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Curator , Magazine GalleryJosh Fanning

Director , The Reading RoomBecc i Love

Poster DesignsSteph Lyal lLara TorrJohanna KuhneHelen Nehi l l

Layout and DesignStacey Wilson

TechSimon Lof f l erStephen Pick les

PublicitySam RodgersStan Mahoney

DJ Sex PestMike Radzevic ious

ThanksThe Ade la ide Ci ty Counci l , The South Austra l ian Government , Arts SA, Asahi , Avant Card , The Bigpond Adela ide F i lm Fest iva l , Hugh, Pots i e , Nige l , Cassandra & Br ian , Faux Fr iends , a l l part i c ipat ing ar t i s t s , musos & do-ers (buy them dr inks p lz ) .

Format CollectiveChloe LangfordStephanie Lyal lSam RodgersStan MahoneyDan GladysPatr ick LockwoodTannon KewSimon GraySimon Lof f l erDr Ianto Ware

Art DirectorChloe Langford

Live Music DirectorsStan MahoneyStacey WilsonBen Revi

Zine Fair CoordinatorsStephanie Lyal lSam Rodgers

Director , Street DreamsPeter Drew

Director , Academy of WordsRyan Paine

FEFF CuratorRay Harr is

Chief Audio EngineerPatr ick Lockwood

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sat feb 12FORMAT FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT PARTYFormat CollectiveFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm-late

Sat Feb 12

It’s Opening Night. It’s a party. Asahi gave us a giant pile of beers on the cheap. You’re welcome.Music courtesy of: Woollen Kits (Melbourne), Absolute Boys (Melbourne) plus local luminaries Terrible Truths and Fair Maiden.

DWELLMarlaina ReadFormat Space Gallery 2pm onwards daily

Sat Feb 12Sun Feb 13

I will make the house and show you where it is. My arms will be tight and sweaty, my face red and eyes narrow, when I move the last brick into place. I will build a room. I will build a room with walls. I will build a room with no walls. Rest.

MEDAL JAM UNDERGROUNDMedal JamFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 5-9pm

Sat Feb 12

Medal Jam Underground returns for the fifth and final event of the series. Witness some of Australia’s best breakers test their skills in a 5 vs 5 crew showdown. Supported by Format Collective, Don Chu Photography, Clinic 116 and Midwest Trader, MJU 5 is set to be a monster!

POPPY NOGOODCurated by Riley O’KeeffeMagazine, 6-9pm

Sat Feb 12Sun Feb 13Mon Feb 14Tues Feb 15Wed Feb 16

Walking into a gallery or a quaint local space, seeing something that takes your breath away – that moves you and makes you look at your world in a whole new way. Aren’t those moments beautiful? This isn’t quite that. Please feel awkward, please feel uncomfortable. You might be better off.

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sat feb 12HANSEL AND GRETELNick CocozzaFormat Zine Shop, on display

Sat Feb 12Sun Feb 13Mon Feb 14

Nick Cocozza’s Hansel and Gretel pop-up book was a piece that he produced in response to a live brief from the German Embassy in London as part of a design competition. Cocozza’s take on the Grimm’s classic features a teenage Hansel and Gretel escaping from their gritty high rise home on their BMX and getting lost in the woods, only to be faced by the temptations of Ronald Mcdonald who has a sinister plan in mind for the pair. A notable new design graduate within the realms of street art culture is Scotland’s Nick Cocozza. He has had several group shows in the UK and his first solo show in Berlin in October 2010.

SUSANNAH WILLIAMSFormat Jillian McKeague Space for the duration of the festival, excepting some special occasions

Sat Feb 12 toSun Feb 27

“For FORMAT 2011, I will install a light drawing titled ‘Rat Fink Travels’, based on studies of my pet dog Oscar. The wall work will be drawn directly into the FORMAT Site, using LED fairy lights. This installation is part of a series of site specific, light drawings that present the opportunity to resolve a visual puzzle; explore the formal concerns of drawing; and continue my investigations into concepts of history, movement, memory, feeling and space.” - Susannah Williams

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sun feb 13WILL YOU LOVE FOREVER WHAT YOU LOVE NOW?Kirsty HulmFormat Space Under-the-Stairs, 1-5pm

Sun Feb 13Mon Feb 14Tues Feb 15Thurs Feb 17

“Through tattoo, I help people grip onto that which they care about: to hold it, embrace it completely, say yes, I love you. I deal with those who aren’t afraid; and it brings me conviction. For three days you will have the opportunity to share this experience with me.”

