Keep reading the arts and entertainment pages of The Age in Melbourne. For one loud week they will open up pages to the influence of a young editorial collective. WHEN Mid January WHERE Victorian newsagents
The Australian Loud Supplement
A 10 page overview of the entire LOUD festival with the latest program details as well as feature articles on outstanding projects, artists and themes that have dominated the development and content of the first virtual arts and youth culture festival in the world. WHEN January 3 WHERE In The Weekend Australian
The Australian's Review of Books
The Essay on the Edge is the name of The Australian's Review of Books Young Essay Writer Award for 1998. It's the first time the ARB has instituted such an award. WHEN LOUD will announce the winner in January on Radio National. Their essay will be published in The Australian's Review of Books on February 9. WHERE Inside The Australian. Principal Sponsor: Compaq
Australian Short Stories
The country's longest running and highest selling short story magazine devotes an entire issue to Australia's young writers. Sex and needles were not compulsory subjects. WHEN On sale January 30 (they hope) WHERE Selected newsagents and bookshops. Enquiries to Pascoe Publishing, PO Box 42, Apollo Bay. Victoria. 3233. Australian Style LOUD Review A guest editor and guest designer have put together the entire "Review" section of Australian Style magazine. WHEN January 29 WHERE Newsagents
black+white
Louder Than Words Photography Exhibition A gallery based on what it's like to be a part of Australia's youth culture. WHEN January 29 WHERE Newsagents. Check the online version at http://www.loud.net.au/blackwhite
City Hub
Rant is the City Hub's national essayist competition, an attempt to cultivate critical writing based on social and political issues. WHEN January 22nd WHERE Free in Sydney venues, cafes etc
The Cobar Weekly Newspaper
Out in Cobar, NSW, the local editor, Greg Sweetnam, has big plans: a 16 page supplement called "Scream" - like the movie - which invites young people to send poetry, stories, cartoons, photos and reflections on life in the town. Young people here are really excited by the idea of a media-based festival - and by the fact they can do things similar to their city cousins, that they just have the chance to participate. Greg say's the paper covers a service area larger than Tasmania - it's vast - but only 7000 people live here, so it's also very isolated. A lot of people only get the mail once a week. So they read the paper religiously. "Scream" will get a lot of attention. WHEN Late January WHERE All over Cobar (mate)
Dolly
Australia's leading teen magazine spotlights young female artistic talent. WHEN January 6th WHERE Newsagents
Good Looks
Good Looks, the fashion section of the Sydney Morning Herald, chooses some of the city's most promising fashion designers. WHEN January WHERE Newsagents
HQ
The Pod are the coordinator's of The New Pollution (see page 5), a book project initiated by LOUD to capture the best writings, artwork and off-the-wall media from Australia's underground publishing culture. HQ previews some of the content. WHEN Out now WHERE Newsagents
if
When I hear the word culture I reach for my digital camera. An entire issue of independent filmmakers journal (if) has been dedicated to young Australian filmmakers and the independent cinema scene. "If" fires away on LOUD's major projects. WHEN Out now WHERE Newsagents & bookshops.
Juice
In a special issue for the LOUD festival, Juice hands over its pages to a guest editor. There's a 16 page youth arts supplement. And a whole new magazine called LOUDspeaker attached to the issue as well. WHEN Out now WHERE Newsagents
LOUD 'n' Mad National Cartoonist Competition
The best young cartoonists in the country are given space in the pages of Australian Mad magazine to prove themselves demented after a call for entries that was hugely popular with teenage boys, eccentric doctors and gonzo couch potatoes. As well as getting published in a gallery of finalists, the winner also works on an in-house feature sending up whatever Mad feels like bagging. WHEN On sale January 20 WHERE Newsagents. Also see the winner on Recovery Goes LOUD.
LOUD National Student Newspaper Awards
A national competition initiated by LOUD to find the best student newspaper in Australia ($2000 first prize) with other awards for the best stories, images and cover artwork. All awards were judged by a high-profile panel. WHEN Mid January WHERE Highlights from winning entries will be published in a national magazine. Winning editors will also be interviewed on Radio National and Recovery Goes LOUD. Stay tuned for details. Judging panel - Richard Neville (journalist/ author); Kathy Bail (editor HQ); Mark Davis (author Gangland); Chris McLoud (Editorial Development Manager, Herald and Weekly Times; member Australian Press Council)
LOUDspeaker
A 52 page magazine
of freestyle creative expression that includes artworks, personal essays,
crazed journalism, monkey shapes grown on Petri dishes, political collage,
drug commentary, love poetry and blurry photos. All contributions are from
young Australians aged 12 to 25 encouraged by a national call for entries
to freak us right out. WHEN Out now WHERE LOUDspeaker is attached to the
January issue of Juice at all newsagents.
