ARTS alive - 2004 program list

list of programs from the 2004 series

Program #41, 2004
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This Is Not Art Festival has just wound up in the once-steel-town-now-arts-ville New South Wales city of Newcastle. ARTS alive check out how the festival went.

(More info: www.thisisnotart.org.)

New training opportunities in the film industry in Queensland as TAFE courses compliment the more familiar film school subjects.

(More info: www.pftc.com.au.)

Guest: Perth-based artist Dave Carson. His exhibition, 'SkyLab', celebrates the place that the pioneering US space station has in the cultural mythology of Western Australia, its last resting place.

(The "Skylab - out of orbit" exhibition opens in Melbourne on 15 October for one month at the Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda. For more information call (03) 9209 6560. More info: www.skylabexhibition.org.au.)

Nina-Marie Petrik will be talking to Michael Bodey about his new book 'Aussiewood', which is about the Australian siege on Hollywood co-written with Michaela Boland.

('Aussiewood' is published by Allen & Unwin with a recommended retail price of $29.95. More info: www.allenandunwin.com.)

The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Nina-Marie Petrik & Anna Brain.

Program #42, 2004
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The artist behind The Scream: an exhibition of the work of Edvard Munch arrives at the National Gallery of Victoria.

("Edvard Munch: The Freeze of Life" is now open at the National Gallery of Victoria until the 17th January. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/munch/.)

And in NSW, the work of Sir Oswald Brierly, a ship board artist of the 19th century, goes on show at the State Library.

("Upon a painted ocean - Sir Oswald Brierly" opens on 18 October in the galleries in the Mitchell Wing of the State Library of New South Wales in Macquarie Street, Sydney until 6th February 2005. More info: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/brierly/.)

Guest: visual artist Lynette Wallworth has had a diverse career, including Artist-in-residence at the 2002 Adelaide festival. Her interactive projection work, 'Unheard Voices: Invisible by Night', is part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival shown from dusk to dawn in Melbourne's Federation Square.

(More info on Lynette Wallworth's 'Unheard Voices: Invisible by Night': www.experimenta.org/unheardvoices.html & www.melbournefestival.com.au.)

A special report looking into the world of karaoke.

(If you're in Melbourne, grab a microphone and check out Extreme Karaoke at the Laundry in Fitzroy. And for the majority of Australians who aren't, The National Karaoke Challenge screens on SBS on the 16th of October. Check out www.sbs.com.au/karaoke for more details.)

ARTS alive went along to the opening of the SkyLab exhibition (by last week's guest, Dave Carson form Perth) and asked people for their response to the show..

The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Sean Kennedy, Luke Dykes, Nina-Marie Petrik, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain; guest reporter Merrin Rose.

Program #43, 2004
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A report from the annual conference of Regional Arts Australia in Horsham, Victoria.

(More info on the Meeting Place conference: www.meetingplace.org.au & www.regionalarts.com.au.)

A reward is offered for information about the mysterious disappearance of a statue of Hans Christian Anderson from a park in Sydney 40 years ago.

Guest: Robyn Sloggett, from the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. Robyn has just been named Conservator of the Year by the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials, the peak body representing the conservation profession in Australia.

(The Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation official website: www.culturalconservation.unimelb.edu.au. The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc official website: www.aiccm.org.au.)

A special report on the art of spray-can stencilling.

Film Review: Collateral.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Sean Kennedy, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.

Program #44, 2004
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Live recording from the Victorian Arts Centre's 20th birthday bash.

(The official Victorian Arts Centre website: www.vicartscentre.com.au.)

We catch up with those poetic folk in Sydney, The Red Room Project.

(More info: www.redroomorganisation.org.)

Renowned surrealist James Gleeson launches a retrospective of his work at the age of 88.

(Gleeson was presented with the Painters and Sculptors Association Medal on Thursday 28 October by former winner John Olsen. And the exhibition 'James Gleeson: Beyond the Screen of Sight' is on at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square until 27 February next year. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/gleeson/.)

Guest: Bob Beale, co-author with Michael Archer, the Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales a book called "Going Native". The book calls for a radical rethink on the whole relationship between Australians and the land, a shift in cultural practice to ensure survival in this dry and ancient continent.

("Going Native" is available at your local bookstores in paperback from Hodder Headline Australia for $A35.00 rrp. More info: www.hha.com.au.)

A special report delving into the highs and lows of stand-up comedy.

(For information about The Pete Croft's Humourversity visit www.humourversity.com or telephone (03) 9596 0411. Check out the comedian profiles of David Williams on the Comedy Channel website. Ray Gilson's profile is on the ICMI website. Joanne Brookfield's official website: www.joannebrookfield.com. The Comic's Lounge official website: www.thecomicslounge.com.au.)

The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Sean Kennedy, Nina-Marie Petrik, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain, guest reporter Alison Lee-Tet.

Program #45, 2004
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A further report on the Meeting Place: Regional Arts Australia Biennial National Conference, held recently in Horsham, Victoria. (As reported on this program two weeks ago)

(More info on the Meeting Place conference: www.meetingplace.org.au & www.regionalarts.com.au.)

