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ausculture newsletter January 2003

Welcome to Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal Newsletter for January 2003

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Happy new year to all and we hope that 2003 brings you all the very best.

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Snippets from our What's New page for January 2003
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/

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Rarely Everage
Come and see the Rarely Everage: The Lives of Barry Humphries exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory showing until 16 February 2003. This magnificent exhibition looks at his many lives - as writer, comedian, artist, actor, entertainer, social provocateur and celebrity and features photographs, books, manuscripts, dresses and fashion accessories and much, much more.

Rarely Everage: The Lives of Barry Humphries is a National Portrait Gallery exhibition produced in collaboration with the Performing Arts Museum of the Victorian Arts Centre. Have a sneak preview at the National Portrait Gallery website. Also, have a look at the National Portrait Gallery's Everage portrait feature.

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What's on at Old Parliament House
The Playing Politics: the cartoons of Pickering & Pryor exhibition is on from 12 December 2002 until 31 August 2003. Insightful and irreverent, this exhibition features the work of two of Australia's most successful political cartoonists, Geoff Pryor and Larry Pickering. It's also the House's 75th anniversary this year and In the picture - an exhibition of personal images at the House celebrates 75 years of memories and is on show until 1 June 2003. This exhibition is an unofficial history of Old Parliament House revealing different perspectives that people have of the building and its impact on their lives.

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Perth International Arts Festival
The Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) is Australia's oldest and largest multi-arts festival and the only statewide multi-arts festival in the country and it is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2003. Held from 16 January through to 16 February 2003, the PIAF program is jam-packed featuring nine festivals including: The Mandurah International Opera Festival; The Fremantle International Jazz Festival; The CY O'Connor Bush Fleadh; The Perth International Writers Festival; and The Johnnie Walker Watershed - Perth's Contemporary Music Festival.

Other events on the calendar are the Perth Visual Arts Festival, The Celestial City, the Western Australian Indigenous Arts Showcase, the Perth International Chamber Music Festival, some regional festivals not forgetting the WA Fringe Festival and the usual smattering of theatre, classical music, dance and free events.

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Getting it Right - Guidelines for Selection
The Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, has recently launched Getting it Right - Guidelines for Selection, an important new resource to help sporting organisations be fair and consistent in team selections. Senator Kemp said that incidents in the lead up to Sydney 2000 Olympics showed a need for clarity and consistency in the selection process for sports teams at all levels.

The publication is another of the Australian Sports Commission's initiatives towards strengthening Australia's national sports system in line with the Federal Government's sports policy, Backing Australia's Sporting Ability - A More Active Australia. The Getting it Right guidelines is a collaboration between the Australian Sports Commission and NZSLA, the sports law association in Australia and New Zealand.

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For further details of these and other Australian cultural and recreational news items visit our regularly updated What's New page at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/.

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is an Australian landmark and when people think of Sydney, the Bridge is one of the first images that springs to mind. Our article on the Sydney Harbour Bridge at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/harbourbridge/ looks at the Bridge's colourful past, giving an insight to its history.

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The next OZeCulture conference will be held in Brisbane on 29 - 31 July 2003. The conference provides opportunities for the cultural sector to network and develop expertise and awareness about online issues. A call for papers will be posted to http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/conference/ very soon. Book this conference into your diaries now and come and visit us at the portal for more information.
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