Program #21, 2007
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Guest: Shane Maloney, author of the popular Murray Whelan series of political thrillers... well soft thrillers... set in the labyrinthine politics of the Victorian ALP in the exile years of the 1990s. The sixth in the series, titled 'Sucked In', has just been published. But there may only be one more Murray Whelan outing as he is increasingly being promoted out of harm's way.
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('Sucked In', the latest entry of Shane Maloney's Murray Whelan series, is now available on paperback from Text Publishing for rrp $A32.95. More info: www.textpublishing.com.au. Visit Shane Maloney's official website: www.shanemaloney.com.)
The Australian Business Arts Foundation's adviceBank: How does it work and who benefits for the program?.
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(Any arts organisation can tap into the adviceBank program by contacting the Australian Business Arts Foundation, which has representative in all capital cities. And at present they have more business advisors than arts organisations in the program. More info: www.abaf.org.au/volunteering/advicebank.html.)
Melbourne Italian Festival: In multicultural Australia, a festival that celebrates the classic and contemporary culture of its country of origin.
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(The Melbourne Italian Festival 2007 is on for two weeks from 24 May to 10 June. More info: www.thatsmelbourne.com.au, www.iicmelbourne.esteri.it.)
Magnormos, a theatrical production company with a schedule of three productions this year, whose founder got a let up from the Commonwealth government's New Enterprises Incentive Scheme.
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(In 2007, Magnormos are doing 'Love Equals' at TheatreWorks in St Kilda at the end of May, followed by 'Flora the Red Menace' in July and 'Mary Bryant' in September. For more info visit Magnormos' official website: www.magnormos.com.)
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Program #22, 2007
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Guest: Katherine Howell, who set her first published novel in the high tension world of the emergency service workers, a world where she has spent 15 years. And like Shane Moloney last week she makes the city of her choice, Sydney, a character in her book.
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(Katherine Howell's first book, 'Frantic', is now available in Australia on paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp $A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Her second book, 'Panic', is scheduled for release in Australia in 2008. Visit Katherine Howell's official website: www.katherinehowell.com.)
A report from the Museums Australia 2007 Conference.
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(The Museums Australia 2007 Conference 'Museums in a Changing Climate' was held in Canberra on 17-20 May. More info: www.museumsaustralia.org.au.)
We learn about Quotes, Stats & Facts - An armoury for regional arts advocates from Regional Arts NSW.
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(The report 'Quotes, Stats & Facts - An armoury for regional arts advocates' is available for download in PDF format at the Regional Arts NSW's website: www.regionalartsnsw.com.au. Alternatively contact Rachael Vincent, Regional Arts NSW's Communications & Promotions Officer on (02) 9270 2504 for enquiries.)
A DVD of all known footage of the 1906 film The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film, with an accompanying monograph is published by the National Film and Sound Archive.
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('The Story of the Kelly Gang' DVD box set, which consists of a DVD of the 1906 film's all 16-minutes of known footage to-date and an in-depth 200-page monograph (essay) discussing what the lost-and-yet-to-be-found film may be based on the available materials, is available at selected bookshops and DVD stores and from the National film and Sound Archive for rrp $39.94AU. You can purchase the DVD set online at: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au.)
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Program #23, 2007
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Guest: Tania de Jong, founder of a string of musical endeavours including Pot Pourri, Music Theatre Australia, and The Song Room. She has recently been named Australia's Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
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(The Music Theatre Australia official website: www.MusicTheatreAustralia.com.au.)
(The Pot Pourri official website: www.Pot-Pourri.com.au.)
(The Song Room official website: www.songroom.org.au.)
(Image source: www.Pot-Pourri.com.au.)
The National Gallery of Victoria announces the latest in its Melbourne Winter Masterpiece series: The Guggenheim Collection.
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(The 'Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now' exhibition opens on 30 June at the NGV International in St Kilda Road, Melbourne and runs until 7th October. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/guggenheim/.)
A feature documentary film, Not Quite Hollywood, that celebrates the genre films of the renaissance of the Australian cinema is still trying to find a number of actors who played important roles in some of the films of the period.
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(If you know any of the people the researchers on 'Not Quite Hollywood' are trying to find, such as Robert Thompson, Joanne Samuel, Helen Hemmingway or Ros Spiers, let them know and suggest they contact the production office on: notquitehollywood@gmail.com. The film, funded by Film Victoria, the Film Finance Corporation, Madman and SBS Independent, is set to be released theatrically in 2009 by Madman.)
