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took you down memory lane and triggered emotional surges you thought you’d outgrown, don’t be savage on yourself. Learn the lessons this experience was designed to teach, and your reward will take you to a whole new level of maturity.
TAURUS: This week could get a tad more emotional than you’re comfortable with, engendering a certain degree of stress and duress about what to decide, how to move forward, whom to trust. Best just focus on essentials till late-week Taurus moon shines its clarifying spotlight on your true, enduring values. GEMINI: While spring has you bubbling with a buzz of creative ideas, your mentor planet Mercury retro could be making choice a conundrum. In a week of retail frustrations, best go for practical and sustainable. Focus on durable, functional buys – then socialise to your heart’s content under Friday’s Gemini moonlight.
CANCER: If early-week’s full-moon lunar eclipse sent a shock wave of agitation through the Cancerian nation, make this week’s mantra Don’t Take It Personally. Sure you’re a person, but right now it really is much more about other people’s stuff than it is about you.
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SAGITTARIUS: Saturn, the planetary personal trainer, taking up residence in your sign lights a slow fire designed to brew your essential ingredients into a richer, stronger, tastier, more authentic and successful you. Beginning this week, which is about paying particular attention to the ways you transmit and receive information.
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CAPRICORN: With Pluto direct in Capricorn and Saturn your planetary captain in the sign of education, exploration and liberation, you’ll benefit greatly from travel, further studies or working with a mentor. Though conditions, as always, apply: which is that first off there’ll be a fortnight of vexing, but necessary, lessons…
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LEO: Interpersonal communications can get seriously scrambled this week, so it’s mandatory not to inflate minor tiffs into international incidents or dramatic extravaganzas. Worst-case scenario: someone casts aspersions on your motives or criticises your abilities. So what? Good news is this transit could finally resolve a longstanding relationship problem.
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VIRGO: Mars in Virgo fires up your energy, enthusiasm and drive. Just take care you don’t overdo it this week, especially in the area of helping others. You’re shrewd, astute and insightful, but the downside of Mars in your sign sometimes shows up as people taking advantage of your natural kindness. LIBRA: This week’s eclipse highlighted relationship changes you’ve experienced over the past two and a half years: where your needs and others haven’t been aligned, and how they could be. Saturn’s presently in a strongly supportive position to ensure connections, or reconnections, you make now will be long lasting and life-affirming. SCORPIO: Major changes are afoot this week, which could see you rethinking a former commitment to a particular group, cause or person. Things that have been niggling at you for a long time are finally becoming clear as information filters through and the jigsaw pieces fall into place.
AQUARIUS: This week’s eclipse in the sign of what’s in it for me? was designed to uncover old, unresolved attitudes of show me the money, and I’m not feeling the love. Feelings that have been veiling the truth that love and money are all around you. Don’t let mistaken beliefs diminish your rightful joy.
PISCES: This week’s likely to stir up a stew of emotions, which retrograde Mercury doesn’t help. Flexibility’s the magic key. Remember that beliefs are just opinions you don’t want to change; they’re also closed doors to your growth and understanding. Especially selfunderstanding, the biggest mystery of all…
FELICITY WARD, PERFORMING AT THE BYRON BREWERY MONDAY 19 OCTOBER,
WELCOME TO CULTURE WONDERLAND With NORPA’s extraordinary Railway Wonderland being reprised it’s time to find out a little more about the people behind the scenes. William Kutana is a costume and fashion designer who has been working in the field since completing his BA in Industrial Arts from San Francisco State University. After completing a Diploma of Fashion and Cert IV in Costume at Wollongbar TAFE in 2012 he worked with NORPA on the original production of Railway Wonderland and as costume adviser on developmental works. In 2013 he featured as one of the top designers on the reality TV show Project Runway Australia Season 4, where he showcased his first collection. William is currently living in northern NSW where he works out of his private studio, House Of Tailors, in Lismore as well as teaching Fashion and Design at TAFE. What do you find inspiring about Railway Wonderland? I absolutely love the fact that the show takes place on real, abandoned railway station. I’ve always found ‘travellers’, whether at an airport or railway station fascinating. I want to know what there story is, their destination, who they are meeting… I find it a bit romantic like Railway Wonderland. What does your role as production designer involve? Fortunately I was working with the original creative team during 2011 where I provided costume inspirations for the initial development of Railway Wonderland. As costume designer I am responsible for the overall look and feel of the show. How are you working with TAFE
FELICITY WARD BRINGS HER COMEDIC EDGE TO BYRON
students? What do you like about it?
