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The SAM Newsletter

Thanks Oprah, We'll Take It From Here!

Hello Newsletter-Receivers! Most of you know the deal, but for those new students, this newsletter is a joyful addition to your inbox, full of arts events and opportunities in and around UNSW and Sydney, occasionally featuring tidbits, freebies, and dank memes.

You're receiving this because you're either an arts students at UNSW, or you signed up. We're legally obliged to inform you that it's run by the Creative Practice Lab, housed in Io Myers Studio, down at lower campus. Come visit! We're nice. We're here to get students (and everyone) a link to the arts community in all disciplines - from sound art, and theatre, to media, dance, visual art, with a healthy dose of literature, film, and Swedish industrial slow-core jazz. So... enjoy.

It's International Women's Day! So we'll be sure to keep on trend.
- From The Creative Practice Lab

PS: Here's a UNSW series, covering the day-to-day schedule of some brilliant women on campus.

This Week in SAM

Tue 7 - Sat 11 March, 7:30pm, Io Myers Studio | Triumph by Louris van de Geer
Wed 8 March, 5pm, Robert Webster, 327 | Seminar: When File-Sharing Isn't Piracy
Fri 10 March, 4:30pm, Robert Webster, 334 | Concert: Tangents + Q&A
Sat 11 March, Sir John Clancy Auditorium | Russian Legends: Australia Ensemble Concert

Triumph

People are hurting. A group comes together over tea and biscuits. Elsewhere a sick girl reaches out, she hesitates. And a man digs a hole, inviting in the darkness. Are the darkest of times the ones that bind us?

Under director Tessa Leong’s careful eye, and with the assistance of Paul Matthews’ transformative design, our cast for this Sydney premiere season vividly brings Geer’s tour de force to life. This collaboration aims to challenge certainties and make us question the reassuring thoughts that usually let us sleep at night.

Here's a video of the cast, discussing their relationship to theatre!

7 - 11 March, 7:30pm
Io Myers Studio, UNSW
More info

Sirens Big Band, With Sandy Evans

To ​celebrate International Women's Day, the Sirens Big Band will perform at the Bondi Pavilion​, with special guest Sandy Evans!

Formed as a direct response to the underrepresentation of women in the jazz music community, the band brings together some of Australia’s strongest and most innovative young female jazz musicians and improvisers.

Wednesday 8 March, 6:30pm
Bondi Pavilion
Find out more

Antidote: Anthropocene
 

The first iteration of Antidote is an exploration of the female body and the land on which it survives and thrives. Themed ‘Anthropocene’, the exhibition presents four female artists who illuminate unique stories of female bodies and their interaction with the physical, socio-political and cultural landscape that they walk on. Featuring Kawita Vatanajyankur, Laura Doggett, Andy Mullens and Nicole Monks.

Until March 18
Airspace Projects Gallery, Marrickville
Find out more

Marcus Whale: Live

Everyone's favourite, Marcus Whale, will be performing this Friday night, alongside Muscle Memory. Go along, it will be a joyous night of barren hopelessness with alternative r'n'b sensibilities.

Friday 10 March, 8pm, $13
Red Rattler, Marrickville
Bookings

RealTime Arts

If you're in the arts, you should also sign up to RealTime Arts' mailing list. RealTime covers reviews, articles, and information on contemporary art, performance, film, media, music, more.

The latest edition features SAM PhD candidate and CPL favourite Lauren Carroll Harris discussing Melbourne's Women In Film Festival, as well as For Film's Sake and the "End The Sausage Party" protests!
Sign up online!
Note: The Australian Film Critics Association just announced Lauren Carroll Harris was the winner of their Award for Best Review of an individual Australian film! Read the review here.

Transitions Film Festival

The Transitions Film Festival is touring Sydney this summer with an enthralling selection of its most cutting-edge documentaries about the existential challenges, mega-trends, game-changing technologies and creative visions that are redefining what it means to be human.

9 - 25 March
Cinemas Across Sydney
For more info

Critical Path: Creature


József Trefeli and Gábor Varga present their current work Creature, opening up their practice exploring the relationships of dance to society through social media, communal and folk forms.

Creature is a work about origins – biographical, ethnographic, socio-cultural or aesthetic. József and Gábor tackles ethnographic material to place his contemporary choreographic practices under the magnifying glass of its archaic heritage. A pursuit that gives birth to a new choreography, a ‘creature’ abounding with codes, intentions, and keys to its interpretation.
 
Wednesday 15 March, 7pm
The Drill Hall
$15 / $10
Find out more

OzDox: Given

OzDox is a joint initiative from documentary filmmakers, industry bodies and academics to foster a monthly forum for documentary film culture.

Their first OzDox event of 2017 will show the documentary Given, followed by a discussion from producer Paige Livingston, exploring film’s production and the vital counter-intuitive decisions that resulted in its ultimate success.

Wednesday 15 March
AFTRS, Moore Park
Find out more

The Bit at the Bottom of the Newsletter, which is Themed "Words & International Women's Day"

Words from Kelly Lee Hickey:
"Because you can take the labour out of the day but not the woman
Because we won't stop till the work is done
Because until the most painful wounds are healed by justice the paper cuts will continue
Because beauty and love are not commodities
and neither are we."

Here's a recommendation: buy Emily Stewart's book Knocks (available everywhere, including the UNSW Bookshop!). Incredibly intelligent, luscious, ratbag political poetry from an absolute CPL favourite. Read a review here from Cordite Poetry if you need more convincing.

And finally, read this keynote speech from total badass Jen Cloher; Women in Australian Music Can No Longer Be Erased From The History Books. Damn good.

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