March 2011

Before Candle Ends:
look out for-
4.48 PSYCHOSIS - We are mounting a production of Sarah Kane's deeply disturbing but darkly funny final play. Watch this space for updates. www.perricummings.com

excited!

Hello Candle Enders!

Things are starting to stir, exciting plans are being formulated and 2011 Candle Ends is looking to be totally awesome, of course. Exciting things include a grant from R.M.I.T Union Arts! And lots of great performers doing exciting fun performancey things!

Be excited!

2011

Hello all you crazy Candle Enders,

Just between you and me, on the down low, very hush hush, Candle Ends will be rocking your world in 2011.

Details on dates and venues to come in the near future, if you’re interested in performing drop me a line at erinvoth@hotmail.com

Shhh…
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Cat Full of GHOSTS!!!

Mr Robert Jordan (Aka Cat Full of GHOSTS!!! ) made a mash up about growing old, Check it out!

I'm a Cat Full of GHOSTS!!! New EP out now!

"Poolka DEATH" is here! It's FREE! It's 8 tracks, 26min of beautiful seamless mashing and mixing!

Who's on it?Dj Shadow, Tipper, Death Cab for Cutie, The Knife, Wu-tang Clan, Public Enemy, Delphic, NIN, Daft Punk, Postal Service and so many more like you have never heard them before.

Upcoming Born in a Taxi Workshop

Born in a Taxi has a five day intensive coming up for performance practitioners, 19-23rd July

PHOTOS!!!

The wonderful Laurence Barns took some fantastic photos of Friday and Saturday nights Candle Ends

Audience at Friday nights show

May Jasper - Four C's

Lou Sanz - Not Suitable for Children

Penny Chivas

Penny Baron - Go Wide

Erin Voth and Andrew Scarborough - Salome

Penny Baron, Carolyn Hanna, Nick Papas - Born in a Taxi

Andrew Scarborough

Colin Craig - Jerry

Friends of Battle

Travel Art Dance

Pitisi Hatcher - 'The pest in your chest'

Aleza Gratian - Thoroughly Maude

Penny Chivas performing in North Carlton

Penny Chivas is performing in an upcoming performance at Dancehouse, 150 Princes Street North Carlton, 10th and 11th July 7pm called Emerge. Go see it, it'll be great!

Alister Karl's upcoming shows

Super cool Candle Ender Alister Karl has two, count 'em, two upcoming shows.

The Brunswick Show, Opening 7pm Sat 10 July @ Donkey Wheel House673 Bourke Street

and

Little Memories, Opening 9 July 6pm, until the 25 July @ Brunswick Arts Space, Little Breese Street Brunswick

little memories is an exhibition about those seemingly inconsequential, unarchived everyday thoughts and things that trigger our remembrances , our actions and quietly confirm our identity.

Go see Robert Jordan in Fitzroy

The ever awesome Mr. Robert Jordan, aka Cat full of GHOSTS and Project Obscura, is doing his mix mastering remarkableness at:

Gertrude Street Projection Festival, opening night Friday 9th July @ Workers Club (Band Room), 51 Gertrude Street, Cnr Gertrude and Brunswick Streets, 7pm

And

Sensory Overload, 8pm Wednesday the 14th July Workers Club (Band Room), 51 Gertrude Street, Cnr Gertrude and Brunswick Streets

So get on down to Fitzroy and check him out!

Philip Thiel - Kissing at Candle Ends

Philip Kissed May on the Stairs. Read his blog it's cool! 2010: a year of kissing people

From left to right - Colin Craig, Penny Baron, Robert Jordan (Cat full of Ghosts) May Jasper, Born in a Taxi, Ali Gratin, Lou Sanz

and that's a wrap

Candle Ends 2010 is a wrap. The lights have been turned off, the sets and props packed away, the beer and wine been drunk and the walls of Brunswick Arts repainted ready for the next exhibition. Thank you to everyone who participated and made this year’s Candle Ends the best yet!

