Program #41, 2007
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While much attention focuses on Melbourne for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, in Sydney the City Council is getting the visual arts out of the palaces of high culture - the art
galleries - and onto the streets for the 6th annual Art & About festival.
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(The Art & About 2007 runs until 21 October. The full program and maps in on their website: www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/artandabout/.)
In Perth, audiences are about to enjoy "Two Old Queens", who are strutting their stuff on stage.
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(John Michael Swinbank and Edgar Metcalfe present "Two Old Queens" at the Blue Room Studio in Perth from 12 October for 4 week, then at the Little Theatre in Adelaide for 2 week in early November. The show will be on in 2008 during MidSumma in Melbourne and the Mardi-Gra in Sydney. More info: www.pacs.org.au.)
(Visit John Michael Swinbank @ MySpace: www.myspace.com/johnmichaelsings.)
Guests: Pat Rix, Amie Crathern and Linda Jacobson from Adelaide's Tutti Ensemble, which is just celebrating its 10th anniversary.
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(The official Tutti Ensemble website: www.tutti.org.au.)
From Hobart the story of an extraordinarily successful campaign to draw audiences to "Beyond the Neck", a new play by a largely unknown
Tasmanian writer, on a controversial subject.
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(The Tasmania Performs Production "Beyond The Neck", directed by Iain Sinclair, was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Hobart 12 - 14 September and at the Earl Arts Centre in Launceston 18 - 21 September. Media release at the Tasmania Department of Education website: www.education.tas.gov.au.)
(The company is presently negotiating an interstate tour of "Beyond the Neck" and they would be happy to hear from prospective production partners in other states. Contact Annette Downs via e-mail: annette.downs@artsatwork.com.au.)
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(Visit fuel4arts: Global arts marketing tools & ideas: www.fuel4arts.com.)
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Program #42, 2007
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The Inky Awards for youth literature are open for voting.
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(Voting for the Inky Awards closes on 5 November and the winners will be announced on November 12th. More info: www.insideadog.com.au.)
Heart of Gold Film Festival: a good-news film festival in Queensland is built on respect for the film makers.
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(The Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2007 runs 25-28 October in Gympie Queensland. More info: www.heartofgold.com.au.)
Guest: Australian novelist Peter Watt. His latest novel, "The Stone Dragon", has just been published. He wants readers of his thrillers to get a lesson in Australian history as well as a good read. Indeed, instead of a life as varied as deckhand on a prawn trawler to undercover work with NSW police in drug intelligence, Peter thinks he should have been a professor of Australian history.
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(Peter Watt's novel "The Stone Dragon" is available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp $32.95. More info: www.peterwatt.co.)
(Visit Peter Watt's official website: www.peterwatt.co.)
"Cage of Ghosts": A photographic exhibition just gifted to the National Library in Canberra is the culmination of 14 years work documenting the carved trees, rock engravings and cave painting of the Indigenous peoples of South Eastern Australia.
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(The "Cage of Ghosts" exhibition is now on at the Exhibition Gallery of the National Library of Australia, Canberra until 25 November. A useful catalogue accompanying the exhibition is available from the National Library of Australia. More info: www.nla.gov.au.)
Live recording of NGV's unveiling of "The Bar" and "Collins St., 5pm", two of John Brack's most famous paintings, reunited.
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("The Bar" and "Collins St., 5pm" are currently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria Federation Square gallery until June 2008. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
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Program #43, 2007
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The closing date for applications to Translab, a creative residency program, approaches.
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(Applications to Translab - 2008 Cross-cultural Residencies Program close on November 15, 2007. For more info contact Steven Richardson on (03) 9322 3714, pr Fiona Winning of the Performance Space on (02) 8571 9107. More info and guidelines for Expressions of Interest can be downloaded at: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au or www.performancespace.com.au.)
The 2008 Fryer Library Award at the University of Queensland are open to anyone of a scholarly mind.
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(Applications to the 2008 Fryer Library Award must be received by 30 November. More info: www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/awards.html.)
An exhibition of the finalists and winners of the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize has opened in Canberra.
