Hosts Christian and Emma were joined on the line with RUSS PIRIE from St Martins Youth Arts Centre to discuss the Autism in the Arts forum as part of the Roadmap to Diversity series. The series for 2016 will focus on: Autism in the Arts : Friday 17 June, 6–7.30pm Engaging Deaf and HOH in Arts : Friday 2 September, 6–7.30pm Youth, Gender Diversity and sexuality in the Arts : Friday 23 September, 6–7.30pm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 23, 2016•10 min
*Note to listeners: content and trigger warning - the following interview discusses themes that may be distressing for listerners. These themes include, but are not limited to, suicide, self-harm and mental illness.* Hosts Christian and Emma were joined in the studio wtih director KENDALL JANE RUNDLE from Bare Naked Theatre to discuss Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis . 4:48 Psychosis will be performed at the Metanoia Theatre 29 June - 2 July. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 23, 2016•13 min
Hosts Christian and Emma chatted to SHANE GRANT ( Milk Bars ) , MATT ADEY ( Spectre of Death ) & LAUREN SIMMONDS ( Unseen ) about the upcoming season of live art at Metanoia Live Works . Metanoia Live Works Season: 25 June – 6 August, Mechanics Institute Brunswick, 270 Sydney Road, Melbourne Image: Unseen by Lauren Simmonds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 23, 2016•13 min
The Honey Bees is a stage play written by veteran playwright Caleb Lewis and directed by Ella Caldwell, starring Eva Seymour, Christopher Brown, Rebecca Bower, Mara (Kat-Marek) Kaczmarek and Katerina Kotsonis. It is now showing at Red Stitch Theatre on Chapel Street in St Kilda's East, and is running until the 16th of July. Caleb Lewis' gradually and masterfully details his characters in a dexterous juggling of intersecting plotlines and overlapping relationships. His writing is enhanced by the ...
Jun 20, 2016•3 min
*Note to listeners: phone interview audio quality is a bit scratchy, but the interview itself is very interesting. Listen and find out! Christian had the opportunity to chat to actress CASSANDRA MAGRATH about her involvement with Winterfall Theatre's production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Is being performed at Blackbox Theatre, Preshil Senior Campus 21 June– 10 July: Tue-Sat, 7.30pm, Sun 2pm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 20, 2016•12 min
Jonathan shares his experience of what it is like to record an album with a choir. He notes that singers must adjust the way they sing according to the type of venue the choir perform in. Jonathan is a member of CHIME , the Choral Institute of Melbourne. Photo credit: CHIME website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 20, 2016•9 min
Christian reviews the 2015 film Queen of the Desert , not to be mistaken for Priscilla: Queen of the Desert , which features actors Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Robert Pattinson. Queen of the Desert is the true story of Gertrude Bell, a traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. The film was written and directed by Werner Herzog. Queen of the Desert is now showing at Cinema Nova. See omnystudio.c...
Jun 20, 2016•5 min
Hosts Christian and Jonathan were joined on the line with actor CHRISTOPHER BROWN (playing the role of DARYL) from Red Stitch's world premiere production of The Honey Bees . The Honey Bees is being performed on 14 June – 16 July, Red Stitch Actors Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street St Kilda East. Photo credit: Jodie Hutchinson - featuring Marta Kaczmarek and Christopher Brown See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 20, 2016•12 min
*Note to listeners: the phone audio quality is a bit scratchy Hosts Christian and Jonathan were joined on the line with GEORGIA MOORE from Federation University. Georgia will be playing the role of WEDNESDAY in the University's production of The Addams Family . The Addams Family is on 17 - 25 Jun, at Theatre Works 14 Acland St, St Kilda. Photographer credit: Jodie Hutchinson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 20, 2016•13 min
The Melbourne international jazz festival, now in its 18th year is Melbourne’s premier jazz festival which takes over the city for 9 days in june showcasing local and international talent in different concert halls, bars and occasionally laneways! This year I was lucky enough to attend three completely different yet equally exiting events: Tomasz Stańko Band, Vince Jones and the astral orchestra, and Jose James. Polish born Tomasz Stanko has been a jazz trumpeter since the 60s, touring the world...
Jun 20, 2016•6 min
In #DearDiary , the Melbourne-based actor Andi Snelling achieves the seemingly impossible. She manages to turn 20 years worth of diaries into an entertaining, highly amusing and climatically moving piece of theatre. #DearDiary is a one-woman show that tells the story of Andi from childhood to now, using only verbatim diary entries. Andi doesn’t speak for the first 5 minutes, but as soon as she enters the stage, your eyes are utterly transfixed by her. Such is the power of Andi’s physical presenc...
Jun 06, 2016•2 min
Will Dawson reflects on his time at SYN. (His dreaded SYN death has arrived!) We, (Lauren, Will and Caroline) also talk about the importance of keeping community radio. You can show your support by signing the #KeepCommunityRadio petition here: http://www.keepcommunityradio.org.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 06, 2016•7 min
Ben & Christian did a combined review of ACMI’s exhibition dedicated to award-winning film maker, Martin Scorsese . Scorsese will be exhibiting at ACMI 26th May to 18th September See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 06, 2016•10 min
Hosts Will and Lauren were joined in the studio with MAXINE GIGLIOTTI and BEDE NASH from the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA). Maxine and Bede talked about the 2016 graduating class showcase performance Things NOT of this EARTH , how they both become interested in circus arts, and how they chose their circus specialities. Things NOT of this EARTH will be being performed 8 - 18 June, Wed – Sat 7.30pm at the NICA National Circus Centre, 39 - 59 Green Street, Prahran See omnystudio.com/list...
