Event Venues

ONE question comes to mind when a wedding invitation arrives in the letterbox: What to wear?

Don’t panic, Adelaide fashionistas say.

Christina Davis from Tu Yu Adelaide on O’Connell St says the weather and wedding venue will give guests the best indication of what to wear.

“Every wedding is so different now that the same standards from many years ago do not apply,” she says. Mrs Davis says many couples are opting for casual or themed weddings, such as cocktail receptions or Bali ceremonies, instead of formal celebrations.

This means wedding guests have also changed their fashion trends, instead of “dressing up to the max”.

She suggests a classic dress for a traditional or garden wedding, a caftan dress for the beach, or a skirt and blouse for backyard nuptials.

Mai Loui Boutique owner Anna Williamson says guests should dress to fit the style of wedding the happy couple has chosen.

“It’s just dressing to what you think the couple’s about,” she said.

“For a backyard wedding you could go along with a theme of wearing floral things.”

Elena Siliquini from Elenca in North Adelaide says white is no longer off limits for wedding guests.

“You can wear white, as long as it doesn’t look like something the bride or bridesmaid might wear,” she says.

“Something overly white with lots of tulle might offend. “But weddings are an opportunity to be inspired and be who you want to be, yet still elegant, beautiful and suited to the occasion.”

Miss Gladys Sym Choon owner Joff Chapel agrees, saying “off-white and black are okay these days” for wedding guests in most cases.

However, he says guests should be mindful of some cultural sensibilities where black and white are not acceptable.

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BERLIN, Aug 29 (Reuters) – German groups planning to protest against Pope Benedict when he visits Berlin next month said on Monday they will challenge a decision by local authorities banning them from holding rallies anywhere near where he will speak.

The German-born pontiff will begin his Sept. 22-25 German tour in Berlin before continuing to Erfurt and Freiburg. Anti-Pope rallies are expected in all three cities, where many are unhappy about his conservative views on birth control, abortion and the rights of homosexuals.

A Berlin alliance of 54 groups, led by the German Gay and Lesbian Association (LSVD), wants to stage its rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate — about 300 meters from the parliament building where the Pope will speak. The organisers expect about 20,000 demonstrators to take to the streets.

“It must be possible to hold a peaceful demonstration within ear-shot of the Bundestag,” said LSVD director Joerg Steinert. The association has spoken out against the decision to allow the Pope to speak in the Bundestag.

Whereas thousands of demonstrators marched in Madrid earlier this month against the cost of the Pope’s visit, the German protests are chiefly aimed at the Vatican’s conservative views, organisers said.

Local officials rejected their application but offered two alternative sites further away from the government quarter.

“We’re going to fight to be able to hold the rally there,” said Pascal Ferro, a spokesman for the LSVD. He said they had not given up hope of holding the rally at the Brandenburg Gate, which has become a symbol of German unity after being surrounded by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.

The protesters are not the first to be banned from holding an event at the site. As a U.S. presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama had his request to speak at the Brandenburg Gate rejected by the German government, which deemed it inappropriate to use the monument for a campaign rally. Obama ended up speaking 2 km away before a crowd of 200,000.

The protesters want to rally at the Brandenburg Gate at the same time Pope Benedict is due to address parliament.

Officials gave no explanation for the ban. When Benedict’s predecessor, John Paul, visited Berlin in 1996 he faced hecklers who hurled abuse and made obscene gestures as he made his way by Popemobile to the Brandenburg Gate for a farewell ceremony.

Some shouted “Go to hell” and “Get lost” while a naked woman protester streaked in front of the glass-sided Popemobile. Some media reports said the vehicle was also hit by eggs or tomatoes.

Hans Langendoerfer, a German Jesuit and the secretary of the German conference of Catholic Bishops, said there were concerns that the demonstrations could turn violent this time round too.

“I’m worried that there are some violent people out there who will attempt to take advantage of the peaceful demonstration and thus counter the purpose,” he told Focus magazine. But he added: “Free speech is an important concern for the Church.”

