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go one of two ways this week: either delighting and inspiring your listeners, or unleashing an avalanche of judgment and misunderstanding. So gauge your audience. Then if they don’t get you, take a lesson from the weather, which pays no attention to criticism. TAURUS: Taurean Florence Nightingale, famous for patching up casualties, easing people’s pain and generally saving the day is this week’s astro-role model. The reward for all your good work will be vivacious endof-week Venus moving into the live-it-up-and-let’s-party sign of the luxury-loving Lion. GEMINI: With an energetic trifecta of planets in Gemini driving this week, life’s likely to be full of surprises. Exciting ones featuring birthday presents, wining, dining and partying; others unexpected and slightly less pleasant. Recommended strategy? Try not to go into overdrive, act on impulse or make hasty decisions.
CANCER: We all experience periods of inner panic: fake it till you make it moments where smiling feels like a silent shriek. The Crab clan are strong at holding on, perhaps less adept at letting go – often equated with wisdom. Need to say goodbye to something? A friend’s practical input can help.
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SAGITTARIUS: This week looks set to press your personal settings to enthusiastic, optimistic, adventurous and crusading. But this isn’t an auspicious time for new enterprises, brazen statements or bold behaviour. Unwelcome though this advice undoubtedly is, you’re better off blending into the background scenery till next week. Honestly.
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CAPRICORN: It’s a mad, mad world out there right now, so best not lock into major commitments when solid arrangements can change in the blink of an eye. Hedge bets, make backup plans and exercise your trademark caution until late-week Capricorn moon invites you back to the fun zone.
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LIBRA: You might feel uncomfortable rumblings in your psyche this week as ancient tectonic plates shift and break through old moulds. Expect rifts, splits and painful realisations, but also renewed clarity. Your reward? Late-week Venus soothing rough to smooth, elevating prickly criticism to a silky new level of understanding.
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SCORPIO: If this week has you thinking it’s time for some overdue social surgery, keep in mind that people’s behaviour probably has more to do with present stresses than with you. Should negotiations stall and you’re up against a wall of strange communication, keep decisions in tune with your heartstrings.
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AQUARIUS: Illustrious Aquarian Thomas Edison tried thousands of times to invent a reliable light bulb. Asked if didn’t he get discouraged, Ed said no – he discovered thousands of times what didn’t work. If things just aren’t coming together this week, you know what to do: use Aquirkian determination to find an illuminating solution.
PISCES: While high on maintenance expenses, this week’s Mercury retrograde has its own compensations once you learn to work with it. The universe circulating at a less frantic speed allows you to cruise in slow-mo, watch what’s going on, notice things you normally wouldn’t, and make better, more informed choices.
20 June. Tickets $27.20 / 22.20 at starcourttheatre.com.au.
WOMEN LIKE THEM
NOSTALGIA IS COOLY
OLIVER IS COMING…
Oliver! is a visual feast, with a total cast of 52 and with great attention to detail and efforts to be authentic to the period. Outstanding costumes by Shelly Halpin and the set designed by Punters are invited to browse more Eddie Richards and director Clem than 200 stalls; enjoy vintage-style Halpin achieve this effectively. Shani McKay has taken these food and join in the atmosphere. elements and choreographed It culminates in a grand finale the action to create a series of weekend where the streets come stunning and vibrant moving alive with street parades, shows, pictures. Oliver! will be staged at displays, competitions, and cars the Players Theatre from 12 June each evening. to 4 July. Evening performances More than 1,300 custom and will commence at 8pm and classic cars and hot rods will pack Sunday matinees at 2pm. the streets for the Shannons Book online at www.ballinaplayers. Show’n’Shine. London rockabilly com.au or at Just Funkin Music, sensation Si Cranstoun brings his 6686 2440. trademark high-octane dance style and scintillating voice to the stage. Si joins one of Australia’s most respected rockabilly and roots Murwillumbah’s Caldera musicians Pat Capocci on Thurs Environment Centre (CEC) is for a concert in the Cooly Rocks set to hold a family fun festival On marquee. Also on Sunday from to celebrate this year’s World 10am don’t miss the incredible Environment Day. popular Poodle Parade for the dog The environmentally friendly obsessed! There’s a Miss Cooly event, at Murwillumbah’s Knox Vintage Glamour pageant and a vintage van display. Don’t miss this Park on Sunday from 10am to 3pm, will be high on energy but very popular annual event. low on waste. For more info about what is Live music, food, acrobats and where and when go to www. the locally grown Hoopla Circus coolyrockson.com. will take centre stage while talks on how to wipe out those hefty electricity bills and tips on how to grow a bumper crop will be in the hall. Entertainment on the day will include Bunya, from For those born without a sense Bellingen. Entertainment includes of shame, standup comedy is just Luna Junction, the Pitts Family the ultimate extreme sport for Circus, Hoopla Circus and other attention seekers. Queen of the groups. Don’t miss this free family scene, Mandy Nolan, the biggest get-together! attention seeker of them all, heads up Open Mic Comedy at the Court House in Mullumbimby on Thursday with a full bill of aspiring NORPA will celebrate their comics. This month comedians homegrown work The HOME are up for a fresh challenge with Project opening at Prague Nolan inviting the audience to Quadrennial of Design and Space submit improvisation topics in a with a free event at Lismore City one-minute spontaneous joke-off. Hall on Friday 19 June. Audience gets to vote the winner! The HOME Project is one of eight 8pm on Thursday, free. Australian works selected to With more than two kilometres of rock ’n’ roll, rockabilly, swing music and more than 1,000 interesting vehicles, Coolangatta and Tweed comes alive at Cooly Rocks On 2015.
