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Interview with Katie Thorne – Hot Jazz Picnic

21, November 2023

HOT JAZZ PICNIC HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 2024. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. Katie Thorne is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born and raised in rural NSW (Wiradjuri Country). She describes her music as “sing-in-the-car songs, cry-on-the-walk-home songs, songs so personal I can’t quite believe I’m sharing them.” Her unique sound blends jazz with […]

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This Cultural Life – Queer as Flux – Arts Thursday interview

16, November 2022

Queer as Flux opens at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Unwrapped Festival on 24th November and runs until 26th of that month. Arts Thursday’s Maisy Stapleton interviewed Zac Callaghan (they/them) about the performance and its inspiration – his own gender transformation and the concept of transformation and flux, rather than stasis, being […]

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ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Phil Bayly

05, November 2022

South Australian-born, Sydney-based Phil Bayly has travelled and exhibited worldwide since the 1970s. After vice-chairing the collective Kick Arts in far north Queensland, he is now based in Sydney, working on personal projects such as self-published artist books. Phil Bayly Exhibition: The view outside Bondi Beach Promenade, 4 – 11 December 2022 Head On Photo […]

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ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Serena Dzenis

05, November 2022

Serena Dzenis is a lens-based artist from Australia who resides in Iceland. She uses her work to tell stories about science, conservation, environmental issues and the future of mankind. 2021 + II: utopia broadcasting is an exhibition that encapsulates everything about human construction : consumerism, the wonders and dangers of science and sheer curiosity. Serena […]

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ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Murray Fredericks

05, November 2022

Murray Fredericks previously photographed a series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme. While shooting, he filmed BLAZE, an observational documentary by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor). From the start of his career Fredericks process has involved prolonged solo journeys to remote and often extreme locations. Using […]

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ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Jake Nowakowski

05, November 2022

News photographer, Jake Nowakowski’s, Superheroes in lockdown was produced during Melbourne’s restrictive and prolonged 112-day COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The subjects are serious cosplayers who would usually spend their days visiting patients in hospitals or attending Comic-Con events, but just like the rest of the Melbournian population, they were confined to their homes. Jake Nowakowski, […]

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ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with John Donegan

05, November 2022

John Donegan is an artist with a background in photojournalism. His artistic practice searches for the beauty in ordinary rhythms of everyday life, often highlighting the seemingly unimportant, insignificant, or unseen. The Broken Creek marks a turning point, whereby Donegan is exploring finding peace within nature and himself. John Donegan, Photojournalist Exhibition: The Broken Creek […]

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THIS CULTURAL LIFE: PLIABLE PLANES

14, May 2022

Textiles breaking the barriers of technology, form and material.   On Arts Thursday 28 April 2022, Maisy Stapleton visited  the exhibition Pliable Planes, a major exhibition of experimental textiles and fibre practices by leading Australian practitioners at the UNSW galleries. Maisy interviewed Co Curator of the show, Catherine Woolley and artist Kate Scardifield, who worked […]

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SMASHING!

06, January 2022

Window, Cricket Bat is a performance developed for the exhibition Happy Objects now on show at the Australian Design Centre. The exhibition celebrates the power of objects to link us to people and places, ideas and memories. Written by Hilary Bell, Window, Cricket Bat is a collaboration between Griffin Theatre and the Australian Design Centre, […]

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ANZAC Memorial Hyde Park with Sylvia Rosenblum

02, October 2019

Caroline Mackaness was responsible for the delivery, on behalf of the Trustees, for the Centenary of Anzac legacy project to complete the original 1930s design vision for the State’s Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park – along with significant new community and education facilities. She was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 2 October 2019, filling us in […]

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Lucy Bloom talks about her memoir “Get the Girls Out” on Arts Friday with Claudia Chan Shaw

20, September 2019

Would you love your name on a plaque, recognising your charitable contributions? Do you donate to causes and charities because helping others improves lives? Giving makes you feel good. Lucy Bloom knows a thing or two about how charities run. Lucy is a writer, speaker and consulting CEO who raised an impressive $7million for an […]

