Sydney Craft Week is about celebrating creativity and the handmade in all its forms. This festival creates the opportunity for the whole community to engage with craft, experience the benefits of making, and purchase local handmade work. This year we have 115+ events at 60 venues throughout Sydney, including 56 workshops, 41 exhibitions, 9 talks and […]
Trudy Rosenwald is a psychologist from Mount Helena, Western Australia who has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Ethiopia, Libya and Greece. Above: Trudy Rosenwald with a man and his baby son, both Médecins Sans Frontières patients, in Ethiopia. Ó MSF What led you to apply for a role with MSF? I’ve […]
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Andy Bromberger returns at 10:40 am with Part 5 of Symphony’s Selected Sections – percussion. My special guest at 11:00 am is Stephen Todd, Creative Director of Sydney Design Week, which, as usual, is under the auspices of the Powerhouse Museum. Stephen talks about the truly wonderful new exhibition: Hybrid. This sees 9 commissioned designers, […]
Arts Monday recently caught up with renowned artist Wendy Sharpe as she was painting Women’s Empowerment Mural in Newtown. (cnr Church and Federation St.) Braving the wintery chill, she spoke of the powerful work, its inspiration and the difficulties she had to overcome to complete such a public project. It was more than just an artist […]
Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the long-anticipated debut from London jazz producer and performer Nubya Garcia, as well as some soulful sounds from Western Sydney’s Onarsé. Nubya Garcia has been a jazz musician from a young age, taking up the reigns from her musical family including her Guyanese mother and Trinidadian […]
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Presented by Bronwyn Rennex On today’s show I play an interview with artist and writer Vanessa Berry. Vanessa works with history, memory and archive. She is the author of Mirror Sydney: an atlas of reflections (Giramondo 2017), a collection of essays and hand drawn maps that investigate the city’s marginal places and undercurrents. She also produces […]
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Palace along with the new Principal Partner of the Italian Film Festival, ST. ALi Coffee, are pleased to announce the full programme of films which will screen nationally from 29 September. The flagship event will showcase Italian culture, stories and language in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Byron Bay at reduced capacity and then […]
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This Thursday, the emphasis is on the home, as well as an interview with photographer Greg Weight focussing on his experiments with ‘paintographs’. Greg joins Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to speak about his new exhibition Big Tree Notes at the Australian Galleries in Paddington, which blurs the boundaries between painting and photography – a […]
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After a search for Australia’s most promising young jazz artist, The Music Trust’s 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalists have been announced today from a list of 18 nominees from across the nation. This year, the distinguished judges comprised Mike Nock, Chris Cody and Laurence Pike, who are all accomplished musicians, composers and educators. The judges made the decision […]
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At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger joins me for Part 3 of Symphony’s Selected Sections and this week the section is brass: trumpets, trombones, horns and the tuba. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Sue Morris, psychologist and academic, joining me in conversation about resilience, a word very much in use at the moment. […]
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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the latest release from Australian jazz legend Andrea Keller, and the debut mixtape from Wollongong local Stevan. Andrea Keller is a legendary Australian pianist and composer who began her foray into jazz at just 14 years old. She now composes and produces music for eight separate […]
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Maria Schneideris a multi Grammy Award winning composer and band leader. Originally from Minnesota, she moved to New York City in the mid 1980s to study composition with the great jazz trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. Around the same time, she also began working for legendary jazz composer and arranger Gil Evans. In 1993, she formed the […]