Join me, Jane Raffan, for a program exploring Sydney’s colonial life and the hidden messages in beautiful Still Life photographs and tableaus by Robyn Stacey featuring objects from Sydney Living Museums’ properties Elizabeth Bay House, Vaucluse House, and Rouse Hill House & Farm. My interviews are with curator Dr Scott Hill (Sydney Living Museum’s property […]
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‘Witness’ from Benjamin Booker is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. ‘Witness’ is Booker’s second album, the follow up to his self-titled debut from 2013. People talk about writing the “difficult second album”, however Booker doesn’t appear to have suffered at all from this oft-referenced pressure. The new album is a strong, concise record, full of confident […]
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This is Science Week and Arts Wednesday today celebrates our universe. First up at 10:40 am is Part 3 of Our Universe and this week Professor Geraint Lewis talks about our evolving universe – yes, it is still a work in progress! At 11:00 am I’l be pleased to introduce you to Dietmar Muller, Professor […]
Bandaloop is a group of dancers that perform a ‘sideways dance’ while dangling from the roof of the ANZ building and gliding across the surfaces that is mesmerizing. They re-imagine dances and inspires wonder around the world. Bandaloop performs in theaters or museums on skyscrapers, bridges and on screen. They have performed off the cliffs in […]
‘Not Everything But Enough’ from Alister Spence Trio is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. The Alister Spence Trio is: Lloyd Swanton on double bass, Toby Hall on drums and glockenspiel, and Alister Spence himself on piano, samples and music box. The Sydney trio draw on more than 20 years performing together, ‘Not Everything But […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August is a colourful and diverse as the Pilipino desert Halo-halo, an eye-popping medley of shaved ice, milk, jellies, fruit, sweet beans and whatever takes your fancy. Arts Thursday continues to explore the Phillipines Art Project Bayanihan at Mosman Art Gallery and welcomes star performer, Geraldine Turner who, as […]
At about 10:40 am we’ll hear Professor Geraint Lewis talk about New Planets and Life in the Universe, Part 3 of the series Our Universe. At 11:00 am it’s back to our annual review of the Archibald Prize with art consultant Anna Groden. Can you believe another year has rolled by? We found this year’s […]
‘Songs Of The Latin Skies’ from Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. This record is the follow up to their ‘Songs Of The Southern Skies’ collaboration from 2012. The album is a journey through the great South American songbook of bossa nova, samba, salsa and tango, interpreting work by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Luis Bonfa, […]
What do bettongs, ravens, and upside-down fish have in common? They were all on Boiling Point tonight! Alex explored some fishy concepts, finding apparently both humans and fish have problems recognising upside-down faces And Charlotte found ravens (a corvid) are capable of planning for the future as well as a 4-yr old child! News from […]
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This morning we start a new series entitled “Our Universe” with astrophysicist, Professor Geraint Lewis and Part 1 is The Depths of the Solar System at 10:40 am. At 11:00 am, my special guest is historian, Laila Ellmoos – no stranger to Arts Wednesday. Laila is one of the curators of an exhibition at Carriageworks […]
‘Curao’ from Quantic & Nidia Gongora is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. The album is a collaboration between Quantic (prolific producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Holland) and Colombian vocalist Nidia Gongora, who is considered one of the foremost artists of marimba music in the South Pacific region. A fusion of modern and traditional ideas, ‘Curao’ […]
Arts Thursday 27 July will focus on the first in a series exploring exhibitions and events around the Bayanihan Philippine Art Project presented through the collaboration of several Sydney galleries and cultural centres, then in counterpoint, poet Jakob Ziguras will introduce his newly published works in The Sepia Carousel. VISUAL ART […]