ARTS ALIVE	PGM 27 - 2007.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 9 July 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 31' 00"

Hi I・m VINCENT O・DONNELL* And welcome to Arts Alive * Australian arts and culture current affairs radio* I got back from the Singapore Arts festival last week, but brought home a virus which has proved hard to shake* Of course all those antibiotic are useless against viruses so I have had to just croak on*  The last week of the festival was very interesting offering a wide variety of performances* from Singapore companies* as well as from overseas.  Notable among the visitors was the legendary jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb, who played on Myles Davis・s greatest LPs, including Sketches in Spain.  That was music that changed my life* on one hand bleak, barren but powerfully* indeed despairingly emotional and on the other exuberant and resilient, emotional armour to face a world of disappointments.  Cobb was playing with Singapore local jazz man Jeremy Montoro [phonetic].  Another visitor was Lee Bruer* for decades now a theatre director and writer who has maintained New York・s reputation as the home of experimental theatre.  His offering was a post-post-modernist post-feminist production of Chechov・s The Dolls House* Now title Marbou Mines Doll House.  More on those and, other stories from the Singapore Arts Festival, on later programs.

This week however, its NAIDOC week* a week or more of observance and celebration of Indigenous and Islander culture in Australia* we check out what is happening around Australia* and it is also the week of the Melbourne design festival.  I take a walk around an exhibition of Italian design with one of the curators, Rodriego Rodriegez from Milan.  Our guest is Katy Raines, a UK based management consultant specialising in arts and culture organisations.  She is visiting as a guest of ABAF, the Australian Business arts Foundation.  But first the news of the past week or so*.

STING		NEWS:  	(approx. 5.00) 			    Ends approx. 7.40   

Sounds for the concluding performance of the Singapore Arts Festival* by German group, Antagon TheaterAKTion.  It was something of a creation story set in a military state and performed on an open field in the heavily residential district of Jurong on the western end of the island.

Item 1: Naidoc St Kilda (0.42)
First words: NAIDOC is the *
Last words: *which I・m doing right now.・


Mikael Smith, former Indigenous office with the City of Pt Phillip in Melbourne・s inner south east* at a smoke ceremony and flag raising to make the beginning of NAIDOC week.  NAIDOC week is long celebrated in the City of Port Phillip, but up in Gilgandra on the Newell Highway in North-west NSW, the Cooee Cultural Centre has organised its first NAIDOC week public event, an art exhibition* Here is Gilgandra artist Tammy Rutherford*

Item 1: Naidoc Gilgandra (2.17)
First words: Well, it・s the first
Last words: *we・re just one community really；.

Tammy Rutherford from Gilgandra, one of the artists whose work is on display at the NAIDOC week exhibition at the Cooee Heritage Centre on the Newell Highway in Gilgandra NSW.  Over on the coast in Coff Harbour, they have been running NAIDOC week celebrations for some years.  Here is Kerry Neill, from the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Centre, who with Billie-Jean Campbell, has co-ordinated NAIDOC week in Coffs Harbour this year*

Item 1: Naidoc Coffs harbour (4.36)
First words: Last Saturday was great**
Last words: *finally trying to work together・..

Kerry Neill, from the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Centre, one of the co-ordinators of NAIDOC week in Coffs Harbour this year* Next week, we hope to speak to Toni Ah-san, chair of the NAIDOC committee in Darwin for a report on the event in Darwin the focus city for 2007.

Item 4A: Katy Raines
First words: You・re listening to*
Last words: *

Track 2: Tarantella Di Northcote Plaza / La Voce Della Lune

END VOICE	27 min 27 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 03sec

Item 4B: Katy Raines
First words: 
Last words: *

Track 3: Intuition /Heather Frahn.

Trust your intuition says Heather Frahn, Adelaide acoustic performer*. But I guess our guest Katy Raines was saying there is more than intuition to running a successful arts business.  

It is design week in Melbourne and an exhibition of the best of Italian design, iMade is on show at the National Design Centre at Federation Square.  I took the opportunity to walk around the exhibition with Rodrigo Rodrieguez, Vice Chairman of the leading European lighting company FLOS, and Andrea Cancellato, the GM of La Triennale di Milano, the world・s leading design fair.  Andrea was not confident of his English so he left the talking to Rodrigo.  I asked them to select four exceptional examples of design from the many outstanding works on display.  After 20 minutes they were ready but first Rodrigo wanted to make a concept statement about the relationship of design and the manufacture of commercial objects of excellence*

Item 5: Design FestivalPt 1 (9.27)
First words: *Design is*
Last words: ....more than half.

Rodrigo Rodrieguez showing me around the exhibition of Italian design, iMade, at the National Design Centre at Federation Square. They selected two more objects but we are out of time.  We・ll get on to them the next week.

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I・m Vincent O・Donnell and next week our guest will be New York theatre director, Lee Bruer. But now here is some music from Jeremy Monterio, Singapore・s most prominent exponent of Jazz.  The track is called Homecoming and features Belinda Moody on bass, Ernie Watts on Soprano sax, Mohammed Moor on Latin percussion and Jeremy Monterio on piano*

Tr 4: Home coming Jeremy Monterio

END VOICE	52min 10 sec 		PROGRAM ENDS	55 min 50 sec

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec.
Stings: all from Singapore live performances
Track 1: ：All Your Love；/ Fiona Boyes/ ditto/ CP/ Pt Fairey Down load/ 5.05 Track 2:  Tarantella Di Northcote Plaza / La Voce Della Lune/ ditto/CP/ LVDL 001/ 2.33 Track 3:  ：Intuition； /Heather Frahn/ ditto/ CP/ 2004 sampler CD/ 2.50 Track 4:  ：Homecoming；/Jeremy Monterio/Monterio & group/OS/S/N170702-04-2/