Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers For this program, we are interviewing Jo Jansyn, the Cultural Development Coordinator at Woollahra Municipal Council who manages the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. Now located in its new home at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, the Prize celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year and is the inaugural exhibition in the new gallery. Jo […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers Maisy and Paula return to Arts Thursday after a COVID break. Find out what’s happening in the arts and cultural area and explore the brand new gallery in the Southern Highlands – Ngununggulla – as Maisy meets the Director Megan Monte and we look at the opening […]
Approx. 2 minute read It was a dark winter’s evening back in 2017, when I, along with a few other newbie volunteers, braved the cold to visit the creative space under Paddington Town Hall to train up on the ways of Eastside Radio. The first Sensei ready to impart their knowledge and wisdom was Sylvia […]
Approx. 6 minute 30 second read Melanie Christodoulou has been making the Eastside airwaves sing for almost a decade. Making her start in community radio as a bright-eyed and eager youngster in the midst of wrapping up her high school days, Mel has made an outstanding contribution to the station by serving as the Music […]
Approx. 5 minutes 30 seconds read Welcome back to my Shout Sister Shout series! This time around I zoom in on the inspiring stories, talents and idiosyncrasies of the women in community media who contribute to the vibrant and diverse programming of Arts, Music and more here on Eastside Radio. My first guest is the […]
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday for a lockdown show. Tune in to meet Jennifer Bott AO for a thoughtful discussion on the value of the arts and to explore her stellar career in the arts and in cultural leadership roles. Jenny’s distinguished career has embraced almost every form of the arts from community practice, to music, performing […]
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests. Dr Noris Ioannou Folk art and creativity is celebrated as an essential aspect of art history in countries like America, yet has been undervalued in Australia. Dr Noris Ioannou, an authority on Australian ‘material folk culture and the decorative arts’, […]
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests. Bundanon – Deborah Ely AM Bundanon on the Sholhaven River near Nowra was given to the nation by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993 as a remarkable cultural and environmental asset. For the last 15 years, CEO Deborah Ely has nurtured, developed and transformed its programs, landscapes […]
Read More… from Bundanon and Good Space Activation – 13 May 2021
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests. Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe has announced the initial program for its new pop-up venue Fringe HQ Newtown featuring new works by a range of acclaimed and emerging Australian artists. Taking over the historic ballroom at 5 Eliza Street, the venue became active on Monday [April 26] and will continue until December, set […]
Read More… from Sydney Fringe & Short+Sweet Festivals – 29 April 2021
The Space Between & Misanthropology: The World Art of Adam Rish – 15 April 2021 Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests. Helen Redmond A collaboration between painter Helen Redmond and textile designer Barbara Rogers, their exhibition The Space Between at Paddington’s Barometer Gallery examines the journey between light and shadow, through spaces both […]
Approx. 9 minute read The month of March is behind us and being the eventful month that is was, there is much upon which to reflect. On the 8th, we celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD). The theme for this year’s celebrations and acknowledgement was #ChooseToChallenge. This expresses the fact that we are all responsible for […]
Approx. 6 minute 30 second read “Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God’s […]