BBFF returns in March 2010 screening over 170 films from 33 different countries. There’s an exciting array of Australian and World Premieres including documentaries, feature films, animations, experimental and environmental films, short films, surf films and music videos.
As well as presenting great films BBFF also offers audiences workshops, Q & A Sessions and red carpet parties where you can mingle with visiting filmmakers. Free events include an experimental film showcase as well as a number of great seminars on topics useful across the creative industries such as copyright, music, writing, distribution and branding.
It’s your world of film in the heart of Byron Bay.
Where: Byron Community Centre, Jonson Street, Byron Bay
When: Friday March 5 to 13
Time: Various
Cost: Tickets range from $6 to $30
More info: www.bbff.com.au
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With the Blues Festival just ahead - the organisers have put the daily playing schedule online, start planning your days with the Blues Fest Schedule.
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Are you an unsigned aspiring artist? Well here is your chance ‘Busking over Byron’ Best Original Artist Competition promoted by Anita Colenbrander Entertainment trading as ACE is looking for talented performers to entertain at the 21st annual show. The Best Original Artist Competition offers the winner a great opportunity to open the Jambalaya Stage on the Bluesfest Monday.
Along with the experience to play on stage at the Bluesfest’s 20th annual event other prizes for best original musician include recording and mastering to the value of $2000 with Studio 301. Runner’s up will not miss out on playing at the Bluesfest this year. Busking over Byron will have a dedicated tent with power for the performers to play in. At least 4 acts a day will get the chance to perform on the grounds. Runners up will also receive an array of other cool prizes donated by local Byron Bay businesses.
A People’s Choice Award is held at each venue during the heats. The audience gets a chance to vote for their favorite act of the competition. The winners will receive a music voucher from All Vision and Music. The winners are announced at the finals at the Beach Hotel on the 2nd April. So bring as many fans as you can on the day of your heats so they can support your dreams too.
The competition heats will take place at The Railway Hotel, Great Northern Hotel and Beach Hotel from Monday 29th March to Wednesday 31st March 2010 with the Final on Good Friday at the Beach Hotel 2nd April. Winner of the Best original musician will open the Jambalaya stage on Monday 5th April at 12pm.
For further information & entry forms Click Here.
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Seasons Greetings / Happy Holidays.
New Years Eve in Byron Bay will be a low-key family friendly event, including a twilight beach market & amusement rides starting at 4pm.
There will be alcohol restrictions and some temporary road closures (from 6am; Jonson St, north of Lawson St, Fletcher St, north of Bay Ln, Bay St, west of Jonson St, Middleton St, north of Lawson St.) around the Main Beach area.
Me, I’m in New York City with plenty of snow.
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Chris from B Your Best Bootcamps sent me an email about their ‘free’ 4 week bootcamp - by ‘free’ they are suggesting a donation to the Heart Foundation. This is a great idea - full of holiday spirit. Here’s the details.
The aim of the event is to raise awareness and to raise $4,000 for The Heart Foundation – helping to fund 72 major new research projects, in 2010, into Australia’s biggest killer, cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke and blood vessel disease).
Here are the event details:
Event: FREE 4 Week Fitness Charity Bootcamp
Starts: January 11, 2010 – 6:15am
Finishes: February 5th, 2010 – 7:15pm
Location: Byron Bay Recreation Grounds, Tennyson Street, Byron Bay
Cost: Free ($20 donation suggested for the entire 4 weeks)
Registration: Online at www.byronbaybootcamps.com
Normally these bootcamps would cost $199 per person. This event gives people in the Byron Shire the opportunity to get fitter, leaner, have fun and save up to 100% off the normal cost of our bootcamps, while also helping raise much needed money for a great cause!
We make no profit whatsoever and our certified trainers donate all of their time to this event for 4 weeks to help raise funds for a just cause.
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Well, by now most of you would have heard that Splendour is leaving Byron for a year while they continue the process of getting their Byron festival site approved. We wish them the best for their 2010 festival and look forward to them sorting out their permanent festival site for 2011.
Here’s their announcement;
Hi all,
We have some very big news to impart.
As you may know, Splendour In The Grass has been working toward establishing a permanent sustainable event venue to stage the festival. The chosen 660 acre North Byron Parklands site at Yelgun in the Byron Shire is undergoing the comprehensive approval process with the NSW Department of Planning for a permanent cultural event venue and will not be ready for next year’s event.
While this approval process goes ahead, Splendour In The Grass organisers are delighted to announce the festival will temporarily relocate to Woodford in Queensland, home of the Woodford Folk Festival, for the event’s 10th anniversary in 2010.
We’re also thrilled to confirm Australia’s number one mid-winter music celebration will be held across THREE glorious days next year! Bringing you more incredible music, arts and culture from around the globe from Friday July 30th to Sunday August 1st 2010!
“Woodford Folk Festival and their beautiful site Woodfordia have been a great source of inspiration to us and we feel honoured to borrow their home,” said Jessica Ducrou, organiser of Splendour in the Grass.
“We have a great opportunity to grow our event and give people better access to the festival but at the same time keep Splendour In The Grass a unique and personal experience,” said Jessica Ducrou. “Given the size of the venue we will be able to accommodate almost all festival patrons in camping grounds onsite, giving more people the full festival experience.”
“The purpose built venue also means that we can incorporate a broader range of arts and cultural experiences, which we have been wanting to do for many years.”
“Having one of Australia’s premier contemporary music events at Woodfordia will be a privilege,” said Bill Hauritz, Director of Woodford Folk Festival. “Splendour is one of the best managed events I have observed, they are responsible, caring and disciplined organisers. We can expect the best.”
