Program #1, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #2
Kim Chalmers, composer and saxophonist. She also works to promote the sales of the wine from her family's vineyards at Euston on the Murray River. And she's recently become an ambassador for the environment.
(25 minutes 9 seconds)
(Image source: www.mrimf.com.au.)
Howard Penny, Australian cellist based in Vienna.
(8 minutes 51 seconds + 7 minutes 37 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #2, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #3
Tom E Lewis, actor, musician, artistic director and winner of the 2006 Red Ochre Award.
(8 minutes 53 seconds + 7 minutes 41 seconds + 6 minutes 25 seconds)
(More info about the Red Ochre Award 2006: www.ozco.gov.au.)
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".
(20 minutes 46 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.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #3, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #4
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Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician whose ethereal works are revered by fans all over the world. First gained recognition with her musical collaboration with Brendan Perry in the musical group Dead Can Dance, she has received accolades for her award winning soundtracks to films such as Michael Mann's The Insider, Ridley Scott's Gladiator, and her work featured in Niki Caro's beautiful film Whale Rider
Lisa has just recently released a new album 'The Silver Tree' as well as a DVD - 'Sanctuary'. Produced and directed by Clive Collier, the DVD offers many insights into Lisa's work.
(part 1 of the interview: 7 minutes 34 seconds)
(part 2 of the interview: 12 minutes 36 seconds)
(part 3 of the interview: 7 minutes 12 seconds)
(part 4 of the interview: 7 minutes 5 seconds)
(For more information on Lisa Gerrard log onto her website: www.lisagerrard.com.)
(If you want information about Lisa's new DVD 'Sanctuary', released by Storm Creation, visit: www.sanctuary-lisagerrard.com.)
(For more information about the Mali project that Lisa is involved with in collaboration with Australian organization Reach go to: www.reach.org.au.)
(The official site of Dead Can Dance: deadcandance.com.)
The team: Nina-Marie Petrik.
Program #4, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #5
Music program featuring the ARTSalive team's favourite tracks
(Audio content will not be available at this website due to copyright issues)
The team: Jess Myles & Nina-Marie Petrik.
Program #5, 2007
Episode #500 - Summer Edition 2006-07 #6
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Our guest is the retiring Commonwealth Minister for the Arts, Senator the Hon. Rod Kemp. The program was recorded on the morning of 23 January 2007. The interview was foreshortened by the news the Prime Minister John Howard was holding a press conference in Canberra at 11:45 am and we both sat in Sen. Kemp's office and watched on Sky News as the Prime Minister announced a reshuffle of the inner and outer Cabinet.
Senator Kemp, who had previously announce that he would not contest the next election, having been in Parliament since 1990, was replaced as Minister for the Arts and Sport by Senator George Brandis from Queensland. This program concludes with an edited version of the Prime Minister's announcement of 23 January.
(part 1 of the interview: 12 minutes 9 seconds)
(part 2 of the interview: 11 minutes 14 seconds)
(part 3 of the interview: 6 minutes 20 seconds)
(The Prime Minister's Cabinet reshuffle announcement excerpts: 5 minutes 41 seconds)
(Senator the Hon. Rod Kemp's homepage: www.minister.dcita.gov.au/kemp.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Jess Myles & Nina-Marie Petrik.
Program #6, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #7
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Douglas Gautier, Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival Centre.
(8 minutes 9 seconds)
(The official Adelaide Festival Centre website : www.afct.org.au.)
Vicky Evans, the Artistic Tour Manager and Choreographer for Matthew Bourne's production 'Swan Lake' that will tour in Australia from February to May.
(9 minutes 29 seconds + 9 minutes 7 seconds)
(The Matthew Bourne's production 'Swan Lake' will be playing at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on 21 February - 18 March, then at Brisbane's Lyric Theatre on 28 March - 1 April, followed by a tour at Melbourne's Regent Theatre on 11-29 April, and at the Burswood Theatre in Perth on 4-13 May. More info about Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: www.swanlaketour.com.)
Katherine Thompson, screen writer. Her most recent work are the screenplay for the intriguingly titled "Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst" - a part-dramatised, feature length documentary based on the life of Florence Broadhurst, one of the most colourful characters in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s, whose murder in 1977 remains unsolved today; and ABC's 2-part mini-series "Answered by Fire".
(9 minutes 57 seconds + 8 minutes 29 seconds)
("Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst" is directed by Gillian Armstrong and is a Film Australia/Becker Entertainment production in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and SBS Independent. More info about the documentary film: www.filmaust.com.au, www.dendyfilms.com.au/unfoldingflorence/.)
(More info on "Answered by Fire", debuted on ABC TV last May: www.abc.net.au/tv/answeredbyfire/, www.dendyfilms.com.au/unfoldingflorence/.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #7, 2007
Summer Edition 2006-07 #8
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Melba Festival 2007: a weekend devoted to chamber music, wine and food in the vineyards of Victoria's Yarra Valley at the end of March. ARTS alive presents the launch of the Fesitval, featuring Director of the Melbourne Museum, Dr Patrick Green, Festival Director Luke Wagner and live performance of the Hamer Quartet.
(14 minutes 40 seconds)
(The Melb Festival 2007 runs on 23-25 March at Victoria's Yarra Valley. For details on events and venues visit the official website: www.melbafestival.com.au.)
Professor David Crystal from the University of Wales: His book 'Language and the Internet' is in its second edition and he argues that electronic communication is causing a bigger revolution in the way we use language that did the invention of moveable type for the printing press almost 600 years ago.
(9 minutes 5 seconds + 9 minutes 16 seconds)
(The 2nd edition of 'Language and the Internet' is now available on hardcover from Cambridge University Press for rrp $A29.99. More info about the book: www.cup.cam.ac.uk.)
