Iron In The Blood at City Recital Hall 23rd January 2020 Reviewed by PJ from Dial Afrika “Iron In the Blood” could be regarded as the most revealing portrayal of Britains brutal treatment of their own kind and of the indigenous Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, in the late eighteenth and into the nineteenth century, recently […]
Art consultant Anna Groden returns at 10:40 am with Part 4 of multiples and this week the topic is photographs. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday. Ginni is a GP who specialises in women’s health, but is best known as the GP on Sunrise […]
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Australeño by Danny G Felix and Malo Malo. Malo Malo is a highly-potent, progressive salsa orchestra based in two countries; Australia & Colombia. Musical leader Danny G Felix, a pianist, trumpeter & composer, divides his time between his home in Sydney where he grew up, & Cali, Colombia […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the week: Jan 27- Jan 31
The Chau Chak Wing Museum opens in 2020. It will house the three existing museums of Sydney University – the Nicholson Museum (antiquities), the Macleay Museum (natural history) and the University Art Gallery. Anthony Frater talks to David Ellis, Director of University Museums about the new building, the collections and the future plans of this […]
Read More… from Sydney University’s purpose built galleries open this year
Sydney Town Hall Organ Recital: January 21 Reviewed by Paula Towers Sydney was recently treated to a non-traditional recital – an immersive, multi-sensory production: lying down on mats on the floor of the dramatic Centennial Hall, people relaxed, soaking up the deep vibrations and sonic textures of the Sydney Town Hall organ. Built in 1890, […]
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney, 21-25 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Giant balloons float above the audience while long lengths of sheer fabric appear to dance with a life of their own in Air Play, a 2020 Sydney Festival offer. Charmingly described as a “visual poem”, this show is a beguiling and fun blend […]
The 1920s, or the Jazz Age, was one of the most thrilling decades in modern history. Nowhere is this era better described than in Echoes of the Jazz Age, F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous essay on the Roaring Twenties, nor more wondrously evoked than in John Bell and Simon Tedeschi’s performance of the same title, in words […]
These four musicians are the dream quartet of Australian jazz. If you get just one Australian album this year, make it this. THIS WORLD is the stunning debut release from this peerless new ensemble comprising four of Australia’s most established and celebrated improvisers. Bell Hall of Fame Inductee, pianist Mike Nock OMNZ, ARIA Award-winning bassist […]
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Sydney’s Hyde Park North, 7 – 26 January Reviewed by Paula Towers Part of the 2020 Sydney Festival, transgressive cabaret Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined inspires and delights with its confectionary of costumes, characters and theatrical delivery. Multi-talented Josh Quong Tart has reinvented the original raunchy role and his irascible charm is enthusiastically received. […]
At the end of 2019, one of Sydney’s iconic venues for jazz and new music, 505, closed its doors on Cleveland Street. Listed in Downbeat Magazine as one of the world’s 150 best jazz clubs, 505 had offered live music for six nights a week for a decade. For lovers of improvised music, the good […]
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At 10:40 am, art consultant Anna Groden continues with Part 3 of Multiples and this week the topic is screen printing, lithos and etchings. My special guest at 11:00 am is artist Shivanjani Lal, one of 12 artists exhibiting in Wansolwara: one salt water at the UNSW Galleries. The salt water in question is the […]