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http://thesydneyfringe.com.au

"My summer of love, right?
Reading something by some Beatnik and
I thought I’d find my voice through those drugs.
Fucked out and hot and kind of -
Falling Away Purposefully

The world of acid house raves and New York, street-wise cafe boys. The great writers of our myths. The artists and the poets. Their stories roll by like an ancient script; lit from behind by ancient light.

Two boys, a couple, stand on the edge of their history.

8pm 10/09, 9.30pm 11/09, 6.30pm 12/09
$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/memento-mori

NIKKI NOUVEAU presents:

A night of dark burlesque... a femme fatale who punishes her betraying lover with nunchuks, dirty tricks and seduction. It tells a morbid narrative of fantasy, delving into the desire to be loved. Combining the glamorous with the forbidden the show features sexy circus tricks, bondage and live music by local band, the Knife Waltz, launching their debut EP - "Vintage Romance".

8pm 11/09, 9.30pm 12/09, 9.30pm 16/09 (50 Minutes)
$20 / $16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/burlesque-assassin

WouldMan is a contemporary fairytale. It's about an artist's "present art adventures" through the frame of time. When entering the woods of the art world, his imagination ignites; a breaking in, out and through both, the uncarved and creative block. The play is presented as a series of non-linear sketches. The performance uses various theatrical styles to trace the WouldMan drawing from nature, art and mythology, into the worlds of mystery and the fantastic.

PLAGIARISE is generously supported by The Zenith Theatre.

8pm 12/09, 9.30pm 15/09, 8pm 19/09 (45 Minutes)

$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/wouldman

Scotti wants to be an actor. He wants it badly. He's also in deep debt. So when Asif offers him big bucks of course he agrees.
Asif believes in The Secret - visualise and it will happen! But now Scotti and his girlfriend Harriet are confronted with what to do with Asif's wife. Is murder ever justified?

'Never Mind The Bumwhore follows Scotti, a disillusioned out of work actor who is propositioned by Asif, a rich businessman, into regular paid sexual encounters. Over the next few months, Scotti becomes accustomed to large amounts of money. Asif shares his insights of cosmic ordering and 'The Secret' - in order to succeed in life, one must read the signals and take every opportunity the universe presents to them. During one such sexual encounter, Asif has a heart attack. Scotti sees this incident as a sign to fleece Asif's house, sell his positions and set up life in America. Harriet, Scotti's girlfriend, comes to the flat to help. Charlotte, Asif's wife, returns home unexpectedly. Scotti knocks her unconscious.

When Charlotte awakes, Scotti and Harriet are left with the predicament. Do they let Charlotte go and run the risk of being caught; Or kill her and start their lives afresh, safe in the knowledge that the universe has finally provided for them.'

7.30pm 15/09, 6pm 19/09, 9.30pm 22/09 (85 Minutes)
$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/never-mind-bumwhore

Internet social networks are rampant, young yuppies looking for trends and gossip, personal privacy is a thing of the past. World leaders of all major nations fight furiously to keep the secrets of their present hypocrisies and brutal histories secure, sabotaging the freedom of their populations and implementing strict rationing of diminishing resources. World War III ensues, a nuclear wipeout that destroys all life as we know it...except one band - Deaf Hedge from Marrickville, who unknowingly write music so powerful it creates a force field around them and keeps them safe in their underground studio.

In the absence of any surviving humans, these Gods of the New World must continue life on Earth by selecting one of the few surviving species to carry forward the human gene...while rocking out the whole time.

8pm 16/09, 9.30pm 19/09, 6.30pm 25/09

$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/deaf-hedge-gods-new-world

Melbourne’s favourite circus pranksters present Good Clean Fun, an absurdist, punk, sideshow-comedy like no other! This whirlwind of visions from a world gone mad promises to be a seminal show. Presented in an immersive, anarchic theatrical space that blurs the boundaries between audience and performer, the show closes with a mass communal dance-frenzy. Political, viciously funny and with Nudity encouraged!

8pm 22/09, 9.30pm 24/09, 8pm 25/09
$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/good-clean-fun

Dirty: Risque: Hilarious: Laundry

Bring your deepest darkest secrets and Panda Smackdown will play them out on stage, whilst revealing some dirty nuggets of their own. Come with us as we improvise a world of desire and infinite jest, as you air your Dirty Laundry in our dank, forgotten laundry. Sit back and watch as what would not, could not and should not be said, play before you ultimately descending into madness. We can keep a secret, can you?

