Art Dubai takes place every March at the Madinat Arena. As the first contemporary art fair in Dubai, the Fair has become a cornerstone for the rapidly growing art community of the Middle East.

The 2008 fair will host nearly seventy galleries from the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, North Africa and Australia. The October Gallery exhibit can be found at Stand A35.

October Gallery artists exhibited include: El Anatsui, Ira Cohen, Romuald Hazoumé, Rachid Koraïchi, Elisabeth Lalouschek, Hassan Massoudy, Laila Shawa, Wijdan, Gerald WIlde and Kenji Yoshida.

For further details please see www.artdubai.ae

October Gallery will be exhibiting at the first African contemporary art fair held in Johannesburg. On sale will be the largest collection of African and South African contemporary art the world has ever seen - 5000 square metres of the Sandton Convention Centre have been booked for the event.

October Gallery artists exhibited include: El Anatatsui, Romuald Hazoumé,
Ablade Glover, Owusu-Ankomah, Rachid Koraïchi, Sandile Zulu,
Julien Sinzogan, Nnenna Okore.

For further details please see www.joburgartfair.co.za

7:30 pm (Doors open 7:00 pm)
Tickets: £6/£4 conc.

	Ira Cohen 'Reclining Baba'

Kings with Straw Mats is an extaordinary portrait of sadhus at India’s greatest sacred celebration, the Kumbha Mela, which takes place every 12 years. Produced by Ira Cohen with cinematographer Ira Landgarten in 1986, the film follows the sadhus in their path of insight and devotion, intoxicated on the divine, evoking the mythic, silencing themselves in poverty and solitude to reach the unlimited world of shamanistic ecstasy.

All screenings are co-presented by
Arthur Magazine and Universal Mutant. For more information or to order Ira Cohen DVDs, visit Arthur Magazine’s website:
http://www.arthurmag.com

7:00 pm (Doors open 6:30 pm)
Tickets: £6/£5 conc.

	John Allen aka Johnny Dolphin

Adventurer, Ecologist, Philosopher & Poet, John Allen (aka Johnny Dolphin) will read from his new book of memoirs Me and the Biospheres (Synergetic Press). For one night only, a unique opportunity to hear John Allen, FRGS, FLS, inventor of Biosphere 2, the controversial laboratory of global ecology.

Co-founder of Theatre of All Possibilities, Allen has also designed innovative scientific projects and led explorations around the world. His extraordinary life story and travels have been chronicled in his novels, poetry, short stories and plays written by his alter ego—Johnny Dolphin.

screening 7:30 pm (Doors open 7:00 pm)
Tickets: £6/£4 conc.

	‘The Snowflake Syndrome’ from ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’

Ira Cohen’s legendary 1968 film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda is a “languidly opiated costume ball - so High ‘60s that you emerge from its vision perched full-lotus on a cloud of incense, chatting with a white rabbit and smoking a banana” (J. Hoberman). Invasion is a psychedelic bullet to your third eye.

Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika, a film of The Living Theatre’s historic 1968 American tour. The Living Theatre, led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, triumphantly returned to America from years of self-imposed exile in Europe with their theatrical breakthrough Paradise Now. The result of this shared voyage is the spontaneous creation of a temporary anarchist collective - free from the enslavements of war, violence, the State, money and the self.

introduced by Ian MacFadyen
7:30 pm (Doors open 7:00 pm)
Tickets: £8/£6 conc.

	Ira reading his poetry at October Gallery 2003 Photo © Ishmael Annobil

Ira Cohen, poet, photographer, filmmaker, traveller was born in 1935 to deaf parents. In 1961 he took a Yugoslavian freighter to Tangiers where he lived for 4 years and published Gnaoua, a magazine devoted to exorcism introducing the work of Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and other members of the interzone mob. He produced Jilala, a mythic recording of trance music by dervishes, recorded by Paul Bowles.

In 1970 he went to the Himalayas where he started the Starstream poetry series under the Bardo matrix imprint in Kathmandu, publishing the work of Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso and Angus MacLise and developing his art of bookmaking working with native craftsmen. In 1972 he spent a year in San Francisco reading and performing and then returned to New York mounting photographic shows.

Cohen is the artistic director of Universal Mutant, Inc., a foundation established with the help of Judith Malina, Gerard Malanga, and Will Swofford in order to promote and protect the works of insolite / occult / alternative writers, filmmakers and interdisciplinary artists.

Allan Graubard is a poet, playwright and critic. Books include: From the Mylar Chamber: Photos of Ira Cohen and Fragments From Nomad Days.

