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Behind the Scenes - Vision Australia Radio
The Australian Arts community is as diverse as its population. Each week Behind The Scenes looks at how people carry out these arts projects. Many stories, both fascinating and amusing are waiting to be told.
Join us this week on Behind the Scenes as producer Mark speaks with regular guests and friends who honor the impact and lagacy of Chris.
On January 1st Chris Thompson the presenter of Behind the Scenes passed away. The time, effort and care Chris put into Behind the Scenes and all other programs he touched here at Vision Australia Radio are a tribute to his passion and dedication to Vision Australia Radio and the arts.
Vision Australia Radio will always be indebted to Chris for his volunteering, and we share our deepest sympathies with his friends, family and colleagues.
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On January 1st Chris Thompson the presenter of Behind the Scenes passed away. The time, effort and care Chris put into Behind the Scenes and all other programs he touched here at Vision Australia Radio are a tribute to his passion and dedication to Vision Australia Radio and the arts.
Chris and his producer Mark put together some Summer Specials at the end of 2025 and with the blessing of his family we would like to share with you these Behind the Scenes specials.
Vision Australia Radio will always be indebted to Chris for his volunteering, and we share our deepest sympathies with his friends, family and colleagues.
Summer Special #3 - Monday January 19, 2026
We kick off our third Behind the Scenes Summer Special for 2026 with Part 2 of our visit to Adelaide.
Over January we’ve been chatting with some remarkable people from the arts world - slightly longer chats about their lives and work. Some have joined us for the very first time, and others might have been familiar to you if you’re a regular listener. This week we focus on the State Theatre Company of South Australia when we meet designer Kathryn Sproul, who’s working on two shows in this year’s season as well as relatively new Artistic Director Petra Kalive.
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On January 1st Chris Thompson the presenter of Behind the Scenes passed away. The time, effort and care Chris put into Behind the Scenes and all other programs he touched here at Vision Australia Radio are a tribute to his passion and dedication to Vision Australia Radio and the arts.
Chris and his producer Mark put together some Summer Specials at the end of 2025 and with the blessing of his family we would like to share with you these Behind the Scenes specials.
Vision Australia Radio will always be indebted to Chris for his volunteering, and we share our deepest sympathies with his friends, family and colleagues.
SUMMER SPECIAL #2 – Monday January 12, 2026
Welcome to the second Behind the Scenes Summer Special for 2026. Over January we chat with some remarkable people from the arts world - slightly longer chats about their lives and work. Some will join us for the very first time, and others might be familiar to you if you’re a regular listener.
This week is part one of a two-part visit to Adelaide which, of course, means we will start with our regular Adelaide correspondent Elena Vereka but for a change, we’ll be talking about her work with InSite Arts – then she introduces us to dancer turned audio describer, Carol Wellman Kelly, before we catch up with Elena’s predecessor, our former Adelaide correspondent and Artistic Director of Patch Theatre, Geoff Cobham.
They’re all in Adelaide with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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On January 1st Chris Thompson the presenter of Behind the Scenes passed away. The time, effort and care Chris put into Behind the Scenes and all other programs he touched here at Vision Australia Radio are a tribute to his passion and dedication to Vision Australia Radio and the arts.
Chris and his producer Mark put together some Summer Specials at the end of 2025 and with the blessing of his family we would like to share with you these Behind the Scenes specials.
Vision Australia Radio will always be indebted to Chris for his volunteering, and we share our deepest sympathies with his friends, family and colleagues.
Summer Special #1 - Monday January 5, 2026
This week we kick off our Behind the Scenes Summer Specials for 2026. Over January we chat with some remarkable people from the arts world - slightly longer chats about their lives and work. Some will join us for the very first time, and others might be familiar to you if you’re a regular listener.
First up, we meet a mother and daughter from a pretty famous artistic and musical family who both happened to release new albums at the end of last year. Tracey Miller has been a fixture of the music scene for around forty years - some might even say she’s a legend. Maybe she prefers ‘queen’ given that’s the title of her album – Queen of the Creek.
Tracey’s daughter Loretta Miller has also been around for a while, but while you’ll hear her voice on many other artists’ albums, she’s making her solo debut with a self-titled album, Loretta.
They both join Chris Thompson at his kitchen table to talk about their lives, about their music and, of course, about their new albums.
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Screens&Streams Annual Wrap - Monday December 29, 2025
Well, it’s that time of the year again when we look back at what we’ve been seeing on our big and small screens over the past twelve months. Marc Gracie is here for one last go around with our 2025 Screens&Streams Movie Wrap – what were our favourite movies and streamers? What were our biggest disappointments? What surprised us? And what are we looking forward to next year? You’ll get the answers to all these questions on this week’s special edition of the Behind the Scenes Movie Wrap with Chris Thompson and Marc Gracie right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We kick off this week’s festival season show with a little Christmas song from Sting called Soul Cake… and if we’re starting with a Christmas song then that must mean this is our last regular show for the year. But fear not, there’s plenty of good stuff lined up for our season of Summer Specials…
But first, let’s meet some people who are getting ready to help us kick off 2026 with some really great events.
First up, it’s the Peninsular Summer Music Festival which would explain why Melissa Doecke is back to let us know what she and Ben Opie have got lined up for us this year.
Then, it seems like Adelaide is taking over Arts Centre Melbourne in January when Patch Theatre returns with their sublime work for children – Zooom – and we’ll chat with our former Behind the Scenes Adelaide Correspondent Geoff Cobham, who also happens to be Artistic Director of Patch.
Then once Patch leaves the building, Gravity and Other Myths moves in with their high energy show, Ten Thousand Hours and we catch up with the company’s Co-Founder and Director of this production, Lachlan Binns.
And finally, Arena Theatre Company in Bendigo may not have anything planned for January, except maybe a farewell party for long-serving Artistic Director Christian Leavesley who, true to his name, is leaving.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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A bit of poetry to get us going this week with award winning poet and playwright Emilie Collyer who has a new collection of works called As If I’m Really There… funny that, because she really is here…
Then we’re getting in early on the 2026 Midsumma Festival with CEO Karen Bryant who’s here to give us an overview of the whole programme… followed by Karan Nagrani whose festival show From Grndr to Blindr invites us to experience storytelling through the eyes of someone who's learning to live without sight.
And finally, some music to take us out from a Benson and Clem who go by the name Missing Opal and who, surprisingly write and record their music together even though Benson lives here in Naarm/Melbourne and Clem lives in London.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you’d like to hear my other conversations with Emilie Collyer – we spoke about her first collection – Do You Have Anything Less Domestic - on the December 12, 2022 show and we spoke about her play Super on the June 16 show this year - you’ll find them both on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats… plus if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again… talk with you next week… bye!
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Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick met in 1992 when they were reporters for Yorkshire Television. They married and moved to Australia where, these days, he lectures in Social Justice at Sydney University and she’s a psychotherapist. But now, they’ve combined all those experiences in a murder mystery novel – Mind Over Murder – and we’ll find out how they manage this impressive juggling act.
After that, we’ve got a bit of music when we meet Anne Frankenberg CEO of Musica Viva Australia to find out what they’ve got programmed for 2026, followed by QiQi who’s followed up a successful Fringe season with a live album – Elysian Blues – recorded at this year’s Sleepless Festival AND a solo EP both of which will be launched this weekend at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick.
Then Marc Gracie’s here for a bumper, final Screens & Streams for the year ahead of our annual movie wrap at the end of the month.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's our last Theatre Network Australia segment for 2026 which means Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for a final wrap up and to tell us who our final TNA Member of the Month is… here’s a clue – multidisciplinary artist and creative producer Teneille Clerke is hanging on the line…
Then, it's our last visit to Darwin for the year and Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker will be talking us through their recently released programme for 2026…
Then, it’s music all the way to the end of the show…
First up is young singer/songwriter and mental health advocate Harley Müller (aka Capes and Crowns) who’s just released a second single from his new album – Growing Pains…
…and then, Tim Richmond of the Tim Richmond Group fame has been recording songs since the early nineties and he’s just released a new solo album – The Taste…
We’ll meet both musos and listen to some of their music…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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With International Day of People with a Disability only a week or so away, we get in early… first for a chat with Eliza Hull who’ll be hosting the Live Nation gig – One’s to Watch, an artists with disability showcase…
…and then, to meet Co-Artistic Director of Rawcus Theatre Morgan Rose to chat about One Night Only, their new co-production with Jackson Castiglione for Darebin Arts Speakeasy…
After that, writer/director Demetra Giannakopoulos is here ahead of three return performances of her 2022 hit, Coming Out For Christmas a radio-play-style theatre performance about a young queer Australian-Greek woman who brings her Aussie girlfriend home for Christmas lunch… what could possibly go wrong…
And finally, Jayne Tuttle has followed up her first two memoirs – Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine with a third instalment, The Sea in the Metro… so that seems like a good time to catch up for a chat…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you’d like to hear the previous conversations with Jayne Tuttle – we spoke about My Sweet Guillotine in 2022 on the September 26 show and Paris or Die in 2019 on the December 16 show - you’ll find both on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats… plus if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again.
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For the last time this year, we’ll start the show in Perth with Boola Bardip WA Museum’s Helen Simondson who’s here for her regular round up AND to introduce her local guest artist – Kate Champion, recently appointed Black Swan Theatre Artistic Director and Director of the new Meow Meow production of The Red Shoes…
Then, we meet author Roland Perry whose latest book Oliphant fills in the story of Australian Mark Oliphant whose work in nuclear physics was crucial to the development of the atom bomb – even if Christopher Nolan left him out of Oppenheimer…
And finally, Genevieve Morris is here to chat about her terrific solo performance in the MTC production of Benjamin Law’s adaptation of Cory Taylor’s Dying: A Memoir…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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For the last time this year, we say welcome back to InSite Arts’ Elena Vereker for our regular Adelaide round up AND an introduction to her local guest artist – stage and screen writer, lecturer, director, and co-founder of South Australian Playwrights Theatre, Matt Hawkins.
Then we’re off to Ballarat for a brand-new art experience – Sunnyside at the Ballarat Mining Exchange – and we’ll meet the first artist to exhibit there, UK based installation artist, Morag Myerscough.
After that, we’re in for a bit of Shakespeare when Th’Unguarded Duncan and Theatre Works present the Prague Shakespeare Company version of Titus Andronicus. We’ll meet Co-Directors Kevin Hopkins and Claire Nichols as well as actor and Prague Shakespeare Company Associate Director, Josh Morrison.