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Rushcutters Creek with Sylvia Rosenblum

18, September 2019

On Arts Wednesday 18 September 2019, Sylvia’s guests were Chrissie Kirkwood and Fergus Barker, landscape architecture students from UTS. As a student exercise, they were required to reimagine Rushcutters Creek, once a meandering stream rising in Darlinghurst and emptying into Rushcutters Bay. What is left  is a mainly concrete stormwater channel through an area that […]

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Create NSW Funding

02, September 2019

Create NSW has streamlined its funding programs to make them more accessible and less complicated. The current funding round is open with the next round opening in February next year. Arts report Chris Virtue speaks to Grainne Brunsdon, Director of Arts Investment, Engagement & Development at Create NSW, to find out about the changes. For more information […]

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Poisoned Chalice – Peter Hall and the Opera House – Anne Watson speaks with Maisy Stapleton

15, August 2019

Peter Hall was the young talented architect chosen to continue Jorn Utzon’s wotk on the Sydney Opera House. What seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime tirned out to be a poisoned chalice. Dr Anne Watson speaks to Maisy Stapleton about her PhD research and subsequent book on Hall’s work and fate. […]

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Bligh: Hero or Villain with Sylvia Rosenblum

07, August 2019

On Arts Wednesday 7 August 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Stephen Gapps, curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum, talking about the latest exhibition Bligh: Hero or Villain. You probably know most about the man from either primary school history or Hollywood, where Bligh is always the villain, undone by the loveable rogue, Fletcher Christian. […]

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Paul Neeson from Monday Arts caught up with the Kweens of Comedy – Dazza and Keif

17, July 2019

Dazza and Keif are best mates and semi-bro-fessional breakdancers from the suburbs, trying to make it big on Youtube. The problem is that their only followers are Dazza’s Mum and the account Keif set up for his cat. When an embarrassing viral video thrusts them into the spotlight for the wrong reasons, Dazza and Keif […]

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Taikoz Artistic Director Ian Cleworth joined Claudia Chan Shaw on Arts Friday

15, July 2019

Have you ever experienced a performance of taiko drumming? It’s very exciting. You can feel the drumming beating in your chest. It’s energetic, theatrical and uplifting. And Australia’s own internationally acclaimed drumming ensemble, Taikoz, will be performing Japanese taiko in their production, The Beauty of 8, at The Joan in Penrith on 20 July and […]

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Pages Suite: Music and Conversation with Leonie Cohen and Sylvia Rosenblum

18, June 2019

From April through to June 2019. each week Arts Wednesday featured one track from Leonie Cohen’s latest album, Pages Suite alongside conversation between Leonie and Sylvia about the music. It is jazz pianist Leonie’s first foray into classical composition and the suite was inspired by the stage performance for The Diary of Anne Frank, for […]

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Heritage Tourism – the essentials. An Arts Thursday podcast

13, June 2019

What are the best international models for heritage tourism and how can they be applied to Australia? Last Year, Dr Caroline Butler-Bowden, was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore visitor experiences at heritage sites across 5 countries, 18 cities, 24 museums and 27 historic sites. Join me, Maisy Stapleton, to learn from Caroline’s acute insight […]

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Don Was Celebrates 80 years of Blue Note Records with Eastside Radio

06, June 2019

Don Was and Justin Seltzer at Eastside The President of Blue Note records, Don Was, has been in Sydney as part of his world tour celebrating the 80th birthday of this iconic jazz label. With Blue Note’s Vice President Justin Seltzer, he joined Mick Paddon in the Eastside studios during Time and Space. Don Was […]

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Compositions, Court Life and Composers with Sylvia Rosenblum

22, May 2019

During April-May 2019, music historian, Andy Bromberger, presented a 6-part series entitled Composers, Court Life and Compositions. In each episode, Andy examines the social and historical milieu that produced the man and his music. Episode 1: Bach Episode 2: Beethoven Episode 3: Brahms Episode 4: Mozart Episode 5: Tchaikovsky Episode 6: Verdi and Wagner […]

