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Sydney College of the Arts presents Angela Garrick

A MFA candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, Angela is interested in the intersection of psychology and place in film. Her research inspects the nature of spatial relations - particularly notions of home and the spaces not yet travelled. She has exhibited her work in North America and Australia.

F.A.D Opening its Doors

We’re excited to see another Pop-Up open its doors. This time, at shop 2.03 of 140 George st. F.A.D are our new Pop-Up participants, the F.A.D group create video content featuring all that is new and fresh in Australian design and in creative culture from around the globe. They have an expert team of passionate, international curators whose shared vision is to inspire, educate and engage.

Find us at Village Bizarre

WHO: Word Travels | Drop
WHERE: 13 Cambridge Street
WHEN: Friday Nov 2 6.30-7.30

Discover Sydney’s slam poets throwing down their newest creations in DROP. It’s an alchemy of words that will permeate your mind in the most delightful way. Enjoy on your own, or with a friend, come on down and DROP a dose of word Travels.

TICKETS: $15 at the door and on eventbrite

WHO: Places & Spaces | Glitch Jukebox
WHERE: Shop 2.06, 140 George Street
WHEN: Friday Nov 2 6pm-10pm

Places & Spaces present a series of performances, many interactive, some quite out of the ordinary and some that you can enjoy with a jolly old singalong.

WHO: Free Radical Pop-Up Gallery | View
WHERE: 29 Playfair Street
WHEN: Friday Nov 2 until 10pm

Experience the magic of steampunk creations by Michael Greensmith while you soak up the atmosphere and share the stories of Emma Jane Ryan’s ‘View’, an unforgettable photographic journey.

Drop - Open Mic Night

Join Word Travels for the Drop launch

Hidden away in tree lined alley discover Sydney’s slam poets throwing down their newest creations in DROP. It’s an alchemy of words that will permeate your mind in the most delightful way. Enjoy on your own, or with a friend, come on down and DROP a dose of Word Travels.

Tickets are $5 at the door 6.30-7.30pm, 13 Cambridge Street, The Rocks

Or book right here at The Drop, on Eventbright.

Unwin’s Install (Stage 2)

Mike Hewson will be holding an opening preview night for his latest public installation, Unwin’s Install (Stage 2) this Friday night the 26th from 5pm onwards.

Why not pop by and have and see what our amazing artist in residence has created for The Rocks precinct?

See you there!

Gaffa workshops for emerging creatives

Gaffa, a recent participant with The Rocks Pop-up is offering lunch-time workshops for the emerging creative.

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Delve behind the scenes and take a look at how Unwin’s Install on George Street came to be. Mike Hewson chats to us about the complex process behind it all. A must watch!

Mike’s work has been profoundly influenced by the Christchurch earthquakes. His large scale photographic works heal the fractures of the present with the resonance of the past.

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Pop-Up Walkabout

Join us for a magical mystery tour of our current Pop-Up spaces places and people.

WHEN: 3pm Saturday 20th Ocbober

WHERE: Meet outside the old Ken Done store at 123-125 George street

Go ahead and contact us if you’d like to come along on a one hour whirl wind tour of the Rocks Pop-Up.

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Griffin Theatre - Between Two Waves, behind the scenes extra.

Between Two Waves is in its opening week! The Rocks Pop-Up program has been pleased and proud to host Griffin while they’ve been developing this original theatre work.

Check out this video to find out about climate change, relationships, Ash Ricardo’s stockings and what Chum Ehelepola really thinks about Ian Meadows’ script.

The doors are open once more!

The Rocks Pop-up is looking for fresh blood, and submissions are now open for The Rocks Pop-up 2012/13.

First there was wearable art, then there were kooky performances, and coming up is interactive electronic exploration…

Want to immerse yourself in The Rocks Pop-up and our growing community? We’re looking for creative partners and practitioners interested in exhibition, experimentation and collaboration.

Come To The Village … Friday night adventures into the weirdly wonderful - kicks off November 2^nd.

Welcome Vivienne Linsley

Vivienne Linsley is currently a post-graduate student at Sydney College of the Arts. She creates performance video installations with archival imagery combined with elements of sound, Butoh dance and video. Vivienne’s work explores the concept of the memory, attributing to the formation of the spirit. Her current work is centered on the metamorphic, regenerative nature of memory as it engages with the physical, sensory body.

During the month of October The Rocks Pop-up in collaboration with Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney will be hosting the artist Vivienne Linsley for a month long studio residency and exhibition. Throughout the first two weeks of the month the artist will be working in the exhibition space on her latest project Mnemosyne Echo.

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Opportunities for creative workers

At The Rocks Pop-up, we are always on the look out for great opportunities available for the creative workers out there. Underbelly Arts is currently seeking expressions of interest for larger-scale new works and developmental projects that require longer lead times for the 2013 Lab and Festival. This round of EOIs is only for large scale or ambitious projects that can demonstrate they need a significant lead-time to deliver the work. It’s a new initiative that will run alongside our general 2013 artist call out, scheduled to open early next year.

Sounds like something you’d like to do? Find out more info here.

It’s a Design Emergency!

Fancy helping change the way kids create and think about the world?

Object HQ is running a crowd funding campaign for a brilliant creative education initiative called ‘Design Emergency’.

They are trying to raise $20K in 40 days to help build a digital strategy for this truly innovative program that aims to create a generation of design thinkers and expert problem solvers. It takes designers into schools, providing students and teachers with a first hand understanding of what design is and how it relates to everything that we do. It provides the skills to create their own individual ways of living and working.

Object is a non-profit organisation and sadly, there are few funding agencies that support education initiatives in the cultural sector. So crowdfunding is our only hope to transform the success of our pilot program into digital program with national reach.

Remember The Red Room?

Once again, we are at awe over how our recent participants are moving on from their pop-up residencies. The Red Room Company who were with us early this year are currently embarking on a great cause where they hope to publish 60 new works about people, places and things all around Australia, creating a poetic map of the entire country.

With your help, they’ll be publishing new poems by writers everywhere in Australia.

For more information, visit www.redroomcompany.org

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