Jason Derulo Tatoos Tour Sydney

Australian songstress RICKI-LEE is thrilled to be joining superstar JASON DERULO when he returns down under for his ‘Tattoos’ national tour kicking off in less than two weeks time.

Talented pop star JASON DERULO, makes his triumphant return to Australia for a national tour starting April and ending in May 2014. Derulo will perform at the QANTAS Credit Union Arena on May 5.

‘Tattoos’, the album celebrates one of pop’s thrilling comeback stories. ‘Tattoos’ is lead by the double-platinum smash ‘The Other Side’, whose official video has already notched more than 28 million YouTube views, and current top five hit ‘Talk Dirty’ which debuted at #1 on the ARIA singles chart and #2 on the Australian Airplay chart.

Armed with numerous multi-platinum hits, incredible dance moves and great vocal ability, Jason wowed audiences during his 2009 sold-out Australian tour and was set to conquer again with his Future History World Tour in 2012, before a serious accident during tour rehearsals lead to the cancellation of the tour.

Despite his forced hiatus during 2012, the 2011 Pop Songwriter of the Year has amassed impressive sales of more than 15 million tracks in the US and 25 million worldwide, including massive top 10 hits: ‘Whatcha Say’, ‘In My Head’ and ‘Ridin’ Solo’ from his ARIA #4 self-titled debut album plus ‘Don’t Wanna Go Home’, ‘It Girl’, ‘Breathing’ and ‘Fight for You’ from the top 10 album ‘Future History’.

Jason Derulo is back at the top of his game, with an incredible new album, new hit singles and an insatiable desire to thrill his fans with a memorable live show.  He is excited and looking forward to an unbelievable touring experience with his great Australian fans.

DATES/TIME

Mon 05 May 2014

Ticketed Start 7:30pm
Support Act: 7:30pm-7:45pm Fresh
Interval: 7:45pm-7:55pm
Support Act: 7:55pm-8:35pm Ricki Lee & Titanium
Interval: 8:35pm-9:05pm    
Main Act: 9:05pm-10:20pm JASON DERULO
Finish: 10:20pm

Find out more on the Qantas Credit Union Arena Official Website

Writers Coming to Shire - Sydney Writers' Festival 2014

THE Sydney Writers' Festival is bringing its popular School Days program for the first time to Sutherland Shire next month.

The School Days program is a celebration of literature for young adults and gives secondary school students in the shire a chance to meet their favourite authors and discover new voices.

The line-up includes 24-year-old novelist Will Kostakis, author of Loathing Lola and winner of the Sydney Morning Herald's young writer of the year award in 2005.

Joining him will be Fiona Wood, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the 2011 CBCA book of the year for older readers. She was also a screenwriter for TV programs The Secret Life of Us, Neighbours and Home and Away. Author, Olympic swimmer and TV presenter Lisa Forrest will talk about her latest novel, Inheritance.

David Stavanger, also known as Ghostboy, is considered one of Australian's best spoken word artists for young people.

The authors will read from their own work, talk about the craft of writing and take questions from the audience.

Event details: 9.30am to 2.30pm, May 21, Sutherland Entertainment Centre; tickets: $25; bookings: 9250 1778.

MARCH 2014 Live Entertainment Lineup @ The Square - Palace Hotel Sydney

SATURDAY 15 March

• SCHOOL GIRL REPORT

Plus:

• Black Vanilla

• Lovely Head

• Ruined Fortune

• Thomas William

• Circular Keys

• Day Ravies

• Rainbow Chan

FRIDAY 21 March

• ROKU

Plus:

• Broadcasting Transmitter

• Narrow Lands

• Yes I'm Leaving

SATURDAY 22 March

• LEGIONS

Plus:

• Hurt x Unit

• Ether Rag 

• Vile Ways 

• Controlled

FRIDAY 28 March

• IVAN DRAGO

Plus:

• Take Your Own

• Kang! 

• Handball Deathmatch 

• Josh Arentz

SATURDAY 29 March

• SHITRIPPER

Plus:

• Disintegrator

• Atomic Death Squad

• Disparo

• Death Cage

Feed your ears and then grab a beer at Palace Hotel pub upstairs!

Location: 730-742 George Street, Haymarket NSW 2000 (Corner of George & Hay Streets)

Located underground at the Palace Hotel, this live music and performance venue with a capacity for around 200 people already has attracted a strong lineup of the best Indie Rock and Punk bands from Australia and overseas.

