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Next month Ironwood will be performing a beautiful string quartet program, Horizons, in Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsular (16, 18 September), and then Ironwood will continue their successful Education Program with a Sydney performance with St James' Choir called Bach and Beyond with the Developing Artists (22, 25 September). More details Here.




October marks a very special residency, with over 36 young musicians as apart of the Ironwood Education Program. And we need your help!




IRONWOOD APPEAL: TRANSPORT FUNDS FOR EDUCATION PROJECTS

$200 helps a young musician take part in this exceptional program: Donate HERE



We need help to get its young musicians to the artist-in-residence camp at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon, on the Shoalhaven, NSW October 10-16, 2011.



Ironwood is very proud to have been offered a fifth year as Artists-In-Residence at Bundanon, NSW. October 2011 is a very special residency; after five years of incredible hard work and planning, Ironwood are taking 36 young musicians from all over Australia and New Zealand – part of our Developing Artist pre-professional education program – to Bundanon to form a classical orchestra.



Bundanon is a unique rehearsal and learning space for artists; providing opportunities to work alongside professional mentors in performance, research and arts business practices, as well as Arthur Boyd’s magical space to reflect and hone their own artistic practice.


Ironwood’s pre-professional program in historically informed performance is the only one of its type in the southern hemisphere, offering early music specialist students the opportunity to build links with the profession.



Bundanon Trust has generously given Ironwood this residency as a rehearsal camp, and Ironwood musicians will play alongside, and mentor the young musicians.



But we need help to get our young musicians to this residency! Ironwood receives no government funding to support the transport costs for our education program, and to date we have no corporate airline sponsorships to help offset flight costs. We want to make our programs accessible to ALL young people, regardless of their financial capacity to participate. Most of our young musicians are travelling from Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Auckland to participate in our programs.



Just $200 will sponsor a young musician’s airfare, all donations are tax deductible and are made through AbaF’s Australia Cultural Fund. You will be acknowledged as an invaluable supporter in our programs and on our website if you wish. We will be having an open rehearsal & afternoon tea at Bundanon, so you can meet your sponsored musician, and get to see the property.



Ironwood & Developing Artists In Residence Project


Bundanon Oct 10-14, 2011.

Carriageworks, Redfern 7.30pm Oct 15;

Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, 2.30pm, Oct 16, 2011.

Program: Mozart Symphony No 25 G minor K183; Haydn ‘Hornsignal’ Symphony No 31 D major; Mozart Piano Concerto C major K415. Director: Dr Neal Peres Da Costa



You can fill in the Appeal Form HERE, or directly online HERE.



Thank you for supporting inspiring arts projects through AbaF’s Australia Cultural Fund.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Anna Cerneaz, Ironwood ph: 0412 093 063 email: cenika.anna




IRONWOOD presents HORIZONS


Friday 16 September, 7:30pm
Richmond VIC


Sunday 18 September, 6pm
Main Ridge Estate, Flinders VIC


Ironwood
Rachael Beesley - violin
Julia Fredersdorff - violin
Nicole Forsyth - viola
Daniel Yeadon - cello

Join Ironwood in string quartet guise for an evening of visionary horizons. The program features Haydn’s Opus 20 - developing the equality of the voices in the classical string quartet in a new way for the 1770’s; Beethoven’s groundbreaking Op 18, as well as Melbourne composer Katy Abbott's “Vertical Horizon” for string quartet. The concert will be performed in the intimate surrounds of a private Richmond gallery and on the Mornington Peninsula’s Main Ridge Estate. Please join us for some wine, music and to discover new horizons of string quartet writing in the 18th, 19th & 21st centuries.

Program
HAYDN String Quartet Op 20 No 2 C major
KATY ABBOTT Vertical Horizon
BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op 18 No 4 C minor
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August 9th 2011

Debate. Dissent. Delinquency. Drugs. Debauchery.

Festival of Unpopular Culture
program highlights



INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.


The comprehensive Festival of Unpopular Culture program boasts conversations about sex work legislation, the "sociology of getting plastered", the politics of punk, a hypothetical shake up of Australian arts funding and loads of other topics to be released in early September via a
limited edition printed program, social media and the Festival website. A swag of interstate guests will descend upon Adelaide for a ten-day talk-fest, peppered with live music, bizarre art happenings and ill thought out quasi sporting events.

