Rip Out Your Stitches with the Sydney Underground Film Festival

Society is becoming increasingly desensitised to projections of the grotesque and violent. Shock is the necessary current that keeps our corpses momentarily animated at regular intervals. We know we can't start our day without a good strong coffee and a live-streamed suicide. Seems these days that...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 13/09/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Flatten that cowlick! Mama's coming home.   10) Jane Fonda: What Can I Do? 15th September What: Join Jane Fonda for a live discussion of her most recent book. In What Can I Do?, Fonda weaves her deeply personal journey as an activist alongside conversations with and speeches by leading climate...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 13/09/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Tune in. Tune out. Tune in. Tune out. That's what repetitive dissociation is all about.   10) Calibro 35: Place To Be  17th September What: Calibro 35 (caliber 35) is a cinematic funk Italian band formed in 2007 in Milan. The band has released four albums and several movie soundtracks. Different...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 06/09/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

It's going to be a wet one.   10) Ferran Palau: Live 9th September What: Ferran Palau’s songs play with everything: what’s there and what isn’t, pop and R&B, metaphysics and mundanity, sentences that are as tweetable as they are enigmatic. Shaping time with your hands, and asking questions. Experience him...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 23/08/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

We are all mortal, fragile beings. And as a direct result, the majority of us are, at best, complete knobs.   10) A Midsummer Night's Zoom 28th August What: 'A Midsummer Night's Zoom' is directed by Eli Simon and features some sparkling new talent. The play has been re-envisioned for the...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 09/08/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

WAKE UP! Then go to sleep, then wake up, then go to sleep again. It's an endless cycle and we'll all be glad when we're dead.   10) Louvre Museum Live Interactive Virtual Tour 16th August What: Join your expert Parisian guide on a virtual exploration of the Louvre Museum with a...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 02/08/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Hush little baby, don't say anything that could be used to falsely incriminate you.   10) JOBS: The Quarantine Sessions 2nd August What: JOBS are already very accustomed to utilizing technology to create from a distance as the band is currently scattered all over the country. Before everyone was living in...

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Weave Your Webs with the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival

Crafting one's own reality is inevitable. The more your mind develops, the more elaborate your reality becomes. Sure, once you become an adult crushed by largely mundane experiences and the necessity of maintaining a high fibre diet, there are fewer dragons and unicorns prancing around just...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 19/07/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

The time is now. As it always has been. As it always will be.   10) Talking Ideas: Women and Leadership with Julia Gillard  22nd July What: Share an evening with Julia Gillard, as she discusses Women and Leadership with ABC TV presenter Jessica van Vonderen, and lays out a road...

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Sweet Relief with BFI Pride House Party

It's difficult to find reasons to be happy these days. Largely because the restrictions put in place by COVID-19 have left the street drug trade somewhat paralysed, but also because we're constantly being beset by reasons to not be happy. Experiencing spontaneous happiness can feel as...

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