EVENTS CALENDAR 2010

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING

March 10 – April 18
Lincoln Centre Theatre - Mitzi E. Newhouse
150 W 65th Street
(Btwn Broadway & Amsterdam)

Tickets (212) 239-6200
More information: Lincoln Center Theater

Directed by David Cromer, this play is a compelling family saga that takes us back and forth in time from one generation to another - from 1959 to 2039, from London to Australia.

Having premiered at the 2008 Adelaide Festival, the play has recently drawn critical acclaim in Sydney, Melbourne and London.

“FOUR STARS! A bold and sensitive play. I was riveted. The play exudes a sense of wonder and mystery. Shrewd, sharp and genuinely moving.”
- The Times, London

“Beautiful, sad and ever so slightly humorous, this is theatre of rare intricacy and resonance.”
- Sydney Morning Herald

IMAGING THE APPLE

25 March - 1 May
AC Institute (Direct Chapel)
547 West 27th Street, 5th Floor
www.artcurrents.org

IMAGING THE APPLE is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 04-05.  THe original exhibition was organised by artist/curator John R. Neeson, who is co-curating the New York version with Elizabeth Gower, a Melbourne based artist/curator.

The NY show includes artists from Melbourne, Sydney, Stockholm, Beijing, Pittsburg, New York, Toledo, Hollywood, Auckland, Plymouth; and in the case of Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda, from an area in Central Australia as geographically remote from NYC as you can get.

The conceptual basis for IMAGING THE APPLE references Paul Cezanne's ambition to 'astound Paris with the painting of a single apple.'

www.imagingtheapple.com

CIRCA: 46 ACTS IN 45 MINUTES

March 19 - April 4

The New Victory Theatre
c/o The New 42nd Street
229 West 42nd Street, Fl 10

General Info: 646.223.3010
Administration: 646.223.3000
Ticket Services: 646.223.3010

The name says it all. With their beeline approach to high-flying fun, the cheeky Aussies of Circa push their own limits as they barrel, bolt and balance at breakneck speed. From awesome acrobatics to fantastic free-falls, the competitive camaraderie of four unbelievably skilled performers fuels awe and adoration in this "breathless barrage and banquet of circus pandemonium” (City News, Brisbane).

Warning: All laughter, applause and cheering must take place off the clock!

"Dazzling. Ideal spring-break entertainment." – Winnipeg Free Press http://www.newvictory.org/show.m?showID=1032036

PRESENTATION BY MICHAEL GUNN
National Gallery of Australia

Wed, 31 March
6-8pm
Australian Consulate
150 East 42nd St, 34th Floor

RSVP by 30 Mar Essential (capacity limited): (212) 351 6550

The Australian Consulate General and the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia, invite you to an illustrated talk by Dr Michael Gunn of the National Gallery of Australia.

Some of the most evocative sacred works of Pacific art were originally collected as “gods” or “heathen idols” when Polynesian peoples were converted to Christianity in the 18th & 19th centuries. These include the powerful & iconic Ku figures from Hawai’i; subtle and delicate female figures carved from whale’s teeth in Tonga; goddesses from Nukuoro.

The Polynesian concept most often translated as ‘gods’ is atua, which refers to various life-forces that Polynesians understand to exist outside a living body. A number of different types of objects were used to represent, contain, or interact with atua. Some said to be ‘gods’ were in fact ancestor figures. Others were found in caves and had been used as containers for disembodied life-forces, some were probably used for sorcery.

The National Gallery of Australia is developing a major exhibition of Polynesian art which will explore the nature of Polynesian gods and their relationship to the iconic works of art which have come to represent Polynesia. Michael Gunn, the curator for this exhibition, will give an illustrated talk about the development of this exciting exhibition.

TIZIANA BORGHESE: ALTERED STATES OF REALITY

Exhibition: 16 April - 7 May
Opening Reception: 22 April, 6-8pm
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street

“I am neither painter nor photographer,” Tiziana Borghese explains, “but a hybrid of both.” This state of being characterizes much of the Australian-Italian artist’s enigmatic, formally lush work. Concerned with both the visible world and the subconscious, the dire and the hopeful, she crafts complex and mesmerizing images of unreal spaces that draw us into unknown locales, through dark regions towards brilliant and obliquely familiar brightness. She creates glowing havens forpositivism and optimism.

Borghese stages and photographs elaborate settings that often include her own paintings, offering us a glimpse of mysterious and unknowable environments. Typically these spaces are portals and passages, leading the eye deep into mysterious and intriguing terrain. Her images play with textures, reflections, direction and perspective, evoking impossible architecture and terrains where distinctions between interiors and exteriors, depth and surface become an intriguing play of media. Borghese crafts exquisitely detailed psychological landscapes that draw viewers into imaginative new spaces forethought.

http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Tiziana_Borghese.aspx

PETER CAREY & Paul Holdengraber

Tues, 20 April
7:00pm

New York Public LIbrary
South Court Auditorium
42nd Street at Fifth Ave
(Enter on 5th Ave btwn 40th St & 42nd St and proceed to South Court)

Tickets:  $15-$25

To purchase tickets:  http://www.showclix.com/event/8181/

Box office opens at 5:00pm, Doors open at 6:15pm, Program begins at 7:00pm. Arrive early for seats!

