Junior Bond, Fitzroy High, Zazz (Maria Dancing),
Bombing Run, How to Levitate a Friend, 1,000 Toys.
and the incredible extreme skating film "Melburn" by
the delightful Nick.......
Click on the site below for the whole program

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts
Always on the staircase of life
VitaXXXXXXXXxxx

Well we are 2 days out from Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought 2005".

The red carpet is on the way from the depths of the
region in the "GO Get" Car. Invites have been sent out
Our favourite papparazzi are at the ready.

The cast, crew all the gaffers and gear are ready to
bump in. Those who LOVE Westgarth are aware of what we
can create, and are ready and willing to go in search of
Miranda.

Westgarth Film Festival Launch
Directors Cut of PIcnoc at Hanging Rock
03rd of November 2005 at the
Westgarth Cinema at 6.00pm.

Tickets are still on sale and available at the Cinema
door til 7.15pm
Thursday 03rd of November 2005
Westgarth Cinema

OR.........see previous articles for details
or check the website below for address details
and more more more........

link darebin.vic.gov.au./arts

When you get there click on "FILM"

Map 30 in your Melways

2 other venues still selling tickets
Westgarth Newsagency

Bar Nancy

Playing in the Vilage over the next 12 days

We may wel ask our Mary to come play in the village and
flirt merciliously at Kelvins Bar. Talk about
Dean and his "Diva's".

Then have many a "Flashback" and a Chardy at
Alphabet City.Condsider sitting seductively at
Bar Nancy and wonder where the LUPA Goddess's
are?? Slip into Najla's and dream of Syrain springs,
and pomegranite salad.

Pick up some Berrocca from Alyce, then pop over to to see
Rob, Rad and the gang at "Movie Reel" and contemplate
the violence of the "Proposition".

linkwww.infilm.com.au/reviews/the propostion.htm

linkwww.afi.org.au/awards/nominees.asp

Move elegantly yet without ado to see a favourite organic
anarchist at Fruit Pedallars for some much needed "
homeopathic advice from Louise and the A girls. Ask our
man at Valentinos's Jeweller to select a simple
yet appropriate rock for the event of the season in the
Westgarth Village.

Then what ever you do go forth and select some frocks and
accessories from our favourite stores in Westgarth.Try
the lovely Madamme Farquah or our earth bound team
at Subterrainan . Source your evening bag from our
lovely Catehrine Manuell.Sit back at Farben
and have Liam tease your locks into a "DO'that is very
NOW very naughty.

Whip in to Whimsy Gifts and secure some sexy
"soapart"for a good soak in the bath and a bottle of
Bollie from Joe our friendly grocer............

It may well appear to be a "sexy crime" but those
in the know may well see it as "pause and effect."
Others may say is that a Girl with a gun"?/b>

No it is a Goddess saying "How am I driving" "keep
your eyes on the road."/ mountain top.We are not
living in the "village of the damned"it is the village
of the blessed!!!

What ever your belief is, Westgarth Film Festival is here
to stay!!!

Ready yourself to peak on the mountain top as we play
flat out in Westgarth Village on the 03rd of November
to the 13th.of November 2005

Living the dream awake
VitaXXXXXX

Films, forums fashion and fabulous people all rushing
forward by tram by courier, by foot. By any means they
can, to be seen and see the extravagancer of Westgarth
Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005" begining on
opening night November 03rd at 6.00pm at the
charming Westgarth Cinema.

For program details check the site below

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

Another of our divine film makers who is part of the
enticing spices of Westgarth Film Festival is the
gorgeous and rather handsome NATHAN GODKIN

linkwww.vardos.com.au/Films.html

"Entertaining Countess Dracula" tells a daringly bloody
and comical tale of the woman behind the myth of the first
female vampire. In 17th Century Hungary.

"The infamous Blood Countess was convicted of gruesome
crimes of torture and depravity with her young maids. Was
she a bloodthirsty monster or the victim of a sinister
political intrigue?"

"As the net closes in on the Countess, her musicians come
closer to the truth, only to find themselves trapped in a
castle of absurd horrors. In the tradition of the silent
era, directed by short film-maker Nathan Godkin,
with a breathtaking gypsy score by Vardos.

Next screening at WESTGARTH FILM FESTIVAL ?FOOD FOR THOUGHT?
as part of the program: Ode to the Silent Era"

Friday 4 November
8pm: Denn
Ode to the Silent Era
These shorts pay homage to the tragedy, comedy and good
old-fashioned glamour of cinema without words.

Films: Entertaining Countess Dracula, Indian Summer,
Still Life, Pause & Effect, A Gay Ole Time in the Park,
View, Terra Firma, Sexy Crimes: Maid to Order
A Girl & A Gun & Untitled.

ENTERTAINING COUNTESS DRACULA
directed by NATHAN GODKIN has also been seen at the
Mediawave Festival in Hungary 2005 and will be seen at
New York Independent Film and Video Festival in mid
November 2005. (see the site below)

linkwww.nyfilmvideo.com

And this from our Mary

?I warmly support this important community event that
involves so many local businesses.?For more than 80
years the Westgarth Cinema has screened films from
Hollywood Classics to Cult Icons like the Blues
Brothers.

?I encourage you all to visit the Westgarth Film Festival
?Food for Thought? and congratulate the Westgarth Business
Group and the committee on organising this new film festival
to be held here in Westgarth.

?It is no surprise to me the festival has received an enormous
number of films submitted by local filmmakers as Westgarth and
Northcote are in my eyes the Arts hotspot of Victoria!?
The Member for Northcote
Mary Delahunty

From New York to Westgarth one and the same
VitaXXXXX

Westgarth Film Festival"Food for Thought 2005"
Thursday November 03rd (opening night at the
Westgarth Cinena) to Saturday November the 12th.

Tickets are now on sale for opening night
(see previous article for the 3 outlets in the Westgarth
village.......
Also tickets will be available at the door unless sold out

Wesgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005"
is out there in cyber land, we have been seen in
the print media. Chatted on Channel 31

See NatChat this coming Monday night at 10.30pm
and meet Westgarth Film Festivals gorgeous and talented
Creative Producer and one of Westgarth's business
owners "Bar Nancy's Liadan. For her angle on
festival so far........

linkwww.channel31.org.au

NOW we are hitting the air waves of Melbourne radio

link ww.3cr.org.au

Melinda O'Connor's show
Media Moves - Cinema Scene
Saturdays 11am -12 noon
Radio 3CR 855am dial

Tune in to 3CR tomorrow morning and hear all the
latest on Westgarth Film Festival. The filmic
Banquet to be seen at in the Westgarth Village
during November 2005.

The program for Westgarth's first film festival
has been served up. Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought 2005's FULL picnic basket/
program can NOW be seen at the website below.

