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Inner West Council misleading on Norton Street revival

By Michael Forno The Inner West Council has heralded its revitalisation of the lackluster Norton Street as a success, but the council’s claims may prove to be baseless.

In a media release published last week the council said the number of vacant retail premises on the Leichhardt high street had dropped from 23 to 10 since 2013.

Interim administrator of the new Inner West Council Richard Pearson is quoted as saying “It is a very healthy sign pointing to the revitalisation of Norton Street that we have witnessed in recent years. From street activations to a variety of new businesses starting up, Council activations are definitely making a difference.”

Despite Mr Pearson’s assuredness there appears to be no substantive evidence for his claims. A spokesperson for the Inner West council was unable to advise where the council’s figures had come from, and stopped short of admitting there was no evidence for Norton Street’s revitalisation.

President of the Leichhardt Business Chamber Mark Chapman was also unable to attest to the credibility of Mr. Peason’s claims.

“There is no silver bullet to revitalising Norton Street and the surrounding area. But things are looking better along the street, there are new businesses popping up all the time,” Mr. Chapman said.

When pressed on whether Mr. Pearson’s comments have any evidence from recent reports or studies Mr. Chapman offered that “Walking along the street itself is the best comparative study one can do.”

The media release also stated “Mr. Pearson said much credit for the Norton Street renewal can be attributed to the 2013-16 Economic and Employment Development Plan developed by the former Leichhardt Council which is in the third

Norton St Leichhardt. Image supplied

year of its 4 year activation period.”

Former Independent councillor in Leichardt John Stamolis was involved in implementing the 2013-2016 Economic and Employment Development Plan. He told City Hub he’s concerned that while major shopping strips like Norton Street are the focus of council, smaller shopping areas risk being overlooked.

“I am a little bit worried after the council amalgamations that some of the smaller shopping

areas may not become priorities on council agenda,” he said.

“This council now has three significant business areas within its boundary; Leichhardt, Marrickville and Ashfield. My concern is that the layer of management now is smaller than what it was in the past. There is one manager managing our Economic Development Plan and you can see that all the attention might well be on the three major business centres.

“We need to make sure the Economic Development Plan focuses on those other smaller shopping areas such as Balmain, Rozelle, Annandale and Dulwich Hill. We need to make sure resources are in place under the new council for the wider commercial benefits of the council,” he said.

Documents obtained by City Hub reveal the sharp increase in the number of businesses included in the new council boundary.

The new council now contains approximately 20,000 businesses. The former councils of Leichhardt, Marrickville and Ashfield contained approximately 7000, 8000, and 4000 respectively.

One of the more notable businesses of Leichhardt is the Royal Hotel, which has undergone a recent renovation and a subsequent reinvigoration.

James Cox has worked at the Royal Hotel for five years. He told City Hub that nothing much has changed since the implementation of the new Inner West Council.

“I’ll be honest with you, there’re equally as incompetent. I don’t know whether they’re thinking about what they’re doing because there’s no understanding or knowledge of the area,” he said.

Mr. Cox believes Council isn’t doing enough to assist local business on Norton Street, including offering reasonable car parking.

“People aren’t coming, that’s part of it. Who wants to go to dinner and get a $120 fine? Free parking would be amazing.”

Despite Council’s shortcomings Mr. Cox says the Royal Hotel is doing well and bringing wider economic benefits to the area.

“Weekend nights are crazy. We’re always booked out. Our pub is a draw card. We draw people into Norton Street and then people spread out.” he said.

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BY ELIOT BARHAM Fundraising efforts for a memorial in Hunter Park honouring victims of gayhate crimes committed around the eastern suburbs have been promising, according to organisers.

The memorial will represent more than 88 gay men who have disappeared in suspicious circumstances or have been victims of unsolved murders over a 20 year period that began in the late 1970’s.

Healthy Communities manager for ACON Michael Atkinson was behind the fundraising, saying the memorial will represent anyone who has been affected by horrendous crimes committed against LGBTI people between the late 70’s and 90’s.

“It’s to do with looking to achieve some sort of justice for anyone affected by these cases. It’s only really been in the last five years that people have said ‘look, this is unacceptable.’

“There are a lot of people who still hold a lot of anger, fear and pain around the whole experience” he said.

ACON are hoping to raise $200,000, which will fund the construction and maintenance of the planned memorial.

Fundraising efforts were deliberately launched earlier this month to coincide with Deep Water, a drama series aired on SBS based on some of the crimes. A featurelength documentary made by the same director called Deep Water: The Real Story aired shortly after, examining some of the unsolved murders that took place.

Mr Atkinson says the programs generated

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“a lot of interest” in the murders and encouraged people to donate, however it’s “early days” and the target is still far from being reached.

The organisation now plans to hold a series of other fundraising events and ‘gala days’ to generate the remaining money needed to fund the project.

A draft brief has already been established, and consultation with the families and friends of victims will begin shortly.

Mr Atkinson said a significant number of people have come forward to his organisation who have dealt with similar experiences since plans for the memorial were announced earlier this year.

“We’ve been contacted by a fair few people who have detailed their own experiences, but also people who have lost loved ones to the murders. It’s clear that

people who have experienced the face of violence feel that it’s quite traumatic,” he said.

He also acknowledged that the time period when a lot of the violent murders took place was difficult for many LGBTI people.

“This stuff occurred through the beginning of the AIDS / HIV epidemic.

We were coming out of a period in the end of the 70’s when we were struggling to be recognised, homosexuality was decriminalised, and we had people dying from AIDS right up until the 90’s. Murders were happening this whole time. There was a lot happening for our community,” he said.

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Greens MP slams Government for ignoring heritage site

Prominent Sydney architect, Edmund Blacket, designed the Bidura house in 1857 when he was Head Architect at Sydney University. Photo: Clytemnestra

BY LUCAS BAIRD Greens MP for Balmain Jamie Parker has called on the state government to stop selling public land and buy the Bidura heritage site in Glebe to protect it from future developments.

