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TONIGHT:

- Night Noodle Markets  (Civic Park, N Sydney)
Happening every Friday night from now until April. Good chance to get the taste buds going, before the Night Noodle Markets start in Hyde Park next Thursday. (More on that next week)
(From Leanne S)

- Black & Blue Gallery (Surry Hills)
David Withers & Lachlan Anthony – Make Yourself at Home
We’ve heard this is meant to be a pretty cool show.

“A piquant show of installation, sculpture and photography that interrogates artefacts which fill domestic and urban fields of contemporary experience. Reconfiguring the scale, location and state; of furniture, clothing and products, affects an uncanny climate in which the audience is asked to re-think the significance and potentiality of previously understood objects. Whilst humorous at first encounter, upon closer engagement these surreal reconfigurations intimate a more malevolent undertow.”
(From Edwina S)

THE WEEKEND:

- Australian International Motor Show  (Darling Harbour)
9th – 19th October

- Crack the Code! @ Sydney Olympic Park (Kids)
Using a compass, orienteer yourself around the centre of Sydney Olympic Park.  Collect the clues along the way, decode the message and collect your prize from the Visitor Centre.
(from Tara W)

- The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair (Hunters Hill)
Hunters Hill Town Hall/Masonic Temple/RSL Hall
$12 Adults / $6 Child / $30 Family
The fifth ‘The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair’ with dealers from all over Australia in three separate buildings selling two hundred years of fashion and fashion accessories.
(from Yvonne G)

- C-90 @ Palmer Projects (Darlinghurst)
Mark Drew (China Heights founder) explores cassette related artworks through a variety of installations, prints and canvas.
(from Ed Q)

- Art & About Activities (across Sydney)
Lots of stuff going on here, including Live Lanes and Sydney Life previously covered in the blog.

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It’s nearly here folks.  Are you counting down the hours until the day ends and you officially start a long weekend.?  Let’s just hope the weather holds out!

If you’re feeling a bit arty this weekend, why not check out Art & About 2008?  Has it really been a whole year since the last one?  Wow.

Starting this weekend (Sat) you can check out ‘Live Lanes – By George’ & ‘Sydney Life’ – the first of many events for Art & About.

Live Lanes – By George
4th October – 31st January (don’t worry if you miss it this weekend then!)

With work by artists from the City of Sydney’s artist run initiatives By George! explores the potential of the City’s laneways, bringing them back to life with creativity, innovation and new energy. 

Sydney Life (Central walkway, Hyde Park North)
4th October – 26th October

Sydney Life, the annual photography competition held in Hyde Park as part of Art & About, is stronger than ever in 2008.

There were many passionate arguments from the four judges during the judging. The result is a fascinating collection of different moods, observations and styles. There is humour, comment, portraiture, darkness and domesticity.

Sydney Life is proud of its record of showing a mix of emerging and established artists. This year is no exception. Many well-known photographers entered, several of whom have been selected in previous years. There are also the works of many new and up and coming photographers included in the final selection.

The location of Hyde Park continues to be the star of this popular public art event. I am delighted that Sydney Life is once again enlivening this much-loved green respite in the middle of the CBD.

Sandy Edwards Curator, Sydney Life

For the full Art & About calendar of events – check out the Art & About website.  We’ll highlight some more of the events nearer the time.

Have a great long Sydney weekend folks.  And remember – let’s hear all about where you went and the experiences you had over on RAYV.  All reviews written throughout the month of October are automatically entered into our ‘Bowl Us Over’ – Strike Bowling competition.

See you on the other side.

Ian

ST2K brings together the best of Sydney’s emerging street art culture.  Artists and the public are invited to participate in all live art events.

Tonight (1st Oct) sees the opening of Here Comes Trouble at the Pine Street Creative Arts Centre in Chippendale (NSW 2008).  An exhibition of street art and DIY culture. The exhibition will run for the whole month of October and will operate as the hub of the festival.

This a FREE event ladies and gentlemen (always a winner) and showcases the work of some great local talent.  RAYV’s friend Dan Geaves (from Pareto Fundraising) will also be exhibiting.  Want to know what he’s created?  You’ll have to pop down and see it for yourself!  You could also be very generous and buy it! We’ll be there tonight with the RAYV stickers on, so come and say hi.

For details about the other events happening throughout the month of October for the ST2K: Sydney Street Art Festival click here.  We’ll also be highlighting them on the blog as and when they happen.

Here Comes Trouble
Pine Street Arts Centre
1st – 30 Oct
6pm-9pm
FREE

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