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GUILTY PLEASURES CABARET BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE & BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL HALL 12–14 MAY.
Mora investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Résistance in WWII and his mother’s miraculous escape en route to Auschwitz. Philippe, a Hollywood culthorror movie director and artist, adopts a film-noir persona to tell his dramatic family story. He also packs his paints and easel, embarking on a journey to create an audacious comic book about his parents, their survival and the Holocaust. From LA to Berlin, Paris to Melbourne, Monsieur Mayonnaise is a richly layered road movie starring madcap artists, comic stories, real-life heroes, Nazi villains… and baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise! Saturday 25 March at Bangalow A&I Hall.
GUILTY PLEASURES Earlybird tickets for Guilty Pleasures Cabaret and Burlesque Festival are now on sale – giving you a chance for great savings on your tickets. The first festival of its kind for our region, Guilty Pleasures takes place over three nights from Friday 12 May till Sunday 14 May at two venues: the Brunswick Heads Memorial Hall and the Brunswick Picture House. The Brunswick Heads Memorial Hall will be converted into a stylish sitdown cabaret room for three nights of outrageous performances, which will include bent burlesque queen Glitta Supernova, glam rock burlesque band Bertie Page Clinic, Australia’s Got Talent song-and-dance man Brendan Hay, comedian extraordinaire Mandy Nolan, internationally acclaimed burlesque performer Miss Bettie Bombshell, and award-winning chanteuse Parissa Bouas. At the same time the region’s muchloved Brunswick Picture House will be presenting a very special Guilty Pleasures edition of their famed Cheeky Cabaret – an uninhibited, bawdy extravaganza of daredevil feats and delectable divas with plenty of va va voom.To buy tickets and get the earlybird discount, simply go to the program and tickets page at www. guilty-pleasures-fest.com.au.
MONSIEUR MAYO Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past. Australian artist and filmmaker Philippe
Now in its fifth year, The Byron Spirit Festival gets ready to illuminate your psyche and bliss out your chakras with three days of yoga, chanting, music and joy. A recipient of a Destination NSW $20,000 grant, the festival looks forward to building the event’s appeal outside the region.
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‘People are drawn here for a reason; they want to explore other ways of seeing. It’s part of the brand of Byron. They come to Byron and they think what is this? It’s lost it there a bit.’ The idea of the festival is to build some of the story that Byron has long been associated with.
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The Spirit Festival continues to build its brand by solidifying the vision.
THE BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL PRESENTS A C GRAYLING AT THE BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE ON THURSDAY 30 MARCH
GENIUS OF GRAYLING Byron Writers Festival presents an evening with acclaimed author, philosopher and academic AC Grayling at Byron Theatre on Thursday 30 March. AC Grayling is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy, and the author of more than thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He has twice been a judge on the Booker prize, in 2015 serving as the chair of the judging panel. He is a vice-president of the British Humanist Association, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His new book The Age of Genius (published by Bloomsbury) explains how, fuelled by original and unorthodox thinking, war and technological invention, the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity. Professor Grayling will be at the Byron Theatre on Thursday 30 March from 6pm. Tickets $30/$35 from the website byronwritersfestival.com or 6685 5115.
WEAVING WOMEN TOGETHER MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE PRESENTED BY TRAVELLING FLICKS AT BANGALOW A&I HALL ON SATURDAY 25 MARCH
IN THE SPIRIT
A unique cultural exchange and collaborative arts project between the Wake Up Time Women, a NSW northern rivers Bundjalung women’s textile-arts
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Grant believes highlights this year are Christabel Zamor, Breath of Bliss founder. She does amazing breath work. Deya Dova and Hamilton are doing live music and powerful breath work. Julie Smeardondon from Brisbane with Pete Hollingsworth are doing blindfold yoga; this is where everyone is blindfolded and led through an amazing yoga vision class. It takes you inside. It will blow you away. There’s sound healing with Ganga Giri and Jo Cobbett, who is an amazing 5Rhythms teacher.’ It’s a full program with something different on offer for everyone. ‘We have nine things on at any one time. People come and go – what am I going to choose? Yoga is only 30 per cent of what we offer. There’s really a bit of everything.’ This year Spirit Festival is offering a post-event retreat for participants who might want to extend their Spirit Festival experience. ‘We are running a retreat afterward at Paradise One, so it’s a week-long experience. Often people come and are going through big stuff in their lives, and this gives them an opportunity to get healing and insight, and having that retreat experience will help them go deeper into the immersion. The retreat takes 50 and it’s more than half booked so you do need to book ahead.’ 31 March till 2 April in Mullumbimby. For
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March 24 - April 1
Show Dates: Jun 16 - Jul 9
large cast of singing actors & dancers Children from 6yrs for choir to register interest
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Auditions
Sat 25th March 9.30 - 4pm Sun 26th March 9.30 - 12noon Ballina Players Theatre
Festival co-director (along with Kate Little) Alex Grant said, ‘The vision is to take all of the amazing things happening in the Shire, all the different modalities and people and the healing, and put them all under one roof. We want to give people an experience where they can try amazing teachers and facilitators and then night concerts of world music and uplifting music, and then workshops in the day. This is a festival for the body,’ laughs Alex. ‘You can leave your head behind.’.
Director Fran Legge
Flamboyant Guitars Johannes Mõller and Laura Fraticelli play Argentinian tangos & classical guitar duets Delicious hand-made canapés by Nadine Abensur and sparkling wine
Sunday 19 March | 3pm
St Martin’s Church 42 Stuart Street | Mullumbimby $70 | $65 Members & Seniors
Adult $25; Conc: $22; 16 and under $15 Thur - Sat evenings 8pm; Sunday matinees 2pm; Sat April 1 matinee 2pm.
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