Media Releases

Peacock Theatre
April 16th & 17th
9pm. $5

The StarStruck Dance Academy group “Hot Vanilla” presents
a contemporary dance work exploring the secrets that plague (or enhance?) the lives of many women.

From alcohol abuse to a naughty job at a strip club, on the surface it seems they have nothing to hide….

This performance is presented by the StarStruck Dance Academy group “Hot Vanilla”. Hot Vanilla aims to allow a range of dancers from experienced to beginners to participate, with the belief that everyone has something to offer.

Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre
April 16, 17
8pm
$7 full/$5 concession

Cavalier Productions and The Hobart Fringe Festival present Eulogy, a play featuring the intense poetry of the famed English poet, WH Auden.

The poems selected come from the late 1930s and early 1940s when Auden lived in New York in a house with an extraordinary collection of friends including Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee. These artistic people were trying to create art against the encroaching horrors of war.

A comedy about the perils of fine dining
16 – 22 April 2008 6.30pm sharp
Sunday 20 April matinee only 12.30 sharp
Tickets $90 per head incl. 3 course dinner, coffee and play
Bookings call Jacqueline or Jen at Mures on (03) 6231 1999

The Hobart Fringe Festival is excited to present a comedy all the way from Western Australia about the perils of fine dining.

Fancy Fare, following sell out shows around WA, will be performed at the reknown Hobart restaurant, Mures Upperdeck between April 16 – April 22, starting at 6.30 pm with a matinee on Sunday April 20, 12.30 pm.

Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre
Tuesday, April 15
Licensed all ages show
7.30 pm, $10

The Hobart Fringe Festival and Disconnect Records are excited to present jazz influenced, hard core punk band Off Minor.
Supported by The Scandal they will be playing a licensed all ages gig at The Peacock Theatre on Tuesday, April 15.

Island Espresso, Elizabeth St
April 9-30
Opening 5pm Friday 11th April

Flâneurs Sans Frontières is a group photographic exhibition of street scenes and urban tableux from around the world.
It will be held at Island Espresso, 171 Elizabeth St with the opening to be held at 5pm on Friday, April 11.
The term "flâneur" comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". A flâneur is thus a person who walks the city in order to experience it.

This exhibition will feature sidewalk botany, accidental humour and incidental street life.

Wednesday 9 April
9pm
Free

The Hobart Fringe Festival’s Open Mike night returns this year at The Brisbane Hotel on Wednesday April 9.

Hosted by Andrew Harper, this event is an opportunity to vent your rage, sing a song or recite a poem – anything that you can do into a microphone.

Open Mike is an opportunity for everyone to have their say. Cat stories, forest and chainsaw rants, delightful story tales have all graced Fringe listener’s ear before.

Preference will be given to talkers over musicians at this particular event.

Contact: Andrew Harper 0407 225 907

Venue : Peacock Theatre - Salamanca
Times / Dates: TBA 9 – 11 April
Prices: $15
Tickets at the Door
Directions Theatre Pty Ltd
ABN 54 085 315 251

MEDIA RELEASE

Two Women and a Chair

Venue : Peacock Theatre - Salamanca
Times / Dates: 9 – 11 April
Prices: $15
Tickets at the Door

Directions Theatre Pty Ltd
ABN 54 085 315 251

MEDIA RELEASE

The Pharmacist – a cure for all ills?
Hypochondriacs, addicts, pragmatists, self healers…….

Will they find happiness in a bottle?

Direct from a sell out season at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Directions Theatre presents The Pharmacist at the 2008 Hobart Fringe Festival

The Alley Cat Bar,
April 5th
Starts 8pm
$10 at the door.

Circus Horrificus will be an evening of physicial theatre, high drama and high jinks threaded through with music.

Having performed their theatre show, A Girl and Her Squid, as part of last years festival, Bridget and Squid return this year as Circus Horrificus.

This freak show performance will feature special guest
Bulgefrock, the gothic belly dancing of VAMP, music from the
Muddy Turds and MCíing by The Black Rose.

