Program #21, 2008
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Guest: Dr Sharman Stone, Shadow Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs, talks about the arts component of the budget.
The Sydney Writers' Festival does cook books besides hip hop.
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(The Sydney Writers' Festival was held 19-25 May. More info on 'Food as Communication: Secrets of the Red Lantern', which was on at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre on May 25 2008: www.swf.org.au.)
(The Red Lantern Restaurant is located at 545 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW. Their official website: www.redlantern.com.au.)
Overland magazine has gone back to its roots in the 1950s and is inviting submission of literary novels with a view to publication.
(Submissions of manuscripts to Overland are now open. A decision will be announced in the first edition of the magazine for 2009 and, if a suitable manuscript is found, the novel will appear by the end of that year. More info: www.overlandexpress.org.)
Review: Opera Australia's production of 'My Fair Lady' marks a successful departure of the company from the traditional repertoire.(read the transcript.)
(Opera Australia's production of 'My Fair Lady' is currently playing at the State Theatre of the Melbourne Arts Centre until May 31, then at the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House Jun 21 - Aug 4. More info: www.opera-australia.org.au.)
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Program #22, 2008
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A frenzy of controversy over images of adolescents from photographic artist Bill Henson fills the media.
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(Image source: www.theage.com.au.)
Regional Arts Australia plans cut its programs following the federal budget.
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(Regional Arts Australia is spruiking a series of awards to recognise the contributions of volunteers to arts and cultural enterprises in the bush, as important if not more so than volunteers in the cities. There will be two awards per state, one for an sustained contribution and the other for an under-26-year-old. Details and nomination forms for the 2008 Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Awards are at www.regionalarts.com.au, or if you call Jo McDonald on (08) 8444 0428. Prizes include attendance at the RAA conference in Alice Springs, the first weekend of October next.)
Guest: Australian-born New Yorker, Kate Jennings. She was visiting for the Sydney Writers Festival and to publicise her new book, 'Stanley and Sophie'. It is moving account of her love for her two dogs, her grief after her husband's death of Althiemers disease and the politics of George W Bush's America.
(The Sydney Writers' Festival was on 19-25 May. More info on the Kate Jennings Literary Lunch, held on May 22 2008 at the Sebel Pier One Sydney, Harbour Watch Room, Pier 1, 11 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay: www.swf.org.au.)
('Stanley and Sophie' is now available in Australia on hardcover from Random House for rrp$AU29.95. More info: www.randomhouse.com.au.)
We meet Marjorie West, an Australian pioneer of audio description, a service for the vision-impaired so they too can enjoy theatre opera and ballet.
(A profile of Marjorie West AM @ the Vision Australia website: www.visionaustralia.org.au.)
(The RPH Australia website: www.rph.org.au.)
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Program #23, 2008
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An extended tour of the blockbuster exhibition, 'Turner to Monet' at the National Gallery of Australia, co-curator Christine Dixon.
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(The 'Turner to Monet: The triumph of landscape' exhibition is currently showing at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra unitl 9 June. More info: www.nga.gov.au/TurnertoMonet/Flash/.)
(above, left to right: JMW Turner, 'Rocky bay with figures', c.1830, oil on canvas; Vincent Van Gogh, 'Tree trunks in the grass', end of April 1890, oil on canvas; Claude Monet, 'Haystacks', midday 1890, oil on canvas.)
Accessible Arts in NSW makes an Australia-wide call for submission for their annual AART.BOXX exhibition.
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(AART.BOXX 2008 is open to artists from all Australian states. For more info and entry details visit: www.aarts.net.au. Alternatively contact Josie Cavallaro from Accessible Arts NSW at (02) 9251 6499 ex. 4, or by e-mail at jcavallaro@aarts.net.au Entries close 16 June.)
'Dispassionately Critical of Zimbabwe': a new play opens in Melbourne inspired by the tragedy that is Zimbabwe under the corrupt rule of the ageing Robert Mugabe who, in 1980, led his nation to democratic independence, establishing Zimbabwe as the model for other African states to emulate - those days are long gone.
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Program #24, 2008
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Guest: Katherine Howell, one of a growing band of Australian authors who are writing thrillers for a world market. Her second novel in 12 months is on the shelves, a third in progress and contracts have been signed for a fourth - She certainly seems to be doing something right.
(Katherine Howell's second novel 'The Darkest Hour' is now available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp$A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available from Pan Macmillan is Katherine Howell's first book 'Frantic' for rrp $A32.95.)
