Today on the show I will be speaking about art the who, why, where and what of archives. I have two guests. Firstly I will be speaking to Gael Newton, former Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and now a freelance Curatorial Consultant and Researcher, whose speciality is photography in the […]
Read More… from Arts Friday 28 July 2017 – with Bronwyn Rennex
‘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 […]
Forever French QK Show 003 || Wednesday 26 July 2017 || (8-9:30pm) On today’s show, radio producer and host Stéphanie Denizard from Queen Kafé will be hosting forever french. Tune in to Forever French from 8-9:30pm for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see the movie Paris Can Wait by Director/Writer Eleanor […]
Over the course of June and July 2017, Sylvia recorded 6 episodes with Assistant Principal Timpani and Percussionist with Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Episodes were recorded in the Conservatorium, in the bowels of the Sydney Opera House and for 2 memorable episodes from the stage of the Sydney Opera House. Episodes range from the big bass […]
On Arts Wednesday 26 July 2017, Sylvia marked the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death in a conversation with Austen scholar, Ruth Wilson. Who was Jane Austen, what is her enduring appeal and why? Listen to the 3 parts of the conversation here: That was Part 1 of the conversation and this is Part […]
At 10:40 am we hear the final part of the series on percussion with Mark Robinson and this week Mark calls it “All the Rest” – instruments percussionists play that we haven’t heard already. The whole series of 6 episodes will be podcast after today’s show. Last week saw the 200th anniversary of the death […]
Simon Marnie is a man of many talents – he knows how to do card tricks and clever things with pieces of rope, but he’s best known as a broadcaster on ABC Radio. He has interviewed the talented and fabulous and reported on triumph and tragedy. This time he’s on the other side of the […]
Read More… from Simon Marnie on The Dialogue Wednesday 26 July
Riley Lavelle Long reviews Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk. […]
Art Monday’s Jane Raffan delves into the fascinating and fragile world of coral in interviews with the Macleay Museum’s Dr Jude Philp, centred on an exhibition called Coral: Art, Science, Life. In Coral: art, four artists exhibit works that explore our relationship with this fragile waterscape. In Coral: science, the work of four University scientists […]
2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Great Strike. Are you looking forward to the next public holiday coming up? Do you know why we celebrate a Labour Day public holiday? Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan takes us on a potted history of Australia’s union movement 1850-1950 with Neale Towart, Heritage Officer for Sydney Trades Hall […]
Read More… from 100th Anniversary of the 1917 Great Strike: Civil Disobedience and Unity
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Warren Fahely, AM, about his new social history of Sydney’s vibrant 2011 postcode encompassing Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay and Elizabeth Bay. Warren Fahey, AM, is a cultural historian, collector and performer of historic songs and stories, founder of Larrikin Records and Paddington’s beloved Folkways Music, and author […]
Read More… from Life in Sydney’s 2011 Postcode: Warren Fahey’s ‘The Good Old Bad Old Days’