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. 6 .W 2 S 06 20 r 3 Au be gust 28 - Septem PB Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine Editor’s letter Blitz Magazine: Telephone: 02 985 775 Fax: 02 9313 8626 Address: PO Box 7, Kingsford 202 Level , Blockhouse, Lower Campus [email protected] Web: www.source.unsw.edu.au Blitz Advertising: Advertising Artwork 2 days prior to publication. Bookings 20 days prior to publication. Rates and enquiries should be by Rob Gascoigne directed to Charlotte O’Brien Have a Heart: Phone: 985 7331 All Love is Equal 6 ’m notorious for making huge sweeping Email: [email protected] statements with only the vaguest foundation in the truth, but I’m going to Contributions: Imake another one right now. My all time, Letters, articles, photos and other printable absolute favourite play is Angels in America. matter are welcome. Please contact the I have no doubt that you would have seen, editor to discuss suitability. or heard of, the excellent miniseries. If you haven’t seen it yet – on stage or screen Publisher: – check it out. You’re missing one of the best Blitz is published each Monday of session by works by one of this world’s best writers UNSW Source. (Tony Kushner should be beatified); it would be criminal if you missed it. The views expressed herein are not Artsweek 2006 17 necessarily the views of UNSW Source, Why raise this now? Well, as a ‘gay fantasia’, unless as expressly stated. UNSW Source it combines two of this week’s most accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of prominent themes: queer pride and the arts. any of the opinions or information contained in this issue of Blitz. Any complaints should This week is the Student Guild’s Pride Week, be addressed to the Communications an event that celebrates the solidarity of the Manager, PO Box 7, Kingsford 202 queer community on campus. There is a range of events being held on campus. Have a look at page five for more details. Flick Printing: has also put together a feature on civil Printed by Agency, Seven Hills. Rates and unions for gay couples. She has also Enquiries should be directed to Fan Fiction: interviewed a queer documentary filmmaker 8825 8900. and the author of a certain children’s book The First Time 19 you may remember. Blitz Team 2006: Editor: Rob Gascoigne President’s Report 4 Pride Week is an important event. The world Reporters: Alex Serpo, Flick Strong is becoming more open to variety, or so it Designer: Justin Theng Pride Week Highlights 5 would appear. There’s no such thing as a Cover Design: Justin Theng ‘normal’ person or a ‘normal family anymore Snapshot 8 (if, indeed, there ever was). We all of us have Cover Photo: Scott Carn to be accepting of this wondrous variety. If I Communications Manager: Yellow (Shirt) Fever 9 may revert back to my favourite play; there’s Marina Spurgin, 02 985 7731 a point at which an aged Mormon mother Puzzles 10 sits down for a chat with a gay man with Advertising & Sponsorship Coordinator: AIDS. When he suggests that he can just Charlotte O’Brien Operation Queer Space 11 imagine what she must think about him, she 02 985 7331 shoots him down saying, ‘you don’t make judgments about me, and I won’t make ‘em Marketing Manager: What’s On 12 about you’. Donna Wiemann Comics 15 You will also notice that there is a fair bit of material in this issue promoting Artsweek, Artsweek Comedy Debate 16 coming up in Week Seven. The week promises to be an exciting celebration of culture on and around campus. Make sure Make Up Dos and Don’ts 18 that you pick up a copy of unsweetened, the campus’ annual literary journal. There’s Reviews 20 always something interesting in there. Classifieds 22 Finally, Dave Carter, who provides some of the comics you’ve seen in Blitz, will be Vox Pops 23 launching his website ‘davecarter.com’ this Friday, September . If you’re interested in seeing a UNSW Student’s efforts branching out into the big bad world, be at the Tap Gallery, Level / 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst at 7.0pm. He will be screening some of his films from 8pm. If you can’t make it, check out the website after Friday. Blitz Magazine Can you believe it’s already Week Six? launch of the publication will be held at This session seems to be moving at a the UNSW Bookshop at 6pm, Tuesday rather quick pace! There is a veritable September 5. Come along, listen to readings feast of cultural and community of some of the published works, enjoy the activities happening at UNSW over the light refreshments, and pick up your free next two weeks. copy of the journal. Week 6 is also the Guild’s Pride Week. ome of you may have seen