ARTS ALIVE PGM 46 - 2004 TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 15 Nov. 2004 THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 19" Hi and welcome to Arts Alive, your weekly arts and culture current affairs radio...I'm VINCENT O'DONNELL, I'm JESS MYLES*and I'm Sean Kennedy This week* LAB 3000* the Digital Design Biennale 2004* opens in Melbourne* LA BOITE THEATRE in Brisbane announces its eightieth season program* and 150 years ago* on November 11* 10 thousand miners met at BAKERY HILL in what is now the middle of the Victorian regional city of BALLARAT. It was the event that led to the EUREKA STOCKADE* an event as firmly part of Australian mythology as NED KELLY. Our guest is Dr Richard Kurin, the director of Folk Life and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, who has been visiting Australian to conduct seminars on cultural brokerage* We'll also get a run-down of the program for the annual Sydney summer shindig* the Sydney Festival*held next January. And Nina Marie will review*.De Lovely . STING (5). But first*a round up of the week in the arts*with *Kate Stowell. NEWS: (approx. 4.00) Ends approx. 5.20 Item 1: Lab 3000 (54 secs) Starts with: Sting. Ends with: news ways of working* Professor LEON VAN SCHAIK* the chair of the LAB 3000 Digital Design Biennale 2004* speaking at the press launch on 10th November* And the sounds you heard before that was from the ambience of the exhibition. It is on at the Melbourne Museum in the Carlton Gardens until early February 2005. At EIGHTY years of age* Brisbane's LA BOITE theatre must be the oldest performing arts company in Australia. They moved into a new theatre complex in the creative industries precinct of KELVIN GROVE last December* and have just announced their program for the 2005 season. LUKE DYKES spoke to Artistic Director* SEAN MEES for Arts Alive* Item 2: La Boite (4.30) Starts with: Ends with: * Artistic Director of Brisbane's La Boite Theatre* SEAN MEES * speaking with Luke Dykes* And their web site is at www.laboite.com.au. On November 11* a plaque was unveiled at BAKERY HILL* in the middle of the Victorian regional city of Ballarat* where 150 years ago a mass meeting of 10 thousand miners took place. It was just one of the events* including the arson of the Eureka Hotel* that led to the EUREKA STOCKADE* held by many to be the birthplace of Australian democracy* certainly the birthplace of the EUREKA mythology. Professor WESTON BATE* note Eureka scholar* described those historic days on the Ballarat goldfields* Item 3: Eureka ( 4.30 or 5.10) Starts with: So on the 23rd October* Ends with: *clapping. And those same words appear on the plaque laid into the pavement. Today* outside at Bakery Hill* the once clear view across the valley to the government encampment is dominated by* you guessed it* the Golden Arches of a well know food chain. Still* the government encampment is now where the Ballarat Fine Art Museum stands and where the Eureka Flag is kept* Times do change. TRACK 1: "sat interlude" by Crackpot (ends) 17 min 40 sec Item 4A: Dr Richard Kurin (8.33) First words: Last words: * Track 2: "everyday like Sunday" by Trojan Horns END VOICE 27 min 00 sec END OF PART ONE 30 min 19 sec Item 4B: : Dr Richard Kurin (8.23) First words: Last words: * Track 3: "Intermission" by Waiting for Guiness And we have had to carry-over the story about the ownership of the bark paintings to a future program.Clearly* it's that time of the year when events for next year are announcing their programs* and the annual January summer shindig* the Sydney Festival* has just announced its lineup* Here is Associate Artistic Director* LISA TWOOMEY * Item 5: Sydney Festival / Lisa Twoomey (8.04) First words: Yes the Sydney Festival is* Last words: ... ' That's LISA TWOOMEY* Associate Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival. Check out www.sydneyfestival.org.au for more details. Now its time for Nina Marie's film review* this week*De Lovely. Item 6: Film Review : Starts with: Thanks Vincent*thanks Jess 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, Luke Dykes, 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 heard via the satellite service of the COMMUNITY RADIO NETWORK, on the SBS DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE, and is distributed by THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE. The past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com Track 4: "Welcome to the hotel" by The Winston Giles Orchestra END VOICE 52 min 16sec 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: "sat interlude" / Crackpot / Crackpot / CP / TUCH106CD / 30 sec. Track 2 " everyday like sunday" / Trojan Horns / Trojan Horns / CP / 3.15 mins Track 3: "intermission" / Marko Simac / Waiting for Guiness / CP / WFG002 /45 sec. Track 4: "Welcome to the hotel" / Winston Giles / The Winston Giles Orchestra / CP / pm20002 / 3.42