Housed in the institution responsible for educating Adelaide's future cultural leaders; the festival will fill the Adelaide College of the Arts with thinkers, doers, makers and shit-stirrers.

Making full use of the atrium, galleries and lecture theatres, the Festival of Unpopular Culture invites audiences to buy a drink from the bar, sit down, speak up and engage in over a week of sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious, but always motivating and stimulating discussions and events.

ARTS

From Melbourne, the Festival welcomes Ester Anotalis (CEO, Melbourne Fringe) who, joined by Sandy Verschoor (EP, Adelaide Festival of Ideas),
Gavin Artz / ANAT
Gavin Artz (CEO, ANAT) and Jane Howard (arts blogger, No Plain Jane), will be asked: What would happen if every arts funding body in the nation was shut down? What if our entire funding system was rebuilt from scratch?
What if everybody - opera directors, street artists, concert pianists and hardcore collectives - had to reapply for the right to one big cultural slush fund? What would we do?

SEX

Also from Melbourne, Karen Pickering (host of Melbourne's feminist salon, Cherchez La Femme and editor of the Emerging Writers' Festival reader) will facilitate a discussion led by the Sex Industry Network's Ari Reid, on the law reforms being proposed for South Australia, sex positive feminist perspectives and the impact of social media on sex work.

DRUGS

We have a fixed way of looking at alcohol and drug abuse as a medical and psychological issue and a fixed culture of drug and alcohol use, which becomes particularly notable at the extremes. This panel features Chris Raine (Hello Sunday Morning), Lisa Dempster (AD, Emerging Writers' Festival), Dr Joseph Borlagdan (Australian Drug Foundation National Youth
Spokesperson), Jon Jurideini (head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital).

MORE DRUGS

Social justice, rights and self-advocacy for drug users is the business of the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League and we've invited Annie Madden (EO, AIVL) and her team to discuss the representation of drug users, harm minimisation, drug culture and law. Hear from a panel of users representing the peak organisation for people who use or have used illicit
drugs in Australia.


GOVERNMENT

On this panel we've gathered together Government Engagement experts, including many who have been working productively with the Government Sector for decades, to talk about how we can better include Government in community decision making processes and visions for the future. Experts on Government Engagement and Collaborative Policy Design will discuss
how to get the Government Engaged, what role they can play in your initiatives and projects and how we can break down the sense of 'Us' and 'Them' to truly include the Government in the decision making process.

This panel features Adelaide's Thinker in Residence, John McTernan, who will be joined by a select group of current and former members of the
Australian Government Sector.

MUSIC

Live music - especially Hip-Hop, Metal and Punk - engages communities in a way that state subsidised cultural institutions can never hope to do. Live music is often a thinly-veiled excuse for subcultures to collide and foment. This panel features Dave Graney (lately of the Lurid Yellow Mist), Nicci Reid (Melbourne-based booking agent), and former Adelaide Thinker in
Residence and self-proclaimed aging punk, John McTernan.

VISUAL ART

In addition to panels and forums, a hefty visual arts program curated by Ray Forrester features interstate artist Diego Bonetto and his attempt to elevate the social status of disregarded botanical species. A selection of emerging and professional artists will be invited to create work in response to the ideas discussed at the Festival, the fruits of which will gradually fill our Festival Club, right in the heart of the Adelaide College of the Arts.

The Festival of Unpopular Culture will release its full program in September, including twitter hashtags for each event. If you can't be in Adelaide between October 7th and 16th, you can take part in the discussion online, with live tweeting of most sessions planned.

Follow the Festival on twitter: www.twitter.com/Unpop_Culture and
like the Festival on facebook to keep abreast of all the bad behind the scenes festival photos, tacky competitions and late night drunken witticisms.


WHAT: The Festival of Unpopular Culture.
WHEN: October 7th to October 16th, 2011.
WHO: Dr Ianto Ware, Stan Mahoney, Ray Forrester, Jennifer Greer Holmes & others
WHERE: Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square & various city venues

INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.
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Artist registrations now open for the


Tour of the Unexpected
Adelaide Fringe 2012

Registrations are now open to artists, designers, presenters, film makers, puppeteers, performers of circus and physical theatre, musicians, comedians; in fact anyone who has an act, vision or idea to participate in the largest arts event in the Southern Hemisphere - Adelaide Fringe 2012


Artists can register their events online from 3 August to 12 October at

The Adelaide Fringe theme for 2012 is "Tour of the Unexpected". We invite artists to be surrounded by audiences of over 1.4 million and be amongst a wealth of artists, presenters, producers and industry folk from across the globe.