When you get there click on "FILM"

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

For a taste of two very talented film makers, whose
films are on the Westgarth Film Festival menu click
on the sites below

Katrina Sawyer

linkwww.wildspaces.foe.org.au/Decent.htm

Matt Saville

linkwwwsleepybrain.net/matt2.html

More on the full banquet of talented film makers
coming soon at VITA

See previous article for all the details for opening
night
Vita

Horror yet Hilarity at Alphabet City
One of our favourite venues holding events for
the Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought?
will be the delightful and well known icon in
Westgarth Alphabet City.

98 High St Westagarth Melways map 30)
The team at Alphabet City will serve up platters
of al fresco spring food and screen............

10 Evenings of Horror at Alphabet City

The Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?
as those following Vita know..... are showcasing
local and emerging filmmakers. With a dash and a
tasty splash of internationl content......
November 3-12th 2005

The Americans bless them have sent us a scary array
of Horror films ..... gathered by our very luscious
man on the ground Lee G.

Below are several events that will be showing

When Mother Nature Strikes Back, Werewolf Woes
and Les Infante Des Terrible . These ae just 3
of the events to be held at Alphabet City and various
other venues during the Westgarth Film Festival
?Food for Thought 2005?.

?Horror is such a fascinating genre because
horror films explore the mythic, they can be some
of the most socially and philosophically aware films
and they constantly push boundaries,? said Film
Festival Committee member Lee Gambin.

?As far back as I can remember I?d revel in watching
late night horror treats, from Universal?s glamorous
gothic chic such as Frankenstein to the 40?s wave of
supernatural chillers such as Cat People and I Walked
With A Zombie. The great thing about a Festival like
this is that we can show old-fashioned favourites as
well as new, innovative horror films from emerging &
established filmmakers.?

During the Festival, audiences can attend a healthy
dose of horror hedonistic treasures in the Alphabet
City courtyard, along with specials on Bloody Marys
and other chilling cocktails.

The program will also include an Eco-Horror feast AIP?s
Frogs and Joe Dane?s classic Piranha. a celebration of
terror-iffic sadists with classics The Bad Seed and
Children of the Corn . Also a program of new, Award-
winning Horror Shorts from around the globe.

The Horror Feast forms part of over 30 Festival events,
which will include screenings of over a hundred short
films from local and established filmmakers, script
readings and film forums.

?So grab your crucifix or sharpen those claws
because the Westgarth Film Festival is going to be
frightfully fangtastic...?.Lee G

For more information about the Festival program,
call 9230 4458, email gluck@darebin.vic.gov.au or
click on the site below

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

The full program will be out this week and
tickets will for opening night on sale in the
village late this week.

Opening night 03rd of November at Westgarth Cinema
Tickets $12.00 and $10.00.

Keep reading Vita on where to get tickets and more
genre nights in Westgarth

Anotehr local success story in the horror genre worth
considering during festival is the Australian made horror
film SAW click on the site below for more.......
Out on DVD NOW

>linkwww.sawmovie.com

Ready with my torch and the anticipation of
elfresco dining at Alphabet City........
VitaXXxxxxx

The Banquet (that is Westgarth Film Festival) ?food
for thought 2005? is shaping up into a sensational
and succulent event. Well known and respected filmmakers,
producers, and those who support independent film are
giving support and lining up to play a role in this NEW
and evolving film festival in Melbourne.

All contributors are keen as a ?Goddess in the kitchen of
life? too add their own unique flavour to this splendid
film festival to be launched on November the 03rd 2005.
Below are a just a taste, of those who have added their
unique personal flavour to what is ?Food for Thought 2005?.

Brendan Guerin from the Guerin Group has submitted an
amusing ?dark comedy? that examines the perceived
loss of control in ones life. A story that embodies the
struggle of letting go of the ego and recognizing, we are
all part of the cycle of life. Clown Story brings
to light the importance of the mentors of the past and
the future.

?Clown story?is just one of over 120 films that
will add a beautiful, blend of exotic flavours to Food
for Thought 2005.

Below are some pearls on "Clown story" from the
director Michael Adante and a link to the Gueringroup
website.

link www.gueringroup.com.au

?The Guerin Group strongly believes in the collaborative
approach to making films and we actively seek to work with
like-minded film-making professionals. In December 2004,
we completed a short film titled "Clown Story" and
screened it to 100 cast and crew members at the VCA?s
Grant Street Cinema."Clown Story" is now being
entered into several A-grade film festivals in 2005,
locally and abroad.?

Written & directed by VCA graduate Michael Adante,
"Clown Story" features knock-out performances by
Steve Adams and Gary Abrahams.

(Stay tuned to Vita for "Food for Thoughts" program
for Clown Story's screening details)

The impressive list of contributors is extensive here is
more from Angelo Salamanca.

This film festival is an opprtunity "for film makers
whose work may be overlooked" to be seen at this NEW
festival. "It gives a voice to those filmmakers who value
content over presentation."

"It celebrates enterprising efforts to tell personal
stories through film. The festival "offers a vision to
other communities who may wish to create similar
events."

Below is another talented Australian film maker and
contributor to Westgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought
2005"

Prolific film maker Bill Mousoulis will not only
run a workshop on film making during this 10 day event
A screening of one his film Spring Rhapsody will
be featured at the same event.

Spring Rhapsody was released in 2004
An 84 minute video

Music by Mink Engine
featuring (in alphabetical order)
Kim Denman Mark Dessaix Bernard O'Connor Rad Rudd
Josie Scott Andrew Upward Anthony Wemyss Nicola Wright

Spring Rhapsody will be screening at the Westgarth Film
Festival

Sunday, November 6, 2005, at 5:00 pm.

Stay tuned for more details.
link www.innersense.com.au/productions/mousoulis/screenings/
Wrapped in the spring of life
VitaXXXXXXX

All is full swing for the premiere season of Westgarth's
new icon. The Villages most current festival.
A ?VITAL? and unique film festival,?Food for Thought
2005?

First came the feral float, then along came Yarra
Trams, in hot pursuit came a Goddess on wheels?????..
(An extreme sport indeed, which requires supervision
and much practice) Ah ya ya??..

Westgarth Film Festival?s EP is careering about on
?a camera dolly?, from the mountain to the village
raising the profile of this ?extraordinary courageous
yet hilarous event.? (CK7).

I myself have been scouting about and found many
enthusiastic admirers and supporters for Westgarth?s
film festival. Filmmaker?s producers, actors and the
Minister for the Arts are all eager to add their,own
dialogue to this very "NOW"script.

Apparently, Mary is so thrilled about the event, she
has been rendered speechless. Seen by all accounts
knee deep in vintage fabrics at ?Flashback?, selecting
the most appropriate vintage/genre cloth, for her gown
for opening night???????

linkwww.vintagefabric.com.au

Pearls of pleasure on the issue coming from Mary?s
lips soon?????

The divine talented and dedicated Adam Elliot had
this to say on our film Festival

?Storytelling is chicken soup for the soul, and we
can never get enough film festivals in Australia,
which showcase local, national and international
storytellers.