Mardi Gras Sydney: Delta Goodrem Brings Teeth to Mardi Gras

Delta Goodrem's bright white smile will be working overtime at this weekend's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras when she performs as the new ambassador for a tooth-whitening product.
Goodrem will perform as toothpaste brand Oral Bs new ambassador at the event on Saturday night, it was announced on Monday.

"Smiles are infectious, they bring out confidence and powerful connections between people, so I'm delighted to be involved in this years Mardi Gras Parade and to be partnering with such an incredible brand," Goodrem gushed.

The Voice Kids judge will perform mid-parade on the Oral-B float.

The tooth whitener is the official sponsor of Mardi Gras photographers.

Sydney's Mardi Gras is celebrating 35 years of gay pride. This year's gay parade and festival will take the theme Generations of Love, a reference to the first Mardi Gras march in Sydney in 1978 and the ongoing struggle for equality.

Perth To Go Gaga

It is shaping up as the biggest year of live music in Perth's history.

Following tour announcements already this week from Kanye West and Robbie Williams, Lady Gaga has revealed she will head Down Under in August with her artRAVE, The ARTPOP Ball tour.

The eccentric pop star, right, will open the Australian leg of the tour at Perth Arena on August 20.

Gaga's die-hard fans, known as Little Monsters, have the chance to get up close and personal with the Bad Romance singer if they are willing to spend big.

For $1499, fans can sit inside an on-stage viewing area, known as the ARTPOP Zone, and then have an after-show meet and greet with Gaga in a private lounge area with cocktails and beverages. They will also get a photo with the singer.

Tickets go on sale at noon on Tuesday through Ticketek, starting at $92.65

Big Picture Film Festival 2014

The Big Picture Film Festival will upend your expectations of a film festival. It is a unique, boutique collection of the most exciting new documentary and fiction films from around the world.

The Festival showcases those who have taken a stand against social inequality. It is about those who have, and are, making change in society. It’s about showing how involvement, passion and commitment can bring about positive change and it encourages you to get involved.

Each of the carefully selected films are stimulating, provocative and persuasive in their examination of issues important to us all. So be part of a movement for change by seeing The Big Picture Film Festival.

See. Think. Change.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

 Wednesday 19 March 20147:00 PM Event Cinema CityBelle | Opening Night

Thursday 20 March 2014 6:30 PM Event Cinema CityThe Missing Picture

8:30 PM Event Cinema CityBlue Caprice 

 Friday 21 March 2014 2:00 PM Event Cinema CityBelle

 6:30 PM Event Cinema CityDormant Beauty

 8:45 PM Event Cinema CityTrap Street

 Saturday 22 March 20141:00 PM Event Cinema CitySneezing Baby Panda

 6:00 PM Event Cinema CityIf You Build It

 8:30 PM Event Cinema CityMetro Manila

 Sunday 23 March 2014 2:00 PM Event Cinema CityGideons Army

 4:00 PM Event Cinema CityBeatriz's War

6:30 PMEvent Cinema CityAL Helm Martin Luther King in Palestine

Monday 24 March 20142:00 PMEvent Cinema CityThe New World

6:30 PMEvent Cinema CityHalf of a Yellow Sun

8:30 PMEvent Cinema CityBlood Brother

 Tuesday 25 March 2014 2:00 PM Event Cinema CityDormant Beauty

6:30 PMEvent Cinema CityNo Evidence of disease

 Wednesday 26 March 2014 6:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolRise Of The Eco-Warriors

 8:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolMiss Nikki and The Tiger Girls

Thursday 27 March 2014 11:00 AM Event Cinema LiverpoolBelle

 6:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolAL Helm Martin Luther King in Palestine

 8:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolBlood Brother

 Friday 28 March 2014 11:00 AMEvent Cinema LiverpoolHalf of a Yellow Sun

6:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolThe Missing Picture 

8:30 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolMetro Manila 

 Saturday 29 March 2014 1:00 PM Event Cinema LiverpoolSneezing Baby Panda

 6:30 PM Casula Powerhouse Arts CentreIf You Build It

 Saturday 22 March 2104 4:00 PM Event Cinema CityMiss Nikki and The Tiger Girls

View the official Big Picture Film Festival Website

Metro Hotels is an official sponsor of the Big Picture Film Festival

Perth International Arts Festival 2014

Perth International Arts Festival 2014 is the longest running and best loved international arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

This year is the 62nd annual Festival. In 2013 Festival shows sold more than $5 million worth of tickets, with attendances of over 500,000 from a city of under 2 million people: we sell more tickets per capita than any international arts festival in Australia.

