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Black Lives Matter movement comes to Sydney

Sparks fly a fiery Hanson arrives in Ultimo

BY CHARLOTTE GRIEVE The police killings of the two AfricanAmerican men in Minnesota and Louisiana earlier this month has seen the proliferation of street protests and vigils around the world.

The deaths have opened up wider questions about police brutality and racially-motivated discrimination and violence. These issues, among others, have given momentum to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement spearheaded in 2013.

What originally began as a social media hashtag, the BLM movement is now sweeping across the globe highlighting instances of injustice faced by minority groups around the world.

“When I say Black Lives Matter, I also mean women’s lives matter, Palestinians, LGBTQI peoples, anyone who is affected by profiling or brutality. It’s about unity not segregation” said Enoch Mailangi.

On Saturday, July 16, hundreds of people gathered at the City of Sydney’s Town Hall wearing all-black outfits to march in solidarity with the BLM movement.

The rally was organised by Enoch Mailangi and Keisha Gibson who wanted to capitalise on the movement’s momentum to highlight ongoing and overlooked injustices faced by indigenous Australians.

“We’re in a climate of denial. Indigenous issues are never covered in our mainstream media, it’s not something the public are aware of,” Mr Mailangi said.

“The difference between African American deaths in custody and Aboriginal deaths in custody is that African American deaths make it all over the news whereas Aboriginal deaths are hidden,” Bidjari Elder and activist, Ken Canning told City Hub. Latest figures have shown that while indigenous Australians represent only three per cent of the total population, they account for more than 28 per cent of Australia’s prison population.

BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS Violence erupted between rival protestors outside Ultimo’s ABC HQ on Monday night leading to the arrest of five people.

A Facebook page for the group protesting Hanson’s appearance on the show said that they were trying to stop a return to the 1990s where the Asian community suffered a number of racially motivated attacks following the rise of Pauline Hanson.

Speaking to City Hub following the rally, organizer Omar Hassan said that the rally had been a real success.

“We were vindicated for criticizing the ABC,” Socialist Alternative member Mr Hassan, said.

“The program itself was incredibly foul propaganda from Hanson: Her championing of Sonia Kruger’s comments, her decision to blame terrorism on the Muslim community.”

“It is important that we as a community unite and say racism is not on, and that is why we are so concerned she keeps getting these platforms.”

On the television program itself, Hanson distanced herself from the protestors saying that they were trying to obstruct freedom of speech.

But Mr Hassan highlighted the danger of repeatedly giving such views a platform.

“Hanson is a vile racist, and her emergence in the 90s corresponded with a wave of racist attacks against the Asian community,” the post on the Facebook event read.

“This time - following on from decades of vilification by Labor and Liberal governments - she’s focusing on Muslims, but the essence of her politics is the same. The way she was defeated in the 90s was through mass, militant actions which challenged her every time she showed her face in public.”

One contributor to the event’s Facebook page said: as the classic Shakspearean rhyming couplet goes; “follow your leader/ kill yourself like Adolf Hitler.””

Mr Hassan said Ms Hanson had nothing to offer the public.

“She is an expert in nothing but racism -- she has been paid as an expert in terrorism on Channel 7. Pauline has a huge platform; we’re simply not given the media platform,” he said.

Mr Hassan said the fact that they were able to mobilise between two and three hundred people at 8.30pm on a winter’s night was testament to how widespread the concern over Hanson’s statements are.

The rally on Sunday. Photo: Charlotte Grieve

Speaking at the event, Marcia Mason told the story of her brother, a father of four Indigenous man, Mark Mason, who died at the hands of the Australian police.

“The shooter, killer has been given a valour award” she said.

“This has to stop. Accountability must come to force. We need to bring integrity back to the police force. We need charges laid” Mrs Mason told the crowd.

Twenty-five years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report, Mr Canning sees the issue as simply “getting worse.”

“Nothing has happened, it shouldn’t be like this” he said. High-profile deaths such as that of Ms Dhu has drawn attention to the continued prevalence of police brutality towards indigenous Australians throughout the country. However, also speaking at the

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rally, Mr McAleer, argued that these were not isolated incidents.

“There are not just a few bad apples in the police force, the whole institution is rotten to the core,” he said.

Concerns surrounded the rally after snipers took out five police officers at the Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas earlier this month.

Riot squads and mounted police oversaw the crowd as they marched from Town Hall to the American Consulate in Martin Place.

On Sunday, July 17, thousands of Melbournians held a BLM protest outside the State Library. Mr Canning reminded the crowd that although the protest was held “under tragic circumstances,” he feels confident for the movement’s ability to bring these issues to the fore.

“We now have a united front of people who want justice” he said.

Albanese lends momentum to SCA campaign

BY LUCAS BAIRD The Shadow Minister for Cities, Tourism, and Infrastructure and Transport has leant support to a movement critical of the merger of the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) and UNSW’s arts faculty.

Anthony Albanese appeared on the steps of the NSW Art Gallery with over 100 other protesters from the Let SCA Stay group and spoke out against the proposed amalgamation that was announced last month.

Mr Albanese said that the SCA was important to Sydney and slammed the “commercial imperative” that would see the schools merge.

“The idea that the SCA is the same as an urban design faculty, is the same as other institutions at UNSW and serves the same purpose misses the whole point. It is also a focal point of the InnerWest community,” he said.

“Not only have the students of SCA been given any certainty of their future, of what will happen to them from 2017. The local community, the businesses of Darling St and Balmain Rd that rely upon the students and teachers for their living.

The residents of the Inner-West who are looking for the Callan Park site to actually build the cultural diversity and build the cultural activity are concerned also of whether this is a sell of of that land or for inappropriate use.”

“Art is something that you can’t always put a dollar sign on.”

Let SCA Stay organiser, Eila Vinwyn, said that this was an example of the support and

The vigil. Source: supplied

momentum they have gained throughout their campaign.

“We are gathering incredible momentum…

It’s not even one month and we have gathered massive support,” she told City Hub. “We have got support from the Sydney College of the Arts, from national art schools, from NAVA, from other artists, and a lot of social commentators are on board with us. It feels like it is just the beginning and already we have reached so many.”

Ms Vinwyn said that it was a “sign that all areas of politics aren’t about crash and burn (sic) for

arts” and praised Mr Albanese for standing up for cultural issues.

The event took place the same day that the winners of the prestigious Archibald Prize was to be announced at the NSW Art Gallery.

The protesters were wearing red and white, and held signs with messages in support of the SCA. The protesters remained silent for majority of the vigil, with occasional breaks in the silence to clap out SOS in morse code.

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Homeless at Wentworth Park face uncertain future

BY LUCAS BAIRD. “City staff visit Wentworth Park While the focus at Wentworth regularly to link people who are Park lately has been squarely sleeping rough with support services on the under siege Greyhound and work with people in the park Racing Industry, there is another to maintain the amenity for all park oft-forgotten community feeling users,” they said. vulnerable.

“The City follows the guidelines The homeless who have of the NSW Homeless protocol for stationed themselves underneath the Homeless People in Public Places.

Wentworth Park arches believe that The Protocol acknowledges that, the removal of the racing track and like all other members of the public, the temporary placement of Ultimo people experiencing homelessness school children at the park leave have a right to be in public places them under threat. and to participate in public events, at Neil (right) believes it will not be long before Council The homeless community in the same time respecting the right of try to move them on from Wentworth park Wentworth Park have lived under local communities to live in a safe and the arches for many years in tents, and have previously been the peaceful environment.” subject of pushes to “cleanse” the park of the less fortunate.

“City staff will continue to follow these guidelines as Wentworth De facto leader of the community, ‘Uncle’ Neil has fears for the Park undergoes changes in the future.” future of the community.

However, Neil remains uncertain of what the future holds for the He told City Hub that he believes that the City of Sydney will community. He said that Council do not understand their needs and soon look to evict the community as the City looks to “sweep all the want them out of the park. homeless under the carpet”.

