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Twilight Delight
 The Doug Williams band play a free concert in Heritage Park this Saturday night.
It's going to be sweet smelling and sweet sounding in Heritage Park, Lismore, this Saturday evening when soul man Doug Williams and his band LRMix, groove away in a free twilight concert.
Following the Bazaar and HerBBQ during the day, the Sunspirit Twilight Aromas concert will feature a riverside lantern parade from 5pm, two massive aromatherapy oil burners to add to the ambience and funky soul music.
The concert is free, so bring a blanket to stretch out and relax. The show runs until 8pm.
Blue Light Disco
To kick off celebrations for Early Intervention Awareness Week, August 20-27, a disco is being held tomorrow, August 17 at the Lismore PCYC from 6-9pm.
The night will feature DJ Bluemoon Discotheque and there are some great prizes up for grabs. All proceeds will go to the Summerland Early Intervention program in Lismore.
Tickets are $4 kids/$10 family at the door.
For more information phone 6688 6452.
Polly Wanna Muso?
 Stella One-11 join Pollyanna at the Great Northern
Change has been blowing in the wind for Pollyanna, who many thought had f-f-f-faded away from the Australian music scene. Bass player, Rayke Stapleton has been calling Chapel Hill, North Carolina home for the past year .
Front man Matt Handley and his credit card also headed for the US, where he made a record with Brian Paulson.
Meantime, the band expanded into a four piece with Adrian Whitehead (The Trims) on keyboards. But then Whitehead scored a five month gig on a cruise ship and now Sam Holloway, who's played with Cordrazine and silverchair, has stepped into the breech for a tour that brings them to the Great Northern in Byron this Saturday, August 18.
This week, Pollyanna released a new ablum Didn't Feel a Thing (through Shock) and the first single ‘Particular People' is already enjoying good airplay.
Joining the awesome foursome are Bluebottle Kiss, who've also been wandering round the states, but more lately, hopped into the studio, plus Stella One-11.
Spicy Street Moves
Magellan Street will be jumpin' and jivin' today and Friday, when the Northern Rivers Dance Action team takes to the streets as part of the Herb Festival. The students will be dancing lunch hours, wiggling it for everything from belly dancing to contemporary dance.
Over the weekend there are free outdoor dance workshops at the skate park in Lismore. On Saturday from 1.45pm try Afro-tribal dance, or hip-hop from 3pm. Then to Lismore City Hall for the MAAD dance party, with break dancing instructions from 5.30-6.30pm. On Sunday, belly dance from noon, or try a body percussion workshop with Greg Sheehan from 3pm.
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The Testeagles turn la merde up at the Great Northern in Byron this Sunday. Local lads Chilblain help them drink the rider.
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Wednesday Jazz
Local electric jazz band led by Jim Kelly, Funka-delica-tessan, will perform next Wednesday, August 22 at Maggie Moores from 8.30pm.
The band features Jim Kelly on lead guitar, Steve Russell on keys, Greg Lyon on bass, Scott Hills on drums and James Cox on percussion. The group will perform a selection of jazz with a heavy emphasis on Herbie/Miles style funk. Tickets are $5 at the door.
MAAD Disco
To coincide with activities for the Herb Festival, Streets Ahead are hosting another MAAD all ages day on Saturday, August 18.
The event kicks off with a skate competition from 12-4pm at the Lismore Skate Park. The comp will start at 12pm sharp and entry is free, however, due to limited spaces people are encouraged to get there early. Great prizes can be won from Spot X and 36 Chambers.
The comp will be followed by a Dance Party in Lismore City Hall's Fountain Room from 5-8pm with DJs Janome and Wollopalooza from Tribe 187. Local dancers, rappers and MCs are welcome to try their stuff out.
Tickets are $5 at the door, which automatically puts people in the raffle to win tickets to the Byron Bay Blues Festival next year.
If you want to catch the youth bus to the gig, phone Kim (Ballina/ Alstonville) on 6628 7400, John (Lismore) on 6624 8080, or Melissa (Byron) on 6685 8771.
Renaissance Inspiration
Although created far away in time and place, the instantly recognisable paintings of the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca have provided the main inspiration for an innovative work-in progress exhibition by a Southern Cross University PhD student.
