Artmedia Social Network

The new Artmedia Social Network www.artmedia.net.au is a free social network for those into writing, physical performance, film and new media. If you are an artist or company working in these areas, you are welcome to become a member and post information on your work. You can also upload videos, post photographs, articles, reviews and network with other artists.

Training

New on the Artmedia site the Australian Recreational Centre for Arial Arts (ARCAA) in Auburn, NSW, welcomes anyone aged 6 years and older to experience a fun, healthy, active and exciting form of recreation and exercise …and it will impress your family and friends!

Playspace Training with Alan Clay provides a physical and irreverent approach to clown. Check out the Winter Clown Retreat in New Zealand, where the relaxed atmosphere and secluded environment means that students get more out of the contact hours and can also process and discuss the work outside of the class. Reconnect with the playful, inquisitive, cheeky, clown spirit in a beautiful outdoor setting, overlooking the mouth of the Wanganui river.

Aerialize is an innovative theatre group that combines the art of dance, theatre, gymnastics and circus in an aerial environment. Aerialize have been thrilling local and international audiences with death defying feats of grace and beauty on the trapeze, rope and web. Check out information on their evening classes, and their performance projects.

Shows

Theatre LOTE, is an Australian theatre company providing innovative bilingual performances for theatre festivals and schools. Our productions are “boutique” in nature, with casts of two to three multi-skilled performers, and have strong music-theatre, visual and physical theatre components.

Broadway and Co - is a contemporary Australian circus company presenting touring shows, a range of roving and site specific performances, as well as workshops and training opportunities. 

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Physical Theatre News

This newsletter has evolved over the past seven years, into an industry wide publication with an Australian focus and a global perspective.

The newsletter regularly carries information on circus, clown, mime, theatre, dance, and street theatre events worldwide - with information on festivals, classes, and news on physical theatre groups working in Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, Europe, England and worldwide.

Check out the archive for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 on the Physical News index page, and enter your email address below to receive this newsletter each month.

Clown Film

Alan Clay's short film Moontan is now available in a DVD compilation including the 15 minute short, a 30 minute rough cut, a twenty minute 'Making of Moontan' documentary, and a two camera split-screen extra clown performance (total: 72 min.), US$14.95 from Create Space.

Books

Alan Clay's book, Angels can Fly, a Modern Clown User Guide, is available on order through bookshops in Australia and New Zealand, America and England.

This is a textbook for a fast changing art form. The traditional approach to teaching clown is routine or gag based and this sits uncomfortably with teaching practices in modern performing arts education and with today's audiences.

In addition to anecdotes from 20 clowns from around the world and stories following the adventures of 10 fictional clowns, this book includes a total of 50 practical clown exercises appropriate for workshops or performance, developed by Alan through 30 years of teaching in Australia, Europe, America and New Zealand.

South Australian author Adrian Rogers, has three fantasy novels published as e-books - on CD Rom or by direct download. And his third book in the Hidden Kingdom Trilogy, Alignment, is now available. "Merlin, laid to rest in dark-age Britain in his Crystal Cave has awoken in fulfillment of a prophecy, as Pisces moves into Aquarius and the 2012 Galactic Alignment is less than four years away."

Literary Festival

Check out the new site for the Wanganui Literary Festival to be held September 18th - 20th in New Zealand. As well as the usual literary fare, this year the festival will include a session on new media, where Alan Clay will talk about his new project, which is based on his book, Dance Sisters.

There will also be literary events in the weekend prior to the main festival, as part of the Festival Fringe on Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th, including a session on Self Publishing. Check out programme details on the fringe festival page.

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ePublishing News

This newsletter evolved over four years to become one of the leading sources of e-publishing information in Australasia, but has been in hiatus for a couple of years as technology catches up with the digital revolution in publishing.

This list is for the quarterly 'literary and epublishing' newsletter from Artmedia Publishing in Sydney, a publication with an Australian and New Zealand focus, and a global perspective, exploring the changing nature of the book and electronic publishing. We will be relaunching this publication at some point in the near future.

Check out the archive of the ePublishing Report .

Artmedia Publishing  is run by Alan Clay.

Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Literary & Performing Arts

Artmedia links offers links to electronic publishing and writing resources. For performing links use Playspace links

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Our monthly Physical Theatre Newsletter has been going from strength to strength, and we have created an archive of back issues, which you can now browse on our Physical News page.

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