Thinking of something a little different to do? What about Grape Stomping? You have a chance to make some wine, have a bite to eat on the spit roast, listen to some live music & take in some wine tasting. There is even a jumping castle, face painting & colouring competition for the kids.

What: Grape Stomping at Yarra Ranges Estate
Where: 39 Coulson Rd, Monbulk, VIC
When: Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd April 2011 11am to 5pm both days
Contact: 03 9752 0683 bookings are essential
Cost: $10.00

Five of Australia’s emerging street artists have installed a series of Streetware artworks, which will transform three City laneways from blank canvases to artistic spaces for the next three months.

Artists including Jumbo + Zap (recently exhibited at National Gallery Australia), Steve Gorrow (Insight founder), Emma Davidson, grrl + dog and Kat Smolynec have created giant comic gangsters, an urban angel, characters from 1960s and ‘70s children’s books, life-sized plastic people and Babushka dolls, bringing art out of the gallery and nto the public domain.

To coincide with the first annual Streetware art program, a Streetware Pop Up Gallery has also been opened in Alberta Street. The Streetware Pop Up Gallery will temporarily transform the unused vacant shop front in Alberta Street and all five Streetware artists will be participating in a two week residency at the gallery. Each artist will be selling their own unique artworks (canvases and zines) to coincide with their Streetware creations.

What: The Streetware Pop Up Gallery
Where: 21 Alberta Street
When: Until April 3 2011, Thursday – Saturday, 12-6pm and by appointment

Sands Street, Dungate Lane and Nithsdale Lane (off Alberta Street) feature the works of the Streetware artists.

To coincide with the City Art Public Art Strategy, the City launched the new City Art website www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/cityart/ encouraging greater communication between artistic communities and the City.

For more information about Streetware Temporary Art Project, please visit: www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/cityart/special/streetware.asp

Media Contact: Natasha Bowron (02) 9246 7310 or nbowron {at} cityofsydney.nsw.gov(.)au

The communities of Sydney need to know about the ‘Public Land Grab’ attempt that is about to occur under our noses!

Come to this first Community Forum and find out how to stop this and why. Get informed. Be inspired. Have your Say!

** Heaps of great SPEAKERS **
- on Business, Urban Planning, Arts Industries, Health & Tourism…

Help draft a public proposal for an Arts precinct and help keep The Old Kings School in Public Hands for a new heritage friendly cross-cultural and ecological precinct – for everyone in the Parramatta City region.

** ITS TIME! for State Arts infrastructure in Parramatta.

More info: http://www.facebook.com/oldkingsschool
Support here: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/oldkings

10am – 12pm, Friday 28th of January

Jubilee Hall, (next to Parramatta town Hall)

The communities of Sydney need to know about the public land grab that could occur under our noses! Come to the Community Forum and find out more. Have your say and help draft a public proposal for an Arts Precinct, and help save the Old Kings School!

The National Maritime Festival aims to raise the profile of the Maritime Centre Newcastle and increase community awareness of the vital importance of our Maritime heritage. At its simplest, the National Maritime Festival provides a welcome spectacle and a day of entertainment and involvement for many, many thousands of Novocastrians as well as visitors from interstate and overseas.

The Australia Day Maritime Festival provides for education, cultural integration and community involvement while enhancing the use of maritime facilities. The annual National Maritime Festival leaves a lasting legacy of pride and enjoyment of our Harbour City of Newcastle. The National Maritime Festival is a chance for you and your family to experience a day on Newcastle harbour celebrating my story, your story, and our story .

What: Newcastle Australia Day Maritime Festival 2011
Where: 3 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle, NSW
When: Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 January 2011
Cost: Free

An exhibition inspired by the dark point of reference of traditional nursery rhymes. Featuring a group of multi-disciplinary creatives, each presenting a piece to showcase their signature style. An exhibition of awe inspiring beauty, colour, textures and sinuous linework.

