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Format Closing Night
What:
Format Closing Night
Where:
Format, 15 Peel St, City
When:
Sun Mar 14, 8pm
How much:
$7 for bands
It's hard to say goodbye. Once again, the Format Festival has been a tropical island in the middle of the jerk-infested ocean that is Adelaide during Feb/March. To ease the pain of parting, Format is having a SHIT HOT DO for closing night, this Sunday March 14th from 8pm, following on from the ZINE & DIY FAIR which runs from midday til five.
Format Survival
With all the amazing shit that is happening over the two or more weeks of Format driving you to distraction, you might think it hard to maintain the basic necessities fundamental to sustaining life. Yep, food! But we have some good news straight from the highly scientific Format School For Not Eating Only Drinking and Having a Great Time (FSFNEODHGT).
Film Nights at Format
Somewhere in between the endless stream of parties, exhibitions, zine fairs and general off-tap times at Format 2010, we figure everyone might just want to nurse an arts-related hangover on a beanbag with a Coopers Green and some films.
First off we have the Visual Arts Film Night. It's billed as showing films dealing with ‘longing, desire and obsession'.
Neon Pilgrim + Hijack Reality
This year, there's a couple of books that summarize the whole Format thing:
Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster:
This year I asked Lisa Dempster to run our Academy of Words, which takes the form of a one day mini-festival on March 13th. She wrote a book about the time she was doing that pilgrim's trail in Japan.
'Songs To Dance To / Songs To Die To'
Alanna Lorenzon (the Melbourne-based archivist and indexer of strange and fantastical imagery) asked visual artists to conceptualise and create a sound work for installation or performance. Rather than a curatorial directive or set of rules for the exhibition, the artists interpreted and worked from the ponderous title (both thrilling and dark) delving into new creative territories.
'Mythologies'
Marlaina Read always manages to discover artists whose work is both incredibly gorgeous and intelligent. Her online art magazine Invisible City is is like a really delicious and soul satisfying art meal. There is always a touch of dreaminess in the work, and a leaning towards the esoteric, but it is never fey or light of content.
Format Festival Opening Night
First, a clarification. A couple of weeks ago I suggested that Adelaide indie supergroup Avant Gardeners sounded like the Pixies. In all good conscience I should point out that they do not sound even a bit like the Pixies. Nevertheless, I would wager that every member of the band is a Pixies fan, that every Pixies fan in that crowd thought the show was awesome (in the original sense), and that Avant Gardeners poo all over almost every other gaggle of indie pretenders in this dishwater berg.
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