Best Collective - who won?
Who emerged as the cream of the dream teams in 2009? Which assembly of Sydney creatives, event organisers, art armies or gallery gangs alchemised best in 2009?
The nominees are:
The Red Rattler Theatre is Utopia. Run by a collective of queer women who hocked themselves into major debt by buying a warehouse and turning it into a creative playground, “The Ratt” has, unlike its more common warehouse counterparts, prioritized legal compliance so it can remain a community venue without risk of closure. Since opening, they’ve provided space for performers, musicians, artists, experimentalists, film-makers, theorists, activists, collective organisers, and locals. They’ve also got an eco-plan. We think they’re superhuman.
Sydney graphic designers Jonathan Zawada and Shane Sakkeus started Trust Fun with fashion designer Annie Wright-Zawada as a hobby, producing one of a kind scarves and rockmen necklaces (that is, necklaces made from rocks and minerals). They’re now stocked in exclusive boutiques and are winning awards the world over.
We challenge you to find a performance festival that is more exciting than Panda. Seriously. The collective behind the Imperial Panda Festival have worked tirelessly, for the second year running, in presenting Sydney’s best independent theatre and creating a year defining cultural highlight. Again.
Pulled together by Alice Fenton and Angela Bennetts, Even Books is a debaucherous brand of book club involving performance, live music, drinking, craft activities, zine stalls, fortune telling, beer, bingo, and books (natch). We’re particularly fond of the build-your-own tarot card booth and the cut+paste art criticism.
Initiated as a “theatre of ideas,” Interesting South is an incarnation of Interesting Conferences, the brain children of Open Intelligence Agency who specialise in highly collaborative events. The South version is the product of weekly, open meetings that come together in a semi-regular conference of brains that yearn for a little more. United by the common quality of curiosity, Interesting South presents speakers with a 5-8 minute window to talk on a topic of choice to an audience with boundless interests.
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