Program #41, 2008
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Guest: Chris Webb, one half of the sister act that writes under the name Kathy Webb. Their new novel, 'Other People's Diaries' is a departure for them from their previous collaborations, fact-based 'Sacking the Stork' and 'Inheriting Jack'.
(Kathy Webb's 'Other People's Diaries' is now available on trade paperback in Australia from Pan Macmillan for rrp $32.99. More info: www.hha.com.au. Also available from Pan Macmillan are 'Sacking the Stork' and 'Inheriting Jack'.)
A photographic exhibition celebrates 15 years of the Access Arts program in St Kilda.
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(The 'Access Arts in the City of Port Phillip: A fifteen year photographic retrospective by Paul Dunn' exhibiton is on at the St Kilda Town Hall from 6-30 October. More info: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au.)
Playwright and actor Alan Hopgood is using drama to focus on issues of age and aging.
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(Alan Hopgood is currently touring regional Victoria with his performance of another of his plays 'Four Funerals in One Day', a play about the importance and value of stories in palliative care. He'll also be doing 'My Fifty Years in Theatre: Growing Old - Disgracefully' in Albert Park in Melbourne on 18 October and a double bill of 'Wicked Widows' and 'Never Too Old' at the Alexander Theatre, Monash, 21-22 October and at Chapel Off Chapel in Parhran on 28-29 October.)
(Alan Hopgood image source: http://bsp.net.au.)
We'll explore the contribution that sound design makes to Chunky Moves latest dance work, 'Two Faced Bastard'.
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(The Chunky Moves production 'Two Faced Bastard' premiered 8-12 October at the Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne. More info: www.chunkymove.com.)
Live recordings from the Melbourne International Arts Festival's opening concert.
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(The 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival runs 9-25 October 2008. More info: www.melbournefestival.com.au.)
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Program #42, 2008
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Guest: Australian author Robert Dessaix. His most recent book, 'Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives' is a meditation on the journeys of the French writer, Andre Gide and the author, Dessaix, in North Africa and Southern Europe, separated by a century and in their lives.
Ochre: Supporting Indigenous Health through Art raises more than $250,000 at an auction of Indigenous art, with some new ideas about running charity auctions.
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(More info about Ochre: Supporting Indigenous Health through Art: www.menzies.edu.au, www.alcastongallery.com.au.)
(The auction result and catalogue of Ochre: Supporting Indigenous Health through Art can be viewed at: www.mossgreen.com.au.)
Broken Hill, in far west NSW, lays claim to being the culture capital of the outback with the successful conclusion of Red Desert Live! festival.
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(The 2008 Red Desert Live! festival was on 11-12 October. More info: www.reddesertlive.com.)
We'll talk to station manager, Warren Koglin, of Goolarri Radio in Broome.
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(More info about Community Radio Station - 6GME Radio Goolarri 99.7 FM: http://www.gme.com.au/radio/.)
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Program #43, 2008
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Guest: activist author, Randa Abdel-Fattah, whose past novels explored issues of being young, Australian, and a Muslem. Her new novel, still aimed at young readers, 'Where the Streets Had a Name', is set in Palestine.
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(Randa Abdel-Fattah's latest novel 'Where the Streets Had a Name' is now available on paperback in Australia from Pan Macmillan for rrp$19.99. Also available are 'Does My Head Look Big in This?' and 'Ten Things I Hate About Me' - More info about her books: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(Click here for our interview with Randa in 2005 about her first book 'Does My Head Look Big in This?'.)
(Click here for our interview with Randa in 2006 about her second book 'Ten Things I Hate About Me'.)
The winner of the Melbourne Press Club and Trawalla Foundation Arts Journalism Scholarship is announced.
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(More info about the Melbourne Press Club and Trawalla Foundation Arts Journalism Scholarship: www.pressclubonline.com/MPCTrawallaArtsJournalismScholarship.)
'We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked': another contribution to Australia's experience of international contemporary arts by Kaldor Public Art Projects.
Listen to the interview: Martin Boyce, Glaswegian artist (Windows Media, 6 minutes 28 seconds)
Listen to the interview: John Kaldor, founder of Kaldor Public Art Projects (Windows Media, 4 minutes)
('We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked', a project of Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with RMIT University, is on exhibition at the Alumni Courtyard at RMIT in Melbourne until 30 November. The Kaldor Art Projects website: www.kaldorartprojects.org.au.)
A small tribute to the James Gleeson, Australian most prominent surrealist painter who died last week.
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(More info on the 'James Gleeson beyond the screen of sight' at the National Gallery of Australia, 18 March - 13 June 2005: http://nga.gov.au/Gleeson/index.cfm.)
