Wreck, Heat and the Fluffy Note

As a National Art School student, I was wondering like the rest of us why the hell Maquarie Uni, after accepting to take over our Darlo Landerneau, had finally decided to let the hen down. Well the answer might be given by UWS actually (here, big big thank you to Mayhem). Isn't it because, like the later, they'd like to get rid of the arts altogether? :( and soon repeat Goebbels words, "Each time I hear the word culture, I grab my gun"? Doesn't it make you shudder?

Merdre. (Read again your Jarry's King Ubu if you reckon I should have written merde.)

So, if you find this as absurd as we all do, just read this:

"Dear All,

I know there's a lot to be said against internet
petitions, but this UWS thing is terrible!

First NAS is being given the merger shove and NOW -
the entire visual and performing arts faculty of a
university - is being shut down.

THIS IS NOT A GET-UP Petition!

PLEASE:go to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/uws6Arts/petition.html

and sign the petition, or start writing to your state
and fedral pollies and newspapers - all the ones that
keep murmering about Arts in Western Sydney being
really important.

PLEASE forward this onto your networks/friends/ anyone
you might know who gives a damn about art, education,
new media and culture.

Cut and paste the letter below:


SAVE UWS ARTS

This petition is an initiative of University of
Western Sydney arts students, to protest the decision
on the part of the University's College of Arts/School
of Communication Arts to suspend its Fine Arts and
Electronic Arts programs and abandon its Performance
program. The Fine Arts and Electronic Arts programs as
they currently exist are being taught out, and the
plan is for a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts to replace
them. Intake for this program has been indefinitely
suspended. Show your support for the implementation of
this program by signing this petition. We believe it
is important that this proposed program, when
implemented, services the professional needs of arts
students, lecturers and the arts communities in
western Sydney.

Please support art education in western Sydney by
signing this petition and forwarding this link to your
network. For information and updates go to the Save
UWS Arts Blog: http://www.saveuwsarts.blogspot.com

Thanks for your support.

Sincerely,

Or make up your own.

You can get more info at :
http://saveuwsarts.blogspot.com/

Cheers

Margaret Mayhew

Margaret Mayhem
Reading, Writing, Drawing, Rabble Rousing
All performed professionally and at reasonable cost
Ph: 0421735512
Art Writing: http://artandmayhem.blogspot.com "


Oh, and there's global warming too... 37°c in Sydney on SAturday, made everyone's head hot, starting by my fluffy one!

so if you feel concerned, just read this:

Dear NAt'l RAC members,

The issue of Climate Change (read: Industrial Climate Disaster) is likely
soon to become the Ultimate and Overriding social issue in Australia,
outranking all other social justice and human rights issues in our country.

PLEASE JOIN US at

++++++++++++ +++++++++ ++++++++
THE 2006 WALK AGAINST WARMING
++++++++++++ +++++++++ ++++++++

On the

++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++
International Day of Action on Climate Change
++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++

Saturday November 4, 2006

This year's second "Walk Against Warming" is likely to become, and SHOULD
become, the single largest citizens' action in our country since a long
time - and hopefully the largest citizen's action in Australian history - if
for no other reason, then for the fact that this year's drought goes on the
record as the biggest drought ever.

There's a Walk Against Warming also NEAR YOU ... check the website through
the link below - all known locations so far are listed.

For more information: http://www.safecom. org.au/walk- against-warming. htm

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This message was disseminated by

Jack H Smit
Project SafeCom Inc.
http://www.safecom. org.au/
P.O. Box 364
Narrogin WA 6312
.


One species threatened by the aforementioned warming is the mole. Icannot but be concerned by it, since it's described as having "a pink fluffy exterior"!
ARTISTS: Make a difference, Make a mole

Call out to Artists
As part of the fight to save Yellabinna Environment association on
Kokatha Mula land, we are calling out to artists to recreate the
Kokatha mole as a plush stuffed creature to be exhibited and auctioned
as a fundraiser for the ‘mole hunt’ and fight to save the land.

Kokatha country covers large stretches of harsh arid land in the far
west of South Australia, stretching from Ceduna to the edge of the
Nullabor, It is home to Kokatha Mula people. Yellabinna is culturally
significant to the Kokatha Mula Seven Sisters dreaming is connected
throughout the Yellabinna sand dune system by rockholes. Yellabinna is
home to 4 million hectares of pristine mallee woodlands, and to
critically endangered blind marsupial mole amongst other threatened
species.

This precious country is now under threat from extensive mineral
exploration and undergoing feasibility studies to begin large open cut
sand mining project.

As a tool to protect this special county, there is currently a search
on for the endangered blind marsupial mole known as the ‘Notoryctes
Caurinus’. There have been few sightings of the mole in recent years,
however the documentation of this endangered species could be a crucial
element in saving the largest mallee woodland in the world.
So we are calling upon artists to recreate this beautiful little
creature. We are planning to tour the exhibition to Mori Gallery,
Sydney CBD, TINA in Newcastle, Alice Springs, and hopefully many other
destinations in Australia. EXHIBITIONS WILL BEGIN IN LATE SEPTEMBER, SO
WE NEED ARTISTS TO CONTACT US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
If you are interested in participating, we will send you out an
artist
kit with more detailed information, images, and an official patch for
your mole. Also if you know of a gallery which may be interested in
housing this unique exhibition, please let us know.

Please contact Renata on 0422854184 or renatafield@yahoo.com.au
For more information on Googatha land see http://googatha.tripod.com/

Mole specs
: 15-20cm long
: 7-12cm high
: Pink fluffy exterior
: 2 fleshy coloured flippers 5-10cm long
: Stunted fleshy coloured tail 2-3cm long
: Hidden facial features
A google image search of "Notoryctes Caurinus" will give image results





Now, I can hear you mumble: who's responsible for the global warming? global d$^£*k heads?
well, hum,

The 2006 G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and
heads of the World Bank and IMF will take place in Melbourne on
November 18-19. This will be the most significant gathering in
Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led
globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic
Forum in 2000.
Global corporate capitalism is a ruthless system — a system with scant
regard for the interests of humans. It has co-opted and corrupted our
political leadership, and the leadership of many other nations. Our
action should be seen as a vote of no confidence in this leadership, an
act of defiance and resistance, and a demand that our democracy return
to valuing the interests of humans and the environment above all else.
You can help.
www.stopg20.org


But Fluff is Fluff, so since the Fluff must go on, take a walk on the fluffy side;
at Gaffa Galllery, there is:

:::Four Steps Forward:::


Exhibition opening night drinks @ Gaffa This THursday 19th 6-8pm
(Runs until 24th Oct)

Simone Letat, Karen Sullivan, Kath Fries & Michele Morcos

Four Steps Forward is an exhibition by four artists who would all
describe
themselves as painters. Yet their work ranges across a vast array of
materials and mediums. All have a sense of humor or playful exploration
that marks a crucial point in the individual creative process. Four
Steps
Forward captures a sense of each different direction and the relentless
push forwards.