And finally, Jeremy Goldstein has been in South Africa working with Windybrow Arts Centre in Hillbrow on This Is Who I Am - an ongoing multidisciplinary, intercultural arts platform featuring live and online performances, photo portraits, exhibitions, workshops and dialogues.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's the first show for November and so we’re swinging by the Theatre Network Australia office for a chat with Charice Rust who will also introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month, Anna Molnar, Programme Manager – Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne…
Then, keeping on the topic of access, we’ll welcome Rachel Edward back to the show, this time in her capacity as Creative Producer for the Arts Access Supported Residential Services programme which is presenting Outside In/Inside Out, an exhibition of puppetry at the Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg
Then it’s time for Screens & Streams but before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens, we’ll have a chat with Sophie Somerville about her directorial debut with the feature film Fwends.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you’d like to hear longer conversations with Anna Molnar -Programme Manager: Disability, Arts Access and Inclusion at Arts Centre Melbourne AND Rachel Edward: Creative Producer, Arts Access Supported Residential Services Programme, you’ll find both on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats… plus if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again…
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We start this week with Liz Rogers, General Manager of Browns Mart for a Darwin catch up before we meet Sally Crawford, Chair of Darwin Theatre Company who’ll tell us about Seventeen, their new collaboration with Corrugated Iron Youth Arts…
Then we catch up with LA based Aussie comedian Monty Franklin who’s following up his highly successful Yeah, Nah tour with a new show called Is That Your Mate?
After that, we’ll chat with Ross Larkin about The Last Sunday in June, Firerock Productions’ new show at Chapel off Chapel…
And speaking of Chapel off Chapel, Russell Fletcher is back on the show, this time to talk about directing the upcoming spooky comedy The Haunting of Spook Mansion (by Ghosts)
And finally, a bit of music to take us out when we meet David Hyams who’s currently touring the country with Human Highway, his tribute to the great songs of Neil Young…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Rachel Edward is a Creative Producer with Arts Access and oversees the Supported Residential Services (SRS) Studios. Artists from the SRS Studios have been working with Golden Scissor Puppets to explore the many different ways in which they can create puppets. They have not only opened the doors to their homes, but also to their hearts, minds and imaginations creating Outside In/Inside Out an exhibition that explores the joy of releasing colour, movement and imagination often kept inside. In this work, that exploration takes us into a world of puppets, crank boxes, projections, and sound. The installation at Schoolhouse Studios Gallery in Coburg invites us to experience this world in many ways including tactile tours, audio descriptions and open captions.
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Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum gets the ball rolling this week with a jazzy Perth roundup and a new show at Yirra Yaakin…
After that, even though it’s not our week for Screens&Streams, we’ll check out the Irish Film Festival with Festival Director Dr Enda Murray…
Meanwhile, opera, monsters and pantomime will be taking over Theatre Works’ Explosives Factory when Bladderwrack opens there in a couple of weeks, and we’ll meet co-creator David Tredinnick…
Then, we catch up with Professor Wesley Enoch who amongst his many hats wears one that says Ambassador for the first ever AusArt Day…
And finally, a bit of music to take us out when we meet Nashville based singer-songwriter Imogen Clarkto talk about her tour with Keziah Gill and her new album Choking on Fuel…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re kicking of this week’s show with a walk and talk through the annual Postcards Show at Linden New Art with Curator Hamish Sawyer and Chloe Kokoris whose textile creation, Woven Abstraction I was awarded The Geoffrey Conaghan and Mathew Erbs Tertiary Award.
Then, it’s our final week of Fast Fringe – our effort to cram as many Melbourne Fringe Festival artists into four weeks of shows as we can.
This week you’ll meet…
Sammy J and his show Fiasco: A Burke and Wills Musical – Moira Finucane and students from Monash Uni with Chambers of the Heart – Lliam Amor who’s back to give us clues to Murder in the Graveyard, the latest Murder Village improvised murder mystery – Cat Sewell from Polyglot who’ve made Whirlwind, a new participatory arts experience for children – Sarah Bird Miller and Ria Soemardjo who are retelling the myths of Persephone and Demeter with What Lies Beneath – and, finally, Jo Raphael from Fusion Theatre who are performing The Weathering…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Amrit Gill gets us going this week with our regular Theatre Network Australia spot and she lets us know that the TNA Member of the Month for October is Jamie Lewis whose current show Sincere Apologies makes for a nice segue into our third week of Fast Fringe… our effort to cram as many Melbourne Fringe artists into four editions of Behind the Scenes as possible…
So, our other Fast Fringe friends this week include Kamarra Bell-Wykes and Carly Sheppard in The Blok! - our favourite blind comedian Jeremy Moses who claims that he’s Hard to Work With – Stephen Wakefield from Museums Victoria to talk about Nocturnal – and Rebecca Jensen who’s choreographer and lead artist for Flesh Mirror in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre…
After that, Marc Gracie is here for our usual chat about what we’ve seen on our Screens & Streams.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re kicking off at Footscray Community Arts this week with Gideon Wilonja for a chat about the new show I Met an Angel Named Jaques, a story set in a real world that’s completely made up…
Then we meet Damon Branacki who’s here to talk about the Thursday Group whose latest production Falling Heads will follow up its Melbourne debut with a tour to Denmark…
After that, we catch up with Nancy Black from Black Hole Theatre who’ve been working hard on three new projects performing in regional Victoria – Journey of the Karen – Someone in the Dark - and the third – Sky Could Be Blue - provides a nice segue into our second week of Fast Fringe, our attempt to meet as many Melbourne Fringe Festival artists as possible in a short space of time…
After Nancy, the Fast Fringe chat just keep on rolling with first time playwright of A Guide to Being Immortal, Shane Woon - producer of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with a live score, Johannes Luebbers – choreographer of The Break, Zoe Bastin – Creator (with FUZEensemble) of Beneath, Fleur Dean and young performer Mitchell Gee – and QiQi from Elysian Blues II
Whew! That’s a lot… and they’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re up north for the start of this week’s show with Darwin correspondent Yvette Walker, Artistic Director at Brown’s Mart, who’s joined by their Honorary Elder in Residence, Dr Richard Fejo Snr better known as Uncle Richard.
Then it’s a chat with author Rhonda McCoy about her new novel Crow…
…before we launch into this year’s Fast Fringe – quick chats with as many Melbourne Fringe artists as we can fit into the three weeks of the festival...
Melbourne Fringe CEO and Creative Director, Simon Abrahams, along with Deadly Fringe Programming Coordinator Peta Duncan are here to kick us off with our annual overview of the festival…
…before we get into it all with Alex Walker from House of Muchness and their Fed Square event – The Square…
…followed by a bit of unscripted mayhem with friends of the show, Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess, better known as The Tuck Shop Ladies…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum gets us going this week with her regular Perth round up and, of course, a local guest artist… this time it’s flash fiction specialist, Gillian O’Shaughnessy who’s part of Freemantle’s Totally Lit Festival…
Then, we stick with literature for most of the rest of the show, catching up with Alison Booth whose eighth novel is Death at Booroomba, her first venture into historical crime fiction… and then much loved multi-award winning author Kate Grenville whose new book Unsettled takes her on a road journey into her own past and the often denied past of our own country post colonisation.
And finally, we’ll wrap up the show with a couple of the filmmakers - Sally Newman and Violeta Abarzua - whose short films are finalists in this year’s Focus On Ability festival again celebrating ability in all forms through the works of a diverse group of international filmmakers.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts gets us going this week with her Adelaide round up…
…and then introduces us to Ben Francis who’s part of the retro vocal group The 60-Four who are celebrating their tenth birthday with a gig in Shepparton…
Meanwhile, back in Melbourne at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio, playwright Daniel Keene, director Matt Sholten and actor Noni Hazelhurst have reunited after the success of Mother, to present The Lark, and we’ll catch up with the entire cast of the show, which is to say, with Noni herself…
Then it’s time for the Arts Projects Australia open day again, so we’ll drop in on their studio to meet artist Mark Smith and Jo Salt who’s Curator of their current exhibition Embodied, showing at their Collingwood Yards gallery…
And finally, it’s RUOK Day this Thursday, which means it’s time to catch up with RUOK Day Ambassador Aislinn Sharp and to listen to Replacing Feelings the new song she’s released for this year’s event…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Theatre Network Australia CEO Amrit Gill is here to kick us off this week AND to let us know that Western Edge Youth Arts is the TNA Member of the Month for September, and we’ll meet Artistic Director John Mark Desengano…
Then, it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams starting with director Kate Woods who, 25 years after directing Looking for Alibrandi, is back on the big screen with the captivating family film; Kangaroo…
…and after that, Marc Gracie joins in for our usual round up of what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker gets the Darwin ball rolling tonight and introduces us to her local guest artist, Writer/Performer of We Keep Everything, Lisa Pellegrino…
Then it’s Spring in Darebin and that means it’s time for the FUSE Festival and we’ll meet this year’s Ganbu Gulin Curator in Residence, Ethan Savage…
Meanwhile, Bangarra Dance Theatre is back in town with a new work – Illume, and Daniel Mateo, one of the dancers for this performance is dropping by for a chat…
After that, much loved comedian John Clarke left us way too early and never wrote down his life story. So his daughter Lorin Clarke has done the job for him in her new doco – But Also John Clarke - and she’s here to tell us about it AND him …
And, just in case we didn’t get enough of McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery’s Music Curator Monica Curro at the start of the month, she’s back to tell us more about her last few Music on Sunday events for the year…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you’d like to hear Shane Carroll talking about Bangarra’s innovative audio description for dance, you can find her on the August 12 show from last year (2024) as well as a special longer conversation on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats…
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here to let us know what’s going on in the west AND to introduce us to Daniel Schoknecht who’s the Curator in charge of the visiting Terra Cotta Warriors…
Then Chamber Made is taking over the public and hidden spaces of the Melbourne Recital Centre when they present Listening Acts – a programme of three live performances and six sound installations – and we’ll meet one of the artists – Aviva Endean – to find out what we’ll be listening to…
Meanwhile, the Bowlines trio is back with another live, improvised performance that could include echoes of classical, Norwegian, Indian, blues, klezmer, Balkan, Turkish , Greek, Irish, Scottish and jazz music styles. How do they fit all that in? Ernie Gruner is here to explain…
And finally, it might be our week to focus on Perth, but we’re sneaking in an artist from Adelaide when we meet young singer songwriter Zara Chantelle who’s just released a song about breakups that, oddly, is called Happiness…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Well, our Adelaide correspondent Elena Verker’s lost her voice, so we literally won’t hear from her this month – BUT, she did see the State Theatre Company’s new production Dear Son adapted from the book by Thomas Mayo by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey and if she was here she’d be saying how great it is and that you should see it before it closes on August 16 AND she also managed to line up a local guest artist, Bridget Alfred who’s head honcho of SALA – the South Australia Living Artists Festival…
Speaking of festivals, MUDfest – Melbourne Uni’s biennial student arts festival is back and one of its Co-Directors – Riya Gupta – will tell us about how this year’s theme – Refraction – has influence the programme…
Meanwhile, at Theatre Works Briony Dunn is adapting and directing The Machine Stops from a 1909 novella by EM Forster that predicted the internet, TED Talks and video calls…
And finally, Screens & Streams may be a week late, but we make up for it with a bumper edition when Marc Gracie drops in for a look at three movie franchises that are trying their best to maintain our interest…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It’s August already and this month we’re devoting our whole Theatre Network Australia spot to a special TNA member of the Month – it’s the new TNA CEO Amrit Gill.