This comes in the wake of a Land and Environment court case which saw a development appeal from Vision Land rejected because of Sydney’s height and proximity laws, not because of the proposed demolition of the heritage Bidura Children’s Court.

While the Children’s Court isn’t recognised as culturally significant by any government agency, local heritage group the Glebe Society believes it is key to the area’s character and criticised the court’s decision.

“It wasn’t knocked back on the grounds that you can’t destroy this wonderful old building… What they are saying is ‘by all means come up with another plan, and if you are going to demolish the old Children’s Remand Centre it’s okay, we don’t have an objection to that,’” said the Glebe Society President Allan Hogan.

This prompted Mr Parker to call on the Minister for Finance and Property to buy the site back from Vision Land to protect it from “overdevelopment.”

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“The government needs to realise that not only will it impose on the Bidura building but will demolish the former Children’s Court building which has significant value in the area,” he told City Hub. The Bidura site was built in 1857 and was designed by prominent architect Edmund Blacket, the University Architect for Sydney University between 1854 and his death in 1883.

The NSW government purchased the property in 1920 and used it as an orphanage and school until 1977, when they built the Children’s Court behind the house. The government sold the Bidura Children’s Court earlier this year for $33 million. “[The Bidura site’s] heritage value has been recognised not only by the City of Sydney, but also by a range of heritage groups that have seen it as a really important part of the area,” the member for Balmain said.

According to Mr Parker the government “should be protecting heritage sites like [Bidura], not ruining them with residential developments,” comparing the situation to the Minister for Environment’s decision to keep the Sirius building in Millers Point off the State Heritage List earlier this year.

Whilst Mr Parker is calling on the state government for action, residents like Mr Hogan have been left waiting until Vision Land submits another development application or sells the site to plan their next move.

Mr Hogan claims for the most part he believes the future of the Bidura site is in the hands of the Land and Environment Court and the City of Sydney Council, and what they accept in terms of another application.

“At the moment we don’t know what they’re planning. We know what the Land and Environment Court said they can’t do, so presumably their new plans will have to deal with those constrictions.

“I’m not the court so I don’t know what decisions they’re going to make. But as the Glebe Society we certainly want to be sure that the heritage of the area is not ruined by a development that does not look after those concerns,” said Mr Hogan.

Development Director at Vision Land Nigel Fox said that the company wasn’t prepared to answer any questions regarding the possibilities of a future application at this time when asked by City Hub.

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Opinion

NOISE, the biggest threat to urban health

by Andrew Woodhouse Noise happens, as a social commentator has said in this illustrious journal before.

Do we want Noise Monitors with gagging powers prowling streets stifling the decibels of discussion? After all, all working cities produce occasional outbursts that aren’t broadcast quality. So if this city is not the place for you, move on. Move out, they declared.

However, noise affects our psychological and physical well being.

It is a major public health issue. We need 7–9 hours’ sleep daily.

Work absenteeism costs the economy billions each year. Sleep debt increases stress, anxiety, irritability, memory loss, accident rates, bi-polar disorder and heart attacks. It reduces immunity rates.

Sleep for nurses, journalists, security, emergency and hospitality staff and others who keep the world rotating on its axis isn’t a privilege: it’s a right.

Enforced sleep loss is torture with a long history dating back to Roman times (tormentum vigilae, or waking torture). According to human rights groups it’s contrary to Article 5 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘No one shall be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman treatment.’

Meanwhile, state government agencies, Sydney Council and others are negligent in not pro-actively monitoring and enforcing compliance with their own laws.

Leaf blowers outside apartment blocks in the inner city should be banned. Workers would benefit from some hard yakka and broom sweeping.

Doof-doof car stereos on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst are an assault on my ear lobes and musical senses. They don’t rock me.

The dozens of Navy workers’ motor bikes with modified exhausts in McDonald Lane, Potts Point, between 6:45 am and 7:30 am creating a race track for a short-cut to Garden Island should have their bikes confiscated under Offensive Noise laws.

Reversing garbage council trucks at 4:00am with their highpitched beep-beep-beep-beep and broken bottle collections at 76 Elizabeth Bay Road drive me M-A-D. Construction site jackhammers eight hours a day at 111 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, the Omnia apartments development, are loud enough to reduce nearby cafe patronage by 60%. Dozens of complaints to council’s black hole call centre result in, guess what? Nothing, only council fibs that sound barriers are in

This is not me after a bad haircut: it’s the psychological trauma of noise captured in Edvard Munch’s, The Scream (1893).

Source: Andrew Woodhouse ex: Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893), Oslo Museum, Norway

place despite photographic evidence to the contrary.

Candy’s Bar and the World Bar in nearby Bayswater Road have had hundreds of noise complaints between them yet the Office of Liquor and Gaming, the NSW Environmental Noise Protection Authority and the Sydney Council are powerless, or do I mean

negligent, to do anything to stop noise rattling double-glazing of residents’ bedrooms opposite at 1:45am.

In Kings Cross, that vortex of vice and drive-by shootings, klaxons from ambulance and police dealing with major street crime and drug overdoses are common.

Brain-piercing noise from fire engines roaring up and down local streets racing in tandem to extinguish burnt toast in backpackers’ hostels wastes money: 90% of call-outs are false alarms. Adopting the UK model of sending a drone on fast motor bike ahead to check the site status is deeply frowned upon from unions padding out their workload.

Meanwhile, long-suffering, mature-age residents near the Garden Island Navy site are entombed as the RAN industrial site expands down Cowper Wharf Road alongside bedrooms. Dockside generators and ship repair work and megaphone calls such “showers are now ready” haunt their living rooms 24/7. They can’t invite friends for dinner the noise is so intrusive.

