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Happy Birthday Queen Street Studio!!! Only seems like yesterday that Sammi and James cried like babies in the car after signing our first commercial lease through our (pro-bono) Solicitor who recommended we shouldn’t continue with the venture because we would be bankrupt within 3 months of opening . . . she still signed it though . . . (go figure).
HOW WRONG YOU WERE Ms BONO!!!
750 members later – 25,000 artists through our doors . . . 5 studios under our belts . . . (phew – we need a lie down) . . . Here’s to 5 more years!
Whoohoo . . . from the QSS-News team!
A NEW FACE FOR QSS
OK . . . a confession – WE HATE FACEBOOK (and have never really got into it . . . actually we never really understood it – but we guess you have already figured that out by now – what with poor postings and general boring-ness in our original Facebook content).
So now a new Queen Street Studio FACEBOOK page has been created by our fabbo Vis Arts Coordinator Pete . . . he is updating it constantly (because he actually likes Facebook) with all the fun and funner stuff that we have going on at FraserStudios.
Become a friend, fan or like-r (whatever it is that you do) and stay in contact with what’s happening and what’s about to happen at Queen Street Studio and FraserStudios.
Visit: Queen Street Studio’s new Facebook page
MONEY FOR YOUR FRINGE
MARRICKVILLE COUNCIL is calling for applications for the Independent Artists Grant Program. The Independent Artists Grant Program will provide financial support to enable local artists to participate in the inaugural SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL. Applications must be for specific projects for one-off funding. Funding of $1,000 to $5,000 is available for projects. Applications to be received by 11 June 2010, 5pm.
For enquiries please contact:
Arts and Cultural Development Coordinator
(02) 9335 2280
acdc@marrickville.nsw.gov.au
Download an application form or for more information visit: www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/grants/independentartist.htm 
NOT SO OFF
OFF THE SHELF is an opportunity for writers and directors to hothouse a script that is in the early stages of development. Produced by Queen Street Studio, OFF THE SHELF is supported by the City of Sydney and aims to focus the skills of theatre practitioners on a previously unproduced script of their choice, whilst strengthening relationships between emerging writers and directors.
So say hi (and you say “Hi”) to the current recipients of the “Off the Shelf and Into the Fringe” program. This weekend, these projects and teams will be showcased at FraserStudios before an audience of industry peers – for feedback, encouragement and maybe an international tour or two (I DID say maybe.)
- LATE NIGHT INFOMERCIALS (Writer: Brooke Robinson / Director: Lisa Eisman) Louise has been happily working at Infomercials since its inception but when a second sales presenter is hired, the destructive nature of the products she’s selling is revealed to her.
- SEXY TALES OF PALEONTOLOGY (Writer: Patrick Lenton / Director: Anne-Maree Magi) When an innocent group of scientists are taken over by an unselfconsciously evil corporation a clash of ethics and robots ensue.
- THE HIDEOUS DEMISE OF DETECTIVE SLATE (Writer: Alli Sebastian-Wolf / Director: Jane Grimley) A piece of film noir parody theatre; imagine a 1940’s hardboiled detective radio serial travelled through time but on the way it got mixed up with that nuclear waste that made the ninja turtles.
- PEACE AT LAST (Written by John AD Fraser / Directed by Lizzie Doyle) With her mother gone and father nearing the end, Sarah is ready to bury the past. But her brother Paul returns determined to reignite the fire.
For more information on OFF THE SHELF visit: www.queenstreetstudio.com/offtheshelf.html
SECRET MEN’S BUSINESS
PERFORMANCE SPACE is presenting a new dance performance, “Bromance" by Melbourne based choreographer Alisdair Macindoe. “Bromance” is a revealing new dance work that delves into the psyche of two men in their early twenties, examining the code of brotherhood that is a lifelong negotiation of trust and honour laced with competition, comparison and responsibility.
Our bro’s at PERFORMANCE SPACE are offering Queen Street Studio members the opportunity to go into a draw to win a double-pass for “Bromance” for Thursday 3 June at 8pm. Please become a member to receive our newsletter and get access to these offers!
And if that’s not enough, Queen Street Studio members can also book $20 tickets for “Bromance” for June 3 and 4 at 8pm. Again, you'll need to be a member of Queen Street Studio to get these benefits.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM
Queen Street Studio is excited to present a new residency program for emerging artists. BLUEPRINT is an opportunity for performance-makers to create a devised site-specific work at FraserStudios in August 2010. Open to performers from all backgrounds and disciplines, BLUEPRINT aims to provide emerging artists with time and space to develop their practise and artistic enquiry. This curated program is open to groups and individual artists.