Eric Andersen is a singer and songwriter from New York who has recorded 25 albums of original material, and is a writer of short stories. He has contributed essays and articles for the Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, the William Burroughs/Tom Waits collaboration of The Black Rider for the Norwegian National Theater, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (reminiscences of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement), and the National Geographic Traveler magazine.

Ian MacFadyen’s published essays include Ira Cohen’s Photographs: A Living Theatre (Cynthia Broan Gallery) and Machine Dreams: OpticalToys and Mechanical Boys. He has written about the work of William S. Burroughs for many years and is currently co-editing Naked Lunch @ 50.

3:00 pm
Free

	Photo by Teresa Angell

This film focuses on the life and teachings of the revered Ojibwe Medicine Man James Jackson Sr. (1913-1992). Jackson devoted himself to bringing health to Indian people, using traditional medicine and prayer, psychology, love and humour. Utilising interviews with Jackson, friends, family, and Ojibwe people who benefited from his knowledge and wisdom, Norrgard’s award winning film presents a powerful story of cultural integrity, survival and truth of the Ojibwe way.

	Andrea Carlson 'Vaster Empire'

Andrea Carlson talks about her work.

Born in 1979, Andrea Carlson grew up in Minnesota, and is an MFA graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has been the recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship (2007-2008), a Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship (2007), and a Minnesota State Arts Board, Cultural Community Partnership Grant, in collaboration with the Soo Visual Arts Center (2005). Carlson was awarded Best in Show, Ojibwe Art Exhibition at Leach Lake Tribal College, Bemidji, MN (2004), and has been widely reviewed.  She lectures regularly at the University of Minnesota.

	Star Wallowing Bull 'Seal of Approval'

Leading scholars and artists give short presentations on aspects of their work. The presentations will be followed by questions from the audience and discussion.

Speakers:

Andrea Carlson, featured artist. Carlson's discussion will focus on the artist's view of objects as surrogates for memory and story.

Dr. Jean Fisher is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University. She studied Zoology and Fine Art, later becoming a freelance writer on contemporary art and issues of postcoloniality. She is the former editor of the international quarterly Third Text, and the editor of the anthologies, Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts (1994), Re-verberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency (2000) and, with the Cuban curator Gerardo Mosquera, Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (2004). A selection of her essays, Vampire in the Text, was published in 2003.

Dr. Stephanie Pratt is a Native American historian of the Dakota tribe, Reader in Art History at the University of Plymouth, and co-author of Between Worlds, published to accompany the recent exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery. Pratt will discuss the visual representation of Native Americans and their art, mainly in North American and British examples.

Dr. David Stirrup is an English and American Studies Lecturer at the University of Kent. His most recent research focuses on 20th century Native American fiction. He is currently working on a monograph on community and narrative in contemporary Ojibwe fiction.

7:00 pm (Doors open 6:30 pm)
Tickets: £6/£4 conc.

	Photo by Gregory Bayne

In this award winning documentary, filmmaker Heather Rae presents the engaging life story of Native American poet-activist John Trudell. 'Trudell' begins in the late sixties when John Trudell and a community group, Indians of All Tribes, occupied Alcatraz Island for 21 months. This created an international recognition of the Native American cause. In 1979, while protesting the US government’s policy on Native Americans, John burned an American Flag on the steps of the FBI headquarters in Washington DC.  Within a matter of hours his pregnant wife, three children and mother in law were killed in a suspicious arson fire on a Nevada reservation. It was after this that Trudell withdrew from politics and found his voice as a poet, and later as a musician. The film combines interviews with his allies from the entertainment community, the ‘movement’ days, and his friends and family with archival and concert footage from all over the world.

7:00 pm (Doors open 6:30 pm)
Tickets: £6/£4 conc.

	Photo by Jill Sabella

Winner of many awards, including the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award, 'Smoke Signals' is the first feature written, directed, co-produced and acted by Native Americans. When the parents of Thomas (Evan Adams) are killed in a fire, he is rescued by Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), the father of Victor (Adam Beach). When Arnold dies, Thomas offers Victor funding for the trip to collect Arnold's remains, on the condition that Thomas goes with him. The interactions between the stoic Victor and the light-hearted Thomas alternate between humour and rage during their bus ride to Phoenix. When the boys arrive at Arnold's trailer, they meet neighbour Suzi Song (Irene Bedard); her friendship with Arnold reveals a tragedy that shaped the lives of both Victor and Arnold.

6:30 pm (Doors open 6:00 pm)
Tickets: £7/£5 conc.

	Allen and Blake

Continuing a thought-provoking series of discourses which began in 1994, Allen and Blake, two outstanding contemporary thinkers, exchange views about human existence.

