If you have a sense of dejas-vu with this post, it’s because it’s a repeat of last week’s. Unfortunately, ill health forced me to cancel the program last week, so you can hear it this week instead! At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 5 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week we […]
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Community Billboard 19-26 March 2019
(presented by Sydney 2030: City of Sydney’s Plan for the Future) 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. […]
Arts Wednesday 20 March 2019
At 10:40 am this week, Laila Ellmoos brings us Part 4 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week we talk about the Greycliff disaster. My special guest at 11:00 am is artist, Gemma Smith, talking about her new exhibition at the UNSW Galleries. Entitled Rhythm Sequence. It is a survey of her work since […]
Significant Places
21 March 2019 The Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park Sydney Just because peace treaties are signed after major wars, the impact of those wars still resound over many future decades. Late last year, the restoration of the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park was completed, an ultimate tribute at the end of the commemoration of 100 […]
Ray Curran, Dragon Boat paddler on Crossing the Line Tuesday 3pm
Ray Curran only discovered Dragon Boat racing after working in Police Search and Rescue in Tasmania. His work included an attachment in New Zealand working on the recovery of the Rainbow Warrior. Ray has played sport all his life from Badminton to Underwater Hockey. So it’s no wonder he competes at a senior level representing […]
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Community Billboard 12-19 March 2019
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. […]
Arts Wednesday 13 March 2019
At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, once again joins us for Part 3 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week, the topic is the timber strike of 1929. My special guest at 11:00 am this week is Dr Sam Arnold. Sam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Program 3 […]
Kimberley Coast Artist and Every Brilliant Thing – Arts Monday
Contemporary Landscape painter, Luke Sciberras, travelled to The Kimberley region in Western Australia as the first invited artist in Paspaley Pearling Company’s new Artist Residency Program, supporting contemporary Australian artists. Luke’s collection of new works made on location in remote areas of the Kimberley Coast, captures the beauty and drama of this extraordinary landscape for all Australians. […]
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Reflecting Heaven and Earth through art
Arts Thursday 7th March 2019 Heaven and earth and how they are interpreted through art, forms the theme of this week’s Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton. Firstly, the Art Gallery of NSW is presenting Heaven and earth in Chinese art: treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei which explores how heaven, earth and nature have […]
Community Billboard – 5 – 12 March 2019
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. […]
Arts Wednesday 6 March 2019
Laila Ellmoos joins us at 10:40 am for Part 2 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week the topic is the Spanish flu in the wake of World War I. At 11:00 am, I’ll play the second of the interviews I recorded in Israel, this week with Dr Micha Gross, one of the founders […]
Arts Wednesday 27 February 2019
I’m so happy to be returning to Arts Wednesday this week after quite a long break, but more of that later. Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, returns this week with a new 6-part series: Events That Shaped Sydney and in Part 1, we talk about the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in […]