The council has denied this, claiming that they have never asked He said he believed that despite the council making appearances to the homeless at Wentworth Park to move on and that “no one will be show support for the community, the City wants them out and new asked to move on or be denied entry to the park at any stage”. projects at the park will give them the justification they need.

However, this is at odds with one council worker; who said that He said that the City has increased the number and severity of they were given instructions to remove members of the community checks it does, confiscating items that extend beyond their tents like from the park in February last year. chairs and gas cookers.

The community has also faced scrutiny from the Ultimo Public A City of Sydney Spokesperson told City Hub that the Council School P and C, who feel uncomfortable with the community so does in fact take these items from the community because they block close to the school’s temporary location. areas for public use and pose danger to the public using the park.

They attempted to tell the NSW Government that they were Neil described these justifications as “rubbish” pointing out that the uncomfortable with the homeless community’s proximity to the chairs and cookers they use remain close to the tents and under the temporary site but their concerns were dismissed because the arches which the public rarely ever use. demountables will be set down on the opposite side of the park.

The City’s spokesperson also pointed out that the homeless The Ultimo Public School P and C told City Hub that they are not happy with this decision because it is “a quick walk from the camps at Wentworth Park are not their responsibility but are the NSW to the demountable sites”. government’s and they help nonetheless.

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Both of these projects are unjustified. They have disastrous consequences not just for the City but also for the State and Federal economies too and if gone unchecked we will have future generations asking: “how did they let this happen?”

WestConnex is Australia’s most expensive toll road project and will seriously affect our city, our neighbourhoods, and our capacity to meet future transport needs and address dangerous climate change impacts.

The Central to Eveleigh corridor and in particular the Waterloo Estate is an example of UrbanGrowth NSW and the NSW Government prioritising profit over public good. The suggested residential densities for a precinct this size are shocking and far greater than anything seen in Australia and are rare internationally. The flow on impacts for our neighbourhoods outside the precinct, including parts of Alexandria, Surry Hills, Redfern and Chippendale, are also concerning.

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Clover’s candidates keep City guessing

BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS Only two Councillors from Clover Moore’s Independent Party will remain in the party following the September Council election.

The order of the ticket is yet to be announced, but new personalities that could be gracing the corridors of power include the former AMA President Kerryn Phelps and prominent architect, Philip Tallis.

Also on the list is Jess Miller, a sustainable living advocate originally from Victoria, as well as Jess Scully, a curator for TedX Sydney and the Vivid Ideas festival.

Robert Kok along with Clover Moore is the only remaining Councilor remaining, following the retirement of Councilors Jenny Green and John Mant.

“This new team of Independents will work with me to take things up a notch - to amplify our leading action on climate change, our investment in creative industries, our work to increase affordable housing, design excellence and sustainable urban development, our massive investment in infrastructure and our strong commitment to sustainable transport. We will continue to serve all our diverse communities,” said Ms Moore in a statement.

Kerryn Phelps told City Hub she believes her strong understanding of governance and intergovernmental relations will be what she brings to City Hall should she be successful on the Clover Moore ticket.

Ms Phelps, who lives with her partner Jaquie in Potts Point with one of their children, owns a medical practice in Surry Hills.

Speaking to City Hub, Ms Phelps said that she approached the chance to serve on the council like she did medical practice: “In life and politics do no

Catherine Lezer, Kerryn Phelps, Philip Thalis, Clover Moore, Jess Scully, Jess Miller and Robert Kok. Photo: Jacquie Manning (supplied)

harm— by focusing on health and wellbeing.”

For Ms Phelps, the general nature of the portfolio of a councillor is what is appealing.

“The thing about city governance is that you are across all portfolios, you may have an interest in public open space for example, but you need to be across everything, you need to have that holistic view, that is one of the attractions for me about local government.”

She thinks the City is at a “tipping point” where

developer’s interests are taking priority over the sustainability and liveability of the City.

She thinks the best way to ensure the future benefit of the City is to focus on its liveability, sustainability and environmental care. She believes these are the factors that will make the City an attractive place for businesses and residents alike.

Ms Phelps has had a long career in the field of medicine graduating from the University of Sydney in 1980. She hopes her experience as a business

Sydney Matters has Town Hall in tatters

BY CHRISTOPHER addressing concerns on both HARRIS sides.”

While Clover Moore “We need to be less announced her ticket with a clunky, more proactive, splash last Sunday, Angela more concerned with our Vithoulkas’s Sydney Matters residents, than political goal Party has been quietly scoring,” Ms Vithoulkas dipping its toe into the pool said. She said that for of candidates for the City’s everyday people, notions of upcoming election. conceptual art should come The small business owner second to the three Rs of now has five candidates. local council – roads, rates, Similarly to the Clover and recycling.

Moore team, the field “The people have a displays a diversity of right to be angry, when the experience. It ranges from council’s immediate concern an owner of a CBD based should be roads rates migration law firm, to the and rubbish. When those Ms Vithoulkas. Source: supplied founder of Startup Daily, immediate concerns aren’t a newsletter for startup companies in the City of addressed, and council has lost its way and focus Sydney. on the everyday amenity, of the people it serves Ms Vithoulkas said that she has learnt a lot since and it is self-indulgent on projects that most people entering local politics four years ago, including aren’t going to benefit from immediately, and you’ve juggling the workload of running a small business got three kids trying to get out of the car and into with the role of Council. the house, you’re not happy and not going to care According to Vithoulkas, residents and business where the milk crate goes.” owners in the have become cumulatively annoyed Vithoulkas is critical of Clover Moore’s Party’s with how Council decisions has affected them. inaction on many issues.

She said the Council has not thought properly “Because I don’t have big party affiliations, I am and reacted quickly to the fallout of bad decisions. free to work with all levels of government and all “There is a new government language of parties to get the right outcomes. That is the greatest unintended consequences,” Ms Vithoulkas told City difference, I am a new true independent. I don’t Hub. She said that people are annoyed with how have baggage,” she said. things have been handled and that the fallout of “I am all about common sense, good fast decisions hasn’t been minimized. decisions to make strong difference to get positive She cites the example of parking in Paddington as outcomes. I don’t do a blame game, I don’t blame totemic of Council’s inaction. another level of government and walk away.”

“Paddington is a great example of where people She said she was hopeful about the prospect of are unhappy most of the time.” being Lord Mayor.

“Residents support the local economy—people “Thankfully being a small business owner, I can who have businesses there need locals to support shift my responsibilities, I am looking forward to them – it is Council’s job to make sure they are running a successful lord mayor campaign.”

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owner of her Surry Hills medical practice will be of benefit to understanding the needs and challenges of the City’s businesses.

“I understand the needs of business management—I have a two adult children and Jackie and I have a teenager, we are connected with what families need. I like to think that I have a very personal understanding of being a resident in the City, and what business needs from City council.”

She says the decision to run for council wasn’t taken lightly: “It has been a long process of consideration.”

“I have been a long term admirer of Clover Moore. She is an effective Lord Mayor, and was an effective independent local member when she was in State Parliament,” she said.

The decision not to run with a mainstream political party was the fact that there has been a need for a “critical eye” over development and building in the city.

“There needs to be a level of accountability to the residents, that isn’t governed by Macquarie Street or Canberra.”

Anyone who thought that a career in medicine is disparate from a shot at local council would differ with Ms Phelps.

She believes her experience as president of the AMA has given her experience in governance and managing systems that will be of huge benefit at a council level.

“I think I am well qualified for the position. I understand how systems work, having run the AMA in Canberra, and at state level. I understand how state and federal government works, and I am interested in how political systems influence people’s lives,” she said.

The order of the ticket is expected to be confirmed after the electoral role closes in August.

Big ideas come together to find ultimate Ultimo Speakers at the rally

BY OLIVIA STANLEY Students, entrepreneurs and community leaders gathered at the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo on Tuesday night to showcase solutions to local sustainability issues.

