10 Day PARTY!

Another week and another Party, this time a 10 (working day) Party - it is literally that close to Mudfest that we can taste the kaliedoscope of what is on offer. JOIN US in celebrating the amazingness that is Mudfest 2011 and what is to come!

More details to be found on facebook!!

MUDDY WORKING BEE!!

As Mudfest 2011 is entirely paper-free, we need to get crafty with the publicity for the festival and each individual show, so the Mudfest team will be hosting a working bee from 10am-4pm on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th July (during o-week). Bring: friends and any crafty supplies you have at home! In the Arts Lab in Union House.

So far we are planning:
- Stencils fo...r chalking around the campuses
- TShirt/other fabulous outfit making
- Bunting!
- Making the information booth, which will hopefully be mobile
- Boards for event listings at venues
- Anything else we can think of!

[PS: Just to be clear, the working bee runs from 10-4 on Monday and Tuesday. It's not a 30 hour event, as appealing as that may be.]

IT WILL BE MARVELOUS AND FANTASTIC AND WONDERFUL AND AMAZING. SO COME!!! X

Splash!

It's the Mudfest footer!

MUDfest and the Farrago Round 2

From the last Mudfest Report:

“Media Collective

The Media Collective were contacted as soon as they were elected and met with re both supporting MUDFEST in farrago as well as possible project as they could run, either be they media or writing.

While initially highly responsive to promoting they were not interested in doing anything that distracted from their core work project wise despite repeated attempts to take the majority of the work off of them.

Their promotion of the festival was also poor, on occasions failing to put in agreed copy or advert due to ‘space restrictions’. I spent a lot of time communicating with the editors of farrago for little result and do feel the lack of MUDFEST presence in farrago was a key loss in publicity terms and in festival engagement”

Now for some much better news for Mudfest this year!

This year as previously mentioned Farrago has covered Mudfest 2011! They are also generally being gorgeous and following us on our twitter and facebook etc. It seems that there is a good working relationship between the arts officers and the editors this year so fingers crossed for HEAPS more publicity. Esp. as a paper free festival needs all the cross-promotional help it can get!

There is also a very pretty advertisement on the backpage of the current issue.

GO PICK IT UP NOW AND READ IT.

New Design.

In line with our ever-evolving relationship with the main Mudfest festival Muddy Leaks has had a bit of a makeover. We hope you love the new colour scheme. We think we have capitalised very nicely on the lovely design that is comping out of Mudfest 2011 proper! It's very pretty isn't it?

Retro Publicity Image

Isn't this Pretty?

Finally some 100 Day Party Photos!

Courtesy of Deep Hole. It may be uploaded by Lilly but you never know who is out there with a camera and a will to snap, snap, snap pictures. Featured here are a talented director/playwright, a moleskine journal and the a director of Mudfest. Guess who? 
More photos on the way as soon as they get developed (?) YES YOU HEARD CORRECTLY. Disposable cameras take extra effort...

Logos Officially Revealed

 It's black, it's white.... yeah.yeah.yeah.

A veritable kaliedoscope of colour!

We think here at Muddy Leaks that they are so good that we are going to use them/adapt them for our background to our blog. Yes! Indeed. A true homage at that.

For - Every - Pond - Has - A - Leakage

Yes, we have dropped the original tagline for one that makes a little more sense. That doesn't mean we don't want to catch the drips before they seep away. So feed us!

MUDfest site is live!

The Mudfest 2011 site is live and boy is it a pretty one. Hats off to the designers. Check out the home-page:

Totally Cute! There are links for applications; Tastings; twitter and also fb. So get linked in with both them and us and stay in touch with the latest in MUDfest news.

Speaking of rhinos

A word from the sponsors... cute huh?

100 Days Party Callout!

We want your contributions! Photos? T-shirts slogans? Gossip! Leaks?! Opinion. Stories! Poetry… anything. Please like us and  post them on facebook >  Muddy Leaks; Link them into our Twitter or email them to muddyleaks@gmail.com and our team will upload your submissions to the site. All submissions will remain anonymous should you so desire or you can get creative and come up with a code-name. (Yes! It is exactly like primary school).

(Yes we realise the boat neck is a little 80s. But run with it)

So what is the logo?

We are being teased! We are being teased I say about the design for MUDfest 2011 - however the more observant of you would have noticed the header on the application form - and also this:

The picture that is the profile pic for MUDfest Arts on facebook. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury (the internets) I think that we may have official leaks here! It's looking very pretty isn't it?

100 Days Party!

Muddy Leaks will be there with the best Overheards and the latest application gossip. Gorgeous design on the online flyer btw. Kudos due. Here is a link to the facebook event. No paper/flyers here (more on that later).

Biggest and Meanest Website

It isn't very pretty yet, but we are sure it will be when the site proper is launched. Until then... keep up to speed with all the dribbles and droplets of information right here on Muddy Leaks. We have our ears to the ground and our backs to the wall and our fingers at the ready to pull out any number of cliches to get the message out there into cyberspace.

We can NOT EXCLUSIVELY reveal that MUDfest will be running frtom 18th-28 August 2011.

Follow the link yourself and see, the intial concept artwork. Rumour (not Willis) has it that the site might be up and running and fuctioning 100 days out from MUDfest.

What Was MUDfest?

A MUDfest design 2007

2009 MUDfest Design

MUDfest was a bi-annual Arts Festival at the University of Melbourne. It was arty, fun and a fantastic opportunity for creative people to cross-pollinate their comfort zones into a delicious mix.

In recent years there was a container turned into a Muddy Duck Pond club-come-cabaret; theatre; people living in a caravan in North Court; a wax car; theatre; hidden installations so hidden they were never found; theatre; performance art; theatre. During MUDfest the University became a veritable humming hub of creativity.

This is what MUDfest was. Has been.

You note the past tense, dear reader?

It is now an endangered species.