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Friends and well-established musicians Clotilde Rullaud (vocalist and flutist) and Alexandre Saada (pianist and multi-instrumentalist) perform together as Madeleine & Salomon. On International Women’s Day, they joined Nick Terry on Thursday Drive to speak about their album ‘A Woman’s Journey’. After revealing to Nick why he is (what the French call) a ‘bobo’, Clotilde and Alexandre explained […]
Mysterious Victorian musician Archer and his humble mate Phil paid a visit to Eastside’s Thursday Drive. Archer gave an intriguing insight into his journeys across our sunburnt country. After performing a spontaneous poem requesting all of Australia’s old people, Archer revealed meeting a white supremacist who called himself ‘Jesus Christ’. Have a listen to his beautifully strange […]
The Powerhouse Youth Theatre in Fairfield is packed with a few men, lots of children and hundreds of women They are gathered for a performance by Women in Harmony, a group of refugee women, who have been writing, singing and rehearsing music with members of the Sirens Big Band. Women in Harmony range in age […]
What shows, performances and people are coming up in 2017 and how best to sum up those of 2016? Join me at 10:30am for a stimulating appraisal of theatre and performance in Sydney. We welcome back Deborah Jones, writer ‘on dance, musical theatre, theatre and opera in Sydney … mostly’, for her annual survey of […]
A small café on King Street in Newtown has won awards from the Sydney Good Food Guide and from the Refuge Council of Australia for its innovative initiatives training refugees and asylum seekers in preparing and presenting food for professional catering and hospitality. The cafe also gives them a chance to give the local neighbourhood a taste […]
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The programme of performers at this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues has been released. The Festival’s artistic director, Adrian Jackson, says that this years “theme” is the diversity in the number of female soloists and bandleaders who will be playing. Adrian, who has been artistic director of every festival since it started in 1990, talks with Thursday Drive’s […]
The ninth annual Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, HRAFF to its friends, will open in Sydney on May 24th and run to May 28th with six carefully selected films showing at the Dendy Cinema in Newtown. Thursday Drive’s Mick Paddon talks with the HRAFF director, Malcolm Blaylock about how the national and international films […]
Read More… from Chasing Asylum: Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Opens in Sydney
Access to the arts is an ongoing battle for many arts lovers with a disability. That said, credit has to be given to the Sydney Festival organisers for putting such effort into providing information regarding accessible events for people regardless of their disability. This means there are audio files available for the visually impaired detailing […]
Read More… from Access All Areas – disabled access at the Sydney Festival