David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks to Stewart D’arrietta about his Leonard Cohen show at the Opera House, My Leonard Cohen. […]
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Bassist Jess Dunn Makes Jazz in Australia
Bass player Jess Dunn (pictured) is the featured musician in Changing the Face of Jazz broadcast as part of Jazz Made in Australia on January 30th. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric base to a stand-up […]
A profile of drummer Jodie Michael in Changing the Face of Jazz
Drummer Jodie Michael (pictured) is the focus of the second feature in the series, Changing the Face of Jazz, which profiles young Australian women who have been making their names as jazz instrumentalists in the past few years. Jodie took up the drums in her early teens but within a couple of years was studying […]
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Meet Emily Valentine!
Meet Emily Valentine whose extraordinary work, made by ‘painting in feathers’, can be seen at her exhibition Preen at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Oxford Street until 29th January. Emily’s lively and inventive art has been literally stopping the traffic since it opened. Listen to the interview broadcast on 26th […]
MARGARET OLLEY – podcast
Arts Thursday 12 January 17 celebrated the life and contribution of the beloved Australian artist Margaret Olley. Margaret Olley: Painter, Peer, Mentor and Muse on exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery tells of Olley’s life not only as an accomplished artist herself but also as a friend and supporter of many […]
Boiling Point 24 Jan 2017 + bonus point
Dinosaurs, fairy circles, 22 degree halos and Lake Wakatipu’s seiche Alex dug back into the Jurassic to see if dinosaurs may one day walk among us:… Chantelle checked out what’s causing fairy rings in the Namibian desert And Tim shared stories of two phenomena he encountered in Queenstown, New Zealand. Look it up, what are 22 degree […]
Demolished Sydney: our ever-changing built environment
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Bob Whight, project Manager at the Museum of Sydney about some of Sydney’s lost buildings, places and spaces, and the debates and protests their demolition aroused. Hear about the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot (Bennelong Point) and other changes to the harbourfront, the Regent Theatre ‘Picture Palace’, the glamorous Hotel Australia, […]
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Emma Stephenson in Changing the Face of Jazz this week
The new series, Changing the Face of Jazz, focusses on young Australian women who have been making their names as jazz instrumentalists in the past few years. All of them have participated in projects which were aimed explicitly at encouraging more young women to study jazz and think about it a as a musical career. […]
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Boiling Point 20 Jan 2017
Fulgurites and Smithsonian butterflies Summer thunderstorms and Rom-coms set Tim wondering; can lighting really produce glass? Turns out the answer is YES and that glass is called a Fulgurite…. And Chantelle shared her last Panama adventure, with an interview conducted in the steamy Butterfly Research Laboratory of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute https://www.si.edu/ResearchCente…/Tropical-Research-Institute Boiling Point […]
Mother’s Ruin
Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 11 January 2017 was ginstress, Elly Baxter, co author and researcher for Mother’s Ruin, a cabaret being performed for a short season for this year’s Sydney Festival. Listen to the conversation here: That was Part 1 and here is Part 2: […]
ASIAN INTERSECTIONS – BEYOND WORDS
Beyond Words – Calligraphic Traditions of Asia is a long-running exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Join Matt Cox, Curator of Asian Art, in conversation with Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday 29 December 2016, about this spiritual and artistic form of communication used across the Asian world. Calligraphy is found in contexts […]
DIRECTOR’S OVERVIEW OF THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL
On Arts Thursday 29 December 2016, Wesley Enoch, the Director of the Sydney Festival spoke with Maisy Stapleton. With over 150 programmed events brought together over the last 5 months, incoming Director Wesley Enoch is embarking on his first Sydney Festival this January. What motivates this passionate and articulate arts leader? What are his ideas […]