Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who helped organise, everyone who played, everyone who attended and everyone from the venues. The whole weekend went off spectacularly, save for a bit of rain which was quite okay with everyone! Anxiety gradually gave way to relief and eventually jubilation at what took place given the circumstances. Channels of communication have opened and are likely to chatter all the way to Decolonise 2010.
some changes
Some minor changes to the program. Check below! Full details are available in the programs, available at Paint it Black, Repressed, Black Rose and the events.
Announcement #2
Confirmed events!
Posters: web print
Friday 23/1:
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Show 1
Cap a Cappo
Paranoia Club
+ more TBA
Saturday 24/1:
- Bike maintenance workshop. Bring your bikes, helmets, questions, etc
- Show 2
Ex-Spectator (Melb)
Go Go Go Go! (Bris/Syd)
McClane (Can/Melb)
Dead Farmers
They Kill and Eat People
Voting With Bricks
Royal Headache - Party! Party! Disco party: we make party with dead beat DJs. Super secret location
Sunday 25/1:
- Zine Fair/Market: 1pm! Trade things and eat cakes!!!
- A discussion on the politics of gentrification with the Mutiny collective. Is it inevitable? How does it change our neighbourhoods? What is our part in the process? What responses to it are there? With a particular focus on Redfern
- Is ‘Doing It Yourself’, really doing anything at all? A discussion about the politics of DIY and whether it relates to other radical traditions of struggle or is just an excuse for white, middle-class punks to feel good about themselves. Let’s make this controversial!
- Screening of ‘Babakueria (BBQ Area)’: “A mock-documentary, reversing the white/black roles in the European takeover of Australia; as the Aboriginal colonisers arrive and “conquer”, then marginalise, the indigenous white inhabitants. It is hysterical, frightening and thought-provoking.”
- Show 3
Scarlett Productions: Six short films by and about Indigenous women
Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts
Harriet (Syd/Melb)
Louise Berlecky - Show 4
Lost To The City: Film w/ live soundtrack (Melb)
Toy Death
The Mumps
So Low, Suicide (Ger)
Quaoub - Show 5
Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour (Melb)
Truth From Facts (Melb)
Fangs of… (Melb)
Naked on the Vague
Kirin J Callinan
Hee Haw
Monday 26/1:
- Whose House? Open forum on alternative venues, community, gentrification, all ages, safer spaces, licensing and you. What would you like to see? What would you do differently? Share your ideas and concerns.
- Show 6
The Assassinators (Den)
Pee Wee
Quaker (Melb)
Antimidas
Announcement #1
Decolonise Summer Festival will take place in Sydney, Jan 23-26. The festival is a precarious celebration of precious DIY venues. We are a cluster of warehouses and shopfronts serving independent music and arts. Pubs, clubs and theatres can get stuffed!
The weekend is imminent and we are gaining speed on it. Currently we can announce:
Things to do and learn, including:
*Bike maintenance
*Sexual health
Things to talk about, including:
*Whose house? Alternative venues, community, gentrification, all ages, safer spaces, licensing and you.
*Is Doing It Yourself really doing anything at all?
Films (trust us!)
A zine fair / market to trade commodities and ideas, perhaps both.
Music from:
Assassinators (Den)
Dead Farmers
Ex-Spectator
Fangs of…
Hee Haw
Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour
Kirin J Callinan
McClane
Naked On The Vague
Pee Wee
Royal Headache
Ship’s Piano
So Low Suicide (Ger)
Truth From Facts
Voting With Bricks
There will be spontaneous events and at least one competition.
And lots lots more to be announced, as is the custom.
Daily festival programs can be picked up in Newtown from Paint It Black (Enmore Rd), Black Rose (Enmore Rd) or Repressed Records (King St).
It is not too late to be involved. If you would like a stall at the zine fair or if you have any questions or proposals, email
decolonise at gmail dot com
decolonise.wordpress.com