CALDERA DAY
TRADING YOUR 15 MINUTES OF FAME FOR 5 MINUTES OF SHAME!
CELEBRATING HOME
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SI CRANSTOUN, LONDON ROCKABILLY SENSATION WHO PERFORMS ON THURSDAY AT COOLY ROCKS ON MARQUEE feature in the Australian Pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial of Design and Space (18–28 June) where it will be presented to an international audience as a large scale audio-visual installation. The international contingent of curators will respond to themes of Weather, Politics and Music.
THE BALLINA PLAYERS PRODUCTION OF OLIVER! AT PLAYERS THEATRE IN BALLINA FROM 12 JUNE TO 4 JULY
AUDITIONS!
The Drill Hall are looking for actors for their upcoming production of The Ballad Of Edgar and Mary – a dramatic love story complete with WWI music hall and trench songs. It is a boutique musical for three performers, Edgar and Mary and The HOME Project goes to The Singer. The production is the Prague. Friday 19 June, 6–8pm at opening show for the centenary Lismore City Hall. Free event but celebration season of the Drill Hall please RSVP to rsvp@norpa.org.au by the Drill Hall Theatre Company by Friday 12 June. (DHTC). Rehearsals begin late June and the show plays for 10 performances over 2–18 October. It is an original work by Claude Gonzalez and Gregory Aitken plus Shunya and Amrita Devi launch wonderful songs from the period. their spacious, heart-warming The book is written especially for album Moments Between Thoughts, the DHTC and is of course a world created over nine months in premiere. magical nature settings around Audition on Saturday from the Byron Shire. They offer an 10am till 3pm, Drill Hall Theatre intimate concert at Red Tent Yoga Mullumbimby. To book a time for on Saturday. $20 entry includes an audition contact Greg Aitken soy chai, gluten-free cake and at gregaitken51@yahoo.com.au. a copy of the new album in its 6684 6115 or 0421 984 024. unique hand-made sleeve. Doors at 7pm.
MOMENTS BETWEEN THOUGHTS
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Standup comedians Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs join forces in Women Like Us to deliver two hours of rapid-fire, sharp, honest, sometimes self-deprecating, somewhat irreverent standup comedy for audiences who love their humour straight from the lip. There are few sacred cows that Briggs and Nolan shy away from milking, pushing the bucket of popular opinion under the teats and then the jokes start flowing! ‘Failure to parent’ is certainly the focus of some of their material, but then so is the beauty industry, getting older, getting fatter, strange surgeries, weird TV shows, obsessions, frustrations, and who unpacks the flipping dishwasher. The two friends have teamed up to bring two hours of standup to communities they believe would love a dose of Women Like Us. Women Like Us – Telling it how it is! Star Court Theatre in Lismore
BECKY SHAW
Becky Shaw, a Pulitzer prizenominated play, is a contemporary comedy of bad manners, love, sex, and ethics, comes to Mullumbimby on 19 June. There is a strong play with a strong cast. Opening night 19 June. Performances 8pm Friday and Saturday, 2pm Sunday. Bookings: $20 and $15 at the Bookshop, Mullumbimby or online www. drillhalltheatre.org.au.
JOIN HANDS WITH LANGTANG BANGALOW CABARET Bangalow Joins Hands with Langtang Nepal – Saturday 13 June fundraiser at Bangalow A&I Hall. With Mandy Nolan as MC, entertainment including Bollywood dancing, Henna Harem
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Winter Discotheque Boogie Shoes! This Saturday night 6th June from 6pm to 1am at the Bangalow Bowlo. Dress Code: Studio 54 (retro disco glamour) Tickets are $20 or $18 for Bay FM Subscribers.
DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY WITH DJS: SCOOTA VS MR NICE ~ DAN JUPITER CHOP SUEY ~ SUT ~ LIPPO ~ TOMMY TJET
BOOK, MUSIC & LYRICS BY LIONEL BART DIRECTED BY CLEM HALPIN ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS BY WILLIAM DAVID BROHN BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HAL LEONARD AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD, EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE OF CAMERON MACKINTOSH AND THE SOUTHBROOK GROUP.
BOOKINGS - Just Funkin Music 124 River Street - BALLINA - 6686 2440 $2.00 Booking Fee Applies
OR ONLINE at www.ballinaplayers.com.au
STRICTLY DISCO, FUNK HITS & RARE GEMS Ride the Magic bus to this event from Byron Main Bus Stop 8pm, Roadhouse Cafe 8.10pm, Suffolk Park BP 8.20pm... returning 1am. Tickets are $12 return, to book phone Bay FM. Disco and Magic Bus Tickets are available online at bayfm.org or phone Bay FM during business hours 6680 7999.
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