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(Winning and highly commended works from the 2007 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize is currently showing at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra 2 December. There are no plans to travel the show at present, but all finalists can be viewed at : www.thewaterhouse.com.au. The 2008 Prize will open in late January, 2008.)
Guest: Dr Ronald McCoy, an expert in Gaelic music and language, who will be taking up a fellowship at the National Library of Australia, then presenting the outcomes of his research as a performance at the National Folk Festival next Easter.
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("Scottish Gaelic scholar receives National Folk Fellowship" media release @ the National Library of Australia website: www.nla.gov.au.)
(The 2008 National Folk Festival will be held 20-24 March at the Exhibition Park in Canberra. More info on the official website: www.folkfestival.asn.au.)
A look into the history of regional art galleries in Australia, as the Bendigo Arts Gallery celebrates its 120th anniversary.
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(The University of Melbourne's Australian Centre website: www.australian.unimelb.edu.au.)
(The Bendigo Arts Gallery website: www.bendigoartgallery.com.au.)
(The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery website: www.balgal.com.)
(The Geelong Gallery website: www.geelonggallery.org.au.)
(More info about the Warrnambool Art Gallery: www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au.)
(The Queensland Art Gallery website: www.qag.qld.gov.au.)
(The Broken Hill Art Gallery website: www.brokenhill.net.au/bhart/main.html.)
(The Queen Victoria Art Museum and Gallery website: www.qvmag.tas.gov.au.)
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Program #44, 2007
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The short list for the Whyalla Art Prize, one of the oldest in regional Australia, has been announced.
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(The winners of the 2007 Whyalla Art Prize will be announced on 21 November in the foyer of the Middleback Theatre in Whyalla, where the finalists will be on display until 20 January. Alternatively the 2007 finalists can be viewed online: www.countryarts.org.au, where you can find more info about the Prize as well.)
The Federation Bells Carillion, perhaps the first trans-national web-controlled musical instrument in history, now has a new user-friendly compositional interface.
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(The Federation Bells website: www.federationbells.com.au, where you can compose to your heart's content for the actual installation located at Birrarung Marr on Melbourne's Yarra bank, was launched on 31 October.)
Guest: Oliver Streeton. His grandfather was the eminent pioneer of Australian impressionism, the artist Arthur Streeton. Together with Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Fred McCubbin and Jane Southerland they became known as the Heidleberg School, a name that is as misleading as it is well known, as we shall hear...
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(The 'Symposium: Australian Impressionism' exhibition was on at the National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, 31 March-8 July earlier this year. Regrettably the present collection will not be seen elsewhere. More info about the exhibition: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
The Queensland government unveils art+place, a new public art fund. We speak to the author of the research on which the program is based.
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(The University of Melbourne's Australian Centre website: www.australian.unimelb.edu.au.)
(More info on the art+place public art fund: www.bendigoartgallery.com.au.)
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Program #45, 2007
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Artsupport: a new resource to assist arts organisations forge links with philanthropic organisation and garner financial support.
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(More info on Artsupport Australia: www.ozco.gov.au/philanthropy/artsupport_australia.)
(Prof. Adrian Sargeant's
masterclasses, 'Critical issues in fundraising', are November 20 in Sydney and November 22 in Melbourne, but the Sydney masterclass is now sold out.)
The town of Sheffield in Tasmanian calls for entries in its 6th Global Mural Fest.
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(The 2008 Global Mural Fest paint-off commences on Sunday 23 March and ends on Saturday 29 March next year. The prize money for The Judges Choice Award has been boosted to $6000 while The People's Choice Award offers a $2000 prize, and the Visitors Award, $1000. The presentation will be held at a Gala Dinner, which forms a part of the Global Mural Fest and Conference 2008. More information is on their website: www.muralfest.com.au or by telephone from Jan Clay on (03) 6491 2772. Submissions close on 30 November.)
 
Guest: Adrienne Langman from Nana Glen in the Bellingen valley of NSW, where also lives Russel Crowe. Adrienne and her husband Larry had a Damascus road experience that changed their lives (which has nothing to do with Mr Crowe). She tells the story in her first book, "Choosing Eden", the real dirt on the coming energy crisis.