Noise complaints are rebuffed by Commander Andrew Fraser who says “it is not my responsibility and whingers “crave engagement”.

Well no they don’t. What they actually crave is a chance to put aside their sleeping pills and open sealed windows so enjoy some light and harbour-side breezeways.

Finger Wharf residents suffer the same arrogance, ignorance and negligence.

In high-rise areas like Pyrmont, Potts Point, the CBD and Kings Cross, Australia’s densest areas, the RDR ratio (residents disturbance ratio) has reached 12/10 on my Edward Munch Scream Scale.

We’re living in a disturbia, not suburbia.

And don’t tell us to move out. We have inalienable rights to live in our chosen environment.

Actually, I can’t wait for Simon and Garfunkel’s forthcoming ‘superannuation’ tour to re-hear their haunting hit, Sounds of Silence and ‘People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, And no one dared, disturb the sound of silence.’

Aah, the relief.

Andrew Woodhouse is President, Potts Point & Kings Cross Heritage & Residents’ Society

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Save Bondi Pavilion’s last dance

BY BENEDICT BRUNKER Hundreds gathered at the Bondi Pavilion last Sunday for a free concert in protest against Waverley Council’s plans to redevelop the historic community centre, which locals fear will exclude the public from use of the site.

The “Save Bondi Pavilion” concert showcased the cream of Sydney’s local talent, including rock legends Hoodoo Gurus, Art vs. Science and famed stand-up comic Wil Andersen.

Sibo Bangoura, who treated the crowd to a set of traditional African drumming in support of the event, said she once used the pavilion for rehearsal.

“I used to use them a couple of years ago but now they don’t let us run the drum and dance class here anymore, not anywhere in Waverley.

It’s unfair, it’s crazy,” Ms Bangoura said.

She is concerned the council’s plans to get rid of studios and rehearsal space on the ground floor will see other musicians meet the same fate she has.

“We have to keep fighting to win, to save Bondi Pavilion, because it’s a great place for everybody, not only the musicians. Let the locals use it – let the musicians use it. Music makes people happy. Don’t just sell it for money. Money is nothing. Happiness is more important than money,” Ms Bangoura said.

Comedian Wil Andersen has a similar history of involvement with the Pavilion, and a similar attachment.

“I did my first ever Sydney shows in the Pavilion, in the theatre up there. My girlfriend actually asked me on the way here, ‘Why are you doing this?’ I said, ‘You know how I used to complain that I loved Bondi more when there were houses around the beach and it felt more like a community? That’s why,’” Mr Andersen said.

The concert’s convener and Bondi local Kilty O’Brien shared similar feelings about the pavilion.

Hoodoo Gurus perform at the Bondi Pavilion. Photo: Shane RennieH

Ms O’Brien has been leading the charge against the council’s redevelopment plans, ever since she heard that they would exclude her three daughters from their weekly dance classes on the Pavilion’s ground floor.

“Events like today unite the community and show the council that the community will act as one and that they value the importance of this pavilion. People always ask me at events like this, ‘why can’t the council put on these sorts of things?’ It makes us concerned as to why the

council doesn’t do that. Is it that they want to run the place down? Is it that they want people to think that nothing goes on here? We don’t have another community centre. That’s why people feel so strongly about it. There’s a purposeful neglect that’s been going on for at least half a decade.

There’s no support for it to be a vibrant cultural centre,” Ms O’Brien said.

Waverley Mayor Sally Betts has been at the forefront of redevelopment plans, and played down the concerns of the

campaigners when asked for comment by City Hub .

“Anyone who is currently using the Pavilion’s facilities will be able to when the plans have been seen through. Bondi Pavilion is desperately in need of drastic renovation.

The Pavilion in its current state is a national disgrace. Bondi is an iconic beach, it is the second most visited place in the country, and our facilities need to reflect that fact,” Ms Betts said.

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Dulwich Hill Development Debacle

By Lan i Oataway Inner West residents fear their suburb won’t cope under development plans linked with Sydney’s new Southwest Metro railway scheme.

The N SW Government’s Corridor Strategy has slated up to eight storey development projects to be built in Dulwich Hill.

Resident and member of the community run Save Dully Action Group Angel Ioannou said “Our infrastructure is already stretched thin… there are not enough resources for the influx of people coming.”

The Department of Planning and Environment’s twentyyear scheme promises an increase in local jobs, affordable housing and a boost in the streetscape’s character.

A Department of Planning and Environment Spokesperson said the strategy aims to harness the success of the Sydney Metro to improve communities.

But resident and member of the Save Dully Action Group Karen Campbell says this plan will backfire under explosive population growth.

“There are not enough jobs here to sustain more people.

No local workplace hubs are being created, which puts stress on the [railway] corridor ‘conga-line’ into the city,” Ms Campbell said.

The N SW Government’s scheme ignores vital services desperately needing improvement to compensate for this rise in population.

Mr Ioannou said “Schools are bursting, and there is hardly enough childcare. One childcare centre charges $100 to be on the waiting list.”

Deputy Minister of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Planning and Infrastructure Michael Daley said “It beggars belief that Mike Baird is happy to shove thousands of additional residents into an area without proper planning for the pressure additional population puts on schools and hospitals.”

But the Department Spokesperson defends the project’s research, claiming “The N SW Government is investigating a Special Infrastructure Contribution to help pay for infrastructure like schools, open space and road upgrades to support the new communities.”

The Save Dully Action Group outside the Dulwich Hill Baptist Church slated for redevelopment. Photo: ???????

The proposed areas marked for redevelopment bulldoze iconic local landmarks including Federation era houses and historic churches.

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Unmercenaries was hand built by Dulwich Hill’s Greek community forty

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years ago, and is drafted in an eight storey development zone.

