Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Kirsten Law's 'Prolifia' at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival


Self-Cultivation's co-founder, Kirsten Law, has a one-woman (and one-guy) show in this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Prolifia is a heightened character comedy affair with a disturbingly brilliant soundtrack by Rob Mayson of Breathing Shrine/Grey Daturas.

LISTING INFORMATION:

The Grace Darling Hotel (upstairs)
114 Smith Street, Collingwood
25th March – 18th April (Thursdays to Sundays only)
8.30pm

Tickets:
$16.50 full
$14.00 concession
$13.50 groups of three or more
$12.00 Sundays

Special double show deal, $20.00 – Pretending Things are a Cock and Prolifia (evening starts at 7pm).

Tickets at the door and soon on Ticketmaster.


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

CALL FOR ARTISTS


The next Self-Cultivation will take place the first Tuesday in February. Applications to the bill are now open. Similarly, if you have a written piece you'd like to place in the second Self-Cultivation zine, submissions are now open:

kirsten[a]self-cultivation.org, harriet[a]self-cultivation.org

Much love,
Kirsten and Harriet.

Monday, November 30, 2009

SELF-CULTIVATION #4 TONIGHT!


(c) John Parkinson

From 8pm, the Order will be awash with the magic of:

Adrian Fernand
Lawson Fletcher
Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall
Jon Bennett
Lach Ryan
Shiny Side (super-special only females on the bill!)
Rohan Spong
Simon Matthews
Paul Jeffrey

Curated and hosted by Kirsten Law and Harriet Gregory, with DJing from Rachel Valentyne + co.

Also -- ZINE ON SALE AT DOOR!

ENTRY: $5 or $8 with zine.

Monday, November 2, 2009

SELF-CULTIVATION #3: CUP DAY EDITION


SET 1

Tim Balfour: ‘Parenthetic’

Carolyn Butler: ‘and that's why I became more left-handed’

Adam Del Mastro: ‘Oneself’, directed by Colin Mowbray and featuring Michael Finney

SET 2

Sharne Vate: ‘bend witness’

Genevieve Callaghan: ‘South Head’

Kirsten Law: ‘The Naif and the Nymph’ from Prolifia

SET 3

Adam Del Mastro: ‘Heritage’ (video)

Muchtar Johnson: Pushing the Rain to Fall, inc. ‘New day’, ‘Start again’ and ‘Motif’

Harriet Gregory (aka Hands Are Talking): ‘why I hate things with wings’


8PM | $5 | THE ORDER OF MELBOURNE | 401 SWANSTON STREET, CITY | SELF-CULTIVATION.ORG

Friday, September 18, 2009

Call for submissions!!


Self Cultivation is going to print!
That’s right, our night of works in progress will now be partnered with a ZINE, to be sold on the night and at various fancy outlets such as Sticky in the platform arcade.
Participants now have the opportunity to perform and be published in the one foul swoop. We also hope the hardcopy will encourage feedback both from the punters enjoying a sip of our creative juices and from each other!
The next Self Cultivation will be at the beginning of November....who wants in??

Kirsten and Harriet are now accepting proposals....

kirsten@self-cultivation.org, harriet@self-cultivation.org

Monday, August 31, 2009

At The Order of Melbourne, tonight...

...you are likely to find:

In Set 1 (approx. 8.15pm)
Zoey Dawson and Anna McCarthy
Glyn Roberts
Simon Godfrey

In Set 2 (approx. 9.15pm)
Harriet Gregory
Marc Testart
Sarah Weston
Genevieve Callaghan

In Set 3 (approx 10.15pm)

Kirsten Law
Polash Larsen
Catherine Dwyer/Jessica Says

Sunday, August 30, 2009

patterns of creative aggression




The people at Creative Aggression are our friends: http://www.creativeaggression.com/

They look at the creative process, just like us.

Only $10 from http://www.creativeaggression.com/PATTERNS%20OF%20CREATIVEAGGRESSION%20-%20ISSUE%202.htm or selected local retailers.