Keyword results: Graffiti
Don't Ban the Can, Croft Alley Project
What:
Don't Ban the Can, Croft Alley Project
Where:
Croft Alley, Chinatown, Melbourne
When:
Sat Sep 12, 12pm-3am
How much:
Gold coin donation
Description:
Croft Alley has got to be one of Melbourne's grimiest. Like something out of a dystopian sci-fi movie. Proper disgusting. In other words, it's the ideal location for a street art festival. Don't Ban the Can and Croft Institute (hidden down the very end) have joined forces to showcase the best in laneway art to a soundtrack of hip-hop, afro-funk, soul and dub-step.
Event: Laneway Party
Stimulus: 40s and blunts
Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983-93
A panel discussion about graffiti? It seems a bit like taking holy communion in a mosque, or having orange juice on your cornflakes. But then again, if you like painting trains, looking at painted trains or talking to and about people who like painting trains, this is the evening for you.
After getting rave reviews around town for their new book, Kings Way, the trio of Duro Cubrilo, Martin Harvey and Karl Stamer are following up their Metropolis book signing and their official launch this Saturday with a panel discussion on Tuesday at Readings, Carlton.
Style Wars interview
Max Olijnyk: How old were you when the film was made? What was going on in your world at that point in time?
Carlos Rodriguez: When Style Wars was being filmed in 1982 I was about 15 yrs old. My world back then was what seemed normal to me and my friends, stealing paint, going out to discos or jams, going into train yards late at night to create masterpieces.
Style Wars
People get so uppity about graffiti. They are cool with bovines with pixellated genitals on billboards, but as soon as they see a tag on a bench, it's the end of the world. I always thought I was above all that, until some guy spray-painted my dad's fence and I was confronted with my own hypocrisy.
Style Wars delves into this subject and illuminates it in a well-rounded way that has never been topped since its release in 1983.
Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti book launch
What:
Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti book launch
Where:
Metropolis, Lvl 3, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Sat July 4, 3pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Before there were stencils, highbrow art exhibits, clothing labels and all the rest of it, there was graffiti. Kids with spray cans jumping fences, planning raids on train yards, stealing supplies and covertly going about their business. With 1200 full colour photos from the back in the day, Kings Way documents the birth of Melbourne's graffiti culture (and the crews that ran it) like nothing before.
Event: Supper
Stimulus: Culture
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