Although the congregation refuses to accept developer’s payments, they are anxious overdevelopment will suffocate the Church.

A member of the congregation said “The Church is going to stay. But how will it stay here surrounded with units? I don’t agree with development here, they’re only thinking about themselves and profits. Already you can’t find parking here, it’s all full… There’s no infrastructure.”

Other early 20th century landmarks including Dulwich Hill Uniting Church, Baptist Church, a former maternity hospital and an early M P’s Californian Bungalow are all under threat from the government’s proposal.

Residents are criticising the Department’s planning as rushed and poorly designed, condemning the approach as severely lacking in clarity and engagement.

Ms Campbell said “There must be transparency. The development must be sympathetic and well planned with an overall rationale that people can get involved in.”

Mr Daley M P sees this experience as characteristic of the Baird Government, insisting “Without a doubt, locals are the experts in their area and the Government actually needs to start listening to their concerns.”

The Department defends their consultation process, numbering six drop in community visits and a tour of Dulwich Hill led by members of the Save Dully Action Group.

“A revised draft strategy and heritage reports will be released for community feedback in the near future, with locals encouraged to have their say,” said the Department Spokesperson.

The Greater Sydney Commission will release District Plans on the 21st of November, aimed at synchronising state plans with local governments.

The strategy will primarily tackle the issue of affordable housing for the corridor’s growing population, a key concern for the Dulwich Hill community.

Residents hope these future plans will provide clarity to many unanswered questions.

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Developers win hook, line and sinker at the Fish Market

BY JORDAN FERMANIS On Monday November 7 the NSW government announced a $250 million plan to relocate the Sydney Fish Market from the current site in Pyrmont to Glebe.

The Pyrmont site is scheduled to be replaced by almost 2700 new residential dwellings.

Last month City Hub reported on the ongoing dispute between Robert Deans, RMS, the Sydney Fish Market and developers Brookfield Multiplex.

In the new plan announced by UrbanGrowth, it states that a registration of interest process is underway which indicates that a developer has not been decided.

Local resident and former member of the Blackwattle Cove Coalition Robert Gavagna told City Hub that he is still perplexed as to why the Robert Deans plan for the redevelopment of the fish market was not considered.

“The State government has announced an alternate plan for the much needed redevelopment of Sydney Fish Market Pty Ltd. Although our community lacks knowledge of detail as to this plan, it obviously has the approval of the Sydney Fish Market and appears to also have the approval of the ‘supra’ state body UrbanGrowth. Unfortunately, the plan falls well short of the benefits that would flow from the Destination Blackwattle Bay plan,” Mr Gavagna said.

Mr Gavagna also raised concerns that new plan for the Fish Market would increase traffic congestion.

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“As I understand it, the Sydney Fish Market would be relocated and a new building will be placed on piers into the Bay. This approach would remove the Destination Blackwattle Bay feature of extending the

green of Wentworth Park to water’s edge.

Instead, Bridge Road would continue to build on its presently heavy traffic congestion,” Mr Gavagna said.

The new Fish Market site upgrade hinges

on the NSW government brokering a deal to purchase land owned by Joe Elias at the Blackwattle Bay Marina.

RMS and Joe Elias are currently negotiating the transfer of the lease option to Blackwattle Bay Marina, Elias was awarded the option to the site in 2009. which is the missing piece of the puzzle for the government to connect the land around the site for the proposed upgrade.

In 2014, Fairfax reported that Mr Elias had been introduced to the site by the son of disgraced former politician Eddie Obeid.

The new integrated proposal is the now accepted solution which Robert Deans from Deans Property Group had introduced as his Destination Blackwattle Bay solution.

Elizabeth Elenius from the Pyrmont Action Group says that the community did not receive any information on the development before Mike Baird’s announcement.

“It appears to be just one more piecemeal development.

“There has been no presentation of the Bays Precinct congestion or traffic plans. We are in information absence,” Ms Elenius said.

Robert Gavagna also expresses these views and said that the new proposal is “far too huge on residential development and far too limited on SFM development.”

Mike Baird announced that the new upgrade would see annual visitation double from three million per year to six million visitors annually.

Construction for the upgrade is due to start in 2018, to be completed by 2020.

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Entertainment, Gifts & Food Set for Newtown & Glebe

By Jemma Clarke

Book out your next two Sundays because festival season has begun! The notorious Newtown Festival is celebrates its 38th year of championing art, music, food and culture this Sunday, and Australia’s longest street fair is being held for its 33rd year in Glebe a week later, offering you an amazing chance to find some niche goodies as Christmas approaches.

Both events have a pleasing amount of entertainment that will tickle anyone’s fancy. Newtown Festival has over 40 entertainment acts including The Griswolds, All My Exes Live in Texas, and L-FRESH the Lion; while Glebe Street Fair has a number of workshop demonstrations including glass blowing, ceramics and blacksmithing, in addition to over 200 food stalls and electronica and reggae sets throughout the day and into the evening.

NEWTOWN FESTIVAL Photo: DianaShypula

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Gill Minervini, first time Festival Director for Newtown Festival says there will be something for everyone.“[There are] a combination of artists who came through the expression of interest we put out and artists we wanted to work with [and] every single performer is performing as a donation to the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre,” she said.All of the money raised will support preventing Inner West homelessness by funding the early intervention programs that local support services have on offer.

If you have a pretty pooch the cost of registration into

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the Newtown dog show will also go to this cause. As always the dog show is a rather popular event at Newtown Festival and registration opens at 9am on the day.There are doggie events all day including ‘Celebrity Look-a-like’,‘Pick up Poo’ (which challenges stigma and singles out the reigning champion picking up the most poos in less that 30 seconds) and ‘Champion BFFF Best Fury Friend Forever’, with every contestant receiving a prize at the end of the day.

