Program #21, 2004
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The St Kilda Film Festival, Australia's oldest short film festival, opens in Melbourne and is set for a national tour.
(The St Kilda Film Festival opens on 25 May, before touring nationally, opening at the Chauvel in Sydney on June 6, then Canberra June 13, Adelaide June 19, Perth June 27 & 28, Hobart July 3 and Brisbane July 10. More info: www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au.)
We catch up with comedianne Jodi J Hill on her day off in Brisbane. She and a couple of other veterans of April's Comedy Festival have been playing to audiences down the Queensland coast.
(The Melbourne Comedy Festival currently are touring South Australia, Victoria and western NSW. Watch local media for details, or go to www.comdeyfestival.com.au.)
Guest: Sharon Jacobson and Criena Kelly from Off the Map. They are creating a theatre project called Plan B for former prisoners, hoping that the experience will help break the cycle of crime-imprisonment-crime-re-imprisonment.
(To contact Off the Map Creative Development you can e-mail them at explore@offthemap.biz.)
Nicole Findlay has been to the 'Between Worlds' workshop, an interactive experience of music, art, poetry and story exploring Indigenous ways of knowing.
(This feature was put together in collaboration with the postgraduate Koori cohort from RMIT University.)
Film Review: Troy.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nina-Marie Petrik, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.
Program #22, 2004
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Art takes over The Rocks in Sydney this June.
(The winners of Art On The Rocks 2004 will be announced on June 17th and the works will be on display at the ASN Gallery from 18 June - 4 July. Entry is free & artworks will be available for sale. More info: www.therocks.com.)
An arts project guide called 'How To, Where To' (H2W2) is launched.
(The 174-page arts project guide 'H2W2 - How To, Where To' is available free from the Australia Council. Their toll free number is 1800 226 912. Alternatively, click here for more info and an online order form for a print copy.)
Entries close June 30 for the Gangart Award, an award that celebrates multicultural, multilingual web design and production.
(More info: www.gangart.com/awards.)
Guest: Stephen Page, Artistic Director of the Bangarra Dance Company and his Associate Artistic Director, Frances Rings.
(The Bangarra Dance Company's official website: www.bangarra.com.au.)
We'll hear from Roger Steffen, the founder of the Reggae magazine 'BEAT' and a world expert on the life and music of Bob Marley, the musician who gave Reggae to the world.
(Steffen is presently on a nation-wide tour till 4 June. The tour details are at www.jaslynhallpresents.com.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nina-Marie Petrik, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.
Program #23, 2004
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We check out OzArts.com.au, a website showcasing local contemporary art to international markets.
In Singapore the annual Arts Festival is in full swing.
(The 2004 Singapore Arts Festival opened on May 28th and runs until June 20th. And ARTS Alive has been invited to attend the last four days of the Festival to see among other things the Singapore-Australian collaboration 'Sandakan Threadnoddy' - a work inspired by and in tribute to the Australian soldiers who died on the Sandakan death march, on the last year of World War II. So part of the program in two weeks time will come live from Singapore and we'll have other stories from that festival in the following weeks. Official Singapore Arts Festival website: www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
Guest: Geoff Wallis, whose book 'Peril in the Square' tells the story of a monumental yellow sculpture that challenged an Australian city, and was banished to a drab riverbank for 20 years.
We'll meet Malaysian-born young film maker Eu-Hua Chua, whose graduating film 'Dinkum' was entered into the recently-held St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne.
(The Best of the Best 2004 St Kilda Film Festival program highlights tours all capital cities in June and July. For further information check out www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au.)
Film Review: Thunderstruck - the latest Australian road movie.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nina-Marie Petrik, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.
Program #24, 2004
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We take a look at the 2004 Express Media National Mentorship Program.
(More info: www.expressmedia.org.au.)
The changing face of digital design with the 2004 Digital Design Biennale.
(Submissions to the 2004 Digital Design Biennale close on 23 June. For more information visit www.lab.3000.com.au/biennale/.)
Australia's richest prize for Indigenous Australians, the Kate Challis RAKA Awards, are coming up.
(For more info about the Kate Challis RAKA Awards email Anna MacDonald. Also, visit http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/events/awards/raka/)
Guest: literary enthusiasts Declan Foley and John Flaus take us through the life and times of Irish author James Joyce, best known for his work 'Ulysses' which looks at one day in Dublin 100 - June 16, 1904.
As part of World Refugee Day (Sunday June 20), an art exhibition is held in the St George Regional Museum of Hurstville, VIC.
(The 'Refugees: Artists Impressions' exhibition is on at the St George Regional Museum, 14 MacMahon St, Hurstville VIC, 19 June - 29 July. The Museum opens Tuesday - Friday, 10am-4pm and Saturday 10am-3pm. For more information call (03) 9330 6444.)
Film Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nina-Marie Petrik, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.
Program #25, 2004
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Adelaide: the inaugural Graham F Smith Peace Trust Dinner & Silent Art Auction.
(The 15th Graham F Smith Peace Trust Dinner & Silent Art Auction takes place on Saturday 3rd July at the Adelaide Pavilion, corner of Peacock Road and South Terrace in Adelaide. For more info call (08) 8267 3915.)
In its 22nd year, the ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards is fast approaching.
(This year's ATOM Awards is held in Melbourne at the Greater Union Cinema on July 2nd. More info: www.atomvic.org.)