Describe to Kirsty the thing you love now, and she will interpret this into a tattoo through email negotiation. Got the ink-lination?

LIGHT INTERRUPTEDAdam SynnottFormat Jillian McKeague Space 6pm

Sun Feb 13

Light Interrupted is a rear projected multi-touch display. Using Derivative Touch Designer, the screen displays a multi-touch 3d painter/modeller. Colour and sound are affected by the number of users and the gestures they paint.

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mon feb 14MONSTER MONSTERSophia SimmonsFormat Space Gallery, 12-9pm (alternating artists)

Mon Feb 14

Monster Monster is a one-day collaborative art project that provides a range of art “triggers”. With an abundance of materials and your assistance, projects will miraculously grow in many spontaneous and layered configurations. Witness the mutation! Add to the conglomeration! An experimental project that embodies the kaleidoscopic way our world grows and changes.

FORMAT FESTIVAL OF SONG (FFoS) VOL. I “VALENTINE’S DAY”Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm

Mon Feb 14

Teen heart-throbs Mountbatten support the dulcet tones of former Lamplight frontman, former Gotye band-member and current Berlin resident Mijo Biscan. By the end of Biscan’s set, most audience members end up on stage.

CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENTFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm onwards

Mon 14 Feb toSun Feb 27

A solo dance performed to a ring tone composed by Alisdair Macindoe, the dancer carries their phone with them and whenever, wherever they are when it rings they perform the dance. Alison Currie will perform, as well as conduct a workshop to recruit performers from the general public. To set the dance off call 0431 236 108. Call the number to see the performance from the 14th of Feb to close of festival.

CREATE/CONSUMEJoel Parsons & James MoschouFormat Space Gallery Wardrobes, 6pm

Mon Feb 14Tues Feb 15

Draw and be drawn. Create/Consume explores, through digital media, the audience and author transaction and its ability to affect identity. It reflects both a power relationship; the unilateral flow of content from producer to consumer, and the individual’s ability to usurp this dichotomy by experiencing both roles.

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tues feb 15AN EVENING WITH HOME FOR THE DEATHNigel KoopFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Tues Feb 15

2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the formation of Home For The Def. Come celebrate this milestone (millstone?) of Adelaide music in style as Nigel pulls out all stops with a very special, not-to-be-missed, extravaganza show with music, videos, production values, reminiscing, special guests and more. An evening to remember.

SNOW GLOBELara Torr & Laura HaighFormat Space Gallery, 1pm onwards

Tues Feb 15

Everybody loves snow. Everybody loves holidays. Everybody loves hastily built giant snow globes. Come along for a temporary getaway inside a human sized globe. Souvenir snapshots will be taken and it will not be as tiring as a trip to the Ice Arena.

PRESSURELANDS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPAlysha HermannFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm & 5pm

Tues Feb 15

Part how to/part collaboration/part exploration, the PressureLands Interactive Workshop will explore the making of PressureLands, the themes of the project and where to from here. Pick the brains of the creative team and be part of this project with heart. Check out h t tp : / /pressure lands .wordpress .com for more background on the project.

PressureLands is a community arts performance project for young people in the Riverland.

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METALHEADcurated by Logan MacdonaldFormat Space Gallery, 6pm

Wed Feb 16Thurs Feb 17Fri Feb 18Sat Feb 19Sun Feb 20

Metalhead is an exhibition that looks at the growing relationship between heavy metal culture with its influences of the occult. Clearly a subculture that has steadily influenced the work of a recent generation of artists, this is an exploration of the ties that bind metalheads to art. Including work by James Dodd, James Marshall, Paul Sloan and curated by Logan Macdonald.