Remembering Minto: The community of a housing estate in south-west of Sydney, celebrates its history spirit and identity in a new book.
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(While the NSW Department of Housing and its interstate equivalents are often cast in the role of the bad guys, the Remembering Minto project was largely funded by it and seems to have led to more consultative management practices and better engage with community culture, history and values. More info on the Remembering Minto project: www.rememberingminto.org.au.)
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Program #24, 2007
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We visit the exhibition of the finalists and winners of the Archibald Prize, still the one among Australia's prestigious art prizes with freelance curator Kirsten Rann.
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(A list of this year's winners and finalists can be viewed at the Archibald Prize 07 website: www.thearchibaldprize.com.au.)
(Pictured right: John Beard's Janet Laurence, the 2007 Archibald Prize winner. Image source: www.thearchibaldprize.com.au.)
The Visiting International Publishers Program is ten next year old next year. What has it achieved for Australian writers and publishers?...
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(More info on the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program: www.ozco.gov.au/council_priorities/international/vip/.)
The new Australian Perspectives cinema program wants to put Australian films in a context not offered by the commercial cinema.
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(If your film-making endeavours display a big screen experience and have an underpinning of ideas, you might find an opportunity for exhibition under the Australian Perspectives program at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. More info: www.acmi.net.au/australian_perspectives.jsp.)
The in-house collection of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop commences a national exhibition tour in Sydney.
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('From here to Eternity - a travelling exhibiton' is on at the S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, until 12 August 2007. It then goes to the Benalla Art Gallery, the Hamilton Art Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery thence to the Anne + Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide where it opens on 31 October 2008. For dates and other details about the exhibition visit the Victorian Tapestry Workshop official website: www.victapestry.com.au.)
(Image source: www.victapestry.com.au.)
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Program #25, 2007
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Streeton painting secret messages revealed: The intriguing story of a romantic involvement by one of Australia's best-loved painters from what used be called the Heidleberg School, and the detective work that found the evidence in minute marks on a painting.
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(The 'Symposium: Australian Impressionism' exhibition is now on at the NGV at Federation Square until 8 July, and regrettably, the present collection will not be seen elsewhere. More info about the exhibition: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
The Australian Library and Information Association warns of the adverse impact of some internet filtering.
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(The ALIA's Internet Filtering in Public Libraries 2007 Survey Report is available at: www.alia.org.au.)
Marketing the arts to multicultural audiences: a visitor from New York has a lot of thoughts on the issue.
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(While 'Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community', the Australian tour of Donna Walker-Kuhne, President of Walker International Communications Group, has already been to Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, she is speaking in Adelaide at Nexus on the 19 June, Canberra at the national Library on the 20th and Brisbane on 21st where she will also run a workshop at QUT. More info: www.kape.com.au/dwk/donnawkuhne.html. Her new book of the same title can be purchased at the Walker International Communications Group website: www.walkercommunicationsgroup.com.)
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We revisit the interview with Roy Smiles, the author of the play 'Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons'. After a successful season at the Sydney Opera House, it opens in Melbourne on June 20th.
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(The Sydney Theatre Company production 'Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons' opens in Melbourne at the Arts Centre Playhouse on 20 June. More info: www.mtc.com.au.)
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Program #26, 2007
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The Beatles have become the subject of academic curiosity: We hear from rock music academic Dr Tony Mitchell who has been retracing their steps in Hamburg Germany and has also investigated the impact of the Pretty Things on New Zealand in the mid 1960s.
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(Dr Tony Mitchell's webpage @ the University of Technology Sydney website.)
(The Beatles' official website: www.thebeatles.com.)
(The Pretty Things Web Site: www.prettythings.net.)
Guest #1: Benjamin Armstrong, an emerging artist who is the recipient of an endowment from the management consultants, Maddocks, that will enable him to visit the Venice Biennale later this year.
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(To view more info on Ben Armstrong and some of the his artworks online visit: www.gertrude.org.au, www.tolarnogalleries.com under Artists, Benjamin Armstrong.)
(The official Venice Biennale website: www.gertrude.org.au.)
(The Maddocks website: www.maddocks.com.au.)
Guest #2: Geoff Overheu, a fourth-generation farmer from Gingin in Western Australia turned artist, who is making quite a reputation for leading us to see rural life and landscapes through different eyes.
