Program #31, 2007
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Guest: Western Australian artist, Julie Dowling. An exhibition surveying 15 years of her work titled 'Strange fruit: Testimony and memory in Julie Dowling's portraits' has just opened at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne.
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('Strange fruit: Testimony and memory in Julie Dowling's portraits' is now on until 14 Oct 2007 at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne on Swanston Street between Faraday and Elgin streets in Parkville. More info: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au.)
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Further concerns are raised about freedom of speech issues, as new legislation is reviewed by a Senate committee.
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(And if the events of the past few weeks are anything to judge by, our country needs more protection from some politicians than from potential terrorists. For more info on the proposed Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007 visit the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) website: www.visualarts.net.au.)
The Adelaide Fringe opens its annual pitch to attract the ripest, the rawest and the most outrageous talent to the annual festival.
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(The Adelaide Fringe 2008 will be on 22 Febuary - 16 March, 2008. Submissions opened on 1 August on the Adelaide fringe website at: www.adelaidefringe.com.au.)
Planning begins for the 18th Fibre Textile Biennial in Tamworth NSW.
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(If you send an e-mail to Valarie Kirk at valarie.kirk@anu.edu.au she will send you a guide to making an initial submission. Selection of the finalist for exhibition will take about six months and the Biennial runs from November 2008 through January 2009.)
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Program #32, 2007
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Guest: Caroline Butler-Bowdon, co-author of a book 'Homes in the Sky: Apartment living in Australia' and curator of a spin-off exhibition, 'Homes in the Sky', at the Museum of Sydney.
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(The 'Homes in the sky: apartment living in Sydney' exhibition is on at the Museum of Sydney, Cnr Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney NSW, until 26 August. More info: www.hht.net.au/museums/mos/exhibitions#homes.)
(The book 'Homes in the sky: apartment living in Australia', co-authored by Dr Charles Pickett and Caroline Butler-Bowdon, is available for $AU59.95 from the Miegunyah Press with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. More info: www.mup.unimelb.edu.au.)
Regional Arts Australian and the pay-TV channel Ovation join forced to produce a monthly arts program called Heartland.
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('Heartland' will be produced monthly and will air on Ovation, which can be seen on Austar, Foxtel, Optus and SelecTV. And if you are sure your local arts event is more than worth of the attention of 'Heartland', the Regional Arts Australia would like you to convince your state based regional arts organisation to put the project up to their website: www.regionalarts.com.au. More info about the show: www.ovationchannel.com.au, www.regionalarts.com.au.)
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The ATOM Awards are 25 this year and are seeking to contact past winners.
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(The ATOM Awards website: www.atomawards.org.)
Questions are raised about the new National Indigenous TV network and the existing Indigenous Community TV service.
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(This is a watch-this-space story.But the presence on the board of NITV of individuals involved in Indigenous Community TV should ensure that there is space for both models of television on the new national service, and the value of video as a means of social communications and community building won't be overlooked, in the business of mass media TV.)
(Frank Rijavec's open letter to Senator Helen Coonan, 'Careless, Crude and Unnecessary: The launch of NITV over the body of ICTV' can be downloaded in pdf format here.)
(The National Indigenous Television (NITV) website: nitv.org.au.)
(The Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) website: www.ictv.net.au.)
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Program #33, 2007
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Guest: New Zealand photographer, Frank Habicht, whose work spans the decades from London and Europe in the Swinging '60s, to the dramatic and romantic landscapes of the Bay of Islands in the North of New Zealand, where the foundations of modern New Zealand were laid with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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(Examples of Frank Habicht's work can be found on the website of the Gow-Langsford Gallery in Auckland, which had a retrospective of his work last June - 'Frank Habicht - The Sixties: High Tide and Green Grass': www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz.)
(Random House New Zealand has just published Frank & Florian Habicht's photographic essay, 'I DO - Classic New Zealand Weddings' for rrp $NZ24.99.)
Bookseller Angus & Robertson plans to charge publishers for access to their shelves. ARTS alive speaks to the CEO of the Australian Publishers Association, Maree McCaskill, about the issue.
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(An interesting development for the firm that, to quote their website, 'played a central role in the development of uniquely Australian literature and published many classics by authors including Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay and CJ Dennis'. It sounds like its time for readers to mobilise: pop into your local A&R-owned bookshop and tell the manager if you support this policy or not.)
(The Australian Publishers Association website: www.publishers.asn.au.)
The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal see arts and cultural projects as part of its portfolio.
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(Applications to the current round of FRRR's Small Grants for Small Rural Communities Program close on 30 September. There are two rounds each year. And the Small Grants for Small Rural Communities Program is only one of a number of programs supported by the Foundation. All the details are on their website: www.frrr.org.au Alternatively contact 1800 170 020 or email: info@frrr.org.au for grant enquiries.)
The Woodford Folk Festival has made its annual call for entries to the Spirit of Woodford Awards for 2007.