That’s all for now, we’ll be back with more news in March 2010 about Splendour’s 10th anniversary event!
Until then, festive greetings!!
Cheers,
Splendour
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NRMA Free2Go will be present at Main Beach, Byron Bay (across the road from the Beach Hotel) from 29th November - 4th December 2009. Come and visit us for; Our very own DJ Scuba Steve, Loads of awesome FREE stuff including daily prizes and competitions and Games & entertainment.
For further information visist : www.nrmafree2go.com.au
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A prize pool of approximately $10,000. Entry Forms available from Nov 12th.
The Byron Arts Classic, is the re-incarnation of the much loved Easter Arts Classic, a community event exhibiting the diverse range of artworks from artists in our region. Originally established in 1982, the exhibition created a welcome showcase for our talented artists, and for the local community and its many visitors from round the globe to celebrate and share the gifts of our artisans. After a seven year absence, this exhibition will return from 7 to 11 January 2010 in the Byron Community Centre and will again become an annual event, giving participating artists the chance to show their artistic talents at the peak of the holiday season.
The Byron Arts Classic will be inviting individual artists who reside in the shires of Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Tweed to submit works in four categories - painting, works on paper, photography and sculpture - for a prize pool of approximately $10,000. Keep your eye on the local media and the Byron Community Centre website www.byroncentre.com.au for full details.
For more details email artsclassic@byroncentre.com.au or contact Tess at the Byron Community Centre.
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The first round of artists to perform at the 21st Anniversary Bluesfest has been announced! Australia’s most awarded and internationally renowned festival officially begins a new era (and with any luck another excellent 21 years) with the purchase and move to its permanent new home for the 2010 event - the Tyagarah Tea Tree farm just off the Pacific Highway, 10 minutes north of Byron Bay.
Bluesfest 2010 takes place over Easter from Thursday April 1 through to Monday April 5, 2010. The first artist announcement includes a massive array of the best local and international blues, roots, folk, soul, and world artists - with an emphasis on some of the best guitar players of all time.
The first Bluesfest announcement for 2010 includes:
Crowded House, Buddy Guy, Roger Hodgson from Supertramp, Gipsy Kings, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®, Jimmy Barnes Plays the Rhythm & the Blues, Jeff Beck, Lyle Lovett, RocKwiz, Jessica Mauboy, The Swell Season, Newton Faulkner, Dr John & the Lower 911, Bèla Fleck’s African Project Featuring Oumou Sangarè & band, Blue King Brown, Al Di Meola World Sinfonia, Gogol Bordello, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Joe Bonamassa, Peter Green & friends, The Flatlanders, Avett Brothers, Justin Townes Earle, Renee Geyer, Colin Hay Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lil Band o’ Gold, Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express, AND Robert Gordon & the Gang They Couldn’t Hang - featuring Chris Spedding (Roxy Music), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), and Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats).
Bluesfest 2009 was held at Belongil Fields and accommodated 1,800 campers. Bluesfest 2010 looks forward to welcoming patrons on its own land - and will accommodate approximately 6,500 campers! The very spacious and natural environment is right next to the festival grounds and will include a general store, showers and toilets.
The festival itself will feature more space, more music, more stalls, and more areas to chill out, but is all about keeping in the Bluesfest tradition, which is about creating an environmentally sound, peaceful, relaxed and happy home for everyone. Regular shuttle buses will be included to and from the festival into Byron Bay, Mullumbimby and surrounding towns.
P.S. I’ve published an up to date list of BluesFest Accommodation.
‘Showing’ Support for Bangalow
With the Bangalow Show just around the corner Bush Branding & Marketing discovered that the show had no website and that their was not any current information on the show available on the internet.
To get Bangalow Show information on google Greg quickly wrote a blog with basic show information on their website. I worked a bit of social media and web 2.0 voodoo on this blogto boost its rankings, said Greg Cromwell. Within a day basic show information had made it to page two on this blog, but then Bleakley had a better idea. He noticed that bangalowshow.com or banaglowshow.com.au had not been registered and got the Green light to register bangalowshow.com and to host in for free with some extra capacity that Bush Marketing had on one its hosting plans. After many, many late nights and working on his own Andrew has developed a great platform for future shows using a combination of cutting edge technologies and some good Bleakley Geek know how.
Building community sites for Bangalow is not new to Bush Marketing. Over the past few years the company has designed, developed and maintained websites for Richard Allen (richardallen.com.au) Bangalow Billycart Derby (bangalowbillycart.com.au) and for the Bangalow Rugby Club (bangalowrugby.com) and in development Bangalow Lions Club (bangalowlions.com) Cromwell added, these websites have all been developed on open source technology which enables the clubs and people to develop and maintain their sites for very low to no budget at all. If your club or organisations in Bangalow or surrounds that are interested in developing or starting a website we would be more then happy to point you in the right direction.
Be sure to visit www.bangalowshow.com for more information.
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Dr Sketchys Cabaret Life-Drawing is a group of artists, friends and Bohaemians that gather once a month at The Buddha Bar to sketch spectacular life models gathered from the worlds of Cabaret, Burlesque, Dance and Circus. Its fun, a bit saucy, and very relaxed.
Artists of all skill levels are welcome , as are their friends and sidekicks. If you just want to come along and enjoy the night thats fine as well! Theres Glamour, prizes, food, drinks, art, music, decadence and performances from some of Australias best alternative acts. Its all very Toulouse Lautrec!
For more information and dates, visit www.drsketchybyron.com or ring the Buddha Bar. Entry is $15 at the door. See you there!
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