The Newtown Locals (a collaborative of businesses who serve the Newtown community and the greater good) will also be there for the third year in a row and this time around they have a much larger and central Photo: Connor-Eyles

space to make eating an easy treat. Newtown Locals member Jake Smyth says:“It’s a bit of no brainer when it comes to the food being good.There are some of the best restaurants and cafes in the 2042 postcode coming together to collaborate to create some fun food.” The food they’ll have on offer will be no more than $10, with fresh and tasty ingredients.“The key message of the day is: come down and spend your money with us, only because the money goes straight back to the community,” added Smyth.

Meanwhile Glebe Street Fair promises a spectacular opening event and also focuses on giving all the proceeds from the day back to the community.

Director of this year’s fair, Kris Spann says:“Glebe Street Fair has always been run by a not-for-profit, which is the Chamber of Commerce, and that entity stimulates and celebrates the local economy… it’s all about what’s new in Glebe and celebrating its history.”

Starting at 10am a smoking ceremony conducted by a local Aboriginal Elder will run down the 1km stretch of street to cleanse and open up the space.This will lead into the opening ceremony which will be a discussion between Glebe’s Local Councillor, Jess Scully, State member Jaimie Parker and Federal member Tanya Plibersek.“It’s a chance for our representatives to show their connections to the area and share their connections to the area,” added Spann.

Another key event is the Greatest Waiter Race, which returns from its launch in 1984, challenging local waiters and waitresses to earn the prestigious title. They will have to prove that they are indeed the greatest waiter in Sydney by completing a number of tasks; such as setting up a table, balancing food and drinks around the perimeter of the street fair, and remembering complicated coffee orders. “It will be a really fun and interactive race,” said Kris, mentioning there will also be a comedian commentating this event.

Both Newtown Festival and Glebe Street Fair offer a day to celebrate each suburb’s unique diversity and culture. It allows local artists, musicians and business owners the chance to showcase their talents and passions while encouraging community members and tourists to engage and contribute – whether that is through listening to some cool new music, trying some delicious cuisine or shopping for some cool, interesting items. Take some time to check out what Newtown and Glebe have to offer and show your support.

Sunset Block Party, Polygraphia Photo: Michelle Owen

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Newtown Festival

Sunday Nov 13, 9:30am–5:30pm (9am for dog show registration).

Camperdown Memorial Rest Park. Donation on Entry. Info: www.newtownfestival.org

Glebe Street Fair

Sunday Nov 20, 10am–7:30pm (please note stalls close at 5:30pm while music continues until 7:30pm). Glebe Point Road, between Parramatta Road and Bridge Road, Glebe. Free.

Info: www.glebestreetfair.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Antigone

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A Life in the Theatre

Step inside the actor’s world with American playwright David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre – the story about the relationship between two actors, John and Robert. John has just joined the cast of a theatre company with Robert taking him under his wings.You see the relationship develop over a year.

Actor Akos Armont, who plays John, says his character is a bit naïve when he first enters the company. “[John] begins to learn lessons: life lessons, career lessons, philosophies and approaches to different aspects of performance, behaviours and professional etiquette,” he told City Hub. “He belongs to a different era, a different generation of performance, so I guess there is a nexus the play explores between generations and the handover of status and the handover of responsibility for the arts, or whatever industry

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you want to apply to, in the hands of the next generation.”

He explained that the Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s current production is authentically staged the way Mamet intended.

“We have American dialect, the story isn’t period specific, it could be in the backstage of any theatre in the world.”

Even if you’ve never acted professionally, you can relate to these characters.

“Anyone who is not necessarily familiar with the tropes and the traditions of the life in the theatre, there will be things they will be familiar with and I think some wonderful surprises for audiences as well in terms of what goes on backstage.” (AMal) Until Dec 4, evenings & matinees. Eternity Playhouse, 39 Burton St, Darlinghurst. $35-$49.Tickets & info: www.darlinghursttheatre.com/whats-on

The Angelica Complex

Three elements were the starting points for director Priscilla Jackman’s The Angelica Complex – sand, a cello, and an opera singer. From there the theme of postnatal depression was written through prose by co-creator Sunny Grace. Grace couldn’t connect with an opera singer, so Jackman sent her an aria, which inspired them.

“I found a really beautiful track from a Puccini opera so I sent it through to her… it turns out that song is the essential aria from a really rarely performed opera, which was written for all women,” she explained.“This opera from the 1700’s was about an illegitimate mother who lives in a convent and her name is Angelica.”

This production focuses on motherhood through the ages, and explores those themes through a number of mediums: humour, opera singing, video projections and poetic prose.

“This is a historical lineage of mothers and how we exist in this world,” Jackman explained.

“Our heroine Angelica is offset by a beautiful opera singer, our classical music speaks more to the historical lineage of women.

[There is a] theme of nature versus nurture throughout the process and it’s been exciting to explore creatively.”

Not only is the cast all female but the majority of the crew is too.Ten women and one man work together in this production, proving that girls really do run the world.

This performance will debut as part of Invisible Circus – a season of plays, performances and provocations written and directed by Australian women. (AMal) Until Nov 27, varied performance times. Kings Cross Theatre, Lvl 2 Kings Cross Hotel, 244-248 William St, Kings Cross. $20-$30.Tickets, info & full festival program: www.kingsxtheatre.com

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Sport for Jove theatre company close out their 2016 season with a new adaptation of a very old play, Sophocles’ Antigone, which dates back to the 5th Century in Athens.

Directed in a very contemporary style and setting by Damien Ryan and Terry Karabelas, who said: “The play still has deep relevance and importance to our contemporary society in regards to the duty we have to ourselves, our community and our government. It also helps us to understand the way we live in modern times as it also questions ‘what is justice? What is moral responsibility? And how are we to live good lives?’”

