Articles tagged ‘Culture’.

Carlos Fuentes dies
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The Guardian Carlos Fuentes, Mexico‘s most celebrated novelist and a leading figure in Latin America’s 20th century literary boom of the ...
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Active listening and field recording workshop
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Simon Whetham is a sound artist from the UK who will be holding an Active Listening and Field Recording Workshop on Sunday 20 May, 2-6pm. It will ...
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Slam Champion Poetry Workshop and Performance
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Luka Lesson won the first round of the Australian Poetry Slam at The Maurocco Bar, Castlemaine, in October last year, and went on to become the Austra...
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Psychology Club launch this weekend – all welcome
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A new club for men and women over 18 is about to be established to expand the thinking and understanding of the mind and for all those with an interes...
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The medium is the message
Dear CI, A few years ago I read an editorial in the Bendigo Addy which told me – the presumed uninformed reader – that “the medium i...
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The wasp treatment
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The Age recently reported that a British doctor, suspended in the United Kingdom after reports that she tried to buy black widow spider and deathstalk...
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Community Wind Survey – ONLINE NOW – win a prize!
One of the community-owned turbines at the Hepburn community wind farm
What do you think of a community owned wind farm in the Mount Alexander area? Online survey NOW open. This important survey is an opportunity to have ...
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Très saucy Chewton pool fundraiser
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WITH TRACEY CANDY AND STAN MUNRO CONCERT TRES SAUCY A super special fund-raiser in Chewton, starring STAN MUNRO and TRACEY CANDY. Friday, 1 June, 7.30...
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Six months, and days to go, but who’s counting? Seminar to consider end of world prophecy
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Filled your cellar with canned food? We are nearly half way through 2012 and on December 21 a cataclysmic event is supposed to occur which, according ...
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Vampires give teenagers taste for spirituality
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Teenagers are not looking for answers to life’s big questions in established religious institutions. Instead, they engage in intense idolisation...
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Castlemaine rail museum idea wins support
The Victorian government will consider a bid to bring a railway museum to Castlemaine. Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer addressed a Bendigo Yo...
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Dance against want
Beat the winter blues by bush-dancing. Pic: Heather Barrett
The Castlemaine Oxfam Group is holding a Bushdance on Saturday, 2 June in the Castlemaine Town Hall, from 6-10pm, to raise money for Oxfam. The Cente...
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Happy Volunteer Week!
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Join with the Mount Alexander Volunteer Network on Tuesday 15 May for a delicious two-course meal at the Castlemaine Town Hall and receive a compleme...
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Priests
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky I’m not a Christian and I don’t believe in ‘God’. I’ve had little contact with organised religion. I know nothing...
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Design Sunday: up-cycling plastic bottles
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By Tim Preston Taylor McKenzie-Veal’s upcycled piggy bank: “This Little Piggy.” Taylor has taken an industrial process and knowledge...
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Community wind power forums well attended
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Wednesday night’s Community Wind Forum in Castlemaine Town Hall marked the last of six held across Mount Alexander Shire in the past three weeks...
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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
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By Chris McGreal May 06, 2012 “The Guardian” – - A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has c...
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Come along to FreeZA’s Youth Dance Party
Get your dance shoes on and get ready to party at Castlemaine FReeZA’s GLO IN THE DARK DANCE PARTY on Friday 25 May 2012 from 7pm – 11pm.  It wil...
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Dirt!
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During compost week get into this inspiring film, DIRT.   DIRT! The Movie, tells the amazing and little known story of the relationship between ...
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It’s a wonderful life with Rebecca Morton
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“C’est Si Bon is a show you will love and think about after the last lights have gone out” – Castlemaine Independent Cabaret chanteuse, Rebecc...
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Masked art activists Guerrilla Girls to run VCA workshops
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Victorian College of the Arts students will receive a crash course in how art can be used as a tool of protest and as a catalyst for social change, by...
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Our bloated cult of efficiency
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Writing in The Conversation Anthony James, Lecturer with the National Centre for Sustainability at Swinburne University of Technology asks whether i...
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Let’s chat about death
The cast of “The Empty Chair” (Rear L-R) Paul English, Michelle Hall (Front L-R) Margot Knight, Alan Hopgood
Who wants to talk about death and dying? That is just what the Castlemaine Health and Maldon Hospital Palliative Care Special Interest Group is inviti...
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Gambling club supporting itself?
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The new Castlemaine citizens’ club formed to support the Maryborough Highland Society’s proposal for their Castlemaine Sports and Communit...
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This month at CASPA
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Disposaphobia: A Detritus Narrative Bridget Keena Opening Friday 4 May 6pm until Friday 25 May A multimedia installation consisting of video, sculptur...
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Advertise on Castlemaine Independent
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Unfortunately, violence sells
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Thanks Rosemary for your article. As a teacher and parent I too am concerned about media popularising violence especially in young people who have not...
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Paul Kelly plays Castlemaine in May
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There are 50 tickets remaining for Paul Kelly’s show at Theatre Royal on Tuesday May 29. There will not be any further release of tickets in the...
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Sunday meditation: Hunger Games and Kony – the irony
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By Rosemary McKenry A 13-year-old girl, Ruby, puts up two ‘likes’ on her Facebook page. ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Kony 2012.’ Her friends do...
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Let’s get Sassy: not another soldier for the colonies!
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Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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