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October 8
BEAUTIFUL STARS With the warm breezes of spring invading, it’s back to the cellar for your Merlots and Pinot Noirs.  In their place, the heat begs for something cooling, with notes of lemon and lime or black currant.Stella Bella Wines, hidden in the Margaret River region, offers a distinctive selection of replacements for winter’s Reds.  A blushing Muscat with an aroma of rose petals, musk, and Turkish delight; Chardonnay promising notes of peach and honeydew; the Semillon Sauvignon Blanc thoughtfully blended with spices and stone fruits.For each wine, Stella Bella also offers a food pairing suggestion and time frame for imbibing when it’s most vital.As a special treat to all SmallNotes readers, Stella Bella would like to offer you 10% off any order placed online.  All you have to do is enter the code SBW10 in the coupon box.  Better yet, delivery is free within Australia.  Click here to order.Stella Bella is open daily from 10am - 5pm.  They are located at 205 Rosabrook Road, Margaret River, Western Australia.

BEAUTIFUL STARS

With the warm breezes of spring invading, it’s back to the cellar for your Merlots and Pinot Noirs.  In their place, the heat begs for something cooling, with notes of lemon and lime or black currant.

Stella Bella Wines, hidden in the Margaret River region, offers a distinctive selection of replacements for winter’s Reds.  A blushing Muscat with an aroma of rose petals, musk, and Turkish delight; Chardonnay promising notes of peach and honeydew; the Semillon Sauvignon Blanc thoughtfully blended with spices and stone fruits.

For each wine, Stella Bella also offers a food pairing suggestion and time frame for imbibing when it’s most vital.

As a special treat to all SmallNotes readers, Stella Bella would like to offer you 10% off any order placed online.  All you have to do is enter the code SBW10 in the coupon box.  Better yet, delivery is free within Australia.  Click here to order.

Stella Bella is open daily from 10am - 5pm.  They are located at 205 Rosabrook Road, Margaret River, Western Australia.

September 28
MERCHANTS OF FANCY Flying trapeze artists, a dervish-like shot-putter, and tea-cup-pollinating bees act as tour guides in a virtual amble through DISTRACTED: Merchants of Fancy, Perth’s preeminent curiosity shop. It’s an alluring dance to get you to visit in person. When you do, you’ll get lost perusing French cutlery, Lomo cameras, and BedHead pajamas. Extract yourself in time to stop by the Haircut shop where the stylists will make you feel polished without using your head as their own personal canvas. See Connie “The Ripper” Burt, their efficient waxing specialist, for a different sort of maintence. Refresh at the Coffee shop, with sustainably-grown Fiori coffee, an ever-evolving menu of delicacies, and rich treats by neighborhood bakers. Or contemplate works by local artists in their gallery. Make sure to mark your calendar for the first of every month, when they host their Distracted Manual Arts Academy, a workshop with instructors from a roster of respected local artisans.

MERCHANTS OF FANCY

Flying trapeze artists, a dervish-like shot-putter, and tea-cup-pollinating bees act as tour guides in a virtual amble through DISTRACTED: Merchants of Fancy, Perth’s preeminent curiosity shop.

It’s an alluring dance to get you to visit in person. When you do, you’ll get lost perusing French cutlery, Lomo cameras, and BedHead pajamas.

Extract yourself in time to stop by the Haircut shop where the stylists will make you feel polished without using your head as their own personal canvas. See Connie “The Ripper” Burt, their efficient waxing specialist, for a different sort of maintence.

Refresh at the Coffee shop, with sustainably-grown Fiori coffee, an ever-evolving menu of delicacies, and rich treats by neighborhood bakers. Or contemplate works by local artists in their gallery.

Make sure to mark your calendar for the first of every month, when they host their Distracted Manual Arts Academy, a workshop with instructors from a roster of respected local artisans.

September 7
DOT DOT DASH You’re sinking, sinking, sinking into Quicksand… fortunately, it’s the first issue of dot dot dash, the thoroughly absorbing new literary magazine out of Perth. Christened for Morse code’s letter U, its similarity to “duck duck goose”, and the glee of annoying people trying to get to their website (“just go to double-u double-u double-u dot dotdotdash dot org”), the quarterly publication is a treasury of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, illustrations, drawings, and photos. The dot dot dash collective also hosts Draw Rites, a series of free collaborative workshops meant to foster artistic discourse between writers and artists.Pick up your own copy here, and if you’re feeling particularly brave and talented, go here to submit your work.