I'll be posing some of the photographs I took during the festival on this blog and will add a link to the professional shots taken by the wonderful Laurence Barns once they are uploaded to flickr. Thanks again to all you wonderful Candle Enders, you rock sticks!!

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a little taste of what to expect tonight

From left to right - Ali Gratin, Pitisi Hatcher, Colin Craig, Robert Jordan (Cat full of Ghosts)

Saturdays Set List

Friday Set List

And Their Off!!!

Last night's opening night was a wonderful success. Thank you to all who braved the cold weather to fill Brunswick Arts Space with warm hearted glee. Poets poeted, monologuers monologued, actors acted, musicians musiked, dancers danced up a storm and the audience lapped it al up.

Tonight promises to be just as fantastic with the addition of Born in a Taxi, Penny Baron and Aniko Hazi to our set list .

Come one, come all to tonight's Candle Ends, doors open at 6.30pm, Brunswick Arts Space 2a Little Breese Street, Brunswick, $15/$10

Right, I'm off to the op shop to buy warm blankets and cushions for you lovely audience members so you don't get cold tushies :)

See you all tonight

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Woo Opening Night Tonight

One week to go!

That's right, only one week to go until Candle Ends Mini Festival kicks off and rocks your socks to the max!

And the winners/performers are:

Colin Craig
Penny Chivas and Jesus Requena
Penny Baron
Born in a Taxi
Aniko Hazi
Ali Gratian
Nicola Gunn
Pitisi Hatcher
Mel Hughes
May Jaspers
Robert Jordan
Alister Karl
Andrew Scarborough
Philip Thiel
Travelartdance
Erin Voth


The fun kicks off on the 23rd June at 6.30pm Brunswick Arts Space, 2a Little Breeze Street, Brunswick, so come on down and join in the fun!

Hope to see you all there,

Erin

Bookings

Whoot!
You can now book online for Candle Ends Festival 2010! Check out the links at the top right of this blog or go to www.trybookings.com and search Candle Ends

Not too late to get involved in Candle Ends 2010

Hello Internet Cupcakes,

We have received a great number to emails, phone calls, txt messages, carrier pigeons, freight mail and Morse code telegrams from wonderful performing artists all over Melbourne who are going to be part of Candle Ends 2010. This years festivals looks to be shaping up to be something special indeed.

We have storytellers, monologues, short plays, conversations, digital projections, short film and many more soon to be announced performance gems.

If you haven't contacted me about your interest in performing have no fear, we still have plenty of space for you! Email, txt or call me about your ideas… as long as the performance is under 20 min your in! You can perform the same piece over all 4 nights, develop over each sequential night, perform only once or twice, the choice is yours just let me know.

As we are getting closer to joyous Festival time I'm going to have to put a deadline on submitting interest in being part of the glories that is Candle Ends. Email me your ideas by Sunday the 16th May so I can start locking in details.

So get those thinking caps out and get involved

;)

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Dates

Hi all,

We have the dates for Candle Ends Mark 2...this mini festival will be happening over 23rd -26th June.We are looking for performers to do their thing on either one, some or all of these nights, here's the deal...

When... Performances 23rd - 26th June, doors opening at 6.30pm performances starting at 7pm Set up 20th -22nd June Bump out 26th - 27th June Where... Brunswick Arts Space 2a Little Breese street Brunswick

How... email me your interest in performing, the more the merrier, and I'll keep you in the loop about meetings, setup, rehersals and what not

Who/What...Anyone who makes performance based artwork, you can tell a story, read a poem, perform a short play or anything performanced based. Performances must be between 1 and 20 min long

Why...We never really need a reason to perform do we, but...this mini fest is an attept to create a platform for performing artsist to experiment, develop or play with ideas. We have set the festival before Melbourne Fringe so performers can test out ideas or just try something you've always wanted to do.

Drop me a line if your interested in performing, erinvoth@hotmail.com or 0432628951