Program #21, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: writer Alvin Tan, co-founder of the Singapore-based community theatre company The Necessary Stage. Now in its 20th year, The Necessary Stage remains at the forefront of theatre content and practice in Asia. Its latest production "Mobile" has its world premier at the recent Singapore Arts Festival, and Vincent O'Donnell spoke to Alvin in Singapore prior to the premier.
(9 minutes 3 seconds + 7 minutes 34 seconds)
(More info on the stage production "Mobile" can be found at the official website of The Necessary Stage: www.necessary.org.)
The Outback Youth Film Festival and Awards is looking for entries...
(4 minutes)
(Entries for the competition close on the 8th of August. More info: www.deadlymob.org.)
... Also looking for entries is the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Awards.
(4 minutes 38 seconds)
(Entries for the awards close on the 28th of August. More info: www.lempriereaward.com.au.)
We check out the Backbeat series of music documentaries in the recently-commenced 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) program.
(9 minutes 6 seconds)
(The 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival is now on until 13 August. For more information on venues and session times visit: www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au.)
Film Review: Jindabyne.
(2 minutes 57 seconds)
Sounds from a performance of Skid 180, a co-production of Melbourne's Arena Theatre and Manchester's Contact Theatre UK, featuring a lot of stunt work on BMX bicycles.
(47 seconds)
("Skid 180" is now playing at the Arts House of North Melbourne Town Hall until August 5th, then moves to the Sydney Opera House. More info: www.arenatheatre.com.au.)
(And the Arena Theatre Company celebrates its 40th birthday this year - we'll have them on soon.)
(News: 3 minutes 45 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
Program #22, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: writer Bob Weis, one of the most individual and critically successful film makers working in Australia. He has just revisited "Women of the Sun", a four-part miniseries he did 25 years ago written by Sonya Borg and Hyllus Maris, and has made a feature-length documentary "Women of the Sun - 25 Years Later" as both a tribute to five indigenous women in the original program and as an investigation of changes in Australian society.
(8 minutes 53 seconds + 8 minutes 34 seconds)
("Women of the Sun - 25 Years Later" was recently screened in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival - more info: www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au. And it will be screened on 12th August 2006 at Southbank Cineplex Cinema 3, Grey St, South Bank, Brisbane as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival - more info: www.biff.com.au, and on 15 August at Deckchair Cinema, Darwin as part of the Darwin Festival - more info: www.darwinfestival.org.au.)
(The original 1981 documentary "Women of the Sun" is available on video and DVD from Ronin Films. More info: www.roninfilms.com.au.)
The Australian Film Institute Awards is about to begin.
(5 minutes 26 seconds)
(Screening for the L'Oréal Paris 2006 AFI Awards - the 48th Annual AFI Festival of Film commences progressive from Monday 21 August in all capital cities except Darwin. More info: www.afi.org.au.)
(Image source: www.afi.org.au.)
Christchurch, New Zealand, is gearing up for its bi-annual celebration of art in public places called SCAPE.
(5 minutes 39 seconds)
(SCAPE 2006: Biennial of Art in Public Space starts 29 September in Christchurch, New Zealand and runs until November. More info: www.artandindustry.org.nz. And we hope to make the opening night party to meet the curator and some of the artists exhibiting there.)
The program for the upcoming Melbourne International Arts Festival has been criticised recently by commentators. Festival Director Kristy Edmunds joins us to answer their criticisms.
(10 minutes 32 seconds)
(The 2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival runs 12-28 October. For more information visit: www.melbournefestival.com.au.)
Film Review: 3-Iron.
(3 minutes 30 seconds)
(News: 3 minutes 22 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
Program #23, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
We take a walk around Supernatural Artificial, an exhibition of Australian photo-based art which was attracting an appreciative audience to the gallery at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore.
(8 minutes 47 seconds + 9 minutes 57 seconds)
(The "Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary Photo-based Art From Australia" exhibition, presented by the Australian High Commission in Singapore in partnership with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, was held 16 June-7 July 2006 at Gallery 3, NAFA Campus 1, 80 Bencoolen Street, Singapore. More info: www.nafa.edu.sg and www.singapore.embassy.gov.au.)
The Flying Fox Festival gives people the opportunity to learn a new craft.
(3 minutes 52 seconds)
(The 2006 Flying Fox Art & Cultural Festival runs on 10-26 August. For more information contact Jo Harle on (08) 8972 5500, or visit: www.katherine.nt.gov.au.)
Tracks Dance Company speaks about its wonderful new production, "Mr Big".