Three cheers for Melbourne's newest festival for the
avid ?cinefile? Westgarth! Congratulations to the
incredibly fecund organisers for all their passion,
persistence, and overall gorgeousness. So turn that
projector on, shove your gob full of Jaffas. Switch
off the lights; we've got some stories to tell!!"
Adam Elliot.

Another keen player and supporter is committee
member (and another of my favourites) the incredibly
delightful and prolific Angelo Salamanca. Angelo has
played a key role in developing up the Westgarth
festivals workshop program. ( more on that later)

"The festival has engendered community spirit by
allowing the community to contribute directly to this
exciting event. It enhance Victoria?s film culture &
confirms Melbourne as the film capital of Australia.
It offers a vision for other communities who may wish
to create similar events."
Angelo Salamanca.

Check out the site below for more on his successes.
More pearls from Angelo soon.....

linkwww.innersense.com.au/mif/salamanca.html

And this supportive message has just come through
from the lovely international and philanthropic
Minnie Mullee

Vita, darling, I love film and am so pleased your
running a little celluloid buffet in Westgarth. If
it wasnt for this damn Cyclone...... Id be there.

I'm stuck in in Andhra Pradesh state thats left nearly
200,000 people homeless. Of course all eyes on that
pesky Hurricane Rita so you wouldn't know much about
India
Much Love Minnie

Stayed tuned to this site for more more more ?????
?Food for Thoughts 2005? Program, launch night and
tickets for opening night coming soon
Spinning on the Goddess wheel of life
VitaXXXX

Below is a Media Release for the inaugural
Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought?
3-12 November 2005

100 films 10 days 30 events

30 events including film screenings, discussion
forums, performances and script readings will
take place during the Westgarth Film Festival
?Food for Thought? in November 2005.

After calling for submissions from filmmakers
in June 2005, the festival received a remarkable
and inspiring response.The Festival will now run
for 10 days in over 20 diverse venues throughout
the Westgarth Village.

Westgarth's first Film Festival will showcase local
& emerging filmmakers. The Festival will also feature
an impressive variety of films from both established
Australian and international filmmakers, this includes
an entry from Russia.

?The vast interest shown by existing and emerging film
makers is impressive, given it is a new film festival
in Melbourne? said the committees "EP" Executive
Producer. (Not to mention what other well known types
are saying.......)

"The high quality of interest content and events is
a testimony to the respect shown to the Westgarth
Village community for running successful festival?s
over 10 years. Particularly given this is Westgarth?s
first film Festival,?

Events include:
?A Gala Launch at the Westgarth Cinema, including a
screening of Picnic at Hanging Rock

?Screenings of the winners of the Yarra Trams Short
Film Awards ($2,500 prize money)

.Several theme events including Comics on Film, Mother
Nature Runs Amok, and Les Enfantes Des Terribles

?A wide variety of short films from local and established
filmmakers

?Several Film Forums including ?The Low Budget Feature?,
?Documentary Making? and ?The Independent Filmmaker?

?Rehearsed readings of new film scripts by several
local screenwriters.

.Another unique aspect is the diversity of venues
events will be held in over 20 cafes, bars, and a
variety of specialty shops and community organisations,?

The Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought? is being
organised by a committee of film makers, entrepreneurs,
Westgarth Business Group and community members.

linkwww.caths.org.au/westgrth.htm

?This Festival is a fantastic example of business,
community and the arts working together to create
a major arts event.?

For more Westgarth Film Festival information call
9230 4458,
email gluck@darebin.vic.gov.au or download from

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

click on the ?Film? option).

PS:
To rate an Australian film you?ve seen in the Lexus IF Awards,
visit

link www.ifawards.com

Ps Don't forget the 4 course entree to Westgarth
Film Festival "Food for Thought" a Fringe Festival
event that starts this week, brought to us by "Spiral
Productions"

Opening night at Bar 303 in High St Northctote
"Click on this site for more details

linkspiralproductions.cjb.net


Ready to spiral off the red carpet and fuse with those I love
VitaXXXXXX

"Be true to your characters. As schizoid as this might
sound, we try to let the characters tell us what they
want to do, as opposed to forcing them into situations
that will simply solve the story. We try to let the
characters work things out for themselves organically."
Chris Wilkinson.

"In the cruelest step of the pilot process exceeding
even the night a producer, forced us to order expense-
account food from an inferior restaurant. The studio
makes you watch as strangers evaluate your show, so
you can re-edit it before handing it in to the network.
If people had to do this with their sex lives, the
human race would end."
Joel Stein

"They would act like real people if they were put in
this astounding situation. These are people who live
in an enormously scaled world, with space travel,
superpowers and so on. Yet that world feels fun real
because of the characters who are taking you through
it."
Michael France
On the secret to cracking The Fantastic Four
Vita

Below is a Press Release from Theatre Works
The End of Romance

Devised and performed by Unreasonable Adults

Performed by Caroline Daish, Jaye Hayes, Stephen Noonan,
Kerrin Rowlands, Jason Sweeney, Ingrid Voorendt &
Julie Vulcan.

"Nothing has begun, everything is ending. Nothing stands
to attention. Nothing takes centre stage. Nothing remains
to be seen.Nothing drowns our sorrows quite like you.
You are the ones we've been waiting for. You were the
first to arrive and the last to leave."

The End of Romance is ?Live Art? performance/installation.
Each night the audience is invited into the performance
space to witness the artists manipulate technology in real
time: video, media, sound, text and lights.

Individual spectators are taken out of the space for one-
on-one interactions: into a car for a sinister drive with
audio instructions; on the trail of a lost artist outside
the venue;

To chat with an ensemble performer based in Brussels via
laptop or mobile phone. This project has been maximised by
Chunky Move


Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Season continues Tues 30 Aug to Sun 11 Sept

Tues ? Sat @ 7.30pm, Sun 6pm

Tickets: Full Evening (all shows): $25 / $15 conc

Half Evening (Ellipsis & Petal Waltz or The End of Romance):
$15 / $12 conc.

Tues & Wed: All Tickets (full evening) $10

Bookings: Ph: 9534 3388

link www.theatreworks.org.au

"I don't think the show offers you easy answers on
why Al Queda does what Al Queda does, but I think
it gives you an easy reference into how an entire
culture, or entire group of people, can believe
something so fervently that seems so unfathomable
at the beginning. "
Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore

However, as Sarah would say ?you/we are not alone
in this story,? but we do believe fervently in our
goals in Westgarth and the need to LOVE fully.

linkwww.sarahmclachlan.com/

We are a village not to be feared or ignored. Westgarth
village is certainly not to be reckoned with or indeed
underestimated for its ability to create its OWN future.

The storyboard that is becoming the Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought 2005", now has a clear vision with
matching gowns, hats and gloves.

