The Hardware Gallery has expanded. Everyone who has witnessed the mayhem over the last 2 years and for those slackers who have not – now is your chance to see how the Enmore Kr3w gets down. There have been a number of changes including: -

Expanded gallery – doubling the floor space of the gallery with new displays for current stock and larger more ambitious exhibitions.

Record Room – thousands of used vinyl records for sale at awesome prices inside the coolest custom built room of all time.

Bar – the most impressive place to rest between hectic art viewing and dazzling conversation with the 3nmor3 Kr3w.

Art services – all of our existing art services remain. Sydney’s finest, friendliest and organised framing, canvas stretching and art installation service.

The beer garden – will remain open for the members of the 3nmor3 Kr3w.

The Hard Core exhibition has kicked off the festivities with both galleries filled with fresh new work by 12 of the finest young local artists. You will see work from Seth Birchall, Nicholas Fintan, Ray Firth, Philip Hannaford, David Hickson, Keith Looby, Rodney Monk, Andrew McNeill, Josonia Palaitis, David Perry, Sandi Rigby & Yuri Shimmyo.

The exhibition is now on & runs through October 2008. Why not check out some art, have a beer, buy a record & support some of our up & coming Sydney artists. Tell them Two Flat Whites sent you!

Article written by Anita Gallant

Art By Design is an inaugural exhibition celebrating emerging artists and designers in their chosen medium. The brainchild of the exhibition is Naomi Solomon. She is a designer & is doing a wonderful job providing local designers & artists with the opportunity to promote there work. Art By Design showcases the limitless talents of up-and-coming as well as already established artists/designers poised to make their mark.

Kinokuniya Art Gallery is again supporting the event. Kinokuniya is a huge book store which also features an in-store Art Gallery which exhibits works from ambitious, creative, and talented artists to help them develop their careers. New exhibitions are shown every two weeks.

This year, Art By Design 4 years on, is proud to present designers such as happy end designs, claretduskymoonpie, ev liong, jmg designs, jon zhu, let’s call it shirley, ly, maaike pullar, maricormaricar, me and amber, popperbox, rubikus, deep fried sam, symple & little turtle.

The exhibition runs from the 12th October until the 1st November 2008.

Kinokuniya Art Gallery
Level 2, The Galeries Victoria
500 George Street, Sydney
Times:
mon – wed + fri – sat 10am-7pm
thu 10am-9pm
sun 10am-6pm

www.artbydesignexhibition.blogspot.com

It’s hard for small Australian films to pick up a distributor at the moment, but the launch of a new film distribution business is cause for hope. The Australian Film Sydnicate (AFS) is the brainchild of Dungog Film Festival proprietors Allanah Zitserman & Stavros Kazantzidis, along with ex-Triple J film guru Peter Castaldi.

The business will only deal with Australian content, with all films being handled digitally. The first film to be distributed by AFS will be Christopher Weekes’ critically acclaimed debut feature Bitter & Twisted. Followed by Ian Hamilton’s Honeymoon in Kabul.

The 2008 Queensland Multicultural Festival is on again and will be held at Roma Street Parkland on Sunday 12 October. Now in its fifth year, the Queensland Multicultural Festival is Queensland’s largest, free, one-day community event.

In 2008 the program is as diverse as ever, offering a free and exciting day for people of all ages. This year’s entertainment includes:

* five performance stages
* more than 40 international food stalls
* cooking demonstrations
* children’s activities
* join-in activities
* guest appearances by Queensland Roar players.

Canadian music doyen, Harry Manx, will headline this year’s festival with a hypnotic live show that captures a vibrant and unique blend of Mississippi Delta Blues and Indian Ragas. Queensland sensations Katie Noonan and Doch will also perform at the 2008 Queensland Multicultural Festival.

Many cultures, one community
Sunday 12th October 2008
10am to 8pm
Roma Street Parkland

The Darryl Beaton Band is undoubtedly one of the most exciting acts to come out of Australia. Two Flat Whites caught the show last night at The Basement.

Armed with an arsenal of thought provoking songs and mind blowing musicianship, this band will effortlessly have your head nodding with their unique sounds. With music that speaks profoundly to a universal audience, they take listeners on a journey through soul, latin, jazz and reggae vibes. This band offers a satisfaction guarantee!

The group formed after Darryl united with musical counterparts ‘Martinez’ in 2005; leading to the 3 eldest Martinez brothers infusing Darryl’s music with their unique Australian-Chile flavour.

Born into music as the son of a drummer father and singer mother, Darryl has performed since the age of 5; most affluently on piano, but also as skillful on guitar, drums and bass. This has led him to be one of the few musicians with a truly extensive history in the Australian music industry. He has performed with such notable artists as; Harry Connick Jnr, Chris Isaak, KC & JoJo, Ronny Jordan, Thelma Houston, Teddy Geiger, Jewel, Human Nature, John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes, Guy Sebastian, Shannon Noll, Deni Hines, Robyn Loau, Paulini, Christine Anu, Amy Pearson and Jade MacRae – most of which he also presided as Musical Director.

His most recent accolades include recording with 5x Grammy Award Winner, Kanye West and Mig Ayesa of Rockstar INXS fame. In April of 2008 the band went on tour in Japan, with an amazing response and feedback from Japan. Because of the amazing response in the April 2008 tour the band has been scheduled for a new tour of Japan in November, this time taking them to the cities of Tokyo and Osaka.

Check out the new album – From the Ground Up

Visitors to the opening weekend on September 20th of the Munich Oktoberfest, or d’ Wiesn  as its known locally, did their best to live up to the festival’s proud traditions by guzzling 450,000 litres of beer and devouring 11 oxen.  This was just the beginning of the world’s biggest party, which attracts over 6 million people to Bavarian Germany every year for sixteen days.

Oompah bands filled the tented beer-halls with rustic good feeling and the waitresses in their Dirndl dresses lugged fistfuls of one-liter glasses of beer (known as Mass) through the thirsty crowds, leaning closest to the historical significance of the outfit than anyone else in attendance. After all, the “dirndl” was originally no more than the undergarment of a maidservant.  In recent years the fashion stakes at Oktoberfest have become as much a part of the experience as the Mass of beer and the obligatory pretzel.  This year, more than ever, punters (both men and women) are wearing the Bavarian traditional costume or Tracht as it’s known.

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Watch Melbourne transform into a truly global arts city over 17 days in October, at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008. The Melbourne International Arts Festival is Australia’s premier celebration of international performing and visual arts and Melbourne’s flagship cultural event.

Since first being staged in 1986 as the third Spoleto Festival (with Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, USA), Melbourne Festival quickly forged an unique identity and remains the only festival in Australia to be born from international heritage.

Held over 17 days each October, Melbourne Festival is the pre-eminent destination festival in the nation, ensuring interstate and international visitation by exclusively debuting and premiering some of the finest national and international artists and companies.

Each Festival brings an unparalleled feast of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, multimedia and outdoor events from renowned and upcoming Australian and International companies and artists to Melbourne.

The 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival will take place between the 9th to 25th October 2008.