"Artists from all over the world are invited to pack their smalls, book those tickets and journey to Adelaide Fringe 2012 for the adventure of their life. The Artist Services team - Michelle, Andrew and Eugene - are ready to answer all questions about how to register a show and find a venue," says Adelaide Fringe Director, Greg Clarke.

Over 24 hot summer days and nights, artists will not only run their own shows, exhibitions and events, but also have opportunities to join the masses in the Opening Night Parade and to strut their stuff on the Adelaide Fringe Caravan Showcase Stage in the centre of the city in Rundle Mall.

To register an event, artists can head to the Adelaide Fringe website or contact the Artist Services team for more information via email: 088100 2022


Artist registrations are open from Wednesday 3 August and close on Friday 12 October 2011.

Adelaide Fringe 2012 will be held from 24 February to 18 March.

For more information: Belinda Redman - Acting Director and Chief Executive, Adelaide Fringe 0413154 720
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NEWLY MIXED

August 2nd 2011 23:25
Evenings at Elder Hall Concert Series

Presents

TWO Magnificent Musical Events in September



NEWLY MIXED


FREE CONCERT



6.30pm Saturday 3 September

New Compositions by Emerging Composers, Melisande Wright, Nicholas Denison, Ian Andrew, Daniel Schricker

Performed by the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Elder Professor Charles Bodman Rae

Newly Mixed is a free event but seat bookings are essential.
To book 8303 5925



And


THREE CHOIRS in Concert
6.30pm Saturday 17 September
With
Adelaide Voices,
Bella Voce,
Elder Conservatorium Chorale



Tickets for Three Choirs in Concert range from $25 - $15 Bookings and further information:
(08) 8303 5925 email: CLAIRE OREMLAND
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3Penny Opera

July 30th 2011 23:15
Sydney Theatre Company and Asteron present
the Malthouse Melbourne and Victorian Opera production of
Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill's


The Threepenny Opera
Text by Raimondo Cortese.
Lyrics by Jeremy Sams.


1 to 24 September 2011. Opening Night: 3 September 2011 at 8.00pm.
Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay


Featuring an exceptional cast including Paul Capsis (as Jenny), Jolyon James (as Tiger Brown), Luke Joslin (as Filch), Lucy Maunder (as Polly), Amanda Muggleton (as Mrs Peachum), Eddie Perfect (as Macheath) and Grant Smith (as Mr Peachum) the Brecht-Weill musical masterpiece, The Threepenny Opera, is at Sydney Theatre from 1 to 24 September 2011, opening Saturday 3 September.


The most notorious anti-hero to storm a stage, Macheath - or Mack The Knife as he's known on the streets - is the original city criminal who's never met a law, a woman or a cop he couldn't break. That is until he challenges the supremacy of the Beggar King Peachum and his empire of manufactured woes. With Peachum and cunning cop Tiger Brown on his case the last thing Mack needs is a couple of molls competing for ownership of him. But when it comes to the ladies, this Lothario throws caution to the wind and leaps in head first.



Taking John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) as the basis for a critique of the greed, lust, evil and corruption they considered to be at heart of bourgeois society, Brecht and Weill incorporated the danger and hedonism of 1920's Berlin music and cabaret to create a 20th Century milestone of musical theatre. At the heart of the Malthouse Melbourne and Victorian Opera co-production, directed by Michael Kantor and conducted by Richard Gill, is the raw, jazzy and intensely beautiful music.



Raimondo Cortese's vivid adaptation, featuring lyrics by Jeremy Sams, captures that spirit of the Weimar republic at its height, while superimposing the action onto recognisably Australian streets.



Sydney Theatre Company presents The Threepenny Opera as part of Berlin Sydney: a program of theatre, music, cabaret and exhibitions inspired by 20s and 30s Berlin held at leading arts venues across Sydney.

Director: Michael Kantor. Conductor: Richard Gill. Set Designer: Peter Corrigan. Costume Designer: Anna Cordingley. Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson. Choreographer: Kate Denborough.


Eddie Perfect & Paul Capsis (in)


Cast: Johanna Allen, Paul Capsis, Jolyon James, Luke Joslin, Lucy Maunder, Amanda Muggleton, Eddie Perfect, Angela Scundi, Dimity Shepherd, Grant Smith, John Xintavelonis, Michael Whalley. Music performed live by Ensemble Weill.

