James Griffin is a songwriter, singer, poet, spoken word performer and broadcaster who has shared concert stages with Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, co-written hit songs with Joe Camilleri and Lee Kernaghan and hosted literary television and radio programs.

Songs for a Season at Ghost Town Bridge is a combined CD and book of songs and prose poems. The songs and poems in the book are also presented as a CD album of sung and spoken word performances. All the tracks are one-take recordings of James singing / reciting and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar or mandolin.

James is a current recipient of a Creative Research Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria where he is researching Victorian country towns to complete a trilogy of Ghost Town Bridge song, poem and story collections.

www.jamesgriffin.com.au

Navigation is at the centre of humanity.  It has encouraged displacement and exchange between individuals, communities and cultures. Navigation can facilitate exchanges of master skills where the objects for trade are necessary for social life and artistic expression.  Navigators are enterprising in their long voyages in search of new directions.  Constructing their objects for navigation can be a cathartic act and messages of hope are often embellished into their forms.

Jo D’Hagé is currently a practicing artist and art educator teaching as a sessional staff member at the Queensland College of art, Griffith University, and as a permanent P/T teacher at the Brisbane North Institute of TAFE.

The dining room concept evolved out of a search for a context in which to present a cycle of paintings informed by the lavish flower field foreground in Botticelli’s Primavera.

Kennedy visited Florence two years prior to make sketches directly from the original work. MFTDPMMIX – tormentati i sensi, evolved into a lavishly decorated living, functioning diningroom serving Hesperidean inspired delicacies for an entire lunar cycle (28 days).

An unbroken innocent wonder leads into an underworld where the muse – as a muse might – reverses the process that formed MFTDPMMIX – tormentati i sensi ODPMMX – an underworld diningroom – wherein to dine is not merely to eat.

Teaming with a multitude of images Faulks’ malodorous concoctions transport us into the complex and secretive world of imagination, memory and experience.

Image: Gloaming Head, 130×90cm, Ink on paper, 2010

Rachel has just returned from overseas and will do anything to evade guilt or responsibility while Anne cracks at the seams as the past returns to haunt her – a past that their father believes is the present. Tensions surface and sparks fly between the sisters but the real secret remains buried.

Directed by award-winning director, Tom Healey, and recipient of the 2010 Malcolm Robertson New Playwright Grant, Buried is a dark comedy about family, death and our greatest fear: becoming our parents.

Set in the Balkans, East Timor and Iraq, against the complex terrain of contemporary photojournalism, Bare Witness scrutinises the way we view our humanity – through the fragmenting lens of the media. Searching for the pieces of herself lost to years in the field, a young Australian woman is at a point when thrusting the camera between herself and her subjects ceases to protect her. Photographs, memories and dreams collide in a physical multi-media performance that follows a pack of complicated, flawed characters who share the unbreakable bond of war journalists.

Drawing on the actual experiences of photojournalists and foreign correspondents, Bare Witness has attracted a stellar cast including Isaac Drandic, Daniela Farinacci, Todd MacDonald, Adam McConvell and Maria Theodorakis.

If you’re a student, media worker, photographer, activist, aid worker, or just someone who loves original, thought provoking theatre SEE THIS PLAY! BUT BOOK EARLY.

Image by Jeremy Angerson and Rusty Stewart

Subtractions are works experimenting with surfaces to build city-like constructions and slices of landscapes based on memory and the impact the immediate environment has on us.

X-Field will feature work by Charles Anderson, Richard Black, Mel Dodd, Sand Helsel, Andrea Mina and SueAnne Ware.

Read more about X-Field on their website: http://xfieldexhibit.wordpress.com

Image: ‘Tidal Garden (detail), 2009′ by Richard Black .

“Creating a genuine sense of place demands more than just careful handling of all the details in the source material. I wanted to create as near as possible a sensual experience, to enable the viewer to enter that space, that landscape, experience its atmosphere, physical conditions and the sensations that shaped my experience of that location at that time.” James Yuncken

See the works from the exhibition on James’ website.

Image: ‘Safe Fill Level’ by James Yuncken 117 x 79 cm, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2010.