This Arts Thursday join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests. Our first guest in the studio is acclaimed theatre devisor, director and designer Kim Carpenter. Kim has spent the Covid lockdown in an intensely creative period, resulting in a series of watercolours of The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale of love […]
Arts Thursday 1 October 2020 focuses on makers, artists and works which inspire, explore and look to change attitudes – particularly in this time of COVID19, underpinning the role of craft, art and design in our lives. Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to meet Julie Ryder, whose work explores botany – its history; collectors […]
Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features ragtime joy in the form of Queensland jazz group Slips and the F.W’s, and the epic two part release from neo-soul afficionado Moses Sumney out of the US. Sugoi is the debut album from jazz-blues-ragtime group Slips and the F.W’s. The group have been performing their eclectic […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: Sugoi — Slips and the F.W’S / græ — Moses Sumney
Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the long-anticipated debut from London jazz producer and performer Nubya Garcia, as well as some soulful sounds from Western Sydney’s Onarsé. Nubya Garcia has been a jazz musician from a young age, taking up the reigns from her musical family including her Guyanese mother and Trinidadian […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: SOURCE — Nubya Garcia / “15/10” — Onarsé
This Thursday, the emphasis is on the home, as well as an interview with photographer Greg Weight focussing on his experiments with ‘paintographs’. Greg joins Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to speak about his new exhibition Big Tree Notes at the Australian Galleries in Paddington, which blurs the boundaries between painting and photography – a […]
Read More… from A New look at the Home and the ‘Paintograph’: 17 September 2020
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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the latest release from Australian jazz legend Andrea Keller, and the debut mixtape from Wollongong local Stevan. Andrea Keller is a legendary Australian pianist and composer who began her foray into jazz at just 14 years old. She now composes and produces music for eight separate […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: Life is Brut[if]al — Andrea Keller / Just Kids — Stevan
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers speak to two artists with new exhibitions. Firstly, meet Andjana Pachkova – formerly a Wall Street lawyer, born in the Ukraine and raised in Russia and now living in Sydney, practicing art. Her solo exhibition Fernweh – into the Blue, at the […]
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers speak to Peter Morton who is recording an ongoing series on the collections in our state’s cultural institutions – museums, galleries and libraries. Today Peter is speaking to Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian about the extraordinary holdings and the astonishing and diverse array of items in the State Library […]
Read More… from Collections, Regional Arts & Paddo Town Hall: 23 July 2020
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers join you to explore arts initiatives that have pushed through the Covid19 lockdown. First up we speak with Jo Jansyn, Cultural Development Coordinator at Woollahra Council about how Council has stayed active in the community over the last months with the development of Creative Hoardings ; the new […]
Arts Thursday 25 June This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers join you for world class design and behind the scenes info on the release of a new work by Distant Drum. First up Maisy speaks with Penny Craswell about her recently published book Design Lives Here, which presents world class Australian design in […]
Arts Thursday 11 June We’re back! This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers for their first Arts program since the corona virus lockdown. We start today with an interview recorded by Peter Morton in an ongoing series about the treasures in our museums, galleries and libraries. Today Peter speaks to Richard Neville, […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers We may not be able to travel at the moment, but we can still look to far horizons. Perhaps now is the time to spend learning another language – if not face-to-face, there are many on-line courses and aids to be found. Or we might now have […]