ARTS ALIVE PGM 18 - 2004 TX: 4:04 Eastern Time, 2 May 2004 THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 00" Hi and welcome to Arts Alive, your weekly arts and culture current affairs radio...I'm VINCENT O'DONNELL and I'm JESS MYLES*This week* a new peak advocacy organisation, the Council for the Humanities, Arts And Social Sciences is formed in Canberra* and the annual Next Wave festival is about to kick-off* This years's theme... Unpopular Culture. Our guest is Kathryn Fox, a GP turned author whose first novel, Malicious Intent, is getting a deal of attention* and we meet two musicians who have been working with young people of the Western Desert region, Kintore and Papunya, making music and trying to head-off petrol sniffing and other substance abuse. And Nina Marie will review Strange Bedfellows, staring Michael Caton and Paul Hogan. NEWS: (approx. 4.00) Ends approx. 5.20 A new peak body to speak for the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences is being formed in Canberra. Vincent spoke to its executive director, Toss Gascoigne, and first asked whether it was yet another lobby group* Item 1: CHASS (5.26) Starts with: "We call ourselves* Ends with: * Toss Gascoigne of the newly formed Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences* and you can register to receive their newsletter at www.chass.org.au . The annual Next Wave festival is coming up this month themed to celebrate Unpopular culture... Here is Artistic director Marcus Westbury talking with Jess Myles* Item 2: Next Wave (4.00) Starts with: "Next Wave is* Ends with: *makes life pretty easy." Artistic director of the Next Wave festival* Marcus Westbury. The festival will be touring across regional centres* check out www.nextwave.org.au for more details. Now let's have some music by* TRACK 1: Rock Music for Rosie by the Belinda Moody Sextet (Ends approx) 16 min 40 sec Item 3A: Kathryn Fox (10.12) First words: Last words: *about the book, Malicious Intent. Track 2: Ruby Redlips by Cindy Drummond END VOICE 27 min 17 sec END OF PART ONE 30 min 00 sec Item 3B: Kathryn Fox (10.11) First words: Last words: * Track 3: Re-Turning by the Belinda Moody Sextet The CD Western Desert Mob was released late last year...It's produced by the Melbourne activist collective, Labrats, also known as Comabat Wombat and Sonic Boom. They set off into the Western Desert regions in a bus that ran on vegie oil... and along the way stumbled across not only some amazing talent... but lots of stories of heartache and hardship... Nicole Findlay spoke with producers Izzy Brown and Monkey Marc... Item 4: Western Desert (7.42) First words: The album came about... Last words: ... Solar powered as well (I think?) Monkey Marc and Izzy Brown* part of the Labrats/Sonic Boom collective speaking with Nicole Findlay... and if you want a copy of the Western Desert Mob album, you can contact Monkey Marc via monkeymarc@hotmail.com Item 6: Film Review : Strange Bedfellows (3.18) Starts with: Ends with: ... 52 min 20 sec And that's the show for this week. The ARTS ALIVE team this week has been Nina-Marie Petrik, Vincent O'Donnell, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell, Anna Brain, Sean Kennedy, Vincent Fok and Jess Myles. ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC* We receive the financial support of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ... the assistance of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University. The program is available on the satellite service of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA and on audiocassette and CD from THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE. Audio on-demand for the past four editions is at www.artsaliveradio.com. Track 4: Reggae Mouse by the Kintore Kids END VOICE 53 min 13 sec PROGRAM ENDS 55 min 50 sec APRA Details: Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec. Sting 1: "Discone"/ Pinau / Pinau /OS/ 857 383 1942/ 10 secs Sting 2: "Ou!* Ou!"/ Teo Teo / Teo Teo / OS / FJC8 904 / 10 secs Track 1: "Rock Music for Rosie"/ Belinda Moody/ Belinda Moody Sextet/ CP/ independent/ 90 secs Track 2 " Ruby Redlips"/ Cindy Drummond/ Cindy Drummond/ CP/ independent 'Whichway'/ 2 mins 49 secs Track 3: "Re-turning"/ Belinda Moody/ Belinda Moody Sextet/ CP/ independent/ 30 secs Track 4: "Reggae Mouse"/ Monkey Marc/ Kintore Kids/ CP/ independent 'Western Desert Mob'/ 2 mins 30 secs