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ausculture newsletter November 2005

Welcome to Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal Newsletter for November 2005.

The Ausculture newsletter has been quiet in recent months, while a new team has settled in to manage the Culture and Recreation Portal. We expect this edition to be the last in this format. Future editions of the newsletter will be in full html - please let us know if this will present a problem for you, by emailing <editor@cultureandrecreation.gov.au>.

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Lest we forget

After recovering from the Melbourne Cup it's time to start thinking of Remembrance Day this Friday, along with the other anniversaries of 11 November. Remembrance Day originally commemorated the end of the hostilities of World War I, expanding to include all war dead after World War II. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month a minute's silence is observed to remember those who died or suffered.

Remembrance Day is also the 125th anniversary of the hanging of Ned Kelly (10am), and the 30th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government (12pm).

Remembrance Day, Ned Kelly, and the Angry Penguins are the featured stories on the front page of the Culture and Recreation Portal this week. It's 65 years this year since the Angry Penguins literary magazine was first published, helping launch 'a noisy and aggressive... modernism' of language and painting in Australia.

Find these stories at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au. For more Australian Stories see http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/stories/

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News

Snippets from our regularly updated News pages for October and November 2005 http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/

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Dust Echoes to air on ABC2 digital in Summer Season

Dust Echoes is a collaboration between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Deakin University, the Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation and the Beswick and Warmun communities of five Indigenous dreaming stories. The website includes the playable stories, songs, lesson plans and other interactive activities.

http://www.abc.net.au/message/dustechoes/
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Visual Arts/Craft and New Media Boards amalgamate

The Australia Council's Visual Arts/Crafts Board and New Media Arts Board have amalgamated to become simply the Visual Arts Board. The Visual Arts Board covers craft, new media, painting, design, sculpture, photography and all other visual art forms.

http://www.ozco.gov.au/news_and_hot_topics/news/the_visual_arts_board_is_born/
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New Travel Grant for Digital Media Sector practitioners

The Australian Film Commission announced a new Travel Grant program for the digital sector on 12 October. The grant will provide support for practitioners to attend key international workshops, forums, conferences, festivals, events and financing markets regarding digital screen content.

http://www.afc.gov.au/newsandevents/mediarelease/2005/release_417.aspx
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University of Western Sydney (UWS) creates Australia's first professional doctorate in cultural research

The Centre for Cultural Research at UWS is offering a new professional doctorate in cultural research aimed at professionals in government, business and community sectors who want to explore how culture shapes and transforms contemporary societies.

http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=3781
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Garma Festival wins Skal International Ecotourism Award

Garma is a five-day festival of entertainment, education and cultural interaction, providing a cultural tourism and learning experience in the Northern Territory, about Indigenous issues. The eighth Garma festival will be held on August 4-8, 2006. The Skal award was announced in Zagreb, Croatia, on 17 October. Skal is the largest organisation of travel and tourism professionals in the world, with 22,000 members operating in 87 countries.

http://www.garma.telstra.com/
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Potters called on to help save marine wildlife

A competition to design a Snapper Plate to help improve the management of marine wildlife was launched on 26 October. Snapper is currently being fished and eaten at too young an age for the species to sustain itself. The Make Mine 35cm Snapper Plate Design Competition asks ceramics and design students to design a novelty plate to encourage consumers to think about the fish they eat. The competition closes on 1 February 2006.

http://www.nccnsw.org.au/water/projects/FisheriesManagement/spdc.html
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"Football Anytime"

John O'Neill of the Football Federation of Australia and Sports Minister Rod Kemp launched a new sports program on 18 October, designed to foster interest in soccer outside the normal environment of structured matches and competitions. Telstra Football Anytime comprises six hour-long sessions, run over six weeks. The enrolment fee is $60 and players get a soccer ball, drink bottle, witches hats to use as goals and a kitbag as part of the deal.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/public/article/show.asp?articleid=9668
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For further details of these and other Australian cultural and recreational news items visit our regularly updated News pages at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/.

The news pages are updated weekly.
They cover
-Awards and Announcements (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/awardsandannouncements.htm)

-Conferences and Competitions (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/conferencesandcompetitions.htm)

-Design (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/design.htm)

-Digital Media (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/digitalmedia.htm)

-Exhibitions and Events (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/exhibitionsandevents.htm)

-Festivals (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/festivals.htm)

-Sports and Recreation (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/sportandrecreation.htm), and

-Websites (http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/websites.htm).