Life will always be more rewarding as our life proceeds, when one
is true to ones convictions, and belief in self -respect and love
of the other. One gets a realistic idea of how capable we can ALL
be and ultimately are

When one makes healthy ethical investments that in corporate the
whole we are all enriched and NEVER left wanting When we let go
of control of the other and small ego based behaviors that leave
some out and others in, we are all left powerful and enriched ???

One should relish the feeling of inclusiveness and relax.
Let go of emotional turmoil in ones life and NEVER inflict
it on another? Move past all of that negative energy from
others nonconstructive ?small? shallow non-caring belief
systems.

By making tough choices and being true to what one wants
and needs, one will always grow and evolve in the best and
most productive direction....Be wise be willing but never
hit another with ones own self doubt and controlling ways....

With no doubt about a productive future..
Vita

We work in order to be happy, and be valued in the
world Often times we can be uncertain whether work
is our life or life is our work?We must be the joy
in our work. Work and play must be both enjoyed &
valued equally ??

We must find happiness in all we do.This awakening
necessitates one to acknowledge and embrace ?economic
pursuits that cultivates' self-respect self-reliance
and value adds to our community our world our way of
BEING as ONE...Be with OUR world and enjoy VITA/LIFE

These values serve to integrate,rather than disempower
disengage or dishonor our energies for the self and
ones community and VITA/LIFE.

Dharma perspective allows one to engage economic
goals with production, profit and not to mention
pleasure, while considering our impact on humanity
& ones whole environment.

See Vita's NEW and exciting sponsors on the right
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Based on the beheading of John the Baptist

Co-collaborators Emma Valente and Mary Helen Sassman are
joined by ARIA nominated musician Colin Badger, award
winning Latin American Dancers
Giusep Cosentino and Lisa Trigili,& Sudanese actor Baba Mojong.

In a drought-stricken landscape six thirsty characters co-exist
in desolation. Their interactions travel through the mundane,
the absurd and the treacherous.

The parents distort love with competition, the daughter fights
off surfacing morbidity and the captive is misunderstood.

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As an aside people who create sites like the
one below should be VERY AWARE it is unethical
to profit through the use of others sites UNLESS
THEY HAVE ASKED TO USE THE NAME OF THE SITE .
The site below has NOTHING TO WITH MY WEB SITE

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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

Gallery 101 Exhibition
___________
Rhett D'Costa will be showing a new body of paintings
and drawings opening 3rd June. 2007 D'Costa's colorful
and poetic work identifies itself with the highly visible
systems that affect our daily lives. He is interested
in the relationship between logic and intuition, between
control and spontaneity, between fast and slow and between
remembering and forgetting.

RHETT D?COSTA

LITTLE THOUGHTS / SECRET PICTURES
Painting and Drawing

GALLERY 101 5 - 23 JUNE 2007
Opening Tuesday 5 June 6-8pm

?Painters are faced with a complex challenge; how to
make paintings that matter in the contemporary world.
I am interested in the tension and slippage between
things falling apart and things coming together. The
polarities between incompleteness and completeness.

I am interested in the relationship between intuition
and conscious thought; between thinking and making,
and points of decision making, which occur during
the process of making art?.
Rhett D?Costa 2004

Rhett D?Costa?s paintings and drawings appear to
oscillate between harmony and discordance, uniformity
and randomness, flatness and plasticity. This heightens
the vulnerable human gesture. We notice the accuracy of
line and mark on the picture plane and the paint
misbehaving.

Titles act as a point of entry for the viewer, but the
works remain open to a myriad of interpretative readings.
The viewer is encouraged to find an intuitive, experiential
approach to the paintings. To cancel out, count, find patterns
and attempt to decipher codes and links -

To create a play of associations based on experience,
memory, judgment and taste.

?D?Costa?s mark making is like concrete poetry. With it,
we lose the image and move into something felt, beautiful,
tactile. These momentary, nomadic geometries of errant
number and gesture posit a world of vast intangible and
amorphous ideas. A world in which we realize what we
perceive is limited.

A plurality of possible spaces in our world of compressed
time, they conjure an esoteric memory of ancient and imagined
worlds? The sense of ideas refracting across space, without
maps, as an abstract thing becomes a living being.?
Above excerpt from Possible Worlds,
catalogue essay by Martina Copley, Monash Gallery, Gippsland,
2007.

