TUGGERANONG COMMUNITY CENTRE (NEXT DOOR TO MCDONALDS)
Tuggeranong’s only indoor marketpromises a truly community atmosphere
Canberra’s southside indoor community market offers arts, craft, books, jewellery, aromatherapy, fashion items, baby items, knitting, scrap-booking supplies, soy candles, crystals, great food (BBQ, Turkish, Tea, Coffee, Cakes etc) and much more.
From the unusual to the unique, there is always an impressive showcase of handmade arts and craft on display, plus quality new and second hand items with plenty to appeal to both locals and visitors.
It is located indoors at the Tuggeranong Community Centre on the foreshore of Lake Tuggeranong, next door to McDonald’s, just up from Lake Tuggeranong College and Library and a stone’s throw from the Hyperdome Shopping Centre.
The school holidays are fast approaching and Canberra Youth Theatre is getting ready to run two fantastic drama workshops for young people aged 7-12. The workshops are daily from 10am-3pm in our theatre at Gorman House Arts Centre, they will be packed full of fun drama games and exercises and will conclude with a short performance for family and friends.
The first week of the holidays (6-10 July) invites 7-9 year olds to dig up their magnifying glasses and join SPYS R US as they become super sleuths solving a quirky mystery… whilst YIKES! will run in the second week (13-17 July) and is perfect for 10-12 year olds who want to create a story chock full of spooky exclamations as they explore the use of sound effects in performance – Crash! Bang! Rattle! YIKES!
Places in workshops are limited so avoid disappointment and enrol today!
Sibling/Friend discount available!
Enrol now by contacting CYT on 6248 5057
Or email [email protected]
www.cytc.net
Business Manager, Canberra Youth Theatre
Salary: $55,000 – $60,000 plus superannuation
Canberra Youth Theatre (CYT) is seeking an outstanding candidate for the position of Business Manager.
Canberra Youth Theatre (CYT) was established in 1972 and is a nationally recognised youth arts company which creates and promotes theatre with young people ages 7-25 that is inspirational, enriching, empowering and innovative. CYT is a not for profit company with three fulltime staff members (Artistic Director, Business Manager & Workshop Coordinator). Canberra Youth Theatre is supported by its members, the ACT Government through artsACT and the ACT Health Promotions Grant Program, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The Business Manager must have demonstrable:
– high level financial, budget and project management experience
– high level computer skills with proven efficiency with databases, Word, Excel and MYOB
– ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as a member of a small creative team
– high level written and oral communication skills and proven ability to prepare successful funding submissions
– strong organisational skills, ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure with minimal supervision and a demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage workloads
For further information and a full job description call 02 6248 5057 or email [email protected]
Applications addressing the section criteria and CVs should be sent to:
Artistic Director
Canberra Youth Theatre
Po Box 127
Civic Square
ACT 2608
Closing Date: Friday 12 June 2009
Multi award-winning Slumdog Millionaire (Icon Film Distribution) is an exhilerating fairytale about an underprivileged street child who scales the heights of success.
The flawless blend of taut direction, fine acting and magical music lends weight to a popular belief that filmmakers are dream merchants – and through Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle is no exception.
This endearing, inspirational film won eight Academy Awards this year: Best Picture, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), Best Film Editing (Chris Dickens), Best Sound Mixing (Resul Pookutty, Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke), Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), Best Original Score (A.R. Rahman) and Best Original Song with lyrics for Jai Ho by Gulzar and score by Rahman..
There’s a certain manipulative quality in the realism of Slumdog Millionaire that’s magical.
Seasoned actors Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan star with newcomers Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Madhur Mittal.
Tugging at the heartstrings, it follows the rags-to-riches story of Jamal Malik (Patel) whose life is akin to a Dickensian journey which sees him correctly answering a series of questions on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
To obnoxious police officers, led by Irrfan Khan, he recounts his life’s journey from rubbish tips, pick pocketing and running scams at the Taj Mahal before he goes on to gain unbelievable riches.