WEDNESDAY HUMP NIGHTFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Wed Feb 16

Forget the work-a-day rat race and let locals Ethics & Molars get you over the grump-hump, along with ex Darwin improv two-piece Celador (they just moved here, buy em a drink!). We’ve also secured a rare appearance by the evil grandfather of Adelaide Black metal, Osteoperosis.

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thurs feb 17PSYCHETRONICAFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Thurs Feb 17

Psychetronica Adelaide is one quarter of a worldwide group of experimental artists and musicians, alongside Tokyo, Osaka and London. Live art and music, DJs and VJs, installation pieces, custom-made instruments, smoke machines and speccy lighting schemes.

THE FIRST ANNUAL ANDREW POTTER MEMORIAL HANDBALL CLASSICFormat CollectiveOutside the Format Space

Heats Thurs Feb 17 2pm onwardsFinals Thurs Feb 24 4pm onwards

Held over two non-consecutive afternoons, this will almost certainly be the richest and most prestigious handball event to be held during this year’s Format Festival. As this guide goes to print, we’re not exactly sure how the tournament will be organised, whether it will involve doubles, foursquare, ins-and-outs or the cruel and archaic practise of “branding’’. Beyond doubt is the promise of sweat, shirtlessness and exquisitely dubious refereeing decisions.

THE VISIBILITY PROJECTLight Square, 8pm - 12am every night of the Adelaide Fringe

A series of original offerings by diverse South Australian artists – in, on and around shipping containers. Audiences will experience stacks of shipping containers become towering modern-day canvases with projected photography by aspiring artists from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and refugee communities, plus a series of shipping containers re-imagined by independent artists, including Alison Currie, Chloe Langford and The Format Collective.

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fri feb 18LIVE MUSIC EVENT FEATURING BARE GRILLZ (NSW), ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES (NSW), FKN TUTTS & SARAH CHADWICK.Brought to you by Asahi.Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Fri Feb 18

A “Live Music Event” featuring Bare Grillz (NSW), Alps of New South Wales (NSW), Fkn Tutts & Sarah Chadwick. Brought to you by Asahi.

THE FORMAT MURAL RE-PAINTKate GagliardiFormat Space Outside Wall,

Fri Feb 18, 12pm onwardsSat Feb 19, finishing in the morning.

Adelaide based visual artist Kate Gagliardi has been given free reign to paint the front wall of Format art space with an image of her choice. The mural’s progress will be on show as painting continues over the course of the festival. This will be the first of a series of mural projects that Street Dreams is bringing to Adelaide during 2011.

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sat feb 19GROUSCHKym BeggFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm & 2.45pm

Sat Feb 19

Grousch is an intellectual snowbear who is happiest when he can sit and read his Proust. However, hectic 21st century living has other plans.

A short self devised performance set on a large cube of ice and told with puppets (made from everyday objects) and saxophone.

STREET ART WALKING TOURStreet Dreams, Meet in the Format Zine Shop, 5pm, Sat Feb 19

Street art is everywhere but some of the best spots can be hard to find. Our guided tour of Adelaide street art takes in all the best nooks and crannies, alcoves and back alleys. With insights into the personalities behind the art and its rich history the street art tour is a great way for anyone to start discovering Adelaide’s street art.

DUMPSTER BIENNALEStreet DreamsMagazine, 6pm

Fri Feb 18 toMon Feb 21 (opening night Sat Feb 19)

30 Australian and international street artists have been invited to participate in this year’s exhibition of customised miniature wooden dumpsters. Ignored and abused, dumpsters are objects of the lowest value - but look again. Even a dumpster can be made unique and beautiful. Additional works will also be on display and all art works are for sale.

PIMP MY T-SHIRT PARTYStreet DreamsFormat Space, 8pm

Sat Feb 19

One rule: wear a plain T-shirt because it’s going to get tagged, stencilled, drawn on, spray-painted and generally destroyed as alcohol and aerosol are mixed together into one amazing party. Super fun DJs and live music (bands TBA).

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SINKRosita HolmesFormat Space Under-the-Stairs, 2-5pm

Sun Feb 20Mon Feb 21Tues Feb 22

“Sink,” 2011, plays with the notion of “sustainability.” Throughout this performative / sculptural exploration of the Murray/Darling region Holmes engages with processes of measuring and mapping in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to quantify the life and death of a river.