The main protagonist is a woman named Antigone who struggles with very confronting but timeless questions – how do we punish people who cause terror or harm to us? And as there is always the risk of turning them into

martyrs if we execute them, how do we dispose of their bodies?

Theatre has always been a mirror to society, and Antigone provokes us to think not just about our respective places in our communities, but also grapples with ideas such as the political, cultural and social structures of our time.

This production comes to Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres after residing at the Seymour Centre last month.

If you are interested in the morality of legally killing someone as punishment for a violent crime, this is a play not to be missed.A special new adaption of a timeless story that needs to be told. (DJ) Until Nov 12, evenings & matinees.

Riverside Theatres, cnr Church and Market Streets, Parramatta. $39-$19.Tickets & info: www.riversideparramatta.com.au or (02) 8839 3399

LIZA’S BACK! (IS BROKEN) “Irreverent, fabulous, ridiculous musical fun!” – the words Trevor Ashley uses to describe his latest foray into impersonating his greatest female icon.

LIZA’S BACK! (IS BROKEN) sees Ashley reprising his iconic drag tribute to Liza Minnelli.

There’s no doubting Minnelli is a true legend of Broadway, however Ashley feels she has had far too few roles on the musical stage. So what would happen if in one special night, Liza decided to perform all the great Broadway roles she never got to play?

Clearly he was onto something. LIZA’S BACK! (IS BROKEN) comes to the Opera House this weekend following critical acclaim in Melbourne and London, and a Sydney debut at the Hayes Theatre that sold out before it even opened.

Amongst belting out a range of iconic musical numbers, he counts a medley of songs from Wicked married with ‘We’re Off to See the Wizard’ from The Wizard of Oz as it’s biggest moment of genius.

Ashley’s Minnelli is as much a spoof of the original woman as it is a tribute from a sincere fan.

“Obviously there are some things that are a pisstake of her, but I do take her very seriously, and it shows,” he added.

But the question remains, is the real Liza aware of his Liza? “I know her people are aware of my

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Liza, they don’t like me very much!” he laughed.

“But I know a lot of her best friends and they all think I’m hysterical, so that’s nice.” (AM) Nov 11 + 12, 8.15pm.The Studio, Sydney Opera House. $85-$95.

Tickets & info: (02) 9250 7777 or www.sydneyoperahouse.com Want to WIN a double pass to see Trevor Ashley in LIZA’S BACK! (IS BROKEN) – email your name and contact details to media@abpublicity.com.au to go into the draw.

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Review: Faith Healer Review: Dracula Colin Friels. Photo: Brett Boardman

The Irish love to talk, so it’s just as well they’re good at it. Case in point: Faith Healer, now on at Belvoir St Theatre – an enthralling feast of language by eminent Irish writer Brian Friel.

In this nuanced piece of storytelling, Friel has the same narrative re-told in four successive monologues given by the three characters involved.

Each tells the shared memoir from their own perspective, turning and tilting the story to show different angles, hidden details.

Francis Hardy (Colin Friels) is the faith healer of the title. His healing power is, at best, sporadic, but he tours his show relentlessly, seeking the miracle that will validate him. Grace (Alison Whyte) is his wife, suffering his indifference and neglect because of her irrepressible devotion.Teddy (Pip Miller) is the life-long manager who sacrificed a potentially

successful career out of loyalty to Hardy – or was there another reason?

This production is directed by the venerable Judy Davis, who seems to have squeezed every last drop of skill from an already talented cast. Friels is absorbing as Hardy.Whyte’s heart-wrenching vocal performance is enhanced by the physicality she also brings. Miller is convivial and tragic in equal parts as Teddy the manager.

It’s not all gloomy – there are some very funny moments. It is however, a play for lovers of words and it does require focus.The script is dense and fast and the Irish accents, authentic and necessary though they be, do call for extra attentive listening.

But you will be rewarded for the effort. (RB) Until Nov 27. Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills.Tickets & info: www.belvoir.com.au

Sydney Live Guide LIVE WIRE Music

By Jamie Apps

Jordie Lane: Back from America with his long awaited first full-length studio album in five years, GLASSELLLAND (pronounced Glas-Sell-Land). The record is a personal account of the way Lane sees the world. Laden with heavy social themes, his lyrics are at times tragic, vain or facetious in delivery, and lathered with lush and sometimes frightening sonic landscapes.

Thu, Nov 10, Newtown Social Club Blues Banquet: A veritable feast of Australia’s finest blues musicians, Kate Lush, Liza Ohlback and Matt Ross, come together tomorrow night for a special showcase where each individual will perform their best tracks before a blinding gospel style finale.

Fri, Nov 11, Django Bar Edward R: The Melbourne songwriter and producer will embark on his first east coast tour this weekend, stopping in Sydney tomorrow evening. Showcasing his latest release, Call Me Home, Edward has reinforced his status as one of the most exciting rising Australian indie rock artists.

Fri, Nov 11,The World Bar Lost Ragas: This weekend Lost Ragas will launch their incredibly personal single ‘Where James Once Played’, which was written on the day friend and musician, James Cruickshank passed away. It’s a tribute to the late, great guitarist, his distinctive style and his contribution to the Australian music.

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Petra: Two of Sydney’s most celebrated music ensembles – Sydney Percussion and VOX (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ young adult choir) – will present a performance where voice and percussion combine to create a powerful, primeval musical force. The performance, Petra, will feature works of gravity and intricacy from a selection of celebrated composers. This highly anticipated collaboration will deliver a high voltage performance not to be missed.

Sun, Nov 13, Riverside Theatre Rob Guest Endowment Gala Concert: A night of exhilarating musical entertainment as the six Rob Guest Endowment Award finalists showcase their talent in the hope of taking home the highly coveted Award of $20,000. The six finalists for the 2015 Rob Guest Endowment are Du Toit Bredenkamp (The Sound of Music), Hilary Cole (Kinky Boots), Linden Furnell (Kinky Boots), Stefanie Jones (The Sound of Music), Genevieve Kingsford (Light in the Piazza) and Matthew Predny (Kinky Boots).