For the relaunch of Railway Wonderland we wanted to find a way to involve the TAFE Costume students so I’ve worked with TAFE on the construction of some of the costumes. I am also giving them the opportunity to do some work experience in the field, fitting and altering costumes, watching rehearsals and running around chasing props. It’s great having this local collaboration because it gives them relevant real like theatre experience that every student should experience. What is different in the design this year from the 2012 production? We are definitely stepping it up with some of the costumes for this production. The choir’s costumes are all custom made and will have an authentic 1940s/50s look about them with very smart tailored jackets and vintage hats and accessories. What is your inspiration for the design? The story takes place over three different eras: modern, 70s and 40s. My inspiration comes from the fashion trends of those times, specifically the 40s when people used to get dressed up more when travelling. The natural train station setting is inspiring and magical so I want to transport the audience into a dreamlike wonderland into the past. NORPA presents Railway Wonderland, Thursday– Saturday 22 October to 7 November at Lismore Railway Station. Tickets on www.norpa.org.au.
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BRIGGSY MCS COMEDY AT THE COURT HOUSE Sharp-tongued mother of two, comedian Ellen Briggs, is the MC at the monthly standup comedy open mic night at the Court House. Reflecting on her daily experiences with a tongue in her cheek and a finger in the air, Ellen has the gift for turning the everyday into the remarkable! Thursday at the Court House Hotel in Mullumbimby at 8pm. Free.
BYRON SCHOOL OF ARTS COURSES Applications are now open for BSA YEAR-LONG courses in 2016 and if you are interested in attending please head to our website and submit your application form. The closing date for applications is 14 October 2015. For those people looking for other creative courses BSA has NEW short courses and weekend workshops on offer in printmaking, painting, drawing, assemblage and more. Visit the BSA website for all the details and subscribe online to receive newsletters about future events. www.byronschoolofart.com
Felicity Ward arrives for her first Byron comedy show direct from Edinburgh Festival where she has just presented her new show about anxiety and mental illness called What if there is no Toilet? Felicity has also made a documentary about mental illness for Australian television; this multiaward-winning, Australian standup comedian, comic performer, writer and actor is not afraid to push boundaries. Currently based in London, Ward has appeared on numerous television shows in Oz, including Spicks and Specks, Thank God You’re Here, Laid, Good News Week, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, No Laughing Matter, The Best of Sydney Comedy Festival Gala and the Oxfam Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala. Joined on stage in Byron Bay by Ellen Briggs and Mandy Nolan as MC. Byron Brewery Monday 19 October, show starts at 8pm. Tickets can be booked on 6619 0529 or online on byronbrewery. com.au.
GETTING ON TOP OF THE KRANSKYS In a brilliant musical mash-up that sees popular TV and film themes combined with the hysterical humour of Australia’s favourite sisters from Esk, the ARIAnominated Topology have joined forces with the Kransky Sisters in order to treat Queensland audiences to their hilarious new musical comedy: Tunes from the Tube. A must-see for fans of music, TV and film alike. Byron Theatre, Community Centre, 21 October. Tickets at the venue.
THE KRANSKY SISTERS AND TOPOLOGY TEAM UP FOR THEIR NEW SHOW TUNES FROM THE TUBE AT THE BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 21 OCTOBER
Gregory Aitken a veteran of more than twenty years of theatre work in the northern rivers. The Ballad tells the story of fictional characters Edgar and Mary Stephens, who married in 1914 and lived at Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby. The Drill Hall was built in 1916, probably with timber from the Hollingworth Sawmill, where, according to the story, Edgar was employed before serving in France. Mary dreams of becoming a Parisian chanteuse but joins a Queensland enlistment tour with a blind soldier poet. The Ballad of Edgar and Mary is narrated in song by the mysterious Singer with music-hall and soldiers’ songs from the era. It is choreographed by Michael Hennessy and plays 9–25 October at the Drill Hall Theatre. For bookings and information visit www.drillhalltheatre.org.au or The Bookshop Mullumbimby.
WORM TURNERS THE BALLAD OF EDGAR AND MARY AT THE DRILL HALL IN MULLUMBIMBY 9–25 OCTOBER
BALLAD OF EDGAR & MARY
The Ballad of Edgar and Mary is a musical theatre entertainment commissioned by the Drill Hall Theatre Company for the centenary of Mullumbimby’s Drill Hall. The show is co-written and directed by Claude Gonzalez, a film and television director, twice nominated for AFI awards and an IF award, and
The Worm is Turning is a film that connects the dots on global food issues, shows the consequences of chemical agriculture, and how corporate centralised control of the world’s food production is destroying economies and the ecology of the world. Filmed on location in India, USA, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia, the film shows examples of ecological farming, the possibilities of producing food as well as restoring the environment. Screening at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall on Wednesday at 6pm with a Q&A with filmmakers to follow.
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