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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 11M ago

Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia

LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER Monday, 27 June, 2011 The Hon Julia Gillard MP Prime Minister Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Re: Ban on Live Export of Australian Animals for slaughter Dear Ms Gillard, If you have ever driven behind a truck carrying livestock, while heading from your home in Altona
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 1Y ago

Dance Creation 2010 – Review

After the AICD’s Dance Creation 2010 opening night performance, the audience left the theatre smiling, talking and walking briskly. No doubt, the quality and variety of works and dance styles on show satisfied a wide range of tastes and certainly gave people something to talk about. No-one mentioned
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 1Y ago

World’s Fastest Coffin On Water

Review World’s Fastest Coffin on Water – the first-ever biography of Ken Warby Bill Tuckey (Bas Publishing, 2009) Unless you are a follower of sporting achievement statistics, you have probably never heard of Ken Warby. That’s even if you were around in Australia on November 20, 1977, when Warby set
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 1Y ago

Karate Kid (2010) Review

Karate Kid (directed by Harald Swartz, 2010) is an excruciatingly violent film. It features boys of early adolescent years in full-contact fights delivering hard body blows, back-breaking throws and countless kicks to the head. That a film should show such things as going on in back lanes, out of vi
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 1Y ago

The Quiet Revolution: Literary Life Online and a Favourite Book

A quiet revolution, lead by the tapping of computer keyboard keys, is taking place as writers migrate to cyberspace. Day by day, word by word, writers around the globe are building literary communities and now we have them in Australia.
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 2Y ago

Sweet Revenge

A Story by Blazenka Brysha “Did you or did you not say: ‘Piss off, you little shit!’?” the magistrate asked, repeating his question. From his vantage point as the accused, Trevor could see everyone in the courtroom. He looked at the six year-old child to whom he was supposed to have said this. The k
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 2Y ago

Jack Feldstein Interviewed

“For anyone to make any thing, you have to be brave. You have to have courage and you have to be gutsy, I wish it to you and I wish it to everyone. Obviously, I don't always have it but I can see I need it and if there's any sort of qualities for an artist, these are the ones and they will keep you
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 2Y ago

Dragon Dance Welcoming Year of the Tiger

Springvale Chinese New Year Festival, Sunday, 7 February, 2010 The best way to welcome a New Year is with a Dragon Dance. If you want to go all the way, include a Lion Dance. That’s the way the Chinese do it and when it comes to pageantry, colour and symbolism, they can’t be beaten. The [...]
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 2Y ago

It’s Only Words – Occasional Interviews

Throughout history, art has been the most interesting and meaningful record of humanity’s existence. Yet art not only reflects the world that produces it, but also taps into its time to invent the future. So Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year(1722), which offered fact in the form of a novel
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Blazenka Brysha writes, has · 2Y ago

Confessions of a Petrolhead Wannabe

It’s not that I want to be a petrolhead; it just looks like I do, if you consider my recent vehicular history. Actually, I am far more into history than cars but the reality is that if you want to get around a big city like Melbourne safely and efficiently at all hours, you have [...]
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