John Allen is inventor of Biosphere 2, engineer, author, poet, dramaturge and co-founder of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a UK charity which is particularly interested in projects that advance the ecology of technics and synergise body, brain and behavior in humans.

Anthony Blake trained in physics at Bristol and the philosophy and history of science at Cambridge. He worked for more than fifteen years with British scientist, mathematician and philosopher John Bennett and is currently working on a book examining the idea of Higher Intelligence.
Allen and Blake will discuss the Death of the Future, that key invention of Western Civilisation. The decks have to be completely cleared of a fiction that supports a striving away to escape the present. This may open up a region where we can see ourselves as fictions within a dramatic story being written by humanity.

3.00 to 6.00pm

An illustrated talk on the effects of the abolition of slavery on the formation of a modern African metropolis. Speakers :Giles Omezi, Executive Director, Bukka; Sola Ogunbanjo, Director, Bukka Research; Kaye Whiteman, Former Editor West Africa.

Part of Bukka’s Lagos Future City Programme

	Strange Fruit (California Newsreel)

‘Strange Fruit’ is a documentary which explores the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song’s evolution tells a dramatic story of America’s radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face-to-face with the terror of lynching, even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labour and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.

For further information and bookings please contact

	Shifting Shelter (ABC TV)

October Gallery Australian Film Series

SHIFTING SHELTER 3 (2006)
Director: Ivan Sen
Duration: 30 minutes
ABC TV

Directed by award winning film maker Ivan Sen (‘Beneath Clouds’, ‘Yellow Fella’), ‘Shifting Shelter 3’ follows the lives of four Indigenous Australians growing up in rural New South Wales, in the vein of the ‘Seven Up’ documentaries.

In ‘Shifting Shelter 3’, Ivan meets with the four individuals for a third time. The program recaps Ivan’s earlier visits with Willy, Cindy, Danielle and Ben and looks at the turbulent journey they have faced since the first programme was made. Now ten years since they first met, dreams are remembered and forgotten, while new hopes evolve as they build new shelters for their own families. Directed by award winning

Followed by:

	Plains Empty (Flickerfest)

PLAINS EMPTY (2004)
Writer/Director: Beck Cole
Duration: 26 minutes
Flickerfest

Selected, Sundance Film Festival ’05.

A young Aboriginal woman has recently moved to an isolated mining town with her man. When he has to set up camp at a far-off mining site, she is left to spend more time on her own, but she begins to question whether she is really alone.
‘Plains Empty’ is a ghost story but it is also a film about the common experiences of Aboriginal women in the remote areas of outback Australia.

For further information and bookings please contact

October Gallery Australian Film Series

7:30pm
(Doors/bar open 7:00)
Director: Rolf de Heer
Duration: 91 minutes
Vertigo Productions
The Works Distribution
BOOKING ADVISABLE

Winner of Special Jury Prize,
Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2006.

For those of you who missed ‘Ten Canoes’ at the London Film Festival, October Gallery and The Works Distribution present a free screening of Rolf de Heer’s award winning film.

This film, starring the Yolngu people of Ramingining and David Gulpilil is the first full-length feature film made in Australia entirely in an Indigenous language. In the distant past, Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery and revenge.

For further information and bookings please contact

	Empire (ABC Films)

October Gallery Australian Film Series.

EMPIRE (1997)
Director: Michael Riley
Duration: 18 minutes
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Indigenous Programs Unit

Michael Riley was an internationally renowned artist, photographer and filmmaker. In his acclaimed work, ‘Empire’, he takes us on a journey through the decaying British Empire in Australia via stylised images and symbols of desolation. There is no narration except for a short archival recording at the end and a specially commissioned score performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

Followed by:

	Urban Clan (Music Arts Dance Films)

URBAN CLAN (1997)
Director: Michelle Mahrer
Duration: 55 minutes.
Music Arts Dance Films

Multi-award-winning documentary ‘Urban Clan’ explores the background of the three brothers, Stephen. David and Russell Page; how they grew up as urban Aboriginals and developed as individual artists who later came together through the Bangarra Dance Theatre when Stephen took over as Artistic Director in 1991.

The theme of family is the anchor point of the film. Three worlds interweave: the Pages’ own family; the wider background of the traditional Aboriginal family and the present family of Bangarra Dance Theatre.

For further information and bookings please contact

	HHH #8 Fiona Foley 2004 Ultrachrome print on paper.