Box Office: 02 9250 1777.
Tickets: $40 - $130 (transaction fees may apply)
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Sydney Fringe 2011

July 29th 2011 02:10
Following last year's successful debut, Sydney's independent performing and visual arts festival returns with attitude. 24 days, 65 venues, 250 events and over 1,000 performances!

Shows and artists from Sydney, NSW, Australia and the world.

While we still call Newtown home, we are busting out across Sydney offering evermore of the city a chance to get Fringed with new precincts in Leichhardt, Parramatta, Chatswood, Darlinghurst's Oxford Street and the city.



This year, our new Fringe Club, Five Eliza, will re-imagine one of Sydney's hidden gems in the heart of Newtown and create a speakeasy lounge that will be the place for kicking back with the Fringe crowd.

On our opening night (Sept 9th) we turn up the volume in ever-buzzing King Street with a live music stage at The Hub for Newtown Live! Take a free peek at the work of some of our festival visual artists plus buskers, street poetry, Samba Ninja, Pop-Up Festival and Five Eliza opens for business.

KidsFringe will create a family-friendly space and a bagful of shows at the Addison Road Centre and prove you are never too young for a festival.

FringeMates is our new free membership card that gives your Fringe experience a little boost with special offers and discounts at participating bars, restaurants and businesses. Sign up online at

This is your festival. Your city unleashed!

The 2011 Sydney Fringe Festival launches official on Thursday 4 August - the full program will be available on-line at www.thesydneyfringe.com.au
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Adelaide Cinematheque

July 29th 2011 01:49

Adelaide 2011 Cinematheque (Season 2)

A must for all cinephiles, launches on Monday 8 August, 7.30pm at the Mercury Cinema with an unmissable screening of 1945 romantic classic Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise).

The Cinematheque is dedicated to screening significant films from the history of cinema and this year's program includes a diverse range of classic and contemporary films showcasing directors, actors and thematic series.

Set among the Parisian theatre scene, Marcel Carne's Les Enfants Du Paradis is a tragic tale of the beautiful courtesan Garance and the four men who love her.

Other Season 2 highlights include Terrence Malick: The Restless Search for Epiphany. In the wake of Terrence Malick's recent release, Tree of Life, this season will feature a selection of his haunting and abstract films, including his 1973 debut Badlands and the 2006 retelling of Pocahontas, The New World, starring Christian Bale and Colin Farrell.

Lovers of Australian film were saddened by news of the demise earlier this year of iconic Australian actor Bill Hunter. The Australian Everyman: Bill Hunter pays tribute to the celebrated actor who appeared in more than 60 films. The season features Peter Weir's emblematic Gallipoli (1981), Philip Noyce's Newsfront (1978), Craig Lahiff's Fever (1988) and the unforgettable 1994 comedy Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan).

A celebration of one of the most recognisable and irresistible cinematic genres, Dark Seduction: Film Noir's Bad Girls looks at the sultry temptresses whose charms would seduce a man into committing unheard of crimes. Don't miss Robert Siodmak's murderous and beautiful love story The Killers (1946), based on a Ernest Hemingway story and starring Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster or Orson Wells' enthralling 1947 mystery, Lady From Shanghai.

The 80s Brat Pack, a program of 80s cult classics includes John Hughes widely loved 1985 comedy The Breakfast Club and Joel Schumacher's St Elmo's Fire (1985).

Breakfast Club
The 2011 Cinematheque season finishes with a special Christmas Screening of Joe Dante's 1984 comic horror cult classic Gremlins.

At the end of selected sessions, members are invited to join Mercury staff and volunteers for a complimentary drink after the movie, thanks to Barossa Valley Brewing. Stay and chat about your favourite actors, auteurs, scenes and themes, talk about what you loved and didn't love and what you want to see more of on the big screen at Cinematheque.

The full Season 2 program is available at: mercurycinema.org.au Screenings are only available to society members, but anyone can join and becoming a member is easy and great value. Sign up on the spot at any Ten News Adelaide Cinematheque session or phone 8410 0979.
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Global event September 5

Freddie For A Day celebrations on September 5 to commemorate Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday

QUEEN: FINAL FIVE ALBUMS RE-ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 2
1984-1995: THE SHOW MUST GO ON

Between 1984 and 1995 Queen released their last five studio albums and consolidated their reputation as the biggest, brashest and boldest band in the world. They achieved legendary status as they delivered THE defining performance of the century at Live Aid as well as headlining massive stadium concerts all over the world. Queen also released some of their best loved and most anthemic work in this period, before and after the passing of Freddie Mercury in 1991.

