ARTS ALIVE	PGM 27 - 2004	TX: 4:04 Eastern Time  5 July  2004
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 02"

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* The Australian Publishers' Association has just released a list of Australian book sales and its makes interesting reading* and Arts Victoria and the National Arts Council of Singapore have re-signed their Memorandum of Understanding promoting further cultural exchange. Our Guest is Australian visual Artist KATE SHAW* whose work will be part of a group show at New York's prestigious Lux Gallery* and we have a farewell tribute to ATSIC radio* which has broadcast its last show.  All that* and some new poetry from the Red Room Project in Sydney

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The Australian Publishers' Association has just release recent book sales figures and it was no surprise to see HARRY POTTER at the top.  But it was a surprise to see that ANDY GRIFFITH'S irreverent Zombic Bums from Uranus* a sequel to The Day My Bum Went Psycho* had sold over 100 thousand copies.  We asked the chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council* PETER GOLDSWORTHY*  just what those figure tell us

Item 1: Best seller book list.(3.58)
Starts with: Not a real lot*
Ends with: *endless possibilities of life and existence as well.

ANDY GRIFFITH* author of the irreverent novel* Zombie Bums from Uranus* who's Australian sales have topped 100 thousand.  And before him the Chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council* PETER GOLDSWORTHY.  The reporter was new recruit* LUKE DYKES.

Item 2a: NAC/Arts Vic MOU (1.16)
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The Chair of the National Arts Council of Singapore* LIEW TAI KER* speaking prior to the signing of the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between the National Arts Council and Arts Victoria* in Singapore on Thursday 17 June.  After the documents were signed and gifts exchanged* PENNY HUTCHINSON* the director of Arts Victoria then addressed the gathering*.

Item 2b: NAC/Arts Vic MOU (2.43)
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PENNY HUTCHINSON* the director of Arts Victoria speaking at the resigning of the Memorandum of Understanding with the National Arts Council of Singapore. Before that* LIEW TAI KER* the chair of the National Arts Council of Singapore.  And as we mentioned on an earlier program* Vincent was one of four Australia arts broadcasters and journalists who attended the Singapore Arts Festival as a guest of the National Arts Council*

TRACK 1: Roger Knox with King Bunerwal			(ends) 17 min 40 sec 

Item 4A: Kate Shaw (8.54)
First words: You're listening to*
Last words: *
Track 2: Paul Patten with Strong Black Woman

END VOICE	26 min 20 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 02 sec

Item 4B: Kate Shaw (8.13)
First words: 
Last words: * 

Track 3: Unknown performers with  Ile Mai

And now Arts Alive bids fairwell to a fellow national community broadcaster... ATSIC Radio.  Under instruction from the Federal Government*ATSIC Radio was abolished on the 1st of July and recorded its final program on the 25th of June.  We'll now hear some of that recording... before NICOLE FINDLAY finds out more about the demise of ATSIC and its effect on local content especially for indigenous audiences.

Item 5: ATSIC PIECE (9:14)
 First:  Since 1999...
 Last:  ...Music
  
RICHARD FRANKLAND...filmmaker and founder of the new political party "Your Voice" speaking there...and that piece was compiled by NICOLE FINDLAY and put together with material supplied by ATSIC Radio.  And if you wish to find out more about the closure of ATSIC Radio you can go to www.atsis.gov.au. And now for some poetry from that group out of Sydney* Red Room.

Item 6: Poetry Review : Red Room (3.55)
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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, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Anna Brain, Kate Stowell 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. And the spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com 

Track 4: Kerrianne Cox with Beagle Bay Dreaming

END VOICE	52 min 43 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:  "King Bunerwal"/ Roger Knox/ Roger Knox/ CP/ no code (Go'n on, still strong)/ 3 mins 26 secs
Track 2    " Strong Black Woman"/ Paul Patten/ Paul Patten/ no code (Whichway through AMRAP)/ 4 minutes 1 second
Track 3:  "Ile Mai"/ traditional/ CASM/ CP/ no code (CASM Showcase 1999)/ 1 minute 10 secs
Track 4:  "Beagle Bay Dreaming"/ Kerrianne Cox/ Kerrianne Cox/ CP/ KC333/ 3 minutes 55 secs