It’s only through flashbacks, which are seamlessly strung together, that the answers come forth to reveal an extraordinary life involving his brother Salim and a melodramatic love story between Jamal and Latika (Pinto).
As demonstrated by the sometimes comical, but mostly heartbreaking scenes of Jamal’s childhood, the authenticity is derived from the incredible, ever-changing, energetic and brilliant colours of Mumbai.
Based on the book Q & A by Indian diplomat and author Vikas Swarup, three different actors play the role of the three main characters as they grow up.
Patel brings a sense of vulnerability to his role, while Pinto’s Latika is a deep, intense character.
Slumdog Millionaire is an ingenious commentary on Indian society intertwined with romance as viewers are plunged into Mumbai’s pulsing, contradictory life. Viewers are thrown into the vividness of the film, where the slums are not static, but a thriving, bustling metropolis and the passion of the actors is picture perfect.
Special features of this DVD include commentaries by Boyle, Beaufoy and producer Christian Coulson about making the movie, together with the journey of the three characters, deleted scenes and scene selection.
The Australian Handball Federation [AHF] is pleased to announce that Australian Women’s Team Head Coach Katsu Kinoshita has finalised the selection of members of the Australian Women’s Team which will participate in the 2009 Pacific Cup.This significant handball event will be held in the Chandler Sleeman Sport Centre in Brisbane during 25th – 30th May 2009.
The four teams participating in competition are Australia, Handball New Zealand, New Zealand Handball Federation and Queensland.The Queensland team was formed to fill in the gap resulting from New Caledonia’s withdrawal from the competition.
The competition also doubles up as the Oceania Region Qualifying Tournament for the next Women’s World Championship. The Australian Women’s Team has in its sights representing the Oceania Region in the World Championship to be held in China in December 2009.The Team is hoping to capitalise from the valuable experience it gained from its successful participation in the 2007 World Championship held in France.
AHF wishes the Team all the best in its participation in the 2009 Pacific Cup and its campaign towards the World Championship in China in December 2009.AHF also wishes to thank and congratulate the Queensland Team Handball Association for hosting the event.
For further information, please contact the AHF Media & Public Relations Officer, Violi Calvert by email: [email protected]. or by phone:
The Australian Handball Federation [AHF] elected a new Board at its recent Annual General Meeting.
AHF congratulates Paul Smith for being elected unopposed to the position of President.Alex Gavrilovic who held the position of AHF President since 2006, did not stand for re-election due to his appointment to the Organising Committee of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Paul Smith has served as a member of the AHF Board for a number of years, as a Director. He brings to the AHF a wealth of experience, not only in sports administration and the law, but also in dealing with government. He is currently a Member of the Land Court of Queensland.He has been a member of the Queensland Judiciary for over 9 years. Paul was admitted as a Barrister in 1982. Prior to his judicial appointment, Paul held the very senior position of A/Deputy Director General, Premier’s Department, Queensland and was responsible for policy co-ordination across all areas of the Queensland Government.
Paul is a Churchill Fellow, a Visiting Professor to Novosibirsk State University, Siberia; a Fellow of the Centre for International Legal Studies, Austria, and a Harvard-trained Mediator.He has lived all his life in Ipswich, Queensland.
AHF thanks Alex for all the good work he has done for handball in Australia and the Oceania Region.Alex was employed as the Handball Competition Manager by the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games from 1997 to 2000 where his role included managing and organising all facets of the Handball competition for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. It was as a result of this role that Alex established a sound working relationship with many key members of the International Handball Federation and other international and national sporting organisations.
AHF also wishes Alex all the best as he takes up the position of Competition Manager for the London 2012 Olympic Games handball competition.Alex’s contribution to this competition will no double reflect well on Australian handball.His appointment was highlighted by Australian Olympic Committee President, John Coates, OAM at the recent AOC Annual General Meeting held in Sydney.