(5 minutes 10 seconds)
("Mr Big" is currently showing at the Darwin Shell Terminal, 38 McMinn St, Darwin until August 20. For bookings or more information visit the Tracks Dance Company's website: www.tracksdance.com.au.)
The Meanies, one of Melbourne's seminal punk-pop outfits of the 90s, have recently experienced the retrospective treatment with a DVD just released about the band's history.
(7 minutes 15 seconds)
(The Meanies DVD, which has just been launched in Brisbane and Sydney, is now available to rent or purchase from Madman Entertainment. The Meanies will continue their national launch of the film in Hobart on the 9th of September at The Republic Bar and in Melbourne on the 22nd of September at The Tote. For more information visit the Meanies' official website: www.themeanies.net.)
Film Review: Brick.
(3 minutes 11 seconds)
(News: 2 minutes 40 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
Program #24, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: Nicholas Tsoutas, Artistic Director of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney south-west. After more that a decade's operation, the Casula Powerhouse is undergoing a $13-million refurbishment that will vastly extend the facilities available to its publics and artists.
(8 minutes 47 seconds + 8 minutes 22 seconds)
(The Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre's official website: www.casulapowerhouse.com.)
We catch up with musician and entrepreneur Rae Howell, who runs the Sunwrae Ensemble Eavesdropping sessions.
(10 minutes 3 seconds)
(While future Sunwrae Ensemble Eavesdropping sessions are planned for other states in the new year, the next performance will be at St Stephens Church in Richmond Melbourne on Friday, 25 August. For more information about the performances and Rae's CDs go to : www.sunwrae.com.)
Parents, Kids & Video Games - What's the Score?: a new e-book to help parents make judgements about the videogames their children are playing.
(4 minutes 52 seconds)
(The e-book "Parents, Kids & Video Games - What's the Score?" can be downloaded at www.acmi.net.au/games_resources.htm as a PDF file.)
Alice Springs gears up for its Desert Festival.
(4 minutes 58 seconds)
(The Alice Desert Festival 2006 covers two weekends and the week between 1st-10th September. More info: www.alicedesertfestival.com.au.)
 
Film Reviews: In Search of Mozart & Thank You for Smoking.
(4 minutes 34 seconds)
("In Search of Mozart" is now available to rent or purchase from Madman Entertainment.)
(News: 3 minutes 51 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, & Jess Myles.
Program #25, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: Lyn Collingwood, best known for playing Colleen Smart the village gossip in the long running soapy, "Home & Away". But she has a secret life as a theatre director and the chair of the committee planning the 75th anniversary of Sydney's new theatre in late 2007.
(8 minutes 7 seconds + 9 minutes 3 seconds)
(The official website of new theatre, Sydney: www.ramin.com.au/online/newtheatre/.)
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is branching out to incorporate Digital Fringe this year. We spoke to Festival coordinator Justin Schmidt about the technological advances the festival is making.
(5 minutes 34 seconds)
(Submissions of digital visual materials to the Digital Fringe, the web-based digitial arts festival run in conjunction with the Melbourne Fringe Festival from 27 Setpember to 15 October, closes on 27 September. For more information or submission details visit: www.digitalfringe.com.au.)
Vincent O'Donnell speaks with several VCA veterans at the 40th-Anniversary celebrations.
(4 minutes 46 seconds)
(The Victorian College of the Arts website: www.vca.unimelb.edu.au.)
Singapore is venturing yet another cultural event, a visual arts biennale, commencing on September 4th. We speak to the General Manager, Low Kee Hong.
(8 minutes 54 seconds)
(The Singapore Biennale 2006 runs from 4 September to 12 November. More info: www.singaporebiennale.org.)
Excerpts of "the Pas De Deux", from "the Dance of the cignets" of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, recorded at a media preview of a new production of Swan Lake, directed and choreographed by the rising star of british music theatre, Matthew Bourne, which will tour Australia early next year.
(40 seconds)
(More info about Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: www.matthewbourne.org/swanlake.)
(News: 3 minutes 7 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, & Jess Myles.
Program #26, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: Vicky Evans, the Artistic Tour Manager and Choreographer for Matthew Bourne's production 'Swan Lake' that will tour in Australia from February to May next year.
(8 minutes 51 seconds + 7 minutes 23 seconds)
(More info about Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: www.matthewbourne.org/swanlake.)
SHORTS 06: The competition is tough, but Adelaide's making a bid to become the home of the richest short film festival in Australia.