The venue played host to The Greenhouse, a monthly event exploring sustainable problem-solving, along with first year students from the University of Technology Sydney’s Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) program.

The Greenhouse project’s co-founder, Murray Hogarth, described it as “Sydney’s place to network on environmental and sustainability issues.”

“I think sustainability is a lens for all of the main challenges and opportunities for an area in the 21st century. It’s essentially about economic, environmental and social issues, and not trading one off against the other,” he said.

Issues such as hostility of the visual environment, lack of community dialogue and absence of green spaces were examined by the university students, who focused on generating creative fixes.

One group proposed covering the bridge over Darling Harbour (carrying the multilane Western Distributor freeway) in LED panels to make it ‘disappear’. This would

connect the experience of the harbour precinct with Tumbalong Park, the BCII students said.

The team conducted fieldwork to identify problems with the popular tourist space.

“We actually timed the space, the time it took for people to walk through the park area as opposed to underneath the underpass, and we noticed that people were just speeding past that area, instead of enjoying the environment and communicating with others,” said team member Hannah Tavener Hanks.

“We found that an LED screen was a very simple solution technology-wise, but it was adaptable” said Monique Liwanag, another team member.

The panels would display natural environments like a cloudy sky, or exhibit artwork.

“It’s bringing nature back into this concrete jungle” said Bianca Raviraj, also part of the team of first-year students.

The group hopes to expand the project’s planning phase to make it a viable possibility in the future.

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City of Sydney looks to the sky in largest development in three decades

BY JORDAN FERMANIS The City of Sydney last week announced its most ambitious development of the CBD since the 1970s which has left some members of the community concerned with fears of overdevelopment.

The Central Sydney Planning strategy has revealed a development plan which will radically change the face of the city precinct. This latest development accelerates the ‘Manhattanisation’ of Sydney to levels unseen in recent memory.

The first key development is to increase the height limits of buildings in the CBD to in excess of 300 metres, 75 metres higher than the current height restrictions. This would mean that newly constructed buildings could be as tall as Sydney Tower (formally known as the Centrepoint Tower).

The second phase of the plan is to unlock 2.9 million square metres of floorspace in the CBD, a move which the City council says will provide up to 100,000 jobs. According to the City of Sydney, Between 1991 and 2012, Central Sydney’s employment population grew by close to 50 per cent and is expected to swell to 380 000 workers by 2036.

However the community has concerns that this increase in development could see Sydney living with the same density issues as cities like Hong Kong. Tony Rescei, President of Save Our Suburbs says that he has concerns that the Sydney CBD is becoming too congested.

“More and more high rise means more and more congestion.”

“Increasing the centralization means that Sydney is an increasingly undesirable place to live,” Mr Rescei told City Hub. In a media statement the Lord Mayor said that the development was focused on the economic future of Sydney and failed to mention anything which reacted to community concerns of overdevelopment.

“Past planning strategies have successfully increased the number of residential buildings in the city centre, but now we need to protect and increase the amount of productive floor space

The skyline is set to get a little taller.

Source: supplied

to maintain Sydney’s economic vitality and resilience,” the Lord Mayor said.

City Councillor Linda Scott says that the Sydney Planning Strategy is “too little, too late” but that she supports the development decision.

“Whilst I welcome a call for developer contributions to be collected in Sydney’s CBD to support the provision of affordable housing, this is too little, too late from Lord Mayor Clover Moore.”

“Over 12 years, as the Lord Mayor has continued to reject the need for Council action to address housing affordability, the problem has reached crisis point in the City of Sydney,” Clr Scott said.

Dr Phillip Oldfield is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Built Environment who points out that a development of this size must accompany a public transport system that can take the influx of people.

“You’re talking about increase in floorspace of 30% in the CBD. What you are going to have is hundreds of thousands of extra people on the public transport system at the same time.”

“For me, there is going to need to be an associate investment in public transport and other infrastructure to cater for that increased density,” Dr Oldfield said.

Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies at Western Sydney University Dr Dallas Rogers agrees, adding that the City should look to incorporate “transport-lead development” which matches increases in development with appropriate increases in public transport, a planning principle popular in many Asian cities.

“We should have increased density around transport nodes and it should flow out from those areas. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with density, density is a good thing for cities but we

need to get the balance right,” Dr Rogers said.

With parts of the Barangaroo development opening this year and the announcement of more development in the CBD, it is more imperative than ever that Sydney’s crippling public transport system improves dramatically.

City Greens Councillor Lindsay Johnston says that The Central Planning Strategy proposal must work within existing legal guidelines and must ensure proper community consultation.

“Height restrictions and it is continually being exceeded and overriding the planning controls of the city and the Greens are opposed to that.”

“The planning controls are put in place, the community has that expectation and when local government and state government continually exceed these and breach the community’s expectations we think that is totally unacceptable,” Mr Johnston said.

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Event Cinemas is helping keeping Cult Cinema Classics rolling, as it announces another of its rich and diverse In The House film series. Season Zero commencing Friday 22 July with Big Trouble in Little China at Event Cinemas George st.

Each film in the series gets the red carpet treatment it deserves and nearly all sessions sell out to capacity.

But it is less like a cinema on the inside, each film screening is delivered in a more friendly mode: in such a way as to be like watching a film at a friend’s house.

Hosting the event, Jason Jabba Davis from Channel 7 and David Quinny Quinn from Supa 8

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Nova facilitate a discussion and review before the screening of the film.

Enthusiastic games will be played, the film will be discussed, and the audience members will walk away with fun prizes.

The hosts will give their own considered critique of the film.

There will of course be special guests coming along to the screenings. In past seasons, the event has included Don McAlpine DOP from Predator and even a performance from the umbilical bros.

Things can get a little freaky at a cult classic screening.

“Have you ever seen four hundred people playing heads & tails or paper scissors rock before seeing a film in the auditorium -- it’s quite amazing,” Event Cinemas George St General Manager, Anthony Kierann said.

A showing on the big screen is a rarity for many classic films.

“What is wonderful is seeing parents bring they’re young and adult children to share the experience that parents had years ago. People are also attending to see the films that instigated Stella film careers of directors and actors.“ While people may know the ending to the

film, how things will pan out off screen will have people guessing.

“I can’t say exactly what to expect as each evening takes us by surprise.” Anthony Kierann said.

Audience members have the power to help select the film that Event Cinemas will be showing during the series.

The Event Cinema Team love selecting a range of fantastic classic and cult films to go see, but they would love to have your input too.

All you have to do it go to the In the House Facebook page and let them know what you want on the silver screen.

“It’s not about simply opening the door, it’s about entering our house, so relax enjoy come have something to say and be swept away by the In The House night at the movies,“ Anthony Kierann said.

Event Cinemas George St 505-525 George St, Sydney NSW 2000 Phone: 9273 7300 UPCOMING FILMS: Big Trouble in Little China Friday 22 July 7pm Donnie Darko Friday 5 August 7pm Serenity Friday 22 August 7pm

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paying for your art

By Jamie Apps When a person has an artistic vision or dream they simply want to be seen or heard, they aren’t necessarily in it for the financial rewards.With government funding forthe arts drastically cut, these visions are becoming harder to realise, which is why an increasing number of arts organisations such as Word Travels,The Red Rattler, Gratia and now Tropfest have been going down the not-for-profit (NFP) road.

Co-Founder of The Red Rattler Teresa Avila reflected sentiments of the wider arts community by saying:“Now that the political environment is f***ed and there is basically no arts funding available, it’s more important than ever to keep these types of venues sustainable, autonomous and without the massive need for external funding from the government or corporate entities.”

In order to finance and support these NFP entities, Australia is going to have reconsider how they value art and creativity and the means by which it is funded. For Word Travels founder Miles Merrill it is not about whether something has a dollar value attached to it or can compete in a market economy, rather “there are certain parts of culture and human experience that we have to value”. Poet Kaveh Arya added that “without a strong arts community we become very culture poor”.

