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The White Hat Melbourne NewsletterArchived Newsletter No.183 - 3 August 2006Contents
Film Community Markets Free orchestral concerts Other music Art Reader Feedback Da Vinci Machines From the White Hat Inbox Literary and writing festivals Country Victoria Advance notice The White Hat Quiz +----------------------------------------------------+ FILM The Melbourne International Film Festival continues. Details at: http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/ We trust that those who received their free tickets through White Hat enjoyed the screenings. +----------------------------------------------------+ Community MarketsThis weekend is the annual Elwood Community Market. Such markets perform an important function in the cycle of life in Melbourne. People from Prahran make the expedition through the badlands of St Kilda to browse through the Elwood market. There they might stumble across an art deco lamp which they know their friends would like. Come Christmas time their friends in Camberwell receive the present of a lamp and politely display it on the mantelpiece. They secretly know that the mock art deco doesn’t meld with their own mock Edwardian so after a couple of years it finds its way to the shed and eighteen months after that onto the hard rubbish pile. On hard rubbish night in Camberwell you will notice numbers of slowly circling cars looking for discarded gems. The lamp makes its way to Northcote where it looks great in the student house painted in club colours. After several years it is donated to the house by a departing student who has by now decided that Collingwood have about as much chance of winning the premiership as he has of graduating. As a result the lamp is sold at Pipeworks Market in a bargain box containing not only the lamp but several china cupboard handles, an electric frypan with a missing element and five toothbrushes only slightly used. Fortunately it has been snapped up by an artistic person who realises that with some purple paint, some glitter and a few other additions its real potential could be revealed. The artist is right. Within an hour of the lamp being placed on the stall at St Andrews Market the excited new owners are making their way through the slowly circling cars still looking for a parking spot, back to Brunswick. But when they decided to travel around Australia in a Kombi, there just wasn’t any room for a lamp so it was sold on a Saturday morning community stall and picked up by a dealer who thought there may be an art deco lamp under those layers of paint. After restoration it was sold at the Flemington Up-Market to a couple from Elsternwick. “The flyer says they’re looking for contributions for the Elwood Community Market. What about the lamp?” “I really like the lamp, but we were so embarrassed last year when we gave the old china cupboard handles and the neighbours gave some heritage silverware. I suppose it had better be the lamp.” As the residents of Prahran head off to Elwood through the slowly circling cars of St Kilda, the mighty life-giving cycle of Melbourne is renewed and propelled on its course into another generation by the Elwood Community Market. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Festivals/FairsFetes.asp +----------------------------------------------------+ FREE ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS On Monday night there is a free orchestral concert at the Town Hall featuring works of Schumann and Stravinsky. On Wednesday night is another free orchestral concert at Hamer Hall. Bookings for the second concert are required and can be made on 9816 9355. As usual at this time of year there are also plenty of other classical concerts to choose from if you are prepared to hand over a few dollars. These include the MSO playing American music, Don Giovanni at the Athenaeum, Australian Chamber Orchestra playing Bach and others, a Bach Cantata at Southgate, and lute songs in the suburbs. Details of all these at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Music/Classical.asp +----------------------------------------------------+ OTHER MUSIC On Friday night there is a free evening concert of world music at the George Adams Gallery at the Art Centre or another world music concert at BMW Edge. On Sunday in the Town Hall is a fusion concert called When East Meets West. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Music/Folk.asp On Saturday night you can hear Ladysmith Black Mambazo or Debbie Reynolds live. That is going to create a real dilemma for those of you who are both LBM fans and Debbie Reynolds Fans. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Music/General.asp +----------------------------------------------------+ ART The Melbourne Art Fair commences at the Exhibition Buildings on Saturday. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Places/Exhibition.asp A new season of art installations in city laneways has commenced. You can find details of where to find these installations at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Galleries/PublicArt.asp#Installations +----------------------------------------------------+ READER FEEDBACK “What a great day! We took your advice and went along to Saturday in Design and had a fantastic day and made a number of new friends. We found out of the way design shops we never knew existed and ate and drank good food and wine from morning to evening for free. Every time we saw a man with a shaved head and black rimmed glasses we remembered your newsletter and couldn’t help laughing. We would never have gone had you not recommended it in your newsletter. Keep up the great work. Pete & Georgie” “Hi Not only am I impressed with your newsletter but apparently also with your readers! eg last week Murray ( works at important govt office and has time to submit lengthy emails during govt time) this week Rob who reads the 5 copies of the newsletter to help with quiz to no avail (luv it!!!) How about - when we are out and about doing what the newsletter has told us to do - we wear something to alert us to other readers, something unobtrusive like a White Hat lapel pin or badge or something totally obtuse ( I do not suggest a White Hat like the Red Hat and purple dress brigade) - any ideas /suggestions? Sylvia “ +----------------------------------------------------+ DA VINCI MACHINES The exhibition of Da Vinci Machines, reconstructed from Leonardo’s own plans, continues at the Docklands. Leanne, one of subscribers, reports: “Just wanted to say that I went to see the Da Vinci Machines yesterday and it was fantastic. I took my daughter and her friend and while we were there for 3 hours, we could have stayed longer. I started out explaining the workings of the inventions to the girls but they were soon working them out for themselves. When we remained puzzled there was always another enthusiastic visitor nearby who was happy to explain what we had missed. A lot of the exhibition was interactive and we even built a bridge (the girls were very proud of that!). I'd highly recommend it for children (probably middle primary and up) and adults. It was incredibly inspirational.” Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/StreetsSuburbs/Docklands.asp +----------------------------------------------------+ FROM THE WHITE HAT INBOX We had this personal message: “hi from nat at venus bay. its sooo cold at venus bay that crystal & i decided to move on. its a lovely place& well come back in summer but we were also missing some nightlife, we asked where the nearest nightlife is and the locals sed leongatha so were off to leongatha to do some clubbing. luv nat.” +----------------------------------------------------+ LITERARY & WRITING FESTIVALS There is lots of encouragement for writers out there at the moment. The statewide Overload Poetry Festival starts this week. There is a Speculative Fiction Conference in Melbourne, the My Brother Jack Festival in the suburbs, and in the country is the Ararat One Act Play Festival and the Daylesford Words in Winter Festival including a Scrabble Competition and a Country Music Train Trip. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/Melbourne/Festivals/Literary.asp If you attend one of these events and soak up the wisdom, do some work on your writing, you might then get published in a local publication and read by a few dozen people. If you keep honing your craft you might eventually be published in a specialist journal and be read by several hundred people. If you keep submitting your manuscripts you may eventually get published in a small edition together with an interview on Radio National and you will be read and heard by several thousand people. Then again you skip all of that, cobble together a newsletter with little regard for spelling or syntax and be read by 7,000 readers a week. Cruel, isn’t it. +----------------------------------------------------+ COUNTRY VICTORIA Apart from the literary events listed above there is the Rushworth Possum Walk and the Hamilton Sheepvention. Time for all you cityfolk to start practising your dagging and crutching skills. Details at: http://www.whitehat.com.au/victoria.asp +----------------------------------------------------+ ADVANCE NOTICE Some events coming up in the following weekend include the Specialist Cheese Show, a Gluten Free Wheat Free Food Show, the 3MBS Book & Record Fair and a cycling/orienteering event at Phillip Island called ‘Penguins, Pushbikes & Pedestrians’. For details, go to our home page and select the appropriate weekend from the drop-down menu of events. +----------------------------------------------------+ THE WHITE HAT QUIZ How well do you know Melbourne? First to last week’s quiz We received the following submission for listing on the White Hat website from the Maude Ute Show (The town of Maude [as in ‘Come Into the Garden . .’] is south of Werribee): “Trophy for First, Second & Third place. New Judges will be used this year. Other activities include Fire truck pull, Secret Event, Live Band and other events. Run by the Maude CFA to raise money for new equipment.” Call us suspicious if you will but I expect there is a story behind the 6 words “New Judges will be used this year” So for this week’s quiz we invite readers to write us a very short story (50 words or less) giving us your imagined reason behind these words. (For those of you who work in the talk-based industries it may be a real challenge to keep it under 50 words.) We received a large number of entries, but decided to declare these two the joint winners. The following came from "In more .... than a Werribee duck", replied Isla Ava Nothery, when asked where she stood with the 2005 Maude Ute Show organisers. Isla and fellow judges were accused of showing too much interest in the contents of the 'Best Esky' entries. "We were nobbled", claims Isla.” For our many overseas readers puzzling over the opening expression, we should explain that Werribee is the home of Melbourne’s major sewage treatment plants with its large outdoor settling ponds. Our other winning entry came from Jess and Emma (9 years old) in the form of a news bulletin. "Scandle at the Maude Ute Show! At the Maude Ute show today, the judges Hairy, Scary, and Mary were arrested for rigging the competition by placing invisible spikes in the lanes of the utes they didn't want to win. We'll bring you further information later as details are revealed." Honourable mentions must go to Helen, Zetor & Bontje's mum, Claude and Lisa. We thank our other subscribers who submitted entries ranging form the amusing to the abysmal. A special mention should go to mark who submitted a story about the Williamstown Ferry which had nothing to do with the Maude Ute Show and which cannot be published in a family newsletter. Now to this week’s quiz Melbourne Film & TV. 1. What Melbourne suburb is associated on film with death? 2. What international film star is reputed to have commented that Melbourne was an appropriate place to make a film about the end of the earth? 3. What is the everyday name of Ramsay Street? 4. What iconic Melbourne building featured in the TV series Homicide? 5. What pub was used for many scenes in The Sullivans? 6. In what suburb was Secret Life of Us shot? 7. What connection does a current Melbourne television studio have with harmoniums? Send your answers to quiz@whitehat.com.au No prizes – just glory and a warm inner glow.
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