LOUDwrite Novel Competition
Loudwrite was a search for the best two young novelists in Australia under the age of 25. It involved a national call for entries from two separate publishing houses. Wakefield Press wanted a book by a writer in any fiction genre. Spinifex Press asked for a novella by a young female writer. WHEN Mid January WHERE Winners will be announced and interviewed on Recovery Goes LOUD (see TV program p118) and Radio National. The winning novelists will be published late in 1998. Loudwrite judging panel: Jo Case (Project Coordinator); Fiona Oates (Editor, Wakefield Press); Derek Dryden(Manager, Better Read Than Dead); Toby Creswell (Editor, Juice)
Meanjin
One of Australia's most prestigious literary journals selects a group of the best young poets in the country and publishes their work in a special LOUD supplement. WHEN Late January WHERE Selected bookshops Mu Magazine A magazine of pop culture and new ideas from Perth highlights the best designers, models, stylists and photographers in W.A. WHEN Late January WHERE Newsagents
The New
Pollution
A zine is: (a) a small amateur print or online publication; (b) a victory of thoughts and feelings over production values; or (c) whatever you want it to be? According to the Newcastle arts media collective The Pod, and people like them across Australia, the answer is all three. The Pod have put together the best of our zine makers in a book called The New Pollution. Wild design, off-the-wall writing, freestyle expression (and cartoons) encouraged by The Pod's cry that the mass media has polluted your minds for close to a century...now it's your turn! WHEN Out now WHERE Selected bookshops, records stores and weird newsagents. General enquiries c/o Millennium (02) 9326 9629. Or email millennium@divdat.com.au
Outrage
Australia's highest selling gay magazine creates a major 30 page supplement using a team of young gay journalists, editors, designers and artists. Along with a powerful story on the age of consent, there are features on young queer filmmakers, Melbourne's gay writing scene, real life gay radio station Free FM and ABC-TV's Raw FM, as well as a profile on Brisbane's party- fashion designer Anthony Leigh Dower. WHEN Out now WHERE Newsagents Guest Editor - Grant Gillies
Oyster
The contemporary fashion magazine Oyster showcases the designers of tomorrow. Drawings were invited from students in fashion colleges across the country. Student finalists were then asked to take their ideas from the drawing board and assemble their garments, to then see their work in a major photographic fashion spread called Seam. The winner's design range will be exhibited and sold at The Milkbar Gallery in Sydney. WHEN January 28 WHERE Newsagents Judging panel - Akira Isogawa (Designer), Jane de Teliga (Fashion Editor, Sydney Morning Herald), Kelvin Harries (Contributing Fashion Editor, Oyster) Finalists - Stephanie Conley. Sophia Cowdroy, Nakia (Whitehouse School, NSW); Christie Fuller, Belinda Donald, Nicole Macey (Sydney Institute of Technology, NSW); Elizabeth Whitney, Ngoc Loan Thi U, Luisa Fazio (RMIT, Victoria); Daphne Dimitrou, Melissa Miller, Melanie Clarkson (Western Australian School of Art and Design, WA).
Postcard Design Competition
Interpret the phrase "the shape of things to come" or show us an image as "LOUD" as possible. This was the brief when designers, photographers, and potato printing geniuses were told they could send in images for a national postcard competition. The four best entries are available to the public as Avant Cards each week. A selection of finalists appears in Good Weekend and the whole chicken house is up for voyeuristic delight on the LOUD Web site. WHEN January WHERE On Avant Card racks nationally each week. In the Good Weekend. Or check out the LOUD Web site www.loud.net.au/cards Sponsored by Avant Card and Pophouse. Regional and Metropolitan Newspapers
At the time of going to press, we were in negotiation with newspapers across the country. Watch out in your local papers for information, or better yet, write to the editor and ask them "what's happening?"
Snapshot
- The Loud Disposable Art Project
A vision of Australia's youth and the way they see both themselves and their world. Images were culled from 1000s that were entered through a national competition asking 12 to 25 year olds to portray their lives using disposable cameras. What emerges is a personal and unpredictable essay, a wild kaleidoscope of goldfish, bruises, parties, cars, suburban bedrooms and outback skies. WHEN On sale January 26 WHERE Newsagents, ABC Shops and selected bookshops. Check out the online version at http://www.loud.net.au/dispart Snapshot is available by mail order from: The Millennium Group, Suite 201 / 20 Bayswater Rd, Potts Point NSW 2011 Send your order with a cheque or money order ($9.95 per copy plus $3 postage and handling) payable to "Disposable Art" at the above address. For general enquiries call (02) 9326 9629 or email millennium@divdat.com.au Principal Sponsors - Agfa, Juice, Loud, and Ted's Camera Store
Soup
Birth. What's it mean to you? Soup magazine popped the "B" question. Whether it was a memory, a dream, an advertisement or something you'd experienced, Soup said they wanted to know what "birth" meant to you. They got stories, collage, photography, and some pretty trippy stuff. Our first arthouse ultrasound! WHEN January 20th. WHERE Newsagents
The Stand/LOUD Special Edition
Australia's national high school newspaper publishes a special LOUD issue with stories, illustrations, cartoons, poems and articles. WHEN Out now WHERE High schools nationally. Online version http://www.stand.asn.au
Streetpress
Drum Media (Sydney), Beat (Melbourne), Concrete Press (Newcastle), Rip It Up (Adelaide), X-Press (Perth), Rave (Brisbane), and Stuff (Hobart) have committed to youth arts issues or supplements. Young writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers will feature. Keep an eye out in all street press as LOUD confirms further partnerships. WHEN Mid-January WHERE Hassle your street press now.