We are now 11 weeks out from the augural Westgarth
Film Festival, ?Food for Thought? 2005. New
voices are being heard and playing a significant role
in building on the courage and strength of this NEW
village Festival.

A village that prides itself on passion perseverance
and the presence of mind to LOVE fully. A village that
is, recognized for the courage to ACT. A village which
lives its dreams awake.

The 40 odd venues are now creating their own sets and
vision of how they will each play a role. Films, work-
shops and genre events are beginning to take shape.

So whether you are an aspiring film maker, in the industry
a performance artist, musician, trader, potential sponsor,
or would just dearly like to add your OWN unique skills,
in this extraordinary event.

Please do...... as all are welcome to particpate. We
are biting at the bit, chewing at the clapper boards
and ready to say ACTION!!

Click on the site below and see what suits your
fancy. As Sarah says "what is it you bring to the
table?"

Be bold be beautiful be confident, and be part of the
Banquet. Offer your best. Take the opportunity to
make a committment supporting independant filmmakers.

link www.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

We are challenging all the paradigms of how to
create success. We are and we will succeed in
this exciting new endeavor. The guest list and
launch night are now within full view.

The structure is in place, the turf is being laid and the
red carpet is on the way. The sets are being designed,
with colour texture and height. The bands and dancers are
in full dress rehearsal and creating new dance steps.

So dance your way to Westgarth Film Festival in
November 2005 (it is definitely)?Food for Thought
2005."

More details on tickets coming soon for opening
night of "Food for Thought" November 03rd 2005

link www.goget.com.au

VitaXXXX

"You can tell that he loves to [make movies], and what
more can you hope for in the biggest star in the world?
Than to have a cheerleader who's excited to start
saying their lines"

Alex Kurtzman on Tom Cruise's response to his &
Roberto Orci's draft of Mission: Impossible 3

They said it was impossible, and there would be no
cheerleaders. Some said it could not be done but
Westgarth Film Festival "Food for Thought 2005"
is in full swing.

We are building the banquet of all known filmic/ artistic
banquets. The film festival wil be launched on the 03rd
of November 2005. The launch will be at the grand and
Gorgeous old Goddess of Westgarth...

?Westgarth Cinema?
High St, Westgarth.
(More details on the launch in the month to come?.)

We are a village that creates our future, there is no
such thing as ?them you or me?. There is only us, and
when you understand this way of being you can create
strong and lingering flavours that last a life time.

linknfn.org.au/main.html

More ingredients are arriving every day. Filmmakers,
sponsors,local traders and those who love to dine out
on a filmic feast, are promoting and building a gourmet
"spread" not be missed or washed off easily.

linkwww.mediasearch.com,au/film/wrap/westgarthfilmfestival

Appetites are being "whetted" for a banquet that will
rival"Cleopatra?s Banquet. This painting now
LIVES at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

linkwww.ngv.vic.gov.au/index.html

People as far away as LA and Russia are adding
to the menu. This is the filmic meal to be seen at in
November 2005. We now have the selection process in
action with a range of known and emerging filmmakers
offering their creative discerning eyes to FFT2005's
selection process.

A new, film festival that will create synergies
between business community and the arts.

It will be a celebration of independent Australian film
makers both mentors of the past, present and future. It
will also be an acknowledgement of 30 years of success in
the Australian film industry. It will also be a celebration
of life in the Westgarth Village.

(An Australian classic will launch the film Festival,
along with an Antipasti of shorts and other tasty morsels
to live by......?

Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?.

We are still accepting submissions so if you are KEEN to
submit time is moving on. So submit my dears.........
One is able to submit films until September 16th 2005.

See the site below for the submission form

link www.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

Always ready to dine out on Cleopatra?s pearls
Vita

"The one important thing I have learnt over the years
is the difference between taking one's work seriously and
taking oneself seriously. The first is imperative and the
second disastrous."
Harlan Ellison

Well it?s the final day of Melbourne Film Festival 2005,
popular last day Films ?Turtles Can Fly, the Child, and
3- Iron?,are BOOKED out and over for this year.

This Film Festival is Not for the faint hearted.To
be a total devotee of film during winter in Melbourne one
must make a full commitment to this splendid visual event!

Melbourne Film Festival can get quite intense. One must
be in love with film and film society to really keep up
to speed with all that is going on.

The back to back theatre hopping, checking the Website for
popular films and their availability. Cancellations, color
co- ordinating outfits for sessions. Selecting appropriate
warm comfortable clothing. Making bookings.

Honoring friends and family by buying full price tickets to
their creations. Making sure ones caterer, creates suitable
non-crunchy savories. (This always makes for better viewing
and less aggravation for ones filmic friends in the house!)

A must have is a survival kit water,sleeping bag mohair or
mink blanket,firm cushion to give one more height or for
those with a bony derriere. Berrocca or pain killers for
those naughty stay up late nights!

Seeing eye-glasses for the visually challenged, business -
cards or promotional material. (For those in the mood to
network and spread their wares to upcoming film festivals)

A second unit crew is always helpful, when one becomes quite
exhausted. A little time with ones Pilates trainer is a must
do,to get those muscles moving again. Preparing for round 2
of film viewings, not to mention catching up with old
friends!!

Thank the Goddess this is all behind us for another
year. We can now just frock up and party for final
night celebrations NOW. Local and international film
makers,first time Oscar winners, film devotees, ones
producer, PR folk and of course Melbourne?s paparazzi
are preparing for the best feature film of the winter
season.

?Melbourne?s Film Festival?s 2005,?s final night party.

It will be unscripted, unrehearsed, a first release, with
one showing only. It will have elegance an immense amount
of ambient lighting, mixed drinks.(Not to mention mixed
messages.)

This annual event will make for an excellent Zen style
genre, which will be talked about at least for the next
week! (That is if anyone can remember or takes themselves
that seriously)

?Additional Film Only tickets are available for the Australian
Premiere of Johnnie To's finely tuned Triad action drama
Election, which featured at the, official competition of
Cannes Film Festival in May this year?.

?Johnnie To? returns to MIFF to introduce this session

Forum Theatre: (Corner Russell and Flinders St)
Melbourne. Sunday August 7 at 8.00pm.
Film only Ticket prices are $20 (adult) $16.50 (concession).
These are available online or at the Forum box office by
phoning

03 9662 3722.

A limited number of Film and Closing Night Party Tickets
are also available, but selling quickly.

These are $35 (adult) or $31.50 (concession), available
through the Forum box office or by phoning the number
below

(03 9662 3722).

Please note that certain scenes may offend some viewers.

Westgarth Film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?

We NOW look forward to the future, as we head into top
gear and the spring launch of the inaugural Westgarth
Film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?.

The crew and selection committee?s, are holding their
breath & keeping their eyes and hearts open. They are
now knee deep and munching their way through the rich
platter of Filmic ?crudit?s submission?s.