BACKGROUND
Born in Bombay, India, Rhett D?Costa studied a Bachelor of
Arts [Fine Art, Painting] and a Master of Arts [by Research]
at RMIT University in Melbourne.

D?Costa is currently lecturing in Painting at RMIT University.
In 2003, he was a finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting
Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.

D?Costa has participated in several solo and group exhibitions
including Carte Blanche ? A Drawing Exhibition, Alliance Francaise,
Singapore, 1999; Works on Paper, Sungshin Museum, Seoul, Korea,
2000 and Possible Worlds, Gippsland Art
Gallery, 2007. Rhett D?Costa?s work is part of a range of
private collections nationally and internationally.

Vita

Respect the dharma in all domains

dharma "right way of living' or
mindful conduct"

Respect the blog..Respect the "BLOGHER" Respect
ones self ... and the angle of others... Respect
news ways of seeing the brave new world that IS
galvanizing global communities online.......

Let me say Social Media & Women's Voices are HERE
TO STAY..and the blend is divine and delicious.....
Start seeing listening and communicating in brand
NEW exciting and exploratory ways....

BE THE DHARMA IN ONES DOMAIN

Respect the next generations approach to language and
the new choices they make..Create ones own space without
others owning it or taking control ....Comment... RSS be
delicious trackback and pick up the link where one left
off....

Open to new ways of being. Seize the moment seize the
day. One needs a lot of adventure in one lives so be "IT"!
One must always challenge our inner caution and others
passe tradition of fear of the unknown.

Be the new be the brave be the bold be flat out glorious
in ALL ones actions and creative pursuits??Be honest with
ones self and the other Be wonderful. Be inquisitive be
ready and willing..Add hyper text or just add a foot
note of love....

Be protective...Be VERY informed and current...Know ones
rights online..Be open to learning more and what is going
on NOW. BE AT the frontiers of human communication, that
is the NOW the "Naughties"....

Get ones self a very gorgeous solicitor and keep up to
speed...Be cautious yet colorful with ones V BLOG?.
Maybe get a video CAM BUT NEVER accept SPAM......

Challenge the past and create the future?Always be
willing to grow and change..Be the true maverick
inside ones self. Dare to do things differently every
day....See & respect others point of view...Never judge
or compete with the other.

Walk ones talk...Be political be visionary. Be VITAL
be very NOW....

link surfette.typepad.com/about.html

Stand out speak up never hide ones creative self..Be one
of a kind but be very kind. Attract and be what one truly
wishes to become...

Just an old fashioned blogger yet a very modern Goddess
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

"A blank page is the Goddess's/Good-God.... way of
showing one how exciting exhilarating and thrilling
it is to be a Goddess/Good God.". Create ones divine
future...Be present today NOT " Yesterday", whoops
yesterday is so last century. So "john and george"
(the little misguided types")..(NO not the Beatles)...

Create the content create the page ... Create the future
NOW...Be the gift in ones own script article and journey...
VITA

"A writer ought to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the
comfortable."
Mark Twain

Be calm be cool be comfortable with whom one is and
wishes to become......

linkwww.juliagillard.alp.org.au/

IT IS OUR "TIME" NOW ( As our Gough says)
Vita

Women bloggers blossom _ Dan talks to VITA
This from the lovely
Dan Skeen ( see his link in
my quick links)
AGE NEWSPAPER
May 8, 2007

"It's a big world out there for blogger Vita but there
are challenges to be faced."

"Isn't blogging just for people who are stupid & lonely?"
The blogger known as Vita recalls her stunned reaction
to this blunt comment from a dinner-party guest. While
his etiquette is dubious, the guest's attitude exemplifies
a general ambivalence towards blogging among Australians,
particularly women.

Still, after a long period of dormancy by global standards,
there are signs that Australia's women bloggers are beginning
to bloom. The Melbourne-based creator of the art and events
blog www.vitalingus.com (one is right here), has been watching
these developments for some time. She launched her blog back in
2000 which was originally served out of New Jersey, in the
pioneer days of blogging."

This site is now hosted by the lovely people at Melbourneonline
see the link in Vita's quick links.. (VITA)

"It basically took three months of research to find an
Australian provider that would serve a blogger", she says.
Now happily hosted in Melbourne, she enjoys more than 35,000
visitors" in high season, "and has made a network of global
connections."