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("Choosing Eden: the real dirt on the coming energy crisis" is now available in Australia on trade paperback from Random House for rrp $34.95. More info: www.randomhouse.com.au.)
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CreateAbility: From the central-west of NSW, a success story of two artist, Ngari Reynolds & Ken Hutchison, and their workshops for people with disabilities.
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(More info on CreateAbility 2006, under the guidance of Ngari Reynolds & Ken Hutchinson, on the Arts OutWest website: www.artsoutwest.org.au/projects/celebrateability2006.htm.)
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Program #46, 2007
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2007 Australian Federal Election - a look at some of the underrated issues that will shape the Australian arts and culture over the decades:
- Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU): we examine the non-sport focus of a recent study on VSU Impact.
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- (More info on the VSU Impact Study Findings by Australasian Campus Union Managers Association (ACUMA) and the Australian University Sport: www.acuma.org.au, and www.unisport.com.au - in PDF format.)
- (The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Union website: www.utsunion.uts.edu.au.)
- ABC proposals: The Friends of the ABC concern about government proposals regarding new radio facilities and a digital children's TV channel.
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- (The Friends of the ABC National Resource Centre website: http://friendsoftheabc.org, where you can find more info on where do the parties stand on the ABC for Election 2007: http://www.fabcact.org/elec2007.html.)
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(read the transcript.)
Guests: Shane Abbess, director and co-writer; and Andy Whitfield, the lead actor, of a new Australian film 'Gabriel'.
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("Gabriel" opened in selected Australian cinemas on 15 November, distributed by Sony Pictures Australia. More info: www.sonypictures.com.au/movies/gabriel.)
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a look at a tumultuous year for the Victorian College of the Arts.
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(The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) website: www.vca.unimelb.edu.au.)
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Program #47, 2007
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Singapore and Victoria resign a memorandum of understanding, renewing their arts and cultural connection.
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(More info on Singapore's Memorandum of Understanding with Arts Victoria www.nac.gov.sg.)
(The Arts Victoria website: www.arts.vic.gov.au.)
The closing date for the annual Linden Postcard Show approaches.
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(Entries to the Linden Postcard Show 2008 close 3 December. Entry forms can be obatined from the Bendigo Bank or on the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts website in PDF format: www.lindenart.org.)
Guest: Prof. Adrian Sergeant, who is in Australia as guest of Artsupport to present workshops on raising money for arts and cultural organisation.
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(Prof. Adrian Sargeant's masterclasses, 'Critical issues in fundraising', was held on November 20 in Sydney and on November 22 in Melbourne.)
A first look at an exhibition, 'Facing Percy Grainer', that reveals a lot about this successful Australian-born pianist and his somewhat eccentric ways.
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(The 'Facing Percy Grainger' exhibition is currently on at the Ian Potter Museum of Art of the University of Melbourne until 3 February 2008. More info: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au, www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/grainger/.)
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Program #48, 2007
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The EastLink Public Art Collection: $5.5 million to invigorated the verges of a new freeway with works of public art.
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(More info on the EastLink Public Art Collection: www.connecteast.com.au.)
The Australian Writers Guild comes out in solidarity with its US cousin and the writers who are on strike.
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('International Affiliation of Writers' Guild Supports WGA Strike' media release @ the Australian Writers Guild website: www.awg.com.au.)
Guest: Carrillo Gantner, an eminent figure in Australian theatre for more than 30 years who has just been nominated for Senior Australian of the Year.
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(A list of the Australian of the Year Awards 2008's Victorian Finalists can be viewed at: www.australianoftheyear.gov.au.)
(The official Myer Foundation website: www.myerfoundation.org.au.)
A short preview of an exhibition, 'Modern Britain 1900-1960:
Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections', and the tragic story of one artist represented, Glyn Philpot, who dared change style.
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(The 'Modern Britain 1900-1960:
Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections' exhibition is currently on at the National Gallery of Victoria International, 180 St Kilda Road until 24 February 2008. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/modernbritain/.)
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Program #49, 2007
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Citizens of Uralla in NSW rally to preserve part of the town industrial culture, a foundry well over 100 years old.