The decisions made by the government have forced the hand of some within the arts community, Tropfest has recently announced that as they progress into the future they will now be NFP, “This was not a decision made overnight. A move to NFP ensures that we will have the appropriate governance, structures and financial sustainability to ensure we grow as a business, in turn creating programs and pathways for Australian filmmakers.” explained General Manager Ben Bartlett.

Others have been NFP for a while.The Red Rattler has been a NFP community organisation since its inception in 2008, and Word Travels have been operating under this business model since 2010. Both of these organisations have been leaders in the sector and have many lessons to teach others as they enter into the space.

Miles Merrill. Photo: Chris Peken

From The Red Rattler’s perspective the biggest thing they can teach others is the amount of sacrifice and hard work it requires to simply keep the doors open whilst also growing and securing other funding sources.

“Opening The Rat was a pretty big endeavor for five people, we had to put ourselves into personal debt because we had $200,000 in startup costs just to convert the dirty greasy space into the venue on top of the $600,000 mortgage between the five of us.” reflected Avila.

Over the years however the organisation has managed to slowly sell off those founder shares to the business itself in order to become 60 percent community owned as it currently stands, with the final 40 percent to be sold off over the next two years.

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More recently though The Red Rattler has been granted Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status, which allows for anybody to make a tax-deductible financial donation to the venue. “We’ve been going through that process for at least four years because there are a lot of regulatory requirements that have to be met,” explained Janine Marshman, Director of The Red Rattler. Gaining this status will allow us to “support programs within the space and support artists presenting their work at the venue”.

Word Travels founder Miles Merrill told City Hub how becoming a NFP entity was a lot more work than many would think looking in from the outside, but it also has some very important advantages.

“There’s a lot of spreadsheets and administration, or

what I call the boring side of fun, so you have to be excited and dedicated to the outcomes and final results.”

The major advantage to becoming an NFP entity though was that it allowed Merrill to “negotiate and coordinate lots and lots of different events and programs around the country with a lot more leverage and clout than I would have had acting as an individual”.

From the artists’ perspective, working with NFP organisations is much less stressful and simply allows the artist to focus on producing their best work possible.As Kaveh Arya explained,“they’re much more friendly to art, artists and progressive thinkers because of their ideology.

There is a sense that you’ve been given an opportunity by somebody else who cares enough about your work”.

Gratia cafe in Surry Hills is yet another business that has forgone the opportunity to make profits in order to support their community and local artists instead.

They operate under a philosophy of “profit for purpose” where they donate 100 percent of their profits to foster positive change in the world. Not only do their financial profits go to supporting worthy causes, but they also provide a space for emerging artists of all types to showcase their work and skills.

Now with the funding cuts across the board all of the NFP organisations in Sydney are feeling the added pressure to continue to offer opportunities and accessible spaces for emerging artists.

“As the philanthropy landscape develops in Australia you will find more and more arts organisations going down the NFP path, which will mean they end up having a greater integrity and more freedom with their decision making,” added Merrill.

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Drift

Foster describes Drift as “a homage to young Independent theatre adulthood in all its guts as company Two Peas talks grief well as its glory”. and the chaos of early Perhaps it’s the sense of adulthood in the new struggle through loss and Australian play, Drift, at the the turmoil of not knowing Australian Theatre for Young how to mourn that inspires People. a feeling of camaraderie we Co-written by Tara Clark and all might be able to relate to.

Kieran Foster, the play deals “Grief is a really tricky with a period in life often subject for any artist to take characterised by self on, especially theatre questioning and uncertainty. makers,” said Clark.

“We always talk about the “Kieran and I were very teen years as being the most careful to find as much joy tumultuous and the most in the piece as possible and, Photo: Lee Nutter formative, but I actually think since day one, the actors it’s a little later – the early 20s have been working to find – where we really start to figure out where we lightness in their approach to the text.” fit into it all,” Clark said.

“That’s what we do in life really. We live “We’re no longer defined by our families and joyfully most of the time and it’s that institutions and are forced to cement our own bittersweet contrast that amplifies grief – place in the world. We tend to talk about knowing what was or what could have been if it adulthood as though it happens overnight.” weren’t for the tragic circumstances.” (SH) The production, made up of a cast and crew Jul 22–30 (7pm Wed-Sat, 5pm Sun). all aged 26 years and under, stays in tune with Studio 1, The Wharf, Pier 4/5, ATYP’s mantra of showcasing the talents of Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. From $20-$30. young artists.

Tickets & info: thetwopeas.com

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Low Level Panic

Justin Martin’s production of Low Level Panic is set to take the stage at the Old Fitz Theatre after a string of successful seasons in the UK. The award-winning play written by Clare McIntyre is a bold and unflinching portrayal of femininity in both the public and private spheres.

In an alarming sign of our times, the themes of sexism and sexuality that are explored in the play are as relevant now as when it was first written in the 1980’s.

Geraldine Hakewill, star of Channel 7’s Wanted, plays Celia, the prim and proper one out of the three female housemates. For Hakewill, playing a character that buys into what society says a woman should be was confronting.

“It forces you to delve quite deeply into your own thoughts about the way you look and how you interact with the world in terms of your appearance,” she said.

The play’s equally confronting exploration into sexism and sexual abuse also appealed to Hakewill, and it was something that director Justin Martin wanted to house in a more modern context.

“Hopefully it starts discussions about [sexism].

That’s why I wanted to be a part of it, because it’s such a wonderful play and it does start

Geraldine Hakewill. Photo: Julia Robertson

“The plant attracts customers and business Tyler Coppin and Brent Hill. starts booming, but the plant gets dangerous Photo: Jeff Busby and hungry, it gets a life of its own and all hell breaks loose…” explained Tyler Coppin, who plays opportunistic shop owner Mr Mushnik.

With an upbeat Motown score and some serious puppet wizardry, this production brings together a talented crop of seasoned and fresh performers and behind the scenes creatives.

“The audience won’t see a puppet, they’re going to see a freakin’ plant that eats people!” exclaimed Coppin.

According to Coppin, when master puppet makers Erth were approached to create Audrey II (the constantly expanding, man-eating plant) Hot on the heels of a critically celebrated for this production, “they said ‘we’ve been whirlwind national tour and a slew of Helpmann waiting thirty years for someone to ask us to Award nominations, Little Shop of Horrors make this puppet!’” returns to Sydney, where it all began in February, “It’s no throwaway little ditty our production, for a strictly limited season. we look at the human elements behind it, the This gleefully gruesome musical horror soulful connections we make, [and] the reasons comedy’s 21st Century update is courtesy of behind every action we take,” added Coppin.

Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox This production promises to be the full Productions. package, and should delight fans of the original In this cult classic, a struggling flower shop in production, the 1960 or 1986 film adaptions, the rough part of town is prepared to shut it its and lovers of musical horror everywhere. (AM) doors for good, when timid and downtrodden Jul 20–30, 8pm evenings + 2pm matinees. employee Seymour Krelborn (Brent Hill) Roslyn Packer Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, discovers a tremendous little plant that changes Walsh Bay. $79.90-$119.90.Tickets & info: everything. roslynpackertheatre.com.au

conversations and leaves big questions unanswered. It was written in the 80’s but feels like an episode of Girls from last week. That’s so frustrating and terrifying,” said Hakewill.

See how far we have – or haven’t come – with this foul-mouthed and funny foray into the world of women. (CB) Until Aug 12. Old Fitz Theatre, 129 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo. $28-$38.

Tickets & info: oldfitztheatre.com

Cristina in the Cupboard

Anyone who has had children can relate to what Cristina’s parents are going through in Cristina in the Cupboard – their confusion as to why their daughter has retreated, as they try to get her to come out and face the world and interact with them.

Cristina is in her early 20’s, she’s gone out and lived in the world and she’s come back home and locked herself in a cupboard, in her bedroom, at her parent’s house.

“The cupboard is a metaphor, Cristina isn’t physically in a cupboard, it’s magic realism, a bit out here, a bit surreal. Is the cupboard real or is it her imagination? There’s moments that are comic, [and] some really crazy hyperbolic over the top loud characters that are really funny,” explained Emily McGowan, who plays Cristina.