Now in 2011 Island Records reissue the five Queen albums from this period on September 2nd (to coincide with what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday – on 5th Sept) as part of the band’s 40th Anniversary celebrations – ‘The Works’, ‘A Kind Of Magic’, ‘The Miracle’, ‘Innuendo’ and ‘Made In Heaven’. The reissues will be accompanied by the third in the ‘Queen: Deep Cuts’ series, which looks at some of the lesser known tracks from these albums.

Many Queen favourites were released during this period including ‘Radio Gaga’ (the track from which Lady Gaga took her name), ‘I Want To Break Free’ (complete with the infamous cross-dressing Coronation Street parody video that MTV banned in the US), ‘One Vision’, ‘A Kind of Magic’, ‘I Want It All’, ‘The Miracle’ and ‘These Are The Days of Our Lives’ (featuring Freddie’s final haunting video appearance).

These five albums cover the era when Queen were elevated to truly legendary status as they stole the show at Live Aid in front of a global TV audience of 1.9 billion people, and wowed audiences with subsequent headline shows at Knebworth and Wembley in 1986, the latter recently voted by the public as one of the most iconic events ever seen at the stadium. This was also Queen’s most consistent period of commercial success with each of the five albums going platinum in the UK and ‘A Kind of Magic’ and ‘Made in Heaven’ each selling over 1 million copies, the latter doing so four years after Freddie’s death showing that the Queen legacy reigns eternal.

As well as their huge UK gigs they continued the global domination of the late 70’s playing Rock in Rio twice to crowds of over 300,000 each time. On their subsequent Magic tour they sold over 1 million tickets around the world playing the first ever stadium gig in Eastern Europe at the Nepstadium in Budapest with fans hitchhiking from all over the Eastern Bloc to attend.

After Freddie’s death The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert saw a packed Wembley set alight again to the music of Queen once again in April 1992, with stars from all over the world joining Queen surviving members John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor on stage. Subsequently The Mercury Phoenix Trust was founded to help distribute money raised from this concert for AIDS awareness. Since then, the Trust has raised and distributed over $15 million to help in the fight against AIDS.

The charity has just created a truly unique initiative with the launch of the 'Freddie For A Day' Global Charity Network. Freddie For A Day will be held on September 5th 2011. It’s an annual, worldwide event which falls around Mercury’s birthday date and is a fun way to remember one of the greatest artists of our time. But behind it is the earnest purpose of raising funds to support the continued work in fighting HIV AIDS worldwide.

Those wanting to be involved should dress up as Freddie on September 5 and get their friends, family, school friends or work colleagues to sponsor them – see FreddieForADay.com.au.

Queens 40th Anniversary year has kicked off in spectacular style so far with their first ever major exhibition 'Stormtroopers in Stilettos' in London’s East End which drew an incredible crowd of over 20,000 visitors in two weeks, and kicked off with a star studded launch party attended by the likes of Foo Fighters and Jessie J.

A recent two part BBC TV documentary drew widespread rave reviews as Brian May and Roger Taylor looked back over their first 40 years in detail for the first time. The Guardian described it as ‘fantastic and moving’.

Meanwhile the bands first ten albums have been reissued to considerable acclaim. The Telegraph said of their early work, 'Queen's greatest music was extravagantly innovative, technically brilliant and created with a jeweller's care.’

These last five studio albums highlight the diverse talent, musical ambition and global success of a band made up of some of the best songwriters, musicians and performers of all time.



ALBUMS OUT SEPTEMBER 2

‘The Works’, ‘A Kind Of Magic’, ‘The Miracle’, ‘Innuendo’ and ‘Made In Heaven’
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Tom of Finland by Dian Hanson

July 25th 2011 23:17
Tom of Finland
by Dian Hanson


Dian Hanson's introduction gets directly into the core of matters as far as describing how a young Finnish lad named Touko Laaksonen became the notorious Tom of Finland via the even more notorious Physique Magazine.

