Summer Days – 7 January 2021

Arts Thursday 7 January 2021 Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to welcome in the new year.   Firstly, we reprise a popular interview from last year – textile artist Julie Ryder talking about how she researched seaweed collections of the nineteenth century – in both Australia and Ireland.         Then we […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Andrea Keller (IWD 2021)

Approx. 7  minute read Back in the old timey year of 1941, Sister Rosetta Tharpe sang the words “Shout Sister Shout, Tell the whole world what it’s all about”. She was an incredible artist whose unique rompin’, stompin’ gospel style, mixed with her unbound guitar virtuosity, influenced countless unforgettable big name rock ‘n rollers and […]

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The Sydney Festival 24 December 2020

Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers this Arts Thursday,  Christmas Eve with two special guests to explore The Sydney Festival. We first meet Kate Gaul, producer and director of H.M.S. PINAFORE, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta to be staged for the festival at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta from 13th to 23 January. Complete with […]

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The Sydney Festival at Carriageworks

Force Majeure brings a new dance work, The Last Season to Carriageworks as part of the Sydney Festival. Arts Monday chats to dramaturg, Tom Wright about his extensive career and the art of collaboration. This intergenerational conversation stars Pamela Rabe, Paul Capsis and the powerhouse Irish actor Olwen Fouéré, as well as a troupe of 9-14 year […]

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FNL Alive & Unlocked!

Starring Paul McDermott and Catherine Alcorn Thursday 28, Friday 29 & Saturday 30 January Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Fast n’ Loud? Freaky n’ Libidinous? Fanciful n’ Luscious? What the effen’ hell is ‘FNL … Alive and Unlocked!’? Originally live streamed as ‘Friday Night Live!’ from the bowels of Paddington Town Hall’s The Reservoir Room during the […]

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Album of the Week: Dimensional Stardust ⁠— Rob Mazurek / We Will Always Love You — The Avalanches

Album art for Rab Mazurek's Dimensional Stardust

This week’s Album of the Week show features the spacey inter-dimensional sounds of both American jazz legend Rob Mazurek, and the long-awaited latest release from the Avalanches. Rob Mazurek has released a space exploration that blends jazz improvisation, sampling and electronic production on his latest release Dimensional Stardust. The album is a journey and when listened […]

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