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The Lodore Falls Hotel in the pretty Borrowdale Valley has long been a favourite for weddings, with its own waterfall, Pack Horse Bridge, and stunning gardens. There is also the added attraction of a lakeside jetty and a backdrop for awesome wedding pictures – beautiful any time of year, but with a touch of wonderland magic in the winter.

The lavish pre wedding celebrations featured in the current “Bridesmaids” film wont suit most Cumbrian budgets, but the newly refurbished Garden Suite, with its opulent gold and burgundy furnishings, will really make an impact. And with the ‘Wonderful Winter Wedding’ offer featured here, Wedding Co-ordinator Amanda Cartmel can help you create some lovely finishing touches as well as helping you keep your costs down. You can of course keep your bridesmaids happy in The Falls – our Health and Beauty Spa!

Christmas weddings save on decorations!
Enjoy the luxury of getting married at Christmas and you can divert some of your flower budget elsewhere – perhaps to the decadent new Champagne fountain! During the festive season the Lodore Falls Hotel is already lavishly decorated with thousands of twinkling lights, festive baubles and more than 70 Christmas trees. It creates the perfect entrance for guests and announces the start of your celebrations.

Amanda said “The number of brides looking for a Christmas wedding has certainly increased and they can make great use of the decorations, the roaring fires, mulled wine and mince pies. In the past we have had brides and grooms stay on for the Christmas package for their honeymoon – they’ve have been coming back ever since for their anniversary.”

While you must of course love your venue, it is the attention to detail and careful planning that helps make the day so special. Imagine your day: stunning views of ‘Catbells’ and Derwentwater, a romantic waterfall, fantastic hospitality, fine cuisine and picture perfect memories to treasure – that’s Love at the Lodore Falls Hotel.

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Rumours have been floating around Melbourne’s music scene over the last few days with word of the imminent closure of one of Melbourne’s favourite live music venues. The rumour started from a blind item in Christie Eliezer’s Industry Column in Melbourne’s Beat Magazine and also run online on www.themusicnetwork.com.

The rumour gathered pace over the weekend with various sources naming The Palace Theatre in Melbourne as the likely venue, while others were pointing the finger at St Kilda’s Prince of Wales in Fitzroy Street. The Prince Bandroom issued a statement on its Facebook page last night, saying “the rumours are not true, the Prince Bandroom is not closing down!”

When contacted by Tone Deaf today, a spokesperson for The Palace didn’t respond to questions about the sale of the venue itself, instead they referred to the rumours about the Prince, saying “ looks like someone is spreading rumours about venues in general.”

The Age reported on a planning proposal drafted by developers Urbis in March for the venue, which sought permission to construct a 140 metre high tower on the site and would involve demolishing the nightclub. The venue was placed on the market by owner, property developer Jerry Pilarinos in March of this year, with a current listing of the property for sale by expression of interest last updated on August 5^th.

Listed selling points of the property include Massive site area of 1,300 sqm (Approx.), Outstanding development potential, Suits residential apartments, commercial, retail and hotel (STCA).

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Crown Group venue finding service Venue Reservations believes “confidence is increasing” in the Christmas party market after witnessing an increase in festive enquiries for 2011.

The company said it has had more than 41% of new enquiries this year, compared to 25% last August.

It puts this down to increased confidence in budgets and more corporates reinstating Christmas staff events.

“We have seen a real sea change with regards to enquiries. There was a time where the majority of bookings were taking place in January when people didn’t expect to have any issues with the funding of their events. This soon changed after the recession, and we saw more bookings towards the back end of the year when companies had a clearer idea of budgets,” explained Crown Group customer services director Nicky Pratt.

“Our latest figures show that confidence is increasing and more people are able to make arrangements for their Christmas events earlier. This can only be a good sign for the industry,” she added.

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THE YMCA has abandoned plans to convert a disused fire station in Essendon into a training and support centre for youth in Melbourne’s north-west.

The YMCA and Metropolitan Fire Brigade say building costs make the project unviable.

In May, the Weekly revealed the YMCA hoped to use the Bulla Road station as a ”youth foyer”, which would provide training for young people with a focus on community engagement and finding secure employment.