DOT DOT DASH

You’re sinking, sinking, sinking into Quicksand… fortunately, it’s the first issue of dot dot dash, the thoroughly absorbing new literary magazine out of Perth.

Christened for Morse code’s letter U, its similarity to “duck duck goose”, and the glee of annoying people trying to get to their website (“just go to double-u double-u double-u dot dotdotdash dot org”), the quarterly publication is a treasury of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, illustrations, drawings, and photos.

The dot dot dash collective also hosts Draw Rites, a series of free collaborative workshops meant to foster artistic discourse between writers and artists.

Pick up your own copy here, and if you’re feeling particularly brave and talented, go here to submit your work.

September 1
Watery Muted Landscapes Joanna Logue’s watery, muted landscapes immediately call to mind the blissful state between sleep and wakefulness, the moment you grasp at consciousness unsure of your position in dream or reality. Her ship studies, currently on view at Perth’s Gadfly Gallery, are ghosts across canvas, as intangible as ribbons of smoke. Drift through the exhibition at Gadfly any time between now and September 13th or visit online here.Gadfly Gallery 131B Waratah AveDalkeith 6009 Western Australia

Watery Muted Landscapes

Joanna Logue’s watery, muted landscapes immediately call to mind the blissful state between sleep and wakefulness, the moment you grasp at consciousness unsure of your position in dream or reality.

Her ship studies, currently on view at Perth’s Gadfly Gallery, are ghosts across canvas, as intangible as ribbons of smoke.

Drift through the exhibition at Gadfly any time between now and September 13th or visit online here.

Gadfly Gallery
131B Waratah Ave
Dalkeith 6009 Western Australia

August 25

BAR CENTRAL

Off Barcelona’s La Rambla sits La Boqueria, an open-air market and virtual hive humming with the steady activity of its vendors.  And at the back of La Boqueria, past swinging legs of cured ham, pyramids of tender peaches, and gelatinous octopus heaped on mountains of shaved ice, is Bar Central.

Little more than a stove, counter and beer tap, Bar Central is consistently crowded with those fortunate enough to have secured a stool, and the hungry masses who circle the counter like sharks, waiting to snag an opening.

SmallNotes’ best Barcelonan spread started with a glass of Estrella, followed by artfully arranged asparagus. The plate of crawfish arrived soon after, and we gleefully chopped off the heads and peeled them with our hands. We finished with a pile of deep-fried sardines. Pure heaven.

Bar Central
91 La Rambla,
Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 494–496
Barcelona, Spain
34-93-301-1098

August 3
A LIFE WELL-LIVED Photographer Tom Palumbo’s archival project offers us a portal into a life well-lived. In it, the scandal-hungry gather around Truman Capote for gossip, Palumbo’s small son innocently offers him a pack of Lucky Strikes, the first spark of love is captured at an Yves saint Laurent after-party, and a saucer-eyed teenage Mia Farrow hides a secret (she was dating Frank Sinatra). In each image, an innate trust between the photographer and his subject is present, consistently revealing something authentic and extraordinary.  Dip into his images here or visit his website to request prints.

A LIFE WELL-LIVED

Photographer Tom Palumbo’s archival project offers us a portal into a life well-lived.

In it, the scandal-hungry gather around Truman Capote for gossip, Palumbo’s small son innocently offers him a pack of Lucky Strikes, the first spark of love is captured at an Yves saint Laurent after-party, and a saucer-eyed teenage Mia Farrow hides a secret (she was dating Frank Sinatra).


In each image, an innate trust between the photographer and his subject is present, consistently revealing something authentic and extraordinary.  

Dip into his images here or visit his website to request prints.

July 23
OTHERWORLDLY On July 25th, Earth’s five elemental planes will compress themselves, convening in one spot: Perth’s Condor Tower car park.Ololo, an art production group, mobilized more than 60 artists to transfigure the grey walls and dark corners of the space into something otherworldly. What you’ll step into is perhaps the largest permanent street art exhibition in the southern hemisphere.  The levels include Space, Sky, Land, Underwater and Core, with whispers of a 6th level. See if you can find your way to the Heavens.This Saturday will mark the only night the exhibition is open to the public, so be sure to arrive when doors open at 6PM. Condor Tower Car Park22 St. Georges TerracePerth, WA 6000

OTHERWORLDLY

On July 25th, Earth’s five elemental planes will compress themselves, convening in one spot: Perth’s Condor Tower car park.