The new AHF Board not only aims at continuing the good work of the previous Board but also putting in place new initiatives and programs designed to escalate the development of the sport at all age levels.
Loud and proud, pictured left to right: Aaron Munchow and Loretta Poerio, both of Centrelink''s Diversity Team with National Manager, Michelle Cornish and loudest shirt award winner, Jeremy Moore.
Staff at Centrelink’s National Support Office in Tuggeranong turned up the volume last Friday with loud shirts, ties and socks to raise money for children with hearing difficulties.
Staff raised over $2100 for The Shepherd Centre to assist children who are deaf or hearing impaired to develop spoken language.
Centrelink’s Aaron Munchow, who lives in Conder, said he organised the ‘Loud Shirt Day’ fundraiser because he wanted to help kids.
“This event was important on a personal level because I’m hearing impaired and I received a lot of assistance from the Victorian arm of the Shepherd Centre when I was younger,” said Aaron.
“The centre helps deaf children across Australia develop their listening, language and speech skills so they can enter mainstream schooling, so it’s a very worthy initiative.
“In more recent years I’ve tried to be a bit of an ambassador for these sort of programs. I want to give something back to the community that helped me.
“It was also great the Shepherd Centre and Australian Hearing were able to help with the event coordination and providing promotional material for us to use on the day.”
Aaron said ‘Loud Shirt Day’ is also an important event for his team, the Diversity Team in the People Strategy Branch at Centrelink.
“We look at ways we can promote a workplace culture where people’s differences are recognised and valued,” he said.
“So if we can help to provide opportunities for kids with hearing difficulties that’s really a huge achievement for us as a team and also for Centrelink.”
Aaron’s team also ran a best-dressed competition on the day with two categories, the ‘loudest’ and the ‘most craziest’ outfits of the day.
Contact: Siobhan Dillon, (02) 6155 2776 or 0403 658 934
A woman said she saw her tiny toy poodle crushed in the jaws of a Siberian husky as they walked at Jackadder Lake in Woodlands.
A second dog was jumping at her pet, she said.
“My dog was yelping and yelping and when he was half-dead the husky literally spat him out,” Matti Dickinson said.
But the owner of the husky said the poodle provoked the incident by running towards his two dogs, which were on leads.
Tony Cousins (70) said his eight- year-old husky Tova mouthed the dog and was reprimanding it, as it would with a puppy, for running into its space.
“Unfortunately, it was so small and frail it was injured,” he said. “When Siberian huskies play, they grab each other by the neck and shake.” He said he called police after Ms Dickinson phoned him and turned up at his house.
“She was pounding on the door,” he said. “It is something that has shaken us very much.” Ms Dickinson said she looked him up in the phone book and called to tell him her dog was dead.
“I asked him, ‘what if it had been a child?'” she said.
Ms Dickinson (45), who owns a manufac- turing company, said she was walking her dog Pucci, a toy poodle hauhau, at Jackadder Lake at about 5pm on Wednesday last week.
She had left her two daughters, aged 11 and 15, at home nearby.
She said police arrived at her house while she was at the vet’s.
She bought Pucci as a puppy two years ago for $1200.
“He was my little boy ,” she said. “He fitted inside my handbag.” Ms Dickinson said after the attack a man drove her and her dog to a vet. ‘crossed with a chi-
Somebody is poisoning Claremont’s birds.
They have been seen snoozing around town in recent weeks – after it is believed they ate poi- son-laced cereal grain intended for the local pigeon population.
Claremont chief executive Arthur Kyron said the council was receiving phone calls from con- cerned residents who saw “doz- ing” birds around the town cen- tre, and they wanted to know if the council had a hand in it.
“It’s not us doing this to the birds,” Mr Kyron said.
“We don’t have an issue with them. “We have in the past had prob- lems with pigeons in the town cen- tre, but we are not involved in any pest-control operations affect- ing pigeons at the moment.” One central Claremont business owner said he had seen several “zonked out” birds in Bay View Terrace in recent weeks, but was unaware of any initiative among businesses in the town cen- tre to kill off the pigeons.
