--$5000 MONA Horse Bazaar Prize--

MONA http://www.mona.net.au is offering world's richest prize for the production of panoramic content.

The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic content is an open digital art prize for the production of screen-based content that best uses Horse Bazaar's unique panoramic projection system. The screens are custom-built for the environment and extend for nearly 20 metres around the bar. Casting aside the traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists are asked to produce digital content at an 8:1 ratio. The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize aims to cultivate the appreciation and production of panoramic virtual décor.

This is an acquisitional competition; winning pieces will become a part of the MONA art collection.
For more information contact justin@horsebazaar.com.au
Entries close on July 13th. Submissions will be shown at Horse Bazaar in the lead up to the gala and award night that will take place on Saturday 21st July. Entry is unrestricted and artists are invited to submit multiple entries should they so desire.
For more information see http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/hbprize.html
From Monday the 18th June Horse Bazaar will be available to test and comment on submissions. These sessions will be a great opportunity to refine your entry and see it in-situ, Running times from6ppm - 9pm
International entries are of course welcome. Feel free to spread the word!

--'Penny Post'--

Jonty Burton animation callout
Our most dapper screen content creator is going to compile a panoramic piece for the Horse Bazaar from bits of sketches that people send in. We will give drink cards (with 4 drinks each) to the first 5 people that send in images

Dear gentle reader,
Messer Jontyburton invites you to take a step back from your computer and join him in an analogue interactive visual experiment. You will need no keyboard, mouse or wacom to join in, nor an internet connection. You will however require a pen, a piece of paper, an envelope and a stamp.

We believe it is time to liberate the postal system from phone bills, political advertising, and hardware catalogues. We instead offer it as the exchange of ideas and considered correspondence it once was.

Draw a character, scene or picture, using any form of ink on any form of paper. Then send it to Mr Jontyburton c/- Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St VIC 3000, by June 29. Work will be scanned, arranged and animated by Mr Jontyburton for display at the Horse over July. Subject matter of the image is at the sole discretion of the drawer, however we appreciate images of objects
and people that existed before the Apple IIe came in and spoiled everything.

Your most humble and obedient servant,
Mr Jontyburton

--Movie Tickets Give Away courtesy of Madman--

Once again Madman have provided some free tickets to the soon to open German film, Four minutes. Email people@horsebazaar with free movie tix in the subject line and provide your contact details.

--Four Minutes--

Tough young Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung, in a meteoric debut peformance) is serving time for brutally murdering a man when she was only a teenager. Now regarded by everyone as a violent and unpredictable danger, she was once a child piano prodigy before her fall from grace. She meets her match in elderly Traude (Monica Bleibtreu), a Prussian woman who has been teaching piano to the inmates since World War II. When Traude brings a new concert piano into the prison and realizes Jenny's talent, she enters her in a national contenst...a disasterous chain of events follow and everything hangs in the balance when the details of both Jenny and Traude's pasts threaten to be revealed.
Director Chris Kraus's script is packed with drama, thrills and explosive and lurid secrets, not to mention characters that clash with the force of a powder keg. From the barbarous environment of the prison - where not a soul can be trusted - to the glow of a refined concert hall, Jenny has only the four minutes of her performance to achieve redemption.
FOUR MINUTES opens on 28 June

--Moving Images: works in progress--

Moving-image artists are invited to share current projects with other artists at an informal session facilitated by Dr Keely Macarow, a lecturer in Fine Arts at RMIT.
When booking, please give the working title and duration of your piece. Challenging work is acceptable but must be rated below M15+. Work must be delivered two days prior, as a playable DVD, DV Pal only.

Wednesday 20 June 6.30-8.30pm
Experimedia
State Library of Victoria
Bookings 03 8664 7555 or learning@slv.vic.gov.au
FREE - bookings essential

--Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition--

A passionate group of dedicated, fresh and talented pianists, violinists and cellists from all over the world are coming to Melbourne to compete in the Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition to be held during 7 to 15 July, 2007.
Sixteen of the best piano trios and string quartets from the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada and Australia have been hand picked to perform here in Melbourne for the competition. Chamber music is traditionally written for instrumental ensembles without a conductor such as trios and quartets with one player for each part. String quartets include first and second violin, viola and violoncello, while piano trios comprise of violin, violoncello and piano.

In this competition no conductor is driving the performance therefore the musicians need to engage in their own musical dialogue and share it with the audience. Performers rely solely on their collective musical intuition, experience and talent on the day. Perfect timing, tone and musicality are achieved through careful listening, collaboration as well as outstanding team work and technique.
This competition is considered the richest of its kind with generous prize money and recording and touring opportunities such as the Primus Telecom Grand Prize and the Musica Viva Australia Special Prize.

The International Chamber Music Competitions are only held every four years and are always hosted in Melbourne.

Concert Series:
Rounds one and two - Australian National Academy of Music, South Melbourne Town Hall
Saturday July 7 to Friday July 13.
Chamber Music in the City
Saturday July 14
Finals - the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Sunday July 15

--The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival Artist registrations open--

From 26 September to 14 October, Melbourne will burst with creativity and excitement as the The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival hatches from a winter cocoon for our 25th year.
The Festival combines public art en masse as independently produced events in performance, circus, comedy, cabaret, music, dance / movement, visual arts and beyond transform the city's cultural landscape with three weeks of the most contemporary arts in Australia.
On-line registrations for The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival open on 28 May and close at 5pm, 15 June.
Melbourne Fringe invites artists to be part of the annual celebration that knows no creative boundaries - whatever your artform, whatever your career stage, presenting whatever you want.

For full Festival details, tips and registration website link visit melbournefringe.com.au or call 03 8412 8788.

StreamCast has provided invaluable service and advice over the past year to Horse Bazaar.
www.streamcast.com.au
StreamCast provides online media services, from encoding and on demand streaming of audio and video to custom production and delivery of complex live video webcasts.

--Motorola Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 3rd to 9th September--

Horse Bazaar is looking into the concept of doing a virtual catwalk along the panoramic screens. We are seeking fashion designers and labels to work with on this new concept. Please contact us if this sounds like you might be interested.

The Horse Bazaar Newsletter is sent out around once a month, although occasionally we might send a brief newsflash during the month.
Anyone with an interest in running an event, playing music or getting some stuff up on the Horse Bazaar screens people drop us a line at the horse. Email