Thus far over 80 films have been submitted. to this
new film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?.For
those still KEEN to submit time is of the essence. One
is able to submit until September 16th 2005.

See the site below for the submission form

link www.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

This event could well become a Melbourne icon for film lovers.

?A filmic spring banquet,? that will be feasted upon
for years to come. So get involved let go of your fears
of success become a part of this film festival.

This is an organic film festival that is building, a
healthy presence, and creating a sustainable future for
Westgarth.
Committed to the present and the future
Vita

Melbourne Film Festival is on again and in
full viewing,for the world to see. This world famous
film festival is in full flight, in ?the most
livable city in the world?.

Very elegant, hungry, audiences, both international,
& local, are watching for all their worth, consuming
this major annual filmic feast in Melbourne.

My loving and joyful friend Jane whisked me off to
the Greater Union in Russell St in the CBD recently,
to see an excellent double. ?Jabe Babe? and the
?Girl in the Mirror?.

An intense and important double made by courageous
talented women, about courageous talented women.
(not to forget Roland, who obviously has brought
together his polarities of male/ female, and done
a divine editing job on,?Jabe Babe?.

The first film was the story of ?Jabe Babe?.

"A Heightened Life enters the world of a tall woman
with a very tall tale, who has learned that a strong
character and a good sense of humor are essentials
for survival."

A ?52-minute film by successful Australian Film Maker
Janet Merewether: "The film explores the personal
and medical experiences of 29-year-old Jabe Babe."

linkwww.realtimearts.net/rt49/mereweather.html

One can see that ?Jabe? lives in her body bravely
and dances as if no one has, seen her jitterbug on a
ladder. She loves like she will never be hurt, and
lives her heaven on earth.

Having always believed I was 6ft 3 inches and willing
to climb higher, I was mesmerized by the bold beautiful
and confident Jabe. Who indeed has led a courageous and
unique life. This divine film begs the issue.....
As my PA and confidante, would say ?aren?t we all darling?.
I was on the edge of my seat not to mention tears as we
explored this beautiful and honestly made film.

Jabe is a woman living her uniqueness fully and
loving her life all the way. The film 'uses a high degree
of stylization, exciting visual treatment, and complex
effects?.

The film has exquisite and intricate sets, that leave
you wishing JABE's childhood birthday parties had looked
like the film of her life thus far. It leaves you wanting
her "specialsits" to be right that she will live a long
and love filled life. "Knowing she has taken life by
the horns and made it beg for more". We all know she
deserves more more more.........

DOP Jackie Fracas shot many of the visual effects in-
camera. Production design was by Karla Urizar with the
lovely and talented Georgia Wallace-Crabbe as the
Production Manager. Roland Gallois is the film's
editor.?

Stay tuned to the Vita site for more on the
?Girl in the Mirror?.

linkwww.melbournefilmfestival.com.au

Don't forget submissions are still open for Wesgarth's
"Food for Thought" Film Festival until September 16th
2005. Click on the site below for more
details.

link www.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

Living a unique and loving life
Vita

What else could there be but more more more....... fusion
of the arts in the gateway to the North........
Below is Spiral Productions Press release and
website, for their fabulous fusion of arts. An arts event
that will be the entree to Westgarths "Food for Thought"
Film Festival, that will held in November 2005

See previous article on this site for more details
and the website below to get involved in that event.

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

Spiral Productions Presents FRINGE FUSION

Fringe Fusion is an avant garde and cross cultural
extravaganza of live and electronic arts involving,
a variety of music styles. The spoken word, live
performance painting, film, dance, circus performance,
visual arts and fire twirling

This is a celebration of what it is to be a part of the
arts and living the north of Melbourne. Be greeted by
fire twirlers and belly dancers as you enter the other
worldly dimensions of 303 and Noise Bar.

Fluid and rhythmic sounds of bohemian poets will delight
and entice you. As images from the walls speak of the
inner depths of the soul and perhaps even your mind. This
unique event will fill you with intrigue and excitement.

Each of these 4 evenings takes you on separate roundabout
rides of art and styles of music that Melbourne both
promotes and also hides within its own darkness.

Click on Spiral Productions website below for more
details
www.spiralproductions.cjb.net. To read more about spiral
go to Google type this address in and explore their site

Sponsored by 3 Ravens Brewery in Thornbury

Thursday 23rd of September 2005
Venue: 303 ? 303 High Street Northcote 3072

A Bad Hair Night: Burlesque/Variety.
MC Michael Abbott.
Some of the performers to wet your appetite include:
Music: Robo Nerd, Umanee, Morrissey Morrison, Steve
Retter, Richard Clarke, Marita Ryan
Spoken Word: Steve Smart, Malita, Jezebel, Becca.
Art Work: Beau White, Dominic

Friday 24th of September 2005
Venue: 303
Even Cowlicks Get The Blues: Hot Country & Blues
by original Melbourne artists. The MC for the evening
will be the lovely Michael Abbott.
Music: Clint Dylan O?Grady, Brunswick Blues Shooters,

Tuesday 27th of September 2005
Venue 303 High St Northcote

Hair in the Gate:Australian Cross Cultural Film
Night. There will be a range of films from the past to
the present This will include an eclectic body of works
of Australian Film. Aboriginal. Cross cultural, a
Road Film and Suburban Life.

Other Art forms include:
Music: Robo Nerd, UQ 80?s Dance Band, Marita Ryan
Theatre: Physical theatre, Monologues and Plays
Dance: Marina Bistrin- Fusion/Eastern/Silk Road/Belly
Dance.

There is a door prize for anyone who can guess what
the name of the night means.

Saturday 1st of October 2005.
3 Ravens flies Hair of the Dog: Variety/Burlesque.
MC Michael Abbott.

Venue: Noise Bar ? 291 Albert Street Brunswick.

4 different performance areas in & around the venue

Hybrid Stage: Rock Bands, Electronic, Industrial,
Film & Video Art, Dance Stage: Theatre, Spoken
Word, Acoustic Singers Songwriters, Art Exhibition.

Goonoo Goonoo Stage: Blues, Jazz, Country, Swamp and
Blue Grass amidst an Art Exhibition.

Door Prize for the first person who can pronounce
the name of this stage properly.

Beer Garden: Fire Twirling, Hawaiian Dance, Performance
Painting. Music: Morrissey Morrison, Brunswick Blues
Shooters, Steve Retter, Head Belly Buzzard, Robo Nerd,
Geoff Hollings, Richard Clarke, Dai Jones, Marita Ryan,
Lara, Clint Dylan O?Grady, & Others

Spoken Word: Steve Smart, Malta, Jezebel, Becca.
Art Work: Dominic
Dance: Marina Bistrin-Fusion/Eastern/Silk Road/Belly
Dance, Jay-Hawaian Theatre: Physical Theatre Ensemble,
Other Monologues/plays
Circus Performance: Fabulous Goldini, Terry Cole
Alternative Artforms: Fire Twirling,

Spiral into their 4 day fusion of arts & wet your
appetite for the main Banquet in November.
Vita

"This was not my favorite experience of my own career
making The Fog. It was difficult. We had to go back
and fix it once we shot it. I've done this once. Let
some younger person do it." John Carpenter, on why
he's not directing the remake of The Fog

We are moving out of the ?Fog?and into Spring
time, in the most liveable city in the world
Melbourne. In uptown/upbeat Westgarth our first
Film Festival ?Food for Thought 2005?is moving
along at a rapid pace and turning into the full banquet......

