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Events, talks, launches

Winter Film Series 2013 @ NGA
nga.gov.au/winterfilmseries
Catch some of the most exciting recent cinema about art, culture and ideas in a program curated and introduced by film critic and curator Simon Weaving.

Sessions start at 6.00pm
Wednesdays 5 June – 10 July 2013 at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Program and ticketing information available at nga.gov.au/winterfilmseries

Feel & Think: events at SCAF and NAS Gallery
http://sherman-scaf.org.au/idea/cultureideas-feel-think-events/
A range of talks and programs has been announced to accompany the exhibition 'Feel & Think:
A New Era of Tokyo Fashion' at Sherman Centre for Contemporary Art and the National Art School Gallery.

Thursday 20 June 2013, 11 am - 12 pm
Feel & Think designer and curator floor talks with Professor Yoko Takagi, Bunka Fashion Research Institute, Tokyo and a selection of designers.
Venue: The National Art School Gallery, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst

Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2013, 11 am - 1 pm & 2.30 - 4.30 pm both days.
Create your own patchwork garments in Cut & Sewn Workshops with the creative team from THEATRE PRODUCTS. $40 per person, inclusive of handmade T-shirt. At Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington. Bookings essential, see link above.

DAMP: Collaborative Drawing @ MUMA
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/events/2013/damp.html
Saturday 22 June, 2-4pm
Artist collective DAMP invites the audience to collaborate on a large scale drawing using their monumental grey lead pencil sculpture; Untitled Pencil 2010. Facilitated by DAMP this event is free to attend, family friendly and open to all. Working in pairs or larger groups participants will create an ongoing grand drawing; an imaginative space of desire, fun and struggle.

Free event at Monash University Museum of Art.

Screenings, Launches and Talks @ IMA
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/events.php#358
Upcoming events at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art

Thursday 13 June at 6pm
Come see Len Lye's great lost film, the 'rhapsodic' All Souls Carnival (1957). Lye is known for his pioneering 'direct films', made without a camera by directly painting or scratching film.

Thursday 20 June at 6pm
Das Superlaunch - come and celebrate the launch of the latest issue of Sydney's Das Superpaper. Guest edited by Drew Pettifer, it explores how artists engage with questions of gender, sexuality, and race.

Thursday 27 June at 6pm
Abramovic in Australia - Ian Howard (former Dean, College of Fine Arts, Sydney) introduces Beyond the Tick Gate, a film documenting an intensive bush-retreat workshop for COFA students staged by Marina Abramovic and Ulay in 1980. Thanks to Kaldor Projects.

DARK MOFO Winter Feast
http://darkmofo.net.au/program/winter-feast/
Dark Mofo takes over Hobart from 13-23 June.

The Dark Mofo Winter Feast is three nights of fire and delicious food from guest chefs including Christine Mansfield (Universal), Frank Camorra (Movida) and Ben Milgate & Elvis Abrahanowicz (Porteño), while a host of artists entertain you and your friends.

June 20-22, 4pm-10pm

Film Night & Artist Talk @ Stills Gallery
http://www.artwhatson.com.au/stillsgallery
In conjunction with exhibitions by two internationally acclaimed artists, Tim Hetherington and Doug Rickard, Stills Gallery presents two events that provide an opportunity to further explore each artist and their work.

Film night - Restrepo
Saturday 15 June, 5:30pm @ Stills Gallery, Paddington
A free, public screening of 'Restrepo', a feature-length documentary co-directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in northeastern Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

Doug Rickard Artist Talk via Skype
Saturday 22 June, 2pm @ Stills Gallery, Paddington
A virtual Artist Talk from Doug Rickard (USA) live via Skype to discuss his current exhibition, A New American Picture.

Talks, workshops and tours at the Maritime Museum
http://www.anmm.gov.au/india
The Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour presents a range of programs alongside the exciting new exhibition 'East of India - Forgotten trade with Australia'.

Sunday 16 June: Textile workshop and talk
Friday 21 June: Masterchef lunch and curator tour
Sunday 23 June: Family fun day: Colours of India
Sundays 30 June - 14 July: Kids on Deck: Teacups, trunks and traders.

See website for full details.

MCA Talks
http://www.mca.com.au/learn/adults/
Warm up at MCA with talks, screenings and ARTBAR this June.

Guan Wei in conversation with Anna Davis on the process and influences behind the artist’s new large-scale wall work in the MCA foyer
Saturday 8 June, 2.00–3.00pm

MCA on the Rocks: Ideas shaken and stirred - Joe Hildebrand on the gentle art of invisibility
Thursday 20 June, 6.30–8.00pm

Wangechi Mutu Film Program
Sundays 9, 16, 23, 30 June, 2.00–3.30pm

ARTBAR
Friday 28 June, 7.00–11.00pm

See the website for full details and bookings.

DEPARTURE: HEARTLAND
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/departure.html
Celebrate HEARTLAND, a new exhibition of contemporary art by South Australian artists, at the Art Gallery of South Australia!

DEPARTURE celebrates love and art on Friday 28 June, 6-10pm.

Hear from HEARTLAND artists and creative couples, Hossein and Angela Valamanesh, and Chris de Rosa and Gerry Wedd, who’ll join us for a light hearted interrogation of life on the home front and the creative challenges of managing successful artistic careers.

This love-themed night will also have you weak at the knees with live music, plus DJ Track Team will be spinning love inspired tunes.

Tickets available online - see above link for full details.

Opal Vapour - Dance Work @ Blacktown Arts Centre
www.artscentre.blacktown.nsw.gov.au
Opal Vapour is a mesmerising new contemporary dance work exploring deep connections between human origins and nature, ceremonial cleansing for purification, rites of passage and embodiment in performance.

Moving fluidly between powerful physical states, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggai balances Javanese mystical traditions with contemporary dance. Her sinuous transformation is held by Ria Soemardjo’s pure voice and evocative music score resonating ancient Javanese gamelan. Both artists are transported through time by Paula van Beek’s sublime lighting landscapes and haunting shadow play.

Originally presented with Malthouse Theatre as part of Helium.

Space Between @ KickArts
http://kickarts.org.au/whats-on/events/
In Gallery 2, after the removal of every exhibition, and before the installation of each new exhibition, the empty gallery will present and promote new works to Cairns audiences. The program will showcase a range of work throughout the year including film, sound, performance, new media and experimental works. The first of the series of six was held on 18 March with great feedback from attendees. Presented by KickArts in partnership with On Edge and Room40, the series is earmarked for five more Monday evenings over the course of 2013:
When:
• Monday 22 April, 6pm
• Monday 13 May, 6pm
• Monday 22 July, 6pm
• Monday 16 September, 6pm
• Monday 4 November, 6pm
Where: KickArts Contemporary Arts, Gallery 2
Cost: FREE