Acclaimed artist Fiona Foley talks about her exhibition ‘Strange Fruit’
Free Admission

Followed by:
Film: Boomalli—Five Koori Artists (1990)

Director: Michael Riley
Duration: 28 minutes
Film Australia

4:30pm
Free Admission

Boomalli Artists’ Cooperative was founded in 1987 by urban Aboriginal and Koorie photographers, painters, sculptors, designers and filmmakers. This film focuses on contemporary rather than traditional work and ways of life. We see the work of clothing designer Bronwyn Bancroft and the sand sculptures of Fiona Foley. Tracey Moffatt discusses her film about Aboriginal girls, and the painters Raymond Meeks and Jeffrey Samuels discuss the thematic approach to their art and how they incorporate aspects of traditional Aboriginal painting. The artists also talk about Aboriginal identity and how this is expressed in their work.

The cultural, intellectual, artistic and social diversity of Bloomsbury will be celebrated in a new arts festival to be held from 20 to 22 October 2006 in the ‘Bloomsbury Quarter’, the area between Euston Road, Gray’s Inn Road, Theobalds Road and Southampton Row. One of London’s best kept secrets, this area has been home to artists and intellectuals for generations and is still at the forefront of artistic and cultural innovation today.

Gallery opening hours during the Bloomsbury Festival:
Friday 20th 12.00pm-7.00pm
Saturday 21st 12.00pm-9.00pm
Sunday 22nd 11.00am-6.00pm
www.bloomsburyfestival.org

6.00pm-9.00pm
There will be a charge for food and wine.

October Gallery and Kennards Good Foods invite you to join them in the October Gallery courtyard for an evening of Australian barbeque food and wine. Marc and the staff from Kennards will prepare delicious gourmet treats with fine Australian wines provided by ‘The Wine Guy’.

After your meal wander through the Gallery to view Fiona Foley’s exhibition ‘Strange Fruit’.

4:00 pm (Doors open 3:30 pm)
Tickets: £7/£5 conc.

	Allen and Blake

Language is more intelligent than people and never came out of grunts. It is the magic that evolved humanity. Language’s alien power shows us that more actions exist in heaven and earth than people and things. It is our worst enemy and our best friend, a parasite and a medicine, an enigma that baffles perhaps becasue it comes from elsewhere.

Could any of this be true?

Anthony Blake
Blake studied physics at Cambridge and became drawn to the enigma of how science arose in Europe in its now accepted form. He studied the Gurdjieff method with John Bennett and meandered in many paths, including the art of dialogue and has written various books - on time, intelligence (and higher intelligence), systems, dialogue and is aiming at writing a book on forms of thought. He notes he is still very puzzled by everything.

John Allen
Allen studied anthropology and history; mining and metallurgical engineering; finance and organisation at Harvard Business School, became an entrepreneur, but enjoys travelling the world to meet interesting artists and thinkers. Allen shares Anthony Blake’s passion for Dialogue. He has written various books on biospheric science as well as poetry, novels and play

FREE ADMISSION

Talks: 12:15-12:45pm
Spoken Word: 1:15-1:30pm
Concerts: 1:30-2:00pm

Wednesday 28 June
Talk: ‘ Challenging Extremism through Creativity’ Fuad Nahdi
Spoken Word: Bengali experiences by Sanchita Islam, BANGLADESH
Concert: Angam al-Rafidain, traditional Maqam from Baghdad IRAQ

Thursday 29 June
Talk: ‘Islamic Arts & Sufism’, Zarah Hussain
Spoken Word: Sufi stories by Rita Ali
Concert: Rani Khanam, Sufi Kathak dance from INDIA

Friday 30 June
Talk: ‘Searching for Art & Identity in the Muslim World’, Navid Akhtar
Spoken Word: poems by Mimi Khalvati, IRAN
Concert: Sultan Mehmet Fatih Ensemble from Sarajevo, BOSNIA

Tuesday 4 July
Talk: ‘Attar's Conference of the Birds’ Raficq Abdulla
Spoken Word: Folk tales from BANGLADESH, Shamim Azad,
Concert: Mehr & Sher Ali Qawaali from Faisalabad, PAKISTAN

Wednesday 5 July
Talk: ‘Street Food & Islamic Culture’ Anissa Helou
Spoken Word: stories from the MIDDLE EAST, Alia Al Zougbi,
Concert: Aissawa Brotherhood of Said Guissi from Fes, MOROCCO

Thursday 6 July
Talk: ‘Global Trend towards Local Fundamentalisms’, Kamila Shamsie
Spoken Word: street, culture and religion, spoken word by LITTLEman
Concert: Dao Lang Maqam, Uyghur ensemble from Xinjiang, CHINA

Friday 7 July
Talk: ‘The Holy Mountain: Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Middle East’ William Dalrymple
Spoken Word: stories from PALESTINE, Rasha Hammami,
Concert: Sheikh Yaseen el Tuhamy from Assyut, EGYPT

Friday 7 July at 7.30pm
Concert: Dolan Muqam, Ughur ensemble from Xinjiang, CHINA

For further details of these events, please call 020 7841 0500 or see www.culturalco-operation.org

7:30pm (Doors open 7pm)
Tickets: £8/6 concs
UK Premiere!