Mon, Nov 14, Sydney Lyric Theatre Shining Bird: With their unique brand of Australiana-infused dream-pop, Shining Bird continue to attract widespread praise and an ever-growing fanbase. The release of ‘Black Opal’ will further cement Shining Bird as one of the most exciting and unique Australian outfits around today.

Wed, Nov 16, Newtown Social Club

The Genesian Theatre company’s production of Dracula is an unapologetic meeting of melodrama and old school horror.The theatre’s home – a small yet impressive church building dating back to 1868 – funnily enough makes for a great location.

A young English solicitor, Jonathan Harker (Dimitri Armatas), is hired by an usual and exotic European count to facilitate his migration to England. However Harker’s employment soon turns to imprisonment, and it becomes apparent that the Count is in fact an ancient horror about to be unleashed on London. Back home Harker’s fiancé Mina (Cassady Maddox) and bosom friend Lucy (Madeline Boyle) are ripped from their lustful day dreaming by dark forces, meanwhile Renfield (Cormac James) a lunatic under the charge of Dr. John Seward (Nathan Bennett), one of Lucy’s friend-zoned suitors, bellows for his ‘master’s’ impending arrival.

American playwright Steven Dietz’ 1996 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s original Dracula sees a flurry of Victorian era dilemmas clash:

madness and sanity, science and the supernatural, social proprieties and the primal…

Admittedly, the first half grew a little droll for this reviewer. However Act 2 sees an exciting shift, as the audience are rewarded for the foreshadowing and plot building in the previous act.

The theatrics amp up – the actors wholly embrace the newfound sense of urgency; the unique theatre house is used to it’s best abilities, actors emerging from the back of the theatre and skirting the audience on their way back into the action; the set becomes surprisingly dynamic as trap doors and coffins spring out seemingly from nowhere.

Dracula is a worthy outing for fans of vintage horror, vampires, and the elevating spirit of independent, community theatre. (AM) Until Dec 3; Fri + Sat 8pm, Sun 4.30pm.

Genesian Theatre, 430 Kent St, Sydney. $25-$30.Tickets & info: www.genesiantheatre.com.au

Kontiki Racket

By Jamie Apps This weekend Ensemble Offspring present their inaugural Kontiki Racket, a music festival extravaganza which brings new sounds from around the world to the Nest Creative Space, a brand new music venue for Sydney.

Claire Edwardes, Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring, explained that Kontiki Ensemble Offspring Photo: Heidrun Lohr Racket was something they had been planning for “a couple of years” as they have always colleagues and a few artists who used the space wanted to “start a little festival of our own.” as a studio.When we visited though we realised Bringing in artists from all around the globe it is a really awesome potential music venue, isn’t all that foreign to Ensemble Offspring, but there’s a quite a large open space between all the the logistical aspects of doing so “within a studio spaces” reflected Edwardes short period of time” was challenging.

Obviously using a brand new venue for an Another vital aspect which proved to be quite event of this nature meant shipping in a lot of difficult was finding a venue which meshed lighting and sound equipment, but as Claire with their vision for the festival, luckily stressed: “it’s worth it because there is such a however they stumbled across the Nest dearth of venue possibilities in Sydney and Creative Space. we’re really excited to show everyone this “[The venue] was recommended to us by space, which is perfect for our music.”

Wallis Bird – Home

A beautiful Irish voice comes through a stark background, the warm accent brushes the listeners ears, encouraging familiarity. Be still and listen, the voice of Wallis Bird will take her time. She will let you in, soon, but not yet.

The record builds itself up like a river making its way to the ocean, other waters adding to the growing rhythms.Watch it grow, organic in parts and aided in others, continuing to flow, making its own path.

Branching off into deeper darker rhythms, playing, leading, unmapped but not lost, led by something inside the music, some instinct that does not reveal its connections between steps.

Bird’s music is not hindered by the need for predictability, it is fresh, new and mysterious. It is also too short to properly take in, the listener will want to go back and to imbibe the mystery. (SP) WWW

Kontiki Racket will continue to push Ensemble Offspring’s mantra of showcasing the top local talent within a global context. In order to do this they have a number of their Hatched Academy graduates performing on the bill alongside internationally regarded musicians and composers.

“Of course we can’t take complete credit for these graduates, but we’ve contributed to their journey. So it’s lovely to see them blossom and have success professionally,” Edwardes glowed.

Unlike most music festivals, Kontiki Racket isn’t all about the performances though.Attendees also have the option of signing up for what Ensemble Offspring is calling “speed dating” sessions with new music figure heads across multiple disciplines.These sessions will give the participants the opportunity to engage with industry mentors one-on-one for fifteen minutes and have all of their questions answered.

Nov 12–13. Nest Creative Space, 298 Botany Rd, Alexandria. $35-$100+b.f.

Tickets & info: http://tix.yt/kontikiracket

Harts – Smoke Fire Hope Desire

A protégée of Prince, Harts (aka Darren Hart) was on the brink of quitting music when a phone call from the late, great pop icon changed the course of his career.

His latest release, 14-track LP Smoke Fire Hope Desire, showcases the prodigious talent that first made Prince stop and take notice – he even went so far as to fly Harts out to Paisley Studios to work with him.

The alt-psych-rock brand of indie that Harts writes, records, and produces wholly on his own echoes other greats including Lenny Kravitz and Jimi Hendrix.Yet, is also stands on its own as a fresh and original sound with hits like ‘Power’ and ‘Fear in Me’ striking a chord with audiences of all ages.