Then Producer and Musical Director Ben Samuel is here for a chat about Songs for a New World and to tell us why a Producer would add in more performers than the script actually calls for…
Then we’re off to the Royal Botanic Gardens with our ear buds in for a new episode of Sonica Botanica - the free self-guided listening experience set in the new climate-adapted Australian Drylands and we’ll find out what that means when we chat with Creative Producer Sally McPhee…
After that, we head down on the Peninsular Link to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery where we’ll welcome back Music Curactor Monica Curro to find out what the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is doing there…
And finally, a very short Screens & Streams this week when Tom Middleditch swings by to let us know all the access arrangements we can take advantage of in this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. But fear not… we’ve only delayed the arrival of Marc Gracie until next week when there’ll be a bumper Screens & Streams to make up for our tardiness…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Yvette Walker from Brown’s Mart kicks of our Darwin spot for July and introduces us to Monkey, Lead Producer and Sound Designer for Crown and Country as part of the Darwin Festival …
Then, we drop in on Bloomshed’s rehearsals for their latest production – Pride and Prejudice – and talk Jane Austen, housing shortages and playdoh with James Jackson …
After that, Peter Knight is here to talk about his new album Too Long; Didn’t Read and why all the track titles are cloud names…
And finally, Melbourne Fringe is quite a way off, but we’re sneaking in a quick catch up with Creative Director Simon Abrahams to talk about First Trimester, one of its upcoming shows where you could be involved – as a sperm donor… What’s all that about? That’s Simon’s job to explain…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson, right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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In this special extended version of a Behind the Scenes story from the July 21 show, join me Chris Thompson and Koorie Heritage Trust Curator Gail Harradine as we walk and talk our way through two remarkable exhibitions:
Coming Home by Dr. Jenny Murray-Jones - a Yorta Yorta and Baraparapa artist whose work offers a poignant exploration of family reconnection, delving into themes of Country, Kinship, and the enduring impact of colonisation and institutional life.
Connections to Home showcases fifty artworks by revered Barkindji and Ngiyampaa Elder, Uncle Colin (Col) Clark. including spears, shields, clubs, tapping sticks, digging sticks, boomerangs, didgeridoos, painted emu eggs, bowls, and paintings created over the past 20 years.
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WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Helen Simondson gives us her regular Perth roundup at the top of this week’s show before introducing her local guest artist, journalist and novelist Marcia van Zellerwho talks about her new book is Be A Good Girl Valerie…
Then, we’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for another walk and talk with Curator Gail Harradine – this time it’s through two exhibitions: Coming Home by Jenny Murray-Jones and Connections to Home by Uncle Col Clarke…
Meanwhile, at the Wyndham Cultural Centre in Werribee, you get a second opportunity to see the fantastic theatre performance – The Yellow Line, and we’ll meet Co-Writer and Co-Director Alaine Beek and performer Wiremu Morris…
And finally, if you’re a fan of Leonard Cohen, then you’ll probably want to hear Monsieur Camembert’s performance of Cohen Noir, a 35-year retrospective of his songs as we’ll discover when we meet Yaron Hallis…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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InSite’s Elena Vereker is here for her regular Adelaide round up AND to introduce her local guest artists, Windmill Theatre’s Artistic Director Clare Watson…
Then, St Martins Youth Arts Centre’s Artistic Director Nadja Kostich isn’t in Melbourne – she’s in Darwin with St Martin’s beautiful, award-winning show Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again. which has headed north for the Darwin Fringe Festival…
Meanwhile, at Arts Centre Melbourne, they’re gearing up for the opening of Monkey Baa’s production of Yong, a tale of Chinese Australians on the Victorian Goldfields and we’ll meet writer Jenevieve Chang…
And speaking of Monkey Baa’s (a bit of a tortured segue) we’ll finish the show out at The Incinerator Gallery for a walk and talk (and a climb on the monkey bars) at the fabulous, interactive Playground Project with visiting Curator Gabriela Burkhalter and City of Moonee Valley’s Head of Visual and Public Art, Jade Niklai…
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Given it’s NAIDOC Week, it makes sense that Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia has selected First Nations circus performer, trainer with Flipside Circus, producer and creator of the Waterways project - Lara Croydon as the TNA member of the Month for July.
Then, sticking with the NAIDOC Week theme and as a follow up to last month’s visit with Jacob, Alisha and Timothy at Confined16, we’ll be talking about another powerful exhibition of works by First Nations artists who’ve experienced incarceration presented by the Torch, this time in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern Art – it’s called Blak In Justice and its curator Kent Morris is on the line to talk about it.
After that there’s more from Darebin Speakeasy – this time it’s award-winning visual artist, installation artist, spoken word poet, and storyteller wani toaishara who’s about to present his solo show Garçon.
And finally, Marc Gracie is back for a bit of a catch up on what we’ve seen on our Screens & Streams…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
If you’d like to hear the artists Jacob, Alisha and Timothy talking about the Torch’s other project – Confined 16 it was on the June 9 edition of the show and you’ll find it on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats… plus if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again… talk with you next week… bye!
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To mark this year’s NAIDOC Week, Behind the Scenes presents this extended conversation between Chris Thompson and Kent Morris (proud Barkindji man) Creative Director of The Torch, who worked with Heide Museum of Modern Art to curate Blak In-Justice, a powerful and eclectic exhibition of works examining the issues of deaths in custody, the over representation of First Nations people in our prisons and the long history of injustice to our First Peoples all from the perspective of First Nations artists who have experienced incarceration. The exhibition runs until July 20 and Kent will be hosting a special artist talk at Heide on Saturday July 12 at 10am. (photo by James Morgan)
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In this Behind the Scenes NAIDOC Week special, Presenter Chris Thompson chats with Allara Briggs Pattison, a Yorta Yorta, musician, composer, storyteller, language learner, soundscape designer, curator and, as of late last year, community farmer. She plays double bass and uses a loop station to create works inspired by ancient oral traditions. Her spoken word stories reflect cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. In this conversation she speaks about how her work on the land and her work in music feed each other and talks about her collaborative music making ahead of her upcoming gig at Monash Performing Arts Centres as part of Blakout, the fantastic festival of works and performances by First Nations artists which began in Reconciliation Week and will end during NAIDOC Week.
Allara’s performance in the David Li Sound Gallery is on July 6 which is also the start of NAIDOC WEEK 2025.
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Ever heard of the Folk Architects? Me neither. At least I hadn’t until I met Tim Wilson who’s first up on tonight’s show.
Then it’s music all the way for the rest of the show…
First up is Alex Watts who’s just released a very cool EP – Permission…
…then it’s welcome back Allara Briggs Pattison whose gig at Monash Performing Arts Centres next weekend will simultaneously round out the Blakout Festival AND see in the start of NAIDOC Week…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Tim Wilson is co-founder and co-director of Folk Architects, an award-winning architecture practice with a vision to create inclusive and equitable spaces that engage with the community. They activate spaces by integrating art, design, science, and technology in a collaborative user-generated way. In this conversation, Tim talks about how his practice aims to make better built world, not just for the disability community, but for the community as a whole and how becoming the parent of a child living with disability sharpened his focus on the company’s vision.
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We’re in Darwin with Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker for the start of this week’s show and she’ll introduce us to Balla Neeba and Aunty Christine Fejo-King talking about the Aboriginal Science Fair On Country as well as Darwin Fringe Festival Director Hannah Illingsworth.
Then we catch up with Sarah Hopkins who’s the CEO of Your Library – at least it’s your library if you live in the Knox, Maroondah or Yarra Ranges local council areas – confused? Well, Sarah clears it up when she tells us about LIBBY the ebook and audio book app that’s had more than one million borrowings already…
After that, we’ll chat with photographer and video artist Laki Sideris who’s part of the ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain exhibition at Burrinja Gallery in Upwey.
And finally, Moira Finucane is best known for her work in burlesque, but she’s also knows a lot about Antarctica, and she’ll be sharing that knowledge with children when her kids show The Rockstar and the Krill opens at Monash Performing Arts Centres as part of Family Fiesta.
