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Category: Program Blogs
Arts Wednesday 22 March 2017
Andy Bromberger is back for the 2017 edition of her courses on music and this year’s is entitled Music’s Mechanical Make-Up. Andy starts off at about 10:40 am with an overview what’s coming in the next few weeks. At 11:00 am I’ll play an interview I recorded with political scientist Dr Mark Rolfe about the American […]
Hysteria and The Russian Nude – Arts Monday
THE RUSSIAN NUDE is a study of the female form by the late Russian photographer, Arkadiy Kozlovskiy (1964-2014). The images in an exhibition presented as a Salon Show at Black Eye Gallery, were selected from a vast archive and is the first time the work of renowned photographer Arkadiy Kozlovskiy has been displayed in a […]
Community Billboard March 20 – March 27
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Boiling Point 14 February 2017 SA energy and red at night
Red at night, sailors delight? New Tesla battery array for SA?! Dr Luke Hedge jumped back into the BP chair to discuss the South Australian energy supply and competition to solve storage problems, sparked by the offer of a Tesla battery back up for the state, storing 100 megawatt hours ! And Chantelle was up […]
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Arts Wednesday 15 March 2017
Ed Lippmann joins us at 10:30 am for Part 5, the final part in this series of Sydney By Design, examining the latest vision for Sydney by the Greater Sydney Commission. At 11:00 am, I am joined by composer Cyrus Meurant, who has composed music on a CD entitled Monday to Friday. It is music […]
Roy Ayers
“This neat, feel good gig showed exactly why the New York-based vibraphonist, composer and bandleader is a longstanding crowd favourite in the UK.”– The Evening Standard Award-winning Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is one of the most sampled artists in R&B and Hip Hop and comes to show off his dynamic musical library in Sydney before joining […]
Happy Birthday, Harbour Bridge! New online exhibition for 85th opening anniversary.
Sydney’s most famous landmark and popular tourist attraction is getting its very own online exhibition to celebrate the 85th anniversary of its grand opening. Published by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), this exhibition features historical footage from the construction of Sydney’s Harbour Bridge up to its controversial opening ceremony in 1932. […]
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Luke Escombe and ‘Skeleton Blues’
Following the release of his album ‘Skeleton Blues’ (available here) Luke Escombe had a chat with David Barr on Tuesday Drive. Have a listen to the podcast below, in which two of Luke’s newest songs ‘The Man In The Long Black coat’ and ‘John The Revelator’ are played. They discuss the old-school way that […]
Personhood Is A Thing For Frogs Too.
Anyone who expects the media to tell the whole story isn’t living in the post-fact universe. Just ask the thousands of American scientists who hit the streets in Boston last weekend protesting the Trump Administration’s rejection and active repression of fact based scientific analysis. In Australia we are blessed with a vocal, hard working, […]
Arts Thursday 9 March 2017 – Two Perspectives!
This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]
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Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez in town during International Women’s Day
If you are in town during the week of International Women’s Day, don’t miss out Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez who will be performing at The Basement on Sunday 12th of March 2017. Stéphanie Denizard, radio producer and presenter of Queen Kafé had a chat with Alfredo and talked about the women who […]
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