New players are coming on board/location everyday,
which is driving the Caterer into a cooking frenzy.
Not to mention the EP, her crew and the producer.

?More water in the minestrone and fresh olive bread,?
beg the best boy and girls, not to mention the gaffers
growling for more meat.....Bring on the banquet they cry.......

So keep those films coming in,to our submission site.
Get involved fund an event, or offer some of your
invaluable skills and knowledge. Thanks to our local
print media (Northcote Leader, Melbourne Times).
Also thanks must go to AFTRS, SKA TV, OPEN CHANNEL
and the many others that are ensuring this a wild
success in November 2005.

link www.if.com.au

link www.aftrs.edu.au

This is an event that could well exceed the expectations
and extravagance of a Cecil B De Mille shoot.

link www.fuel4arts.com

Stay tuned to the Vita site for more juicy news as it
hits this cyber space. See previous articles for the
film submission site and other ways you can become
involved.
Full speed ahead fueling the arts
Vita

I think most of the spiritual life is really a matter of
relaxing letting go, ceasing to cling, ceasing to insist
on our own way. Ceasing to tense ourselves up for this or
against that.
Beatrice Bruteau in "Radical Optimism"

To Practice This Thought: Try consciously to get out of
the way so Spirit can speak to and through you.

Then join in the spirit of the Westgarth Village,
and play an active role in this new and vital Film Festival,
?Food for Thought? 2005.Be it commodity ethics or
sacred ethics.(love or money)

Be it with your deep sincere love, a film submission,
a workshop based within the filmic context or indeed a
sponsorship contribution.

link www.adamelliot.com.au/

Thanks to our current sponsors both sacred ethics and
commodity ethics. Stay tuned to this site for a list
of sponsors who have so far played an active role in
the creation of this food, fashion, and filmic first
in Westgarth Village 2005.

linkwww.melodramapictures.com

link www.melbbodycorp.com/northcote

See previous 2 articles for submission details and cash
prizes for winning filmmakers

Please note If your film is over 30 minutes and you would
like to submit it to the Festival program, please fill out
the Submissions form
Relaxed and ready with radical optimism
VitaXXXXXXX

(Please note this article has new add ons since Tuesday
including prize money for film makers.so keep
reading if you have not already done so)
Vita's PA and confidante

Westgarth Village where Vita lives and loves is well known
for running successful festivals over the last ten years.
We are now knee deep in the naughties and flat out on our
latest endeavour.

In November 2005 Westgarth Village will host the first
Westgarth Film Festival the theme for 2005 will
be ?Food for Thought Film Festival?.

This event will be a community driven film festival that
will continue a tradition of connecting business community
and the arts.

The film festival will be launched on the 3rd of November
2005. Opening night will be at the well-known Westgarth
Cinema. The whole program will run until the 12th of
November 2005.

The divine and delightful Adam Elliot of Harvie Krumpet
fame will be a Very special guest on opening night not to
mention well known Goddess's and local entrepreneurs.

linkwww.harviekrumpet.com

The program will include specific genre nights, a series of
workshops and talks run by film industry experts, sponsor
driven competitions and awards.

The Festival will draw on a range of community strengths to
create a truly original event. Westgarth is blessed to have
a large pool of immensely talented existing and emerging
filmmakers, who will be given the chance to develop networks
and showcase their work.

Westgarth is well known by its major icon and asset, the
grand and gracious Westgarth Cinema. The cinema is a major
draw card and branding for the Festival and will play a
key role over the 10 days.

Another exciting aspect of the Festival is the diversity of
venues that will be used to view both video and DVD formula
film. A diverse range of other exciting and tantilising events
that include film screenings will be held in the Westgarth strip.

The festival will utilise our bars, cafes, hairdressers
and other specialty stories to create a vibrant, versitile
event.

This unique formula will be inclusive of traders, filmmakers
and the wider community. This inclusive approach will all
to play a meaningful role. An opportunity to share true
ownership of this community festival.

SUBMISSIONS FOR FILMS FOR 2005 FESTIVAL

We are now seeking submissions from either Australian
or International filmmakers to submit their films for the
selection process that closes on the 16th Of September
2005

"ALL films can be considered for these programs, regardless
of length or genre. Filmmakers who submit their films before
FRIDAY 29 JULY will be considered for selection in the festivals
screening programs.

More information and submission forms can be downloaded
from the site below

linkwww.darebin.vic.gov.au/arts

click on the link "Film - Westgarth Film Festival
"Food for Thought"

One of our very own the beautiful Kella is presently in
New York pitching her film. So whether you are in Brooklyn
New York, Westgarth, Prahran, California St Kilda, Mumbai
or indeed Russia get involved and be part of this unique
event.

Hot of the press Russia has indicated interest in adding
an internationl flavour to our Film Festival

PRIZE MONEY FOR FILM MAKERS

And yet there is more Yarra Trams are a key sponsor
and have kindly contributed much appreciate financial
sponsorship that will assist not only in the running
of the festival but also direct contribution in the
form of prize money. See below

The Yarra Trams Open Prize - $2000
Open to all filmmakers. Entries accepted throughout
Australia and overseas

The Yarra Trams Local Prize - $500
Open to current residents of the City of Darebin
Film must be under 30 minutes to be eligible for a
prize. Theme and genre are open.

Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the
Festival Opening Night Party, to be held at the iconic
Westgarth Cinema on 03rd of November 2005.

Finalists' films will be screened at a "Festival Finalists"
event during the Festival (3-12 Nov).

Closing date for submissions is Friday 10 October.
Filmmakers who submit their films to the competition
before Septembr 16th of September 2005will also
have the chance to have their films screened in our
Festival "Shorts"program.

Competition Guidelines & Entry Form, can be found
by visiting

linkwww.vic.gov.au/arts

(click on the Film Festival link on this page for more details)

Be a part of the banquet that will be feasted upon at the
Westgarth ?Film for Thought? festival in November 2005.

Don?t ask what your village/ world is doing for you ask
what you are doing for your village/world.
Feasting on village life
VitaXXXX

THE NIGHT @ THE CABARETA Don't miss this opportunity
to support Melbourne's hottest independent theatre company
Theatre @ Risk's productions.

Saturday 2 July
8pm to 1am
Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street St Kilda
All Tix $10 only!