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(The Woodford Folk Festival 07/08 runs 27 December 2007 - 1 January 2008. Entries for all the awards of the Festival close on 15 September. For details contact Jeni Kendell at gaiafilm@bigpond.com. Alternatively entry forms and more information - including a 7-minute video preview of the Festival in both Quicktime and Windows Media format - can be found at www.woodfordfolkfestival.com.)
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Program #34, 2007
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Guest: New Zealand filmmaker, Shirley Horrocks, who specialises in films about the arts and artists. Her documentary 'Marti: The Passionate Eye', the life and work of New Zealand photographer Marti Friedlander' has just been invited to an arts documentary festival in Berlin.
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('Marti: The Passionate Eye', a Point of View Productions documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks, is distributed by Smiley Film Distribution. More info: www.pointofview.co.nz/Marti.htm, www.smileyfilmdistribution.com.)
(Marti Friedlander's official website: www.martifriedlander.com.)
(The official website of DOKU.ARTS: International Festival for
Films on Art, which runs 19-23 September 2007 in Berlin, Germany: www.doku-arts.de/en/.)
('Questions for Mr Reynolds', another Point of View Productions documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks about the artist John Reynolds, is part of Television New Zealand's 'Artsville' series and was broascasted on Sunday 26 August. More info: www.pointofview.co.nz/john_reynolds.htm.)
(ARTS alive has also spoken with Shirley's husband, Roger Horrocks, about the state of the New Zealand film industry and that interview will be on a later program.)
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A report on the Australian Literature in Education Roundtable.
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(The Australian Literature in Education Roundtable was held on Tuesday 7. If you want to read the details of the 18 principles and recommendations of the Roundtable, you will find them on the Australia Council's website: www.ozco.gov.au.)
A preview of the Experimenta's Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts that opened in Melbourne on August 25.
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(The various works that make up the Experimenta Playground are on exhibition at the Black Box at the Victorian Arts Centre until 23rd September, noon to 8pm. Entry is free. And if you can't see the show visit their website is: www.experimenta.org/playground/.)
The extraordinary story of Robert Chisholm, a forgotten Australian singer with an international career on stage and in Hollywood, as historian and archivist Frank Van Straten tells.
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(Frank van Straten's paper, 'Robert Chisholm - a forgotten Australian star', was presented as part of the Australasian Sound Recordings Association Conference 2007, held 15-17 August. More info: home.vicnet.net.au/~sound/events/conference_2007_abstracts_bios.htm#stratenabstract. And if Frank gets around to produce a CD or DVD of the work of Robert Chisholm we'll let you know.)
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Program #35, 2007
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An extended interview on the 2007/08 Australian Screen Production Incentive, a new measure introduced by the Commonwealth government to support the Australian film and television production industry, which have drawn criticism from independent producers.
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(More info on the 2007/08 Australian Screen Production Incentive can be found on the Department of Communications, Informatio Technology and the Arts website: www.dcita.gov.au.)
(Ewan Burnett of Burberrry Productions is presently working on an animated series based on the popular 'Animalia' picture book by Graeme Base. The official Burberry Productions website: www.burberry.com.au.)
Guest: Aura Go, a young Australian pianist who is now exploring her interest in conducting.
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(The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra website: www.mso.com.au.)
(The Australian National Academy of Music website: www.anam.com.au.)
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A report on the three-month long festival season in Darwin that is now concluded.
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(The 2007 Darwin Fringe Festival run 27 June-15 July. More info: www.darwinfringe.com.au.)
(The 2007 Darwin Festival run 9-26 August. More info: www.darwinfestival.org.au.)
(The Fist Full of Films 2007 Darwin screening was on 20 August. More info: www.fistfulloffilms.com.au.)
(The Brown's Mart Community Arts website: www.brownsmart.com.au.)
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Program #36, 2007
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Guest: English author David Hewson. His new novel 'The Promised Land' is a radical departure from the familiar territory of his Rome-based detective, Nic Costa, or his travel writing. A former journalist, Hewson told us he had to murder journalism to become a novelist.
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(The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra website: www.mso.com.au.)
(David Hewson's 'The Promised Land' is available in Australia on trade paperback and hardback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp $A32.95 and $A45. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available from Pac Macmillan are 'A Season for the Dead', 'The Villa of Mysteries', 'The Sacred Cut', 'The Lizard's Bite' and , 'Seventh Sacrament' of the Rome series.)
(Visit David Hewson's official website: www.davidhewson.com.)
BEAP, the 3rd Bienniel of Electronic Arts Perth, opens at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and two other venues.
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(BEAP, the 2007 Bienniel of Electronic Arts is on 10-23 September at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Northbridge; at the John Curtin Gallery of Curtin University of Technology, Bentley and the Bakery Artrage complex, 233 James St
Northbridge. More info: www.beap.org.)
'Echo: Sounding out contemporary photography': a major corporate citizen extends the boundaries of its support for the visual arts.
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('Echo: Sounding out contemporary photography' opened on 29 August at Deloitte Melbourne, Level 14, QV Centre, 180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. More info: www.deloitte.com. There is an exhibition in Deloitte's Sydney office and all the works are for sale.)
