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Benefit night for Civil Rights Defence

Don't veg out in front of the telly on Friday night (28th April). Stop yelling at those buffoon inflatables ­ John Howard, Downer, Ruddock, W. Bush, Rumsfeld etc - rising ever higher on the hot air they blow out of their arses into our faces. Let's get rid of the stink with satire, song, performance, wine and food. We've got a lot more to say than slogans and political rhetoric. Our solidarity means more than simply raising our fists. Keep our political imaginations alive and kicking. Refresh! Revive! Stay alive!

There are any number of performers, singers, writers, musicians who are all doing just that. Come down to Theatreworks and see. This is what you'll be in for:

• Will everyone please be upstanding for Bo's version of the National Anthem
• Joel Ma - hip-hop poet, singer, improviser, and member of TZU: 'Words are my act of sedition.'
• Kathleen Mary Fallon - 'The story of Mamdouh Habib'
  (What happened was this.)
• Kate Slaney - singing with her jazz group ViciousSoir
  ' Happy Like You' and 'Fools'
• James Adler - 'An Actor Prepares' (a work in-progress) with music composed and performed by Nela Trifkovic.
  (When you believe in the world around you but then have the ugly side of humanity exposed over and over again there comes a point when you can see only hate, violence and greed. What then? The final confession of a peace activist turned suicide bomber...)

INTERVAL

• Two short poems from Jennifer Maiden's Friendly Fire - 'Together we will a cheese achieve' and 'Costume Jewellery'­ read by Marion May Campbell
• Liban Dahir ­ 'Connex vs Liban Dahir'
  Mr Dahir then said, 'This is your homework. You must learn to name the beast.'
• Kathleen Mary Fallon ­ 'Credibility Gulf 1'­ a short poem
• Briony Galligan - 'Whitefella Wet Dreaming'
  (Childhood memories made up of whitefella versions of Dreamtime stories have shaped my interactions with Aboriginal Australia. Whitefella Wet Dreaming is an interrogation of whiteness, gender and interracial sexuality.)
• Marion May Campbell's - 'Doorbitch' (with Alison Bicknell as Doorbitch, Liban Dahir as Paul and Bernard Glass as the DJ)
  'We will say who comes, who goes
  Who's in, who's out
  Whose irisprint, whose fingerprint will pass
  Whose face gets in this place'
• Stephen Taberner (of Spookigrad fame) and the acappella group of Revolutionary Cadres (The Revolutionary Cadres group came out of the Azadi Concert at the Hamer Hall last year.)
• Dance on to a yet-to-be-announced dance band until we're kicked out.

Where: Theatreworks, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

When: Friday 28th April, 8:00pm onwards

Cost: $10:00

Ticketing: webtickets.com.au or at the door

There'll be food and drink available.

And don't forget the solidarity bus ride to Barwon

(Download this flyer, PDF 430KB)