C U LT U R E STARS ALL ABOUT EVE
Gillian Anderson and Lily James lead in the National Theatre’s live streaming of All About Eve, filmed live for cinemas from the West End in London. Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world’s most innovative theatre directors Ivo van Hove, asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth, and identity never seems to get old. All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L. At the Byron Theatre on Wednesday 29 May at 6pm and Saturday 1 June at 1pm. For tickets go to byroncentre.com.au.
TRIBAL MEDITATION Meet at the St Martin’s Hall in Mullumbimby on Saturday for an afternoon together in mystical, cinematic, and tribal sound. It kicks off with a DMTFM collaboration sound journey and closing with a big sound mandala to create a 99-people intuitive choir! Led by De Meru Tikal. This is a fundraiser, with proceeds going to the Mongolia Eco Arts Tour 2019 – an Australian-Mongolian Multicultural project that will help to protect Mongolia’s largest lake from mining waste. 4–7pm. Bring a cushion. $20 at the door.
THE SCAREDIE’S BIG BERTHER
SCINTILLANT SUN AND EFFERVESCENT MERCURY IN THE SIGN OF THE TWINS RAISE A TOAST TO THIS WEEK’S GEMINI BIRTHDAYS…
BY LILITH
ARIES: Mars has you emotionally touchy with friends and family this week, while Mercury in your house of personal expression advises against lashing out in the heat of the moment. Rein in strong feelings before responding: walk away, breathe, or best of all sleep on it. Domestic unrest needs a cool head and smart heart. TAURUS: This week reverberates with vivid opinions, chattering static, negative natter, and the white noise of just too much information. You’ll have to contend with others talking in circles, but cerebral Mercury has you astute and on the ball where finance is concerned, with hard-bargaining Mars brokering the best deals. GEMINI: Happy birthday, Twins, as sun and Mercury in Gemini arrive with your annual challenge to maintain stability, discipline, and regularity in the midst of flux. Filmmaker Bill Bennett offers a possible approach, which is to consult your PGS (Personal Guidance System) via these five steps: Stop. Listen. Ask. Trust. Follow…
CANCER: With this week’s gregarious Gemini vibes, people are full of surprises: some delightful, others not so much. So steer clear of button pushers, avoid draining divas, and don’t let masterful Mars pile your plate with so many diverse commitments you go into overload and personal power outage. LEO: Argumentative Mars heating temperatures in the home zone may not make this the easiest of weeks, but it’s in your own interests not to take a head-butting approach to friction, tension, and challenges, as victories are likely to be Phyrric. Allow for misunderstandings – especially the ones on your side. VIRGO: With mindy Mercury downloading genius ideas fast and furious, this week strobes with lightbulb moments and eureka realisations. Long story short, there’s a lot of brainwork going on, plus driving Mars accelerating your teamwork sector. So heed the inner prompts of Saturn downshifting gears and pause before important decisions.
EXPOSING EDITH This award-winning cabaret tells the story of the legendary French star Edith Piaf. From critically acclaimed seasons at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leicester Square Theatre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Festival of Voices, 10 Days On the Island, Fringe World, and Auckland International Cabaret Festival, winner Best Cabaret Adelaide Fringe 2016 and nominated for a Helpmann Academy, Exposing Edith charts the tragic life of arguably the greatest French singer of all time, Edith Piaf. Experience her life, loves, and losses through the songs that shot her to stardom including La Vie en Rose, Milord and Non, je ne regrette rien.
After 20 years as half of Australia’s favourite musical comedy duo, The Scared Weird Little Guys, Rusty Berther (the little one) continues the musical hijinks and slick silliness that established The Scaredies as one of the most sought-after acts in the country. Rusty brings his unique musical humour to the Ballina RSL for the very first time. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of Australia’s best-known comedy personalities offering all his 20 years of comedy experience to the stage. Ballina RSL on Thursday 30 May at 8pm and at the Ocean Shores Country Club on Tuesday 4 June at 7pm. MC’d by Mandy Nolan with fabulous guest support acts. Both shows are free.
MAY 23–26, 6–9PM 110 MAGELLAN STREET LISMORE | FREE
Created and performed by Michaela Burger (vocals) and Greg Wain (guitar), Exposing Edith is a stunning mix of authentic French chanson and contemporary sounds. Having explored the undertones of Piaf’s vocals and lyrics, Burger and Wain have created their own unique interpretations of Piaf’s work, using voice and acoustic guitar and the subtle use of loop, delay, and effect pedals. Showing as part of Festival of the Voice – Sunday at the Brunswick Picture House at 5pm. Tix are $30/35 and $25 for kids at brunswickpicturehouse.com.