This series of assemblages and drawings are motivated by the relationship between people, surroundings and the nebulous energies that form between them.

OPEN AIR CINEMAStreet DreamsFormat Zine Store, 8pm

Sun Feb 20

Leaving Format at 8pm, our mobile projector unit will screen street art movies on a HUGE scale at our secret location in the city. Films to be screened include Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop and the 1983 classic, Style Wars.

sun feb 20FFoS Vol. II: “Sunday Picnic”Format Jillian McKeague Space, 5pm

Sun 20 Feb

Aluka (Melbourne) is a three-girl a cappella vocal group. Doesn’t really scream hipster cred, hey? Yet these girls, as Clare Bowditch’s backing singers, have been touring with Leonard Cohen, playing regularly to crowds of thousands. Their own compositions are honest and intriguing, with some of the most complex harmonies this side of Brian Wilson’s nightmares. This will be Aluka’s first Adelaide headline show. Soursop (Adelaide via Melbourne via Adelaide), on the other hand is a folksy singer/songwriter. But her music has a dark side, and some surprises.

STREET ART WORKSHOPSStreet DreamsFormat Jillian McKeague Space & Outside, 3-6pm

Sun Feb 20

Want to start making your own street art? Join our workshops to learn the tricks behind stencils, paste-ups and freehand aerosol from seasoned street artists. With only 30 places available they fill up pretty fast so make your booking quick info@streatdreams.com.au

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mon feb 2142aAlison CurrieFormat Space Gallery, 2-8pm

Mon Feb 21

42a is an interactive installation based performance that utilises elements of dance, sculpture, video and new media to explore concepts relating to house and home. 42a is durational, we invite you to stay as long as you like talk to the dancers, eat a biscuit and make yourself at home.

Developed by Alison Currie, Annemarie Kohn, Alisdair Macindoe, Kel Mocilnik and Adam Synnott. As well as numerous dancers, Carlie Angel will perform in this incarnation. Development funded by Arts SA and The Australia Council for the Arts.

THE EMMA, NICK AND CHRISTOPHER SHOWFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 6pm

Mon Feb 21

Like Christopher in 2010, Emma Uber will show her work (oil painting) for the first time and is doing it at the Format Festival. Also Christopher (who takes photos) and Nick (who does things with paper) will desperately try to not let her show them up.

THE MARTYRDOM OF EMILY WILDING DAVISONRishin Singh, Sam Pettigrew & Megan Garrett-JonesFormat Jillian McKeague Space

Mon Feb 21 2pmTues Feb 22 two shows from 2pm (40 min show)

Emily Davison was a UK suffragette, martyred when she was trampled to death by the King’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby. Militant suffragette, avid swimmer and arsonist extraordinaire, she inspires this unique amalgamation of improvised sound, virtuosic musicianship and contemporary performance, courtesy of an innovative Sydney-based ensemble. Do not miss this.

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tues feb 22ALTERED BOOKSBecci LoveThe Reading Room, 6pm

Tues Feb 22 onwards

Taking inspiration from the reading room’s library, Altered Books is an exhibition of books from personal collections, handmade books, and secondhand books which have been repurposed into new artforms. Sculpture, printmaking, photography, collage, painting and illustration by local and international artists including Sebastien Calabretto, Marlaina Read, Jake One, Meg Cowell, Katherine Coppock, Dan Cadwallader.

CHINESE NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONSPIRACY IN ADELAIDEChinese ArtistsFormat Space Gallery, 6pm

Tues Feb 22Wed Feb 23

Chinese Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy in Adelaide is a video installation which features a double agent who works for the Australian Boy Scouts and reveals a Communist plot to build a weapon of mass destruction. Since the work involves sensitive political issues, half of the participating artists are pseudonymous. Artists include Fey, Kenny, Tin 13, Michael Retter, Stefan Maguran, and Lionel T.C. Chiou.

