THIS IS NOT ART 08 - WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

This Is Not Art is a supercharged convergence of writers, electronic artists, independent music makers, creative researchers and DIY culture makers from across Australia. Four unique festivals invite you to run away from home and join in on a FREE program of panel discussions and artist presentations, hands-on workshops, interactive exhibitions and other special events. Plus gigs, performances, a market day and four nights of surprises at your new-favourite-local, the This Is Not Art Festival Club. Pawn your rings and hitch a ride – come make some noise about the best ideas you've had this year.

Electrofringe

Farewell your old frequency response this October as Australia's largest festival of electronic arts bursts through the cracks of Newcastle once more. Electrofringe 2008 features solar-powered, rocket-powered and empowering workshops plus gigs, screenings, performance, public intervention and works from over 100 emerging and established artists. International guests include Maruosa, Domenico Sciajno, xtine and The League of Imaginary Scientists. Expand your neural pathways, recycle the manual and step off the grid!

National Young Writers' Festival

The National Young Writers' Festival turns 10! Join Australia's most challenging writers, publishers, performers and trouble-makers to celebrate a decade's worth of creative collaborations, fiery debates and literary mashups. Highlights for 2008 include a bevy of super special guests, the launch of our amazing 10th anniversary anthology, and the debut of Australia's first ever indy experimental theatre and performance-art festival.

Sound Summit

A festival that exists to support independent artists, labels and industry creatives, Sound Summit scales the peaks of innovative electronic and hip hop music, and seeks out all the underground trails in between. Sound Summit 2008 will focus on where that innovation is headed and how it’s going to get there, through a series of discussion panels, master classes and performances from some of the most exciting music makers in the world today.

Critical Animals

More brain exercise than sudoku! Come join this creative research symposium, featuring students and researchers who are critically engaged in experimental art theories and practices. Artists, writers, thinkers, performers and radical part-time-philosophers talk across the landscape of academia, poetics and aesthetics. Featuring panels, discussions, papers, performances, installations and readings.

 

Join thousands of the nation's most creatively adventurous to connect, collaborate and celebrate at Australia's national independent, emerging & experimental arts festival.

Full program online early August - subscribe to the This Is Not Art e-newsletter for announcements and updates on the festival.

Download our Running_away_from_home Teaser Postcard here (1MB PDF). Look out for it in all your favourite record shops, cafes, boutiques, ARI's, arts orgs & youth centres, and at uni or TAFE. If your favourite place doesn't have any and you think its the kind of place that should, send the address deets to tina.publicity[at]gmail.com and we'll do our best to get some posted!