This Arts Thursday join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests. Our first guest in the studio is acclaimed theatre devisor, director and designer Kim Carpenter. Kim has spent the Covid lockdown in an intensely creative period, resulting in a series of watercolours of The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale of love […]
At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger returns with Part 5 of Symphony’s Selected Sections where she talks about other instruments not covered before. These are the harp, the celeste and, weirdest of all, the theremin. At 11:00 am, art consultant Anna Groden returns with her annual review of the Archibald at AGNSW. Political correctness wins the […]
BABY DONE is a heart-warming new Kiwi comedy starring Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Rose Matafeo, and Matthew Lewis on the rocky journey to becoming new parents. When Zoe (Matafeo) and Tim (Lewis) find out they are having a baby, they resolve to not let parenthood change them. Tim runs towards being a dad, while […]
Arts Thursday 1 October 2020 focuses on makers, artists and works which inspire, explore and look to change attitudes – particularly in this time of COVID19, underpinning the role of craft, art and design in our lives. Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to meet Julie Ryder, whose work explores botany – its history; collectors […]
Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features ragtime joy in the form of Queensland jazz group Slips and the F.W’s, and the epic two part release from neo-soul afficionado Moses Sumney out of the US. Sugoi is the debut album from jazz-blues-ragtime group Slips and the F.W’s. The group have been performing their eclectic […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: Sugoi — Slips and the F.W’S / græ — Moses Sumney
Andy Bromberger returns at 10:40 am with Part 5 of Symphony’s Selected Sections – percussion. My special guest at 11:00 am is Stephen Todd, Creative Director of Sydney Design Week, which, as usual, is under the auspices of the Powerhouse Museum. Stephen talks about the truly wonderful new exhibition: Hybrid. This sees 9 commissioned designers, […]
Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the long-anticipated debut from London jazz producer and performer Nubya Garcia, as well as some soulful sounds from Western Sydney’s Onarsé. Nubya Garcia has been a jazz musician from a young age, taking up the reigns from her musical family including her Guyanese mother and Trinidadian […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: SOURCE — Nubya Garcia / “15/10” — Onarsé
Palace along with the new Principal Partner of the Italian Film Festival, ST. ALi Coffee, are pleased to announce the full programme of films which will screen nationally from 29 September. The flagship event will showcase Italian culture, stories and language in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Byron Bay at reduced capacity and then […]
Read More… from 2020 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL is back in Sydney (29 Sept – 18 Oct)
This Thursday, the emphasis is on the home, as well as an interview with photographer Greg Weight focussing on his experiments with ‘paintographs’. Greg joins Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to speak about his new exhibition Big Tree Notes at the Australian Galleries in Paddington, which blurs the boundaries between painting and photography – a […]
Read More… from A New look at the Home and the ‘Paintograph’: 17 September 2020
At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger joins me for Part 3 of Symphony’s Selected Sections and this week the section is brass: trumpets, trombones, horns and the tuba. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Sue Morris, psychologist and academic, joining me in conversation about resilience, a word very much in use at the moment. […]
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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the latest release from Australian jazz legend Andrea Keller, and the debut mixtape from Wollongong local Stevan. Andrea Keller is a legendary Australian pianist and composer who began her foray into jazz at just 14 years old. She now composes and produces music for eight separate […]
Read More… from Album of the Week: Life is Brut[if]al — Andrea Keller / Just Kids — Stevan
At 10 40 am, Andy Bromberger returns with Part 2 of Symphony’s Selected Sections and this week’s section is the woodwinds: flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and cor anglais. My special guest at 11:00 am is Jessie Tu. Jessie was a professional violinist for 15 years, studied law, did a stint teaching and is now a […]