Monday 6 September 2010
1PM - 2PM
Spend some lazy leisure time between classes in the Festival Tent with a tasty beverage and sweet tunes from our daily Lunchtime Sessions. Verge Festival presents the best of Sydney Uni's bright young things playing live music from our lounge room.

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Monday 6 September 2010
1PM - 3PM
Come and witness Dostoevsky's sombre and febrile novella 'Notes from Underground' come to life in an open workshop of a new theatrical adaptation created by emerging artists Jack Symonds and Pierce Wilcox.

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Monday 6 September 2010
6PM - 8PM
Join us for an evening of literature, art and wine as Verge launches the 124th edition of Hermes, the annual literary journal produced by the University of Sydney Union and the oldest such journal in Australia.

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Monday 6 September 2010
7PM
With acrobatics, juggling, tumbling, clowning, twirling and fire, Manning Bar becomes a Big Top for one night only, as SURCAS presents Surc Do Sole Day. The catch? SURCAS has only one day to plan, rehearse and perform an entire circus show.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
1PM - 2PM
Spend some lazy leisure time between classes in the Festival Tent with a tasty beverage and sweet tunes from our daily Lunchtime Sessions. Verge Festival presents the best of Sydney Uni's bright young things playing live music from our lounge room.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
1PM - 2PM
Which type of moonwalking should really be funded? Which Venus should we be concentrating our funds on deconstructing, that of Botticelli or the Milky Way?

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
5PM
Start training up those Lady Gagesque poker faces because the Verge Poker Tournament is here! The fast dealing card sharks at Pokersoc are bringing their tables to the Festival Tent and it’s sure to be a Full House…. Anyone? No? Ahh, I’ll be at the bar.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
6PM - 7:30 PM
Meet Sydney’s newest historians as they delve into the sordid, scandalous past of Australia’s real underbelly.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
6PM - 8PM
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the PALM Awards (Photography, Art, Literature, Music) the annual competition run by the USU, which aims to support and reward the creativity of our talented student members across a range of multimedia art forms.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
7PM
The SUDS Writers' Group after working day and night, black and white, in and out, are revealing their versatile and creative works for the first time at the 2010 Verge Festival.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010
8PM
A room packed with sweaty, hip-swinging, toe-tapping dancers, grooving with absolute abandon... in silence? Dance late into the night and laugh in the face of noise restrictions, as infamous Purple Sneakers DJs, M.I.T and BenLucid compete for your ears’ attention in a disco dance battle.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
12PM - 2PM
Take tea on the lawn and enjoy an afternoon of cucumber sandwiches, croquet and cupcakes as Verge presents High Tea in the Festival Tent, complete with the sounds of the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra string quartet.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
12PM - 1PM
The so-called "eight model plays" were the only Peking operas and ballets that were permitted during the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976). They focus exclusively on the theme and history of Chinese Communist Revolution.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
2PM
Knitting ain’t just for nannas. Crank up those needles and crochet hooks as Verge and Knitsoc bring you Knit & Sit, the niftiest knitting workshop in the Inner West

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
5PM
You know that smug sense of satisfaction you get from knowing stuff about HBO shows that other people don’t? Of course you do.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
5PM - 8:30 PM
Take in some Honours-level art and wine while you walk amongst the ghosts of the old Mortuary-turned gallery; Ded Space, for this exhibition opening.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
7PM
A prince sets out to win his lover once and for all.
Which was the first sex to be betrayed? Which was the first to sin?
He can prove it to her.

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Wednesday 8 September 2010
8PM
Sydney University Theatresports is calling in some favours. After being the incubator for a number of Australia’s finest comic assets, including members of The Chaser, The Axis of Awesome and Thank God You’re Here, the weekly campus impro show is bringing them all back home.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
12PM - 2PM
Ever wanted to run away to the circus and didn’t think you had the skills? Well now’s your chance to learn, as SURCAS is very kindly opening up its weekly practice to beginners and experts alike.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
1PM - 2PM
Spend some lazy leisure time between classes in the Festival Tent with a tasty beverage and sweet tunes from our daily Lunchtime Sessions. Verge Festival presents the best of Sydney Uni's bright young things playing live music from our lounge room.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
6PM - 8PM
agar dish is an evening of performance and live art from SCA students, with particular focus on experimentation, interaction and spontaneity.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
6PM
What if William Shakespeare wrote the Coen Brothers’ cult hit ‘The Big Lebowski’? Find out in a one-night only Australian Premiere of Adam Bertocci’s White Russian-laced Elizabethan parody ‘Two Gentlemen of Lebowski’.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
7PM
Our 2010 DJ Comp is bigger and better thanks to our friends at Parklife.

This year the winner will play at Parklife! as well as $500 cash.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
7PM
Whether your speciality is theatre, photography, medieval costume, fine food or engineering, the annual C & S Awards Night is here! It’s the night of the year for USU Clubs and Societies, as we hand out the awards for the best of 2010.

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Thursday 9 September 2010
8PM - 8PM
Comedian Ben Jenkins is hosting a comedy gig that runs for 24 hours in the Festival Tent. Using naught but a laptop, a phone and a group of wild-eyed, caffeine addled students, the Verge Festival's 24 Hour Comedy Gig is going to inflict some serious damage.

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Friday 10 September 2010
8PM
After two weeks of comedy, theatre, visual art, live music and wicked parties, Crusty old Mr. Whitaker, Verge’s cantankerous landlord, has decided to give us the boot with an eviction notice.

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WASHINGTON

Friday 10 September 2010
8PM - 12AM
On July 30 Washington release their debut album “I Believe You, Liar” with a sunset gig at Splendour In The Grass. Their performance will mark the beginning of a national tour celebrating the release of their album, and what promises to be one of the best Australian tours of the year!

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