Mr Kyron said Claremont’s manager of environmental health, Elizabeth French, told him the likely cause of the sleepy birds was a pest-control substance called alpha chloralase, an anaes- thetic agent that immobilised pigeons.
A local pest-control operator told the POST alpha chloralase was a narcotic and a registered product.
A bird that consumed alpha chloralase would soon experience a reduction in body tempera- ture and appear to be dozing.
This made it easier for pest con- trollers to pick up the birds and remove them, before euthanising them in a humane way, the pest- control operator said.
Alpha chloralase was applied to pigeon mix – a variety of grain and cereal particularly tasty to the birds – to form a bait.
The bait was usually moni- tored by pest controllers to en- sure no birds other than the tar- geted birds took the bait.
But it seems this may not have happened this time. suspended at a height that meant he simply knelt, placed his head through the noose and pretend- ed to hang.
But in the performance, the noose had been suspended too high, meaning he had to stretch saw the boy was unconscious, and quickly brought him down from the noose.
He called the school nurse who performed CPR, and an ambulance arrived four minutes later.
The boy’s relatives said they attempted suicide.
The school had phoned the boy’s mother and told her he had been winded, the relatives said.
When she arrived at the hospi- tal to pick up her “winded” son, she was shocked to find the true nature The boy was released from hospital on Thursday with a prominent scar from ear to ear – the mark of the noose.
His relatives said he was mak- ing good progress and expected he would make a full recovery.
Australian film Samson & Delilah is a hit at the box office and will also be talked about at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival this month.
It will screen at the Cannes International Film Festival in Un Certain Regard, which is reserved for films that express a personal vision, with an emphasis on special cultural expression and cinematic innovation.
The festival will run from May 13-24, 2009.
According to the distributors, Samson & Delilah has had the highest per screen average for any Australian film released nationally since Lantana in 2001.
Samson muscled up $199,163 on just 12 screens for an enormous screen average of $17,170.
The result is even more impressive given it does not include any Thursday figures for Sydney cinemas, as the film opened one day later in that city than the rest of the country.
In response to the news of the weekend box office results, Warwick Thornton said: “This is very, very cool – we’re all so buzzing. It is a great feeling to know that as I fly off to France, the Australian public is looking after our baby Samson & Delilah”. Cinemas right across the country reported sold out sessions over the weekend.
“I can’t tell you how great it is to see queues like this for an Australian film,” Natalie Miller said from the Nova cinema in Melbourne.
“Nova Carlton is so proud that an outstanding film has been so well received by our audience. You can just feel the sense of excitement from the audiences who are seeing the film – that wow, this is an incredible film and it’s an Australian film. It’s really captured the imagination of film-goers.”
The box office news this week caps off an extraordinary week for Samson & Delilah following its Sydney Premiere last Thursday as opening night film of the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival at the Sydney Opera House, where it received a standing ovation.
Director-writer-cinematographer Warwick Thornton, producer Kath Shelper, and the film’s two 15-year-old leads, Rowan McNamara (Samson) and Marissa Gibson (Delilah) have flown to Cannes for the festival.
Samson & Delilah tells the love story of two Aboriginal teenagers in a remote community in the Central Australian Desert.
First-rate filmmaking tells a largely untold story that’s soaked in history and simply transcribed.
Director and screenwriter of Samson & Delilah is Warwick Thornton. The cast includes Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton, Matthew Gibson, Steven Brown, Gregwyn Gibson and Noreen Robertson Nampijinpa.
The achievements of Australian-Filipino handballer, Bevan Calvert, are being highlighted in interstitials by the ABS-CBN Ltd, The Filipino Channel.
Interstitials are features shown in between TFC program or gaps which usually run for one minute and air for one whole quarter.One of the interstitials ABS-CBN Global Ltd produces is titled “The Global Filipino”.These feature Filipinos who have made the Philippines proud with their achievements or recognition in the international scene.