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The Bugisu Project

17, April 2019

On Arts Wednesday 17 April 2019, Sylvia’s guests were Brody Smith and Bri Kerr, co-directors of the Bugisu Project. This amazing start up by a group of young people imports coffee from Uganda, lends it to customers and use the returned  grounds in compost and manufacture of a surprising array of goods. Profits are then […]

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Beauty in the Burbs: Sydney through the lens of photographer Lousie Hawson

05, March 2019

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Louise Hawson, the photographer behind the 52 Suburbs blog and book. How well do you know your city? How far do your notions about community extend beyond your immediate neighbourhood? Louise Hawson woke up one day and realised she was a stranger in her own city. And then she set […]

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Wil Roach Talks Recently Released Book ‘Black, Gay & Underage – A Memoir of London’

27, February 2019

Author Wil Roach chats with Gaz and Di on Arts Tuesday about his recently released book titled ‘Black, Gay & Underage – A Memoir of London’. Roach’s book gives us an inside look into his life, experiences both good and bad, memories, stories, family, revelations and much more that allows readers to be a fly […]

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Interview with Mexican-American Band ‘Las Cafeteras” Denise Carlos

13, February 2019

Arts Friday’s Angela Stretch talked to Denise Carlos from ‘Las Cafeteras’ about their political perspectives, identity and the power of music. Las Cafeteras are a band of Mexican–Americans living in East LA and as the LA times described them, are “a uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock.” By blending traditional music […]

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Interview with Nicholas Ng from Australian Music Centre

13, February 2019

On Sunday 10th February, Riverside Theatres at Parramatta celebrated the Lunar New Year with an afternoon of traditional Chinese music.    Gong Xi! Songs for the Lunar New Year featured music and songs from China performed by a sextet of musicians, members of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chinese Music Ensemble playing traditional Chinese instruments including the dizi (bamboo […]

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Interview with Actor and Director David Field

05, February 2019

In this week’s episode of Arts Monday Susie Lindemann talks to actor and director David Field. They discuss how arts art and politics interfere, the benefits of shooting low-budget films, his approach to directing and more. The guest also talks about his most recent project ‘The Combination: Redemption’, which is a follow-up to the 2009 movie ‘Combination’. The […]

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‘Home’ in Koori Art – A Contested Place

04, February 2019

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan and Amanda Peacock (Art Gallery of NSW Coordinator of Aboriginal and Photography Education Programs) discuss the exhibition ‘Home’. Sadly for most Koori artists, reflections on the idea of home are actually infused with the long term effects of displacement through colonisation: “This gallery stands on the home of the Gadigal clan […]

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NIDA at Sydney Mardi Gras 2019

02, February 2019

In this week’s episode of Art’s Tuesday Phillip Patterson and Micaela Ellis, both students at NIDA( National Institute of Dramatic Art) discussed the school’s participation in the 2019 Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney. The students talked about the importance of LGBTQIA+ representation, the details of their project and how the idea came about. It is the first time time […]

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Arts Friday: Interview with Daphne Lowe Kelley from Australasian Art and Stagework

29, January 2019

Chinese New Year is coming soon. Claudia invited Daphne Lowe Kelley, the Vice President of Australasian Art and Stagework, to her Arts Friday Show in order to talk with her about their new play ‘Pigsys Wedding’. The show will be presented on the 9th of Feburary at the Concourse in Chatswood. Find more information and […]

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Arts Tuesday: Interview with Jenny Ericsson – The Marais Project

22, January 2019

Jenny Eriksson is part of the baroque ensemble The Marais Project. Jenny completed her initial musical studies at the then NSW State Conservatorium of Music studying music education and cello with Barbara Woolley. Her band just released their new album ‘What Should I Say’ in cooperation with the band Elysan Fields. In Gaz and Diana’s Arts […]

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Honeysuckle Creek: Andrew Tink in conversation with Sylvia Rosenblum