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Helen Simonson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going this week with her monthly round up of all this Perth…
Then, we drop in on rehearsals for the remount of the smash hit Happy Go Wrong and find out what it’s like to revisit such a personal show after seven years when we chat with creator/performer Andi Snelling…
Meanwhile, the stage adaptation of the popular novel about the youngest soldier at Gallipoli – Soldier Boy – is about to open at Theatre Works and writer/adaptor Anthony Hill is here to talk about the difference between being the novelist and being the playwright…
And finally, yet another new play has just opened, this time at Red Stitch and poet, essayist and playwright Emilie Collyer will tell us about Super…
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If it’s the second Monday of the month, then it must be time to drop in on Elena Vereker from InSite Arts for our regular Adelaide catch up AND to meet her local guest artist, prolific actor about to appear in Kimberly Akimbo, Nathan O’Keefe…
Then, even though the Comedy Festival is well over, there’s still funny stuff happening, and to prove it, we’ll meet comedian Chris Ryan and find out why she’s an Extreme Tennant…
Meanwhile, Polyglot’s Artistic Director Cat Sewell is playing in the Cubbyhood and if you’re wondering what that means, then you’re sure to find out from Cat…
And finally, it’s our annual visit to Confined, the exhibition of remarkable work by First Nations’ artists who’ve experienced incarceration… usually, we’d be talking to curator Kent Morris but this year we’re mixing it up a bit by talking to three of the artists in the exhibition – Jacob, Alisha and Timothy…
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Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here to do our Theatre Network Australia spot this moth AND to introduce the TNA Member of the Month for June – Joel Bray whose new show Monolith is about to open at Arts House in North Melbourne…
And speaking of shows opening, Belle Hansen’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information has just opened at Theatre Works and for a change of pace, we’ll chat with that show’s composer and sound designer Jack Burmeister…
Then, LOTS to talk about on Screens&Streams… first up we’ll meet Finnish/Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg who’s having their own film festival – Winter Warmers – at Henkel Street Cinema… then Richard Sowada is back to talk about this year’s St Kilda Film Festival… AND we’ll look at one of the festival’s films screens as part of the festival’s Pride Without Prejudice event – a new short film – Found – written and directed by our very own Luka Gracie… and if that’s not enough screen culture for you, Marc Gracie is here as usual to chat about a couple of new movies we’ve seen…
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We’ll be chatting with Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart in Darwin first up tonight, and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist – choreographer, dance and Brown’s Mart Associate Producer Balla Neeba…
Then we’re off to Monash Performing Arts Centres to find out about Blakout – six weeks of First Nation’s music, dance and storytelling running from Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3) to NAIDOC Week (July 6 to 13) and who better to tell us about it than MPAC’s Senior Producer First Nations, Tom Molyneux…
And while we’re at Monash University, let’s drop in on Professor Kim Marriott at MATS (the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre) to find out how his work and the work of his team is changing the lives of the blind and low vision community…
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It's Boola Bardip Museum’s Helen Simondson’s turn to get the ball rolling this week with her regular Perth roundup and, of course, her local guest artist… Michelle Hovane, Co-Artistic Director of Sensorium Theatre…
Then we’re off to the Bowery Theatre in St Albans for the world premiere of The Yellow Line, a play that asks whether culture and connection can break the cycle of incarceration. We’ll meet Producer-Creator Tyson Tuala…
Meanwhile, at Darebin Arts Speakeasy, dance maker Sarah Aiken has a new work – Body Corp – and we’ll catch up with her to find out how easily the body in space merges with technology…
And finally, we’ll head up to Bendigo to catch up with Janice Donnelly to find out about the Bendigo Chorale’s latest performance – Songs of the Isles…
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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is here for our regular Adelaide catch up and to introduce us to Rachael Azzopardi – Co-Founder and Creative Director of Illuminate Adelaide…
Then, Conductor Mario Dobernig is back to tell us about the latest Victoria Chorale and Art of Sound Orchestra performance – Jospeh Hayden’s The Creation…
After that we’ll visit Theatre Works not once but twice – first to chat with Director Teresa Izzard about her production of Shadowboxing – and then to chat with Director Maude Davey and Writer/Performer Myf Hocking about the Antipodes Theatre production of Storked…
And finally, some very cool music from Wild Gloriosa from the new EP Growing Pains…
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Steph Spears is the Theatre Network Australia rep for the start of May and she’ll be introducing the TNA Member of the Month, Philip Channells from Dance Integrated Australia …
Then, it’s time for the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and Vision Australia Radio is a media partner – so let’s do some media with Festival Director, Veronica Sullivan…
After that, it’s time for Screens & Streams, and we’ll start with Elysia Zeccola from Palace Films for a chat about the German Film Festival… before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…
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This month our Darwin correspondent is Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart and she’ll be introducing us to Nicky Fearn and Gail Evans, creators of Fair Punishment…
Then it’s time for the Yirramboi Festival again and we’ll sit down with Co-Leads Sherene Stewart and J’Maine Beezley to find out all the good stuff…
And then a bit of music to finish off the show… new instrumental dance group Intermood have released their debut album – Casuarina – so, we’ll listen to a couple of tracks and chat with drummer Miles Murray…
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There’s a great new exhibition at Linden New Art – Bernhard Sachs: After History - which celebrates the life and art of artist and academic Bernhard Sachs and Curator Hamish Sawyer walks and talks us through these remarkable works…
…and speaking of Linden New Art, and exhibition we missed last year has been captured in a beautiful book – I’m A Believer by artist Michelle Hamer capturing her exploration of the invalidation and dismissive language we often encounter in healthcare systems all over the world…
And why not spend the whole show in galleries… we’ll finish up at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery where Monica Curro is rolling out a fabulous new programme of Music on Sundays…
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We start this week’s show in Adelaide with Elena Vereker from InSite Arts who’ll introduce her local guest artist, Jennifer Greer Holmes from Vital Statistix…
Then we’re off on a bit of a nostalgia trip at the Museum of Australian Photography when we check out The Basement, their exhibition devoted to celebrating the Photography Course at Prahran College from 1968 to 1981 and we’ll meet photographer Paul Lambeth who was there as a student AND there on opening night…
Meanwhile, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is still going so let’s catch up with comedian Anisa Nandaula who’ll tell us why You Can’t Say That…
…and then let’s drop in on Gasworks for a bit of Berlin Burlesque from the Lyttelton Circus Theatre Company and we’ll chat with David Ladderman… who is either a narrating juggler or a juggling narrator…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Welcome to Behind the Scenes… my name’s Chris Thompson and each week as we talk about the arts and culture across Melbourne, across Victoria and across the country, we acknowledge the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation… the traditional custodians of the land on which we make this show… we pay our respects to their ancestors and elders past, present and emerging and remember that they are part of the longest continuing culture in the world.
First show of the month means a visit from Theatre Network Australia and this month we catch up with Josh Lowe who’ll also introduce the TNA member of the Month – Bina Bhattacharya from PYT Fairfield Theatre for young and emerging artists…
Then, Amanda Douge is an Australian actor and Theatre Maker who’s been living in the UK where she’s been investigating the intersection between theatre and the climate crisis… and she’s brought part of that investigation – Rosa Luxemburg and I - back home for a one night showing and discussion at the Abbotsford Convent…
Ross Judd is a consultant in communication management, and he’s brought together many of the things he’s learned over the years into a book about – exactly what its title says – Listening…
And finally, it’s Screens&Streams time again with Marc Gracie and a whole bunch of new films…
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It's almost school holidays and amongst the many things on offer for young people is a pretty terrific programme of workshops and activities at the Koorie Heritage Trust, which is why CEO Tom Mosby is here to tell us what’s what AND to remind us that the fashion and textiles exhibition - Stitchin’ Stories: Blak and Threadly is still running through until May…
Then, New Zealand theatre company – A Slightly Isolated Dog – has made the trip across the ditch to bring us their latest production – Jekyll and Hyde… we were to catch up with company members Jonathan Price and Andrew Paterson but sadly, they’ve gone AWOL but never fear… in their place we’ll meet Phillipe and Julie… who might well be in the production, or maybe not…
Then, it’s two for price of one when Rueben Kaye drops by to talk about playing the iconic role of Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar PLUS what he’s got in store for us with his latest Melbourne International Comedy Festival show…
And speaking of the Comedy Festival, UK comedian and occasional equine Elf Lyons claims to have the first comedy show ever performed entirely by a horse… appropriately titled… Horses…
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It's our week to begin in the Northern Territory, so we’re welcoming back one half of our dynamic Darwin duo – Brown’s Mart Artistic Director, Yvette Walker and she’ll be introducing us to Nadine Lee, Artistic Director of the Larakia Studio…
Then, author Maryrose Cuskelly is back to talk about her new book – The Campers… which she’s referring to as Neighbourhood Noir… what’s that about? And if it’s noir, who is the homme fatale?
And finally, award winning opera singer Piera Dennerstein is Pursuing Pleasure… at least that’s the name of her show, and we’ll find out whether her pursuit pays off… and listen to a bit of a song…
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip has been to the theatre and she’ll be telling us about that in her Perth roundup, before introducing her local guest artists, Shannon Yujnovich from The Lester Prize for portraiture which is on the hunt for young artists…
Then, at Theatre Works, they have a brand new building in their back stage area and a brand new show – The Three Sisters – in their onstage area… so it’s a good time to drop in on Executive Director and Creative Producer Dianne Toulson…
Meanwhile, Vision Australia Radio is an official sponsor of the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival, so why don’t we chat with Community Learning Officer Silvia Velez and featured author Holden Sheppard…
And finally, let’s head up the Hume Highway to the Albury Entertainment Centre where blind singer and former Voice contenstant Julee-Anne Bell is collaborating with pianist Melissa Buchholz to bring us Perfectly Imperfect – Songs and Stories of Life, Love and Laughter…
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Sadly, we’re without Elena Vereker this month, but she’ll be back on deck in April for our regular Adelaide round up…
So, our first guest this week is trans playwright Eva Rees who’s new psychological thriller, Djuna is about to open as part of Darebin Speakeasy…
Then, it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams…
…starting with Sian Mitchell who returns to the show to let us know all the good things she’s got in store for us at this year’s Melbourne Women in Film Festival…
…then we’ll meet Mitu Bhowmick Lange, Producer of the new Australian film My Melbourne which has just hit the local cinema screens and will soon be on screens in India…
And finally, Marc Gracie is here for a debrief on this year’s Oscars and some thoughts on some of the contenders for best picture… did the Academy get it right?
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Here we are in March already, and Steph Speirs is here with the Theatre Network Australia round up and an introduction to our TNA Member of the Month – a former TNA regular on Behind the Scenes – Tessa Leong…
After that, Susie Dee is back for a chat – this time about THREE different show’s she directed… Rodeo Clown and I’m With Her at HotHouse Theatre… and the new Patricia Cornelius play Truth at The Malthouse…
Then we catch up with Captain Fish AKA Bill Marshall to tell us what we’ll experience at this year’s Festival of Surrealisms…
And finally, it should be Screens & Streams this week, but it’s Oscar night! So we’ve decided to hold off until next week when we can reflect on the gongs and the snubs… but we still have a movie to talk about… twenty-two years after David Wenham as Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri made his famous run down the street wearing only thongs and underpants in Gettin’ Square, he’s back in the eponymous sequel Spit – and we’ll ask screenwriter Chris Nyst why it took so long…
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Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day, Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson sits down with one of the country’s most respected and prolific theatre directors Susie Dee. In addition to reflecting upon the long struggle of women artists to gain equal footing with their male counterparts, particularly in areas of artistic leadership and decision making, Susie chats about three different productions that are currently either on stage or about to open – all created with remarkable women playwrights, performers and theatre makers. Two of them are soon to open at HotHouse Theatre – Rodeo Clown features the incomparable and highly physical theatre-maker and performer Nicci Wilks – and I’m With Her is written by award winning playwright, documentary filmmaker and director Victoria Midwinter Pitt and focuses on Pitt’s intimate conversations with eight prominent women in the public eye and examines “…the power of women to outlast, outwit and out-muscle the great ugly beast of sexism.” Meanwhile, at Malthouse Theatre, Susie’s production of multi-award-winning playwright Patricia Corenelius’ latest play Truth has already opened to much acclaim.
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Our first Darwin round-up for the year is also a chance to meet our new Darwin Correspondents. Yes, that’s right – not one but two correspondents who’ll be sharing the role (which makes sense considering they’re sharing the CEO role at Brown’s Mart!)… so, say hello to Yvette Walker, new CEO and Artistic Director… and Liz Rogers, new CEO and General Manager…
Then we’re off to the Pacific Islands to talk about two works coming soon to AsiaTOPA… our first stop is New Zealand/Aotearoa where we’ll meet FAFSWAG’s Tanu Gago, Producer of Sauniga… and then we’re off to Java to meet Melati Suryodarmo, creator of Lapse…
Meanwhile, in regional Victoria and regional South Australia, three leading youth theatre companies – Arena Theatre, D’Faces of Youth and Riverland Youth Theatre - have joined forces for a unique production of HG Wells War of the Worlds, and Arena’s Artistic Director Christian Leavesley is here to tell us how that partnership works…
And finally, Morning Melodies at Arts Centre Melbourne is turning 40 and we’ll chat with one of the performers in this year’s programme, singer and storyteller Darren Coggan…
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is first up this week which means it must be our first catch up with what’s on in Perth for the year… PLUS our first chance to meet a local guest artist – this month it’s the Blue Room Theatre’s Executive Director Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa…
Then, even though the Midsumma Festival is done and dusted, one of its exhibitions is still going strong and Jake Treacy, Curator at the Incinerator Gallery walks and talks us through Chthonic Chorus…
Meanwhile, at Northcote Town Hall, Darebin Arts Speakeasy is underway with Tantrum for 6 and choreographer Harrison Ritchie-Jones is here to tell us about it…
And finally, we get a bit more of AsiaTOPA when co-creator of Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Monica Lim, is here to tell us why there are no seats for this immersive performance…
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Technically, tonight should be our first Adelaide segment for the year… but our Adelaide correspondent Elena Vereka from Insite Arts is in Melbourne. Why? We’ll find out when I catch up with her… in person for a change… (ps… here’s a clue!)