The 62nd Perth Festival kicks off on Friday, 7 February and runs until 1 March. The diverse program offers a world-class cultural feast for arts lovers of all ages and persuasions. In a quintessentially Western Australian experience, more than 1000 of the world's most exciting contemporary artists transform and disrupt Perth as the Festival spills across unique venues and glorious, outdoor spaces.

Living up to its worldwide reputation for excellence, in 2014 the Festival delivers a program of unforgettable, enriching works, created by artists who are daring, thoughtful, and innovative, with 26 Australian exclusives, 33 Australian premieres and two world premieres.

Perth Festival Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway said: "The 2014 Perth Festival collaborates with the world's greatest artists and many of Western Australia's most creative and talented people to find new and exciting ways to create a Festival in and of Perth. Joining us in our exploration of what it is to be a 21st Century festival in the remotest and yet most connected capital city in the Southern Hemisphere are Robert Wilson, Dawn Upshaw, Martin Amis, The National, William Kentridge, Tod Machover and Public Enemy, to name just 20 of the 1000+ artistic collaborators."

The 2014 Festival explodes in a spectacle of wonder with the Lotterywest Festival Spectacular Veles e Vents, supported by Eventscorp. For three nights over the opening weekend, the Spanish masters of public theatre take to the seas and the sky, recreating a ship's grand and perilous voyage in a sublime visual display of fireworks and light. Suitable for the whole family, the exclusive Australian premiere promises to kick off the 2014 Festival with an explosion of music and movement.

The Festival's free program takes art to the people as the streets of Perth are playfully transformed and life re-imagined. Sam Routledge & Martyn Coutts' I Think I Can brings avatars to life in an enchanted model town. The Lotterywest Festival Celebration, Jeremy Deller's Sacrilege, invites Festival goers to literally leap into ancient history, re-creating Stonehenge as a full-scale bouncy castle.

The Chevron Festival Gardens become the ambient Festival hub as guests gather, discuss and participate, with free entry to the Garden from 5pm until late Wednesday-Saturday and 6.30pm until late Sunday-Tuesday.

The 2014 Theatre and Circus program traverses the spectrum from the gritty to the surreal, inviting the world's most acclaimed performers to the Australian stage. Modern master of the Russian avant-garde, Dmitry Krymov, makes his Australian debut with A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It), a whirling re-imagining of history's first great love story, that of Pyramus and Thisbe. From Israel comes the Australian premiere of Not by Bread Alone: 11 deaf-blind actors take audiences on a profoundly moving journey through their inner world, as bread is kneaded, formed and baked on stage. Raw and explosive, South Africa's Yael Farber adapts Strindberg's classic Miss Julie to post-apartheid South Africa in Mies Julie, revealing theatre at its most potent.

Theatre genius Robert Wilson returns to Perth in the exclusive Australian premiere of Samuel Beckett's blackly comic masterpiece, Krapp's Last Tape. From New York, Perth welcomes An Iliad, superstar Denis O'Hare's riveting one-man performance of Homer's Trojan epic. The UK's internationally renowned NoFit State Circus brings circus as you've never seen it with the Australian premiere of Bianco, a graceful, aerial adventure of drama and breathtaking ability which immerses the audience in the action.


Further highlights include two Festival co-commissions. Malthouse Theatre's The Shadow King is an explosive interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear, melding contemporary Aboriginal storytelling in a blood-soaked interrogation of kinship, land and belonging. Co-commissioned by the Festival, Opus fuses the contemporary circus of Australia's finest, Circa, with dynamic music of Shostakovitch performed by France's Debussy String Quartet.

You Once Said Yes is unforgettable one-on-one theatre. As part of our Vital Stages program, we bring Look Left Look Right together with Western Australian artists to create a thrilling theatrical experience for the people of Perth. One of the most exciting theatre collectives in the world, Germany's Rimini Protokoll presents the Australian exclusive of Situation Rooms. In this multi-dimensional, interactive documentary theatre experience, audiences explore a maze of stories from people whose lives have been touched by the weapons industry. This is theatre like you've never experienced it before.