Italy’s Luca Gemma

Italian musician, Luca Gemma, joined Dr Margaux Dombkins on Arts, treating us to a live performance of songs from his latest CD, Blue Songs. Luca is on tour in Australia and Blue Songs is his first album performed entirely in English. Luca’s signature mash-up of rock, pop, soul and folk across voice, guitar, brass and electronic work […]

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Sydney and Water

During the course of February/March, Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, was Sylvia’s guest, presenting a 6-part series entitled Sydney and Water. Listen to the 6 episodes here: This is Episode 1, where Laila introduces the series. This Episode 2 on Sydney’s sources of water in the early days of the colony.       […]

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Imagine A City

On 9 March 2016, Dr Charles Pickett was Sylvia’s guest, talking about the exhibition he has curated called Imagine a City, marking 200 years of the Government Architect’s Office. Listen to the conversation: Above is Part 1 of the conversation and here is Part 2: And here is Part 3: […]

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Grayson Perry

Recently Rachel Kent, Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday, talking about My Pretty Little Art Career, the exhibition of Grayson Perry’s work she curated. Follow the conversation below: Above is Part 1 of the conversation and now for Part 2: And here is Part 3:   […]

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Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling in the Eliza Fraser Folklore

Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan chats with Larissa Behrendt, lawyer, and professor of Indigenous Research at the University of Technology Sydney, and author of a new critique of the Eliza Fraser story: Finding Eliza: Power & Colonial Storytelling. Larissa Behrendt’s book is a reference-rich deconstruction of the tropes in the Eliza Fraser ‘captivity narrative’ that have […]

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