Guest: Ian Marks, the founding editor of Foffle, a national independent publication that's now in its 3rd year of production, and still raising the eyebrows of old-school rock music lovers.
(The Foffle magazine is available in discerning music and book retail outlets. For more info email fofflemag@yahoo.com.au.)
Experimenta's 'House of Tomorrow' exhibition continues to break down new media barriers.
(The House of Tomorrow exhibition is touring Brisbane October-November 2004, then it will visit Sydney, Canberra, Fremantle, Bendigo, Mildura, Warrnambool and Sale in 2005. More info: www.experimenta.org.)
Vincent O'Donnell reports the scene of arts in Singapore.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nicole Findlay & Anna Brain.
Program #26, 2004
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The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is formally established, with an inaugural meeting in Canberra.
(The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences official website: www.chass.org.au.)
A most intriguing conference: the International Conference on Auditory Display is set for Sydney in July.
(The 10th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display is held 6th-9th July 2004 at Sydney's Manly Pacific Hotel and the Sydney Opera House. More info: www.icad.org.)
Guest: Senator Kate Lundys, opposition spokesperson on the arts.
ARTS alive checks up on events around NAIDOC week, especially the NAIDOC Art Awards.
(The NAIDOC week runs from 4th-11th July, throughout Australia. More info: www.atsic.gov.au/events/NAIDOC/default.asp.)
Film Review: Shrek 2
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell, Anna Brain & Sean Kennedy.
Program #27, 2004
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The Australian Publishers' Association has just released a list of Australian book sales and it makes interesting reading.
(The result of the 2003 Australian Publishers Association Bestsellers Survey is available in PDF format from the official APA website.)
 Arts Victoria and the National Arts Council of Singapore have re-signed their Memorandum of Understanding promoting further cultural exchange.
Guest: Australian visual artist Kate Shaw, whose work will be part of a group show at New York's prestigious Luxe Gallery.
(The 'Simply Drawn' exhibition open on July 8 at Luxe Gallery, 24 W 57, 5th fl New York, NY 10019.)
A farewell tribute to ATSIC radio, which has broadcast its last show on 25th June.
(If you wish to find out more about the closure of ATSIC Radio you can go to www.atsis.gov.au.)
Poetry Review : Sydney's the Red Room Project
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Luke Dykes.
ATSIC Radio tribute compiled with material supplied by ATSIC Radio.
Poetry Review segment courtesy of 89.7FM Eastside Radio, Sydney.
Program #28, 2004
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The Australian Ballet School turns 40 and plans celebrations in September.
(As part of the Australian Ballet School's 40th celebration, 3 gala performances will be held on Friday 24 September & Saturday 25 September at the State Theatre of Melbourne's Arts Centre . Bookings can be made through Ticketmaster. More info: www.australianballetschool.com.au.)
A report from a conference, "The Rebirth of the Museum?", that challenged some traditional notions about museums.
Guest: actor Tony Llewellyn-Jones, one of the cast of the latest David Williamson play 'Amigos', a Sydney Theatre Company production currently on stage at the Melbourne Theatre Company.
(The Sydney Theatre Company production 'Amigos' is now playing in Melbourne at the Arts Centre Playhouse until 31 July. More info: www.mtc.com.au.)
We meet Andris Toppe of the Sydney Dance Company production, 'Shades of Grey'.
('Shades of Gray', the Sydney Dance Company's last performances of this season, will be at the Playhouse in the Canberra Theatre Centre, from the 14th to the 17th of July. To book call Canberra Ticketing on (02) 6275 2700 or go to www.canberraticketing.com.au. More info: www.sydneydance.com.au.)
Film Review: Spider-Man 2
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Anna Brain, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay & Kate Stowell.
Program #29, 2004
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We hear from one of the 3 recipients of the recently announced Queensland Creative Fellowships, each worth $40,000.
EPIC, the Emerging Producers' In Community initiative, is a scheme to provide experience in new media production is bringing opportunity to outback youth.
(More info: www.ozco.gov.au.)
Guest: noted singer songwriter Kev Carmody, one of Australia's most talented lyricists.
(For more information about Kev Carmody's latest album 'Mirrors', check out his official website: www.kevcarmody.com.au.)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra turns 25 this year. ARTS alive speaks to senior manager Pang Siu Yuin.
(Official Singapore Symphony Orchestra website: www.sso.org.sg.)
Red Room Poetry: 'Natalie Imbruglia' by Paul Mitchell
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Anna Brain, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay, Sean Kennedy & Kate Stowell.
Program #30, 2004
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'Ten Days on the Island: the Whole Of Tasmania' arts festival, created
by Robyn Archer, has been under review and the report is just out.
(Official Ten Days on the Island website: www.tendaysontheisland.org.)
What to do about the illegal copying of music CDs?... Everyone is doing it!... But the musos are missing out on royalties: we'll hear two opposing views
on one solution.
Guest: born in Toowoomba and was dancing with the Sadlers-Wells Ballet Company in London in 1933 at the age of seventeen, Laurel Martyn has just turned 88 and is still laying down the law and demanding the highest standards in
Australian classical dance.
A walk around 'Now & Then', an exhibition of recent and graduate works from an outer suburban TAFE college art program.
(More information about the 'Now & Then'
exhibition or future installations, contact the Northern Metropolitan
Institute of TAFE (NMIT) gallery directly on (03) 9269 1431.)
Film Review: Stepford Wives
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Anna Brain, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay, Sean Kennedy & Kate Stowell.
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