GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL ARTS, bringing class back into the class struggle . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------- TWELFTH NIGHT Presented Blue Chair Theatre Works -------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Chair Theatreworks return to Trades Hall with their unique interpretation of William Shakespeare's funniest play. A funky and riotous interpretation that will have audience members, young and old, in stitches! Hurry - limited season of 4 evening performances and 1 matinee. The play pleases because it makes us laugh. It's good for what ails us because, as the wisest man who ever lived put it, "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine." The Old Council Chambers 8pm Weds - Sat, Dec 10 - 13 + 2pm Sat matinee, Dec 13 Tickets: $16 Full/ $12 Conc & Union Members/ $7 Preview (Dec 10) Bookings Ph: 9815 2292 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERLAND LAUNCH - Utopia? Australian Idealism and Christmas Party ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carmen Lawrence considers Labor's loss of values and idealism that has turned ALP voters toward the Greens. Graham Maddox presents a strong case for the maintenance and revival of the ALP socialist pledge. Robyn Walton challenges the 'end of utopia' claim. Antonia Hildebrand dismantles the myth of John Howard as the archetypal 'ordinary Australian'. Issue 173 contains Overland's regular serve of fiction, poetry and reviews. Trades Hall Bar 6:30pm Friday, December 12th FREE Event -------------------------------------------------------------- SPADEWAITING presented by the Players -------------------------------------------------------------- An absurd comedy about the end of the world . . . Spadewaiting returns for its third season after being deemed a 'runaway success' during its tour of the Edinburgh Festival in 2000, and Deakin University in 1999. Spadewaiting is both a visual and aural masterpiece; incorporating mime, a canneed audience, simulated sexon chairs and a man dancing to the sound of loud belching. The Old Council Chambers 7:30pm Tues to Thurs, Dec 16th to 18th Tickets: $15 Full/ $10 Conc - Bookings Ph: 9729 2280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL 54 Victoria St (Cnr Lygon St) Carlton Ph: 9662 3555 Trades Hall Bar - open nightly from 5pm 'til late Friday Happy Hours 4-7pm more info visit http://www.tradeshallarts.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ABE AMATERSTEIN SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2004 A new national short story competition supporting politically and socially orientated writing. The New International Bookshop and the Trades Hall and Literary Institute are proud to announce the launch of a new national short story competition that fosters writing for social change - The Abe Amaterstein Short Story Competition. The competition prizes total $1,500, with the winning entry to be published in Overland magazine. Author, Christos Tsiolkas, Co-editor of Overland magazine, Katherine Wilson and chairperson of the New International Bookshop Co-operative, Peter Ewer, will judge the competition. Named in memory of Abe Amaterstein, a long time activist in social causes and the labour movement, the competition provides writers with a political and social orientation to express their ideas in a short story format. Entries close on the 6th February 2004 and results will be announced at the Overland lecture in Trades Hall on the 31st March 2004. Entry details and forms are available online from www.nibs.org.au. Entry fee is $7 for the first entry and $5 for each additional entry, and the competition is open to all Australian residents. For more information contact The New International Bookshop Ph: 03)9662 3744 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
