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The Biennale of Sydney is Australia's largest and most exciting international visual arts event. The Biennale of Sydney is held in Sydney's leading museums and galleries and is renowned for showcasing the freshest and most innovative contemporary art from Australia and around the world. Since 1973 the Biennale of Sydney exhibitions have presented the work of more than 1200 artists from over sixty countries. Most of these artists were also brought to Sydney by the Biennale, which often facilitated their travel and co-ordinated their professional engagements in a national outreach program to art schools and universities across Australia. Please visit the Biennale of Sydney website for more information on the Biennale's mission, history and past exhibitions. The concept 'Zones of Contact' forms the framework and organising principle of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, which will include a range of artists from around the world practising in all forms of the visual arts. 'Zones of Contact' is about the spaces in which people live in and move between, the spatial dimensions of cities, settlements, territories, the land and home. The work refers to the temporal dimensions of those spaces, the body, everyday life, places in which people encounter one another and other cultures and sense of self and their histories. Visit http://www.bos2006.com/ for more details.

The Sydney leg of the annual Liquid Architecture festival of sound arts starts Wednesday 5th July at the Performance Space. The Sydney Morning Herald has a preview: http://tinyurl.com/gqkoj. The week will be packed with performances, talks and workshops from local and international artists. Liquid Architecture is an essential event for anyone interested in contemporary sound and music. visit http://liquidarchitecture.org.au for more details

Hot Chips - A night of all new electro / laptop rock - Saturday 13th May - The Lansdowne Hotel, 9:00pm, FREE.

Coming up at The Lansdowne on Saturday May 13th is a hotbed of huge electro-rock sound creativity, with Hot Chips, a night of all new laptop rock. Love Shark and The Stoner Funk Orchestra headline, with an exciting, fresh and even funkier new line-up and sound. Super Massive make their debut in support, with a sound that is electronic, dancey, and groovy with some heavy guitars thrown in. The Space Cowboys present electro-space-rock versions of country songs, and The It Boys start the night with some purely live-born computer-based dance music. Featuring some of Sydney's finest musicians in new sonic ventures. Entry is free, and music begins at 9:30pm.

Moving Image Coalition is based in Melbourne, Australia. It invites independent/alternative super 8 film, 16mm, VHS (PAL format only), mDV, & DVD image/soundmakers to present their works at our quarterly screenings. Contact us now and spread the word. There are no joining fees or exhibition fees involved.