8pm 23/09, 8pm 24/09, 9.30pm 25/09 (60 Minutes)
$20/$16

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/dirty-laundry

Silent Film Australia Ltd., presenter of Australia’s Silent Film Festival , and the Red Rattler are proud to host a season of restored silent film classics and live music to support Tradewinds and its not for profit project in East Timor.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1919) 21 mins

A quirky and outrageous comedy of detective ‘Coke Ennyday’; needing a fix of cocaine every 5 minutes to carry out his assignment of exposing an opium racket!

Rowdy Ann (1919) 21 mins

Rowdy Ann is a crack shot and fights like a man – even when sent to college to become a lady.

One Week (1920) 19 mins

Buster Keaton’s DIY house kit is sabotaged by his bride’s jilted lover…

Now You Tell One (1926) 22 mins

Bowers invents a magic grafting formula that can grow and reproduce almost anything put on a tree branch!

with Mauro Colombis on piano – a classically trained musician who has developed his own

improvisatory and compositional style for silent cinema …

A MUST NOT MISS EVENT!!!

Film screenings commence 6pm Doors open 5.30pm

program details www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au

Tickets $15/$10 concession

Over 18s only event. No presale; door sale tickets only

Oh! Melbourne's loveliest literary event (TM), Women Of Letters, is hitting the road and heading north to meet with our friends in disco city for the very first time.

Join co-curator Marieke Hardy and host Michaela McGuire for their Sydney debut as they welcome an all-star lineup featuring crime author Tara Moss, professional lover of books Jennifer Byrne, award-winning thespian Claudia Karvan, r...adio dame Fenella Kernebone, writer Sophie Braham, actress Virginia Gay, songwriter Sally Seltmann and star of stage and screen Sacha Horler, all of whom will be penning ‘A Love Letter’.

There'll be wine, studious penning of aerogrammes and a very special DJ set by the wonderful Zan Rowe.

1-4pm

$20 available now from http://www.greentix.com.au/

Join us for a most pleasant afternoon celebrating a diverse range of strong female talent whilst simultaneously raising funds for Victorian animal rescue shelter, Edgar's Mission (http://www.edgarsmission.org.au/).

Please note: this marks the first date in WoL’s September/October road trip, with shows following in Melbourne, Newcastle and Brisbane. See http://www.womenofletters.com.au/ for more details.

“Bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad – filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the food industry, exposing the underbelly of big corporation food production and the dangers it presents. Food Inc touches on issues of consumer health, the livelihood of farmers, worker safety and what is happening to our environment, often with the consent of regulatory agencies.” www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php

7pm food and music - The Thingos, featuring Lisa McIntosh on piano and Paul Hayward on guitar
8pm film starts - surprise short film before screening of FOOD, Inc.
$20/$10 at door
Includes homemade hearty organic soup with sourdough bread
DRINKS + SWEET TREATS ON SALE

RAFFLE: Organic olive oil and wine hamper donated by member Rhys Goodey of Ark Wine Agencies plus a Lucky Door Prize

All funds raised will go towards improving the co-op. This year it’s to buy new nut butter machines or to repair our two existing machines, which are getting close to their use-by dates.
www.alfalfahouse.org

Join us in an experience through the Turkish lands from the Persian borders to the new world…

Enjoy the exotic journey with performances by: Tasia, Billie Bradshaw, Sheena Miss Demeanour, Lulu, Tall Paul, Kael, Baby Blue Bergman and Aishwarya Chai

Indulge with Turkish delights of a Nargile Lounge (herbal fruit tobacco, no nicotine), our mystical fortune teller, Ottoman gentlemen and belly dancers.

With all night authentic and modern mix music and video art, Ottoman Love will stimulate your senses from the visual to the aural.

7.30pm
Tickets $25 from http://www.dsvision.net/ottomanlove

Ms Koori Love yarns up about love and life and shares her adventures in the Koori

Mail newspaper. Since 2006 she has been writing yarns about being single,finding

love, breaking up, modern life, communication, negotiating relationships, family

and friends, culture, resilience - in that special way Ms Koori Love way!

Ms Koori Love now needs your help to get these good lubbin' yarns out into the world.

with a production of a series of books.

www.mskoorilove.com.au

7pm- midnight

door sales only $20