If you’re in Melbourne at the moment don’t miss these 3 awesome events featuring Luke YOU at ACMI, Federation Square:
Correspondence Talk
On Thursday 4th September at 6pm in the ACMI Cinema Luke YOU will be speaking on the panel The Art of Correspondence along with Julie Millowick, Tamsin Sharp and Mark Siebert. These four artists swap notes on how they use, and interpret, correspondence.

Correspondence Workshop 1
Sunday 7th September get along to a workshop with Luke YOU and learn how to create your own unique anonymous correspondence as a work of art. In this one day workshop you're invited to write a zine under the guise of YOU for distribution in cities around the world including; Melbourne, Sydney, London, Glasgow, Chicago and San Francisco. Luke You will guide you through the process of do-it-yourself zine writing, copying and distribution. Participants may drop in any time between 12 and 5pm and it is free!!

Correspondence Workshop 2: YOU on film
And, the piece de resistance … on Sunday 14th September also at 12pm, join in an amazing collaboration with Luke YOU to create a limited edition version of the YOU zine by writing your own anonymous letter to read on camera. BYO pen and disguise for this anonymous DIY zine and film collaboration. The resulting film will be distributed in cities around the world, and screened at ACMI on Sunday 2 November, 10-6pm. Participants may drop in any time between 12 and 5pm and it is free!!

In November 2008, an exciting community-based arts project will take place in the Preston Market, Melbourne. Traders, patrons and young people will develop and perform a live theatre show and multimedia exhibition. This will be staged in the heart of the market. Breakdown Press in conjuction with the people of Preston Market and Trax Art will be publishing a book to partly document the Market Value Project and celebrate the Preston Markets. More information soon!

Sat 14.6.2008, 2pm - 5pm.
Sticky, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne, Australia.
'You' bag making marathon. Luke You will make as many 'You' bags as possible with the help of the general public. All welcome.

Friday 27.6.2008, 7pm with Dave Roche and Luke You.
Quimbys, 1854 West North Avenue, Chicago, USA.
Dave Roche will read from his zine 'On Subbing', Luke You will read from the zine 'You' and talk about the Australian zine scene.

Saturday 28.6.2008, with Dave Roche and Luke You.
Sweet Hickory, 317 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, Illinois, USA.
Dave Roche will read from his zine 'On Subbing', Luke You will read from the zine 'You' and talk about the Australian zine scene.

Sunday 6.7.2008, 1.30pm.
Toronto Zine Library, TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Avenue, south of Bloor, 2nd Floor Rehearsal Hall, Toronto, Canada.
Luke You will read from the zine 'You' and talk about the Australian zine scene.

CALLOUT for Submissions
In late 2008 a new edition of the "How To Make Trouble And Influence People" series of books will be published including all three of the original books plus new chapters, interviews, graphics and more!!
For those not familiar with the series so far each book has compiled listings and tales of left wing and anarchist political satire, pranks, hoaxes and direct action from Australia and Aotearoa alongside photos of graffiti, billboard revisions and protests and reprints of posters, flyers and stickers.

So what we want from you … from the smallest local happening to the grandest most ambitious hoax imaginable!
• PHOTOS of Graffiti, Pranks, Culture Jamming, Political Mischief Making, Interventions, Street Theatre, and Actions. Please include, date, location, photographer (if you want) and any information with photo.
• STORIES for HISTORICAL LISTINGS – on all the above.
Preferably short pieces describing an event, group, parody, etc. See below for examples.
• POSTERS, FLYERS, STICKERS, FAKE ADS, etc.

To contribute or to get in touch please email either:
Info (at) breakdownpress.org
thebugler (at) graffiti.net
Or post to:
PO Box 1283 Carlton Melbourne VIC Australia 3053

Examples of stories for listings:
Newcastle, 2007 - Over 100 people participate in a flotilla of kayaks, canoes and small boats attempting to block the movement of coal ships along the harbour’s main shipping channel.

Armidale, 1973 - Student environmentalists cut down every billboard on the highway between Armidale and Glen Innes in a protest against consumerism and visual pollution.

We cannot guarantee that all works submitted will be published and also unfortunately we cannot pay contributers.
Looking forward to hearing all your tales of creative political trouble making!

Breakdown Press Poster Series #3

THE NUCLEAR POSTERS contains 17 intelligent, provocative and affecting political posters within one beautiful publication. Breakdown Press has published this powerful collection of posters by artists, designers and writers breaking down the nuclear industry in Australia and celebrating creative dissent. Published at a time when the Howard-led Liberal Government was taking Australia down the nuclear path with the pedal to the metal in the lead-up to the 2007 federal election, THE NUCLEAR POSTERS brings together the work of committed artists and campaigners to spark debate about the role of the nuclear cycle in Australia. The posters chosen for this publication build on the history of the political poster movement and act as an oppositional force to this vicious nuclear cycle.

ARTISTS: Aris Prabawa | Arlene TextaQueen | Benny Zable | Bretton Bartleet | Deborah Kelly | Graeme Dunstan | Jessie Boylan | Josh MacPhee | Kevin Buzzacott | Lou Smith | Mathew Kneebone | MITCH | Peter Kneebone | Rodney Dekker | Rose Turtle Ertler | Russell Kerr | Simon Bent | Tim Growcott | Tom Civil | Van Thanh Rudd

Breakdown Press in conjunction with JBSeed (John Butler’s philanthropic arts fund) chose two posters from The Nuclear Posters for an oversized A0 rock poster campaign in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adleaide in the lead-up to the federal election.

We have created a flickr account with heaps of great photos of recent Breakdown happenings, check it out!.

YOU is for sale at: Sticky (Flinders St Subway), Metropolis Books (Swanston St), Collectors Corner (Swanston St), Paperback Books (Bourke St), Missing Link (Bourke St), Polyester Books (Brunswick St), Friends of the Earth (Smith St), Brunswick Bound (363 Sydney Rd), Black Rose Books (Sydney)

YOU is a free weekly zine from Melbourne, produced
anonymously every week since November 2001.
It takes the form of a hand-written letter sealed with
staples in a paper bag. Breakdown Press is very excited
to be launching 'YOU: some letters from the first five years',
an anthology of the first five years of the zine.


Out Now! Click here to order.






Check out one of the readings from the Newcastle Launch at www.thisisnotart.org!

Vinyl weather resistant stickers.
Out Now! Click here to order.

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