“She experiences and relives memories from her childhood and events that will happen in the future, all the while processing and rethinking.”

Something that playwright Paul Gilchrist was quite clear about was that Cristina isn’t mentally ill. It’s not something that people do so often in the modern world anymore but it’s definitely something that has been done

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throughout history, where people retreat for a number of days on end to find themselves or figure something out.

“It’s a play with a lot of weight but it’s also light-hearted and very funny. You go on a massive journey with Cristina and her family,” concluded McGowan. (MS) Until Jul 30 (8pm Wed-Sat, 5pm Sun).

The Depot Theatre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. $22-$32. Tickets & info: thedepottheatre.com

Contributors: Carmen Cita, Craig Coventry, Greg Webster, Alicia Sim, Peter Urquhart, James Harkness, Leann Richards, Lisa Seltzer, Mark Morellini, Mel Somerville, Rocio Belinda Mendez, Sarah Pritchard, Athina Mallis, Leigh Livingstone, Joseph Rana, Shon Ho, Jacqui Rothwell, Emily Shen, Andrew Hodgson, Irina Dunn, Cindy Aravena, Jacob Aguilar, Caitlin Burns, Zeiya Speede, Rita Bratovich, Chantal Walsh, Raffaele Piccolo, Barbara Karpinski, Taylah Felice.

The Beast

If you have ever sat around the table on Christmas day, shaking your head as your newly vegetarian cousin downs a dozen prawns while your tree-hugging sister is inside blasting the airconditioning, then Eddie Perfect’s new play, The Beast, is for you.

Inspired by Perfect’s own tree-change to Hillsville in the Yarra Valley, it exposes this kind of middle class hypocrisy in the setting of a

nose-to-tail dinner party.

Based on real events, a group of idealistic foodies get their hands on an Angus calf for a butcher to slaughter and turn into dinner.

When things don’t go to plan, the audience will see how far short these people fall from their lofty ideals.

The play, written by and starring Perfect, is in his words about “the inconsistencies we live with day-today, and how we justify [them] in our head”.

The absurdist style of comedy also lends itself well to bringing out the inner villain in each character. Don’t be surprised when you find it hard to see anything likeable in these characters. Perfect puts it best by gleefully reminding us that “people behaving badly is entertaining”. (CB) Jul 27–Aug 14, various show times.

The Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House. $89.90-$139.90.

Tickets & info: thebeastplay.com

Review: Leaves

Set roughly ten years after the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a hanging sense of disillusionment is still raw in Leaves.

Lori (Harriet Gordon-Anderson) arrives home from her first semester of University after a suicide attempt, and must learn to live in a world that she wants to leave behind. Her parents Phyllis and David (Amanda Stephens-Lee and Simon Lyndon) desperately want to know where they have gone wrong and want nothing more than to restore the guise of normalcy. Her younger sisters Poppy and Clover (Poppy Lynch and Bobbie-Jean Henning) also struggle with their own questions about their relationship with their older sibling.

Although the elephant in the room is initially avoided with restrained caution, open wounds and the need to heal them compel the search for hope amidst the nostalgia for the past.

However, Leaves isn’t just about depression or even really about the echoes of the Troubles. It encapsulates the courage of going on even when we don’t know how to.

The set is uncluttered and awash with a melancholic orange hue. Brittle leaves fall out of

RESIDENT ALIEN Quentin Crisp was a curious phenomena. The English writer and raconteur’s acerbic wit and deliberate androgyny made him distinct. His look and voice were utterly unique, making any depiction of him without caricaturing challenging and difficult. Paul Capsis has taken on that challenge in Resident Alien. Set in 1998-99 in Crisp’s famously filthy, derelict New York apartment, the monologue is an uncensored showreel of Crisp’s abrasive candour, intuitive wisdom and incisive intellect. A melding of extraordinary talent and kindred spirit makes this a show not to be missed.

(RB) Until Jul 23.The Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, Cnr City Rd and

story books and crunch under feet as fading Autumn starts to grow more chilly. The world on stage maintains an umber glow; highlighting harsh white lighting and the downtrodden image of dinner in a pot going cold in the middle of the table in contrasting scenes.

Leaves is peppered with plenty of moments of tenderness. It explores feelings of distance and closeness and the complexity of family; addressing the desire to push away those you love even when you know you need them the most.

Tensions run high during the course of the play; the continual escalation and build up of emotion in too frequent bursts can become a little monotonous, leaving you to crave a bit of reprieve. However, the production successfully constructs a credible world that simultaneously exudes pain and warmth.You may emerge from the theatre swimming wistfully in memory, a little sombre but also hopeful about the future.

(SH) Until Jul 23. Kings Cross Theatre, 2/244–248 William St, Kings Cross. $27-$35.

Tickets & info: kingsxtheatre.com

Cleveland Street, Chippendale. $28-$48.Tickets & info: seymourcentre.com PROOF David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play comes to Sydney. Catherine spent years caring for her genius, yet mentally unstable father.

He was her idol and her world.With his death, she is left alone and lacking focus.

As she attempts to pull her life back together, she becomes concerned that she might have inherited both her father’s genius and predisposition to mental illness. Proof explores the human condition, and in particular the need to connect and trust each other. (RP) Until Jul 30, various show times.

New Theatre, 542 King Street, Newtown. $25-$35.Tickets & info: newtheatre.org.au/proof

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN Everyone knows the Peanuts comic strip.

Inspired by the minimalist approach of Charles Schultz, Clark Gesner wrote his musical based on the beats of the threeframe comic strip. Taking just five characters, he’s distilled them into short vignettes, using the innocence of children to tackle adult concepts. This production from Hayes Theatre is not just for kids, but for everyone to remember how it used to be and how it can be. (GW) Until Jul 31, various show times.

Hayes Theatre, 19 Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point. $45-$55.

Tickets & info: hayestheatre.com. au or 02 8065 7337

Those Who Fall In Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor It’s a mouthful to be sure, but Jo Morris, actor and co-producer of “Anchors” (their abbreviation) says the title captures the sense of the play.

“In a way, it becomes the image of the show…”

Written by Finnegan Kruckemeyer as a commissioned work, the play had its incipience during a casual catch-up between Kruckmeyer, Morris and fellow producer/actor Renee Newman.

They had all previously worked together and wanted to do so again.

“Let’s write a show with you guys in mind,” suggested Kruckmeyer, and he subsequently sent through some treatments.Those Who Fall In Love… leapt out and they all started honing it together.

“It’s such a privilege as an actor to have that collaboration with a writer,” said Morris.

Asked about the extent of her involvement in the play, Morris replied: “Really, my generation of actors can’t get away with just being performers anymore.”

Switching producer and actor hats is challenging enough, let alone the thespian dexterity required for the acting roles.

There are only three actors in the show (Ben Mortley being the third) and each plays four different characters in different scenes, settings, time periods – and sometimes with different

accents.While frenetic and comical, it is also at times sensitive and poignant, examining love through a variety of filters.

Irish born Kruckmeyer writes with playful candour and acute understanding of the human psyche. Morris is clearly an admirer.

“He has so much heart and substance in his work… He celebrates words in everything he does.” (RB) Jul 20–Aug 6 (Mon to Sat 7pm; Sat 6 Aug 2pm & 7pm). SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross. $30-$38.

Tickets & info: griffintheatre.com.au

Review:A History of Falling Things The Ensemble’s latest production,A History of Falling Things by James Graham, is a humorous exploration of obsessions, in particular keraunothetophobia, or a fear of falling things, which the two main characters share.

Robin (Eric Beecroft) and Jacqui (Sophie Hensser) are both confined to their rooms, and Robin even hides under his table.

He lives with Lesley, his very ordinary suburban widowed mother (Merridy Eastman), who would be at home in Coronation Street and, not far away, Jacqui lives with her concerned father Reece (Brian Meegan).