Activities being held this week include a information about the “How visibility picnic on the library lawn, a series of To” courses being run at the workshops including relationship and anti- SRoundhouse. These courses are discrimination workshops, and a cocktail one hour sessions, free for students, that party. Contact the Guild Queer Department teach you a whole heap of interesting, fun at [email protected] for more information. and useful skills. For example, the courses being run this week are “make up do’s and This week is also the last week for Yellow don’ts” on August 29 and 31. The course Shirt Orientation Week Leader applications. is being run by Napoleon (make up artists). Pick up an application form at Blockhouse “Bollywood” and “R&B Dancing” courses reception, the stall at the Library Lawn from are being held respectively on September 9 -2pm or email and 2. To register your interest, just visit the [email protected]. source website www.source.unsw.edu.au. Finally, don’t forget that, for those of you Next week is the Source’s annual Artsweek studying late or on weekends on campus, festival. Artsweek is a great opportunity to the Colonnade (Quad Building) is open until get involved with the creative side of UNSW, 7.45pm Monday-Thursday, Esme’s café (top with workshops, entertainment, activities, of Basser steps) is open on Saturdays from the launch of the Source’s unsweetened, 0am-4pm and the Arcade store (Mathews the U Film Festival, and the Lenslife photo Arcade) is open from 10am-3pm Saturdays competition. and Sundays. You also receive a 0% discount at these outlets. Unsweetened is the Source’s annual literary journal, which is written, designed Cheers, and published by students. Over 0 of the more than 00 entries for the journal have Kate Bartlett been published. 2006’s unsweetened is Source President guaranteed to be a top quality read. The Week Six is Pride Week, a celebration of solidarity and diversity, recognising what rights we already have and what rights we need to fight for. The week is coordinated by the UNSW Queer Department, a Student Guild Department that promotes acceptance of gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex and non-heterosexual UNSW Students. If you are a queer-identifying student, or a queer friendly student, take advantage of the great activities on offer during the week. We’ve given you a little taste here. Visibility Picnic Sydney Sexual Health Movie Night: Saving Face All queer and queer friendly students are Outreach Stall and Head On welcome to come along for some free food The stall will be promoting health awareness Based on Writer-Director Alice Wu’s own and free drinks. There will also be a petition campaigns targeting safe sex practices and experiences of coming out, Saving Face is available to be signed for same-sex marriage. STI prevention. a movie about a young Chinese-American Monday 2-2pm surgeon, her pregnant mother, and her Wednesday 11am-2pm Library Lawn dancer girlfriend. To help her mother save Quadrangle (outside Colonnade Coffee Shop) face and avoid a taboo in the Chinese community of a pregnant, unmarried woman, Sex, Fetish and Erotica – Women’s Sexual Health the doctor helps find Mr. Right. Cultures clash for guys who are attracted in this film that explores culture shock. This is a lesbian specific workshop. Have no Head On tells the story of 9-year-old Ari to guys idea what lesbian safe-sex is? Want some as he confronts both his sexuality and his questions answered but don’t know who to traditional Greek family. Frustrated with the This is a workshop for men only. Come ask? Lynne Martin from Sydney Sexual Health conflict, Ari jams all his energy and defiance, along for an introduction to different sexual Services is here to help you. pain and joy into one high velocity night of practices and safe sex practices. Various dancing, sex and drugs. materials will be presented. Wednesday 4-5pm Queerspace (Applied Sciences, room 920) Thursday 7pm Monday 5:0-6:0pm D0, G0 Queerspace (room 920, Applied Sciences Building) Religion Panel Cocktail Party Speakers will be commenting on the Relationship Rights approach taken by different religions to queer All are welcome to attend a cocktail night to and Discrimination Law issues. Speakers will include Peter Pilkington round out the week. Free alcohol. ID required. from Christian Students Uniting, Kim Gottlieb Workshop from Jewish Renewal and Winton Higgins, an Friday 7pm ‘til late academic from UTS, speaking on Buddhism. Queerspace (Applied Science Room 920) This is a workshop specific to same sex couples. The focus will be on discrimination Thursday 2-4pm based on sexuality.