Anita Alcorn- Melanie Allen- Siobhan Boughton- Courtney Brims- Letitia Buchan- Peta Alannah Chigwidden- Jordan Clarke- Anna Creasy- Klaus Kinski- Milo Kossowski- Beci Orpin- Leith O’Malley- Elisa Mazzone- Suzanne McPherson- Anna Moretti- Naomi Murrell- Wendy Olsen- Lilly Piri- Nani Puspasari- Eugenia Tsimiklis- Ella Versteege- Bec Winnel- Sally Wren- Nancy Alice Wood.

Urban Cow Studio has been a mecca for artists and art lovers for the past 17 years. Currently displaying artwork from over 150 South Australian artists and designers it is a virtual feast for the senses with a new suprise around every corner.

What: Nursery Rhymes exhibit
When: Now until 28th January 2010
Where: Urban Cow Studio Gallery
Address: 11 Frome St, Adelaide.
Cost: Free

We at Two Flat Whites just wanted to say a big thank you for all your support in 2010. We wish you & your families a Merry Christmas & fantastic New Year!

We have bigger interviews, more competitions, more of a focus on music, food, film, literature, the arts & plenty of surprises in 2011. So stay tuned & enjoy your holidays!

Two Flat Whites Team

Nursery Rhymes is an exhibition inspired by the dark point of reference of traditional nursery rhymes. It is an exhibition featuring a group of creatives that have chosen one nursery rhyme. Each creative built their art work around the nursery rhyme, in their chosen medium, to showcase their signature style.

Each of the participants in the exhibition arrive from a wide range of disciplines, from art and illustration to graphics and apparel within the creative industry. Many of the artists are multi-disciplinary and have had group and solo exhibitions of their work and have had their work emblazoned across tee-shirts, banners, books and magazines. Read all about the Nursery Rhymes Exhibition»

StreetSmart tackles homelessness at the grassroots. They are a unique bridge between the community and small, ‘hard to reach’ agencies and projects that assist people experiencing homelessness or at risk. They support critical services and emergency aid as well as projects that promote social inclusion, empowerment and sustainable change for people who are homeless. When money is raised from the public through our ‘dine out …help out’ fundraising events, 100 per cent of donations are distributed in the form of grants. To date they have raised and distributed over $1,180,000 to 272 grassroots projects.

When you dine at a participating restaurant they add an extra $2 to your bill. It’s not much but it’s a simple idea that adds up to a big impact on the lives of people who are homeless. This campaign runs until the 24th December so whether you’re planning a business meeting, an early Christmas dinner or just a catch up with good friends, we ask that you think about choosing one of the participating restaurants.

To find a full list of restaurants & to find out more about the great causes your money helps support, visit streetsmartaustralia.org

Wall less, lawless art is back! This time, outfitting the walls of aMBUSH Gallery and then, outfitting you all, with some brand new artist designed t-shirts.

After the highly successful volume 1 that exhibited the work of SMC[3]; Catherine Thomson; Houl and Michael Hazell at Oh Really Gallery, without walls has some new artwork by some new friends.

Volume 2 will feature the frantic and hyper-masculine images of James Jirat Patradoon, the drawings of Ben Toupein that has a focus on peoples locus; the extensive and highly graphic geometric artistry of Brett Chan; an artist/animator with a goofing grand narrative: Jin Hien Lau; the angry, naked and headless scribbles of Aisling King-Macklin; and the street-exhibiting, outdoor-postering long-time Sydney street art luminary JUMBO.

Together, they will drape the walls of aMBUSH Gallery from November 25 as well as creating some new, unique and absolutely original without walls drapes, so you can take their exhibition with you, wherever you are, all over your beautiful forms.

DAILY EXHIBITION
Where: aMBUSH Gallery
Address: 4a James Street, Waterloo (Sydney)
When: December 9, 10, 11 & 12, 2010
Time: 12pm to 4pm
Price: Free