ENTERTAINMENT
DEAD AWAKEN! The days of the dead are truly a celebration of life. When we gather and dance with caricatures of death, eat skull sugar lollies and learn to respect that life is surely brief. Rising from the Ashes Productions have put together a special night of music and fancy dress to celebrate. With live music by local talents Wild Marmalade, Black Rabbit George, Happy Africa and Doni Raven, it is sure to be a good night to shake off the old skeletons! People will be dressed to impress in traditional skull-candy attire and there will be a face-painting station for those who forget or don’t have the time. It kicks off at 7pm this Friday at the Byron Bay Brewery. Tickets will be available on the door for $20 until sold out.
UKE NIGHT MISS AMBER & STUKULELE’S
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THU 26 OCT 2017 CLUB MULLUM
BYO UKULELE ENTRY ADULT $12.50 KIDS (UNDER 15) – $2.50
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HOT SHORTS The Drill Hall Theatre Co. presents
9 SHORT PLAYS BY LOCAL WRITERS YOU GET TO VOTE FOR THE WINNER.
THE COMEDY POLITIC
GET YOUR HUSTLE ON
Charlie Pickering is one of the most exciting names in Australian comedy. Charlie is a political junkie, a law graduate, and was the voice of his generation as a
On Friday 3 November Byron Bay’s Popped Creative returns with the first of a four-part series designed to connect, inspire and entertain the local community: HUSTLE.
regular team captain for Generation X on Network Ten’s quiz show Talkin’ ’bout Your Generation. He was also on your TV screen every weeknight for five years as co-host of The Project, where the day’s news is dissected, digested and re-constituted by some of Australia’s funniest and smartest. Long before he scored gigs on two of TV’s biggest shows, Charlie was touring internationally, winning awards and playing to sold-out houses. Charlie has earned many an accolade for his live work over the years, including nominations for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in Edinburgh, the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as being named Best International Guest by the NZ Comedy Guild. He’s even been nominated for a Logie and in 2011 picked up Media Personality of the Year in the GQ Men of the Year Awards. Charlie was invited to perform at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2016, guest hosted several episodes of ABC News 24’s Planet America – a political comedy show looking at the US presidential race. He also performed a brand-new solo show How to Tame a Wild Squirrel at the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Just For Laughs at the Sydney Opera House. In 2015 Charlie joined the team at ABC TV to premiere a news comedy show, a tonight show, a chat show and a panel show all in one – The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. The critically acclaimed show aired its third season in 2017. He’s been called ‘dangerously funny’, which he is. He is joined by support Damian Power, three-time Barry Award nominee and widely regarded as one of the most exhilarating voices in Australian comedy. He has been called the bar-room philosopher. His material is incisive, deep thinking, and has even the drunkest person in the room contemplating their reason for being. He’s genius. With Mandy Nolan as MC this is one cracker of a show. Byron Bay Brewery. Thursday 2 November. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. $25. Tix on trybooking.com/ SLDY
Dates. Friday, Saturday, 7.30pm Sunday 2pm NOVEMBER 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 Tickets $20 /$18 concession at the Mullumbimby bookshop or Online at www.drillhalltheatre.org.au
42 October 25, 2017 The Byron Shire Echo
SCREENWORKS OFFER THE CHANCE TO WRITE For aspiring screenwriters, having the chance to sit in the writers’ room of one of Australia’s leading production companies can be a career-changing opportunity.
Now in its fourth year, that is exactly the opportunity on offer as part of Screenworks’ Inside the Writer’s Room program, which will provide the chance for four regional NSW early-career screenwriters to observe the process of writing a television drama in some of Australia’s most significant drama-production companies. Applications close on 8 November. This initiative has been made possible with support from Create NSW. Since starting the program in 2014, Screenworks has already supported 13 participants, who have had opportunities to contribute ideas for plotting, character and story development, helped with note taking, submitted sample scripts, as well as received professional feedback on their own scripts. Screenworks’ Inside the Writer’s Room is most relevant to emerging or early-career writers of television content, and more specifically TV drama or comedy series, or authors of fiction transitioning to screenwriting. For this first time, this opportunity has been extended to residents across regional NSW. Apply online via Screenworks’ website. Applicants are required to provide a sample of their work as well as a support letter with their submission. Deadline for application is 5pm, Wednesday 8 November. For info call 6687 1599 or email events@screenworks .com.au.
HUSTLE. is a series of panel discussions featuring the best and brightest in creativity, entrepreneurship and boldness in our local region, where industry leaders share stories of their greatest success and failures on their path to achieving their goals. Presenting Andrew Crawley, cofounder of Jack Media, a Byron Bay-based digital marketing company,with a threeyear growth revenue growth rate of 178.6 per cent and and now ranked number 43 in Smart Company’s Smart50. Jim Hearn is the author of High Season: a memoir of heroin and hospitality (Allen & Unwin, 2012). He is a regular contributor to Griffith Review and a winner of the New Philosopher Writers’ Award in 2014. He worked on the screenplay for Chopper (2000) and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Technology, Sydney. Jim’s inspiring and colourful story about life and art will have the HUSTLE. audience amazed. Filmmaker, male model and one of the greatest music-video actors of our time, legend has it that Vinnie LaDuce spent several years roaming and performing in the bass-heavy clubs in the East End of London before his relocation to Byron Bay, where the cocktails and the summers never end. Vinnie LaDuce is all things attractive about a never-ending goodtime – where no-one gets hurt and there is no such thing as a hangover. Vinnie LaDuce will get all you movers and shakers moving and shaking! Friday 3 November, 5.30pm–late. Thom Gallery, 6 Fern Place, Byron Bay industrial estate. Tickets from www.poppedcreative.com
JAPANESE FESTIVAL Our Japanese community is launching the inaugural Japan Festival on 26 November, 9am–4pm, in the heart of Byron Bay, at Main Beach, Surf Club and surroundings. Through the festival, Byron Japanese Community Association’s mission is to be the bridge between Japan and Byron Bay and contribute to the rich international profile of Byron Bay and its diverse cultural communities. The festival is FREE and open to the public. It will be located at Main Beach and the Byron Bay Surf Club and is supported by Byron Shire Council and community organisations.
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