16, January 2019

On 19 July this year, it will be 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his historic steps on the moon and those steps were beamed onto television sets around the globe from Honeysuckle Creek, just outside Canberra. On Arts Wednesday 16 January 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Andrew Tink, who’s latest book, tells the story of […]

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Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage with Sylvia Rosenblum

12, December 2018

On Arts Wednesday 12 December 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Peter Raissis, Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of NSW. The conversation covers the origins and history of the Hermitage collections, starting with Catherine the Great and two of the Russian artists represented in the exhibition: Vassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich,  both towering figures […]

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Words That Go Ping: Onomatapoeia with Sylvia Rosenblum

28, November 2018

Barbara Lasserre’s latest book is called Words That Go Ping and subtitled The ridiculously wonderful world of onomatopoeia. And a wonderful world it is! Barbara was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 18 November 2018. Learn about words that sound like the action described and how those actions – such as a heartbeat – are expressed […]

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Ed Lippmann on Technology and Architecture with Sylvia Rosenblum

21, November 2018

During  September/November 2018, Arts Wednesday hosted its second series for the year of Sydney By Design with prominent architect, Ed Lippmann. This 6-part series looks at how technology has changed building, buildings and architecture from our days in caves through to the 21st century. Part 1: Ed introduces the series with a précised of episodes […]

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Jay James-Moody From STC’s A Cheery Soul

14, November 2018

Miss Docker is one of Nobel Laureate Patrick’s White’s most memorable creations. She and her neighbours are as hilarious and peculiar as they are uncannily familiar. Together, this pioneering text and marvellous characters take us on a dizzying ride through suburban Australia, exploring the meaning of morality, mortality and the need for belonging in A […]

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Russell Smith and Bell Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

14, November 2018

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s political thriller, a masterpiece of intrigue and treachery. Stand witness to the assassination that leads to a life and death struggle for power in the Republic. Citizens mutiny, Mark Antony schemes, and the fate of Rome hangs in the balance. Gaz Simpson and Diana Simmonds invited actor Russell Smith into Arts Tuesday […]

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Fran Dorey on Whales/Tohora with Sylvia Rosenblum

07, November 2018

Exhibitions Co-ordinator at The Australian Musee, Fran Dorey, was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 7 November 2018, talking about Whales/Tohora, a new exhibition at the museum. For centuries, whales have captured our imaginations. We have revered and mythologised them, hunted them to the brink of extinction and passionately protected them. But how much do we […]

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Professor Geoff Masters on NSW Curriculum Review with Sylvia Rosenblum

24, October 2018

When the future of the world as we know it becomes increasingly less predictable, what sort of education should we be giving our young people? What skills will they need to equip them for uncertainty? On Arts Wednesday 24 October 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Professor Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research, […]

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Arts Tuesday- Interview with Neil Hodda and Mary Rachel Brown

23, October 2018

Valley Artists is proud to announce that its next major production will be the premiere of Australian playwright Noel Hodda’s latest work, The Sculpture Garden. The Sculpture Garden will be directed by Bob Philippe, who also directed – to popular acclaim – Valley Artists’ 2013 premiere of Noel’s play Across the Water, a story of age, loss, recriminations and regrets, acceptance and love. […]

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MODERN MASTERSPIECE

18, October 2018

Arts Thursday 4th October 2018 The Horizon Apartments in Darlinghurst – designed by the late architect Harry Seidler on the site of the former ABC studios and offices has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Two of the Horizon residents, Peter Morton (who once worked in the ABC studios) and architect Mark Broadley (Chairman of the […]

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UNDERMINED: TALES FROM THE KIMBERLEY + Q&A

11, October 2018

Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, as mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture drive an unprecedented land grab. Award-winning director Nicholas Wrathall investigates the politics of an area branded Australia’s “future economic powerhouse” with the highest percentage of Aboriginal people living on Country. Undermined: Tales from The Kimberley follows young Indigenous leader Albert […]

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Geraint Lewis on The Science of Science Fiction with Sylvia Rosenblum

