it’s a pearler

A fun session for our radiothon – Rebel with a Cause Fellow broadcaster and author, journalist and music guru Toby Creswell joins me, Maisy Stapleton, to play the music of the ultimate rebel Janis Joplin – Pearl – whose music rocked the late 60s, including Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival.   TUNE IN TOMORROW for […]

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Kate Cherry on upcoming NIDA performances

Arts Thursday 18 May 2017. Kate Cherry, CEO and Director of NIDA speaks to Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday on upcoming NIDA productions and her first five months in her new role.   See details of full program and links to NIDA website on https://eastsidefm.org/arts-thursday-18-may-2017/ Listen to the interview here: […]

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Mirri Leven and Coo-ee Art’s new shop in Oxford Street

Mirri Leven, has recently become a Director of Coo-ee Art – an organisation founded in the 1980s, by Adrian Newstead – which has grown and developed with the times but remains devoted to promoting Aboriginal Art and artists. Coo-ee Art has returned to its original environs on Oxford Street Paddington, as well as retaining its […]

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Arts Thursday 18 May 2017

FUTURE/PAST This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton exploring the future and the past. I’ll be speaking first to Kate Cherry, CEO and Director of NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Arts) on upcoming NIDA productions and her first five months in her new role. Then to Michelle Belgiorno, one of five Australian and Japanese artists, whose […]

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Arts Thursday 4 May

Two institutions with a long heritage and a bright future! Both have roots back in the 1980s and both have survived through embracing change. Firstly Bob Googe from the National Trust, who is coordinating the National Heritage Festival, speaks about this Australia-wide event celebrating the stories, people and places that make up our heritage. And […]

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Arts Thursday 23 March 2017 – German Romantics to An Australian Story

From German Romantics to a very distinctive Australian Story. Join me, Maisy Stapleton, on Arts Thursday at 10:30am for a conversation with conductor Sam Allchurch about the upcoming concert with the Sydney Chamber Choir on 8 April at the Great Hall, University of Sydney. The concert will feature the uplifting and emotionally charged music of […]

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Arts Thursday 9 March 2017 – Two Perspectives!

          This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]

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Arts Thursday 9 Feb 2017 – Showtime with Deborah Jones

  What shows, performances and people are coming to Sydney’s stages in 2017 and how best to sum up the performances of 2016? Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation with Deborah Jones, writer ‘on dance, musical theatre, theatre and opera in Sydney … mostly’, for her insightful survey of performance and performing arts issues last year […]

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Meet Emily Valentine!

          Meet Emily Valentine whose extraordinary work, made by ‘painting in feathers’, can be seen at her exhibition Preen at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Oxford Street until 29th January. Emily’s lively and inventive art has been literally stopping the traffic since it opened. Listen to the interview broadcast on 26th […]

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Arts Thursday 12 January 2017

MARGARET OLLEY This Arts Thursday, celebrate the life and contribution of the beloved Australian artist Margaret Olley. Margaret Olley: Painter, Peer, Mentor and Muse on exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery tells of Olley’s life not only as an accomplished artist herself but also as a friend and supporter of many of her own contemporaries […]

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ASIAN INTERSECTIONS – BEYOND WORDS

Beyond Words – Calligraphic Traditions of Asia is a long-running exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Join Matt Cox, Curator of Asian Art, in conversation with Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday 29 December 2016, about this spiritual and artistic form of communication used across the Asian world. Calligraphy is found in contexts […]

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Christmas Inspiration!

Arts Thursday 15 December 2016 Join Annette Blinco in conversation with Maisy Stapleton as she describes how to set a Christmas table from the cloth upwards – and be inspired by Annette’s approach to creating an enchanted festive atmosphere for guests. Annette’s spectacular Christmas table settings, combining tradition with a touch of whimsy, grace the […]

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