Then, it’s St Kilda Festival time again and that’s a good reason to chat with City of Port Philip Mayor Louise Crawford to find out what they’ve got lined up for us this year…
Meanwhile, in the lead up to AsiaTOPA we’ll talk with celebrated photographer and visual artist William Yang who’s teamed up with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to make Milestone, a look back at fifty years of social change and the evolution of our bohemian artist community…
Over at Theatre Works, they’re gearing up for a gothic suburban horror show in which, it seems, the Monster’s name is Jerry. Writer, Amy May Nunn is here to tell us how all that relates to having kids…
And finally, this Thursday, February 13 is World Radio Day and this year’s environmental theme matches quite nicely with Limb: Ode to the Trees, a new show about to premier as part of Flinders Fringe on the Mornington Peninsular and we’ll meet two of its creators, Sally Grage-Moore and Carole Patullo…
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Theatre Network Australia’s Co-Executive Director Josh Lowe is kicking off our first TNA spot for 2025 AND introducing us to the first TNA member of the Month for the year – it’s theatre maker, performer and producer Jeremy Goldstein who’s Theatre Works show Truth to Power Café is part of this year’s Midsumma Ferstival…
…and speaking of Midsumma AND Theatre Works, we’ll also be catching up with writer/performer/songwriter Ella Filar and Director Kevin Hopkins to talk about their Midsumma entry – The Butcher The Baker…
And finally, it’s our first Screens&Streams segment for the year which means Marc Gracie is here and Luka Gracie is with him to the throw in his two cents worth on what we’ve seen on our big and small screens (In fact, this month it’s Big Screens all the way!)
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On the first show of each month, Behind the Scenes welcomes the Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month. For the February 3, 2025 show, the TNA Member of the Month was theatre producer and performer Jeremy Goldstein who talks about his Midsumma Festival show Truth to Power Caféwhich has already been performed sixty times in eight different countries welcoming eight hundred participants to join Jeremy on stage. Audiences in theatres and at festivals in England, Scotland, The Netherlands and Croatia have already flocked to it - it had an online audience of over half a million people and last year it played at the Lincoln Centre in New York and the Chutzpah! Festival in Vancouver. It also won an Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre for performances in Kimba, a remote rural farming community in the Eyre Peninsula.
The Theatre Works/Midsumma Festival season is the first time Truth to Power Café has been seen in Melbourne.
In addition to speaking about the show, Jeremy also reflects on his time with ActUP in the 80s and 90s, working with Handspan Theatre and Melbourne Fringe and with Penny Arcade in London.
An edited version of that conversation went to air on the February 3 edition of Behind the Scenes, but here is the complete, unedited version. It’s a lovely conversation and well worth the listening.
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We start the year in Seattle where we catch up with Marilyn Raichle who, for those with long memories, was last on the show in 2018 speaking about an exhibition called The Art of Alzheimer’s which included works by her mother Jean. Well, now Marilyn’s written a book about her ‘care partner journey’ with Jean and others. It’s called Don’t Walk Away: A Care Partner’s Journey and it’s a pretty fascinating read, as you’ll find when we chat with Marilyn.
Meanwhile, back in Melbourne at the City Gallery, we catch up with Patrick Pound for a walk and talk through his latest curated collection, The Museum of Falling where the challenge is to find the connection between the many objects on display and the various ways we think about falling.
And then finally, we’re at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall for a sit down with the Australian Art Orchestra’s Artistic Director, Aaron Choulai to find out about Ane Ta Abia, their collaboration with the Tatana Village Choir from Papua New Guinea who’ll be performing as part of AsiaTOPA.
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It’s our final Behind the Scenes Summer Special for the start of 2025 and this week we’re trying out a bit of a different format for our usual Screens & Streams segment. Generally, in that spot on the first week of every month, Marc Gracie joins us to review current movie and streamer releases. But, because this is a ‘special’ edition, we’re changing the focus from ‘reviews’ to ‘Re-Views’ which allows us to revisit films we’ve seen some time ago and to ask ourselves the question; ‘is our response to this movie still the same on a re-viewing as it was on our first viewing? The two films we focus on here are Lost in Space (1998) and La La Land (2016). We’ll also be making some comments about the 2024 Francis Ford Coppola epic Megalopolis with a view to ‘re-viewing’ it a year or so from now… that’s on this week’s final Summer Special edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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On our second summer special for 2025, you’ll meet two fabulous Sydney based singer/songwriters – Ella Haber and Cinta - who sometimes tour together, often sing backup vocals for each other and, not surprisingly, are very good friends.
They both have new albums – Cinta’s album Worth Control came out late last year and Ella’s album Through Blood Like Kin, will be out later this year.
In November last year we caught up with them both but you only heard an edited version of our conversation. This is your chance to hear the whole thing PLUS a selection of their songs – you’ll hear Cinta sing Walls and More Than Enuff from the new album – as well as Bang Up To The Elephant, a very cool instrumental from her previous album Feel Good. You’ll also hear Ella sing Good For Me and My Father from her previous album Moments Between Dreams – but to get us started, we hear Ella with the first single from her soon to be released album – Walk On.
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We kick off our first summer special for 2025 with a visit to Toronto in Canada (where it is most definitely not summer). There we’ll find our first guest. RJ Martine is the founder of Joyslam - Canada’s premier Aboriginal funk rock recording project.
At the end of last year, RJ was a guest on the December 16 episode of Behind the Scenes… if you missed it, all is not lost – just search for Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes wherever you get your podcasts and you can hear that show and any others you might have missed, or want to hear again…
If you did catch that episode, you only got to hear an edited version of that conversation. Tonight is your chance to hear the whole thing PLUS a selection of songs from RJ’s new Joyslam album – Spirit Star.
We play Misfortune, Real World, Spirit, Set The World and Drum Beats… BUT we start off with another track from that album – Who Do You Want To Be…?
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It’s that time of the year again, when we review the movies and streamers we’ve seen on our big and small screens – not just the ones we talked about on Screens & Streams but many more that we couldn’t fit into the show. As always, Marc Gracie joins Chris Thompson to talk about our favourites, our disappointments and the releases we’re looking forward to in 2025.
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Our last regular show of the year is always also our Christmas show – HoHoHo… and so tonight. we’re looking at some events coming up in January and February which might just make excellent last minute Christmas presents…
We’ll chat with Simon Myers to hear what gigs are coming up at MEMO Music Hall in ST Kilda…
We’ll chat with Melissa Doecke to find out what she and Ben Opie have planned for the 2025 Peninsular Summer Music Festival…
Plus we’ll meet Giovanni Adams who plays Ike Turner in the fabulous Tina: The Tina Turner Musical….
AND, just for good measure, we’ll welcome back Aislinn Sharpe who’s just released a new single… AND a bit of Christmas music from two or three of the stars appearing at this year’s Vision Australia Carols by Candlelight.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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How does a dancer and choreographer end up as both a doctor and a highly successful music event promoter? Best we ask The Sound Doctor, David Corbett when he drops in for a chat.
How many artworks can you see at Linden New Art’s annual Postcard Show and how can you get an audio described tour of the exhibition? Best we ask Linden New Art Curator Hamish Sawyer.
How do you capture the magic of an Alison Lester book in a live performance on stage? Best we ask the creative mind who adapted Imagine Live from her book Imagine – Jolyon James.
And who is Canada’s premiere Aboriginal Funk Rock Recording Project? Best we ask RJ Martine from Joyslam.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Kim Marriot leads the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre at Monash Uni and has an ongoing interest in the way data visualisation can be sued by people who are blind or have low vision. That’s why there’s a chapter about it in the book he’s just written – The Golden Age of Data Visualisation: How Did We Get Here?
Meanwhile, in Japan, singer/songwriter Laurier Tiernan (who we met some time ago as one half of the group Nature Airliner) has just released Descending, a new album – except that it’s not really – it’s actually his very first solo album re-released after twenty years.
Back in Naarm/Melbourne it’s time for our annual visit to the Koorie Art Show with Gail Harradine at the Koorie Heritage Trust and we’re also just in time to get excited about a Very Koorie Kristmas…
And speaking of Christmas, the Victoria Chorale and the Art of Sound Orchestra are about to head into St Paul’s Cathedral for their Christmas Celebration and Conductor Dr Mario Dobernig returns to the show to tell us what he’ll be conducting…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Our final Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month for 2024 is… TNA itself – and we’ll look back over the achievements of the year with Erica McCalman, Josh Lowe, Steph Spiers, Lauren Swain, Christian Schooneveldt-Reid, Wen-Juenn Lee and, of course, Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez…
Then, Theatre Works’ final show for the year is Skating in the Clouds and its writer, Clare Mendes will tell us what kind of skating that is, and what it has to do with Juli Gillard…
After that, Stuart Maunder is back to tell us what Victorian Opera has on offer for 2025…
And finally, it’s our last Screens & Streams for the year and Marc Gracie is nowhere in sight (but he’ll be back for our annual wrap up) Sitting in for Marc, his first appearance for quite a while, is former kids’ films reviewer, Gully Thompson.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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First up tonight, Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart is here for the very last time… she’s moving on… so we say farewell as she tells us about the 2025 programme she’s leaving behind…
Then, I drop in on Next Wave where Jacina Leong and Frances Robinson can tell us about their exciting new strategic plan…
Meanwhile, the Bendigo Brass Band and the Bendigo Chorale are joining forces for a spectacular Christmas concert and Janice Donnelly will spill the beans about what they’re playing…
And at Melbourne Theatre Company Ilbijerri Theatre is rehearsing Blak In The Room and I catch up with Directors Rachael Maza, Amy Sole and Kamarra Bel-Wykes…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here for our final Perth round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – Ricky Arnold, Executive Director of Art on the Move…
Then, I’m down on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River with author Dr Judith Buckrich to talk about her new book which, of course, is all about the Birrarung/Yarra
Meanwhile, at ArtsHouse in North Melbourne, immersive theatre group Zaffe is throwing a wedding party unlike anything you’ve ever seen and Taj Aldeeb is here to invite us along…
And finally, a bit of music from our old friend Ernie Gruner who’s soon to be playing new, improvised and surprising music with Bowlines at Prana House in Thornbury…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereker from InsiteArts is here for our final Adelaide round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – prolific and eclectic playwright Verity Laughton…
Then, Australia’s first and only environmental festival – the Mountain Festival - is about to kick off near Mt Macedon and its founder and Director Sonia Orchard will tell us what’s in the programme…
Meanwhile, La Mama Theatre is about to launch its Festival of Mother Tongues – a celebration of the diversity of languages spoken in our communities and we’ll drop in to LaMama HQ to chat about it with Dora Abraham and Deakin Uni Interns Dustin Waters and Jonas Saw…
And finally, two great Australian singer-songwriters have new singles out ahead of new albums in the not too distant future. Both Ella Haber andCinta create compelling songs delivered in soulful mesmerising voices so how exciting to find out they’re touring together… so that’s a good excuse to meet them both and hear their new music,,,
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for our November Theatre Network Australia segment. She’ll catch us up on the This Is How We Do It report into the working trends of the independent performing arts sector – before introducing us to the TNA member of the Month – dancer, choreographer and founder of Bonnie Curtis Projects – Bonnie Curtis.