Director Sun Li-Tsuei’s style is informed by shamanism, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and the mime of Marceau and Le Coq. Shang Orientheatre was founded in the autumn of 2001 in Yanmishan, Taiwan. For a year, the members studied and lived like spirits, practicing physical training and voice in the woods.

The company’s new piece, the Odyssey of a Shaman, is based on a two thousand year old Chinese story, “San Hai Jing”. The traveller wanders through an ancient landscape, encountering a world both natural and magical. “The chaser of the phoenix and the bird itself are one, the chaser chases himself in his dreams”. Masks, paintings and movement portray a mystical quest for the origin of life.

6:30pm (Doors open 6pm)
Tickets: £8/6 concs

	Jack Cohen

Jack Cohen is the world’s foremost expert on the physiology and behaviour of aliens- that is, if they were to exist. World-renowned reproductive biologist, author, and alien design consultant extraordinaire, he approaches the question from both evolutionary biology and fiction. Be prepared to hold on to your seats for a thrilling and fast-paced intellectual roller coaster ride.

Jack was advisor to the Science Museum’s recent exhibit, The Science of Aliens, and authored (with Ian Stewart): Evolving the Alien, What Does a Martian Look Like?, Ebury Press 2004.

3:00pm
Free entry

	Epeli Hau’ofa

Hau’ofa, having just flown in from Fiji for our exhibition, will elaborate his vision of the present and future of Oceania art. Joined by the six participating artists, Hau’ofa will present an unprecedented preview of their experimental arts movement, which creates a new future amidst the global warming and exploitative economics that threaten the magnificent ecology of Oceania.

‘Oceania’ connotes a sea of islands with their inhabitants. The world of our ancestors was a large sea full of places to explore, to make their homes in, to breed generations of seafarers like themselves. People raised in this environment were at home with the sea.. Theirs was a large world in which peoples and cultures moved and mingled unhindered by boundaries of the kind erected much later by imperial powers. (Epeli Hau’ofa)

7:30pm (Doors open 7pm)
Tickets: £7.50/5 concs
UK Premiere!

	The land has teeth and knows the truth... - A Rotuman Proverb

Dir: Vilsoni Hereniko (2004)
Dur: 87 min. Country: Fiji / USA
Language: Rotuman / English

Shamed by her village for being poor and the daughter of a convicted thief, Viki is inspired and haunted by the Warrior Woman from her island’s mythology. The lush tropical beauty of Rotuma, Fiji, contrasts with the stifling conformity of island culture as Viki fights for justice and her freedom. The Land Has Eyes is winner of the Premiere Festival Prize in New Zealand’s inaugural Waiora Maori Film Festival.

3:00pm
Free admission

Gallery Talk

	Family Lines by Fiona Omennyo

In conjunction with the exhibition, 'Uncharted Territory', Sue Ryan, Director of the Lockhart River Art Centre will give an informal talk in the Gallery about the Art Gang, the Lockhart River community and the works on display. She will discuss how the paintings relate to the cultural beliefs, the landscape and lifestyles of the artists. Lockhart artist Adrian King will be present.

7:00 pm (Doors open 6 pm)
Tickets: £4/£3 conc.

Read by Johnny Dolphin

Johnny Dolphin, (aka John Allen) explorer, author, poet, playwright, scientist, inventor of Biosphere 2, has read poetry and prose around the world including at Shakespeare & Co., Paris; Greene Street Café, New York accompanied by Ornette Coleman on the saxophone; Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, Texas; and October Gallery (with poets Ira Cohen, Sebastian Barker, Jack Hirschman, Pops Mohammed, Jegede, and Aidan Andrew Dun), and at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco.

3.00 pm
Tickets £4/£2 conc.

Storm Boy
Dir: Henri Saffran (1976) (G)
Dur: 94 minutes
Daro Film Distribution

	Storm Boy

Best Film AFI Awards 1977, Moscow & Tehran Children’s Film Festivals

With David Gulpilil and Greg Rowe

This popular children’s film is based on the novel by Australian author Colin Thiele.

Storm Boy lives with his reclusive fisherman father on South Australia's lonely and beautiful Coorong coast, a pet pelican, Mr Percival, and his Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill for company. Storm Boy, growing up, is forced to choose between a life of continued isolation and the challenge of the world outside.

The October Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian High Commission, London

7.30 pm (Doors open 7.00 pm)
Tickets: £5/£4 conc.