(Visit Katherine Howell's official website: www.katherinehowell.com.)
Concerns are raised over the slow implementation of the Senate 'Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector'.
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(More info on the Senate Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector: www.aph.gov.au.)
(The official Western Desert Mob website: www.aarts.net.au.)
'Treescape': an exhibition for children at the Nnational Gallery of Australia, that picks up on themes in the show 'Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape' that has just closed.
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(The 'Treescape' exhibition is on until 31 August at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. More info: www.nga.gov.au/treescape/.)
The remarkable growth of the Noosa Long Weekend Festival coming up in July.
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(The Noosa Long Weekend Festival 2008 runs 4-13 July. Program details are on their website: www.noosalongweekend.com.)
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Program #25, 2008
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Guest: Sioban Tuke, the casting director of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Once a member of the regular cast of the Comedy Company on Channel 10, Sioban is also making a mark as a theatre director, most recently with an adaptation of Joanna Murray-Smith's 'Bombshells'.
(The Melbourne Theatre Company production of Joanna Murray-Smith's 'Bombshells' was one of this year's VCE Year 12 English Text Lists. Performances, directed by Sioban Tuke, were presented to students and teachers between 16-28 June at the Melbourne Arts Centre's Fairfax Studio. More info: www.mtc.com.au.)
(Sioban Tuke image source: www.fuel4arts.com.)
Oral history enabled the late Ross Stretton, an Australian dancer who became the director of the Royal Ballet in London, to tell the story of his controversial experiences.
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(The sound recording of the Interview with Ross Stretton, conducted by Michelle Potter is available from the National Library of Australia. More info: www.nla.gov.au.)
The ever resourceful Adelaide Fringe is celebrating the success of its Fringe Benefits program aimed at recruiting young audiences for the arts.
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(The Adelaide-based Fringe Benefits are throwing a party at the Ed Castle Hotel on Currie Street on Saturday 28 June. Entry to 'SHAM! at the Ed Castle' is just $5.00. More info: www.fringebenefits.com.au.)
We hear from Arts Asia Pacific, the sole arts company of just 12 Australian companies to strut their stuff as part of the Win Business Gold in China during the Olympic Games in August.
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(The official website of Arts Asia Pacific: www.artsap.com.)
(More info on the Win Business Gold in China competition, co-sponsored by Telstra and Austrade: www.chinagold.telstra.com/chinagold/.)
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Program #26, 2008
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Guest: Lisa Fitzhugh from the state of Washington in the USA. She is visiting Australia as a guest of the Cultural Development Network to talk about the remarkable growth of Arts Corp, a company she founded to run enrichment and after-schools programs for schools in the Seattle area. I caught up with her in that environmental masterpiece of a building, Council House 2, in Melbourne.
(Lisa Fitzhugh was one of the keynote speakers of the 'Connecting Schools and Communities' conference, held at Colac on 20 June, at Williamstown on 23 June and at Wodonga on 25 June. More info: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
(The Arts Corp website: www.artscorps.org.)
(Lisa Fitzhugh image source: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
The National Association for the Visual Arts, in the wake of the Bill Henson controversy, is to publish an Arts Censorship Guide.
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(More info @ the National Association for the Visual Arts website: www.visualarts.net.au.)
(The SBS TV program 'Insights', on 24 June last, addressed the issues of censorship and allegations of pornography that arose from the police action to seize works by photographer Bill Henson in Sydney. 'Insights' with Jenny Brockey can now be viewed on-line on the SBS website: www.sbs.com.au.)
Australian composer Carl Vine is named Composer-in-residence for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville.
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(The 2008 Australian Festival of Chamber Music runs 4-12 July. Another feature of the Festival's program will be a Centenary Concert in Memoriam for the birth of Olivier Messiaen, held on Sunday, 5th July at St James' Cathedral, Townsville, which will include a performance of the Quartet for the End of Time and a play by Jessica Duchen, 'A Walk Through the End of Time'. More info on the Festival: www.afcm.com.au.)
Vol. 67, no. 2 of the long-running literary journal, Meanjin, hits the streets - the first under the new editor, Sophie Cunningham.
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Program #27, 2008
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Guest: author Tony Park. A former Australian journalist and, later, a PR man, Tony fell in love with southern Africa while back packing with his wife a decade ago and now spends half of each year there, writing thrillers for a world-wide readership. His fifth novel, 'Silent Predator', has just been published.