Then a bit of music from Oscar nominated, BAFTA Award winning composer David Hirschfelder who’s collaborating with renowned Chinese Harp artist, Mindy Meng Wang, to performing compositions inspired by ancient Chinese poems at Darebin Arts Centre.
Then it’s time for Screens & Streams…
…and first up, we’ll meet Luke Rynderman who, with Adam Kamien has co-written and co-directed the fascinating true crime documentary The Speedway Murders…
…after which, Marc Gracie will be along for our regular look at what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for the start of this week’s show, walking and talking once again with Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine, this time through the Spirit of the Animals exhibition…
After that, we’ll meet Communications Manager and Performer Madeleine Magee-Carr from WIT Theatre who are soon to open their new play First Love is the Revolution…
Meanwhile, it’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival time again and we’ll meet David Cook - writer, director and performer from Heart of the Man which is one of the 42 feature films in this year’s line up…
Then, the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival is back with a terrific line up of artists and we catch up with just one of them - the fabulous Hetty Kate and her band Bass to the Power of Two…
And finally, it’s that time of the year when everyone’s telling us what they got planned for next year. Last week it was the MSO and this week it’s MPAC and Executive Director of Monash Performing Arts Centres, Paul Grabowsky will tell us what to expect…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going tonight with her wrap up of what’s been happening in Perth before she introduces her local guest artist… writer, director, designer, producer and actor Sreekanth Gopalakrishnan from the Great Indian Theatre Company who are soon to open his new play Crimson Gully…
Then, if you were listening to Melbourne Fringe Creative Director Simon Abrahams a few weeks ago you’d know that even though the Naarm/Melbourne programme is done and dusted, there still a bit to go in Djilang/Geelong, so here are two more artists for our final week of Fast Fringe…
First up we meet Tash York from Tash York’s Happy Hour… and then Kyle Page from Wayfinder…
After that, we’ll meet the relatively new Director of Programming for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Moore to talk about the 2025 Programme AND the imminent Beethoven Festival…
And finally, composer Edwin Montgomery will introduce us to his live score for the 1922 version of Nosferatu to be played for Hallowe’en along with a screening of the classic film…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is back this week with her round up of what’s been happening in Adelaide… and, of course, a local guest artist for us to meet – this month it’s record producer, musician, installation artist and DJ, Moutaiz Al-Obaidi better known to his fans as Motez…
Then, another four Melbourne Fringe artists are here for our third week of Fast Fringe… this week we meet…
Acclaimed writer, Van Badham whose political thriller Werewolf is at Arts Centre Melbourne…
Dominic Weintraub from PonyCam who promise to both feed and entertain us with Feast…
Fringe Living Legend Moira Finucane who’s celebrating 20 years since The Burlesque Hour with Global Smash Club…
And Harley Mann from Na Djinang Circus and Circa Cairns who are ‘In Place’ at the Footscray Community Arts Amphitheatre…
And finally… ANOTHER festival is about to kick off and Christian Serrao from Untitled Group is here to tell us about the line up for this year’s AbilityFest…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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In this episode of Behind the Scenes, host Chris Thompson chats with Christian Serrao, one of Untitled Group's managing partners, to explore the magic behind Ability Fest—Australia's fully accessible music festival.
Proudly supported by Vision Australia Radio, Ability Fest is designed to ensure everyone can experience live music, regardless of ability. With tickets priced at $60 (plus booking fees), fans can enjoy an incredible lineup featuring Ocean Alley, Kita Alexander, Cub Sport, ONEFOUR, Bag Raiders, King Stingray, Asha Jefferies, and more. The festival kicks off on October 19 at Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne (ages 16+), with a second show in Brisbane's Victorian Park on October 26.
Chris and Christian discuss the behind-the-scenes efforts to make festivals like Ability Fest more inclusive for people with disabilities.
100% of ticket sales from Ability Fest go to the Dylan Alcott Foundation, helping young Australians with disabilities pursue their dreams.
For more details, visit AbilityFest.com.au.
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It’s still festival time in Naarm/Melbourne, so let’s start tonight with Melbourne Fringe and week two of Fast Fringe where we’ll meet:
Luke Hockley who’ll invite us to the Big Sing Your Heart Out…
Sarah Kriegler from Lemony S Puppets whose been working with Deniz Aslan to create Ada Asmin and the Analytical Engine based on the life of Ada Lovelace (and if you don’t know who she is, you should)
And Patricia Cornelius who has a new play Bad Boy directed by Susie Dee and performed by Nicci Wilkes…
Then it’s on to the AlterState festival and we’ll drop in on Transmit Futures for a chat with ensemble members Linnie Jane Marsh, Mark Smith, Ann Hantzolos, Support Artist Lily Primmer, and Director Andi Snelling while they’re rehearsing The Manifesto…
And we’ll carry AlterState over into this month’s Screens & Streams so we can catch up with The Other Film Festival’s Artistic Director Fiona Tuomy before Marc Gracie comes along talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens during September…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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For twenty years, The Other Film Festival has been a global leader in disability screen advocacy – championing Deaf and Disabled-led and authored work, uncovering untold stories and ways of being in the world, and developing a screen culture where Deaf and Disabled people are at the centre of storytelling. In a special Behind the Scenes Podcast, Presenter Chris Thompson chats with Festival Artistic Director Fiona Tuomy about why TOFF is so important, what its relationship is with the St Kilda Film Festival and with AlterState and what’ll be on screen and online from October 3 to October 16 for this year’s festival.
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We’re wall to wall festivals this week… starting off with an early visit from Theatre Network Australia’s Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez who’s giving up her usual spot so that we can have TWO TNA Members of the Month… on from AlterState and the other from Melbourne Fringe…
First up is Joshua Pether, relatively new CEO of Arts Access Victoria PLUS director of Phases for the AlterState festival (and Josh is joined by VCA student performer Lexi Smith)…
And while we’re on AlterState we’ll catch up with Kath Duncan to talk about Specials! her show at Arts House…
Our second TNA Member of the Month is Clair Korobacz from One Step at a Time Like This who are producing Transmission: Into the Dark, a spooky secret performance radio based Fringe performance…
And speaking of Melbourne Fringe, we’re doing Fast Fringe again this year – quick chats with a whole bunch of artists who are part of the festival… this week it’s Jeremy Moses who’s performing Hear/See No Evil with Emilie Biggar – then Patrick Livesey, writer and performer of I Hope This Means Something – James Howard who’s performing in Gikilangangu Wergaia for Deadly Fringe – Ben Noble, writer of The Dilly Dally of Death & Dying – and Rebecca Jensen, one of four choreographers for Four Sites at the Abbostford Convent…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Transmit Futures is a new performance ensemble supported by Arts Access Victoria and made up of emerging Deaf and Disabled artists. The ensemble has worked with Andi Snelling over the past three months to devise a performance manifesto. The Manifesto is presented at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the AlterState Festival and is centred on the lived experience of the ensemble and on ideas for Deaf and Disabled futures. During their rehearsal, Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson visited the group to record this special Behind the Scenes Podcast.
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We’ll start this week’s show in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart and then meet her local guest artists Keszia Fernandez and Jules Gabor who’ll tell us about their upcoming event Generation Z…
Then it’s time for some festival mayhem… first up will be Melbourne Fringe and we’ll make our annual visit to the office of Creative Director Simon Abrahams who’ll be joined by Deadly Fringe Programme Coordinator Peta Duncan…
Then we’ll get a head start on the festival with Liam James from Linden New Art who’ll talk us through Design Fringe…
…before we drop into DanceHouse to meet performer David Baker and director Milly Cooper who are just one part of Weave Movement Theatre’s production, The Solos…
And finally, Fringe isn’t the only festival in town which we’ll find out when Creative Lead Jodee Mundy joins us to talk about AlterState…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip is here to let us know what she’s seen in Perth and to introduce her local guest artist, playwright Bruce Denny…
Then we meet another playwright, who’s also a psychologist and those two experiences come together in Grazia Marin’s new play Why Can’t Women Be Like Men?
After that, even though it’s not our week for Screens & Streams, we’re off to the movies… first of all with the brand new Young Australian Film Festival and we’ll meet one of its founders; Alexander Dymalovski
Plus we’re about to see the return of the Italian Film Festival and Elysia Zecolla is back to tell us what she’s got lined up for us…
And finally, I catch up mutli-award winning author and now screenwriter, Craig Silvey, to talk about the adaptation of his book Runt…
They’re all on this wee’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Shane Carroll is a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theatre and Sydney Dance Company. She has also been a dance teacher, lecturer for training programs, advisor for arts agencies and devotes much of her focus on programmes aimed at building capacity and inclusion in the art form that has been part of her life since a very early age. In August, she spoke with Behind the Scenes Presenter, Chris Thompson, about her current work with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Education and Accessibility and in particular about the company’s initiatives in Audio Described performances for audiences who are blind or have low vision. But there was more to talk about than could be covered on a regular episode of Behind the Scenes – including her recent Churchill Fellowship and her other work in the area of dance for people living with dementia. So, in this special Behind the Scenes Podcast, Chris catches up with Shane again after having his first experience of audio described performance with Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Horizon at Arts Centre Melbourne.
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First up this week, we’ll find out what’s been happening in Adelaide with InSite Arts’ Elena Vereka who’ll also introduce us to her local guest artist, actor, writer, director Ansuya Nathan…
Then we’ll drop in on the Koorie Heritage Trust where Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine will again be our guide for a walk & talk – this time for the exhibition Let’s Shake, an installation of 200 plaster casts of different handshakes created by the late Karen Casey…
Then we’re back out to Monash Performing Arts Centres where First Nations’ writer/performer Glenn Shea presents his work Three Magpies Perched in a Tree which includes the recorded voice of the much-missed Uncle Jack Charles…
And finally, Ganbu Gulin, means “One Mob” in Woi-Wurrung language. It’s also a family event being presented as part of the Fuse Darebin Spring Festival and we’ll chat with Curator in Residence Allara Briggs Patterson…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's our week to start in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart who gives us her highlights of the Darwin Festival before introducing her local guest artist – Natalie Leysley, a Torres Strait Islander multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Upai Purri, Darwin’s traditional Torres Strait Island dance group.
