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Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).
Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.
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A privileged group gathers every year to make this famous festive dessert, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.
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Baroque Bistro Patisserie
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Baroque is not quite together, hovering between past and future, and fancy and rustic, without any great highs or lows.
ANU Institute of the Arts Library and Resource Centre - Searchable database of the arts in Australia: music, visual arts, ejournals and artScan.
Artbank - A Commonwealth art rental program supporting visual artists and craftspeople across Australia.
Meta Description: [ Artbank Australian contemporary art for rent, As a self-supporting program withing the Australian Department of Communications, Information adn the Arts, Artbank supports emerging and more established artists throught the purcahse of their work. While artists benefit from that direct support, cli... ]
Arts Law - National legal centre for the arts providing a telephone legal advice service for arts related matters. General information and online law publications for artists.
Meta Description: [ The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national community legal centre for the arts. Arts Law is a not for profit company limited by guarantee which was established with the support of the Australia Council in 1983 to provide specialised legal and business advice and referral services, professio... ]
ArtsInfo - The Australian Government's single point of access to the full range of opportunities and assistance available to the cultural sector.
Australia's Cultural Network - The online gateway to Australian cultural websites, events, news, and resources.
Australian Copyright Council - Independent non-profit organisation: site includes information about events, activities, and subscription.
Australian INFront - A collaborative project space and launch pad for Australia's best online designers, artists, companies and other design related web sites.
Meta Description: [ Australian INfront is a collaborative project space and launch pad to Australia's best online designers, artists, companies and other design related web sites. ]
Australian Markets and Fairs Magazine - State by state, to what's on where and when with contacts. Lists special events, markets, festivals, fairs, swap meets, antique and doll fairs and expos. Includes wholesale directory.
Meta Description: [ markets and special events around Australia ]
Australian Writers' Guild - A professional association for writers in the areas of television, radio, screen and stage. Promoting and protecting the professional interests of originators and adaptors of written material in Australia.
Currency Press - Publisher of performing arts, including playscripts and filmscripts; auditioning books and handbooks for actors; books about Australian theatre, film, TV, music and opera; biographies and cultural studies; and sheet music by contemporary composers.
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IMAX Australia - The world's largest screening system, with some movies in 3D. Current screenings, coming attractions, timetables, pricing, and school group information, as well as details of the technology. Locations in Sydney and Melbourne.
Julie Byrnes - Contemporary art by this multimedia painter and sculptor. Current works, installations, exhibition archive, and contact details.
Meta Description: [ Presenting contemporary sculpture and painting. ]
National Cartooning Competition - Australian and New Zealand primary and secondary students compete for the Junior Stanley Award.
Meta Description: [ An innovative gallery space in Blackheath NSW in the middle of a World Heritage Area. Also specializing in cartooning tuition. ]
Online Australia Cultural Festival 1999/2000 - Showcase of Australian cultural expression with an exhibition of local arts and culture.
Meta Description: [ Online Culture Channel Australia - a non-profit online network featuring contemporary Australian digital web media, arts, technology, sciences and web help resources founded by MERLIN ]
The Australia Council - The Federal Government's principal arts funding and advisory body. Information about grants, initiatives, publications, arts organisations and online search.
The Village - Entertainment guide for movies, videos, radio, and theme parks, around Australia; from Village Cinemas.
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