Yellow Fella
Dir: Ivan Sen (2005) Dur: 25 mins.
CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd
Official Selection Cannes – Un Certain Regard 2005

	Yellow Fella

The latest documentary from award winning director Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds, Dust, Wind, Tears), featuring Tom E Lewis and Angelina George.

“I’m not black, I’m not white, I’m a yellow fella and I’m gonna stay that way”.

In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith*. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom’s mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of southern Arnhem Land, his father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew.

Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom’s past, as he attempts to find the resting place of his father and to finally confront the truth of his most inner feelings of love and identity.

*The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1978.

Green Bush
Dir: Warwick Thornton (2005)
Dur: 26 mins
CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd
With David Page (resident composer for Bangara Dance Theatre) in his big screen debut.

	Green Bush

Winner Panorama Best Short Film, Berlin International Film festival

Local DJ Kenny realises his job at the Aboriginal community radio station is about more than just playing music. Kenny jokes that his Green Bush show is broadcast to a ‘captive’ audience – namely the local prison. While taking requests from those on the inside and out, Kenny has to cope with the results of a wild night outside and learn his place in the circle of violence.

Green Bush is a celebration of an era of music, working for the cause and getting things done – but not in the way you would expect.

The October Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian High Commission, London

Free Admission

3.00 pm
THE INDIGENOUS ART MARKET IN AUSTRALIA
Talk by Lauraine Diggins of Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

Melbourne based dealer Lauraine Diggins is a specialist in 19th and 20th century Australian painting, Aboriginal art, sculpture and decorative arts.

Lauraine has dealt in Aboriginal art since 1983 with a particular focus on bark and Western Desert dot paintings. She actively promotes Australian Indigenous art through her participation in international exhibitions and art fairs.

Lauraine will speak about the development of Australian Indigenous painting and the expectations of the art world, whilst exploring stylistic, cultural and conceptual differences between European and Aboriginal painting traditions.

4.30 pm
MR PATTERNS
Dir: Catriona McKenzie (2004)
Dur: 54 minutes
Film Australia

	Mr Patterns

In the 1970’s in Australia’s Western Desert, a teacher named Geoff Bardon helped start one of the most significant art movements of the 20th century. Working with the Aboriginal community at Papunya, he encouraged the people to paint their traditional dot designs using western materials. In defiance of white authorities, Bardon also encouraged the artists to value their work commercially as well as spiritually, believing that by selling paintings the people could become independent of welfare, and bring Indigenous art to the attention of the wider community. This is his story.

The October Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian High Commission, London

6:30 pm (Doors open 6 pm)
Tickets: £7/£5 conc.

	Allen and Blake

Continuing a thought-provoking series of discourses which began in 1994, Allen and Blake, two outstanding contemporary thinkers, exchange views about human existence. John Allen is inventor of Biosphere 2, engineer, author, poet, dramaturge, and co-founder of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a UK registered charity that creates hands-on educational programmes and conducts research and development of ecological projects. Anthony Blake is a philosopher, specifically interested in the history and philosophy of science and practical metaphysical and educational systems, author of A Seminar on Time, The Intelligent Enneagram and Structures of Meaning and founder of DuVersity, a non-profit organisation hosting dialogue workshops and seminars.

	Liliane Lijn with Gemini Close

6.30pm Doors open 6 pm

£7/£5 conc.

Liliane Lijn speaks about her experience this summer when the Arts Council England awarded her the first artist residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory at University of California at Berkeley. Her fellowship was funded by Arts Council England's International Artists Fellowship Programme and the Space Sciences Laboratory, with support from NASA and the Leonardo Network.

Lijn is one of the foremost exponents of kinetic art using plastics, mixed media, liquids and light. She has featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Britain, Europe and Japan, and is represented in important public and private collections in Britain, France, Australia and the United States. Her work was featured in the exhibition 'Art and the 60s: This was Tomorrow’ at Tate Britain during 2004, and in 2005, the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre held a retrospective of her work through to 1980.

A part of the Club Ecumene Series of events at the October Gallery

2.00-6.00 pm
Doors open 1.30pm

An afternoon of talks, demonstrations and discussion to explore the creative potential of fire as both a tool and metaphor in art-making practice. A panel of speakers will cover the history of pyrographic arts and explore ideas surrounding the contemporary use of fire in performance, conceptual and process-based art. Artists Sandile Zulu and El Anatsui have made extensive use of the fluid and fertile potential of fire as a conceptual element within their work. Following a chaired discussion with open debate and question time, El Anatsui will give a practical demonstration of his technique. As a diverse range of ideas are raised by this subject, there will be an opportunity to continue any heated debates over a buffet of flame-grilled delicacies in the Gallery's courtyard from 5pm.