"But, aside from a few success stories such as vitalingus.com
& reasonsyouwillhateme.blogspot.com, Australia's bright lights
of bloggerdom are predominantly men.

Of the 8000 women's blogs listed at BlogHer.org, just 96
are of Australian or New Zealand origin. By comparison
Canada, a country with 36 per cent more people, lists 82
per cent more women's blogs.

This gap has left bloggers like Vita feeling isolated.
She tried to set up a course on blogging in 2004 but
only three people registered. "Patriarchy is alive and
well," she says of the current crop of male bloggers
who receive the lion's share of traffic.

"They think the world is about them and they never
take the time to write back to you."

The gender disparity has its roots in the early days of
blogging, which initially caught on in the tech sector.
Early blogs required technical expertise to set up and
use, at a time when most computer programmers were men,
so the gender disparity among bloggers was significant.

That gap is closing, particularly in the US. Bolstered by
the growth of blogging networks for women, such as
blogher.org, the US has seen a huge surge of women bloggers.
"Women bloggers already comprise about half of the bloggers
out there," says Elisa Camahort, a co-founder of BlogHer.

The same trends driving this growth in the US are affecting
Australia, albeit on a smaller scale. Technical barriers
are lowering. Today hosted blogs such as Wordpress.com &
Blogger.com make it simple for anyone to get started.

Despite the slow adoption in Australia, the uptake of
women bloggers is more significant than a simple
statistic on gender equality, for this reason: women
blog differently.

"They tend to be more conversational and communal
compared to men," Camahort says. "And they value
the opinions and reviews from people they know
virtually online."

"This will" undoubtedly "have significance for our
society & business. advertisers, promoters, public
relations. Corporate communications professionals
will find it increasingly important to consider
the influence of a community of highly networked
women bloggers.

"You can see how this would change the dynamic of how
(one) does business," Camahort says. Ones "customers
are out there talking among themselves in a much more
amplified and distributed manner than they ever were
before.


Vita

Vita/I will return very soon with more amusements witty
moments and commentary on all things great & gorgeous ...
AND even things "that give me pain where I should have
pleasure" Robyn Nevin Water under the bridge 1978

(my heart soul and spirit....VITA)

(Most particularly the ongoing annoyance of those
very last century boys "John and George .. No not
the Beatles......

FUNDING THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THIS CENTURY....
COULD WELL BE VERY MODERN VERY NOW ???

I will discuss at a later date this issue above
without gnashing my teeth and will avoid passing
out...Or getting really cross...

The current status quo for 'bloggers social media
& the future of this very NOW medium seriously
needs addressing in Australia.....Take NOTE...RIGHT

NOW........

It would become apparent it s all a very last century
funding frameworks for new century arts business and
technology .....Get up to speed Click on the "com"...

CHICAGO BLOGHER 2007
Presently I am 'flat out like a Goddess in full flight"
organizing my impending arrival in Chicago for Blogher
July 2007.....See the Blogher link in MY QUICK LINKS

Mean while I have asked the divine Rumi to reappear
from his Persian heaven ....

RUMI THE WAY THINGS SHOULD
what will our children do in the morning?
will they wake with their hearts wanting to play,
the way wings should?

will they have dreamed the needed flights and
gathered the strength from the planets that
all men and women need to balance the wonderful
charms of the earth, so that her power @ beauty
does not make us forget our own?

I know all about the ways of the heart - how it
wants to be alive. Love so needs to love that
it will endure almost anything, even abuse,
just to flicker for a moment. but the sky's
mouth is kind, it's song will never hurt you,
for I sing those words.

what will our children do in the morning
if they do not see us fly?

One can still not comment on VITA due to the
"the dreaded imperialism of the naughties"
(ROBOT SPAM) However warm and loving comments
can be directed to my email address)
see Vita's rules and standards for this address
Vita

This from Rumi the Persian Poet
"BE WITH THOSE WHO HELP YOUR BEING
Be with those who help your being.
don't sit with indifferent people,
whose breath comes cold out of their
mouths, not these visible forms,
your work is deeper.


A chunk of dirt thrown in the air
breaks to pieces. if you don't try
to fly, and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you
could become.

leaves get yellow. the tree puts
out fresh roots and makes them
emerald green. Is one so content
with a love that turns one yellow?"

linkwww.rumi.net/rumi_by_shiiva.htm

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