--$5000 MONA Horse Bazaar Prize--

FINAL SUBMISSION date MONA Horse Bazaar Panoramic Digital Art Prize - Friday 13th July

The Museum of Old and New Art www.mona.net.au and Horse Bazaar would like to remind the world that submissions close for the prize this coming friday. Hurry and get your works in to be included in the worlds richest prize for panoramic digital art.

Saturday 21st is the MONA Horse Bazaar Prize gala presentation and party night. Come and be part of the fun as the winners are announced. The evening is also the launch of our new monthly night Soul Time.

Soul time
A night for the lovers of quality soul music, featuring rare and well known Northern soul, Obscurities and the best of old school soul and related grooves, with 3PBS Soul time DJ Vince Peach and rare soul man Frank Driscol, and from Gimme Shelter Dj Justin. Spinning Motown and Northern soul is Soul a go go's Mr Andrew Young and to top it all of Miss Alex spinning soul from the other side.
http://www.soultime.com.au

--Twitter--

Thursday 12th July @ Horse Bazaar

The 2nd Melbourne Twitter Meetup is happening at Horse Bazaar on Thursday 12th July. Twitter is an online social network that allows your friends to keep track of what you're doing. If you're already signed up, or you want to find out what all the fuss is about, come along from 5:30pm. Watch the live Twitter feed projected on the wall, and bring along your Twitter enabled mobile to participate. Drinks and nibbles proudly sponsored by Lightmaker Melbourne. 

http://twitter.com/

--Kalakuta --

Thursday 12th July @ Horse Bazaar

As Afrobeat continues to explore the sounds of a mashed down funk, sprinkled with jazz, spiced up with West African traditional music and makes everyone take to the dancefloor with a vengeance, Kalakuta continues the monthly exploration of the music that Fela Kuti created and loved. Names like Antibilas, Koloko, Femi Kuti and Afrobeat Down are just some o the luminaries that keep the music alive and Johnny Topper & Declan Kelly spin it all down and deliver with lashings of African funk and soul.

Dont miss out on some heavy percussion, big guitar riffs and a screaming sax that can transport you to other worlds.

--Digital Fringe--

Digital Fringe is gearing up for another year
We're after submissions to take out the Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) for a night of projections and digital fun. Specifically we're after ideas where participants culture jack and interact with other happenings around town. The vehicle will be fitted out with a powerful projector and video streaming back to the web.
contact people@horsebazaar.com.au for more details


Sept 26 – Oct 14 2007

--Visionary Images: A-Lure project--

Visionary Images is calling for aspiring actors and interesting characters to appear in an exciting photoshoot/artwork. The photoshoot will restage a contemporary update of “The Banquet of Cleopatra”, an 18th Century painting by Tiepolo. Like Tiepolo's painting, our photograph will explore issues of consumption, excess and class divisions. The photograph that results from this shoot will be outputted as a large-scale lightbox to be exhibited as part of Visionary Images' A-LURE Project in April 2008. Our cast of characters will include people such as David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Donald Trump, Margaret Thatcher and Elvis. We are looking to cast a diverse range of ages and looks for the one-day shoot (with the possibility of an extra day re-shoot) that will take place on a Saturday or Sunday in early September. These are voluntary positions, but Visionary Images will provide delicious catering for the day and an A4 colour copy of the final photograph to each volunteer. 

If you or anyone you know is interested in participating in this photoshoot, we ask for a recent headshot, contact details, dress size information, height, age and availability to be forwarded by email or post to the addresses below.

Post:   Visionary Images: PO Box 154, Richmond 3121

Email:   projects@visionaryimages.org

Applications close Thursday 9th August, 5pm.

--Rock Docks @ North Bazaar--

Every Tuesday - Kicking off Tuesday 17th July, screening 9pm. $5 whiskey/brandy's
Warm up your Tuesdays at North Bazaar with screenings of exclusive rock documentaries you won't find to rent. Lay back and rock out in front of the big screen. Air guitars permitted, free popcorn.

Week One: A Weekend in the Country: A History of the Meredith Music Festival
(Dir. Rob McCafferty, Produced/Edited Beau McCafferty)

Free Entry

From 1991 to 2005, the annual Meredith Music Festival has grown from a small party in rural Victoria into one of the most unique and beloved music festivals in the world.

"A Weekend In The Country" tells the amazing story of the Meredith Music Festival, a music festival like no other.
Narrated by the festival organisers and Jack and Mary Nolan (the farming couple who own the land) the documentary uses archival footage drawn from home videos, film crews, personal photos, TV footage, and super 8 diaries to show how the festival took on a life of its own and grew over the past 15 years.
At the heart of the documentary is the story of festival co-founder Chris Nolan, who suffered a tragic illness and a life change in the late Nineties.
Chris' spirit, the punters, electrical storms, great music, legends past and present, Tai Chi, and the World Famous Meredith Gift all come together to tell this unique story

Info: dave@horsebazaar.com.au

--Loony Tunes--

Loony Tunes - Wed 18th july @ North Bazaar

Loony Tunes returns to North Bazaar after a great opening night last month!

This month we have a focus on CGI based animation with a healthy hand drawn program for balance.
Unusual & striking CGI shorts come from Tomek Baginski and we also have Mingo The Clown - the animator community's acidic response to Bingo The Clown. There's a good collection of PRIX ARS winners from the last 2 years and great stop motion from Peter Cornwell & Ishu Patel.
The drawn section delves into surreal-sexual cowboy movies, Bukowski poems and another cut from the perspective master - Georges Schwizgebel. The 30 min surreal Japanese film "Cat Soup" will be our mini feature with brand new soundtrack.
All this happens on Wed July 18th from 8pm-11pm sharp, at North Bazaar, 222 High Street Northcote. Free Entry,

There is free pizza in the early stages of the evening (very nice it was too) and jugs of Coopers are $10.

Your host and soundtrack alterer is DJ Delay.

See you there!
www.myspace.com/loonytunesmelb

--Indi-stry--

Indi-stry - independent film networking nights return
Tuesday 24th July @ Horse Bazaar

INDI-stry invites you to our monthly networking event for independent and industry based film makers, writers, crew, actors and anyone involved in the film industry. THE INDI-stry is an occasion to meet, rub shoulders, hear the latest buzz, cast your indi flick, crew your vision and make new friends who share your passion for everything film.

So it's time to get together once more to mingle, chat
and network all things film.
Tuesday the 24th July at Horse Bazaar.

www.indi-stry.com

--THE POOL--

Horse Bazaar in conjunction with the THE POOL will produce a script for a 15 minute movie that will be set within the panoramic screens at Horse Bazaar.
Think super wide screen and have characters walking the 20 metre length of the screen. Details to come in the July newsletter

--CASHBACK--

MADMAN - free movie ticket offer to CASHBACK for THIS WEEKEND
email us now - HURRY!

Madman are releasing CASHBACK on 19th July And Horse Bazaar have 25 double passes to some sneak previews this weekend! You'll have to come and collect the tickets yourself from Horse Bazaar. The passes are valid to any session from Friday 13th - Sunday 15th July.
Email people@horsebazaar.com.au with 'Free Movie Tix' in the subject line

Cashback started its life as an oscar nominated short.

About the film:
When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own 'art' in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben's insomnia.

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