(5 minutes)
(The SHORTS 06 festival will be at the Garage Bar and Dining in Waymouth Sreet, Adelaide city, 25-29 October. Deadline for entry closes on 6 September. More info: www.shortsfilmfestival.com.)
In Sydney, the 104 students of PartyCp8, a film school based at the Australian Technology Park in the inner suburb of Redfern, plan to release the comedy which they will produce, write, act in and direct next May... but they might have a problem with distribution.
(5 minutes 10 seconds)
(The PartyCp8 Film School has an open day coming up on September 23. More info on the official website: www.partycp8.com.)
We went along to the Melbourne Writers' Festival for the announcement of the annual Kate Challis RAKA Award, this year given for creative prose.
(8 minutes 21 seconds)
(More info on the Kate Challis RAKA Award: www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/public/awards/raka.html.)
Poetry: "Natalie Imbruglia" by Paul Mitchell, from The Red Room Project of Sydney.
(2 minutes 49 seconds)
(News: 3 minutes 59 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Brodie Flint, & Jess Myles.
Program #27, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guests: Peter Fitzpatrick and Gay Baldwin. Peter lectures in theatre studies at Monash University and Gay has recently retired from the University of
Melbourne. They have decided to sink some of their superannuation pay-out into forming the new Melbourne Music Theatre company to fulfil the dream of a lifetime... Sense or insanity?... And did Peter Costello expect such a creative use of superannuation? We'll see.
(8 minutes 52 seconds + 9 minutes 2 seconds)
Sounds from The Town Bikes present Milk, a performance launched the program for the Melbourne Fringe Festival last week, which looked more like synchronised Dutch milk maids right down to their cheery cheeks and gingham
dresses.
(34 seconds)
(The Age 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival runs from 27 Setpember to 15 October. More info: www.melbournefringe.com.au. More info about the The Town Bikes present Milk @ The Melbourne Fringe website: www.melbournefringe.com.au/season/2006/show/365/.)
(Image source: www.melbournefringe.com.au.)
The Spirit of Woodford Awards have introduced two new categories to this year's
program.
(5 minutes 4 seconds)
(Entry to the 2007 Spirit of Woodford Awards closes on 15 September. The Awards winners will be announced at the Woodford Folk Festival 06-07 held between 27 December 2006 and 1 January 2007. More info: www.woodfordfolkfestival.com.)
The Third National Forum on Performance in Cultural Institutions is coming up in October. Taking place over three days, the conference is ideal for anyone who is interested in bridging the gap between art forms and academic practices.
(4 minutes 24 seconds)
(The Third National Forum on Performance in Cultural Institutions is running 12-15 October. For more information visit: www.museum.vic.gov.au/performanceconference, or call (03) 8341 7150.)
Nina-Marie Petrik investigates the Ringtone Society that is gearing up for a
two-week event at next October's Melbourne International Arts Festival... doing ring tones... What else?
(9 minutes 13 seconds)
(Between 12-28 October 2006, the ACMI Screen Pit will host live recording sessions of composed ring tones from both Australian musicians and international festival artists. You can lay down your contribution to the ring tone revolution in front of a live audience - more info about the event: www.melbournefestival.com.au. For all comments, questions and expressions of interest, contact Lauren Snelling on l.snelling@melbournefestival.com.au. Or if you want to pick up an
Australian ringtone, check out www.ringtonesociety.com.au.)
Film Review: The Book of Revelation.
(3 minutes 1 second)
A follow-up on last week's SHORTS 06 story: SHORTS auctioned a painting by their patron David Bromley on eBay, sold for A$15,200 to an overseas collector but not before scammers penetrated the site and extracted the email addresses of some bidders. The scammers allegedly contacted the bidders to entice them to divulge their bank details in order to purchase the painting for less than the bids they had made. So if you made a bid, don't be fooled - the painting is sold.
(30 seconds)
(The SHORTS 06 festival will be at the Garage Bar and Dining in Waymouth Sreet, Adelaide city, 25-29 October. Deadline for entry closes on 6 September. More info: www.shortsfilmfestival.com.)
(News: 3 minutes 47 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, & Jess Myles.
Program #28, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: notable Australian cellist Howard Penny, happy to be described as an elite session muso. Based in Vienna for the past 25 years he is in Australia to conduct master classes and perform several recitals.
(8 minutes 23 seconds + 7 minutes 37 seconds)
(Howard Penny will be performing at the Australian National Academdy of Music's Master Series Concert on Thursday 21 September at 7pm. More info contact the ANAM on free call (within Australia): 1800 248 861, or : see this PDF document from the ANAM website.)