Tickets £5 (£10 with BBQ). Student Rate: £4 (£8 with BBQ).
Limited Places. Booking advised. Pay Bar.

	Bedevil

19:30

BEDEVIL (1993)

Dur: 90 mins Director: Tracey Moffatt. Debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (Nice Coloured Girls, Night Cries) and the first feature directed by an Aboriginal woman. A trilogy of ghost stories, 'Mister Chuck', 'Choo Choo Choo' and 'Lovin' The Spin I'm In', all set in Moffatt's highly stylised Australian landscape.

'A stunning visual assault which envelops the ideas she initiated in her short film, Night Cries' Tait Brady, Melbourne Film Festival.

Tracey Moffatt is a renowned photographer and filmmaker now living and working in New York. In 2003, a retrospective spanning thirty years of her work was held at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

	Black and White

19:30

BLACK AND WHITE (2003)

Dur: 101 mins Director: Craig Lahiff with David Ngoombujarra, Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn. Screenplay by Louis Nowra. A drama based on a 1958 trial in Adelaide. David Ngoombujarra plays Max Stuart, an illiterate fairground worker convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl. Young immigrant solicitor David O'Sullivan (Robert Carlyle) convinced Stuart's confession was obtained under duress, battles to save him from the gallows and finds himself pitted against the establishment. A young Rupert Murdoch (Ben Mendelsohn) rallies public opinion behind O'Sullivan in a landmark case which reaches the Privy Council in England. 'It slices open the social (black) heart of this society merely 50 years ago, to reveal it as not only racist and sexist but class-driven to boot' Andrew L. Urban

19:30

GULPILIL: ONE RED BLOOD (2002)

Dur: 56 mins Director: Darlene Johnson. During an acting career spanning 36 years, David Gulpilil has starred in some of Australia's most successful films including Storm Boy, The Last Wave, Crocodile Dundee, Dead Heart, Rabbit Proof Fence and The Tracker. This documentary examines the life of a fascinating and highly respected Australian actor, contrasting Gulpilil's traditional life as a Mandipingu man in Ramingining, Arnhem Land with his career as an internationally renowned film star. Darlene Johnson is an award winning filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries Stolen Generations and The Making of Rabbit Proof Fence. Her portrait of David Gulpilil, One Red Blood was nominated for a Logie Award.

Followed by:

WALKABOUT (1971)

Dur: 100mins The Re-released Director's Cut. Based on the novel of the same name by James Vance Marshall, Nicholas Roeg's cult classic stars a young David Gulpilil in his film debut, with Jenny Agutter and Lucien John. Two children are stranded in the desert after their father attempts to kill them and then commits suicide. Their survival is dependent on an Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on walkabout during his initiation into manhood who guides them back to civilisation. A sexual tension develops between the girl and the Aboriginal boy, both on the threshold of adulthood. Roeg's film has multi-layers of meaning and contains minimal dialogue. The cinematography is a visual treat capturing the harsh beauty of the Australian outback.

The Australia Day Foundation and the October Gallery are proud to present an Australian Film Season

Doors open 7.00 pm - Films start 7.30 pm - All films £5.00 - Bar

Bookings: 020 7831 1618

16:00 Performance with full presentation by Hodson and Archer, followed by high tea and champagne. A unique performance by three dancers. Originally performed in 1911, Nijinsky's lost ballet, Jeux, has been newly reconstructed based on original choreographic notes by Nijinsky, discovered in December of last year. Dance historians Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer have done meticulous detective work, finally proving that this ballet, long called his 'Bloomsbury Ballet', was indeed about Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and have faithfully reconstructed to Nijinsky's choreography.
£25

14:00 Performance and short presentation of the history of the ballet, by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer.
£15

18:30 Continuing a thought-provoking series of dialogues which began in 1994, Allen and Blake, two outstanding contemporary thinkers, will exchange views about human existence. John Allen is co-founder of the Institute of Ecotechnics, inventor of Biosphere 2, engineer, author, poet, and dramaturge; Anthony Blake is a philosopher, specifically interested in the history and philosophy of science and practical metaphysical and educational systems, author of A Seminar on Time, The Intelligent Enneagram and Structures of Meaning and founder of DuVersity, a non-profit organisation hosting dialogue workshops and seminars.
£7/£5 concessions

18:30 This illustrated talk will give a brief introduction to the esoteric and highly ornate iconography employed in Tibetan Buddhist art, entering into a wide-ranging discussion of the various levels of symbolic meaning contained within its imagery. Beer, the author of several authoritative books on the subject, including the monumental work, The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs, has studied and practised Tibetan thangka painting for more than thirty years. Over the last two decades, Beer has concentrated on an extensive series of iconographical drawings depicting the major deities, lineage holders, and symbols that occur in Tibetan art, and his evident passion for the subject makes him one of only a few western speakers able to traverse this fascinating yet complex field with an insight gained from detailed practical experience.
£7/£5 concessions