A festival in Adelaide in celebration of the Female Voice.

(This year's Feast of Female Voice will be at the great totemic site for live music in Adelaide, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, on Saturday 20 November. More info: www.femalevoice.cjb.net.)

Guest: Frank Van Stratton. His new book "Huge Deal", 25 years in the making, is a biography of the now-forgotten Hugh D. McIntosh, probably the most flamboyant theatrical entrepreneur and member of Parliament Australia has ever produced.

("Huge Deal" is available at your local bookstores in paperback from Lothian Books for $A34.95 rrp. More info: www.lothian.com.au.)

A special report on the changing relations between publishers and author, as one seeks to maximise profits and the other to maximise exposure of their work.

Film Review: The Manchurian Candidate.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Nina-Marie Petrik, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain, guest reporter Melissa Clarke.

Program #46, 2004
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The 2004 lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale opens in Melbourne.

(Imagining the Future, the inaugural lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale is now on until 6 February 2005 at the Melbourne Museum. More info: www.lab.3000.com.au.)

Brisbane's La Boite Theatre announces its 18th-season program.

(More info: www.laboite.com.au.)

150 years ago on November 11, 10,000 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. ARTS alive brings you live recording from the unveiling ceremony of a plaque at Bakery Hill to commemorate the event.

(To find out other current events celebrating the 150 anniversary of Eureka Stockade check out: www.eureka150.vic.gov.au.)

Guest: Dr Richard Kurin, the director of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, who has been visiting Australian to conduct seminars on cultural brokerage.

(The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage homepage: www.folklife.si.edu.)

A run-down of the program for the annual Sydney summer shindig, the Sydney Festival, held next January.

(The Sydney Festival 2005 will be on 8-30 January, 2005. More info: www.sydneyfestival.org.au.)

Film Review: De-Lovely.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Sean Kennedy, Nina-Marie Petrik, Luke Dykes, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain.

Program #47, 2004
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Excerpt from the stage play '12 Angry Men', currently playing in Melbourne.

(The Melbourne season of '12 Angry Men', direct by Guy Masterton, runs at the Athenaeum Theatre until 4 December. More info: www.theatretoursinternational.com.)

Ned Kelly finds a new home in a library: his suit of armour moves to the State Library of Victoria.

(The Kelly Armour, along with other State Library of Victoria treasures, is exhibited in the Changing Face of Victoria exhibition, open to the public from the 26th of November at the Dome Galleries Level 5, Entry 1, Swanston Street. More info: www.slv.vic.gov.au.)

Bollywood gets in the panel van and travels around Australia with the Indian Film Festival.

('Bollywood Masala: The Bollywood Film Festival 2004' runs at Melbourne's Cinema Nova 25 November-8 December, before playing Perth (in January), Brisbane (in February) and Hobart (season yet to be finalised). More info: www.mgdistribution.com.au/festival/where/melbourne/.)

Guest: Dr. Alice Mills from the University of Ballarat. She is the senior consulting editor of a prestigious new book entitled "Mythology: Myths, Legends & Fantasies". Lavishly illustrated, it is a scholarly but very accessible book and a landmark in Australian publishing.

("Mythology: Myths, Legends & Fantasies" is published in Australia by Hodder.)

We check in with a long running dispute that's drawing to a conclusion, where the Dja Dja Warung people of central-western Victoria have laid claim to some 150 year old bark paintings in the possession of the British Museum.

(The case is now before the Federal Court, and no one will win no matter what the outcome is.)

Film Review: The Polar Express.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Nina-Marie Petrik, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Anna Brain, guest reporter Jason Gillick.

Program #48, 2004
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A farewell to an Australian cultural institution.

Australian circuses and physical theatre companies strut their stuff in Montreal, Canada to attend the grand opening of TOHU La Cite des Arts du Cirque, and for promotion at the Commerce international des arts de la scene/International Exchange the Performing Arts (CINARS).

(Circus Oz's 'The Blue Show' is at the Spiegel Tent in Melbourne until 4 December before playing Sydney in January. Official site of TOHU La Cite des Arts du Cirque: www.tohu.ca. Official site of CINARS: www.cinars.org.)

Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS (YEAH) are staging a costume, jewellery, and art exhibition and auction to raise funds for their fight against HIV/AIDS.

('The World We Live In: World AIDS Day 2004 Art Exhibition' is now on daily until 5th December at the Australian Gallery of the Melbourne Museum at Carlton Gardens, Carlton. The exhibits will be auctioned to raise funds on 1 December at the Melbourne Museum... and it is a 'black tie' do. More info: www.yeah.org.au.)

Guest: Cecilia Dart-Thornton. Her first three books, The Bitterbynde Trilogy, attracted the largest advance ever paid to a first-time Australian author. The first volume of her second offering: The Crowthistle Chronicles, is in the bookshops now, for her zillions of fanatical readers.

('The Iron Tree', the first volume of The Crowthistle Chronicles is now available on trade paperback at your local bookshop for rrp $A30.00. Also available on paperback are The Bitterbynde Trilogy: 'The Ill-made Mute', 'The Lady of the Sorrows' & 'The Battle of Evernight'. All her books are published by Pan Macmillan Australia. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)

We follow up on the work of Fiona McColl, whose CD of cross-cultural, multi-lingual music, prose and poetry recorded in the Northern Territory has just been release.

