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PERIMETER PRESENTS

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Perimeter presents the official Australian launch of mono.kultur #33 Kim Gordon: Dissonatine.
Saturday, April 13, 3-5pm. Featuring a mix tape from Chris Pugmire of New War.
Perimeter Books
748 High Street
Thornbury 3071
Victoria
Australia

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BIG HEARTED BUSINESS

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Big Hearted Business is a wonderful new initiative set up by Claire Bowditch – “As part of a new-guard of micro-business educators, BHB exists to teach brilliant, creative people how to build strong, successful, caring businesses, without compromising their integrity, their health, or their happiness. Through free weekly videos, expert-interviews, affordable online courses, beautifully styled live [...]

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OPEN CLOSED MART FESTIVAL

Friday, February 22, 2013

One day only!
Don’t miss the Open Closed Mart Festival!
2nd March, 11am – 5pm
Third Drawer Down
93 George Street
Fitzroy 3065
Victoria
Australia

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ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART (APT7)

Friday, December 14, 2012

The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) officially opened at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia last weekend. Established in 1993 the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery’s flagship international contemporary art event. It is the only major series of exhibitions in the world to focus exclusively on [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: PERIMETER BOOKS / MELBOURNE

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Imagine yourself walking into Perimeter Books in Melbourne in shorts, T-shirt and sandals, coffee-to-go in hand, sunglasses in your hair. Now imagine that happening right now, because yes, down under it is summer as we speak. Anyway, Perimeter Books, a fairly new addition to the übercool city of Melbourne, but already firmly established on the [...]

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MOMA IS BACK

Monday, December 3, 2012

MoMa is back again this year and running on Saturdays throughout the Tasmanian Australian summer months starting December 15. According to MoMa – “There will be strictly non-dorky workshops, as well as a dazzling array of eat-on-site yummies, and the take-home variety, too. Art works pop-up willy-nilly, as art works are wont to do. MoMa [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: TAME IMPALA

Monday, October 22, 2012

Renowned for their live shows which you can confirm in Berlin tomorrow: Australian psych-pop outfit Tame Impala.

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MENTAL

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Mental reunites writer-director P.J. Hogan with his original leading lady Toni Collette for the first time since Muriel’s Wedding. Mental is set in rural Queensland and the characters’ accents are fabulously cringe-worthy. The film tracks a family in crisis when a busy politician father ships his stressed-out wife to a mental hospital. Unable to cope with his [...]

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THE ENGAGEMENT

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Chloe Hooper had what she describes as a “dark night of the soul” when her latest book  The Engagement went to the printers. And it had to do with that monster best-selling book Fifty Shades of Grey. She was worried she had written the literary equivalent of the erotic best-seller, after all The Engagement does [...]

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MCSWEENEY’S 41

Friday, September 14, 2012

Jordan Bass, managing editor of McSweeney’s Publishing, launched the 41st issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern with Australian contributors Melissa Lucashenko, Ellen van Neerven-Currie and Chris Flynn at the Brisbane Writers Festival last weekend. I love a writers festival and coming across authors I haven’t read before. I left the festival with two new books – [...]

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