Ololo, an art production group, mobilized more than 60 artists to transfigure the grey walls and dark corners of the space into something otherworldly. What you’ll step into is perhaps the largest permanent street art exhibition in the southern hemisphere.  The levels include Space, Sky, Land, Underwater and Core, with whispers of a 6th level. See if you can find your way to the Heavens.

This Saturday will mark the only night the exhibition is open to the public, so be sure to arrive when doors open at 6PM.

Condor Tower Car Park
22 St. Georges Terrace
Perth, WA 6000

July 14
MISTY PARISIAN DREAMS If you’ve ever dreamed of writing your first novel while overlooking the rooftops of Paris from a garret window, a galois cigarette dangling from your mouth, it seems the Sydney Writers’ Centre has read your mind.  This fall, they’re offering Memoir Writing in Paris, a 16-day intensive led by Patti Miller, author of the best-selling Writing Your Life. The course has been crafted to draw deeply on the City of Light’s unique ability to inspire.  Mornings will be spent immersed in study, leaving your afternoons free to explore literary rambles leading you in the footsteps of your most beloved writers or cafes once frequented by de Beauvoir and Sartre.  For further enlightenment, click here.

MISTY PARISIAN DREAMS

If you’ve ever dreamed of writing your first novel while overlooking the rooftops of Paris from a garret window, a galois cigarette dangling from your mouth, it seems the Sydney Writers’ Centre has read your mind.  

This fall, they’re offering Memoir Writing in Paris, a 16-day intensive led by Patti Miller, author of the best-selling Writing Your Life. The course has been crafted to draw deeply on the City of Light’s unique ability to inspire.  

Mornings will be spent immersed in study, leaving your afternoons free to explore literary rambles leading you in the footsteps of your most beloved writers or cafes once frequented by de Beauvoir and Sartre.  

For further enlightenment, click here.

June 30
TURNING JAPANESE This morning you awoke trying to speak Japanese and now the clouds floating above your building look like Moai from Easter Island.  Give in to your persistent travel fantasies and allow yourself to get lost in a site called Matador.Boasting abundant resources for running away from home, Matador will introduce you to someone who knows how to find a job in Antarctica, provide inspiration for road tripping through South Korea, or teach you those useful Japanese phrases you couldn’t quite grasp in the throes of sleep. Visit Matador online here to begin your adventure.

TURNING JAPANESE

This morning you awoke trying to speak Japanese and now the clouds floating above your building look like Moai from Easter Island.  Give in to your persistent travel fantasies and allow yourself to get lost in a site called Matador.

Boasting abundant resources for running away from home, Matador will introduce you to someone who knows how to find a job in Antarctica, provide inspiration for road tripping through South Korea, or teach you those useful Japanese phrases you couldn’t quite grasp in the throes of sleep.

Visit Matador online here to begin your adventure.

June 21
BIG SCREEN STYLE Before she was freeing women from corsets and slipping them into free flowing jersey suits, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel could be found performing in a Vichy nightclub.  Billed as “Coco,” short for cocotte, the French word for “kept woman”, she desperately tried to sing through the din created by her drunken audience.Years later, Coco would use her leverage as a cocotte to plant the seeds for history’s most influential fashion empire.To further educate yourself in all things Chanel, join Alliance Fraincaise de Perth on June 28th at 4:45 for a screening of Coco Avant Chanel at the Windsor Cinema in Perth, Western Australia.Our national and international SmallNotes readers can find release dates here.

BIG SCREEN STYLE

Before she was freeing women from corsets and slipping them into free flowing jersey suits, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel could be found performing in a Vichy nightclub.  Billed as “Coco,” short for cocotte, the French word for “kept woman”, she desperately tried to sing through the din created by her drunken audience.

Years later, Coco would use her leverage as a cocotte to plant the seeds for history’s most influential fashion empire.

To further educate yourself in all things Chanel, join Alliance Fraincaise de Perth on June 28th at 4:45 for a screening of Coco Avant Chanel at the Windsor Cinema in Perth, Western Australia.

Our national and international SmallNotes readers can find release dates here.

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