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August and September are our two favourite months of the year and you will know why with a surge of big festivals such as the Queensland Poetry Festival, the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival and the Brisbane Festival all happening in the next two months. 

We have compiled a list of some of our top choices from each of those festivals.  Keep an eye out on our giveaways and don't miss out! 

This month, we'll be chasing those winter blues away and getting ourselves prepared for a great season of festivals happening here in Brisbane!

See you later,

Hannah

A.CI

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Valentino, Retrospective: Past / Present / Future

Check out some sneak peeks in our liveblog entry (the photos were uploaded a bit later on!) of the Valentino, Retrospective preview.  We haven't had a chance to take in the whole exhibition so we are looking forward to coming back again!

The exhibition runs from 7 August - 14 November 2010 at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Other events to note: "This Fashion Life" presents films on fashion entrepreneurs and personalities (Read more).  Valentino, Retrospective's opening weekend talks from 11.30am August 7.  In-conversation: Dressing the stars.  Curator's tours across various dates.  Material Culture: 50 Years of Fashion History fortnightly lectures.  Fashion in art: Collection talks on selected Wednesdays and Sundays. 

Related events: For more substance with your fashion, please go to our top picks of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival.

www.qag.qld/gov.au/valentino

TOP 10: Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Festival 2010 runs from 4 - 25 September in and around Brisbane!

Happy As Larry: Shaun Parker explores different personality types and the concept of happiness.  I've recently read Daniel Pink's DRIVE (an exploration on what motivates us) and perhaps this is one of those performances?

Works In Progress - First Ritual: Be sure to support First Ritual, a works in progress production by Expressions Dance Company. 

Sutra: You need to watch the trailer to see just a very small glimpse of what Sutra is all about. 

Macbeth: I saw Bell Shakespeare's production of King Lear, my first full-production of Shakespeare, so I can't say that I'm a Shakespeare groupie...yet.  Looking forward to Macbeth! 

All of UNDER THE RADAR: There's a lot in the programme that I want to see, both the ticketed and Street Feats programme so I have decided to bundle it all up into one thing :)

Shanghai Lady Killer: SLK is an interesting blend - multimedia, acrobatics, martial arts, and a stage production inspiration from the Wuxia genre.

All of Festival Conversations: Delve into the creative minds behind some of the Brisbane Festival productions (see our ticket giveaways below).

West End...Live: There will be heaps going on in West End..Live! More details to come soon.

QUT Sessions: Support these free performances by QUT students happening at The Spiegeltent and discover upcoming and emerging Brisbane music.

Circa (Wunderkammer and Strange Familiar Angel): I'm going to be a bit cheeky and just add these two, Wunderkammer and Strange Familiar Angel, as one.  Brisbane-based Circa are hailed worldwide as one of the most dynamic forces in new circus!

Giveaway // Danza Contemporánea de Cuba

Danza Contemporánea de Cuba has been recognised as one of the world’s most groundbreaking modern dance companies for more than half a decade.

Renowned for its dancers’ fluidity, fire and sheer physical artistry, the company has devised a new language of dance that has been described as a pungent blend of Afro-Caribbean expression, classical European ballet and American modernism.

Brisbane Creative Industries is offering a double pass to see the exuberant Danza Contemporánea de Cuba on September 15 2010.  To enter, send a tweet @briscreative with "Danza Contemporánea de Cuba" in the status update by August 27 2010.

Giveaway // Shanghai Lady Killer

Imagine the characters from a classic film noir – flawed private eye, femme fatale and underground crime lord – meet the superhuman heroines of a Hong Kong Wuxia sword-fighting spectacular.

Set the action in the Chinatown of a futuristic Australian city and bring in multi-media landscapes, acrobatics, parkour, trampoline, dance, circus and martial arts, and you might have something close to the on-stage spectacle of Stalker’s Shanghai Lady Killer.

Brisbane Creative Industries is offering a double pass to see the thrilling Shanghai Lady Killer on September 23 2010. To enter, send a tweet @briscreative with "Shanghai Lady Killer" in the status update by August 27 2010.

Giveaways // Festival Conversations

Brisbane Festival Artistic Director, Noel Staunton, will take the interviewer’s chair for in-depth discussions with international and local talent.

Get inside the creative minds of some of the world’s leading directors, choreographers, writers, artists and performers featured in Brisbane Festival 2010.

POINTE TO POINTE with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Choreographer: Sutra, Sadler’s Wells) and Rafael Bonachela (Choreographer: Danza Contemporánea de Cuba)

Brisbane Creative Industries is giving away two tickets to Pointe to Pointe! To enter, tweet @briscreative or email us the date of this event by August 27 2010.

CREATING SHANGHAI LADY KILLER with Rachael Swain and Tony Ayres (Director & Writer, Shanghai Lady Killer)

Brisbane Creative Industries is giving away two tickets to Creating Shanghai Lady Killer! To enter, tweet @briscreative or email us the date of this event by August 27 2010.

