Exhibitions: Stuart McLachlan + Matthew Quick @ Nanda Hobbs 10-26 Oct

Nanda Hobbs is delighted to present two exhibitions running concurrently at Nanda\Hobbs—by artists Stuart McLachlan and Matthew Quick—from 10 to 26 October, 2019. His first solo show with Nanda\Hobbs titled In Hope We Trust, Stuart McLachlan intricately hand moulds paper to create figures and architecture to mirror the fragility of our desires and choices. Anchored […]

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Love Me Do: The Celebrant for Ceremonies from Sydney to the Hunter

From Star Wars, medieval or 1920s themed weddings to end-of-life ceremonies and baby naming, Marina Lee-Warner helps people celebrate and commemorate life’s significant occasions. There are many ceremonies at which a celebrant can officiate. “A growing number of people are now choosing that option,” Marina has observed. A variety of often interesting requests mean celebrants […]

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Review: Guan Wei at the MCA

Visited Thursday 17 October 2019 Reviewed by Rosalind Gustafson  The Museum of Contemporary Art’s recently opened Guan Wei exhibition, running from October 2019 to February 2020, is small and easily digestible, consisting of a single room where four of Wei’s works are on display. These four works, Two-finger exercise, Feng Shui, Certificates, and Paper War, […]

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Interview with Freedman Classical Finalist Rohan Dasika

Double Bassist and Freedman Classical Finalist Rohan Dasika Discusses His Interest in Carnatic Music, Work With Some of the World’s Leading Orchestras, and More. How did you first get interested in music and select the double bass as your instrument of choice? My mum trained as a jazz saxophonist, and now works as a woodwind […]

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Responding to Place: 17 October 19

This Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton explores two diverse art forms, each recording a response to place. Un bel dí vedremo Amanda Penrose Hart‘s new exhibition Un bel dí vedremo opened recently at the King Street Gallery on William. Penrose Hart is an en plein-air painter – depicting the landscape while ‘in-situ’, surrounded by its […]

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Eco Talk & Feast: Project Drawdown Workshop -Thurs 17th Oct 7pm

  Presented by Ben-Zion Weiss PhD and Victoria Phillips, Introduction to Drawdown is a 1½ hour workshop that invites you to see both the possibility of reversing global warming and the important role you play in that process. An international coalition of more than 200 researchers and other experts identified and modeled the 100 most […]

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Arts Wednesday 15 October 2019

Professor Geraint Lewis, astrophysicist from Sydney University, returns to Arts Wednesday this week with a new 6-part series entitled The Stuff of the Universe. Episode 1 is Our Matter is Molecules. In subsequent weeks, the “stuff” becomes smaller! My special guest at 11:00 am is Elizabeth Day, artist and curator at the Boom Gate Gallery […]

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International Artists @ Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival

Take Five to Read Over our International Acts for 2019! For 2019, The Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival will feature an exquisite cast of impressive international improvisers. All through the nights of November, your body and soul will be dancing in the dark like someone in love to the sounds of jazz. So What are you waiting for! Keep on reading ? Breezy, […]

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Interview with Freedman Classical Finalist Jonathan Heilbron

Double Bassist and Freedman Classical Finalist Jonathan Heilbron Discusses His Interest in Music, His Work with European Classical Ensembles, the Phonetic Orchestra, and More. How did you first get interested in music and select the double bass as your instrument of choice? I’m not entirely sure when or how my initial interest in music was […]

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After Midnight Voice Messages on The Nightline

Are you a night owl, insomniac, shift-worker, new parent, dreamer, stargazer or sleepwalker? We want to hear what’s keeping Sydney-siders awake. If you’re one of those people who’s often up late, Urban Theatre Projects invites you to leave an anonymous after-midnight voice message on The Nightline. The Nightline is an audio art project by Roslyn […]

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