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(Geoff Overheu's exhibition 'Fourth Generation - objects in a deluded landscape' is now showing, Mon-Fri 9:00am to 5:30pm, until 29 June at Counterpoint, Level 11, Kings Car Park, 522 Flinders Lane - The top floor of an car park that a gallery space shares with some of Australia's top flight architects. For more info contact curator Kirsten Rann on 0402 354 046 or email kirstenr@vicnet.net.au.)
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Program #27, 2007
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It's NAIDOC week, a week or more of observance and celebration of Indigenous and Islander culture in Australia. We check out...
- The smokey NAIDOC Week ceremony in Melbourne's inner south east City of Port Phillip with former Indigenous office Mikael Smith,
- The NAIDOC week exhibition at the Coo-ee Heritage Centre on the Newell Highway in Gilgandra NSW, with Gilgandra artist Tammy Rutherford, and
- Kerry Neill, from the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Centre tells Coff Harbour, NSW's NAIDOC week celebrations this year
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Listen to the story: Gilgandra NAIDOC week exhibition (Windows Media, 2 minutes 47 seconds)
Listen to the live recording: Coff Harbour NAIDOC week celebrations (Windows Media, 5 minutes 9 seconds)
(The NAIDOC Week 2007 is on 8-15 July. The official National NAIDOC website: www.naidoc.org.au.)
(More info on City of Port Phillip activities during NAIDOC Week 2007: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au.)
(The NAIDOC Week Exhibition, featuring the works of regional artists Gail Naden (Wiradjuri/Gamilaraay), Tammy Rutherford (Wiradjuri) and Coral Yates (self-described "Wiradjura woman") is on 3-30 July at the Coo-ee Heritage Centre, located within Coo-ee Memorial Park on the Newell Highway, Gilgandra, NSW. For details contact (02) 6817 8700 or email: tourism@gilgandra.nsw.gov.au. More info about the Coo-ee Heritage Centre: www.gilgandra.nsw.gov.au.)
(The Naidoc Week Cultural Expo was held on 7 July at the Coffs Harbour Regional Museum and Pioneer Park, 191a Harbour Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW; while the Indigenous Art Exhibition is now on until 15 July. For further details contact (02) 66589400. More info about the Coffs Harbour Regional Museum: www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au.)
(The NAIDOC Week 2007 info on the Coffs Harbour City Council website: www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au.)
(National NAIDOC 2007 Poster Competition Winning Entry by Tyeli Hannah image source: www.naidoc.org.au.)
(City of Port Phillip's NAIDOC Week smoke ceremony image source: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au.)
It is also the week of the Melbourne Design Festival, and we take a walk around 'iMade', an exhibition of Italian design with one of the curators, Rodriego Rodriegez from Milan.
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(The 'iMade - I Modi del Produrre' exhibition is on 5-15 July as part of the Melbourne Design Festival, presented by the National Design Centre, at Melbourne's Federation Square carpark rooftop, entry via Russell Street extension. Free admission. More info: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
Guest: Katy Raines, a UK-based management consultant specialising in arts and culture organisations. She is visiting as a guest of ABaF, the Australian Business Arts Foundation.
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(Katy Raines has been delivering the ABaF seminars Margaret Lawrence Bequest Seminars in the major cities across Australia. Her last stop was at Perth, WA, where her seminar was held on 10 July at the Freehills, Level 36, QV1 Building, 250 St Georges Terrace. Courtesy of the ABaF website, you can find out more info on the Seminars, Seminar dates and download Katy's Powerpoint presentation in PDF format.)
(The Dixon Raines website: www.dixonraines.com.)
(Image source: www.abaf.org.au.)
Sounds from the concluding performance of the Singapore Arts Festival 2007 by German group, antagon theaterAKTion. It was something of a creation story set in a military state and performed on an open field in the heavily residential district of Jurong on the western end of the island.
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(More info on Time Out,
antagon theaterAKTion's performance at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007: www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
(The official antagon theaterAKTion website: www.antagon.de.)
(Image source: www.antagon.de.)
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Program #28, 2007
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An extended interview with New York theatre director, Lee Bruer. Lee Bruer has been at the forefront of theatre for more than four decades. He directed 'Marbou Mines DollHouse', which was seen at the Singapore Arts Festival. It is a modern production of 'A Doll's House', by Heinrick Ibsen.