03, October 2018

During the course of August and September 2018, Professor Geraint Lewis, Professor of astrophysics at Sydney University, made a welcome return to Arts Wednesday with a 6-part series entitled The Science of Science Fiction. Listen to all six episodes here. If you would like to hear more, this is the link to the podcast of […]

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What is Architecture? Karen Stein and Ed Lippmann with Sylvia Rosenblum

03, October 2018

The Sydney Architecture Festival 2018 featured distinguished architecture writer, academic and commentator, New Yorker, Karen Stein, who gave the closing address about what architecture is and isn’t. She joined Sylvia in the studio with distinguished Sydney architect, Arts Wednesday’s own Ed Lippmann in discussion. […]

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Kathleen Berney – an unplanned fashion career and the Shells Exhibition for the Sydney Craft Festival

25, September 2018

Join Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday to meet designer, artist and creative maker KATHLEEN BERNEY. Kathleen is one of five textile and craft artists presenting a textile-based exhibition, Shells, during Sydney Craft Week at the Barometer Gallery in Paddington. Using textile processes, artists Barbara Rogers, Irene Manion, Beth Hatton, Liz Gemmel and Kathleen celebrate the beauty and […]

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Architectural Ethics in an Age of Excess – Arts Thursday 20 September

21, September 2018

This Arts Thursday segment on the Sydney Architecture Festival covers Ethics in an Age of Excess, a panel discussion querying if architecture has lost its social purpose, and its focus on the public good during the current building boom and the construction of bigger and ‘better’ building. Maisy Stapleton interviews Shaun Carter principal architect of Carter […]

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Interview with Vashti Hughes about her show “Larry’s Odyssey”

28, August 2018

Live Interview with Vashti Hughes talking about her show “Larry’s Odyssey” coming up at the new East Sydney Arts & Community Centre. Experience a voice class with vocal coach to the stars Larry Olive, who while warming up your “P-Spot” divulges his expert tips on the secrets to success as an Actor in the theatre. […]

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Claire Edwardes- more than a musical virtuoso

16, August 2018

Claire Edwardes is an internationally renowned Australian musician and artistic director, usually described as a percussionist though this does not do justice to the range of instrumentation with which she performs. Though classically changed she is reluctant to use the term “classical” adjective to describe her music. Its contemporary, much of it improvised and in […]

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Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains with Sylvia Rosenblum

13, August 2018

During the course of July/August 2018, Dr Anna Kamaralli was Sylvia’s guest, presenting a 6-part series: Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains. Part 1: In this episode Anna talks about heroes: what makes a hero and who are Shakespeare’s great heroes? Our main example is Henry V. Part 2: Here, Anna introduces us to villains. As with […]

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A Tribute to Ross Edwards with Sylvia Rosenblum

06, August 2018

Nicholas Routley was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday, talking about the life and music of Australian living treasure, composer Ross Edwards. Nicholas is a musicologist, academic and founding choirmaster of the Sydney Chamber Choir, as well as being a dear personal friend to Edwards. The Following music is played during the conversation in this order: […]

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Alienation, Atonalism and Appeasement with Andy Bromberger

15, June 2018

Music historian, Andy Bromberger, deconstructed 20th century classical music over 6 episodes on Arts Wednesday. Episode 1:The world of music from 1900 to World War 1, a period of unprecedented optimism and experimentation across the arts, including, of course, music. Episode 2: All the optimism comes crashing with the outbreak of World War I and […]

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Girls at the Piano

04, May 2018

Published just a few weeks ago, Girls at the Piano, is , in part, a memoir of a young girl’s infatuation with the piano which over the years into her adolescence becomes a burden rather than a source of pleasure. It is also the story of her grandmother, a singer and pianist who emigrated to […]

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Gallipoli

25, April 2018

What really happened at Gallipoli? Professor Sean Brawley was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday, back in 2015 to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign and the interview was repeated on ANZAC Day 25 April 2018. […]

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Defamation and You

18, April 2018

On Arts Wednesday 18 April 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Derek Wilding from the Centre For Media Transition at UTS. Did you know that every time you text, email or post on social media, you are a publisher and can be sued for defamation? Our media are changing, but apparently not our laws! Listen to […]