The two make contact over the internet and their relationship develops into romance as they discover they share the same phobia.The dialogue is amusing and poignant as the two young people reach out to each other in their attempt to overcome their illness.

They use a motorcycle courier, Jimmy (Sam O’Sullivan), to convey letters between the two, and he begins to enjoy what he sees as a game.

Finally, Jimmy delivers the most surprising package of all in an unexpected and delightful twist

of the plot, and of course all ends well.

The audio-visual projections at the beginning were quite beautiful, while the set, always a challenge at the Ensemble, adequately represents the living spaces of the two main characters.

Director Nicole Buffoni does a fine job of eliciting the humour of the script, while all the actors in this five-hander play their roles to perfection.

And by the way, if you want to know all about the things that fall from the sky, this is the production to see. (ID) Until Aug 20, various show times. Ensemble Theatre, 78 McDougall St, Kirribilli. $66-$73.

Tickets & info: ensemble.com.au or (02) 9929 0644

APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH Agatha Christie’s classic novel has been transformed for the stage. The theatrical version focuses on the Boynton family. The sadistic matriarch of this clan rules it with an iron fist, which oppresses her relations until a shocking tragedy turns everything upside down. Set in the ancient Middle Eastern city of Petra, this drama will surprise, delight and titillate the audience with its unexpected twists and turns. (LR) Until Aug 20. Genesian Theatre, 420 Kent Street, Sydney. $25-$30.

Tickets & info: genesiantheatre. com.au

Winter Circus as the tastes of a fivecourse degustation menu interweave with a visual feast. A circus style performances dazzles and delights.

Contortion, strength and aerial work are executed with upstanding showmanship. El Circo Blanc is first and foremost about the sensation – a loose narrative of youthful days spent in the Russian Circus is told through impressive circus acts, each leading to the next dish. (AM) Every Wednesday, 7pm. Slide Lounge, 41 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. $89.00+b.f. includes 5 course dinner and show (group discounts available).Tickets & info: slide.com.au or (02) 8915 1899

EL CIRCO BLANC Immerse yourself in the delights of the Russian

ALMOST NEARLY PARADISE Four diverse women form a book

club, but when they meet it quickly becomes apparent that they have neither read nor are much interested in the prescribed books. Instead they engage in a discussion about ‘how to be happy’. Throw in a yarn-spinning husband, an extremely wealthy bachelor, and a wild storm – and you get farce, intrigue and drama. Based on true incidents and people she encountered living offshore the Northern Beaches, playwright Brenda Gottsche has created a wry comedy that asks some existential questions.

(RB) Until Jul 23 (Fri + Sat 7.30pm, Sun 3pm). Star of the Sea Theatre, Cnr Collingwood Street and Lluka Avenue, Manly. $28-$35.

Tickets & info: trybooking.com or (02) 9439 1906 city hub 21 JULY 2016

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THE NAKED CITY

TWILIGHT OF THE DISHLICKERS

With Coffin Ed, Jay Katz and Miss Death You know times have changed when some people care more about adopting an orphaned greyhound than homeless men and women sleeping rough in what has been a particularly icey Sydney winter. Maybe we are reading it the wrong way, but that’s the impression we get after receiving newsletters from a couple of local politicians.

Well it’s all about priorities we guess and ending the long standing greyhound racing industry (and reclaiming their valuable real estate) is definitely where it’s at.Any discussion of animal cruelty becomes a highly emotive issue, with the welfare of animals often overshadowing any other human factors involved. So it has been with the Premier’s sudden (and some would say ruthless) decision to kill off an industry that has been with us since 1927 and currently employs around 5,000 people.

That the debate is now perceived as a kind of class war with the battling, working class greyhound community on the one side, versus the well to do Liberal autocrats and animal rights lobby on the other, is inevitable. Opposition leader Luke Foley, who allegedly once proposed a ban on the dishlickers himself, has now sprung to the defence of the Labor heartlands as have sections of the National Party concerned for their rural dog breeders and trainers.

There’s no doubt that the NSW greyhound industry has allowed some appalling practices to take place over the years, with some shocking cases of animal cruelty.Whether all the current cruelty issues including the wastage of slow dogs can ever be corrected to allow an ‘ethical’ industry to continue remains to be seen, but irony does abound.

Susan Baird – Sense of Place

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

infinite possibilities”.

Baird uses wide, quick brushstrokes that cut and crash against each other, and titles like Blush speak to the heavy, moted quality of light these cuts let through to spill over her relatively bare bases.

The way her paintings spill light, like a door ajar, gives the impression that Baird is a Dr. Frankenstein stitching together images of a landscape into a platonic ideal.

Despite these cuts, the stillness of Baird’s landscapes is almost eery.

Light smothers Sense of Place’s two sites. Painted across two residencies in NSW and Tasmania, the precise way that light is Excerpt: Magenta glow, Susan Baird. spilling, or leaking, gives the impression that Baird In Sense of Place, Susan Baird smothers is embalming (or eulogising) her scenes otherwise serene landscapes in light. Baird rather than revitalising them. works through a kind of collage, cutting Yet at the same time, Baird’s method together the sense of light at one moment emphasises the diversity of the Australian (at say, dawn) with another (maybe as a landscape and the peculiarity of their quality storm rolls in) and another (maybe as a cloud of light, and she lays the eccentricities of rolls in front of the sun at noon).

Sense of Place’s two sites bare. (ZS) Painting in open air, Baird works in and Jul 21¬–Aug 6. Arthouse Gallery, from multiple sessions. She describes her 66 McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay. process as “distilling the landscape from its Info: arthousegallery.com.au

Arguably the most moment, this dialogue, just anticipated exhibition to hit between a visitor and a Sydney of late, Frida Kahlo single artwork.” and Diego Rivera: from the The exhibition is of Jacques and Natasha Gelman course rather Frida-heavy, Collection does not and the narrative journey disappoint. explored demonstrates Including over 30 artworks, Kahlo’s rise to prominence. this exhibition marks the first “I think she is a figure that time that works from either interestingly continues to of these significant 20th resonate, especially with Century artists have been younger audiences… self exhibited in Sydney. It is also portraiture was a major the most extensive collection part of her painting project of their work to visit and this idea of imaging Australia. herself and thinking about AGNSW curator Nicholas her own identity and the Chambers spoke with City way that’s constructed, I Hub ahead of the exhibition Self-portait with monkeys, think [that it] has really Frida Kahlo, 1943 opening in June. interesting ramifications “On the one hand we today in the world of social wanted there to be a kind of media,” Chambers mused. narrative, biographical With the help of the element to the show, so we Gelman collection, AGNSW have included around 50 have pulled together an photographs displayed in exciting array of original quite a conventional artworks and artefacts to chronological fashion and tell the story of one of the moved through important art world’s most volatile moments in their life and also and influential couples in an their careers,” he said. enriching way.

“With the artworks Don’t forget to book your Frida and Diego with Fulang Chung, though…[as] there are many photographer unknown, 1937 timed tickets online to iconic works by both artists, avoid disappointment. (AM) we wanted to create this series of one-to-one Until Oct 9. Art Gallery of New South experiences with them. So as you move through Wales, Art Gallery Road,The Domain, you’ll see that certain works are isolated on the Sydney. $14-$18. wall or by themselves so you can have this Tickets & info: artgallery.nsw.gov.au

BUS TV This interactive video exhibition introduces a number of Sydney’s bus drivers, who give their perspective from behind the wheel of the world we live in and the changes they see in it. Exhibition producer Laura Grace is hoping that she can show people the humanity of bus drivers. She wants to make people think more about other people, where they are and who is around them. Bus TV consists of five short videos of about three minutes each. (TF) 12

Like horse racing and the trots, the greyhound industry is supported almost entirely by gambling revenue with the State Government’s cut mere chump change compared to the billion plus raked in from pokies. Needless to say the evil pokies, which create enormous social problems, particular in the Labor heartlands, will never be banned. Greyhound racing is relatively disposable, and think of all the new real estate to be acquired, like Wentworth Park.