(The Australian Centre for Photography website: www.acp.org.au.)
An exclusive address from our sovereign* in support of Melbourne Theatre Company's drive to raise funds to fit out its new drama centre.
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(*The HRH Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is played by Gerry Connolly.)
(If you want to know more about the MTC's new complex you can check it out at: www.mtcathome.com.au.)
(The Melbourne Theatre Company website: www.mtc.com.au.)
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Program #37, 2007
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Guest: New Zealand film producer and academic, Roger Horrocks. You may recall that we heard from his wife Shirley Horrocks, an eminent documentary film maker on an earlier program. Roger will be discussing the state of the New Zealand cinema and television industries.
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When the Canadian Prime minister came to Canberra, he brought more than greeting... he presented Australia with the oldest know document printed here: an 18th-century theatre playbill.
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(The theatre playbill dated 30 July 1796 will be displayed in the Exhibition Gallery, at the library until Tuesday 25 September. You can also find it on line at: www.nla.gov.au.)
The Melbourne Fringe Festival seems to have grown a fringe of its own, with a new suburban venue setting out a program of its own.
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(The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival runs 26 September - 14 October. More info: www.melbournefringe.com.au.)
(For a list of the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival programs which will he on at the Northcote Town Hall visit: www.northcotetownhall.com.au.)
Petra White and Angela Stretch are two poets who under took a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney to celebrate National Poetry Week, reading and greeting as they went.
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(The 2007 National Poetry Week was on 31 August - 9 September. More info: www.nationalpoetryweek.com.)
(Petra White's debut poetry collection, 'The Incoming Tide' was published earlier this year by John Leonard Press for rrp $A23.95. More info: http://johnleonardpress.gravitron.com.au.)
(The Poets Union Inc. website: www.poetsunion.com.)
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Program #38, 2007
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Guest: first time author, and full time gynaecologist David Kowalski. His debut novel, 'The Company of the Dead' has just been published by Macmillan.
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(David Kowalski's 'The Company of the Dead' is available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp $A35. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Enhance your reading experience by visiting 'The Company of the Dead' online: www.thecompanyofthedead.com.)
(David Kowalski's official website: http://www.djkowalski.com.)
The Melbourne Fringe Festival kicks off on 26 September. In its 25th this year, it actually predates the Melbourne International Arts Festival's predecessor, the Melbourne Spoletto Festival by some five years.
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(The Age 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival runs 26 September - 14 October. More info: www.melbournefringe.com.au.)
We hear the story of Music NSW energetically promoting new music and artists. ARTS alive sometimes play new Indigenous music that is produced by one of their labels, WhichWay.
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(The Music NSW website: www.musicnsw.com.)
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Program #39, 2007
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2 extensive interviews from the Arts Activated Conference:
- Sansha Donald, the chief executive of Accessibility Arts about the issues of access to the arts, for both audiences and performers who suffer any form of disability, and
- Matthew Perry, who co-ordinates the 'Art in the Garage' project in the Bega valley on the far south coast of New South Wales, one of the many artists present at the Conference who are running programs for disabled practitioners.
Listen to the interview: Sansha Donald (Windows Media, 8 minutes 13 seconds + 5 minutes 51 seconds)
Listen to the interview: Matthew Perry (Windows Media, 9 minutes 3 seconds + 10 minutes 56 seconds)
(The Arts Activated: Accessible Arts Conference 2007 was held 26-27 September at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The Greenway Building, Corner of Bridge and Macquarie Streets, Sydney NSW. More info: www.aarts.net.au/artsactivated/.)
ANAT is calling for entries in 'Portable Worlds', the second iteration of their project to explore art and the mobile phone.
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(Entries to the Portable Worlds Second Edition closes on October 19 and successful artists will be officially notified in January 2008. For more info visit: www.anat.org.au/portableworlds/ or contact Sasha Grbich at ANAT in Adelaide. The first Portable Worlds Exhibition is currently on at the River Lands Gallery, 23 Wilson Street, Berri SA until 31 Oct 2007.)
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Program #40, 2007
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A conference coming up in November in Melbourne is all about Jane Austen and Comedy.
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('Jane Austen and Comedy', the International Jane Austen Conference will be held on 29-30 November at La Trobe University in Melbourne. More info: www.austen2007.net.)
Guest: Brian Smith, the executive office of the Local and Community Services Association of NSW. The conversation is about their recent conference and lessons for community arts development.
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(The Local and Community Services Association (LCSA) Annual Conference 2007 was held 11-13 September at the Menzies, 14 Carrington St, Sydney. More info: www.seminars.net/GO/lcsa2007/.)
(The Local and Community Services Association (LCSA) website: www.lcsa.org.au.)
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the other Venice Biennale that gets much less attention than the big shebang last June. And the Royal Australian Institute of Architect has just selected to team to represent Australia in Venice next year.
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(The next Venice Architecture Biennale opens in September 2008 in the Australian pavilion. More info at the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) website: www.architecture.com.au.)
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