We are looking for:
- Sydney-based groups and/or individual artists
- Artists or groups who would like the opportunity to develop their performance-making practise
- Artists or groups who are keen to develop a 7-10 minute performance work
- Artists or groups who are available to commit time from the 25 July – 29 August 2010
- Artists or groups who can work within the practical parameters of the studio spaces
We will provide artists with:
- 20 hours of rehearsal space (starting 25 July – 29 August 2010)
- The opportunity to show their work on the weekend of the 28 – 29 August 2010
- Basic sound and lighting support
- Mentoring support
Download a BLUEPRINT application form and complete no later than 30th June 2010 by visiting: www.queenstreetstudio.com/blueprint-residency.html
FINALLY FOR THE LADIES
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL provides a significant annual opportunity for an artist by offering a three-month studio residency at the Cité des Arts, Paris. Recent industry debate has highlighted a leadership crisis for women creatives in influential roles, particularly within mainstream theatre practice. The 2011 theatre residency will provide support for a female theatre director to pursue a program of professional development in Paris.
This program could include activities such as: secondments or residencies, mentorship programs, training opportunities, community consultation or research periods while in Paris. Applicants need to articulate the professional benefits that they would gain from time spent in France, and are expected to present a discrete program of activity/ies for the three-month period. In addition to the accommodation provided, a grant of $10,000 will cover airfares, living allowance and other sundries.
Closing date: 3 June 2010
Decisions advised: August 2010
Residency: 14 February – 16 May 2011
For more information visit: www.australiacouncil.gov.au/
WHO’S THAT UPSTAIRS?
We’d love to take this opportunity to welcome our new VISUAL ART RESIDENTS who will inhabit the 1st and 2nd floors of Studio 10 at FraserStudios from May to August. Next time you’re in for a rehearsal, showing, meeting or launch – these are the peeps making the freeeeeek’n art upstairs…
- LEALAHNI JOHNSON: building connections between different media within an installation environment that responds to the surrounding area of Chippendale.
- LEO COYTE: building a series of three-dimensional structures comprised of those materials that are traditionally associated with two-dimensional painting.
- IAKOVOS AMPERIDIS: using topsoil for a series of conceptual studies in psychogeography, landscape painting, soil science, sculpture and land art.
- SKYLEN DALL: develop a series of sculptural works that use familiar objects to explore our self-defence response in modern city life.
- KATE MITCHELL: comprising of performance, video, sculpture and drawings that focus on endurance, existence, time, effort, physical limitations of the body, triumph and defeat.
- TARA MARYNOWSKI: video work exploring folk-lore, mythical and spiritual creatures found in Slavic cultures through watercolours into a moving image and animated form.
- KATTHY CAVALLERE: life size sculptural effigies wearing ragged or tattered clothing represented as a hybrid installation including video, photography and sound.
- TULLY ARNOT: interactive inflated sculptures reflecting on the social and physical environment of the Chippendale area defined by the nature of their decay.
- STEPHEN CRAMB: ceramic figurative work of a Fallen Figure life cast 6ft10 in height and two arms protruding from the surface of a filled industrial bucket.
- VIKI PAPAGEORGOPOLOS: photographic work that uses nonsensical imagery in conjunction with ideas of fame that continue her interest in the ridiculousness and seriousness of situations.
- TONY CURRAN: a study of 285 people’s ears from life drawings which will then become fluid explosions of ink paintings.
- MELANIE BOREHAM: a multi-media installation to create an immersive space where the audience will be confronted by the mind’s dominion and ploys to consume them.
- LJ PETERS: the history, the culture and the architecture of Chippendale in the layers of her paintings.
- BROWN COUNCIL: a performance and video laboratory in which ideas are tested and everything is recorded. Browncouncil have been awarded the six month residency given by Queen Street Studio.
For more information on the VISUAL ART RESIDENCIES visit: www.queenstreetstudio.com/vis-arts-residency.html
NO FEEDING THE BIRDS PLEASE
SIREN THEATRE COMPANY present THE SEAGULL in a new adaptation by Christopher Hampton from June 4th @ Sidetrack Theatre.
THE SEAGULL is one of the great plays about writing. It superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and fulfilment of putting words on a page. Chekhov, in his first major play, stages a vital argument about theatre that still resonates today.
Members of Queen Street Studio can receive a “two for one” ticket deal to Tuesday 8th or Wednesday 9th June performances. Become a member now!
For more information visit: www.sirentheatreco.com
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
2 years of FraserStudios . . . and 5 years of Queen Street Studio – 25,000 artists through the door . . . where are they now? Here is a quick update of some exceptional opportunities artists who have participated in Queen Street Studio programs have made for themselves. Go get ’em . . . you go-getters!
