The short music courses at Conservatorium of Music’s Open Academy can find the music in you. Our term starts on 5 February and there are over 30 short courses on offer, whether you are a beginner or someone who wants to develop your skills – there’s bound to be a course to suit you. Summer […]
Arts Wednesday 29 November 2017
Sydney By Design for 2017 wraps up this week at 10:40 am. Ed Lippmann introduces architect, Philip Drew, who takes the opposing view to everything we have heard in this series. He believes Sydney has reached its tipping point and can not pursue further growth. My special guest at 11:00 am is photographic artist, Alina […]
Community Billboard 1st December – 8th December
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. […]
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Boiling Point 21st November 2017; Gloomy Octopuses the New Tradie? Cloned Dogs and 80-million-Year-Old Sharks.
Image: Octopus Tetricus, Flickr Image, 2016 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Watch out Australia, octopuses are moving in! Not quite, in fact octopuses are making small communities. Specifically, Gloomy Octopuses or Octopus Tetricus. Surprisingly, this behaviour is not thought to be a new phenomenon. It is thought Gloomy Octopuses have been creating communities for some time. […]
The Gender Pay Chasm
Men still earn more than women. Fact. This is known, somewhat euphemistically, as the “gender pay gap”. A more accurate term could be the “Gender pay chasm”. A chasm being a deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, thus potentially more appropriate for the size of said gap. The gap is starkest in the financial sector, […]
Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Riley Lavelle-Long reviews Yorgos Lanthimos’s new psychological horror film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell. […]
Australia in World’s Top 10 of Forest Clearing
Eastern Australia ranks in the top 10 in the world when it comes to deforestation. We’re the only developed country with this level of clearing and Queensland is leading the way. On Monday Drive Ruth Hessey spoke with Penny van Oosterze (Principal Research Adjunct James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University) about […]
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Christmas Village Concerts
There are two Sydney village Christmas concerts kicking off this weekend; Alexandria Park on Saturday December at 6:30pm and Prince Alfred Park Surry Hills on Sunday 3 December at 6:30pm. Guests that are there will keep you and your families entertained. You will be able to do crafting activities, table tennis and giant Jenga with […]
‘Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties’ Exhibition Preview – The Forensic Photographic Archive
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 27 November, for a program that revisits Sydney’s Forensic Photography Archive (FPA) – the world’s largest collection of police photographs, created by the NSW Police from 1910-1964. Sydney Living Museums is presenting a new exhibition of photographs drawn from the archive called “Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties”, opening at […]
How Much Do You Know? Episode 1
How Much Do You Know? is a podcast series that looks at HIV in the year 2017. It’s brought to you by and produced in the studios of Eastside Radio located in Paddington Sydney in association with ViiV Healthcare. This episode looks at modern HIV testing techniques and the easy and convenient methods in which people can now […]
Community Billboard 23rd November – 30th November
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. […]
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Block Printing Workshop – Ages 16 to 25
Here at Pine Street Block Printing Workshop you can learn how to block print design suiting ages 16 to 25 years old in a 3 hour hands-on lesson to demonstrate the basics of block print designs. You will be taught by professionals working in the industry to master your skill; ready for Christmas and be able […]