Then we catch up with a couple of new music releases… the first is The Making of Silk from jazz-soul singer-songwriter Allysha Joy…
And the second is In The Space You Carry, the first solo album from the founder of Beloved Records, Darvid Thor…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Boola Bardip WA Museum’s Helen Simondson is here with her Perth round up and, of course, a local guest artist… Olivia Davies – Composer in Residence with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Then, Daniel Keene is back to talk about the Arts Centre Melbourne production of his play Mother - a solo performance from the always fantastic Noni Hazelhurst…
After that, we drop in on ArtPlay where it’s raining inside – well. sort of. Rain is an interactive installation for children and families and we chat with two of its creators – Sarah Lockwood and Zoë Barry…
And then a real treat to go out on… a song and a chat from Mama Alto whose latest show Songs for my Father is coming to Monash Performing Arts Centres…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts gets us off to a start this week with a round up of what’s happening in Adelaide PLUS her local guest multi-disciplinary artist, Catherine Fitz-Gerald…
Then we meet Mitu Bhowmick Lange AM, Director of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to find out what she’s got in store for us in the festival’s fifteenth year…
Meanwhile, comedians Alex Lee and Lewis Garnham are on their couch GoggleBox style watching ads not programmes and commenting on how prevalent gender stereotypes are and how out of touch that is with contemporary society… it’s an initiative of Women’s Health Victoria called shEqual and Campaign Creative Director Jess Lilley will tell us where we can find it…
Then, Bangarra Dance Theatre is set to return to Arts Centre Melbourne with Horizon later this month and we’ll meet Shane Carroll who’s responsible for Bangarra’s Audio Described Performance Initiative…
And finally, the Victoria Welsh Choir is set for a big event in Bendigo next month and Keva Lloyd is here to tell you how you could get involved…
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It's the first show for August and we’ve got Theatre Network Australia Board member Sue Giles here to give us a TNA update and let us know what she’s been up to as President of ASSITEJ International AND to introduce James Jackson from Bloomshed as the TNA member of the Month…
Then we’ll meet Irine Vela from The Resonant Heart who are presenting The Heart Whispers and Whirls – a night of poetry, song, dance and shadow puppetry – as the first of three nights of eclectic theatre experiences at Kingston Arts…
Then, it’s time for Screens & Streams and we’ll start by meeting Tom Middleditch, the Access Coordinator for the Melbourne International Film Festival before Marc Gracie joins in to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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The contribution of Queer artists to Australian performing arts history has largely gone untold – until now. Queering the Collection from Arts Centre Melbourne is an eight-episode audio series which looks at notable items from the Australian Performing Arts Collection and the Australian Queer Archives and captures conversations with nine prominent LGBTQIA+ artists. The host of those conversations is Tristan Meecham who is here to have a conversation with us…
If you imagine an event where the set is a writing desk at which you’re invited to write an obituary for Mother Earth at a venue which is a 200 metre stretch of beach with a running time that’s determined by the tides, then you’ll have a bit of an idea as what Nature Obituary is… but we’ll find out a lot more about it when we catch up with creator Janenne Willis…
Only about 2% of almost 600m statues we find in public spaces around Melbourne represent women… the rest are of men and animals. Well, a state government initiative is aiming to address that imbalance with the Victorian Women’s Public Art Programme and we’ll chat with McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne about how it’s going to happen…
And finally, Victorian Opera is celebrating a century since the death of Giacomo Puccini with a production of his work La Rondine and VO Artistic Director Stuart Maunder will talk to us about that old opera AND about a new opera they’ve got coming up later in the year…
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Last month, our Darwin correspondent Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart promised to update us on the Darwin Festival in her July spot… and not only is she doing that, but she’s also welcoming back Director and Choreographer Rosealee Pearson who spoke with us last year about the development of Song Spirals… and now here she is talking about the production of that work…
Meanwhile, in other parts of the country, it’s time for the Scandinavian Film Festival again and the Icelandic Film Centre’s, Christof Wehmeieer is in town to tell us all about it…
And then, a special treat for the rest of the show when the Creative Producer for Special Projects at the Royal Botanic Gardens – Kara Ward – takes us on an extended walk & talk through the astounding sensory experience that is Lightscape…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's 55 years since the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, so it makes sense that Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum is here to talk about their current To The Moon exhibition which not only features a scale replica of the moon, but an actual piece of the Moon itself…
Arts Access Victoria might not have been around for the Moon landing, but it got its start pretty soon after and Sabina Knox and Geof Robinson will walk & talk us through The Collective, their fiftieth birthday exhibition at the Meta Market…
If you were listening to the show at the start of June you might have heard a conversation with Efren Pamilacan, Artistic Director of the street dance orgnaistion Cypher Culture… well, now you can meet the Executive Director Geoffrey Lim as a follow up to that earlier story…
And finally, in April last year Gabrielle Leah New was here to talk about Reclaim the Crone a performance by a group of ‘dangerous older women’… well, that show is back, and one of those ‘dangerous older women’ - Karen Berger – is here to give us an update on the new season at Theatre Works…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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This year, Arts Access Victoria turn 50 and to celebrate they’re presenting ‘The Collective’ – an exhibition highlighting half a century of disability justice through art. This July, Disability Pride month, AAV highlights art from their extensive archives, alongside new works by artists working with AAV today. The exhibition is at the Meat Market Stables, North Melbourne, and includes panels and workshops every Friday afternoon. But if you’d like a sneak preview of the exhibition, join AAV Marketing & Communications Coordinator Sabina Knox, Manager of Studios and Mentorships Geof Robinson and artist Deanna as they walk & talk Behind the Scenes’ Presenter Chris Thompson through the spaces and through the history of the organisation.
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It's NAIDOC Week and on this week’s show we’ll chat with First Nations artists from Naarm/Melbourne, Tarndanya/Adelaide and Boorloo/Perth…
We kick off with InSite Arts’ Elena Vereka who’ll catch us up on the latest in her neck of the woods before introducing her local guest artist… muralist Scott Rathman…
Then, we’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust but this time we’re with Curator Gail Harradine who walks & talks us though their current exhibition; JXSH MVIR: FOREVER I LIVE… (and check out the podcast of the June 24 edition of Behind the Scenes, to hear Public Programmes Coordinator Gemma Jones tell us what else is on at KHT during NAIDOC Week)
After that, we drop in on Ilbijerri Theatre Company’s rehearsals for their latest production, a remounted adaptation of Declan Furbar Gillick’s play Scar Trees and we’ll chat with Director Amy Sole and Producer Joel Stevens…
And finally, we’re back with Yirra Yaakin where they’re in rehearsal for a new production of Brothers Wreck and we’ll catch up with playwright Jada Alberts…
They’re all on this week’s special NAIDOC Week edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Liv Satchell is a writer, dramaturg, theatre maker and Co-Artistic Director of Voice in my Hands… AND as Yuhui Ng Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia will tell us, she’s also the TNA member of the Month for July.
Then, it’s school holiday time which is why the Young Australian Broadway Chorus is presenting Shrek The Musical (jr) and we’ll catch up with Musical Director Chelsea Plumley…
Then, it’s time for Screens & Streams and this month we’ll start with the Spanish Film Festival which means we say welcome back to Benjamin Zeccola from Palace Films – after which Marc Gracie and I are joined by Luka Gracie who’s not only got some thoughts about Inside Out 2, but is also in the middle of making a short film…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's Darwin’s week for the spotlight which means we welcome back Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist Melanie Mununggurr who, amongst other things, is guest Curator for the NT Writers Festival…
Then we’ll check out an opportunity for you to get up close and personal with some puppet making when Golden Scissor Puppets continue their workshop residency at the Motley Bauhaus and we’ll meet the person behind the puppets, Opal…
After that, with only a fortnight to go before NAIDOC Week, it’s seems like a good time to visit the Koorie Heritage Trust where Gemma Jones who’s in charge of Public Programmes will let us know how many free events and activities they’ll be running over the week…
And finally, if you were a fan of the 60’s UK rock and roll sensations The Animals whose hits like The House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Outta This Place and many more put them on the world stage after only releasing two singles… them you’ll want to know about The Animals Final Encore Tour playing venues all over the country and we get to have a chat with founding member and drummer John Steel…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We start this week by saying welcome back to Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip for our regular Perth wrap which will include the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts presentation of When I Am Not Here which, you might recall we spoke about when it was in Melbourne, so we’ll catch up again with choreographer Shelley Lasica to find what her 40 year retrospective is doing in Perth…
Meanwhile, at Theatre Works, Francis Greenslade is showing us that in addition to being a well known and popular actor, he is also a writer and director… and he’s here to talk about his production of The Platypus…
Then, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is about to pay tribute to legendary composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach with What the World Needs Now at Hamer Hall and the equally legendary Caroline O’Connor is here to tell us which selections from his amazing songbook she’ll be singing…
And finally, at Chapel off Chapel, Finucane and Smith are back with a new production of their not-quite-new play The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez and we’ll chat with playwright Jackie Smith, director Moira Finucane and actor Caroline Lee…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereka from Insite Arts gets us going this week with her Adelaide wrap-up and a guest local multi-media and video artist - Juha Vanhakartano
Meanwhile, at LaMama, there’s about to be Blood in the Water and to find out why, we’ll drop in on rehearsals for a chat with playwright Jorja Bentley and director Tansy Gorman…
And finally, a bit of music to take us out… singer/songwriter Rowena Wise has committed Senseless Acts of Beauty – which is her new album and in between chatting with her we’ll listen to a couple of tracks…
It’s all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Steph Speirs from Theatre Network Australia is here to kick off June with a bit of circus news AND to introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month – Efren Pamilican , Artistic Director of the community focused street dance initiative Cypher Culture…
Then we’re off to Theatre Works for a chat with playwright Jodi Gallagher who’s written Ghosts, a new adaptation of the 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen…
After that, we hop over to Red Stitch Theatre Company to meet Director Tom Healey and actors Sarah Sutherland and Jack Twelvetree to find out about their current production of Blackout Songs…
And finally, it’s Screens & Streams; our regular movie review segment with Marc Gracie…
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Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart is back for a round up of all things Darwin and to introduce her local guest artist… Creative Director of the Garrmalang Festival and Event Producer for the Sugarbag Festival, Ben Graetz…
Then Back to Back is back with a new show called Multiple Bad Things and we’ll meet Co-Director Tamara Searle…
After that we’re up the Western Highway to meet Dr Greer Honeywill, curator of Lost in Palm Springs, Art Gallery of Ballarat’s latest exhibition – a multi-disciplinary response to the mid-century landscape and architecture of Palm Springs, California… and right here in Australia…
And finally, some music from violinist, vocalist and composer Véronique Serret who has a new album called Migrating Bird…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Helen Simondson gets us going tonight with her round up of what’s been happening in Perth before she invites us to meet Mark Haslam who’s here to tell us about Fake an immersive, electronic visual theatre experience that promises to be different every night…
Then we’re off to the Butterfly Club for a bit of Cabaret with Imogen Whittaker who’s turned her love of British romcoms, Tim Minchin, Missy Higgins and having the last word into a show called, fittingly, The Last Word…
Meanwhile, Outer Urban Projects is about to undertake a metro-Melbourne tour of their acclaimed production – The Audition – and we’ll meet performer Evangelos Arabatzis …
And finally, Confined, the annual exhibition of works by First Nations artists who’ve experienced incarceration is back for its fifteenth year and that means it’s time for our annual walk and talk through the gallery with Founder and Creative Director Kent Morris…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Our South Australia correspondent, Elena Vereka from InSite Arts is here for the second show of the month with her guest local artist, playwright Sarah Peters who’ll tell us about her new play, An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs…
Another new play – one we spoke about during its development last year – is Kate Herbert’s Lung and Kate’s back to tell us what’s changed in the lead up to its current LaMama season…
A play that’s not so new is Salty Theatre’s production of The Grinning Man which tells its tale with the help of an old puppeteer, his pet wolf and a blind girl who’s played by blind actor Lily Cascun who’ll tell us more about this gothic, horror, musical fairytale…
Meanwhile, it’s time for a Family Cultural Day at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park with a great programme of First Nations’ musicians and storytellers and we’ll chat with Project Coordinator Nikki Browne…
And finally, it’s St Kilda Film Festival time again and we’ll meet Fred Gesha, the First Peoples Arts Festivals and Events Officer to find out about Through the Moving Lens of Protest and Resistance, a special event at the Espy…
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It’s the first show for May and for our Theatre Network Australia spot, we’ll be meeting TNA Intern Georgie Bright before announcing the TNA Member of the Month for May – St Martins Youth Arts Centre and we chat with Artistic Director Nadja Kostich as well as young performers Sunday, Oscar and Frankie
Then it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams… of course, Marc Gracie will be here to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens this month…
…but before he arrives, we’ll meet Lucie McMahon who’s directed the documentary Things Will Be Different which focuses on the last two residents of the Walker Street Public Housing Estate in Northcote…
…and then we’ll meet Christoph Mucher from the Goethe Institute to find out what we can expect from this year’s German Film Festival…
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It's our week to start in Darwin but Sophia Hall is on leave… never fear, though… Brown’s Mart Associate Artist James Mangohig is deputising and will let us know what’s happening Live on Fridays…
Then I swing by the Abbotsford Convent which is about to celebrate its 20th birthday… so, it makes sense to catch up with the founding CEO Maggie Maguire and the present day COO John Di Natale…
Meanwhile, in Northcote, we say hi to Rebecca Lister who’ll tell us about On The Couch with Beck Lister, her part-chat show, part-therapy session at Wesley Anne..