TOP 5: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival

Deepen the Conversation: "Fashion & Memoire" and booking signing of Dreaming of Dior by Charlotte Smith.

Deepen the Conversation: "The Return of Male Sartorial Elegance"

QUT "Fashion After Hours" in partnership with the State Library: "Couture - is it still relevant?" A panel that considers couture as spectacle, its role as 'inspiration' & the resurgence of interest in artisanship and the handmade.

QUT "Fashion After Hours" in partnership with State Library: "The Current State of Contemporary Australian Fashion" Is Australia experiencing a fashion 'moment' and is there a critical forum for fashion in this country?

Queensland Government Design Innovation Group Show

Top 5: Brisbane Writers Festival

We asked Brisbane Writers Festival what their top picks are and this is what they have sent through...

Shane Howard Lyrics: In a career spanning more than three decades, Shane Howard formed rock band Goanna, performed solo, toured Ireland with Irish folk singer Mary Black and became a founding member of the Black Arm Band collective.

About Brisbane: Robert Forster writes what he sees around him: Brisbane. Matthew Condon writes of the city of his youth: Brisbane. The family memoirs of William McInnes reflect his home town: Brisbane. Matt Howard, especially chosen for his self-described ignorance of all things Brisbane, leads the debate on writing Brisbane as character.

Heart, Hilarity and Something Else Beginning with H: Free event

Creating Criminal Characters Workshop with Michael Robotham: When it comes to writing crime, people often assume plot is everything, and completely overlook character development.

A Good Review with Jo Case: What makes a good review? How do you approach different styles of writing for different publications and different audiences? And what are the ethics of reviewing? J

This is just a taste of what's to come for Brisbane Writers Festival happening September 1 2010 to September 5 2010!

Top 5: Queensland Poetry Festival

The Wrong End of the Kaleidoscope: QPF Filmmakers Challenge award and Showcase

Beggars In The Churchyard: The QPF 2010 Open Mic Session

A Million Bright Things: A short set from every bright thing on the 2010 program + a feature set from August Kleinzahler

Winner announcement of the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Winner announcement of the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Poetry Award

Giveaways // The Girl Who Played With Fire

Brisbane Creative Industries is offering 5 double passes to the sneak sessions to The Girl Who Played With Fire.

Click here for details on how to enter.

Giveaways // Father Of My Children

We are giving away 10 admit two preview passes for Father Of My Children screening on Monday August 23, 6:30pm at Palace Centro.

Click here for more deails on how to enter.

HIGHLIGHT: Creative Tips and Entrepreneurial Advice from Unconvention Brisbane

The independent music scene is, by its very nature, unorganised and unstructured. Yet this mishmash of disparate elements - small labels, emerging bands, freelance writers and home producers, to name a few - has rarely felt so unified.

This two-day convention of panels and performances aimed to connect like-minded participants and address the challenges of a perpetually warping, increasingly digital industry. From a grass-roots perspective, these changes offer more opportunities than limitations. With all five major panel discussions encouraging audience interruption and tongue-in-cheek conversational tangents, I couldn't help but feel a very sincere sense of community. It was a weekend largely - and successfully - fuelled by optimism.

Read more about this comprehensive writeup by Alastair Craig.

Creative Drinks in September

Creative Drinks July invited the Brisbane City Council's Creative City Initiatives team, the Editor of Four Thousand and BigFish as part of their latest installment, "Innovation Through Collaboration".  Make sure to keep (somewhere!) in September free for another those of Creative Drinks!

ICOGRADA 'Optimism' // Launch

Optimism will be held 11 to 17 October. AGDA (the Australian Graphic Design Association) was presented this opportunity in late 2008 so it has been quiet a journey for this design association.  Read more at our liveblog entry from July.

Fundbreak // Crowdfunding Creative Projects and Ideas

Fundbreak provides project creators with a platform to present their ideas to a worldwide audience. If anyone likes the idea, they can support it by pledging money to the creator's project. In return for support, the project creators will offer rewards depending on the level of funding.

Fundbreak believes in an all or 'nothing' concept. If the project reaches the funding goal within the time frame, production begins and supporters receive their rewards. If the goal is not reached in time, the project will be deemed unsuccessful and no funds will be exchanged.

More information about Fundbreak on BCI.

Queensland Theatre Company // The Works

On July 2 to 3, Queensland Theatre Company held their annual THE WORKS programme which was a season of public performances by upcoming playwrights in order to support their theatrical projects.

Queensland JUMP Profiles

Read more about the exciting profiles of young Queenslanders involved in JUMP!

Arts sponsorships and donations healthy despite downturn

Private support for the arts rose slightly across Australia in 2008-9, despite the economic downturn, according to new research by the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF).

Just before you go...

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