ARTS ALIVE	PGM 31 - 2007.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 6 August 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 00"

Hi I・m VINCENT O・DONNELL* And welcome to Arts Alive * Australian arts and culture current affairs* On this week・s program*  Further concerns are raised about freedom of speech issues, as new legislation is reviewed by a Senate committee*  The Adelaide Fringe opens its annual pitch to attract the ripest, the rawest and the most outrageous talent to the annual festival* and planning begins for the 18th Textile Fibre Biennial in Tamworth NSW.  Our guest is the Western Australian artist, Julie Dowling.  An exhibition surveying fifteen years of her work titled Strange Fruit: testimony and the Uncanny in the art of Julie Dowling has just opened at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the Univ. of Melbourne.  But first a round up of the week in arts an culture*

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As part of the process of making laws, the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has been receiving submissions about the proposed Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007. 
This bill will make the creators of publication, films and computer games and the like legally responsible if someone is inspired by their creations to commit a terrorist act, even if the person who does so is mentally ill and incapable of acting responsibly. 
The National Association for the visual Arts is concern that these proposed amendments would further exacerbate curtailment of freedom of expression caused by the Sedition clause in the Anti-Terrorism bill passed by parliament at the end of 2005.  I asked Tamara Winicoff of NAVA to outline their concerns*

Item 1: NAVA / Tamara Winicoff (3.56)
First words: ：Our concern is 
Last words: * freedom of speech.；

And if the events of the past few weeks are anything to judge by, our country needs more protection from some politicians than from potential terrorists.  Now on a lighter note*  We know spring must be coming when the Adelaide Fringe wakes from its winter slumber and call for proposals from Artists for next year・s fringe.  But it was their claim to be the largest fringe festival in the southern hemisphere that caught my eye first.  Here is Adelaide Fringe Director Christie Anthoney to justify the claim*

Item 2: Adelaide Fringe (4.10)
First words: ：
Last words: *is the platform to do it

Submissions opened on 1 August on the Adelaide fringe website at www.adelaidefringe.com.au 

Track 1: Bella Ciao / La Voce della Lune

Item 4A: Julie Dowling (8.57)
First words: You・re listening to*
Last words: *

Track 2: ：Sister Brother；/ Johnny Huckle

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Item 4B: Julie Dowling (9.35)
First words: You・re listening to*
Last words: *Thanks* a pleasure.

Track 3: Free to be a Man / Archie Roach off Sensual Being.

A Curator has just been appointed for the 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial.  She is Valarie Kirk, the head of the ANU・s School of Art, Textiles Workshop.. The textile Biennial in Tamworth NSW has quite a history as Valarie Kirk explains*

Item 5: Textile Biennial / Valarie Kirk (8.14)
First words: The Fibre Textile Biennal**
Last words: ....they way it will be organised.・  

Valarie Kirk, the curator of the 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial. And if you send an e-mail to Valarie Kirk at valarie.kirk@anu.edu.au she will send you a guide to making an initial submission.  Selection of the finalist for exhibition will take about six months and the Biennial runs from November 2008 through January 2009.  And that is the program for this week*

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I・m Vincent O・Donnell and we・ll leave you with some Indigenous gospel country music* not our normal stuff, but Roger Knox has a voice nicely attuned to his material* here he is of the Gospel Album, with the Hank Williams standard* I・m Gonna Sing*

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APRA Details:
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