Marko Koludrovic, who is also a part-time lecturer in SCU's School of Contemporary Arts, is nearing the end of his doctoral research and creative interpretations of della Francesca's 15th century depictions of masculinity in his frescoes, altar pieces and tempera panels.
His research project has included a six-week trip to Italy to view a range of the famous artist's work, including an original manuscript held at the Vatican Library.
The next step is the exhibition, 5 Minutes with Piero: transacting masculinities, currently on show at the SCU Art Museum, until Friday, August 17. The exhibition, features works using classical encaustic (hot wax) and tempera (egg emulsion) techniques in woven paintings, as well as sculptural objects, transfer drawings and mixed media wall-pieces.
Koludrovic will present the final exhibition for his PhD at Lismore City Hall in March 2002.
Old Screen Lights Up Again
 Claudia Nicastro and Mitchell Nettle present the first Alternative Cinema Night this Friday at the Star Court Theatre.
When Mitchell Nettle and Claudia Nicastro moved to Lismore from Brisbane earlier this year, they were stunned that there was only one cinema in town and very few alternative film screenings.
Seeing a need for such an event, Claudia and Mitchell will present the first in a series of Alternative Cinema Nights this Friday, August 17, at the Star Court Theatre.
The night will be held each fortnight with a variety of films to be screened in a range of genres from arthouse to queer, short, old, foreign, Manga films and cult classics.
'We wanted to make it accessible to everyone in Lismore by holding regular screenings at a reasonable price,' Mitchell explained. 'There are so many diverse people in the area and so many different popular genres of film that aren't being screened. We are going to have surveys at the screening too, so we know what sort of people are coming to the cinema and what they want to see in the future.
'We're not in it to make money, we just want to provide an alternative cinema and have some fun.'
Each fortnight the screenings will feature three different movies and people can stay for one or all of the films, with the ticket price changing depending on how many movies you see.
Tomorrow night's screening will feature the documentary horror feature Shadow of a Vampire, starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, from 6.45pm. It's followed by psychological Manga animation thriller Perfect Blue at 9.15pm and to finish, the cult classic Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda, from 11.30pm.
Tickets for one film are $7/6, two films are $11/10 and the three films are $15/13.
Music on Screen
Cancer Council Nurse in a Million Quest entrant Georgina Manson will hold a special Cinema Night next Wednesday, Aug 22 at the Lismore Cinema from 6.30pm.
The night will feature a special screening of the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a romantic drama set on a Greek island during World War II.
The movie is about the leader of the Italian army Captain Corelli, played by Nicholas Cage, who falls in love with a local girl Pelagia, played by Penelope Cruz. The movie also stars John Hurt.
Proceeds from the screening will be used for clinical cancer trials on the North Coast. Tickets are $10 at the door. To book phone 6629 5031.
Photographers Rally
 Lismore Camera Club president Marie Cook shows members Di McClung (left) and Una Brown some techniques on the camera in preparation for this Sunday's annual Photo Rally.
Anyone with an interest in photography is invited to attend the Lismore Camera Club's annual Photo Rally this Sunday, August 19.
The competition is open to people of all ages and abilities, with a section for SLR cameras and compact cameras. Simply bring an empty camera to the carpark at the Tourist Information Centre between 9-10am, where you will be given a list of 22 set subjects and a colour 24 exposure film.
People then have until 3pm to take one photograph of each subject, after which the Lismore Camera Club develops all the films and judges the winners.
'Because of the Herb Festival we've included a section where in the last two frames people have to capture the atmosphere of the festival,' club president Marie Cook said.
'Because everyone takes photos of the same subjects you really have to use your imagination and look for weird angles or lighting that will create a unique photo.
'Afterwards when we display the photos you get to see everyone else's perspective on the same subject which as well as being interesting, is a great learning experience.'
The photographs will be developed throughout the following week and judged by camera club members and Cec Brown, who has won numerous national and international awards. All photographs will then be on display at the next Lismore Camera Club meeting on Monday, September 3 at the Lismore Workers Club from 7pm.
Entry in the rally is $20 adults/$12 students. For more information phone Marie on 6621 6187.
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