Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2016

Starting on 11 October, the Antenna Documentary Film Festival returns for its sixth edition and promises to be even bigger and at least as inspiring than it was the previous years.  Their recently announced program for 2016 includes a wide range of interesting non-fiction cinema with contributions for everyone – from confronting exposés and touching tributes […]

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Nena Salobir on The Dialogue Wednesday 28 September

Artist Nena Salobir is engaged in a fascinating project called “Self Portrait in Society”, where she draws a perfect stranger and asks them to draw her at the same time. Nena visits the Eastside studios to chat with Claudia Chan Shaw on The Dialogue. Throughout their conversation Nena sketches, while Claudia paints the picture of […]

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Interview with Malian guitarist, Moussa Diakite on Dial Afrika Wed. 28

  Malian guitarist Moussa Diakite is synonymous as being one of  West Africa’s “Golden Era’s” most influential, respected and leading guitar players. Moussa is also known by the name Doncomodja, which translates to ‘Gift From God’. His ‘crossover’ style is a rich fusion of Malian Traditional Folk-lore and western contemporary styles such as Blues, Jazz, Classical, Funk, Rock n’ Roll […]

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Boiling Point Smithsonian Interview Series_Graham Zemunik

Enjoy this 8minute interview with Australian post doctoral fellow (his 2nd PhD!), Dr Graham Zemunik. Who is Dr Zemunik? Graham is currently based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and specialises in soil driven vegetation assemblages. His research examines how soil elements, especially phosphorus, might drive tropical tree growth. What has he found? In the […]

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Global Rhythms Q & A with MC Stéphanie Denizard

  Interview by: Sirine Demachkie Winter is finally on it’s way out, it’s time to come out of hibernation and what better way to reign in the warm weather this September than to soak up; beautiful world music, international food, family-filled activities and so much more at the 2016 Global Rhythms Music Festival as part of […]

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Jazz Made In Australia- 26 September 2016- Memory of Elements+ Gould & Nock

Memory of Elements is a Perth based band which seems to be a cooperative without one particular leader with compositions being contributed by all members who are all leaders in their own right. They are Jamie Oehlers, saxophones; Carl Mackey, saxophones; Tom O’Halloran, piano; Simon Jeans, guitar; Pete Jeavons, double bass; and Ben Vanderwal, drums. […]

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Album of the Week – ‘Uplifting Beats’ by Afro Peruvian New Trends Orquestra

This week we bring you an album that is full of life and energetic sounds, coming out of New York but taking sounds from the Spanish speaking parts of the world we are given an album that is bursting full of fresh Afro‐Peruvian Jazz with rhythms of Afro‐American Jazz. If you like tones to put you […]

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Craft Xcellence- Celebrating 110 years of craft!

The Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW is celebrating 110 years since their foundation in 1906 with a special exhibition at the Society’s gallery, Craft NSW– an artist-run gallery where visitors can meet the makers of a diverse range of high quality Australian craft. As Australia’s oldest continuously running craft organisation, The Society has […]

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Free Family Activities – A New Reason to Come to the Movies

With a huge line up of amazing films on offer these school holidays and a program full of free activities each day, there has never been a better time to visit your local Event Cinemas during the school break. To keep boredom at bay during the holidays, your local Event, Greater Union or BCC cinema […]

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Homeground – Celebrating First Nations at the Sydney Opera House

For thousands of years, the land that Sydney Opera House is built on was a gathering place for the Gadigal and Eora people who danced and sang here. This October, Homeground celebrates the very best First Nations artists with free music, dance, food, workshops and markets over two big days. During October 8th and 9th, artists […]

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