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Wake Up Sydney!

May 5th, 2010 No Comments

Last year, Dumbo feather’s founder and editor, Kate Bezar, was asked to be part of a very special revolution, a revolution spear-headed by a very special man called Jono Fisher. Jono has made it his mission to bring together like-spirited people, to inspire them, to get them thinking and to get them doing … He [...]

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Freebie Friday

March 26th, 2010 1 Comment

Hey crew, we’ve got some great tickets to give away today to current Dumbo feather subscribers.
2 x double passes to the Sydney Theatre Company’s upcoming production ‘Stockholm‘
5 x double passes to the next major ACMI (in Melbourne) exhibition, ‘Tim Burton‘

Stockholm (17 March – 24 April) is performed by groundbreaking British physical theatre company, Frantic Assembly, [...]

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Proudly amateur

March 17th, 2010 8 Comments

[L is for Lover, not Loser]
To me the word ‘amateur’ has always had negative connotations. If I described someone as “such an amateur” I’d be implying that they didn’t really know what they were doing. But did you know, the word ‘amateur’ actually comes from the French meaning ‘lover of’? If you think about [...]

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Rarely done

March 15th, 2010 6 Comments

It’s rare that a press release makes us stop to think, or even laugh for that matter, but this morning we received one that did both. Here’s how it went;
“In the 1950s, novelist Kurt Vonnegut was fresh out of university. Wondering where his career was headed, he took a job at ‘Sports Illustrated’ magazine, where [...]

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A ‘Top’ shop

February 23rd, 2010 1 Comment

Our latest stockist is the best darn ‘corner’ store on Waiheke Island (just off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand). It’s called Waiheke Fruit & Veg, but generally goes by its nickname ‘The Top Shop’ and its owner Emily MacDonald is a pretty top lady herself. Not only is she still in her twenties (maybe [...]

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Alison’s award

February 17th, 2010 2 Comments

We know Alison Thompson’s interview in Issue 17 touched many of you. This Australia Day, her extraordinary spirit was recognised when she was awarded a MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION for “service to humanitarian aid, particularly the people of the Peraliya region of Sri Lanka following the Boxing Day [...]

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