The information on Bevan Calvert’s achievements in handball has been compiled by ABS-CBN Researcher Coordinator, Yvonne Beverly Javier.The program’s Producer, Leonardo Bernabe Jr advised that TFC subscribers all over the world will be able to watch the interstitials on Bevan during 19 April to 30 June 2009.
At the age of fifteen years, Bevan was selected to be part of the New South Wales Men’s Handball Team. Three years later he became a member of the Australian Men’s Handball Team.He represented Australia in the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships, and in other international tournaments.Since July 2006, he has been playing in the First Division League in Denmark.
PRAISE continues for the Australian feature ‘Mary and Max’ as the film is selected in competition for France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival from June 8-13, 2009.
Mary and Max is one of only nine feature films selected for the prestigious festival, known as “the Cannes of Animation”.
Producer Melanie Coombs and writer/director/designer Adam Elliot will travel to France for the screening. In addition, Elliot has been invited to join the Short Film Jury for the Festival.
Mary and Max was the first Australian film ever to open the Sundance Film Festival, was awarded a Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and now in national release through Icon Film Distribution, it is the highest-grossing Australian film this year.
REVIEW
Adam Elliot employs an uncharacteristic form of animation (remember Oscar-winning Harvey Krumpet) to tell a compelling narrative.
The convincing and expressively fascinating story is told using plasticine figurines.
It’s the semi-autobiographical friendship between two unlikely pen pals: lonely eight-year-old Mary in Melbourne and a secluded older New Yorker.
Their friendship straddles two continents, runs over two decades and survives many ups and downs that life throws their way.
Among the stars are the voices of Toni Collette, Philip S. Hoffman, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries.
Mary and Max is an astonishing accomplishment, humble and unpretentious in some respects and daring and bold in others.
BACKGROUND
In 2003 ‘Harvie Krumpet’ was awarded three prizes at Annecy. These awards ensured that the film was eligible for the Academy Awards, resulting in Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs winning the Best Short Animation Oscar!
Annecy also selected Harvie Krumpet in their top 100 animated films of all time. According to Melanie, "France has a grand tradition and long love affair with Adam’s short films, and so we are thrilled to be selected for this prestigeous festival”.
Adam says, " For some odd the reason my humour tickles the fancy of the French and so I’m looking forward to showing them Mary and Max, who they’ve been longing to meet”.
Gaumont has acquired the rights to Mary and Max for the French-language territories and while there for the Festival, Adam and Melanie commence the French leg of their world-wide publicity tour in advance of the release in France.
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
Annecy has been showcasing the very best in animation for over 45 years, making it the industry’s leading international competitive festival. The competition is open to the following five film categories, each using different animation techniques:- feature films,- short films,- commissioned and TV films,- graduation films
The capacity to present and promote animation in all its different forms has made Annecy a world-wide point of reference for the animation industry.
next to Claremont Oval.
The plans stipulated that all new multi-storey buildings in the de- velopment would have to have below-ground and basement parking for occupants.
Claremont this week released its much-anticipated blueprint for the 9.4ha area north of the rail- way line that will set Claremont’s shape for the next century. Structure plans for the precinct will be shown to the public from this week, after the council voted to advertise the plans and seek public comment on them at this week’s council meeting.
The council has a statutory obligation to advertise the plans for a minimum of 21 days, and commenced this 21-day period from Friday this week. “The release of the Proposed Structure Plan is a significant mile- stone which will pave the way for transforming the poorly-utilised north-east precinct into a vi- brant centre with excellent access to public transport and improved pedestrian connectivity with the town centre,” Claremont’s mayor Peter Olson said.
“We look forward to further in- volving the community in refin- ing the plan as we head towards the final planning approval.” Widespread advertising of the plan would ensure that members of the community had the oppor- tunity to present their views and give input via public submissions before the plan was presented to Claremont’s councillors for formal