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Program #44, 2008
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Queensland professor, Erica McWilliam, argues the qualities that make for great arts education must be applied to all education if our children are to be equipped for a work-future in which creativity will be the defining feature of economic life.
An exhibition of photographs drawn from some half a million images taken by photographer the late Rennie Ellis opens in Melbourne.
Listen to an excerpt of the Rennie Ellis interview, 1999 (Windows Media, 1 minute 4 seconds)
Listen to the live recording of the preview of the Rennie Ellis retrospective, featuring curator, Susan van Wyk (Windows Media, 8 minutes 44 seconds)
Listen to the interview: Mika Mora, friend and photographic subject of Rennie Ellis (Windows Media, 31 seconds)
(The Rennie Ellis retrospective, 'No Standing Only Dancing', is currently on at the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, until 22 February 2009. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
We meet the patriarch of the families that stands behind J. Albert and Sons, Australia's oldest music publishing and recording house. Robert Albert has just been honoured for his philanthropic work in support of Australia music in the recent Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) Awards.
('Newcastle' opens in Australia nationwide on 6 November. Visit the official movie website: www.newcastlemovie.com.)
'Big Story Country: great arts stories from regional Australia', a book written from conversations with artists by Moya Sayer-Jones goes on line.
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(The print edition of 'Big Story Country: great arts stories from regional Australia', written from conversations with Moya Sayer-Jones, can be ordered from the Regional Arts Australia agencies. The stories are now available on-line in either high or low resolution .pdf files at: www.regionalarts.com.au.)
The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre of Perth heads off to the International Performing Arts for Youth 30th Annual International Showcase Conference in Cleveland USA and then tours Europe.
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(The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre website: www.sppt.asn.au.)
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Program #46, 2008
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Guest: Simmone Howell, whose second novel 'Everything Beautiful' looks set to repeat the success of her first, 'Notes from the Teenage Underground'.
(Simmone Howell's novel 'Everything Beautiful' is now available on paperback in Australia from Pan Macmillan for rrp$16.99. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available is 'Notes from the Teenage Underground' on paperback for rrp$16.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(Visit Simmone Howell's official website: www.simmonehowell.com. Read Simmone Howell's blog 'post-teen trauma': http://simmone.livejournal.com.)
We speak to the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture.
Listen to the interview: Simon Warrender, executive director, founder - Melbourne Prize Trust (Windows Media, 1 minutes 48 seconds)
Listen to the interview: Alexander Knox, winner - Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2008 (Windows Media, 3 minutes 51 seconds)
(The public exhibition of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2008 finalists is on at the Federation Square until 24 November 2008. More info on the Prize: www.melbourneprizetrust.org.)
(Image source: www.melbourneprizetrust.org.)
The Breen Sculpture Competition 2008: a competition to commission the first of four works for children's gardens at the Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens in NSW.
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(Entries to the Breen Sculpture Competition 2008 closes at 4pm on 27 February 2009. The prize is worth $20,000 for the artist, $30,000 for the fabrication of the sculpture and there are further funds for installation and landscaping. More info: www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au.)
A look behind the decision of the Commonwealth government to close the Australian National Academy of Music, music's Institute of Sport for Australia's best and brightest musicians.
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(The Australian National Academy of Music website: www.anam.com.au.)
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Program #47, 2008
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Guest: Peter Watt, an author of popular fiction who nevertheless succeeds in weaving factual histories, often forgotten or largely unknown into his stories.
(Peter Watt's latest novel 'The Frozen Circle' is now available on trade paperback in Australia, along with his other novels, from Pan Macmillan for rrp$32.99. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(Visit Peter Watt's official website: www.peterwatt.com.)
(Peter Watt image source: www.peterwatt.com.)
More on the future of the Australian National Academy of Music marked for closure. The Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett announces the successful cloning of the organisation, Australian Institute of Music Performance.
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(The Australian National Academy of Music website: www.anam.com.au.)
Sculpture by the Sea closed in Sydney on 2 November after its 12th successful season, and an agreement to export the franchise to Denmark for next year.
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(While the 12th annual Sculpture by the Sea was on along the 2km Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk 16 October - 2 November, over 50 local, interstate and international artists will transform Perth's Cottesloe beach into a sculpture park 5-24 March next year, for the 5th annual iteration of the event in the west. And if you fancy attending the event in Denmark then the dates are 5-28 June in Aarhus, under the patronage of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. More info: www.sculpturebythesea.com.)
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Program #48, 2008
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A tribute to the late Richard Hickox, the music director of Opera Australia, who died of a heart attack in Wales on Sunday 23 November last.
'Portrait of a Youth': The National Gallery of Victoria has discovered that it has a most remarkable work in its collection, perhaps the only formal portrait of the most famous, perhaps notorious woman of the Italian renaissance.
