Issue 803
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The Scene - Local Entertainment NewsWomen's Film Wow
A one-off screening of the WOW (Women On Women) Film Festival will be held this Saturday, January 26 at the Star Court Theatre from 12.30-9pm. The program includes two sessions of short films before the screening of the documentary My Mother India. The documentary is about a young middle class Australian woman who falls in love with an young intellectual Indian man whilst at Canberra University in the 1950s. Much to the dismay of both families, the pair marry and move to India to start a new life and new family. The documentary, made by their daughter Safina Uberoi, looks at the cultural differences her mother encounters in India and her own experiences growing up in a multicultural family. After a sumptuous dinner at Caddies, the festival will resume with the screening of the highly-acclaimed feature film, One Night the Moon, directed by Rachel Perkins. Based on the true story of an Aboriginal tracker named Riley, the film is about a young girl in the Australian outback in the 1930s, who steps out her bedroom window, entranced by the moon. When her parents check on her she is nowhere to be found. The film stars Paul Kelly as the girl's racist father, Karin Fairfax as her mother and Paul's real life daughter Memphis Kelly as the young girl. Finalists from the local video competition, Northern Women, will be screened and winners will be announced at the Supper Club, which kicks off after the feature film and features jazz by the talented local musicians, Melanie and Mary-Jane. Pre-booked tickets from Caddies Bean Shop in Lismore or Bangalow are $14 for screening only or $24 with dinner, while tickets at the door are $17 and $29. There is also a BASC Gold Pass up for grabs as a lucky door prize. For those who can't make it on Saturday, the short films only will be screened on Sunday, January 27 at the Verve in Byron Bay from 6-9pm. Winners of the Northern Women competition will also be screened. Tickets are $10/8 at the door. For more information phone 0421 968 450 or 6621 6079.
Students Shine in New Year
Vole was written and rehearsed in 2001 and is now ready for the houselights to dim. It follows in the tradition of last year's hugely popular Pippin. Vole asks the challenging question ‘What makes good theatre?' The cast explores how to engage an audience through movement, dance, performance poetry and acting. There are voles between audience and stage as to what works and what doesn't. The debate at times is the one between ‘effects' and ‘content' – a feature of post-modern theatre. Through all the voles, there is an exploration of the issues of the human condition – love, loneliness, restriction, freedom and more. The show is the culmination of a year's collaboration between the dance and drama departments at Trinity. It was devised and directed by teachers Melissa Rubbo, Peter Derrett and Genevieve Lewis and involves 48 year 11 and 12 students from the senior drama/dance classes. The 90 minute show gives the students a chance to build their skills as well as providing a great night's entertainment for audiences. There are four shows – a matinee at 3pm next Saturday, February 2, and three nightly performances at 8pm, Thursday-Saturday, January 31-February 2, in the airconditioned Champagnat Theatre on Hindmarsh street at the school. Tickets are $10/8 conc from the Caddies Bean Shop or the St Mary's school site office.
Local Hip Hop CDA CD featuring music by young North Coast artists, The Dynamix of Rapture (Vol. 1), will be launched tonight, January 24 in the backroom at the Great Northern Hotel. The artists, all Northern Rivers residents, play a variety of hip hop inspired by growing up in the alternate social and political climate of the North Coast. The CD features music by young Aboriginal rapper, Bex, who recently performed for the Channel V Music Bus in Lismore as well as Weapon X and Dark Lotus, both regulars at the Tabernacle's hip hop nights. Nimbin based artists and member of the Pagan Love Cult, Nina Rea, also features along with Nimbin Cage Cafe rappers Narada and Mr Fire. Finishing off the mix is local DJ Insanity, who has recently been providing music for breakdancing and hip hop classes at the Byron Bay Youth Activities Centre. A fabulous chance to enjoy some of the region's best new talent, and another opportunity to get behind local youth and support them.
World Touring Duo Hit MullumFormer Northern Rivers resident and highly-acclaimed viola player, Greg McGarity, will perform a once-only gig with Russian pianist Elen Rapoport this Saturday, January 26 at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall. After performing extensively in recitals and orchestras around Europe and the USA, the duo are on a world tour. The performance will feature the F minor sonata composed by Brahms for viola and piano as well as Rachmaninov and Chopin solo piano works and much more. Tickets are $20/10 at the door or book on 6684 1413. Doors open 6.30pm for gig at 7.30pm.
Pony GirlPony Girl's Rodeo is the title given to an exhibition of paintings by Byron Bay artist Karlee Rawkins at the Tub Art Gallery, in the Byron industrial estate. Karlee uses images from the circus and rodeo to create colourful yet sentimental pieces. The collection of paintings include performing horses, elephants, sheep, hyenas, snakes, birds and a guinea pig. The show opens this Saturday at 7pm. All are welcome for food, drink and music by Tone Broke. Costume is encouraged but not compulsory! The show runs til February 16 at The Tub Art Gallery, 84-86 Centennial Circuit, Byron Arts & Industry Estate, and is open 10am-4pm, Monday-Saturday and Sunday by appointment.
Aboriginal ArtA photo-documentary of the Kiwikurra people, the Aboriginal inhabitants of the remote Gibson desert, opens at the Lismore Regional Art Gallery next Thursday. Whichaway? Features black and white photographs by Jon Rhodes. Uncomplicated and disarming images are grouped into complex arrangements by the artist, creating fascinating juxtapositions and offering an insight into Aboriginal spirituality and customs. Also featuring is local artist Dennis Monks, who has created large-scale carved wooden totems using camphor laurel – a wood he says is much maligned by excellent carving timber. Dennis will give an artists talk next Thursday, January 31, from 5.45pm at the gallery. Also featuring upstairs at the gallery are photographs from the collection of Echo editor Simon Thomsen, featuring works by Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and David Moore, icons of Australian photography. Trinity Catholic College student Ricky James stars in the school's production Vole.
Seven Sets Sights South
The boys have decided that now is a good time to seek their fame and fortune further south and the heading for Melbourne next month. But before they go all Mexican, they're playing a farewell gig at the Great Northern this Friday, January 25. Lismore lads Chilblain are going to rock the party as support. Tickets at the door. Waxing Lyrical
The gig starts at 9pm. Entry is $4. Local Gig Guide
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Acclaimed feature film, One Night the Moon, starring songwriter Paul Kelly.
The return of schoolchildren next week heralds another annual feature in Lismore. Trinity Catholic College students hit the boards with a major production in the first week of school: Vole.
Byron hard rock fivepiece Seven have just released their first full-length CD, Get Up, Wake Up, Open Your Mind, which includes a double CD, plus a CD-ROM and two bonus tracks, including a remix by Resin Dog Dave Atkins. 
The first Wax Lyrical event for 2002 will be a band showcase tonight, January 24 at the Tatts Hotel. The gig will feature performances by The Losse, a group of local hip hop artists, singer/songwriter Vanessa Hoffman, the M.A.W Blues Band and local four-piece funk band, Nervous Monk (pictured).