Comedy in Court with Ms Stella
It’s her last night in town and Ms Stella takes Mullumbimby hostage with her savage dark wit at the Court House Hotel’s Open Mic Comedy Night. With a bunch of very new and very exciting comics on stage, this is a show to see… and it’s going to be going quarterly so it will be three months until the next one!
So get on down, grab some wild and wanton free comedy. 8pm Thursday!
Papa Puns
Conceived at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Dad. Joke. is an ageing man’s howl of rage and joy about parenting in a world gone mental. Watching hot young comics Zoe Coombes-Marr and Rhys Nicholson tear it up – as a grey-haired no-one doing his first Melbourne show – Mark thought he must come over to his audiences as the comedian’s dad. He thought, let’s roll with that punch… be the comedian’s dad!
With that kindling, a new show emerged; Mark comes out as the comedian’s dad – because his son, the scheduled entertainment hasn’t turned up.
Mark Swivel… is a writer and performer (and lawyer, sort of). His last show How Deep Is Your Love? toured to Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Darwin, Mullum and Gympie! Bookings: www.trybooking.com/216331.
Mullumbimby Ex-Services Saturday 20 August at 7.30pm.
Tix $10 at the door or online.
Mott’s Rock Life
Rock’n’roll photographer Tony Mott returns to the Lismore Regional Gallery to talk about the exhibition What a Life: Rock Photograph by Tony Mott and his colourful career this Thursday. The exhibition and talk are free to attend. Visitors can also get their hands on a signed copy of his new book, Alphabet A–Z: Rock’n’Roll Photography by Tony Mott: Some Rock, Some Roll, Some Other Things. Lismore Regional Gallery is currently staging the first major retrospective of premier Australian rock photographer Tony Mott, featuring images from his extraordinary archive. The exhibition has been astutely put together by the State Library of NSW. The exhibition is currently touring and Lismore is the regional NSW venue for the show. Thursday at 5.30pm at the Lismore Regional Gallery.
Byron Bay Film Festival’s Virtual Reality!
Byron Bay Film Festival is this year poised to boldly go beyond the ‘reality’ of the silver screen, with an exploration of the potential of virtual reality (VR) in an artist’s palette. The organisers are offering an artist-oriented program, called Ncube8, to ‘open new dimensions’ to talented visual creatives keen to take their art to another level.
The first of the workshops is at the Lismore Regional Gallery this Monday.
Registration for a workshop, or application to become an Ncube8 artist, can be submitted through the BBFF website www.bbff.com.au/ncube8.
Poetic Soap Box
The poetic soapbox of Byron’s Writers at the Rails is celebrating its 24th anniversary this Sunday with special Writers Festival guest Philip Wilcox, the current holder of the Australian Poetry Slam title. Philip will be joined by fellow Sydney performance poet Tug Dumbly along with popular Lillian Rock poet Christine Strelan. The anniversary show hosted by David Hallett will also have some invited readings as well as the ever-popular Poetry Slam. Show starts around 2pm. Free entry.
Byron Writers Festival – Free Poetry and Music
Dangerously Poetic Press will present a free Byron Writers Festival event of poetry and music. It will be held on Saturday, at the Lone Goat Gallery next to the library in Byron Bay. Enjoy the rich vocals of ‘the poet’s songwriter’, Kim Banffy, with songs from her album State of Bliss. Anthony Lawrence, author of 15 poetry books, and who teaches at Griffith University, will read from his latest collection, Headwaters. As judge of the Dangerously Poetic/Byron Writers Festival national poetry prize, he will announce the winners. The winning poets will read their poems. Be part of the celebration! 5pm. No tix required.
UFOs & angels
Okay, so the space sister got the writeup about the space brothers a little incorrect. Turns out this space sister was channelling some old energy systems… and got the venue and date mixed up. So if you want to find out about UFOs and angels then Sunday 14 August is going to be the date when your new age dawns. A free talk and presentation about the Masters of Wisdom where they outline the role of the space brothers (I do hope there are space sisters too!), crop circles and new energy systems are explained, along with who actually authors miracles and there’s an introduction into transmission meditation. All this in just more than two hours!
At the Byron Community Centre Cavanbah Room, Sunday 14 August 2–4.30pm. With a transmission meditation workshop on Monday 15 August at the Byron Community Centre Verandah Room. Profoundness is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better.
No Lights Baby No Lycra
No Lights No Lycra is a dance community that started in 2009 by unruly dance students that has grown a presence in more than 70 locations across the world. Every week Roo shares his love of dance with the Byron community. No Lights No Lycra is a dance space where you can completely let go, shake out the stresses of your busy week, and lose yourself in the music and the physicality of your body. There is no light, no lycra, no teacher, no steps to learn, no technique, just free movement for one hour. NLNL is a daggy, non-pretentious place to completely be yourself. How good is that?
The Byron session is on every Tuesday from 7.15pm for $5 at the Byron Bay Public School Hall, Carlyle St (opposite number 19). Roo makes it a really fun and welcoming place to dance and have fun! It would be great to come down to the session to have a try or get in touch with Roo to organise a feature.
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