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 […]
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 […]
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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GIG GUIDE – Take One – 9th June 2017
Afternoon Eastsiders! Next week is bursting with amazing talent taking to a live venue near you. Why not get organised and cap off each day with some of your favourites, or take the time to discover something new? As always you can tune in Friday’s from 1:30PM-3PM for Take One to hear about these artists and more […]
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 […]
Arts Thursday 18 May 2017
FUTURE/PAST This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton exploring the future and the past. I’ll be speaking first to Kate Cherry, CEO and Director of NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Arts) on upcoming NIDA productions and her first five months in her new role. Then to Michelle Belgiorno, one of five Australian and Japanese artists, whose […]
Arts Thursday 4 May
Two institutions with a long heritage and a bright future! Both have roots back in the 1980s and both have survived through embracing change. Firstly Bob Googe from the National Trust, who is coordinating the National Heritage Festival, speaks about this Australia-wide event celebrating the stories, people and places that make up our heritage. And […]
Arts Thursday 23 March 2017 – German Romantics to An Australian Story
From German Romantics to a very distinctive Australian Story. Join me, Maisy Stapleton, on Arts Thursday at 10:30am for a conversation with conductor Sam Allchurch about the upcoming concert with the Sydney Chamber Choir on 8 April at the Great Hall, University of Sydney. The concert will feature the uplifting and emotionally charged music of […]
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Gig Guide – Take One – 17th March 2017
Afternoon Eastsider’s! Melanie C host of Take One here. Having caught the Sydney debut of the Baldwins at Leadbelly last night, I’m even more inspired to keep boasting about the talent we have here in Sydney heading to a live stage near you. I’ve posted a couple of pictures and videos I captured on the […]
Arts Thursday 9 March 2017 – Two Perspectives!
This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]
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Arts Thursday Australia Day 2017
Join me on Australia Day at 10:30 for Arts Thursday. To begin, meet Emily Valentine whose extraordinary work, made by ‘painting in feathers’, can be seen at the exhibition Preen at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Oxford Street until 29th January. Emily’s lively and inventive art […]