Joining us for this special event will be
DJ Sad Tony
Comedian Julia Zemiro (RocKwiz)live bands including
The Disclosure Project & 7 Spaces.

Singers including Rosemary Harris, Larissa Gallagher,
Daniel Tobias & Polash Larsen.

The evening will be hosted by MC Michael Veitch
(D-Generation, Fast Forward, Full Frontal)!

Sumptuous seafood meals will be provided by Claypots,
and can be purchased at the venue.

Tickets available at the door, or call 9533-8852 for
any enquiries. Play a role and be part of the theatre party
of 2005!

All proceeds go directly to support the actors, designers
and theatremakers involved in the creation of Theatre @ Risk's
productions.

Try their website I can not get a link for some reason
www.theatrerisk.com

Theatreworks

PO Box 1205 St Kilda South Vic 3184

Ph: (03) 9534 4879 Fax: (03) 9525 3593
Vita

Below is a press release from:
Mayhem Production?s at Theatre Works
presents

BORN WITH THE BLUES
Mayhem Cabaret?s got the blues


It's about depression, self-expression, spirituality,
celebration, and a damn fine genre of music!There'll be
African Singers, Gospel choirs, Mississippi poets, Chicago
club scenes, Chain Gangs.

And that's only the music!

Our journey begins in early 1700s Africa where the people,
along with their music are shipped as slaves across the
Atlantic Ocean to America. Here the influence of African
rhythm and American hardship combined to create the backbone
to all contemporary music - the blues.

Mayhem 10 will pay homage to the people, the movement,
the emotion, the history,and the subsequent exuberating
effect of the blues.

It wouldn't be Mayhem if it didn't have the usual mix of
circus, comedy, Vaudeville, theatre and cabaret!

Interval supper by Little Florence available for purchase
on the night

Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Dates: Preview Thur 2 June @ 7.30pm,
Fri 3 to Sat 4 June @ 7.30pm.

Tickets: $18 / $15 conc. Preview: $13

Bookings: 9534 3388
Theatreworks

PO Box 1205 St Kilda South Vic 3184

Ph: (03) 9534 4879 Fax: (03) 9525 3593

linkwww.theatreworks.org.au
Vita

Monash Student Theatre presents
BOG at Theatreworks
by Declan Greene

Directed by Yvonne Virsik with Jason Lehane

A bristling jet-black comedy, a cross between
Dylan Thomas and Steven Berkoff.

Dolores Millwicker returns to her home town, a drought-
wracked wasteland, after a twenty year absence, and is
greeted with hostility by her old friends and family:

"An introverted gay bachelor, an overbearing zealot who
eavesdrops in the church confession booth, two brutish
farmers who pit their paint-sniffing sons against each
other in a football match, and a painfully timid woman
who dreams of a better life as a Galapagos tortoise!"

A prize-winner in the 2003 Monash Nation-Wide Playwrights'
Competition!

Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Dates: Fri 13 to Sat 28 May @ 8pm.

Tickets: $18 / $12 conc.

Bookings: 9534 3388
Vita

Below is a Press Release for the Australian Premiere
of the Off-Broadway Musical

THRILL ME

Book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff

The Leopold and Loeb Story

?This is really powerful theatre ? the antithesis of
upbeat musical theatre?
Rowena Scanlon, Broadway Australia.com

On an afternoon in May 1924, two of Chicago?s wealthiest
sons drove to the Harvard School for Boys, their aim ?
murder. The crime shocked a nation and forever etched the
names Leopold and Loeb into the pages of history.

?An horrific story, chillingly told. And just in time
for the end of the comedy festival?
Rowena Scanlon, Broadway Australia.com

Directed by Martin Croft

Musical Direction by Vicky Jacobs

Performed by Nathan Butler & Adrian Corbett


Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Dates: Season continues 19 to 23 April @ 8pm.

Tickets: $20 Charity Night & $19/ $16 conc all other
performances

Bookings: 9534 3388

Theatreworks
PO Box 1205 St Kilda South Vic 3184
Ph: (03) 9534 4879 Fax: (03) 9525 3593

linkwww.theatreworks.org.au
Vita

Below is a Press Release for NECESSARY TARGETS
a must see at the

THE CUB MALTHOUSE
113 STURT ST SOUTHBANK
MELBOURNE

?A brave, powerful, and crucial testimony against violence
aimed at women as an act of war. Lets us peer behind the
headscarves of women whom we recognise as our friends, sisters,
and daughters?
Meryl Streep

FOLLOWING A SELL-OUT SEASON IN SYDNEY RL PRODUCTIONS
IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE MELBOURNE PREMIERE OF THIS
EXCEPTIONAL PLAY


THE CLUB MALTHOUSE 16 MARCH ? 10 APRIL

DIRECTED BY PETE NETTELL

DESIGN WAYNE HARRIS

MUSIC SARAH DE JONG

LIGHTING GLENN DULIHANTY

CAST
DANIELLE ANTAKI VIVIENNE GARRETT HOLLY JONES
ROSIE LALEVICH JILL MCKAY BOJANA NOVAKOVIC
KYM VERCOE

?There is a lot of energy, humour and passion in this
fine company?
John McCallum ? The Australian

?This is a play everyone should see, and it cannot be
recommended highly enough?
Kathryn McKenzie ? SX News

NECESSARY TARGETS
16 March ? 10 April
Tues ? Sat 8pm / Sun 5pm / Sat matinees (2 & 9 April) 2pm
Tickets: $37.50 / $25.50 concession

BOOKINGS: 9685 5111
THE CUB MALTHOUSE 113 STURT ST SOUTHBANK
Vita

The Academy award shortlisted nominations are on again
in earnest. Peter Cornwell yet another talented
Australian filmmaker is up for the big gig an Oscar in
the best animation category.

Peter Cornwell's 14-minute animated horror film Ward 13,
has been nominated in the 2005 Oscars in the same catergory
won by another Australian Adam Elliot in 2004 for the long
suffering yet delightful "Harvie Krumpet."

Peter has been nominated along with nine other nominees.
Peter's motivation to make the film stemmed from the desire
to examine how people deal with the fear of hospitalisation.

"I wanted to tap into the real fear that people have of
hospitals. Just about everyone will end up in hospital one
day. And when you do, you are completely at the mercy of the
doctors. How safe are you really?"

Ward 13 as had already received accolades in a range of film
festivals all over the world. Below is his site with more
details on Peter's achievements and passionate persistence
as a filmmaker.

link www.ward13.com.au/news.html

The Oscar for best Animation film that was so convincingly
if not elegantly won last year by the wonderful and loving
Adam Elliott. (For Harvie Krumpet),

As I have mentioned before Adam appears to have opened the
door and attracted the worlds eyes to Australian animation
in the naugties. Oh we can be shockingly and yet excitingly
animated if the mood takes us..... Or has been said of
"moi".

