Norwegian Piano Comedian dynamo comes to Perth
May 14, 2012 § Leave a Comment
GROVE CLASSICS 2012
The GROVE Library and Community Centre and Cappuccino Concerts are excited to announce that the annual Grove Classics Concert Series is back for another season of live music!
The unique series of musical performances is intended to raise awareness of classical music and to bring professional classical music to more diverse and younger audiences while setting very high professional performance standards.
The highlight concert of the series will be Norwegian award-winning composer, classical pianist and stand-up comedian Aksel Kolstad. “The New Norwegian Victor Borge”, Aksel Kolstad is coming to Australia for the very first time to join the Grove Classics Concert Series 2012!
Grove Classics Concert Series 2012 commenced on Sunday 6th May 2012 in the state of the art innovative ‘The Grove’ Centre, one of WA’s most environmentally sustainable public buildings with an excellent acoustic space created in the library.
Discarding the pomp and ceremony often associated with classical music, Cappuccino Concerts are all about celebrating the musical arts for the appreciation and enjoyment by one and all. The Grove Classics Concert Series is a great opportunity for people from all walks of life to be introduced to classical music, in the exquisitely designed surrounds of The Grove Library.
When: Sunday May 27th 2012 commencing at 4:30pm
Where: The Grove Library, 1 Leake St (cnr Leake St & Stirling Hwy) Peppermint Grove WA 6011
Tickets and bookings: please visit www.cappuccino-concerts.com.au or
contact The Grove Library on (08) 9286 8686 or email info@cappuccino-concerts.com.au
(Tickets: $36/$32, Friends of the Grove Library $30, Standing/ student rush $10.
Complete 4 Concert Package $120). ALL EVENTS INCLUDE TASTING OF LAMONT’S FINE WINES.
Louise Mackay (cello) and Emily Green-Armytage (piano) performing at the Grove Classics concert series.
Special Benefit Concert
April 14, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Join WASO’s Chief Conductor Paul Daniel for an afternoon of sublime music at
Government House Ballroom.
Sunday 22nd April 2012
at 1pm
Special guests include Sara Macliver, Mark Coughlan, Paul Wright, Andrew Nicholson, Giovanni Pasini, Stewart Smith, Jonathan Paget and Craig Lake.
Tickets available at the door $35.
All proceeds go towards sending Fiona, Andrew and Joshua Rootes to Europe to enable Fiona to undertake urgent medical treatment
If you are unable to attend the concert, but would still like to make a donation, you can do so by clicking on the link below.
(donations to this fund are tax deductible)
THE BARROWS FOUNDATION GIFT FORM (PDF)
The dangers of drinking water
December 14, 2011 § 1 Comment
My Mum just sent me this in an email.
How cool is my Mum? 
To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine..and those who don’t and are always seen with a bottle of water in their hand.
As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated
that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) – bacteria
found in faeces.
In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer
(or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through
a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health
Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk crap, than to drink water
and be full of crap..
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information:
I’m doing it as a public service
CHEERS!!
399 Bar panorama
December 10, 2011 § Leave a Comment
This is one of my favourite places to meet friends, stop by for a coffee, wine or a cocktail.
I’m in a customer cocktail comp there on Sunday Dec 11 at 3pm.
Come and cheer for me! Or say cheers to me 
Rehearsal for WASO Symphony in the City 2011 #sitc2011
December 10, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I used the Autostitch app to do this which, due to multiple images ends up making any moving figures sort of ghostly.
Pic was taken from the choir stalls while I wasn’t required.
You can now see this concert online, on demand at iiNet Freezone
To see a panoramic view from the outdoor stage just before the actual concert click here
Madame la guillotine du fromage
December 10, 2011 § Leave a Comment
MMmm Roquefort…..
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Maylands, Western Australia.
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Same sex civil union in Australia
December 7, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Open letter to Stephen Smith MHR Member for Perth
Wed 7th December 2011
Dear Stephen
I would urge you to share the following video and transcript with your cabinet colleagues and by doing so, to make representation on my behalf.
Remarks in Recognition of International Human Rights Day
Remarks
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Palais des Nations
Geneva, Switzerland
December 6, 2011
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/12/178368.htm
I have many friends on both sides of this debate but as a heterosexual male, I would like to see my gay and lesbian friends and colleagues treated with equal respect and dignity in this country to those rights which I am afforded by marriage to my partner.
Many of my friends with deeply held religious convictions are of the belief that marriage is a sacred rite, and as such, civil unions would appear to be a way to pay equal respect to these concerns.
I would add that if we are keen to follow America’s lead in matters of selling uranium to India, then surely we can also follow Secretary of State Clinton’s lead on the issue of human rights in our own country.
I thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yours sincerely
Alex Millier