ROCK INSTEADFODDRobin Tetlow-LordFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Tues Feb 22

If you spent the best part of high school copying dance steps off the more co-ordinated students in the front row, wearing a ‘costume’ comprised of lycra, sequins and cardboard, then this is the 100% s h a m e - a n d - p e r f e c t i o n i s m - f r e e event for you! Cheer on our brave amateur dancers or better still, register a team (rockinsteadd@gmail.com or ‘Rock Insteaddfod Challenge’ on Facebook) and get onstage! To register your interest, send an email to rockinsteadd@gmail.com and we will send you further information, including team registration forms.

Participant info session:Late January, date TBARegistration cut-off date: 5pm, Friday February 11Dress Rehearsal / run-through: Date TBAPerformance date: 8pm, Tuesday February 22

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wed feb 23WORLD FAMOUS GHETTO BURGERTristan KerrMagazine, 6-9pm

Wed Feb 23 toSun Feb 27

A satirical visual tale of a Burger Restaurant captured through the Hand Screen-Printed Art of Tristan Kerr. The exhibition will feature Art prints, T-shirts, Skateboards and painting on timber. This is the first solo exhibition from his current work in Switzerland.

HACKERSPACESteven PicklesFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 12-9.30pm

Wed Feb 23

We, Hackerspace will emerge from the basement of Format to inflict strange and profound awesomeness upon you, the ill-prepared public. Experience our higher-res, vastly cheaper, and far superior version of the Rundle Street Lantern, a mind controlled air cannon, friendly Skype robots, and a shockingly realistic virtual fighting tournament.

* may include flashing lights, disturbing sounds and amusing injuries.

“A visitoooor! Stay a while, stay foooooorrreevooooooorrrrr!!”

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thurs feb 24RADICAL CRAFTERNOON – FORMAT EDITIONGemma SneddonFormat Space Gallery, 1pm onwards

Thurs Feb 24

Come one, come all - Radical Craft Adelaide will be taking over Format for a day of knitting, stitching and plotting...Creative folks are invited to partake in the shady end of crafting - knitted graffiti, cross-stitched profanity and crocheted zombies. There will be subversive crafty kits, there will be expert tuition for beginners; there will be stitching, bitching and cake.

Radical Craft Crew: Crafty and Devious, the Handmade Maiden, Lady of the Knit, the Officer for Social Knitworking, Clothes by Salome and General Sew-it-all.

FFoS VOL. III: “PARTY”Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm

Thurs 24 Feb

Tash Parker is a Melbourne folkster with a delicate and engrossing voice, weaving engaging stories through lilting melodies. She has just come back from Europe and is recording with Machine Translations genius J Walker. On the other hand, Ainslie Wills is a little bit rock. Bizarre alien harmonies and complex beats are wrapped around folk melodies sung with an incredibly forceful voice. Wills is an underground superstar in Melbourne - her half-hour set filled the Melodica Festival with people who came from nowhere and evaporated immediately into the dust her voice left behind. Not to be missed.

INFUSERTristan Louth-RobinsFormat Zine Shop, 1pm onwards

Thurs Feb 24Fri Feb 25Sat Feb 26

Infuser is a sound installation for several teapots with loudspeakers (in place of the teapot’s lid) broadcasting sound into the teapot’s chamber. The broadcasted sound is a recording of each teapot’s unique resonant frequency which has been produced from studio recordings of the teapots prior to installation. The intention of the work is to emphasise the unique acoustic properties of an everyday domestic (and in given contexts, ceremonial) object.

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fri feb 25THE DENVanessa Berry & Clara TzaraFormat Space Gallery, 4-7pm

Fri Feb 25

Step through the bead curtain into The Den – an installation inspired by the best and worst of 1970s home decorating books. Spend an afternoon creating stories and collages, lounging, and eating canapes with zine experts Vanessa Berry and Clara Tzara. Please bring scissors, gluestick, pen and paper. Polyester clothing optional.

HIPSTER GHETTO (in 2D)Format Space Gallery, 6pm

Fri Feb 25

Every week an amorphous gaggle of contributors and one befuddled editor throw together an electronic issue of FiveThousand (www.fivethousand.com.au). This includes a cover shot; an image that sets the tone of the issue taken on iPhones by kids, old film point-and-shoots by hipster geniuses, and mums and dads. ‘Hipster Ghetto’ is an exhibition of some of these folks’ photographs. Also features esoteric Melburnian noise courtesy of onion (Adelaide ex-pat Lara Soulio), Mitchell Brennan and Fjorn Butler.

