For weekly activities happening at the Northcote Town Hall, please see the Activities and Groups page on the Northcote Town Hall Website.
FIRE UP!
Monday, 20 October 2008
to Monday, 15 December 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Curious Legends and Platform Youth Theatre present...
FIRE UP!
What? Performance workshops
Where? Northcote Town Hall
When? Mondays 4:30pm to 6pm, Monday 20 October to Monday 15 December
Who? Kids 10 to 14 in Darebin
Why? Because it's FUN!!!
Join Curious Legends and Platform Youth Theatre as we create a show from scratch! Come learn new skills, meet friends and have an awesome time. You'll write the show, rehearse it and perform with us in December. Themed on friendship, this project will involve interactive web media that includes all of Darebin. FireUP is subject to numbers so bring your friends!
Wednesday 5th November Tibet’s Cry for Freedom and Leaving Fear Behind
Two fantastic and important new films, both made between March 2007 and March 2008. Leaving Fear Behind is a truly unique film, made at great risk by a Tibetan in Tibet and giving a direct insight into Tibetans' heartfelt grievances against Chinese rule. The long awaited Tibet's Cry for Freedom is Australian filmmaker Lara Damiani's extraordinary effort to help raise awareness about the Tibetan freedom struggle. The film covers Tibet's long suffering non-violent freedom struggle, the history of Tibet from the time of the Chinese occupation through to the present day debate between the Middle Way and independence, human rights abuses, political persecution and the environmental destruction of the land known as "The Roof of the World". Firstly we will be showing ... Leaving Fear Behind then the feature movie will be shown ... Tibet’s Cry for Freedom
Wednesday 5th November 2008 7.30 – 9.30 (doors open at 7pm) Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall 189 High Street, Northcote $15 ($12 - low waged/concession)
Sustainable Transport Short Course Led by Professor John Whitelegg
Thursday, 6 November 2008
to Friday, 7 November 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Led by Professor John Whitelegg.
A two-day short course for travel behaviour change and sustainable transport professionals. Day 1 focuses on “Travel Planning and Beyond”. How travel planning links with travel demand management, local case studies on enhancing travel planning through Transport Management Associations, developers submitting travel plans and travel planning with a target audience.
Day 2 will look at Low Carbon Transport and Safe Speed. Is a low carbon transport system possible (including case studies)? What environments are required to encourage safe speed?
The Short Course will have interactive components and will work towards outcomes that can be presented to agencies.
Price: $200 per pserson Dates: 6 & 7th November 2008
Click here to purchase tickets: CONTACT NAME: Kate Myers PHONE: (03) 8470 8341 EMAIL: kmyers@darebin.vic.gov.au
Dr Jose Arguelles – 2012 Bridge To Tomorrow
Friday, 7 November 2008
6:30 PM
Author of best selling books including ‘The Mayan Factor’ and ‘Time and the Technosphere’ and founder and President of the Foundation for the Law of Time, Jose Arguelles honoured by Mayan indigenous elders as Valum Votan, Closer of the Cycle will give a 2 hour presentation titled 2012 Bridge To Tomorrow. Date: Friday 7th November Time: 6.30pm Venue: Northcote Town Hall Tickets: $35.00 advance bookings recommended Website: www.lawoftime.org
Opening Ceremony It may not be bigger but it’s certainly better than the Olympics Opening. Join MC Maysa Abouzeid, a blind Egyptian Italian comedian to kickstart the 2008 Northern Notes Writers Festival. She and her guide dog will make you laugh your way through those opening night formalities. Then once the formalities are out of the way watch the Northcote Civic Square light up to the world of visual poetry.
Civic Square Northcote Town Hall 189 High Street Northcote
LOCATION: Civic Square
VOICEPRINTS 08 PART 1
Friday, 7 November 2008
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Why do people call certain pieces of music, or particular paintings poetic? What is the quality of poetry and how does it exist in a visual sense? During the opening of the festival there will be a showcase of visual, and concrete poetry from a selection of work by local, interstate and international practitioners of theses art forms. These will be projected on the side of the Northcote Town Hall. Greek-Australian poet ?? will project and provide elucidation on the subject of number poems, and Sjaak de Jong will be on hand to discuss concrete and visual poetries, their history and origins.
LOCATION: Civic Square
BOOK MARKET AT THE FESTIVAL HUB
Saturday, 8 November 2008
1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Come and browse at the book market featuring writers and poets from the northern suburbs. There’ll be lots of great writing to purchase. Have you written or published a book? Why not bring some copies to the book market at the Festival Hub. We’ll be providing tables and chairs for writers and poets to sell their books, zines, CDs, magazines, whatever. To book a spot ring 8470 8545
LOCATION: Room 2B, 1st Floor
WRITING AND PERFORMANCE A WORKSHOP WITH ANDREW LINDSAY
Saturday, 8 November 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
You’ve written the work, now comes another test: that moment when you read it in public. This workshop will explore a range of techniques and processes that can help writers overcome nerves, harness the adrenalin, and make the performance process a powerful and thrilling part of the writer’s life. Andrew is the author of two novels, The Breadmaker’s Carnival and The slapping Man. A graduate of the Lecoq theatre school, he co-founded Sydney based theatre group Red Weather. The Sydney Morning Herald described their first work as “a perfection.”
LOCATION: Room 1, 1st Floor
ARNOLD ZABLE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANTONI JACH
Saturday, 8 November 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ithaca, the island of Homer’s Odyssey, has beguiled readers for millennia. In his latest novel, Sea of Many Returns, Arnold Zable takes us to modern-day Ithaca, to its mountains, its villages and its harbours, and into the houses of its people. Sea of Many Returns is a profound meditation on displacement and exile – a story that affirms the enduring resonance of the Odyssey for voyagers of all times. Zable will discuss his latest novel and his journey as a writer with novelist Antoni Jach, who shares his passionate interest in the power of story and the written word.
LOCATION: Level 1 Room 2A
NOSE PICKING BY LOCAL POET INTRODUCING POETRY TO CHILDREN
Saturday, 8 November 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Local poet Jenny Stamatelos sets out to impress young children. With poems in the series titled Papa Duck, Silly Goose and Yucky written specifically for children and inspired by those first time school beginners. With the help of props, the poems are performed in such a way that children are shown how to enjoy and embrace poetry. A delightful and educational experience.
LOCATION: Level 1 Room 3
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008
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