Contact: Bridget Nicklason-King –0400 320 862 bnicklason_king@yahoo.com.au

The Brisbane Hotel
Saturday April 5th
Licensed all ages gig
3-7pm, Entry is $4

The Zombie After Party will roll on from events earlier that day. Featuring Hypnotic Midday Movie (Launceston), Matt Niedra, Go Genre Everything (Melb) and Hobart Voltron it is an all ages gig beginning at 3pm on April 5.

Hobart Voltron, for the unititiated, is a team of cool cats that join musical forces and fight the industry.

It is an open jam, which will be headlining this gig, as part of the Fringe Festival.

Sonic Awareness: Listening made easy.
April 5
Various locations around the city, meeting place and time TBA
This is a free event.

New to the Hobart Fringe Festival, the Soundwalk a simple listening exercise.

This event will allow the participants to rediscover this ancient skill through individual explorations of aural perception with help from a deep listening group leader.

Through graphical sonic mapping exercises the participants will achieve the most exciting opportunities life has to offer, a supersonic perception of the environment that frames you.

Inflight Gallery, an artist run initiative will be exhibiting Andy Wear’s “I Still Make Mysleff (sic)’ and Jordana Maisie’s ‘Professional Voyeur’ from 6pm on Friday April 4.

The exhibition will run until April 26a nd the gallery is open between Wednesday and Saturday 1-5 pm.

Andy Wear - I Still Make Myselff (sic)

Adult Black Comedy (ABC)
The Brisbane Hotel
Thursday 3 April, 9pm
All tickets $12

Adult Black Comedy (ABC) returns again after the sell out session at last year’s Hobart Fringe Festival.

The show, which is one of very few opportunities to see burlesque in Hobart will feature a bizarre array of cabaret-style acts,

An array of sets from pole dancing to corset tricks - will amaze and amuse, transforming the evening into a deliciously debauched experience, and exposing the underbelly of the Hobart Fringe!

For those wanting to rock on into Saturday night beyond the cabaret,

By Word of Mouse
Mick Lowenstein – Comedy
Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre
April 3 – 5
8pm, all tickets $15

Mick Lowenstein has been a prominent member of the Hobart performance scene for over a decade, he brings his new show of stand up comedy, By Word of Mouse, to this year’s Hobart Fringe Festival.

This show, which will be an amalgam of Mick’s extremely physical and highly energy performance will blend whimsy, chaos, truth and improvised surrealism.

Opening Party
April 2, 9pm
The Brisbane Hotel

The Opening Party of the Hobart Fringe Festival will follow the official launch at Salamanca Arts Centre and feature Go Genre Everything (Melbourne), Transcriptions of Organ Music, The Vivids, Viva Computer and in the front bar, DJ No Request.

The event will mark the first musical evening in the jampacked one month long program (available for download on the website).

Melbourne band Go Genre Everything will be headlining, supported by Transcriptions of Organ Music and the enigmatic Vivids.

Bust a MOVE: Dance Workshops

This year Bust a MOVE’s Bridget Nicklason-King will run 14 one-hour contemporary dance workshops as a part of the Hobart Fringe Festival.

Bridget has been actively involved in performance, mainly in contemporary dance since 1997; she has a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts and has worked with such companies as; Tasdance, Stompin, Is Theatre, Dancehouse (Melb), Red Cabbage (Melb), The Village (Aust), Circus Horrificus and she founded Bust a MOVE in 2004.

Early April – May 4

Les Allester, director of the Hobart Fringe Festival from 1999 – 2001 will be exhibiting his photographs of the these festival for the duration of this year’s festival.

Les, a photographer, who has in various incarnations been involved with the Hobart Art Scene for many years will display these photographs on a continuous slide show at The Alley Cat in North Hobart.

It is a great opportunity for viewers to see many Hobart artists who have become well known before they were well known – when their art was considered emerging or experimental.

Feedback Form

@ TOP GALLERY, Salamanca Arts Centre

Opening 5:30pm April 2nd in conjunction with the official opening of 2008 Hobart Fringe Festival.

Exhibition continues throughout April

Open Mon – Fri, 10am-5pm

Artists: Andrew Harper, Leila Mihal and Liam Sprod, David Norris, Craig Opie, Mischa Pringle, Mat Ward, Carolyn Wigston
Curated by Tim Panaretos