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 […]
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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 […]
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday to meet two special guests. KATHRYN HUNYOR Australian Design Centre, in partnership with ArtsPeople, presents DESIGN 101, a new series of entertaining and informative lectures on design and design history given by top experts. These lectures focus on the forces and people who have shaped our contemporary world and will be hosted by […]
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Approx. 6 minute read Alex Silver has earned the utmost respect (and general street cred) in the jazz music world for her performance chops, composition sensibility and for being something of a pioneer for women in jazz as the inaugural recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. I had the pleasure of first encountering Alex […]
Approx. 10 minute read I first came across Briana Cowlishaw’s music on her latest album, Fjord, where she teams up with her long-time collaborator, Gavin Ahearn. Briana’s voice totally enticed me- it is so enchanting on the classic numbers Gentle Rain (originally bossa nova number written by Luiz Bonfá) and Stompin’ at the Savoy (written […]
Read More… from Shout Sister Shout: Briana Cowlishaw (IWD 2021)
Approx. 12 minute read Against some challenging odds, Athésia’s perseverance and passion for music led her to carve out her own unique path and nurture an enriching career as a musician. She shares her Canadian French Haitian heritage and culture, using music as a channel to bring communities together and to serve a noble cause. […]
Approx. 8 minute read Maria Mitar has a gift for weaving the diverse music threads of Western Sydney together in to a beautiful tapestry of sound, colour, culture, dance and celebration. As a co-founder of the Cultural Arts Collective, along with partner Richard Petkovic, Maria brings communities together to explore and bridge the space between heritage, […]
Approx. 6 minute read Artists are endlessly curious beings. This is certainly true of Miriam Lieberman. I love the way she describes how she discovered rhythms in everyday objects around her as a child and how her desire to unveil more of the world and its music led her to West Africa. Read on to […]
Read More… from Shout Sister Shout: Miriam Lieberman (IWD 2021)