January 2011
10 posts
Thelma's flood relief fundraiser at £1000 Bend
Attention all artists, crafts-people, bloggers, and market-vendors! We are on the look out for people who would like to help raise money for the victims of the recent floods. Can you donate a painting, drawing, photo print, collage, or other wall-hung delight? Do you have something nice that you’d like to sell at a Sunday market at one of Melbourne’s most popular exhibition, and...
The Spirit of the Black Dress
We’re extremely pleased to announce that we’ll be supporting The Spirit of the Black Dress in 2011!
The Spirit of the Black Dress is a very exciting fashion exhibition that showcases the work of ten up-and-coming fashion and textile designers as part of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Designers are selected to be showcased based on a number of criteria including design...
thelma -- issue three update
Hello everyone.
We’ve been too busy to blog this week!
We’re frantically finishing issue three of the magazine, to get it published by Thursday.
There have been lots of exciting things happening around Thelma HQ. We’ve done a stack of interviews, two photo shoots on Sunday, we’re working on some exciting media partnerships, and organising a special event to raise money...
Queensland is under water
We’re watching the news very closely to keep up-to-date with what is happening around the flood in Queensland. It is absolutely heartbreaking and terrifying.
So many people are missing, some dead. People’s houses, cars, businesses, possessions have been washed away. People’s pets are missing, and many can not take their animal friends to evacuation centres.
But what can you do...
Summertimes
Hi there, Tegan here. I’m not going to lie, I’m getting pretty excited about Thelma #3. Summer is my favourite time of year and this issue we’ve got a fair few things for you to try your hand at!
One of the best things (I reckon) about summertime is the sunsets, oh so many sunsets, filled with local music at lovely places. One of our favourite local musos, Leigh Hannah...
Eleven
Whenever I think of the number eleven, I get this song ‘Eleven Twelve’ from Sesame Street stuck in my head:
Now, while you have that catchy tune in your head too, let me tell you about a cool new section we’re adding to the magazine to celebrate 2011.
For every issue we publish this year, we’ll include a few ‘top 11’ lists. I don’t want to give...
Issue three sneak-peek: The Morning Benders
We’re very excited to be interviewing Chris from The Morning Benders tonight. We’ve been listening to the band’s album Big Echo non-stop since hearing it for the first time early in 2010.
If you haven’t seen this video already, it’s a must-watch! It’s a live acoustic recording of the song ‘Excuses’ by the band and a bunch of their musically...
Video: Brendan Maclean at the Thelma launch party →
As mentioned in our previous blog, Brendan Maclean did a great cover of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Confide in me’. Our friend Ross Floate was at the party playing with his new camera, and managed to capture some of Brendan’s awesome acoustic sing-a-long on film. Click this link to see the video.
Catching up with Brendan Maclean and Kimbra
Happy New Year, Everyone! We hope you all had a great break over the holiday season. Get in touch with us on twitter and let us know what you got up to over the holidays!
As we enter 2011, and get closer to launching issue three of the magazine, we’ve been reflecting on how great a year 2010 was. We’ve also been having a look at where some of the people we interviewed in our first...