Whether the industry is able to overturn the Premier’s ban and function in some ethically reconstructed form remains highly doubtful. However, either way, there could be a large number of ‘orphaned’ greyhounds that need to find loving homes. Whereas the public walking of greyhounds, all heavily muzzled, was once a curiosity witnessed only in the back streets of Glebe or Leppington, look out for more and more of the ‘rats on stilts’, slinking their way through the gentrified surrounds of Newtown and even Double Bay. Owning a skinny longtail could soon become the new socially conscious chic with hundreds of the critters paraded up and down Oxford and King Streets on a Saturday morning. The Lord Mayor might even introduce a greyhound only walking lane, not to mention appearing at all public functions with at least three or four of the loveable mutts tugging on a leash. At the annual uber expensive Lord Mayor’s New Year’s Eve Party at the Opera House, invitations would be conditional on the high flying guests taking home at least one orphaned greyhound along with their hangover from the copious amounts of free booze.

And whilst the Premier is in a ruthless banning mode, why not a law to outlaw homeless people sleeping on the street. Offenders would be bundled into a bus and taken to a warm and inviting temporary refuge for the night and bedded down under a cosy doona. Repeat offenders might even been be given their own low cost permanent accommodation along with an orphaned dishlicker to keep them company. Bring on the ban!

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Until Jul 24, Thurs-Sun 11am-4pm.

Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock Street, Camperdown. Info: marrickville.nsw. gov.au/chrissiecottergallery MONTAGES: THE FULL CUT, 19992015 This exhibition gathers artist Tracey Moffatt and editor Gary Hillberg’s eight collaborative films. Moffatt and Hillberg present a series of montages of cinematic representations of topics such as violence

against women, blackness and indigeneity, and artists’ work. Moffatt and Hillberg’s interest in the representation and reconstitution of the social world in cinema undergirds their collaboration, but what animates it is a waxing and waning social optimism. (ZS) Until Aug 10; Mon–fri 11am-5pm, Sat– Sun 11am-6pm. Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo.

Info: artspace.org.au

ARCHIBALD PRIZE The finalists and winner of Australia’s most recognised art prize are now on show at the Art Galler y of NSW. Melbourne artist Louise Hearman’s hyper-real portrait of iconic Australian Barr y Humphries has won the 2016 Archibald Prize. Titled Barr y, Hearman’s oil on Masonite portrait represents the artist’s enduring admiration of Humphries. Other

remarkable paintings in the exhibition include Natasha Bieniek’s highly commended portrait of arts patron Wendy Whitely and Marcus Wills’ painting of dancer and choreographer James Batchelor.

(AM) Until Oct 9. Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney. $14-$18.

Tickets & info: artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Sydney Live Music Guide LIVE WIRE

By Jamie Apps Leah Flanagan: Tonight in her hometown, a songwriter with Venetian, Aboriginal and Irish heritage, Leah Flanagan draws deep from a fascinating historical, geographical and cultural mix to launch her latest single ‘Chills’.

Thu, Jul 21, Midnight Special Alice Night: With rave reviews comparing Night to her idols Björk, Lorde and Ladyhawke along with her abstract take on live performances (which often feature artistic, theatrical, or performance elements) this will be a set of enchanting shows not to be missed as she launches her debut album.

Thu, Jul 21, Oxford Circus Motioner: This Sydney local creates beautifully intricate soundscapes that hook you in and take you on an aural journey as he celebrates the release of his debut album Black Wave.

Sat, Jul 23, Oxford Art Factory The Comfort: This Brisbane alternative rock duo have so far only given us a taste of what to expect from their upcoming EP, Love, thanks to single ‘Everstone’. Now with a new, tighter two-man format the duo is on the verge of exploding into the forefront of our minds.

Sun, Jul 24, Bald Faced Stag Fiddes vs Tinkler: Celebrated trumpeter Scott Tinkler and composer Andy Fiddes have teamed up with Australia’s leading jazz orchestra to create a superb new album for Rattle Jazz. Further affirming its artistic

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mission, the Sydney-based Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra has produced a recording that highlights the exceptional depth and breadth of talent at the cutting edge of the Australian jazz scene, a work of great quality and nuance which you can join in celebrating the release of this week.

Mon, Jul 25, Foundry 616 The Kills: Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart return to Australia this winter in support of their fifth album, Ash & Ice. This will mark the pair’s first visit in five years following overwhelming demand.

Tue, Jul 26, Enmore Theatre Kuren: After acquiring an obsession for music production through a YouTube tutorial and a free trial of FL studio, Kuren was pitted as one of Triple J Unearthed’s 2015 Five New Indigenous Artists You Need To Hear.

Since then, 2016 has been nothing but an upward swing with the 18-year-old being pegged as the Unearthed Featured Artists and working alongside the likes of Ta-Ku, Rudimental, Peking Duk and What So Not. Wed, Jul 27, World Bar Aviida: Husband and wife duo Clay Darius and Paula Parore are best known and remembered from The Voice Australia’s 2015 season. They have been recording their debut EP and playing live gigs across Australia and are now ready to debut the record live this week.

Wed, Jul 27, The Basement

By Jamie Apps Two fresh and already impressive talents who grew up thousands of kilometres apart have rapidly taken the Australian music scene by storm with their debut albums.

Somehow the pair simultaneously developed their own individual styles which blend together perfectly, despite William growing up in the Riverina of New South Wales and Claire being born and bred in the Tasmanian rainforest, hence why they are teaming up together this week for a show in Sydney.

Speaking to City Hub late last week Claire explained how her childhood fed into her music.“I’m very much a product of my upbringing. My four brothers, my sister and I were all born in a barn in the bush in Tasmania, which I think helped foster a creative spirit in us kids and definitely gave me a really imaginative musical vision,” she said.

William shares a similar story, growing up in the New South Wales Riverina before travelling around the world to music hotspots like Nashville, eventually returning to the rugged banks of Burrinjuck Dam near the South West Slopes of his home state to record his self-titled debut album.

Both singer-songwriters are known for wearing their hearts on their sleeve when it comes to their music and performances.

“You can expect something very powerful, emotionally charged and very honest,” explained Claire.“A big part of what we both

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do is tap into [something] honest and something very real, so it will get very intimate but also be really powerful and big as well.”

Despite this being the first time the pair have toured and performed together, having only met at the beginning of the year, Claire said they were both “excited to combine our strengths and compliment each other on the road”.

For the show in Sydney the two artists will each be performing a selection of their own individual songs, whilst also coming together and collaborating on some others. Claire added:“We come from a similar place with our music and speak a similar language, so it hasn’t been too hard finding songs and places where we can come together in the show.”

Jul 22.The Oxford Circus, 231 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. $17+b.f.Tickets & info: oxfordcircus.com.au

Casey Golden Trio – Miniature

Pacific Heights’ album The Stillness is aptly named. There is constancy and there is calm in this collection of sounds; beats that don’t encourage movement and don’t want any dancing pump like blood through the music, sometimes louder and sometimes so quiet its almost hard to hear.

Space stretches inside the music, expanding so slowly it doesn’t appear to be moving, taking in everything like a black hole.Variation announces itself periodically, naturally morphing and regenerating song to song.

Listeners can only respond by imbibing the sound, taking it in through the pores, not moving. The Stillness pervades the surrounding environment, filling the space with no edge.

This is a spacey album, ambient and varied, it melts into the background soaking up everything around it. (SP) WW1/2

Listeners are offered a taste of the Casey Golden Trio in their newest EP, Miniature.

There is a flavour of an insatiable curiosity, stretching out over one piece in several tracks, a curiosity that skips out of sight if you’re not watching it closely enough.

Years of working together is clear in the composition and timing of the work. It is adventurous, stepping out of prescribed beats a little bit here, a bit more there – listeners will hear the call and they will heed it.

This is instrumental, because a human voice might just get in the way of the musical paths winding in and out of each other.

