Northbridge Piazza TV Guide

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Each week Lablogotheque invites an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, filming the whole session. What makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectedly. Their goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks.

A series of conversations with Perth artists and entrepreneurs.

Short Films at Northbridge Piazza

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Join Iris as she introduces Perth to the unique and catchy music of Norway.

Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people, resulting in a series of collaborative music performances from artists around the world.

Take a step back in time as PiazzaTV presents these often amusing retro shorts, from public service announcements to boogie-woogie and beyond. The best archival footage of the 1940s and '50s.

Each week Lablogotheque invites an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, filming the whole session. What makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectedly. Their goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks.

On February 20 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft. On this mission, Glenn flew over Perth and the people of Perth turned on their lights to acknowledge his mission. Glenn observed that the city was visible from space and Perth become known worldwide as the ‘City of Light’. This early space exploration mission set the stage for the Gemini and Apollo programs which culminated in NASA landing men on the moon.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Glenn’s orbit, on Monday 20 February 2012 an outdoor public event will be staged in the Northbridge Piazza, featuring a live audio and video link to the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth.

This free public event is being organised by the State Records Office of Western Australia, the WA Museum, the City of Perth, the Hills Amateur Radio Group, the Amateur Radio International Space Station and NASA.
State Archivist Cathrin Cassarchis said the highlight of the event will be an opportunity for young people to speak with and ask questions of the astronauts on the International Space Station.

Western Australian Museum Chief Executive, Alec Coles said people should come down to the Piazza on Monday 20 February from 5pm to see this unique public event; the first time school age children in Perth will have the opportunity to talk publicly with the International Space Station.
“The ‘City of Light’ anniversary event will also be supported with activities, displays and memorabilia highlighting Western Australia’s involvement in space exploration and the development of telecommunications in WA over the last 50 years,” said Mr Coles.

City of Perth Lord Mayor, Lisa Scaffidi said the City was pleased to be involved in hosting a free public event that engaged the community and recalled a very significant event in Perth’s history.

“Being able to communicate directly with the space station from the lawns of the Piazza shows how far technology has developed over the past 50 years,” Ms Scaffidi said.

“Perth attracted international attention in 1962 and since then we have developed into an international destination connected to the world.”

Between 1968 and 1972 twenty-four Americans journeyed to the Moon. They remain the only human beings to have visited another world. In this film the Apollo astronauts tell their own story, and share their reflections on what these great voyages of exploration meant to them and to humanity. The film features intimate and revealing interviews with prime crew members from every Apollo mission from Apollo 8, the first voyage around the Moon, to Apollo 17, the last lunar landing, during which two men lived on the surface for more than three days and nights. The interviews are interwoven with re-mastered NASA film footage, much of it never used before.

A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Astronaut Dave Bowman and four companions set off for Jupiter on a spaceship controlled by HAL 9000, a revolutionary computer system. When HAL threatens the lives of the crew themselves, Bowman has to escape - and in doing so, uncovers the true intention of the mission.

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