Umbrella Theatre Does Crack Theatre Festival

Duckie Puppetry

Crack Theatre Festival is part of the experimental arts program, This Is Not Art (TINA) held in Newcastle over  the October long weekend every year. I’ve always loved this festival for its stimulating mix of performance, installations, workshops, readings and panel discussions. The Crack component is led by Artistic Directors (and artists in their own rights) Jane Grimley & Gareth …

Newcastle UV Street Art

Duckie Blog, Street Art Photography

Check out this wicked piece of street art I discovered just off Hunter Street Mall while running through the rain with a broken umbrella in Newcastle. I had passed it unknowingly by day and it appeared to be a rather unremarkable design of old film stars along a disused building. However by night the secret street art was revealed! Under …

Last Train Home

Duckie Visual Art

I went to Newcastle to attend TINA (This Is Not Art Festival) last year. Unfortunately I could only make one day of the Festival and had to catch the last train back from Newcastle on the Saturday night. This was perfectly timed for me to encounter all the bogans from the Central Coast on their drunken way home. Wonderful. Being …