Yea! Back with Arts Wednesday at last! You may remember, we started, but didn’t finish, a new series back in February before lockdown – Developing Sydney, with historian Laila Ellmoos. It concerned an exhibition, due to open in March but, as you can imagine, that didn’t happen. I will repeat the series starting with episode […]
67th Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition and Awards Program Launch and Sales open on 27 May Sydney Film Festival (SFF) will go virtual and national for the first time in its history this year. From 10 to 21 June 2020, SFF will present important elements of its 2020 lineup: world premieres of compelling true stories from […]
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FANFORCE TV PRESENTS THE 2020 VIRTUAL INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL FANFORCE TV, the new community-based streaming platform presents the first Virtual Indigenous Film Festival from the 27th of May till the 2nd of June as part of National Reconciliation Week 2020. The Festival will present some of the most powerful Indigenous films alongside Q&A discussions […]
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Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers We may not be able to travel at the moment, but we can still look to far horizons. Perhaps now is the time to spend learning another language – if not face-to-face, there are many on-line courses and aids to be found. Or we might now have […]
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected […]
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected […]
At 10:40 am, historian Laila Ellmoos returns with Part 3 of Developing Sydney and in this episode Laila talks about remembering old Sydney. My special guest at 11:00 am is Jonathan Bryant, heritage consultant to the State Theatre in Market Street. This grand old dame of theatre was built in 1929 and remains largely intact […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers The Sydney Chamber Choir and City Recital Hall are staging Handel’s Messiah. The choir, under Artistic Director Sam Allchurch, is taking a fresh approach to this longstanding piece and presenting a concert with a sound that, in effect, will express Handel’s original intent for this sublime music, […]
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The Robertson Brothers Announce Brand New 1960’s TV Variety Show Line 5 Entertainment is proud to present The Robertson Brother’s new 1960 Variety Show! The show will feature special guest Simon Brook McLachlan from the original cast of the Jersey Boys. Take a trip down memory lane with this amazing interactive live TV Variety Show […]
At 10:40 am, historian Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 2 of Developing Sydney and this week’s episode explores the importance of photography in documenting Sydney’s growth. My special guests at 11:00 am are Rhianna Walcott and Alex Seton, both board members of Arts Month coming up in March. Rhianna is a gallery director and Alex […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers This week we introduce a new segment to the program – the Story of Sydney through our collections. Our state’s collecting institutions – the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, the State Library of NSW, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney Living Museums and […]
Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, makes a welcome return to Arts Wednesday at 10:40 am with a new series for 2020.Called Developing Sydney, it is the name of an exhibition Laila is curating at Customs House, opening late March and looks at photographs in the council archives from 1900 – 1920. In […]