A small café on King Street in Newtown has won awards from the Sydney Good Food Guide and from the Refuge Council of Australia for its innovative initiatives training refugees and asylum seekers in preparing and presenting food for professional catering and hospitality. The cafe also gives them a chance to give the local neighbourhood a taste […]
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Since December 2009, folks from across Australia and all over the planet have come together in a bespoke celebration of music, art, friendship, and community. For one hot, sweaty, and absolutely unforgettable summer’s weekend these people call it their home and celebrate their shared passions at an event which has amassed fame for its vision, dedication and world-class execution. This is Subsonic […]
Presented by Bronwyn Rennex This Thursday I speak to Tamara Voninski, a second year PhD student currently studying at Sydney College of the Arts – University of Sydney. We discuss University of Sydney’s plans to close the Rozelle campus of Sydney College of the Arts, the failed merger proposal with University of NSW School of […]
Read More… from Arts Thursday- 29 September- Taking It To The Streets
It wasn’t just this week’s guests who got us thinking about quality of life, from friendly streets to Sydney Rock Oysters. Seems like everywhere we go at the moment there’s a chainsaw or a whipper snipper, an Ausgrid team or a bull dozer, menacing Sydney streets and knocking down things we love. When you see yet another […]
Read More… from SOS Sydney! – our disappearing oysters, trees, humans
Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Tuesday 27 September 2016 The Australian Ballet reveals a season of wonderment for 2017 including the Australian premiere of globally acclaimed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland© The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David McAllister and Executive Director Libby Christie today announced the 2017 program. Combining outstanding classic and contemporary works, the season showcases […]
Read More… from Queen Kafé at The Australian Ballet 2017 Season Media Launch
On Arts Wednesday 28 September 2016, Toby Creswell was Sylvia’s guest. talking about his new book. Listen to the conversation below : That was Part 1 of the conversation and here is Part 2 : Now for Part 3: […]
Tonight’s Moodswing has some tasty RnB, nusoul, funky breaks & beats…with the likes of Alice Russell, The Herbaliser, Reggie B, Raphael Saadiq, Erykah Badu, DJ Shadow, Beat Spacek, Nightmares On Wax, Blockhead, Boozoo Bajou, Mark Ronson & more. Selected & Presented by DJ Taline for Moodswing on Eastside Radio 89.7FM […]
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Built in the 1970s for public housing, the Sirius Building in The Rocks has been a part of the Sydey community and culture for over 30 years. However, the Cumberland Street apartment block is now under threat from NSW Government plans for redevelopment, with most tenants having already moved out. Hundreds of protesters have opposed the plans […]
The Public Body co-curator, Talia Linz, and Jane Edwina Seymour, Director of ‘The Days are as Grass’, are my guests today. The Public Body .01 explores the sexualized body and, in particular, the types of sexualized bodies that proliferate in the public sphere today – high key, orgasmic, debased, agitated, violent but also self-empowered, vulnerable, […]
Read More… from The Public Body & ‘The Days are as Grass’-Arts Monday
‘Family Tree’ by Kylie Audits is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. If you like it funky then you are going to be blasting this record, coming out of Melbourne Kylie Auldist is up there with the creme de la creme when it comes Australian soul and funk artists. With a career that has […]
Read More… from Album of the week – Family Tree by Kylie Auldist
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 […]
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. […]
Read More… from Community Billboard 26 September – 2 October