VISUAL ART RESIDENCY recipients in the Next Wave Festival – No Risk Too Great:
- “I thought a musical was being made” is a new public performance by visual artists Jess Olivieri and Hayley Forward, aka the Parachutes for Ladies.
- “Some Film Museums I Have Known” is a captivating adventure in performance and film by Rhubarb Rhubarb.
- “Wall Work” is a five-day performance in which Michaela Gleave and Kate Mitchell will build and then dismantle a wall, brick by brick, every day over five consecutive days at five major public and pedestrian zones in Melbourne’s CBD.
- In their latest show “A Comedy”, Brown Council lifts the curtain on comedy to reveal the darker and more malicious side of humour and laughter.
OFF THE SHELF participants kick’n it here and elsewhere:
- “Night maybe, or a road maybe” by Kit Brookman has gone from 10 minutes into a full length radio play . . . but if we told you who could be producing it – we’d have to kill you.
- “Gravity Waves” by Will Snow directed by Jonathan Wald will be made into a short film this year.
- “Boxing Day” by Phil Spencer, Directed by Scarlet McGlynn got a residency at NORPA.
- “Of the Causes of Wonderful Things” by Talya Rubin, Directed by Nick James was programmed for the Next Wave Festival.
OFF THE SHELF plays in the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival:
- “Zetland” by Jasper Marlow, directed by Andrew Johnston
- “Combat Fatigue” by Alison Rooke, directed by Ian Zammit
- “Late Night Infomercials” by Brooke Robinson, directed by Lisa Eisman
- “Sexy Tales of Paleontology” by Patrick Lenton, directed by Anne-Maree Magi
- “Peace at Last” by John AD Fraser, directed by Lizzie Doyle
- “The Hideous Demise of Detective Slate” by Alli Sebastian-Wolf, directed by Jane Grimley
IS THAT FUNNY?
Award-winning playwright Brendan Cowell will host a full-day masterclass focusing on the process of writing comedy for the stage at PARRAMATTA RIVERSIDE THEATRES . This will be a hands-on, enjoyable workshop highlighting comedic writing techniques and structure and how to use comedy to develop your characters while also supporting the story and the play you want to write.
Workshop Date: 18th September 2010
Cost: $80 including morning and afternoon tea and a light lunch.
Where: Riverside Theatres, Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta
Bookings: Riverside Box Office 02 8839 3399 and online at www.riversideparramatta.com.au
SO MUCH SPACE – SO LITTLE TIME
Queen Street Studio is in total overdrive with the release of 4 (that’s right FOUR) spaces for the independent arts community of Sydney to utilise . . . all in Kensington St Chippo.
Now with more room than ever, there is plenty of availability, 7-days a week. Visit Queen Street Studio’s online bookings calendar to see if we can serve your space needs.
A HERO IN THE MIST
NIGHT-TIME STATEWIDE: EVERDAY HERO is an evening of short performance, participatory live work and video challenging and subverting the idea of the hero in our midst. Curated by Lara Thoms and Jess Olivieri, NIGHT-TIME STATEWIDE: EVERYDAY HERO will go on the road from Sydney to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery and Orange Regional Gallery between July and October 2010.
NIGHT-TIME STATEWIDE is a collaboration between Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Performance Space, to tour the NightTime format of short, live artworks to regional gallery contexts.
Curated by Lara Thoms and Jess Olivieri
Artists: John A Douglas, Renny Kodgers, Julie-Anne Long, Jason Pitt, Nat Randall, Justin Shoulder, Anna Tregloan with Rita Kalnejais & David Franzke and Alice Williams
MORE INFORMATION: performancespace.com.au
NightTime Statewide:
Everyday Hero
Sunday 6 June, 7:30pm
Performance Space, Sydney
HOW’S THAT HEFF – HUH?
Thanks to our mates at the City of Sydney , Queen Street Studio has just received the lease for HEFFRON HALL (Map) (yipeee!). It’s now with our (pro-bono) lawyers (is she back???) for one last check before keys are handed over and we begin the build to convert HEFFRON HALL into Sydney’s newest rehearsal space for independent performing artists.
BUT . . . we need to raise $10,000 to pay for a new floor . . . why? Coz carpet doesn’t cut it, yeah? Why $10,000? Coz it costs that much for wood these days, ya hear?
So Queen Street Studio is embarking on a donations drive to raise $10,000 by June 30 to fund the purchase and installation of a new wooden floor (seriously – we’ve got quotes . . . $10K is the actual price). To donate, you can deposit directly into our DONATIONS FUND, with all donations over $2 being fully tax deductible.