(Tony Park's 'Silent Predator' is now available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp$A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available on paperbacks from Pan Macmillan are 'Far Horizon', 'Zambezi', 'African Sky' and 'Safari'.)
(Visit Tony Park's official website: www.tonypark.net.)
(Lisa Fitzhugh image source: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
The announcement of the nominations for the Helpmann Awards, for live entertainment and the performing arts industry, the winners of the J. C. Williamson Award for an outstanding contribution to the Australian live performance industry, and the Brian Stacey Award for emerging conductors.
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(The Helpmann Awards will be presented in Sydney on Monday 29 July in the Lyric Theatre at Star City. More info about the Helpmann Awards: www.helpmannawards.com.au.)
(More info on the JC Williamson Award: www.helpmannawards.com.au.)
(More info on the Brian Stacey Award: www.staceytrust.com.au.)
In Queensland the successful applicants in the first round of the art+place grants, the new public art support program have been announced.
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(More info on the art+place Public Art Fund: www.arts.qld.gov.au.)
A retired seaman is among the winners of Talking Docklands, a film-making contest in Melbourne's Docklands.
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Program #28, 2008
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All around Australian NAIDOC Week, a celebration of Indigenous culture started 50 years ago by the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee, has been held.
Express Media is calling for entries in the 4th John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers.
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(Entries are now open for this year's John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers until Friday 15 August. Details are on the Express Media website: www.expressmedia.org.au.)
(The Harvest Magazine's website: http://harvestmagazine.wordpress.com .)
Guest: Dr Catherine de Lorenzo from the University of NSW. She has a particular interest in art and the clash of cultures. She gave a paper about this issue at a conference last January and later joined me to talk about the role of art in the reconstruction of the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, the site of a significant urban Indigenous community as well as a large, low-income, non-Indigenous community.
(Dr Catherine de Lorenzo's paper 'Reconstructing Redfern' was presented on the Thursday 17 January at 2:30pm as part of the Art and Clashing Urban Cultures session of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), held 13-18 January 2008 at the University of Melbourne. More info about the Congress: www.cihamelbourne2008.com.au.)
We All Play a Part: Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG) launches the education module of its national advocacy campaign.
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Program #29, 2008
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Guest: art historian, Ann Galbally. Her most recent book, 'A Remarkable Friendship', tells the hitherto untold story of the unlikely friendship between two painters - the intense Dutchman, Vincent van Gogh, and the wealthy Australian, John Peter Russel.
(Ann Galbally's 'A Remarkable Friendship: Vincent Van Gogh and John Peter Russell' is now available in Australia on hardcover from Melbourne University Press for rrp$A49.99. More info: www.mup.unimelb.edu.au.)
Project Eye: Sydney-based Vibewire Inc., a youth arts and media organisation, has set up a website to provide independent media coverage of World Youth Day, but its journalists believe it has a bigger future.
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(You can find Project Eye's varied and open coverage of World Youth Day at: www.projecteye.org, or www.sbs.com.au/worldyouthday/.)
(The official World Youth Day website: www.wyd2008.org.)
The Australian Chamber Music Competition sets its sights on the Asia-Pacific region.
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(The Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition is scheduled for July next year in the new Melbourne Recital Centre. Deadline for entries is Christmas this year. Details to be released on the Chamber Music Australia website: www.chambermusicaustralia.com.au.)
The Australian War Memorial exhibition, 'Sport and War', opens at the last venue of its national tour.
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(The Melbourne season of 'Sport and War: An Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition' runs until 26 October at the State Library of Victoria. More info: www.slv.vic.gov.au.)
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Program #30, 2008
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Guest: one of the best know and prolific of Australia's sculptors, Peter Corlett. His figurative work, mostly in bronze, ranges from Weary Dunlop to Phar Lap and Kylie Minogue. And his engagement with World War I memorials has a personal connection as we'll hear.
The winner of the John Truscott Design Award is announced.
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(The 2008 John Truscott Design Award was announced on 24 July, as part of the Melbourne International Design Festival which run on 17-27 July. More info about the Award: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
A preview of the Darwin Festival coming up in a fortnight.
The Productivity Commission is to look at Australia's publishing industry and at the copyright restriction, presently in place, on the import of overseas edition of books by Australian authors.
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(The Productivity Commission website: www.pc.gov.au.)
(The Australian Publishers Association website: www.publishers.asn.au.)
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