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(Another meeting of the Friends of the Foundry is planned for 12 February to form an association to manage the campaign. More info on the campaign: www.friendsofthefoundry.com.)
(Photo by Hazel Wallace courtesy of: www.friendsofthefoundry.com.)
The Million Puppet Project in Perth is on track to fill the Perth Concert hall.
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(The 20th UniMA conference and World Puppetry Festival is in Perth 2-12 April, and the puppetry count for the Guinness World Record will be at the Perth Concert Hall on Carnival Day 6 April. More info on the Million Puppet Project: www.millionpuppets.com.)
Guest: Robyn Sloggett, director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne. Robyn's forensic skills in detecting forgery made her an expert witness in the recent Liberto case of art fraud.
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(Robyn Sloggett's profile @ the official website of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation: www.culturalconservation.unimelb.edu.au/people/robyn_sloggett.html.)
Aussie performers and two cultural exhibition get a big welcome in the US city of Pittsburgh.
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(More info on the 2007 Australia Festival presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust: www.pgharts.org & media release.)
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Program #50, 2007
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Guest: GP-turned-author Kathryn Fox, whose third novel, 'Skin and Bone' was in the bookshops on 24th October. Her previous two novels, 'Malicious Intent' and 'Without Consent' have been sold to some 15 countries, many in translation.
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('Skin and Bone' is available on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp A$32.95. More info about the book:: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available from Pan Macmillan are Kathryn's first two novels 'Without Consent' and 'Malicious Intent' on paperback for rrp A$19.95.)
The Documentary Australia Foundation explores new ways of financing movies with a mission.
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(The Documentary Australia Foundation official website: www.documentaryaustralia.com.au.)
The Dogwood Playwrights from inland Queensland launch
Australia's Richest Radio Play Writing Competition.
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(Entries to the Australia's Richest Radio Play Writing Competition closeson 30 June, 2008. Entry form and details are on the Murilla Council's website: www.murilla.qld.gov.au.)
We meet Louis Laumen, the sculptor behind a memorial to late Pastor Sir Douglas and Lady Gladys Nicholls, two of the most prominent Indigenous community leaders of the of the 20th Century.
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(You can see the Sir Douglas and Lady Gladys Nicholls Memorial in the gardens to the north of Victoria's parliament house, in Spring Street, Melbourne. More info on the Nicholls Memorial: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au.)
(Visit Louis Laumen's official website: www.louislaumen.com.)
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Program #51, 2007
Summer Edition 2007-08 #1
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a look at an exhibition 'Mystic Truths' that was on at the Auckland Art Gallery earlier this year, curated by the Gallery's Curator of Contemporary Art Natasha Conlon. (Regular listeners may recall that we first met Natasha Conlon in Christchurch in September last year where she co-curated with German-born Susanna Jenscko, SCAPE 2006.)
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Listen to the story: part 2 (Windows Media, 6 minutes 51 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 3 (Windows Media, 1 minutes 22 seconds)
Listen to the story: part 4 (Windows Media, 6 minutes 11 seconds)
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(The 'Mystic Truths' exhibition was on at the Auckland Arts Gallery 30 June - 14 October 2007. More info about the exhibition: www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/exhibitions/0706mystictruths.asp.)
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Program #52, 2007
Summer Edition 2007-08 #2
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we hear from young Canberra writer, Jack Heath. His first two futuristic novels, 'The Lab' and 'Remote Control' featured a character called Six of Hearts; a third novel, a departure from that mould will be published in 2008. Jack also plays bass with the pop group Udo and finds time to compose soundtracks for young film director, Justin Bush.
Listen to the interview: part 1 (Windows Media, 11 minutes 18 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 2 (Windows Media, 10 minutes 52 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 3 (Windows Media, 14 minutes 45 seconds)
Listen to the interview: part 4 (Windows Media, 1 minutes 12 seconds)
('The Lab' and 'Remote Control' are now available on paperback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp A$16.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(Visit Jack Heath @ MySpace: www.myspace.com/jackheath.)
(Udo's official website: http://users.tpg.com.au/dmahon/udo/.)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell.
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