(The Pangari Productions' new poetic voices CD, 'Salt Water, Fresh Water', was released in mid-November. More info: www.pangari.com.)

Film Review: Garden State.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Nina-Marie Petrik, Anna Brain, Nicole Findlay, Kate Stowell & Sean Kennedy.

Program #49, 2004
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Eureka 150 Special #1: we talk to the women who restored the Eureka Flag, Val D'Angri, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Anastasia Withers, one of the women who made the flag 150 years ago.

Eureka 150 Special #2: we also speak with sculptor Anton Hazel, who has create a rusted iron work that now stands on the original stockade field.

(To find out other current events celebrating the 150 anniversary of Eureka Stockade check out: www.eureka150.vic.gov.au.)

RESFEST, an international digital film festival has stopped in on our shores.

(The 2004 RESFEST is touring in Sydney at Sydney Opera House and the Dendy Opera Quays (Keys), December 9-12. More info: http://www.resfest.com.)

A new book about that very 1981 Australian teenage film, Bruce Beresford's 'Puberty Blues', written by the star of the movie Nell Schofield.

('Puberty Blues', the book about the film is available through Currency Press for rrp $A15.95; more info: www.currency.com.au. And a new DVD of the Bruce Beresford film is available through Umbrella Entertainment for rrp $A34.95; more info: http://umbrellaentertainment.com.au.)

The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Sean Kennedy, Nina-Marie Petrik, Anna Brain, Nicole Findlay & Kate Stowell.

Program #50, 2004 ARTS alive Episode #400!

ARTS alive has now been on the air for almost 8 years and this is the 400th program. In that time we have featured some 3,500 voices - the famous and the fatuous, the creatives and the cranks that make up the arts and cultural scene in Australia; and a few of our neighbouring countries - especially Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand and occasionally the USA, Canada and the UK.

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A tribute to the late Gabrielle Pizzi, a collector and gallery owner who pioneered the recognition of the art of Australia's Indigenous people.

(An exhibition of works from Pizzi's personal collection, 'Mythology & Reality', is on at the Heidi Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, Victoria until 30 January. More info: www.heide.com.au.)

Still on Indigenous issues: a brief report on 'Colloquium 2004', a conference meeting the challenge of recording, storing and maintaining Indigenous knowledge.

(More info on 'Colloquium 2004', held at the State Library of NSW between 9-10 December: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/colloquium/.)

Guest: Dr Tim Rowse, the biographer of Dr. H.C. Commbs, affectionately known as 'Nugget Coombs'. Without his contribution to Australian arts and culture from the 1940s to the 1980s, we would all be the poorer culturally and there would be no place for a program like ARTS alive.

We hear about the Sydney-based International Federation of Arts Councils & Culture Agencies (IFACCA).

(On-line subscriptions to IFACCA's ACORNS information digest are available free at www.ifacca.org.)

Film Review: Stage Beauty.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles, Luke Dykes, Kate Stowell, Nicole Findlay, Nina-Marie Petrik & Anna Brain. Guest appearance: Fiona Parker & Vincent Fok.

Program #51, 2004
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The NT Writers' Centre, a Northern Territory arts organisation, is looking for a new logo - one better to express its interests.

(Anyone interested in submitting designs should contact the NT Writers' Centre on (08) 8941 2651 or e-mail info@ntwriters.com.au. Local artists preferred. The official site of the NT Writers' Centre: ntwriters.com.au.)

Guest: Paolo Cherchi Ushai, the newly appointed director of ScreenSound Australia. Amidst the recent controversy over the merger of ScreenSound Australia, now to return to its original title, the National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian Film Commission, the new director is flexing his authority to make changes, and seems to have won the confidence of the staff of the archive.

(The official site of the ScreenSound Australia National Screen and Sound Archive: www.screensound.gov.au.)

A preview of the exhibition 'Life Beyond the Tomb' at the Australian Museum in Sydney, a collection of over 200 objects relating to the Ancient Egyptians' belief in and preparations for the afterlife, including object from the collection of the the National Museum of Antiquities, in Leden, in the Netherlands.

('Life Beyond the Tomb - death in ancient Egypt' is now on at the Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney daily 9.30am - 5pm (closed Christmas Day) until Sunday 22 May, 2005. More info: www.austmus.gov.au/life/.)

Film Review: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Kate Stowell, Anna Brain & Nina-Marie Petrik.

Program #52, 2004 Summer Edition 2004-05 #1

Guy Rundle & Shane Maloney in the studio talk about their new book "The Happy Phrase"

("The Happy Phrase" is available on paperBack at your local bookshops through Text Publishing for rrp $A17.95. More info: www.textpublishing.com.au.)

The extended interview with Christopher Doyle: Sydney-born, Hong Kong-based cinematographer.

Listen to the extended interview (Windows Media, 10 minutes 17 seconds)

The team: Vincent O'Donnell & Anna Brain.