Substance
Music Madhouse is a search for the best new electronic music being made in bedrooms and garages across the country. It's being promoted by Substance, LOUD and the CBAA network. Mel Myers, 25, the co-editor of Substance says: "We came up with the name when it was about 4 o'clock at night - it's when we get all our best ideas." Along with fellow editor Sashya Jaywardena, she's creating a magazine "at the forefront of electronic music and culture in Australia." She believes electronic music is "breaking down a lot of barriers. I think our generation are more accepting of sexuality, race, class, whatever." Myers likens the spirit of tolerance to the music itself, and the way the whole electronic scene developed as "a rebellion against constraints and pressures. I remember going to my first party - once you go, it changes a lot of things for you - you walk into an environment you've never seen before, and once that's experienced, there's no turning back. I hate to hear it called "dance music," because that sets up so many clichés in people's minds. "Electronic music" is a more embracing term, because it now includes everything from hip hop to techno to whatever. Look at The Prodigy - they're a rock roll band for the electronic era. There's whole new genres sprouting up - people say speed garage and folk jungle are the next big things, but you can't predict. There are so many talented people out there mixing different elements together. Australia's about to explode - look at people like Bexta, Infusion, Pocket - they're going to be big stars. So who knows what people will send in to Music Madhouse - it may be the next big thing. WHEN January 20. Or check out the website www.dj.com.au/substance WHERE Substance (#13) at newsagents. One hour broadcast on CBAA network. Judges - Naomi Dinnen (EMI/Interdance); GT (DJ/Producer); Ben Struthers (Producer); Nik Fish (Music Editor, Substance; DJ/Producer); Stu Connelly (Editor, 3D)
Voiceworks
Voiceworks is a quarterly arts magazine with street energy and political attitude. It publishes journalism, photography, drawings, short stories - anything creative that fits into each issue's theme. For LOUD's special issue it was The United States of Australia, with a cover art competition to interpret the phrase. Inside there's a special LOUD supplement "Soapbox - The Media, Identity and You." Tune in to Triple J for a live-to-air poetry slam accompanying this issue. Recovery Goes LOUD filmed on the night. WHEN Out now WHERE Selected bookshops, or write to Voiceworks c/o Express Media, 156 George St, Fitzroy, Victoria. 3065
THANKYOU
welovesyousall.... Lesa-Belle Furhagen, Toby Creswell, Samantha
Trenoweth, Sam Clode, Simon Clarke, Ben Hoh and all at Terraplane and Juice
who weathered so much with us throughout the entire festival, including
putting together Loudspeaker and the book of LOUD; Shelley Gare (Deputy
Editor, The Australian; Editor, The Australian's Review of Books) for being
so far ahead of the pack; Murray Waldren - hey Muz! - (The Australian)
for pondering a supplement about "a festival structured like an amoeba"
; those culture jamming, "we just rang up for some legal advice,"
troublemakers The Pod - in particular Sean Healy, Damien Frost and Aaron
Bristow - who came up with The New Pollution; Jason "Chuckles Davis" (Australian
Mad); Jonathan Green (The Age); Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood (Australian
Short Stories); Christina Thompson (Meanjin); Stephen Rebikoff (Woroni
editor, ANU) for envisioning the LOUD National Student Awards; Jo Case
(Loudwrite); David Welch and Gordon Kiely (The Millennium Group) who popped
in with a few leaflets and left with a book to publish; Michelle Katz,
Vanessa Brajtman for helping initiate the Disposable Art project; Veda
Dante and Deanne Cheuk for being "out there" for Snapshot; Marcus O'Donnell
(Outrage); Monica Nakata, Madelienne Anderson (Oyster); Andrea Horwood
and Andrea Healy (Australian Style); Peter Danaja (Maningrida ROCKS!);
Jane de Teliga (Sydney Morning Herald); Alexi Glass; Jeremy Horn (The Stand);
Georgina Safe; Karen-Jane Eyre (black+white); Kathy Bail and Amruta Slee
(HQ); David Barda, Katie Alexander, Andre Castaldi (if); Pat Mackle (Avant
Card); Greg Sweetnam (Cobar We ekly) for believing in his town; Deb Sciffer
for surfing with us; Pierre Toussaint (Soup) for that bun in the oven;
Steve Grimwade (Voiceworks) for hard core idealism (sorry about the $320);
and Mel Myers (Substance) for speaking the new language.