YOUR TAX RETURN WILL LOVE YOU . . . WE WILL LOVE YOU . . . SYDNEY PERFORMING ATISTS WILL LOVE YOU . . . so much love – so much wood! (he he he)
For more information email sam@queenstreetstudio.com or visit: www.queenstreetstudio.com/support.html
Special thanks goes out to all those who have helped make this business viable . . .
Peter and the two Jack’s for the initial faith and cash; Rhys for website and graphic art; Frasers Property for their space, support and vision; Augusta Supple for all the support and belief; The Chippendale community!; The Clare Hotel; City of Sydney; Alex for bench and fridge; Megan for business advice; Melissa, Rosie and Pav for scrubbing and assembling; Jess for listening and encouragement; Megan, Michelle and Erin for management; Nancy for furniture; Rosie, Maureen, Tracey and all at Arts Law for legal advice; Brenna at Bangarra for the replacement tarquette; . . . oh yeah, and beer!
Client testimonials
“Its been great being affiliated with various events/classes/workshops/readings at FraserStudios over this year. Its a wonderful space and all hail to you and Sam for making it happen!!! It is much much appreciated as a vital organ by me and the whole independent sector – you guys do a great job!”
– Nikki Heywood
“What a top idea – so many of us need temporary office space for projects. You guys are awesome.”
– Imogen Semmler
“I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for letting the lunch club happen at FraserStudios last weekend. There were more than 45 artists who came along to eat, drink and have
a chat. And going from the comments and feedback I had on the day and during the week I think it was a success. People are VERY keen for the next one. Not sure when I have time to do this - maybe in Spring?? Anyway thanks again for being so generous in time and space and for working so hard to give opportunity to the community.”
– Rosie Dennis
“Re: Off The Shelf; A workshop for testing and refining theatrical works-in-progress. This was an outstanding event and an excellent cultural initiative for Sydney. Workshops such as this are commonplace in the US and UK, and yet practitioners in this country, particularly emerging ones, rarely get an opportunity to engage in them. The ability to ‘test drive’ a potential show in front of a critical audience is an invaluable service for all theatre practitioners, but especially new talent. Such a service also creates a centralised talent pool that ultimately elevates the overall standard of theatre in Sydney. And that can only be a benefit to the community. What is needed is a reliable space and resources, and a systematic process by which they are used. “Off The Shelf” has proved itself to be that service.”
– Boris Ivanoff
“I would like to formally thank you for giving us such a wonderful 2 weeks in Studio 14. I cannot thank you enough. I was able to achieve all my objectives and more. You guys are doing a stellar job and I thank you from the depths of my choreographic heart!!!”
– Sue Healey
“Wow, you guys are just amazing and awesome and such a valuable addition to the arts industry. Please keep doing what you are doing and we will continue to be fans! Cheers and here’s to the long life of The Studios, be they Queen Street, Studio 14 or whatever you’d like to call them . . . The studios suits me!!”
– Carmel May
“Hi guys, thanks so much for the hire of the studio, it was just what we needed. And we were both so impressed by the studio itself, wow, what a beautiful space . . . We are living in Berlin at the moment, and there is nothing like it over there.”
– Pen Dale
“I have been rehearsing/training with two different groups and it is a beautiful space to work in. James and Sam’s attention to detail in fitting out the space has made it the perfect balance between a welcoming, relaxed meeting place and a clear, no-nonsense space for work. The two, interlocking spaces in the studio mean that you can clearly separate your work on the floor with any helloing, goodbyeing, talking, and tea-sipping that needs to be done. Really, the space is exquisite and I recommend it to anyone who needs to be in a funky, practical and clear space to make work.”
– Alice Osborne
“Polished floor boards, privacy, tea, biscuits, a beautiful view, friendly owners, affordable, clean and lovely! Queen Street Studio . . . what more could a writing group on zero budget want? Thanks James and Sam for helping us to make it happen . . . the future is looking sparkly.”
– The QUT writers
“I love this space and when I see the look on everyone’s face when they first come in, it says the same thing too. So much room, great equipment and a beautiful atmosphere. I’m really impressed with the effort made to put together a decent, low-cost teaching and rehearsal space in a convient central location.”
– Hilary Cinnis
“The space at Queen Street Studio appeared out of the darkness to us like a friendly angel. It is large, conveniently located, affordable and more importantly, run by artists dedicated to many of the ideas and matters (such as a sense of community with the space) that mattered to us as well. Curious Works is glad to be part of its beginnings and has thus far had a very relaxed, easy relationship with James and Sam who run the space.”
– Shakthi
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Danish architecture students using Studio 10. Image: Arunas
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