Magic Of Interwebs
Due to the magic of the global village, this newsletter is still in your inbox, despite this Newsletter Writer not being in Sydney right now. What a disaster. Please don't tell the rest of the staff back at the office! The newsletter station just has a crash test dummy dressed in Cotton On, listening to Oh Pep!'s album Stadium Cake on repeat, in the hopes that noone would notice the difference. (You should also listen to the album; it's really good. Check out the song Doctor Doctor. Joyously upbeat but melancholic.)
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Back To Back Theatre's Lady Eats Apple is on at Carriagework, for three nights, March 16-18. Can you please go and see it, because whoever is writing this newsletter writer cannot get back to Sydney in time, and they're completely bummed out by it. By all accounts, it's an incredible show. Visit the show event page here, and buy a ticket, please.
In other news, Daniel Kitson is in Australia, performing his work Not Yet But Soon at Giant Dwarf, next week. From its run in other cities, we know it's a fun crazy night of destabilising comedy. Luckily, this newsletter writer can get back to Sydney in time to see it, so perhaps we'll see you there?
- From The CPL
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Seminar: Phenomenology and Contemporary Film Consumption
This seminar from the Sydney Screen Studies Network features Dr Karina Aveyard (USYD) presenting the paper Phenemenology & Contemporary Film Consumption. As always, the event is free and all are welcome!
Wed 22 March, 5 - 7.30pm
Robert Webster Building, 327
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The Blues Is Life: Lunchtime Concert
Come for a free, lunchtime, pop up concert, performed by UNSW music staff and students, led by Sandy Evans! Joy.
Weds 22 March, 1 - 1:45pm
Io Myers Studio Foyer
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Cosmopolitan Queer
The next UNSWriting event features two emerging queer writers with stunning debut books, Anna Westbrook with her dark crime novel Dark Fires Shall Burn (2016) and Alison Whittaker with an edgy book of poetry, Lemons in the Chicken Wire (2016). They explore queer sensibilities ranging from the underworld of Newtown in the 1940s to the gritty aesthetics of queer and trans indigeneity on the fringes of northern NSW.
Wednesday 29 March, 6.30pm
Io Myers Studio, UNSW Kensington
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SAMAG Seminar: Making A Career In The Arts
Following a tumultuous 2016 and with the median creative income for Australian artists being well below the national average, this SAMAG seminar discusses the highs, lows and everything in between for creating a career in the arts, with artists and arts practitioners.
Mon 20 March, 6pm
Artspace, Woolloomooloo
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Multilingual Poetry Slam
Love language? Listen up! 12 poets perform in their native language and share a 3 minute window into who they are, where they're going, and what they believe in! Monologues about identity, culture and community… all in their own language!
Tues 21 March, 7:30pm
Barnet Long Room, Customs House
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Contemporary Contemporary Contemporary
Contemporary Contemporary Contemporary is two nights of performance work, curated by CPL favourites POST, featuring up-to-the-second contemporary performances from Bron Batten, Rich Higgins, Nat Randall, Matt Prest & James Brown, Martin del Amo, Christie Woodhouse & Claire Stjepanovic, Re-Group, Mal & Kev, and POST. Glorious.
Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 7:30pm
107 Projects Redfern
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UNSW String Ensemble Composition Competition
Applications are open for the UNSWSE Composition Competition! The competition provides an opportunity for winning student composers to hear their compositions performed live…not to mention the first prize of $500!
Entry is open to all UNSW students. The best works will be performed at the huge SOAP Gala Night. Submissions are due by 3rd July.
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The Bit At The Bottom Of The Newsletter About A Misogyny Troll Comment Generator That You Should Definitely Check Out Even Though It's Really Intense And Confronting
SAM Senior Lecturer, Dr Emma Jane, has released a Random Rape Threat Generator online, called Rapeglish. The generator is made up of hundreds of actual examples of gendered cyberhate which Dr Jane has archived over 18 years of research and which are analysed in her new book, Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History.
"The generator draws on my research into gendered cyberhate and works by slicing up and shuffling around bits and pieces of real-life rape threats, sexualised vitriol and angry sleaze. The aim is to illustrate the formulaic and machine-like qualities of “Rapeglish”, to help raise awareness about misogyny online, and to provide resources for other academics, activists, and students. "
The generator is embedded in a large site which includes access to full input data sets, the sources from which this data is drawn, and so on.
Please note that this site is NSFW and contains extremely explicit language. Please only visit if you’re feeling robust.
You can visit it online, at www.rapeglish.com... and you can read more about it here, here, and here.
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