LIVE from the NYPL presents PETER CAREY in conversation with Paul Holdengräber:

Parrot and Olivier is Peter Carey’s most recent novel, set inearly-nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives are joined by an enigmatic one-armed marquis.

As the narrative shifts between Parrot and Olivier—their adventures in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. Through Parrot and Olivier, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy.

Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. His first work, The Fat Man in History was published in 1974. He went on to write War Crimes, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Jack Maggs, and True History of the Kelly Gang, My Life as a Fake, Wrong About Japan, Theft, and His Illegal Self, and The Tax Inspector. Illywhacker was short listed for the Booker Prize, while Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang both won it. Oscar and Lucinda was made into a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in 1997. Peter Carey taught at NYU, Princeton, The New School, and Barnard College before he joined Hunter College as the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing in 1993, where he continues to teach.

Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs - known as LIVE from the NYPL- for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.

ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE 2010

Sun, 25 April
Dawn Service 6am
Traditional Service 10.30am

ANZAC Day is when we pause to remember those Australians & New Zealanders killed in war, to honour returned servicemen & women, and to pay tribute to those personnel who are currently serving their countries. Although its timing recalls the landing at Gallipoli of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps on 25 April 1915, the Commemorative Service is for all those who have given their lives during conflict.

In 2010 we will be holding two ANZAC Day Commemorative Services in New York.

The first will be a Dawn Service, held at 6am on Sunday 25 April at the East Coast Memorial in Battery Park. The Service will be held rain or shine - we encourage you to come prepared with warm clothing & an umbrella in case of inclement weather.

Sunday ANZAC Memorial Garden Service
10:30am

The traditional Sunday Service will be held on Sunday 25th April commencing at 10.30am at the ANZAC Memorial Garden on the roof of the Rockefeller Center, 620 Fifth Avenue. The entrance to the Garden is on the south side of West 50th Street. In the event of inclement weather, the service will be held in the room adjacent to the Garden.
Both Services will be co-hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Consul’s General.

Entry to the Sunday Service: Please carry photo identification (e.g. US ID card, driver’s license or passport). Bags may be searched before being granted access to the Garden. Numbers will be restricted for the Sunday Service; therefore people are encouraged to arrive early to be guaranteed entry.

Immediately following the Sunday Service, guests are invited to join us for morning tea at the Rockefeller Center.

Due to the nature of the Service, respectful attire is requested.

We look forward to seeing you at the Service.

AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM TODAY

Wed, 5 May
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th St)
6.30pm - Reception Follows

Admission: $11
Students/Seniors: $9
Asia Society Members: $7

Featuring the latest and hottest award-winning short films from Australia.

CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL PAINTING FROM AUSTRALIA: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Thru until 13 June

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
First floor
1000 Fifth Avenue

This exhibition features fourteen bold paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists.

The works on view - all of which have never before been on public display - were created primarily over the past decade by artists from the central desert, where the contemporary painting movement began, and from adjoining regions, to which the movement spread.

On view are paintings by prominent artists, including some of the founders of the contemporary movement.

More information: http://www.metmuseum.org/

RUDELY INTERRUPTED: 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

NEW YORK

June 10
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue
Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn

June 14/15
Starland Ballroom
570 Jernee Mill Road
Sayreville, New Jersey

June 24
Iron Horse Music Hall
20 Center Street
Northhampton MA

RUDELY INTERRUPTED are one of Australia’s truly unique indie rock acts. Five out of the 6 members share a range of both physical and intellectual differences but with a sound likened to Joy Division having a Gary Numan party while eating pitch perfect cookies. This band will challenge your thoughts and entertain your mind with their infectious hooks.

http://rudelyinterrupted.com/

ABORIGINAL VOICES:
Celebrating the New Australian Literature

Tues, 29 June
6-8pm
Australian Consulate General
150 E. 42nd St

RSVP Essential by 28 June:  (212) 351 6550

Anita Heiss is a member of the Wiradjuri nation, and is an author, poet, satirist and social commentator. Her published works include the adult novels Not Meeting Mr Right and Avoiding Mr Right, the historical novel Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937, poetry collection I’m not racist, but… and non-fiction text Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight) – Publishing Aboriginal Literature.

In 2004 she was listed on the Bulletin /Microsoft ‘Smart 100’ and has since won two Deadly Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Literature. She Chaired the Australian Society of Authors 2007-08 and is currently a Director of the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy. Anita has been invited to every major writing festival in Australia and has performed her work in America, Canada, France, Spain, Austria, the UK, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Fiji and New Zealand. Anita has made guest appearances on 9am with David and Kim the Einstein Factor, First Tuesday Book Club, and Message Stick. Anita loves being a writer because she has to have research trips to Melbourne, New York and Paris. Her latest work Manhattan Dreaming will be launched in New York in July, 2010. 

www.anitaheiss.com