There was strong opposition from residents who feared the centre would become a halfway house for youth with drug and alcohol problems.

YMCA chief executive Peter Burns said the association and MFB remained committed to supporting the needs of vulnerable young people in Moonee Valley.

But he said the modifications required to make the building suitable had made the costs too prohibitive for the YMCA.

“This was very much a mutual decision. We still, however, hope to find another suitable venue and are working closely with the Moonee Valley Council on this front.

”We look forward to continuing our partnership with the MFB. This effort and energy will not be lost, and we look forward to working with both organisations to find other creative solutions to meet the needs of our most disadvantaged young people.”

Mr Burns put a call-out to anyone who knew of a possible alternative venue.

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For the past year and a half Tone has hosted live shows in a warehouse space on Wentworth Avenue in Surry Hills, but sadly the venue will cease trading on Monday 19th September. It appear that the venue will be overtaken by “some kind of cheesy, themed restaurant”.

A statement issued by the venue notes that the management is “already searching for a new venue” which is excellent news but sadly has become the second venue to shut it’s doors on Wentworth Avenue this year; the venue is just a few doors up from The Raval, which closed its doors in March.

Ben Peterson the owner of the 300–400 capacity venue told Time Out last year that “Sydney was really lacking this kind of space,” he explains. “There’s the Civic and GoodGod, which hold 200–250, and then it jumps right up to the Basement and Oxford Art Factory, and there isn’t really anything in between.

During its 18 month tenure Tone has hosted shows by Dâm Funk, Edan the Deejay, Kurtis Blow, Electric Wire Hustle and many more and there will be another 21 shows held at there before its days as a live venue end. Acts set to play at Tone before it closes next month include international acts such as Times New Viking and Slum Village rapper Elzhi and local bands including Jonti, Bon Chat Bon Rat and Songs.

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Settlers Tavern has claimed another national gong, this time as the best entertainment venue in the Australian Hotels Association National Awards for Excellence.

The Esplanade Hotel Fremantle was awarded the best superior accommodation in the awards announced last night, while Cable Beach Club Resort in Broome took out top spot in the best resort-style accommodation.

Eco Beach Wilderness Resort claimed the best environmental practice award, while The Breakwater’s Els Jennings took out the award for excellence in employee service.

Glamping at Eco Beach Resort

Eco Beach Resort – Broome.

Burswood Entertainment Complex was named as the best sporting entertainment venue.

AHA WA chief executive Bradley Woods said the venues representing regions from throughout the state further reinforced that WA has some of the best bars, hotels, taverns and service professionals in the country.

“West Australian hotel and hospitality venues operate to consistently high standards and have continued to developed the offer provided to guests and customers,” Mr Woods said.

“Once again our venues have been judged on a national scale and been proven to be the best in their respective fields.”

Earlier this month, Settlers Tavern was named as having the best pub restaurant wine list in Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards for the third time.

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The New Delhi Metro station has become an unlikely protest venue for Anna Hazare supporters owing to its proximity to the main protest site, Ramlila Maidan.

Supporters using the Metro to reach the Maidan began raising slogans at the station itself. They were also joined by others who could not enter Ramlila Maidan as it was packed to capacity, and decided to voice their protest inside the station’s premises.

With long queues of Vande Mataram-chanting supporters choking exit gates on Sunday morning, Metro staff allowed people to pass through by just handing over their tokens, instead of waiting for the automatic exits to free up.

Many supporters were also drawn by the cool interiors of the station, as opposed to the crowded and sweltering Ramlila Maidan. Abha Tyagi and 55 of her classmates from an institute in Gurgaon were part of the demonstration inside the station.

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While most Istanbul art galleries renew themselves during the summer months, some mark their sign with a new style in the art scene. As the contemporary art scene expands and begins to host more international artists from the world art scene, Istanbul galleries expand and bring a new breath of fresh air to the city’s art scene.

Some change their venues, some open new branches and some even change their names and renew everything.

Among those changing galleries, Outlet, which was located in a venue in Boğazkesen, is now left as an empty space. The directors of the gallery, Azra Tüzünoğlu and Amira Bıyıkoğlu, first decided to expand the venue to have a larger storage. “However,” said Tüzünoğlu, “during our search for a new storage gallery we found a place that interested us a lot in the Sıraselviler neighborhood in the central Beyoğlu district.”

