Format is a two week festival of DIY, artist run projects and participatory culture. In 2011, we’ll be operating out of two venues – Format Space at 15 Peel St and Magazine Gallery on Clubhouse Lane.

If you’ve got art, music, film, publications, walking tours, weird stuff, performances, lectures, ideas for workshops or whatever else, and you’d like to expose it to the good people of Adelaide, please send us 1 A4 page at contact@format.net.au including information about your proposed project, what kind of space would best suit it, and your technical requirements.

Label your application “FORMAT 2011 PROPOSAL” and if possible include some relevant images of previous art/projects/whatever you’ve been involved in.

Format is able to provide the venue, basic lighting and equipment, catering and awesome ‘party good times’ crowds. Unfortunately as our budget is as yet unconfirmed, we cannot guarantee you artist fees yet – it’s DIY in the worst sense of the word. We look forward to hearing your ideas!

yours,
The Format Collective Inc.

 Come along this Friday night for a triple threat exhibition opening at Format. We will be open late so feel free to drop by after nine for cheap drinks. Three shows will open – one’s got four sharp art-school ladies, one’s about Australia’s favourite election beef – immigration, and one’s a first solo show of abstract work from Keith Lord. PLUS an installation by Elle Freak in project space The Changeroom. For those conscientious readers, more information on each of these shows can be found here http://micurl.com/zrguyz

Hope to see you there

Chloe Langford
Visual Arts Coordinator

Format Collective

1. disinterested bitches : one night only show Thursday the 8th July from 6pm to 9pm.

disinterested bitches is a one-night showing of recent work by Chloe Langford, Format’s visual arts coordinator and amateur concrete restorer.

Chloe Langford is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Specialisation) at UniSA. She is a member of the TwoPercent Collective and has shown in group exhibitions at FELTSpace, Magazine Gallery and Format Festival.

Lolz and art for free, expensive pink champagne by special arrangement.

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2. Collect: opens 14th July at 6pm – 6pm, running until 28th July

Every person that walks past as you stand still in the street has a collected history; stories, insecurities, failures, loves, passions, vivid and fading memories. Objects, places, cracks witness time passing and have been present or affected by events, some profound and some unnoticed. Found in the streets and in periods of introspection about conversations and observations, this installation of images, objects and sounds at Format are an arrangement of found and collected material with inherent histories and scars that shape the present.

We agree.

So come along to our Christmas in July Market day.

The venue will be filled with bakers, creators, and candlestick makers. But most importantly, mulled wine and a forest of Christmas trees.

We want to shamelessly transport you to the Northern Hemisphere, with fogged up windows, steaming drinks, festive cheer, and rosy cheeks.

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If YOU’D like to participate, please email
contact@format.net.au
by the 16th of July (get your advent calendars out)
stating your wares and to get more details

We welcome food, clothes, radical craft, drink – basically anything you’d find at a Winter Christmas market. Google them if you’ve never been.

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This is also another fundraising event to get us to the real Christmas.

So help out by selling – or buying!

Country Arts SA has generously given Format the opportunity to take its message outside of the city and to Murray Bridge.

So, we’ve organised a mini-fest for the July long weekend: Friday 9, Saturday 10, Sunday 11 July 2010.

Below, download yourself a poster/program.

Format Murray Bridge Program

And we hope to see you there!

Format Collective

winterfestAMEND

We still exist at 15 Peel St. Adelaide,

but if you want to send us some awesome post; ie zines, human skulls, lizards, live wolves…

Address your parcel/letter to:

Format Collective Inc.
PO Box 8119
Station Arcade
(South Australia) 5000

Spread the word!

Thanks a lot,

Format Collective.

Print it out.

Put it on your wall.

Format: Winterfest poster/program