The Poet and the Podcaster

ARTS THURSDAY 7th September at 10:30 am Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 7 September presents two women, whose lives took new paths into the arts, following family-raising and a diversity of careers. Barbara Fisher is a poet whose work explores aspects of a woman’s life – her memories, perceptions and domestic details, such as […]

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Writers’ Block and Regional Galleries

Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 24 August focuses on regional galleries in NSW and the psyche of creative people.. Firstly, we explore why so many creative people suffer anxiety and self-doubt. Psychotherapist Peta Landman, herself an arts practitioner, author and former arts manager speaks to us about some of the issues creative individuals face […]

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Geraldine Turner meets Jacques Brel!

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 […]

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Arts Thursday 9 August – star performers

Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August is a colourful and diverse as the Pilipino desert Halo-halo, an eye-popping medley of shaved ice, milk, jellies, fruit, sweet beans and whatever takes your fancy. Arts Thursday continues to explore the Phillipines Art Project Bayanihan at Mosman Art Gallery and welcomes star performer, Geraldine Turner who, as […]

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Arts Thursday 27th July – New Realms

          Arts Thursday 27 July will focus on the first in a series exploring exhibitions and events around the Bayanihan Philippine Art Project presented through the collaboration of several Sydney galleries and cultural centres, then in counterpoint, poet Jakob Ziguras will introduce his newly published works in The Sepia Carousel. VISUAL ART […]

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Arts Thursday 13th July 2017.

A poet, two artists, and a conductor. This Arts Thursday, Maisy Stapleton spoke with conductor Brett Weymark who is leading a host of teenage singers and musicians in a massed choral concert featuring Benjamin Britten’s St Nicolas – whose miracles and good deeds were the original model for Santa Claus. The concert will be presented by the […]

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it’s a pearler

A fun session for our radiothon – Rebel with a Cause Fellow broadcaster and author, journalist and music guru Toby Creswell joins me, Maisy Stapleton, to play the music of the ultimate rebel Janis Joplin – Pearl – whose music rocked the late 60s, including Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival.   TUNE IN TOMORROW for […]

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Arts Thursday 15th June 2017. First time in a century!

  This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton at the exhibition Victorian Watercolours recently opened in the Grand Courts at the Art Gallery of NSW. Peter Raissis, Curator of European Prints and Drawings at the Gallery joins the program to tell about these extraordinary works, many on view for the first time in a century. Watercolour […]

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Arts Thursday 1 June 2017.

NEW MUSIC AND ASIAN INTERSECTIONS This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton exploring aspects of Asian culture in Australia and a multi art form production by women artists. Seven Stories is premiering at the Vivid Festival on June 3rd at the City Recital Hall. The music for Seven Stories is composed by seven women, performed by […]

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Michelle Belgiorno – A Thousand Stitches of Hope

  Arts Thursday 18 May 2017. Michelle Belgiorno, one of five Australian and Japanese artists, whose work is presented in TOKKOTAI – Contemporary Australian and Japanese Artists on War and the Battle of Sydney Harbour by the Mosman Art Gallery speaks to Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday about her work A Thousand Stitches of Hope. Listen […]

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Kate Cherry on upcoming NIDA performances

Arts Thursday 18 May 2017. Kate Cherry, CEO and Director of NIDA speaks to Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday on upcoming NIDA productions and her first five months in her new role.   See details of full program and links to NIDA website on https://eastsidefm.org/arts-thursday-18-may-2017/ Listen to the interview here: […]

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Mirri Leven and Coo-ee Art’s new shop in Oxford Street

Mirri Leven, has recently become a Director of Coo-ee Art – an organisation founded in the 1980s, by Adrian Newstead – which has grown and developed with the times but remains devoted to promoting Aboriginal Art and artists. Coo-ee Art has returned to its original environs on Oxford Street Paddington, as well as retaining its […]

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