Those who know the 1970s night life of Istanbul would recognize the new Pilot art gallery venue. “This place was a very popular nightclub during the 70s called ES Kulüp. During those times, famous Turkish actors, artists and singers such as Ediz Hun and Zeki Müren visited the venue.”

It is known that during the 70s, Sıraselviler was the area for nightclubs. “There were few very popular and large clubs in Istanbul. One of them was ES Kulüp and another was Gar Gazinosu,” said the owners. “Last week, the owner of Gar Gazinosu came to the gallery and asked if we are opening the venue again,” said Bıyıkoğlu.

The venue was closed for 30 years. “That’s why the construction period took 16 months,” said Bıyıkoğlu.

But the owners had a dream when they first saw the venue. “It was a huge mess, but we imagined that this place could be a really beautiful art gallery,” she added.

They decided to buy the venue and create a new art space for Istanbul. “However, we also wanted to change the title of the gallery, because we realized this was not a suitable project for Outlet.”

They decided that the venue should be a new gallery with a new name and choose the title “Pilot.”

“Pilot can be both read in Turkish and English and it means the same thing in both languages,” said Amira Bıyıkoğlu.

Currently the gallery has a large showroom, storage for all the works. “We also want to make a huge library,” said Tüzünoğlu.

“It is important for us to create this library; we aim to bring 8,000 books via an e-book system. The Pilot gallery will be ready Sept. 16. The opening exhibition will be Halil Altındere’s solo exhibition. But we also aim to make this place a venue to hang out , read art magazines, art books, in short a venue for sharing time and experiences,” said Tüzünoğlu.

While most Istanbul art galleries renew themselves during the summer months, some mark their sign with a new style in the art scene. As the contemporary art scene expands and begins to host more international artists from the world art scene, Istanbul galleries expand and bring a new breath of fresh air to the city’s art scene.

Some change their venues, some open new branches and some even change their names and renew everything.

Among those changing galleries, Outlet, which was located in a venue in Boğazkesen, is now left as an empty space. The directors of the gallery, Azra Tüzünoğlu and Amira Bıyıkoğlu, first decided to expand the venue to have a larger storage. “However,” said Tüzünoğlu, “during our search for a new storage gallery we found a place that interested us a lot in the Sıraselviler neighborhood in the central Beyoğlu district.”

Those who know the 1970s night life of Istanbul would recognize the new Pilot art gallery venue. “This place was a very popular nightclub during the 70s called ES Kulüp. During those times, famous Turkish actors, artists and singers such as Ediz Hun and Zeki Müren visited the venue.”

It is known that during the 70s, Sıraselviler was the area for nightclubs. “There were few very popular and large clubs in Istanbul. One of them was ES Kulüp and another was Gar Gazinosu,” said the owners. “Last week, the owner of Gar Gazinosu came to the gallery and asked if we are opening the venue again,” said Bıyıkoğlu. The venue was closed for 30 years. “That’s why the construction period took 16 months,” said Bıyıkoğlu.

But the owners had a dream when they first saw the venue. “It was a huge mess, but we imagined that this place could be a really beautiful art gallery,” she added.

They decided to buy the venue and create a new art space for Istanbul. “However, we also wanted to change the title of the gallery, because we realized this was not a suitable project for Outlet.”

They decided that the venue should be a new gallery with a new name and choose the title “Pilot.”

“Pilot can be both read in Turkish and English and it means the same thing in both languages,” said Amira Bıyıkoğlu.

Currently the gallery has a large showroom, storage for all the works. “We also want to make a huge library,” said Tüzünoğlu.

“It is important for us to create this library; we aim to bring 8,000 books via an e-book system. The Pilot gallery will be ready Sept. 16. The opening exhibition will be Halil Altındere’s solo exhibition. But we also aim to make this place a venue to hang out , read art magazines, art books, in short a venue for sharing time and experiences,” said Tüzünoğlu. k HDN

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