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YOUNG PEOPLE & THE ARTS

05, April 2018

  Arts Thursday  22 March 2018 Sue Giles interviewed by Maisy Stapleton If you’ve ever wanted to involve children in theatre, either as audience, or as participants, then listen to a fascinating discussion with Sue Giles. Sue is the Artistic Director and CEO of Melbourne’s Polyglot Theatre and Vice-President of ASSITEJ, the international association of […]

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Feminist Art of the 1970s: interrogating ‘The Gentle Arts’

02, April 2018

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan looks at feminist art practice from the 1970s related to textiles, in particular, women’s fancywork, also known as ‘the Gentle arts’. Interviews with AGNSW Curator of Australian art Natalie Wilson, and Kerrie Head, Object Conservator, regarding ‘Arcadia: Landscape and Bodies‘ (1972-1977), a room-sized crocheted ‘tableaux vivant’ by Ewa Pachucka. Jane and […]

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Mami Kataoka and Biennale 2018

28, March 2018

On Arts Wednesday 28 March 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Mami Kataoke, Artistic Director of Sydney Biennale 2018. During the conversation, Mami talks about her own upbringing in Japan and her professional life. The conversation moves to the philosophic underpinnings of this Biennale: Superposition:Equilibrium and Engagement and Mami explains what these mean and how they translate […]

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Waste Not: a Beautiful and Emotional Film about Garbage

17, February 2018

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Ruth Hessey, Director of Communications for the Total Environment Centre and Writer/Director of the award winning short documentary film Waste Not. The film’s tag line is “A beautiful and emotional film about garbage”. It is a surprisingly optimistic and powerful message about how everyday people and their attitudes can, and […]

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The Lady and the Unicorn

14, February 2018

On Arts Wednesday 14 February 2018, Sylvia’s special guest was Jackie Dunn, curator of special exhibitions at AGNSW, talking about the Lady and the Unicorn. These six impossibly beautiful tapestries are on loan from the Musee de Cluny in Paris. During the conversation, thy spoke about the history of the piece, the symbolism behind many motifs and finished with some tips about what to look for. […]

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Landing Points: Race, Place and Identity

05, February 2018

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Dr Hayley Megan French, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Landing Points: Race, Place and Identity’, which was devised to respond to Tracey Moffatt’s seminal 1997 photographic series ‘Up in the Sky’. ‘Up in the Sky‘ is usually read as black and white film stills, set in an iconic outback Australian landscape. […]

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Tattoo: Totem, Taboo, Art?

05, February 2018

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Geoff Ostling, former history teacher, porcelain collector and wearer of a full body tattoo by tattoo artist eX de Medici. eX de Medici is also a highly collectable fine art practitioner. Geoff Ostling plans to donate his skin to the National Gallery of Australia. Jane chats with Geoff about his personal […]

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Ode to Sydney – Art, Literature, and Kenneth Slessor’s ‘Five Bells’

05, February 2018

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan chats with Damian Minton (Watters Gallery) about art, poetry and literature specifically focused on Sydney, in the exhibition Five Bells – a Visual Ode to Sydney – staged at his former eponymous gallery. Taking cues from Kenneth Slessor’s poem – voted Australia’s best poem by ABC listeners in 1988 – the […]

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Matt McMahon On Time And Space – Celebrating 20 Years

18, January 2018

Matt McMahon is one of the very significant group of jazz musicians who have come to prominence since the turn of the century. A pianist, composer, arranger and musical director (as well as one of Eastside Radio’s longest standing presenters) he has been a winner of two of Australia’s most prestigious jazz awards: the National […]

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11, December 2017

Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August 2017 welcomed star performer, Geraldine Turner in a lively and frank interview around the upcoming performances of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, to be staged in Mittagong by CMS Productions from 17th August . Jacques Brel was a symbol of the Beat Generation, with his songs of love, war, life and death, originally sung […]

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