The Abbotsford Convent: The St Heliers convent site in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Abbottsford has been transformed into a welcoming haven for art, performance and coffee.
(5 minutes 35 seconds)
(The Abbotsford Convent also needs volunteers so if you're interested or just want to
know more about the area, go to: www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au.)
In Sydney the Pyrmont Bridge, now a pedestrian thoroughfare linking the CBD with the Darling Harbour precinct* is getting its annual make over with the Chalk the Walk art event.
(4 minutes 7 seconds)
(The Chalk the Walk Pavement Art Festival runs 21-24 September at Sydney's Pyrmont Bridge. More info: www.chalkthewalk.com.)
A report on the recent summit on digital collections, the preservation of the documents that chart our history as well as works of art created in the digital format.
(9 minutes 7 seconds)
(And the Collections Council of Australia has been charged by the summit to document a strategic vision for the future of digital collection in Australia. The first steps are to set the framework for coordinated standards and protocols and to inform government of the needs of Australia's digital collections. More info on the Collections Council of Australia's Summit 2006 - Digital Collections: www.collectionscouncil.com.au.)
Film Review: An Inconvenient Truth.
(3 minutes 8 seconds)
(News: 4 minutes 34 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, & Jess Myles.
Program #29, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
The Arena Theatre Company for young people celebrates a big anniversary this year, so our guests this week are Rosemary Myers, the present artistic director, and Naomi Nicholson who founded Arena Theatre 40 years ago.
(8 minutes 48 seconds + 8 minutes 23 seconds)
(The Arena Theatre official website: www.arenatheatre.com.au.)
The Melbourne Fringe Festival starts this week.
(5 minutes 20 seconds)
(The Age 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival runs 27 Spetember - 15 October. The program has been widely distributed in the Age newspaper for those in Melbourne. Otherwise you can find it at: www.melbournefringe.com.au.)
The Pacific Edge: Regional Arts Australia has just concluded its annual conference held this year in the Queensland city of Mackay.
(5 minutes 26 seconds)
(More info on The Pacific Edge, Regional Arts Australia National Conference 2006: www.thepacificedge.com.au. Also, check out the Regional Arts Australia Online: www.regionalarts.com.au.)
We hear from Lena Nahlous, the director the Information and Cultural Exchange based in Sydney's west, who has just returned from a residency of almost four months in Hong Kong.
(9 minutes 22 seconds)
(The official website of ICE - Information and Cultural Exchange: www.ice.org.au.)
Film Review: The Devil Wears Prada.
(2 minutes 42 seconds)
(News: 3 minutes 55 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Jess Myles & Stephanie March.
Program #30, 2006
Download this week's cue sheet
Guest: Amir Farid, winner of this year's Australian National Piano Award. Amir's family, followers of the B'Hai faith, fled Iran in the face of religious persecution before settling in Australia. He is from a talented family. His cousin, Mojgan Khadem, wrote and directed the Australian feature film "Serenades".
(19 seconds + 11 minutes 43 seconds + 8 minutes 51 seconds)
(Amir and the other winners of this year's Australian National Piano Award will be performing at the Winner's Celebration Recital at the Ian Roach Hall, Scotch College, James Forbes Academy, Morrison St. Hawthorn, Melbourne on 14 October at 8pm. Ticket Prices: $20 each (plus booking fee). Phone: 1300 73 73 63 between 9am & 5pm for ticket booking. More info about the Australian National Piano Award: www.pianoaward.com.au.)
("Serenades" is now available on DVD in Australia from 20th Century Fox.)
(Image source: www.pianoaward.com.au.)
Victoria is about to host the Seniors Film Festival.
(5 minutes 46 seconds)
(The Seniors Film Festival is running from October 2nd to the 6th. You can get tickets at the door but it is best to book on (03) 8663 2583 or visit the ACMI website: www.acmi.net.au/seniors_film_festival.jsp.)
Also in Victoria: The State of Design, a program of design events, exhibitions, workshops, conferences and seminars showcasing the design of the times.
(4 minutes 58 seconds)
(The State of Design 2006 runs 4-14 October. Visit www.stateofdesign.com.au for more details.)
We speak to Mountains In the Sky, a project by Melbourne musician John Lee.
(9 minutes 57 seconds)
(Mountains In the Sky's new release "Accipio" will be launched nationally - first in Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on 12 October, followed by dates in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. For more detailed information about the tour go to: www.mountainsinthesky.com.)
(News: 3 minutes 30 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #01-#10, 2006 | Program #11-#20, 2006 | Program #31-#42, 2006 | Main index |
|
