February 2018

Photo by Melanie Escombe-Wolhuter

Tropfest Australia have today unveiled the judging panel, the hosts and the musical acts for the FREE independent short-film festival event on Saturday 17th February, in Parramatta Park, Sydney.

Tropfest is Australia’s biggest and most prestigious short film festival and the largest short film festival in the world.

Tim will be performing three songs at 9:15pm, during the live national broadcast, which will be hosted by ABC’s Zan Rowe and comedian Susie Youssef.

The 16 finalists’ films will be screened before the winner of the coveted trophy is announced.

The broadcast starts at 8pm on ABC COMEDY, airs simultaneously on iView and will be streamed globally on YouTube here:

(more…)

Photo by Joan Marcus

Tim’s been revealed as one of the bakers on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer!

The celebrities will enter The Great British Bake Off tent to face the signature, technical and show-stopper challenges across five episodes. In each episode four celebrities will battle it out over three rounds in a bid to be crowned Star Baker.

So… is Timmy gonna be bringin’ home the gingerbread or will he be left flailing in a floury flurry?

Taking part are: Tim, Teri Hatcher, Stacey Solomon, Ruth Davidson, Roisin Conaty, Ricky Wilson, Perri Kiely, Nick Hewer, Melanie Sykes, Martin Kemp, Lee Mack, Kadeena Cox, Joe Lycett, Jamie Laing, Harry Hill, Griff Rhys Jones, Ella Eyre, Bill Turnbull, Alan Carr and Aisling Bea.

Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood will be judging, with Bake Off hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig on hand to delight in the glorious successes and epic fails as the pressure builds.

Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer will air later this year on Channel 4.
(more…)

The Arts Centre Gold Coast has become HOTA, Home of the Arts and to celebrate Tim’s kicking off their new programme with a free open air concert next month!

It’s free but you will need a ticket, so make sure you sign up to HOTA NEWS before 2am Thursday 8th February for your chance to secure limited pre-release tickets.

At 9am Thursday 8th February HOTA will send you an email with a special link to get your tickets. It’s only two tickets per person, so be sure to tell your friends they’ll need to sign up too.

UPDATE (08/02/18): Ticket allocation now exhausted.

Any remaining tickets will be released to the general public at 9am on Friday 9th February.

Tim Minchin In Concert

Outdoor Stage
HOTA, Home of the Arts
Gold Coast
7pm, Saturday 17th March, 2018
FREE EVENT (tickets required)
Tickets

Tim: “I’ve just moved back to Australia after 12 years living overseas, and the first stage I get to play on is a spanking new, world-class amphitheatre on the beautiful Gold Coast! It’s a hugely exciting venue in a part of the country I’ve not been to in years. Can’t frickin wait.”
(more…)

Chihoohoo

Tim will play Chihoohoo in Nathan Jurevicius’s upcoming animated movie Arkie. He joins, already announced, cast members Shailene Woodley, Jai Courtney and Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor.

Arkie is a fantastical adventure about an inventive and inquisitive young girl, Arkie (Woodley) who must leave the safety of her home and embark on an epic journey to the dazzling but dangerous metropolis The City Of Light to rescue her father Blister from the clutches of the evil scientist Dr. Maybee (Courtney).

Chihoohoo (Tim), a hybrid Chihuahua, is a baddie! Boo hiss! He’s one of Dr Maybee’s sly underworld contacts, a ruthless underworld lord who controls The City of Light’s lucrative black market.

Arkie will be on a big screen near you in late 2019.

Arkie was created by artist Nathan Jurevicius (the award winning talent behind the Scarygirl graphic novel and video game). To see additional images and learn more about the film and the team behind it, head over to @arkiethemovie on Facebook.

(more…)