She rightly references the 1991 documentary 'Daddy and the Muscle Academy' as she traces his growing desire for shiny, high leather boots, just like the German soldiers wore while his homeland was enduring the second world war. Although criticized for glorifying Nazis Laaksonen was apolitical when it came down to the bare bones of the matter, and only interested in that black leather look. Luckily in the 1950's a post-war Marlon Brando exploded onto the screen, and who knows what other eruptions occurred due to that? Well, certainly a few creative spurts from Laaksonen, who shifted his drawing skills from one astonishing look to another; from the storm trooper to the bikie leather man. If he had been born later I imagine we may have seen some pretty interesting Chewbaccas and Siths given that George Lucas created parts of Star Wars in the far icy North.

Illustrator George Quaintance passed away in 1960. Up until then he had been the number one illustrator at Physique Magazine. Fortune shone on Laaksonen as Quaintance passed, because Physique needed to replace their most popular artist and Laaksonen took that position. Looking at the work of Laaksonen and understanding that he mostly drew to stimulate himself sexually it is fascinating to imagine the process happening. What fine lines are touching the delicate buttons and getting the juices flowing? Essentially his work, the work of Tom of Finland, is erotica and pornography. It depicts sex between men in a variety of ways. Penetration is involved so it is considered X Rated, but you can get the book easy enough on line.

The men are all very masculine and sport well shaped bodies. The proportions are somewhat gargantuan as far as genitalia are concerned and the sexuality is very aggressive. It is not for everyone, but those who like it tend to like it very much indeed.

Understandably Tom of Finland is very popular among men who aspire and achieve this look, and the aesthetic of the work has clearly been reflected within the broader community over the years to the extent where Laaksonen's work appears on everything from t-shirts to tailored dress coats. His influence carries all the way to the bathroom where men all over the world probably use his illustrations to groom their own look to perfection.

This book from Taschen is aimed at those generally same-sex-attracted men, as well as the ones who haven't quite come all the way out into the light as it were, and have issues with a book like this sitting in their study. This type of dilemma, the I don't want my book to out me, or offend anyone dilemma, is dealt with by employing the Reversible Painic! Jacket. Yes the glossy paper cover is reversible, so you can switch, just like a super hero, from the rather raunchy Tom of Finland gold inlay title over the grey tone muscle-toned-couple enjoying clamping together like a clam illustrated cover, to a pea-green copy of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (volume 1) to keep your graphic novel reading on the down low.

Quite a nice touch really as it provides richer context of the era this material arose. Laaksonen, after all, would have been imprisoned had they discovered his same-sex-attraction back in the day, and he knew it. The work in the book is basically a series of short graphic novels that show different situations where guys get it on with eachother.

The range of stereotypes is not broad really, we have cops, bikers, truckies, business men and lots of sailors. Very beautiful, very sexy and pretty absurd; probably atypical male sexual fantasy where everyone has a great time at the drp of a hat and nobody goes home unhappy (because they're still enjoying themselves).

Even though there are scenes depicting aggressive male rape, it all looks ridiculously silly because of the over all style and simplicity of the action in each story, so I could be convinced it's no more toxic than a sexy 'Carry On...' movie. It is all about the sex, and the sex is drawn clean and concise.


Media: Hardcover Book, 272 pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taschen (Mar. 1st, 2011)


ISBN-10: 3836524864
ISBN-13: 9783836524865


Dimensions: 6.19 x 8.83 x 1.15 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.95 lbs
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THE WHARF SESSIONS

July 10th 2011 05:00
THE WHARF SESSIONS

PARADES

FRIDAY 22 JULY 2011
AT 10PM (APPROX START)

FREE POST-SHOW LIVE MUSIC AT THE WHARF



On Friday 22 July, Sydney band Parades will bring to The Wharf Sessions their unique form of atmospheric, melodic art-rock (that you can actually dance to!).

Parades received rapturous reviews this time last year after the release of their debut album Foreign Tapes. It got four and five star reviews all over the country and now they’re back with a glorious new single Water Stories.

"These guys are fantastic. Simple as that." - RICHARD KINGSMILL, TRIPLE J

The Wharf Sessions are Sydney Theatre Company’s regular series of free post-show gigs at The Wharf. Previous artists include Bertie Blackman, The Paper Scissors, Cloud Control, Red Riders and Bridezilla.

While The Wharf Sessions is perfect for your post-theatre entertainment, you don’t actually have to attend a show to come along, just turn up at 10pm!

Entry to the gig is free and available to all. No booking necessary. Drinks and snacks will be available at the bar
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