Jun 06, 2016•11 min
Hosts Ben & Michaela were joined in the studio with ANDI SNELLING – writer, producer and performer of the critically-acclaimed solo confessional show #DearDiary . #DearDiary is being perforfmed at The Butterfly Club, Wed 1st – Sun 5th June at 7pm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 02, 2016•14 min
Hosts Ben & Michaela discuss the highs and lows of karaoke; the unattainable high notes, the dramatic ballads, the overplayed songs and the annoying na na na naaa section of Hey Jude by The Beatles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 02, 2016•7 min
Hosts Ben & Michaela were joined by tigers of the stage - GABRIELLE SAVRONE (director and actor at Owl & Cat Theatre) & MARCUS MOLYNEUX (actor) from Owl and Cat Theatre’s production Flesh Eating Tiger . Flesh Eating Tiger is being performed at Owl and Cat Theatre, 34 Swan Street from 31st May – 2nd June See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 02, 2016•17 min
Experience. Strength. Hope. These words don’t carry much meaning by themselves, but together in the context of Melbourne Playback Theatre Company’s latest performance SticksnStones of the Birrarung Marr - Stories of First Nations Place Making, Culture and Legacy , they provided a pivotal focus for the evening’s event. SticksnStones was the second public event by Melbourne Playback for the year. The event was split into two parts – a Q&A panel with esteemed First Nation Victorians including J...
Jun 02, 2016•4 min
Adalya reviews The Wheeler Centre’s author talk event with Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Jason Steger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 30, 2016•4 min
It was fantastic to hear that The Arts Centre’s season of Sugarland is being targeted at VCE students, but don’t let that make you think that the play itself is mostly for high school students. Fraser Corfiel and David Page’s debut production of Rachel Coopes and Wayne Blair‘s latest theatrical work is one of those stories of adolescence that engages teenagers both past and present. Lately, Melbourne has seen quite a few ensemble pieces set in remote regions of Australia, usually ones like this ...
May 30, 2016•6 min
Hosts Lauren and Andrew are joined in the studio with Caitlin, a jazz student at the Australian National University School of Music. She shares her story of how she feel in love with jazz and the, perhaps surprisingly, vibrant jazz scene in Taiwan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 30, 2016•7 min
When I heard Renee Geyer was a famous international jazz singer I was thrilled to get the chance to go and see her sing. As I am an amateur singer with jazzy vocals myself it felt like it was a match made to be. However Renee Geyer was different to my initial assumptions. If I were to liken the whole experience to dating a person you met online, Renee Geyer would be a date you hade hopes for, only to have the actual date be considerably different to your expectations. Renee’s actuality contrasts...
May 30, 2016•6 min
Rachel attended the opening night of Malthouse Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams' classic 'memory play', The Glass Menagerie . The Glass Menagerie is being performed on 18th May to 5th June at the Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 30, 2016•3 min
Hosts Lauren and Andrew are joined on the line with actress ROSE RILEY. She is playing the role of Laura Wingfield in the Malthouse Theatre’s production of The Glass Menagerie . The Glass Menagerie is being performed on 18th May to 5th June at the Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 30, 2016•10 min
Hosts Lauren and Andrew were joined in the studio with LENKA VANDERBOOM - Melbourne Playback Theatre Company ensemble member and Creative Director of SticksnStones on the Birrarung Marr . The event includes a panel event with esteemed First Nations’ Victorians followed by a professional playback theatre performance. SticksnStones is on Friday 27th May, 6pm at Deakin Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne. Photographer credit: Steven Rhall (image: Diana Nguyen, Sermsah Bin Saad) See omnystudi...
May 30, 2016•19 min
Laurent spoke to award winning dancer CHARMENE YAP, a member of Sydney Dance Company and performer in the touring production CounterMove . CounterMove will be performed at the Melbourne Theatre Company Southbank Theatre 25th May to 4th June Photography by Peter Greig (still from CACTI) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 30, 2016•14 min
MITCHEL EDWARDS , emerging playwright, and actor AARON TREVASKIS join Lauren in the studio to talk about a new Australian and post-apocalyptic play, Yellow Skies . Yellow Skies is produced by Baker's Dozen Theatre and is being performed at Metanoia Theatre at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 18th -29th May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 26, 2016•16 min
Recently I got to visit the Linden New Art Gallery. The current exhibition that is being held at the moment is the ‘ Wild Lands ’ exhibition with two sections following different artists and there particular styles of different wild life. When walking into the gallery on the left side is the ‘Wild Lands’ exhibition, featuring the artists: Chris Mason, Bronwyn Hack, Dionne Cazano, Michael Camakaris, Mathew Grove, and Ruth Howard. This section was particularly interesting especially when looking u...
May 26, 2016•4 min
Adalya joins Lauren in the studio to share her thoughts about the Tinnalley String Quartet & Lior concert she attended earlier this month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 26, 2016•7 min
Lauren is joined in the studio with DEFRON , a local Melbourne hip-hop artist and the leader behind the Walk This Way project. Defron talks about his trip to New York and the hip hop scene in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 26, 2016•17 min