"She is polite in all the right places and outrageous
in all the others"

This award has again attracted 2 talented Australians to
this years Oscar's (see Vita?s Arts & Culture Dec 2003 "
Birthday Boy")

It was interestingly noted in today's Australian newspaper
that nominations and awards of this nature had "made
the world take notice of Australia's short films, and that
shorts are thriving with talented film-makers from all
genres."

In recent years, local film-makers have regularly featured
on lists of nominations and winners of international film
awards including the Oscars, the Cannes film festival, and
Britain's BAFTAs."

As was noted in the Australian newspaper, "local" Australian
film Festivals such as "St Kilda, Flickerfest, and Tropfest,
(which between them attract hundreds of thousands of people
a year to screenings),? are fumdamentl brandings to highlight
the breadth and diversity of film making in Australia.

Indeed these festivals play a key role to enhance the profile
of the short film genre for both filmmakers and creates an
opportunity for more diverse audiences to participate. This
bodes well as move into a world where participatory media will
become the norm.. More on this issue soon........

As our dearest Adam pointed out "the trend in short films
is simply that Australia is good at storytelling?. ?We?re
good at telling stories and short films are a great way of
telling good stories?.

We look forward to Adam's feature length story in the fullness
of time. No doubt Ms Melanie?s diligence to secure the required
love and interest, from those with eyes to see where true love
and genius are, will be a key factor as well....

For more on Oscar Nominations see the site below. Oscar
announcements in 2005, for all selected nominees is
on the 26th of January in Australia.

linkwww.oscar.com

With great love for those who persist and share their
loving stories
VitaXXXXXXX

Below are the details for a fundraiser to support
Vicious Fish Theatre downstairs at 45 Flinders Lane
Don't be a limp fish come out and swim for all your
worth and support this worthwhile group

Vicious Fish Theatre Fundraiser
21st January 2005
7.30pm-11pm
@ 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane

Live Music Games DJ Apollo There wil be an auction
with prizes donated by: All The Kings Men, Genki,
Currency, Fruit Pedlars Organics of Westgarth, Rose
Chong and many others)

$20 entry

Includes champagne on arrival & nibbles

Dress?Frock Up!!!

You can reserve tickets by contacting
marinusmeanus@yahoo.com.au

Otherwise tickets at door.

Cash Only - No Cards

Limited Tickets Available

Thanks to: 45 Downstairs, Piedimonte's Supermarket,
Warehouse Sound, DJ Apollo, Naturally on High, Cinema
Nova, Genki, Fruit Pedlars of Westgarth, Currency, All
the King's Men & Rose Chong for supporting this event.
Supporting the arts in Melbourne
VitaXXX
For those looking for the 04th of January entry
I am sorry I accidentially deleted it. More on the Sth East
Asia tragedy above this article.

Below are some new films that embody "loving fully"
from the crew at spirituality healthy.com. Insights from
new films that will entice and enrich ones spiritual path.
A visual reminder of remembering our love and they way we
can trust it.

"It's that time of year again. While other people are
busy with the holidays, film reviewers are
scrambling around town making sure they see all the
end-of-the-year releases before they vote on awards
before they choose their Top Ten lists.

One of our groups, New York Film Critics Online,
voted Saturday (best-film: Sideways"), and we've
just posted our own favorites of the year:


The Ten Most Spiritually Literate Films of 2004,
The Ten Most Spiritually Literate Foreign Language Films,
The Ten Most Spiritually Literate Documentaries and Ten
More Spiritually Literate Films.

This year's selections give you plenty of opportunities
for the spiritual practices of crossing over, empathy,
and community creation. We?ve also caught up with some
of the latest videos and DVD releases, including some
of the films on our best?s lists:

"The Terminal," "Before Sunset," "A Home at the End of
the World," and "Lost Boys of Sudan?. We'll be adding more
video reviews later in the week."

link www.spiritualityhealth.com
Always willing to view the best in others
VitaXXXXXX

Well another talented Australian film maker is up for
the big gig in Hollywood in 2005. ?Birthday Boy"
has made it to the semi-final round of competition
for the 2005 Academy Awards? for Best Animation.

It has been written and directed by Sejong Park and
produced by Andrew Gregory. "Birthday Boy"has made it
to the final 10 in the Animated Short Film category.?

In July this year Sejong told the lovely Amanda Kellar
of Mondo Thingo- ?I find it hard to be on the stage.
my heart is pumping very loud.?

No doubt Sejongs heart will continue to pump loudly with
wild excitement until the 25th of January 2005. The date
when all announcements for Oscar nominations will be declared
for 2005. Which will no doubt create great squeals of delight
in Sydney as it did in Melbourne early 2004. Lets all pray to
the Goddess that Sejong continues to be celebrated well into
the "Naughties"

Sejong was born in Busan, (Pusan) which is second-biggest
city in Korea. His film 'Birthday Boy', is,?half
of the story of my childhood. I really enjoyed making my
own toys.?

link www.pusanweb.com/community/index.htm

Let?s hope that Sejong continues to make toys that delight
and the "Oscar Branch Nominating Committee"come to
Sejong's party.

Our Adam (Elliot, last years Oscar winner for this
catergory), has set a benchmark not be poked or baulked
at. Adam Elliot has put animation film up there in the
big end of town. Particularly for animnation film makers
who are working alone....... or not working for Disney....

Both Adam and Sejong are indeed Mountain climbers and well
deserving of the rewards that are bestowed upon them.Their
achievements honour animation film makers everywhere.

Animation at the Oscar?s was sniffed at and barely touched
on in the New York Times this time last year. Some
would say animation has, been a minor player/ or low down
in the food chain of filmmaking. (This however is not my
own opinion of course!).

The great and gorgeous Adam Elliot has brought animation
into focus with his own bare hands and open heart. Adam
and I suspect our ?Birthday Boy? Sejong Park have
providing the world with a new level of vital animated
enthusiasm, to this labour intensive form of filmmaking.

Birthday Boy is an Oscars? semi-finalist in 2005

?The film will now be screened to the Branch Nominating
Committee, which consists of all members of the Academy
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. This committee
will then choose the final five short animated shorts to
be nominated for the 2005 Oscar?. The nominations will be
announced on 25 January 2005.?

As Adam did before him Sejong will no doubt sing and chant
to the Goddess above and pray for his day?s in the sun. We
wish him, well and hope all his ?birthday boy? dreams come
true. As we know we must climb our mountains to truly live
in our dreams awake.

See below for a very interesting site the original boystown
that was actually established in Busan (Pusan) in 1964.

linkwww.worldvillages.org/pusan4.asp

and yet there is always more talent to be shown and awarded.......

The 49th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
have been held in Melbourne.

Congrats to all those ABC "men of digital media" who
have won five of seven categories for news and current affairs
at Australia's most prestigious media awards.
(The Walkleys's)
Bless you because you are talented!!!

Love for all boys who sing from the heart and create great
stories and fabulous toys
Vitaxxxxxx