Trevor Green, the general manager of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has some thoughts on the training of professional musicians to share with us.
(12 minutes 22 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #8, 2007
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The Macquarie Dictionary chose Australia Day to launch an on-line survey of how we use traditional Australian English words like 'cobber' or 'Brass Razoo'.
(4 minutes 30 seconds)
(The Macquarie Dictionary's Australia Day Survey of Australian English 2007 is still on-line, so if you want to have a say go to: www.macquariedictionary.com.au.)
Japan demands an apology for claim made in an book "Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne" by Australian Author Ben Hills.
(5 minutes 11 seconds)
("Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne" is now available in Australian bookstores on trade paperback from Random House Australia for rrp $34.95. More info: www.randomhouse.com.au & www.benhills.com/books/PrincessMasako/.)
(In late news the Japanese publisher, Kodansha, has now abandoned the book, citing Hill's refusal on Japanese television to acknowledge factual errors. Hills, speaking on ABC radio, claimed the decision was evidence of the power of the Imperial Household Agency to censor Japanese publishing.)
(Visit Ben Hill's official website: www.benhills.com.)
(Image source: www.randomhouse.com.au.)
 Guest: James Hewison, the recently appointed chief executive of the Australian Film Institute, planning to return the AFI to a leadership role in screen culture in Australia.
(9 minutes + 8 minutes 10 seconds)
(The Australian Film Institute website: www.afi.org.au.)
(Image source: www.afi.org.au.)
An exhibition of animatronic film props, appropriately named 'How to Make a Monster', opens in Melbourne after successful seasons in Sydney and Christchurch.
(26 seconds + 11 minutes 4 seconds)
(The "How to Make a Monster: The Art and Technology of Animatronics" exhibition is now on at Scienceworks Museum, 2 Booker St, Spotswood, Victoria until 15 July. More info: http://scienceworks.museum.vic.gov.au.)
(News: 4 minutes 57 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #9, 2007
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The arts and cultural program that accompanies the FINA World Swimming Championships is announced.
(4 minutes 33 seconds)
(The FINA World Swimming Championships runs along with its Arts and Cultural program from 17 March to 1 April. That's St Patricks Day to April fools day for what ever that's worth. The full program can be found at: www.melbourne2007.com.au/festival.)
The Minister for the Arts in the Northern Terriotry denounces, Marion Scrymgour, souvenir shops for selling Aboriginal art that is work of "fakers, forgers and fraudster".
(5 minutes 59 seconds)
(We sought comment from several galleries specialising in Indigenous arts on the effectiveness of the voluntary code of practice, but none were willing to comment on air. And you can read a transcript of evidence to the enquiry at www.aph.gov.au/Senate.)
Guest: Bruce Gladwin, the Artistic director of the Back to Back Theatre Company, and the director of 'Small Metal Object', a play that won the Age Critics Award and the Helpman award fro Best New Work in 2005. They have been on the road with seasons in Sydney and Perth and are opening this week in Brisbane.
(9 minutes 10 seconds + 7 minutes 23 seconds)
(The Back to Back Theatre Company production 'Small Metal Objects' will play at the Australia Council's 7th Australian Performing Arts Market on Thurs 2 March 2006, 8.30am
& 5.15pm at the Adelaide Railway Station. Seating is very limited, and tickets will be issued on a first-come, first served basis. More info: www.backtobacktheatre.com.)
(Image source: www.backtobacktheatre.com.)
We look at an exhibition in tribute to Australia's war correspondence of World War II.
(10 minutes 57 seconds)
(The "Eyewitness: Australia's Second World War Correspondents" exhibition is now on at the Eastern Visitor Centre of Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne: Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, Victoria until 15 April. More info: www.shrine.org.au.)
(News: 4 minutes 47 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #10, 2007
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The winner of the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award is announced.
(21 seconds)
(On next week's program we will have the winner of this year's Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Julia Davis from Brookvale in Sydney, to talk about her work and career at greater length.)
(Other prize winners were Louise Paramour whose work, Industrial Jam Session was highly commended and Jos Van Hulsen who received the Encouragement awards for Casualty Numbers. And the Wyndham City Council acquired a work called Boy, by Matt Calvert, for permanent display in the municipality. The exhibition of the finalists' works is open in the grounds of Werribee Park until Sunday 27 May when the $5,000 popular choice award will be announced. More info: www.lempriere.perpetual.com.au.)
In what may be a first for Australia, a workshop devoted specifically to the libretto and the art of writing lyric for music will be part of the Ten Days on the Island festival in Tasmania.
(5 minutes 36 seconds)
(The IHOS National Libretto Workshop runs 23-27 March under the direction of Willem Bruls. Applications to attend can be made on-line at www.ihosopera.com but there are only a few places left.)
(The Ten Days on the Island festival runs 23 March - 1 April. The festival's offical website: www.tendaysontheisland.org.)
Guest: Brendan Gullifer, author of 'The Pocket Book of Aussie Patriotism'. With a title like that is it a handbook for Xenophobes, a satire of Aussies social norms, or a ready reckoner of historical facts and fictions? We'll find out from Brendan himself.
(8 minutes 27 seconds + 7 minutes 15 seconds)
('The Pocketbook of Aussie Patriotism'
is available on paperback from Black Inc. for rrp $14.95. More info: www.blackincbooks.com.)
We look at the transformation of war memorials from passive sites of remembrance to active sites for the examination of the role of war in history and culture.
(12 minutes 18 seconds)
(The Shrine of Remembrance official website: www.shrine.org.au.)
(News: 4 minutes 36 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
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