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(More info on 'Mabou Mines DollHouse',
directed by Lee Bruer, at the Mabou Mines theatre company website (Under Productions: 2003 - Mabou Mines DollHouse): www.maboumines.org; and at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007 website: www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
(Image source: www.maboumines.org.)
Why do we like music?: Dr Emery Schubert of the University of NSW is seeking to answer the question.
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(Dr Emery Schubert's webpage @ the University of NSW, School of Music & Music Education website.)
Part 2 of our walk around the exhibition of Italian design, 'iMade'.
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(The 'iMade - I Modi del Produrre' exhibition is on 5-15 July as part of the Melbourne Design Festival, presented by the National Design Centre, at Melbourne's Federation Square carpark rooftop, entry via Russell Street extension. Free admission. More info: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
More sounds from the Singapore Arts Festival 2007: the closing night performance by German group, antagon theaterAKTion, and Chopin's Etude in F minor Opus 25 No. 2 performed by 15-year-old pianist Abigail Sin.
Listen to the live recordings: antagon theaterAKTion (Windows Media, 30 seconds)
Listen to the live recordings: Abigail Sin (Windows Media, 2 minutes 8 seconds)
(More info on Time Out,
antagon theaterAKTion's performance at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007: www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
(The official antagon theaterAKTion website: www.antagon.de.)
(More info on Festival Fantasia, Singapore Festival Orchestra performance featuring Abigail Sin at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007: www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
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Program #29, 2007
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A preview of the Melbourne International Arts Festival in conversation with its artistic director, Kristy Edmunds.
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(The 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival will be on 11-27 October 2007. More info: www.melbournefestival.com.au.)
We also look forward to events coming up later in the year:
The National Poetry Week in September,...
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(The 2007 National Poetry Week will be on 2-9 September, 2007. More info about the National Poetry Week: www.nationalpoetryweek.com. www.nationalpoetryweek.com. Watch those space as the planned state and regional programs are to be finalised in the following weeks.)
The Singapore Writers Festival in December.
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(The Singapore Writers Festival 2007 will run for 9 days later this year, dates to be announced. The festival is keen to hear from Singapore-born writers, and prospective writers who are living in Australia, both as entrants in the various awards, and of course as participants in the festival. And incidentally, to be a new writer you don't have to be young. All you need is a text and be seeking to be published. More info: www.nac.gov.sg.)
A report on Top End NAIDOC, the NAIDOC week celebration this year in the chosen host city, Darwin.
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(The NAIDOC Week 2007 was on 8-15 July. More info on Top End NAIDOC, this year's NAIDOC week celebration in the Darwin & Palmerston regions of the Northern Territory, as well as some promotional merchandise can be found at the Top End NAIDOC website: www.topendnaidoc.org.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
Program #30, 2007
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La Mama Theatre in Melbourne turned 40 last weekend.
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(The official La Mama Theatre website: www.lamama.com.au.)
The price paid for a painting by the late Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri has set a new record for an Indigenous painter, but has re-awaked calls for resale royalties to share the proceeds of such sales with the painter or their estate.
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(For more info on the Artists' Resale Royalty Right visit the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) website: www.visualarts.net.au.)
Guest: Chung Tze Chien from Singapore's Finger Players puppet theatre company, a company that's blending eastern and western traditions in puppetry to explore new creative forms in that ancient theatrical tradition.
Listen to the interview (Windows Media, 10 minutes 3 seconds + 9 minutes 43 seconds)
(The offcial Finger Players website: www.fingerplayers.com.)
(The Finger Players production 'Wong Kar Wai Dreams' was premiered 13-15 June at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007. More info: www.singaporeartsfest.com. Their main season production 'Enchanted Tales' will be on 16-26 August at Play Den at the Arts House, Singapore.)
We visit the Museum of Sydney, on the site of the first government house, in the heart of Sydney's administrative district.
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(On a future program we will be talking to Caroline Butler-Bowdon, the senior curator at the Museum of Sydney, about an exhibition at the Museum called 'Homes in the sky: apartment living in Sydney', based on a book she co-authored with her husband, 'Homes in the sky: apartment living in Australia'. The exhibition is currently on until 26 August. More info about the Museum of Sydney: www.hht.net.au/museums/museum_of_sydney/museum_of_sydney.)
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The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
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