LIBRA: Libra Paul Simon best described this week: Everybody’s talking at me, I don’t hear a word they’re saying, only the echoes of my mind… And who really wants to hear Mars in Cancer arguing or Mercury in Gemini’s logorrhoea anyway? So get your love glasses on and let Venus light up your finest Mona Lisa smile… SCORPIO: Mars expanding your personal chemistry and social perspectives this week favours home entertaining, relationship renovation, and planning or taking a vacation. With Mercury in extremely frank and candid mode, it’s definitely worth being mindful that words have the ability to wound or heal, depending on your intent. SAGITTARIUS: The fact that humans have two ears and only one mouth is pertinent to chatty Mercury in your relationship zone, which also includes working partnerships. So resist getting carried away with complicated rhetoric or oversharing: keep it simple.This week’s mantra is Listen. Then listen a bit longer. Then keep on listening…
CAPRICORN: With Venus in earthy, flirty mode and lateweek moon in Capricorn corner escalating your attraction factor, hello hot stuff. But sensual grooves notwithstanding, you’ll still need to keep things on track while others are all over the shop and astral energies support getting ideas and plans mapped out ready to test. AQUARIUS: Mercury has this week’s minds and mouths hyperactive and working overtime, yours included. The devil’s definitely in the detail during weekend Aquarius moon, which may make you a tad hypercritical, so be hypervigilant in keeping your feedback and delivery light – which doesn’t require laborious effort, merely a modicum of restraint. PISCES:While it mightn’t be easy, it’s definitely necessary to keep communications as basic and uncomplicated as possible despite this week’s confusing profusion of changing arrangements. Don’t take anything for granted and do stay open, or at least less resistant, to ideas you wouldn’t usually consider: could they actually have some merit?
FIST FULL OF FACTS Byron Writers Festival invites you to an insightful evening with Sweden’s Anna Rosling Rönnlund, whose hopeful book Factfulness is changing the way we view the world. Asking big questions about the world is easy. How many people live below the poverty line? How many girls go to school? Why is the global population increasing? But answering them ‘factfully’ is hard. So hard in fact that because of our internal biases we get them wrong more often than not. In Factfulness Hans Rosling and his two lifelong collaborators, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling-Rönnlund, show why this happens. Fresh from Sydney Writers’ Festival and multiple TED talks, this is an illuminating evening for anyone interested in the real state of the world. Thursday at the Byron Theatre at 6pm. Tix $25 and available at byroncentre.com.au.
FREE 2040 SCREENING FOR SCHOOL-AGE KIDS 2040 is a film for the new generation of thinkers and innovators and a must see for kids to regain belief in humanity’s future. Madman Entertainment and Palace Cinemas have partnered to announce that school-age students will be able to see the new film 2040 without charge on opening weekend at Palace Cinema locations around the country. Directed by and starring Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film), 2040 is a positive and empowering journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shift them rapidly into the mainstream. 2040 opens nationally in Australian cinemas THIS Thursday. To redeem the ticket you must be a student 18 years or younger – bring your current student ID when purchasing a ticket; must be accompanied by one paying adult.
MEDITATING WITH A MONK SCHUBERTIAD Chamber music and songs by Schubert and Mozart Emilie Lemasson – soprano Bridget Crouch – violin Nicholas Routley – piano A multi-sensory experience of Bundjalung language, history and story created by internationally acclaimed digital artist Craig Walsh LismoreQuadrangle
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This project was assisted by the NSW Government through the Heritage Near Me program
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$40 | $35 Members, concession | Mullumbimby Civic Memorial Hall | Sunday 26 May | 3pm
Buy tickets at www.byronmusicsociety.com
Khenpo Choying Dorjee is coming to the Northern Rivers from June 10 till 23 and will be giving various public teachings. Khenpo (a title that is given to a monk or nun with great erudition and human qualities) is the head principal and abbot of a large monastic college in India with over 1,000 students. Born into a Buddhist family in northwest Nepal in 1972, Khenpo has studied with some of the greatest lamas and scholars of his time. In 2002 he received the Khenpo title from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and in 2004 he also received this title from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 2013 he became the dean of the Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies. He has a number of local teachings. For info contact si.org.au or contact Jangchub Haubner on 0448 324 391 or Kamala Kennedy on 0427 568 185.
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