HIPSTER GATEAUXFormat Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm

Fri Feb 25

Ripper line-up, featuring super-happy-fun Garage-Pop superstars Super Wild Horses (Melbourne), summertime dumb punk from Deep Feelings and High Priest bringing the cosmic dream-pop. Shit, dude.

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sat feb 26FORMAT FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT PARTYFormat CollectiveFormat Space, 9pmBrought to you by Asahi.

Sat Feb 26

Dry those tears babies! Like Leaves, Collarbones (Adel/NSW), Per Purpose (Brisbane - 7” launch), and Melbourne’s Church of Hysteria will kiss everything better. Stick around afterwards for the sweaty, sticky, filthy, altogether unseemly GENIUS that is Format Festival’s resident DJ and sexual pioneer, DJ Sex Pest.

5th ANNUAL ADELAIDE ZINE & DIY FAIRFormat CollectiveFormat Space, 12-5pm

Sat Feb 26

It’s back for another year, with zine heavyweights (in output, not cellulite) Sticky, Bastian Fox Phelan, Vanessa Berry, Laura Wills, Elouise Quinlivan, and Lisa Dempster heading the charge to bring DIY publishing to the people. There will be zines galore! Come one, come all to Format’s most enduring and best-loved event.

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sun feb 27FEFF: FORMAT EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVALFormat Space Gallery & Basement, 6pm

Sun Feb 27

The Format Experimental Film Festival is a collection of some of Adelaide’s finest emerging video and multimedia artists.

Featuring moving image works in a range of mediums and themes that embrace installation, interaction, collaboration, animated painting and performance in the revolutionary works of Celeste Aldahn, Henry Jock Walker, Sam Songailo, Jimmy McGilchrist, Brad Lay, Amira.H, Karen Paris, Ray Harris, S. Wilson and more.

Exhibition opening on February 27th at 6pm. Continues until March 6th, at Format 15 Peel St. Adelaide.

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FORMAT ACADEMY OF WORDSFormat Space, 11am-5pm

The word ‘activism’ is loaded with all sorts of smelly, unkempt insinuations,

but the idea of being active on behalf of literature is an altogether more

soothing, reasonable idea. Think literary ‘advocacy’ if it makes you feel

better – or ‘lobbying’, or ‘literary agency’ … now it’s just getting confusing.

All of today’s events are focussed on the idea that the publishing industry

is changing apace and we are at the coalface. That rhymes! Among the

independent, underground, emerging, alternative, innovative writing

communities in Australia, there is a lot of dissent being whispered to friends

and friends of friends, but not so much in the way of practical ideas about

how to guide these rapids of change in the direction of a more democratic,

representative, diverse and accessible market for writing, reading and the

dissemination of ideas.

That’s what Format Festival’s Academy of Words is all about in 2011. A

one-day shit-fight about the things we want to see start to happen in the

publishing industry. People will argue. People will cry and laugh. Rigorous

discussion: 1. Self-congratulatory celebrity fandom: 0.

Ryan Paine, FAoW Director

sun feb 27

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sun feb 2710am–11pmPANEL“How to Sell Out Without Losing Your Cred”with Lisa Dempster

Moving copies doesn’t mean you’ve caught the mainstream. Emerging publishing technology means it is becoming easier to access niche, subcultural markets beyond your immediate circle of friends – meaning you can have a satisfying body of readers without compromising the integrity of your soul. Meet some people who are doing this with panache.

11am–12pmROUNDTABLE“I Write, Therefore I am a …”with YOU

Roundtable about what it means to be a writer, people’s experiences of realising they were a writer, and how to build that realisation into a practice of actually producing quality content, consistently.

12pm–1pmPANEL“Honk if You’re the Publishing Industry”with Shane Jess Christmas

Online digital technology is reducing the barriers of access to

the market for emerging, niche authors and publishers. Individuals are making livings out of publishing their own eBooks, and selling them online. Discussion is rife about how this democratisation of literature production is a boon for the freedom of expression, but what does it mean for the production of literature itself?

