A weekly box-hit of new Melbourne events, Maddawgs and stuff.
Sprink is getting back into the Sprink of things
Weekend Update
Alice in Wonderland @ Aus Ballet – there isn’t a medium this tale hasn’t been expressed in.
Castlemaine Jazz Festival @ The Maine – there is a pub in this town that do lock-ins so they can have magic mushroom parties and I’m not making that up.
Good Food Month @ Melb – starring Marco Pierre White who I #would.
Hear Footscray @ Franco Cozzo’s hood – megalo megalo megalo what does this mean? I hope I’m swearing in Greek
Ballarat Antique Bazaar @ The Rat – old people perform in the street
Srircha @ Prince – afrobeats party taking you from zero to 100 learn this in prep
Heathcote on Show @ Heathcote – I’m sure he has a good personality tho. And in other news, Kesha dropped an anthem Rich White Straight Men which I’m totally digging.
Moja Bubbles & Bowties @ Melb – lol thought that said blowflies
Mornington Peninsula Winter Wine Fest @ MP – attended by golfers and people who pretend they golf
Portsea Hotel Pop Up @ Portsea – there is always something up in Portsea
Swing Festival @ Melb – has nothing to do with parks and everything to do with open marriages I mean footwork
Exhibitions Opening @ Brunswick – maddawg Olana is hanging his things on a wall for you to clap at
Bed Bath and I’m the Big Spoon @ Collingwood – street-artist Goodie paints it how it is
Freddy Mercury Festival @ Northcote – fat bottomed hipsters will be riding their bicycles here, not dressed as Lady Gaga because – correct, Academy – Rami For The Win.
Oz Comic Con @ Melb – for step-dads to appear cool at a place they don’t want to be
Maddawgs
This is Sarah. A hippy from the hills of Lismore, she moved to the big smoke of Vegas to study law/ journalism. She got her first job as the social media manager for Virgin ‘because I knew how to use Twitter’ but then moved to Melbourne for a corporate job where…
You brought a bed into the office?
I bought an adult size camping bed so I could sleep under my desk at my government job. My manager took a photo of it and put it on Twitter, which is when I realised it was ok to just do what you want.
HERO. Weirdest places you’ve slept?
- in the roof of a cafe in Sydney
- on a cruiseship with Archbishop Desmund Tutu
- 27 couches across San Fran
- with scorpions in a hut in Cambodia
- the Fairmont penthouse where Obama sleeps ($15,000 a night – above)
- a lux mansion with 10 mates, but there were only 4 bedrooms
- Mission to Seafarers on the Yarra where old sailors came to get wasted each night for $2 a pot
You set a world first, innit?
We were sick of going to tech events in dank basements and being fed beer and pizza for 3 days straight. So in 2014 my mates and I put on an all-women hackathon starring sunlight, cupcakes and yoga where we made tech and friends. Literally, no one else had done it before.
Now you’re the CEO of Girl Geek Academy.
We teach girls coding, run career incubators for women in the games industry, work experience at tech companies and all this other stuff we decided should exist. We aim to change the ratio of women building tech because only 12% of tech engineers are women and that’s not enough.
Finalist for Woman of the Year for Cosmo last year AND you’ve got a book series out too – binch SLOW DOWN
YES! We were approached by Penguin Random House to write a children’s book series. Girl Geeks comes to all good bookstores on July 2! It’s like the Babysitters Club but for girls in tech.
What’s the future like from where you see it?
We have to fight for our future. Whatever you want to see won’t arrive without effort. At the moment for me it is about equality for women, and a climate future. I’m going all-in.
Attik
‘That guy had a woman’s purse, I reckon he is a mugger’ Jamaican Jay and Sprink were on Chapel Street like it was 2002, heading to a bar that plays afrobeats (any other music can go to hell PERIODT). Sprink swivelled on her heel to see a skabby fezzball digging into a lady purse that was definitely 1) not his and 2) from Dotti. ‘Fck this’ said Sprink and chased the dude. ‘Don’t get stabbed’ called out JJ.
The exchange between mugger and Sprink went as so:
S: BABE you have my bag! I was looking for it! Where was it?
M: Oh yeah I just um found it, I was taking it to the um Police station.
S: Thanks for finding it. Where is my iPhone and my wallet?
M: Ummm here look in my pockets *empties pockets* I didn’t take anything I swear *runs off*
*Sprink and JJ went through the bag to find Dotti’s details when…
Dotti: MY BAG! WTF how did you find it? I was buying a drink at the bar when some random dude walked past me and then it was gone… *as above*
Dotti invited Sprink and JJ to a party at Attik where she bought them drinks and they danced to 2012 RnB mixed in with a bit of 2006 AND OH HOW THEY DANCED.
The End.