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(More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
We'll hear about the work of Action on Disability in Ethnic Communities (ADEC) and their Artability 2008 exhibition.
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(The ADEC - Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities's ArtAbility 2008 exhibition runs 26 November - 2 December in Melbourne's Federation Square. More info: www.adec.org.au.)
A close-up look at some Greek drinking cups - elegant, decorative and functional after 2,500 years.
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(The 'Greek Vases' exhibition is currently at the Ian Potter Gallery at the University of Melbourne until 5 April next year. More info: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au.)
(Image source: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au.)
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Program #49, 2008
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Guest: journalist, court room illustrator and mother, Rachel Power. Her book, 'The Divided Heart, Arts and Motherhood' has been described as 'Heart-breaking and wonderful, in equal parts'.
(Rachel Power's book 'The Divided Heart, Arts and Motherhood' is now available on paperback in Australia from Red Dog Books for rrp$29.99A. More info: www.rdog.com.au.)
(Rachel Power image source: www.mwf.com.au.)
The latest chapter in the Commonwealth's Government's decision to close the Australian National Academy of Music; and the Academy's artistic director, Brett Dean, wins the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the music world's equivalent of the Booker or Nobel prize.
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(The Australian National Academy of Music website: www.anam.com.au.)
(More info on the Grawemeyer Awards: www.grawemeyer.org.)
The closing date for grants in NSW under the Country Arts Support Program is approaching.
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(Applications for grants under the Regional Arts NSW's Country Arts Support Program close on 13 February next, for projects starting after 10 April 2009. More info: www.regionalartsnsw.com.au.)
A chat with the music group TinPan Orange.
Listen to the interview + studio performance (Windows Media, 8 minutes 42 seconds + 3 minutes 47 seconds)
(The official website of TinPan Orange: www.tinpanorange.com.)
Live recording of the cutting off of a new tapestry to be hung at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
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Program #50, 2008
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Guests: Robyn Quigley and Michael Rowe , joint winners of the ABAF Advisebank Award for the business plan they devised to put the heritage listed cultural site, Monsalvat, on a firm financial footing.
(The offcial website of RUN Property: www.montsalvat.com.au.)
(More info on the the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) Awards: www.abaf.org.au.)
(pictured from left to right: Robyn Quigley - Montsalvat, Robert Bazzani - KPMG, Michael Rowe - Run Property. Photographed by Mili Wijeratne, courtesy of: www.abaf.org.au.)
The Senate has recommended new, nation wide regulation of charities and not-for-profit organisations, so what might that mean for the arts and culture sector of the economy?
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(More info on the Senate Standing Committee on Economics' Inquiry into the Disclosure regimes for charities and not-for-profit organisations: www.aph.gov.au.)
 
We revisit an 1999 interview with writer and poet Dorothy Porter, who passed away in Melbourne, on December 8, age 54.
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(Dorothy Porter's books, including 'The Monkey's Mask', 'Akhenaten', 'Crete', 'El Dorado', 'Wild Surmise', 'What a Piece of Work' and 'Other Worlds: Poems 1997-2001' are available in Australia from Picador. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(The film adaptation of 'The Monkey's Mask', directed by Samantha Lang and starring Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis and Samantha Lang. With Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis, is currently available on DVD in Australia from Madman Entertainment. More info: madman.com.au.)
Nina Marie Petrik speaks to film maker Steven Sebring, whose documentary of US singer Patti Smith, gave an extra dimension to her visit last November.
A recap of this year's Australian Film Institute Awards winners.
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(A full list of the 50th Annual L'Oreal Paris 2008 AFI Awards winners is available at the Australian Film Institute website: www.afi.org.au.)
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Program #51, 2008
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Guest: an extended interview with playwright John Romeril, who has just received the Patrick White Award due recognition for a writing career that spans song and opera lyricist to script and screenwriter.
A preview of the Australian International Documentary Conference, scheduled for Adelaide in February. 
A report with Kim Dunphy, manager of the Community Cultural Development Network, on community cultural development in our neighbours to the north - Indonesia, Timor Leste and Vietnam - all of political as well as cultural importance to Australia.
Listen to the interview (Windows Media, 10 minute 52 seconds)
(The Cultural Development Network website: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
(Kim Dunphy image source: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
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Program #52, 2008
Episode #600
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'Portrait of a Youth': The story of the intriguing detective work that built a body of evidence to identify the subject and the painter of a 16th-entury portrait at has been owned by the National Gallery of Victoria since 1965. With Carl Villis, conservator at the NGV.
Listen to the Carl Villis interview - part 2 (Windows Media, 10 minutes 43 seconds)
Listen to the Carl Villis interview - part 3 (Windows Media, 11 minutes 44 seconds)
(Image source: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
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