1pm–2pmPOETRY WORKSHOP“Trans Anatomy Thesis – To Spit Or Swallow?”with Teri Louise Kelly and Jenny Toune

A 40-minute trip into the world of performance (word) art, including movement techniques (image), content and just how far the boundaries of this ‘flavour-of-the-moment’ hybrid genre can be forced in a society where conservatism appears to reign supreme. This is a non-sterile environment, which will more than likely contain expletives and occassional lewd behaviour cunningly disguisedas ‘art’.

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2pm–3pmPANEL“Will Write for Food”with Greg Foyster

The remuneration models of the publishing and media industries are all fucked up. Writers, the primary producers in the sector, are the least well paid. Emerging writers get paid nothing, and innovative writers get even nothinger. Do these low pay rates and declining profits in the publishing industry represent a kind of market failure?

3pm–4pmPANEL“Activism Smells“with Ryan Paine

Mainstream literature is dominated by the middle-aged and the middle-

class, and the underground by … well, us. This great divide is bridged by a Wikipedia stub about ‘literary activism’, but that’s about it. A panel about being active on behalf of literature.

4pm–5pmROUNDTABLE“Where Can We Go From Here?” with YOU

The future of literature is in your hands – in the magazines, literary gigs and companies you start. Join these emerging industry figures to discuss starting, establishing and sustaining the projects you have been inspired to start throughout the day, or were already cooking up.

5.00–forever, and ever...A Novelty – literary treasure huntDoo do doo do …

sun feb 27

Updates, panellist bookings and other organic details will be released through Socratic Ignorance is Bliss (www.ryan-paine.com)

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Now you can support Format through Pozible! (or: we need all yr moneyz plz)

How does Pozible work?Pozible provides project creators with a platform to present their ideas to a worldwide audience. If anyone likes the idea, they can support it by pledging money to the creator’s project. In return for support, the project creators will offer rewards depending on the level of funding; essentially differentiating itself from the normal funding process.

From early February, go to www.pozible.com.au and click on the Format link in Featured Projects. You can donate whatever amount of money you like after signing up to the site. We will offer rewards to the more gregarious philanthropist. The funding will go to our rent and some maintenance of the venue. Format has always been a volunteer-run, lols-based project, so we very much appreciate your support.

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Coordinated by Dr. Ianto Warefree to attend

A two day forum on cities, self-organising communities, governance, innovation, arts and creative industries, post-globalised culture and drunken anarchists who work for federal government organisations, with: John McTernan, Ben Eltham, Fee Plumley, Marcus Westbury, Cassandra Tombs, Gavin Artz, John Wardle, Stephen Yarwood and more to be announced.

Feb 19th at AC Arts (Cnr Currie and Morphett Streets):

Panel One, 12PM: Good Ideas and Globalisation: Social Innovators, Creative Industries and Everyone Else Trying To Figure Out What’s Going To Happen Over the Next Twenty Years

Panel Two 2PM: Cities as the Source of Good Ideas: Why It Happens, How It Happens and What Stops It Happening

Feb 20th at Tuxedo Cat (Electra House, 131 King William Street):

Workshops 12-5PM: Please RSVP to attend (although if you just turn up, it’ll probably be okay).

For more info visit:renewadelaide.wordpress.comor email:info@renewadelaide.com.au

Supported by Arts SA, Bridge 8 and Adelaide Thinkers in Residence

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We’re pumped about the nice people at The Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF) supporting The Format Experimental Film Festival (FEFF). Here’s four of our picks from other events in their stellar 2011 program:

ReKindling Venus: In Plain SightLynette Wallworth’s augmented reality trans-media project, accessed via the free JUNAIO app from 24 February.

TractionTwenty of the best visually progressive music videos from 2010.

Metropolis (2010 Restoration) with live score from The New PollutantsFritz Lang’s visionary sci-fi masterpiece with the Pollutants’ Germanic Trip-Hop and Lo-Fi Electronica accompaniment.

Douglas TrumbullThe man behind the visual effects in films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner will be a special guest of the Festival.

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