19:00 Robert Irwin is the author of six novels and five works of non-fiction. He is an editor at the Times Literary Supplement, a fellow of the London Institute of Pataphysics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His most recent book is Alhambra.
£7/£5 concessions

18:30 Film showing and book launch. Brion Gysin, painter, writer, sound poet, is best known for his invention of the cut-up technique with collaborator William Burroughs and the invention of the Dream Machine. Brion Gysin Loves Ya, a film by Marie Harding documenting Gysin's first October Gallery exhibition, will be shown. Writer Terry Wilson will read from his new book, Perilous Passage (Synergetic Press) an account of his apprenticeship with Gysin. In it, he details the extreme psychic 'Third Mind' effects known as The Process.
£7/£5 concessions

19:00 If one cannot tell the dancer from the dance, how can dance be recorded? Each dance tradition has at least one unique form of notation, but these have never been an artform in themselves. Can video-dance and new technology break this tradition? Can dead dance forms be resurrected from written records or is cultural salvage impossible? And is there a universal language of dance constrained by biology, or do different cultures reinvent ritual movements independently. With UCL neurobiologist Daniel Glaser chairing this illustrated discussion, three choreographers from contrasting traditions will use body doubles to tell their stories.
£7/5 concessions

18:30 In 1966, artist Gustav Metzger organised the international Symposium of Destruction in Art (DIAS) in London. It was attended by many visitors from Europe and America, including Yoko Ono. Ten years later, punk emerged, highly influenced by the ideas and practices of DIAS. A panel, including Metzger himself, discusses the development and relationship between the punk movement and autodestructive art.

18:30 Houghton, a long-time student of Oriental movement, is one of the founders of Core of Culture, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the world's cultural heritage of ancient dance. This talk will be illustrated by footage that documents the ancient tantric dance tradition of Ladakh, and Core of Culture's most recent project to analyse and catalogue the dances of an entire country, the Kingdom of Bhutan, over the next several years.
£7/£5 concessions

20:00 Theatre of All Possibilities and The Vasulkas collaborate in a demonstration of digital art and performance work based on a new type of electronically-generated emoting robotic characters. Theatre of All Possibilities is a 35-year-old company devoted to the exploration of new work, performing worldwide. The Vasulkas are pioneers of electronic art.
£8/£6 concessions

19:00 UK premiere of a new film by Marie Arnaud and Michele Decoust, about the conception, launch (in 1975), and ecological work of the Research Vessel Heraclitus. With its multicultural crew, the ferro-cement Chinese junk is commissioned by Planetary Coral Reef Foundation (PCRF) to map and assess the health of reefs worldwide. Question and answer session led by Abigail Alling, Director of PCRF. All proceeds from the event will go to support the work of the foundation.
£8/£6 concessions

19:30 Fenley Is one of modern dance's living legends. After a critically-acclaimed season working with her company in New York this September, Fenley makes a rare appearance, joining her friends at the October Gallery to launch Dance Up Close. She is known for an inventive and energetic style. Fenley founded her dance company in 1977, and has worked with composers such as Phillip Glass and John Cage.
£12/£10 concessions

10:30 Introduction by John Allen, co-founder of the October Gallery. Slide presentation of the work of the October Gallery: 25 Years On, by Chili Hawes, Director, and Elisabeth Lalouschek, Artistic Director.(Doors open at 10.00 for coffee/tea) 11.30 Round table discussion led by John Picton, Professor Emeritus of African Art at SOAS, with Augustus Casley-Hayford, Rose Issa, Robert Loder and Sajid Rizvi. 13.00-14.00 Lunch with speakers and artists. 14.00-15.00 Guided Tour of exhibition in the company of artists of the Transvangarde.
£5.00/ £12.00 with lunch included

19:00 - 22:00 Metaphoric Fireworks of Words with some of the world's wildest poets: Ira Cohen, Johnny Dolphin, Ruth Padel, Aidan Andrew Dun, Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, Simon Vinkenoog and Sebastian Barker who will also offer a tribute to Tambimuttu, Editor, Poetry London 1948-1983.
£8/£6 concessions

October Gallery celebrates its 25 year anniversary this Autumn, launching Intelligence Now!, a spectacular exhibition of work by contemporary artists from around the planet, on 4th November, 2004.

Anniversary festivities will also include seminars, poetry, performances and installations, introducing new directions for the gallery.