This short grouping of tracks is fun and it is quirky.

Experiment with the Casey Golden Trio, listeners will not regret it, especially fans of the group. (SP) WWWW

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ARABIC FILM FESTIVAL The 13th Arabic Film Festival comes to Sydney showcasing dramas, comedies, documentaries and shorts from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

“The popularity of this film festival is increasing each year, but there’s always somebody who hasn’t heard of it, even in our community, and when they finally attend they react like they’ve discovered gold or something,” explained co-director Fadia Abboud.

“Not many foreign films get a look in independent cinema release, so these film festivals are great exposure for filmmakers from all over the world to exhibit their films. The production values of Arabic films are increasing as the industry is getting stronger and these films are produced with small grants from film festivals and in co-productions with European countries,” continued Abboud.

No social or religious custom surprisingly prohibits or restricts any subjects in Arabic films – including sex. “There’s not much nudity in these films, but that’s only because these filmmakers believe that

Our Kind of Traitor

Acclaimed Emmy-nominated director Susanna White brings John Le Carré’s international thriller, Our Kind of Traitor, to the big screen this July.

While on holiday in Marrakech, moralistic professor Perry (Ewan McGregor) must decide if he should help a member of the Russian Mafia (a common problem I’m sure we all can relate to). His decision ultimately plunges he and wife Gail (Naomie Harris) into dangerous and deadly dealings with the English government and Russian monarchy.

McGregor is ‘Captain Gullible’ throughout the film and only saved from his naïveté by Gail, a

SWISS ARMY MAN Occasionally a movie can be so deplorable that it’s surprisingly arresting and amusing to watch – but not in this instance.

Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse who helps a man (Paul Dano) marooned on an island back to civilization. This vastly unfunny ‘alleged comedy’ is unashamedly overloaded with gross gutter-level toilet humour which is obnoxious and obscene. Buried deep lies a fleeting moment of redemption where an intelligent statement on society is delivered, but unfortunately it’s too little too late. (MMo) W1/2 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN This movie boasts a stellar cast that incudes 14

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street-smart and extremely successful barrister. Harris delivers a strong performance, refusing to wilt under the pressure of being the only major female character in the film.

Stellan Skarsgård is also convincing in his portrayal of a Russian mafia heavy weight looking for a way to save his family. The film certainly has some beautiful scenes, thanks to its big budget and international production spanning France, Switzerland, England, and Russia. However, it does not offer up anything we haven’t seen a hundred times before in British spy films. (CB) WWW1/2

Alexander Skarsgard, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and our very own Margot Robbie as Jane. Robbie manages to hold her own, despite being frustratingly confined to ‘damsel in distress’.The return to the Congo also sees the return of some stale ideas about the white man’s place in history.The film is a massive missed opportunity to authentically portray the African experience at the hands of European colonisers in the late 19th Century. (CB) WW1/2 SING STREET This Irish musical comedy-drama set in Dublin 1985 is a delightful coming-of-age film which concerns the awkwardness of first love, aspirations for a better life and

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Halal Love is the delightful opening night film which entwines three stories of dedicated Lebanese Muslims who attempt to further their love lives without interfering with the allimportant rules of marriage.

“This romantic comedy is the highlight of the festival – I’ve never seen a story of Muslims told in such a way,” enthused Abboud.

For audiences who enjoy heartfelt love stories, El Clasico won’t disappoint. This affecting story of a dwarf ’s undying love for his girlfriend and the adventure he partakes for acceptance and for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage is a must-see. “This is a great film – a beautifully filmed love story”.

“Filmmakers will continue to transform Arabic stories into entertaining films for audiences worldwide to enjoy. Audiences are exposed to more pictures than they’ve seen before – stories pinned by tragedy, but filmmakers will go underneath and produce ‘unexpected films’. Arabic filmmakers are brave

and energetic and with financial support will continue to tell their unique stories,” concluded Abboud. (MMo) July 21–24. Riverside Theatres, cnr Church & Market Streets, Parramatta. $20-$85 (marathon package ex. opening night). Bookings & info: arabfilmfestival.com.au

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Love & Friendship

Based on a short novel by English author Jane Austin, this delightful comedy of manners is set in England in the late 18th Century, during a time when pretentiousness and snobbery were prevalent in high class society.

Kate Beckinsale is perfectly cast as Lady Susan, a self-indulgent and accomplished flirt who survives on the hospitality of others and expects a life of extravagance since becoming a widow without fortune. She uses cunning and manipulative tactics to draw the attention of Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel) and in the process finds

faded dreams. Cosmo (Ferdia WalshPeelo) is a 15-year-old boy who forms a band to impress Raphina (Lucy Boynton) a 16-year-old mystery girl who aspires to be a model. Detracting are some of the strong Irish accents and the initial slow pace of the story, but interest builds once the band forms. (MMo) WWW1/2 GOLDSTONE In this spin-off to director Ivan Sen’s previous offering Mystery Road (2014), troubled indigenous detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson) returns to hunt for a missing person and discovers a trail of corruption, human trafficking, murder and corporate greed. Sen – who also wrote, filmed, edited and

affluent husbands for herself and her troubled daughter.

Elegant and beautifully filmed, this comedy is written with sharp wit and most of the humour derives from Lady Susan’s ‘encouragement of gentlemen’ and storylines beset with romantic entanglements, unwelcomed courtships and marriage proposals.

This charming film which also ridicules romantic sensibility has limited appeal, notably with older audiences, who should appreciate the style of comedy which may elude younger audiences.

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This respectable reboot of the 80’s paranormal cinematic romp is an exceptionally hilarious and entertaining film which should be enjoyed equally by fans of the original franchise and a whole new generation of movie-goers.

Melissa McCarthy leads a likeable cast of all female ghostbusters who once again rid New York City of devilish entities, and in the process regain their stature as a reputable scientific research group who investigate and catch ghostly phenomenon.

Chris Hemsworth showcases his comedic flair as the ‘not so intelligent’ receptionist and shares a vibrant chemistry with

scored this drama-driven thriller – must be complemented for producing a gem, marvelled for its masterful production values and the breathtaking cinematography of the sun-drenched Australian landscape.

(MMo) WWWW MAGGIE’S PLAN This film breaks out of the traditional rom-com genre with levels of high-wit and a fetishisation of academic wit. We follow Maggie (Greta Gerwig) as she falls pregnant with John (Ethan Hawke), a ‘ficto-critical anthropologist’s’ child. The film then plays out a love triangle between Maggie, John and his previous wife Georgette (Julianne Moore) a stern,

intelligent woman, who is used to getting want she wants. Maggie’s plan remains smart and funny throughout.

(JF) WWWW THE WAIT This French-Italian coproduction tells a stunning and powerful story about grief, love and loss. Anna’s son has died in mysterious circumstances. Suddenly, his unknowing girlfriend, Jeanne, arrives at the family home and together the women wait for his return. They develop a relationship which delves into the meaning of family, ageing and denial. The film is almost painterly in execution. Each scene is set with nuances of colour which enhance the atmosphere of

the ensemble cast of female leads.

Cameo appearances by original cast members are always mandatory in remakes and Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts don’t disappoint. Ongoing humour is heightened by silly gags which reference past hit films including Jaws, Ghost, The Exorcist and Superman.

This supernatural action comedy slime fest is a feast for the eyes and ears and audiences will be engrossed by the ingenious visual effects, especially in 3D, as New York City is being demolished by ghosts. (MMo) WWW1/2

secrecy and pain. (LR) WWWW THE MEASURE OF A MAN Iconic French actor Vincent Lindon stars in an understated yet moving social drama that explores the degrading process of being unemployed and living off meager state benefits. Lindon’s performance is stunningly poignant as he is subjected to the humiliation of pointless job interviews and slowmoving bureaucracy. Acclaimed director Stéphane Brizé adds to the film’s realism with his ensemble cast of non-professional actors, who together depict the economically marginalised. (CB) WWWW

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