Each track balances huge amounts of emotion and energy, without being overwhelming to the ear. It is, quite simply, all killer no filler. (CB) WWWW

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THE NAKED CITY

THE UNCHANGING FACE OF SYDNEY

With Coffin Ed Everyday we are assailed with the latest images of the ‘changing face of Sydney’, from the towering monoliths of Barangaroo to the glitzy new structures in Darling Harbour. It seems the rampant internationalisation of Sydney knows no boundaries, but amidst the drive to build even bigger and better, some things in the Harbour City remain sadly the same – stagnant to the point where they are clearly an embarrassment.

Want to come on a tour and check out those pockets of the city which haven’t changed in twenty or thirty years and are desperately in need of some kind of rejuvenation? What more wretched place to start than Tom Uren Place in downtown Woolloomooloo, once part of the great Labor minister’s plan to unite the community with a common meeting place. For decades it’s been home to up to sixty homeless men sleeping rough each night, and in recent years has deteriorated to its lowest ebb – grubby, graffiti daubed and hosed down by the Council each day to rid the stink of urine. Successive State Governments and City Councils have failed to do anything about the area and the plight of the homeless men who sleep there.

Meanwhile down in Eddy Avenue, Sydney’s so called interstate and regional bus “terminal” has become a haven for the city’s most aggressive panhandlers, preying on backpackers and other budget travellers as they wait for their coaches. Most so called international cities, and many lesser ones as well, have a proper indoor bus terminal where passengers can wait in relative comfort and safety. In Sydney passengers assemble in a dingy concourse combating regular demands for “any spare change” and the vagaries of the weather.

Not far away, Belmore Park has long been regarded as somewhere not to linger after dark. Apart from the regular elderly Chinese men and women who practice their morning Tai Chi, the Park has always had an anti-social, down and out kind of vibe, highlighted recently by the tent city for the homeless.

These days it remains little more than a walkway between Central Railway and the CBD. Please – put a café in it,

Quantum Words Festival

children’s books, poetry, literary fiction or journalism.

When asked what particular outcome or impact she’d like to see with this festival, Jane responded: “More writers being inspired by science. More scientists engaging with writing.”

Opening the festival with a keynote address, Nobel Prize winner Peter Dohery is a highlighted act. He will be joined at the festival by many esteemed novelists, evolutionary biologists and astronomers.

Jane’s list of top picks for must see speakers also includes: “novelist James Bradley, Twitter star Upulie Divisekara, [and] expert in Indigenous knowledge systems Tony Birch”. (KH) Nov 12, 10am-6pm.

NSW Writers’ Centre, Callan Park, Balmain Rd, Rozelle. $50-$90.

Tickets & info: www.nswc.org.au

“Science and exploring writing” – words that come to mind when festival director Jane McCredie (a science writer and former science publisher) is asked to describe the Quantum Words Festival, coming to Sydney this Saturday.

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William Street has long been envisioned as a potential grand boulevard sweeping majestically from the CBD to the bright lights of the Cross. Numerous plans have been vaunted but very little has been done and today it remains very much a mixed bag of bland office buildings, car rentals, backpackers and convenience stores. The area above the Eastern distributor is a shabby concrete wasteland. At night a few old school transsexual hookers still ply their trade as the odd gutter crawler drives by. By day it’s just another clogged traffic artery in desperate need of a triple bypass.

The tour could go on forever, but let’s kill all this despair with a comment on the brutalist UTS Tower on Broadway. For years it’s dominated the landscape, and despite the emergence of more attractive surrounding structures, it still bears a bleak and foreboding appearance, reminiscent of the worst of neo-Stalinist, Soviet style architecture. Suggestions have been made as to what could be done to lessen the tower’s concrete overkill, like painting it white or even tearing it down altogether. Perhaps the best idea would be to follow the example of the nearby Central Park complex, with its abundant vegetation and a building recently voted the greenest in the world.

Think of the UTS Tower as a giant Chia pet, consumed by a vertical jungle of vines, creepers and other assorted greenage and home to all manner of native fauna. Knock out those pokey windows and allow the plant life to infiltrate the building. Imagine being able to reach out and pick passionfruit on the 27th Floor.

That would brighten up any tutorial!

Sydney-based artist Ella Barclay conjures an eerie techno dystopia in her multidisciplinary solo show I Had To Do It, currently on show at UTS Gallery.

Incorporating mist and liquids, video projections, bespoke electronics, plastics, paint, and old and new lighting technologies, Barclay explores our omnipresent encounters with technology.

The artist bridges the disconnection between our abstract idea of computer systems and their reality by reimagining the complex backend of mysteries that lies behind the sleek and convenient tools and communication technologies we have come dependent on.

The viewer is immersed in this science-fiction world as they traverse the exhibition on a guided trajectory, each new artwork serving as a different encounter with the artist’s heated imagination. The centrepiece, a suspended tank work in which projected figures appear to emerge from the swirling mist.

Barclay has exhibited extensively in Sydney and internationally. I Had To Do It was developed at the Australia Council’s ACME studio in London, and in residence at Casula Powerhouse. As the place where creativity and technology meet, the UTS Gallery is the perfect place to house this brilliantly unsettling and wholly contemporary body of work. (AM) Until Nov 25; Mon-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm.

UTS Gallery, lvl 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo.

Info: art.uts.edu.au

Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

The Accountant

National Theatre Live: Threepenny Opera It is utterly vulgar, ridiculously camp, irresponsibly amoral, absolutely hilarious and thoroughly entertaining. Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill is a raucous unrelenting romp through debauchery and crime. Written in 1928, it feels like the naughtier, less restrained grandfather of Cabaret and The Rocky Horror Show.

The recent production by the prestigious National Theatre in London has been filmed and made available in cinemas as part of the NT Live series. With various camera views, high production values and excellent sound recording, cinema goers will feel one with the

live audience – to the extent that they’ll join in the applause.

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