ENTERTAINMENT
CULTURE LIKE A BIRD In a 25th-anniversary show, the man like no man, the internationally infamous, award-winning comic legend The Birdmann presents the finest collection of classic comedy variety hits in the world! Following ten world tours and a star from the Australian National Circus Festival to the Glastonbury Music Festival, witness the winner of Best Circus at the Melbourne Fringe and nominee for Most Original Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
A STELLA ACHIEVEMENT Erstwhile resident Stella Kinsella makes her way to Mullumbimby this week for a good old-fashioned chinwag with Renaissance woman Mandy Nolan about her two books: Poison Ivy and Wild Orphans. Both books were self-published by Stella after winning money on TV game shows! Find out how one woman navigated the process, and about her two extraordinary stories. Hosted by Mandy Nolan with an inconversation at the
WOMEN LIKE US BUNNY RACKET’S ROCK’N’ROLL RESIDENCY! Have you seen the hit For three Saturdays in January, Bunny Racket will be holding residence at the Brunswick Picture House. In addition, you’ll be one of the first to see an episode of their upcoming web series at the show!
Bunny Racket is rock’n’roll for kids. Pure and simple. King Bunny is a guitar-wielding, skateboarding, nature-loving rabbit with a passion to share his love of rock’n’roll. Bunny Racket is born of King Bunny’s fierce love for rock music and Mullumbimby Bookshop | a yearning for kid-friendly tunes that are relevant and Thursday |4pm. Wine and positive. King Bunny travels nibbles available. the open highways in his old All welcome. van, seeking collaboration, inspiration and knowledge, and on a quest to share his unique brand of rock’n’roll Both of Kitty Flanagan’s with the younger generation of bunny racketeers and to shows next weekend have create the greatest kids’ rock sold out, so Kitty has added record of all time. an additional show for her Bunny Racket is also about to Byron fans! launch a rock’n’roll web series H e r b r a n d - n e w s h o w that’s set to inspire and teach Smashing is doing just kids how to create music that: Smashing! Don’t miss and rock out with the whole one of Australia’s finest family!
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comedians talk ing love songs, sex, algorithms, chimps, clowns, psychics… and of course everything is getting Smashed. It’s fun AND learning! Friday and Saturday at 8pm sold out but tix available for Saturday at 5pm | Tix at byroncentre.com.au
comedy show Women Like Us? Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs have been touring the country packing out halls, pubs and clubs nationwide with their middle-aged peri-menopausal standup comedy spectacular! These girls are like cranky super-heroes, fighting objectification one beige undie shoot at a time. That’s right. Sick of photoshopped women’s bodies on billboards spreading the message of unobtainable perfection, Nolan and Briggs show what it’s like to be a ‘real’ woman. Unbotoxed, without abs, and unfiltered. Last weekend saw Women Like Us have two sellout local houses at Uki and Pottsville halls. Punters sweated it out in the heat for two hours of non-stop laughter. The girls are continuing their national tour this year with shows at Perth Fringe on the horizon, so come and see the last local show for 2018 at the Byron Services Club | Monday | 8pm |Tix are $30 at the club or online at www.mandynolan.com.au.
The Bunny Racket Live show will have the whole family in fits of rock’n’roll bliss! Just imagine the Ramones and KISS teaming up with Cat in the Hat and AC/DC. Don’t Enjoy an evening of ballyhoo miss this! at the Brunswick Picture This Saturday and 27 January house and be dazzled by a at 12pm | All $15 | Family ballet of beauties, excited by of 4 $55 | Tix and info on curvaceous cabaret queens brunswickpicturehouse.com. and squirming with the out
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GETTING CHEEKY
Be wowed by absurd acts such as plastic-bag juggling, interpretive high-heel dancing, interactive origami extravaganzas, bicycle chinbalancing, climbing inside a giant balloon… and all accompanied by the original music of Egg. For one night only join The Birdmann in FINALE and enjoy the weird, the wonderful and fly to the future in a fantastically fun evening of entertainment!
of the ordinary. You’ll be bumping hips and shaking your booty on the way in, dancing, tumbling and somersaulting on the way out. An uninhibited, bawdy extravaganza of daredevil feats and delectable divas with plenty of Va Va Voom! This Cheeky Cabaret is also Wednesday | Brunswick suitable for kids. From eight Picture house | 7pm | Adult to 88! $22 | Concession $20 | Tix on Friday Adult $40 | Friday brunswickpicturehouse.com. Concession $35 | Saturday Adult $45 | Saturday Concession $40 | Tix on brunswickpicturehouse.com.
DRAWING ON INSPIRATION Over the next two weeks (13–24 January) the Byron School of Art have a fabulous selection of three-hour visual art sessions to offer a taste of what we have in store at BSA for 2018. Drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture are all on the menu in Mullumbimby with our talented and respected teachers, including our first Summer Tasters for kids and another opportunity to experience Spirit with Michael Philp. The two tasters for schoolaged students (9–12 years & 13–15 years) are a great opportunity for any young ar tists who might be interested in our Afternoon Art Club this year, offering a sample of what they can have fun with throughout the year at the BSA studios. To register go to byronschoolofart.com.
CAPTAIN FRODO’S CIRCUS Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Captain Frodo’s Magic Circus is heading back to Bruns! The Captain has gallivanted around the world and is making a stop home to the Byron Shire to entertain your whole family these school holidays! At once mad and meaningful, idiotic and inspiring, the Incredible Rubber Man arrives with bucketfuls of magic to warm your heart and tickle your mind until you laugh out loud. For everyone who has ever dreamed of running away with the circus, this is your chance. The Captain will make circus superstars of you all! Sunday at the Brunswick Picture House | 2pm | All $18 | Family of 4 $60 | Buy Tickets at brunswickpicturehouse.com.
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