After that, Darebin Arts Speakeasy is about to present a new work by The People… but Peacemongers is more than just a show… it’s also a sit down dinner and Co-Creator and Director Katrina Cornwall will tell us how that works…
And finally, it’ll be ANZAC Day later this week and ASU Productions is presenting their new play Gallipoli: A Story Untold written and directed by Mohammed Hashem… but to find out about it we need to catch up with Mohammed who’s in Egypt…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Third show of the month means we’re saying welcome back to Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip and after her Perth round up we’ll also say hi to Shakara Walley who’s written the new Yirra Yaakin show, Songbird.
Then, it’s still Melbourne International Comedy Festival time so let’s put our sleuthing caps on as we try and help Lliam Amor solve an improvised murder in Murder Village.
After that, it’s all music – first up it’s Craig Reardon who’s booking the artists who are bring music back to the Prince Alfred Hotel in Port Melbourne every Friday and Saturday night…
…and then it’s ‘friend of the show’ Adam Simmons who’s here to tell us about the latest issue of the national jazz journal Dingo, and what they’ve got lined up for International Jazz Day…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Elena Vereker is here because it’s our week to catch up on all things Adelaide including, of course, her guest local artist and this month it’s multi-award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer who seems to also now be a novelist…
Then we drop in on Odalala… a rather beautiful exhibition that has taken over Arts House in North Melbourne where a diverse collection of artists explore histories of caste, identity, migration and culture… and Odalala’s Curator Vishal Kumaraswamy walks and talks us through the spaces…
After that, we’re back with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival… first up it’s the mad scientist from Perth Magnus Danger Magnus whose show Kaboom! mixes explosives with comedy in a room full of kids… what could possibly go wrong?
And finally, look who’s back… it’s the Blind Bard Beneath the Pink Beret… filmmaker and serial slam poet Jeremy Moses who’s here to tell us how many poems he’s slamming into his comedy festival show this year….
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Arts House in North Melbourne has been taken over by ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala a remarkable exhibition that explores themes of identity, diversity, oppression, and more through video works, sculpture, prints, performances, film screenings, talks and tours created by eight different artists curated by Vishal Kumaraswamy who leads Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson on a fascinating walk & talk through the exhibition.
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Co-CEO of Theatre Network Australia, Josh Lowe is here to get April rolling and to introduce the TNA Member of the Month, writer, director, dramaturg and performer Andi Snelling.
Director, Kym Staton’s new doco about Julian Assange is called The Trust Fall… but what does that mean? We’ve got Kym on the line to explain that to us…
And finally, Marc Gracie is here for our latest look at what’s been on our Screens & Streams…
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If it’s the last show for March then we’re in Darwin to catch up with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart where they’ve just launched their 2024 programme… so guess what Sophia’s talking about…
Then let’s get stuck into the Melbourne International Comedy Festival which kicks off this week…
Let’s start with the return of Circus Oz who are back after last year’s sold-out triumph of Non-Stop with a new show, Smash It! and I drop in on rehearsals to chat with Co-Director Nicci Wilks and performers Leo Pentland and Angelique Ross…
Ross Daniels was meant to be here to talk about Ross Daniels Offline, but he was a no-show, so instead we catch up with one of his characters, the irrepressible Swampy…
And finally, who else would come up with a ukulele augmented show called A Day in the Life of a Lesbian Bank Robber apart from Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess better known at The Tuck Shop Ladies…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is at the top of this week’s show with an update on what’s been happening in Perth…
Then we welcome back Director of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, Sian Mitchell to talk about what we can expect from this year’s programme…
After that, I’m out and about for a bit visiting the Northcote Studio of Arts Projects Australia where Operations Manager Sandy Fernee will tell us what’s happening at this year’s open day…
Meanwhile, Polyglot Theatre is heading overseas with a couple of their fantastic shows for children and Director of Pram People, Emily Tomlins, will be here to lay out the itinerary for us…
And finally, the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival is already happening, but there’s still time to catch the Vision Australia session at the weekend and Noah Riseman’s talk on LGBTQIA+ history…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It's our week for catching up with Elena Vereker in Adelaide and she’ll introduce us to her local guest artist – choreographer and sound designer Alix Kuijpers… whose new show Grim Grinning Ghosts is part of Adelaide Fringe…
And while we’re talking about Adelaide, let’s meet Jack Calver, co-devisor and performer in Unfair Verona, by Sydney based Glassroom Theatre Company who are about to perform in post-Fringe Adelaide……
Three years ago, Zachariah Fenn talked to us about two remarkable artists - Luke Abdalla, an artist who’s been blind from birth and Matthew Elliot, an artist who lives with cerebral palsy… then last year Zach returned to talk about a film he was making about their work at Bundanon. Now that film is finished and Zach is back to tell us where we can see it… and about its associated exhibition – Bundanon: Painting a Promised Land…
The psychological thriller, Gaslight began life on stage in 1928… it’s since twice been adapted to the screen and the term ‘gaslighting’ has entered the popular vernacular. The latest stage production is currently on tour and cast member Courtney Cavallaro is here to talk about it…
And finally, McClelland Sculpture Park is not just about visual arts… it’s also about music and curator of the music programme Monica Curro is back to tell what we’ll hear this year…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Follow this link to hear Zach talking about the first short release of his film on September 4, 2023…
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In 2021, we began a conversation with artist, filmmaker and artist facilitator that focused on two artists – Luke Abdallah who’s been blind since birth and lives with elective mutism – and Matthew Elliot who lives with cerebral palsy. Our first conversation was about the two artists having just received residencies at Bundanon (the former Arthur Boyd homestead on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, now an artists’ retreat)… this latest conversation takes place at the other end of that journey when Luke and Matthew’s work is being exhibited at the Woollahra Gallery along with a screening of Zachariah’s film Bundanon: Painting a Promised Land which documents the work of both artists.
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Charice Rust from Theatre Network Australia gets us going on our first show of the month and, of course, introduces us to the TNA member of the Month – circus practitioner Winter Chapman.
Then Tim Rutty, Co-Creator of Future Proof, the new show from Gravity Dolls is here to help define the work of a company whose work is defined as genre defying theatre…
Next we’re out to Monash Performing Arts Centres for a chat with Michael Fulcher who’ll be conducting a unique performance of Bach’s masterwork The St Matthew Passion…
And finally, it’s Oscars time and that’s what we’re talking about with Marc Gracie on Screens & Streams.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Sophia Hall from Browns Mart gets us off and running tonight with her first Darwin report for the year and her first local guest artists… Music Producer and Mixing Engineer Liam Budalasia who’s part of the creative team responsible for the new computer game Diets and Deities…
Then it’s a chat with the cast, the writer and the director of a new play by The Shift Theatre, Eat Your Heart Out… we’ll talk with Helen Hopkins, Carolyn Bock, Clare Bartholomew, Angela Buckingham and Peter Houghton…
Next I get out and about to see two pretty terrific exhibitions and we’ll be catching up with Pippa Bailey from the Cultural Gardeners to talk about the Climarte exhibition; Creative Constellations: Atlas of Radical Hope…
…and then Brendan McClearly Curator at PHOTO Australia to talk about the Midsumma Festival Queer Photo exhibition.
And finally, it’s been too long since Jane Harrison was on the show, but with this year’s Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival just around the corner, it couldn’t be a better time to welcome her back.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is flying solo for her first Perth catch up of the year, but there’s still plenty to talk about in news from the west…
Then we’re down at Flinders on the Mornington Peninsular where Carole Patullo is performing in Sea Wolves Howl based on a remarkable group of local bathers with a fascinating daily ritual…
Back in town, Anthropocene Play Company’s new production 7 Captiva Road see’s it Artistic Director Bronwen Coleman take on an acting role for the first time in a decade… we’ll find out why from Bronwen and fellow actor Clare Larman…
Meanwhile, ArtPlay is having its twentieth birthday and the first part of its celebration is a remount of its beautiful 2018 work Wild City and we’ll meet artist Kathy Holowko…
And finally, curator Samatha Comte will walk & talk us though Around, the remarkable exhibition of works by Nadine Christensen at Buxton Contemporary…
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First up this week, let’s welcome back our Adelaide Correspondent Elena Vereka who’ll catch us up on what’s happening in the south, before introducing her local guest artist, Performer and Theatre Maker Astrid Pill…
Then we’ll meet Artistic Director of Arrant Knaves Theatre Company. Tom Bradley who’s also adapted and directed a new production of John Webster’s 17th century play The Duchess of Malfi…
And finally, let’s celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Dragon by dropping into the Museum of Chinese Australian History for a walk&talk with CEO Mark Wang… and there might be a surprise at the end which might involve Moira Finucane, Zitao Deng and Xiao Xiaon and a chat about the return season of House of the Heart…
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Behind the Scenes is back for another year of arts and culture!
This week is our first regular show of the year AND the first show of the month AND a double-bill for our February Theatre Network Australia spot in the form of the new Co-Executive Directors – Josh Lowe and Erica McCalman… so why not make them Co-Members of the Month while we’re at it…
On our December 18 show last year, Harriet Devlin, Karen Nagrani and I gave an overview to the 2024 Midsumma Festival (if you missed it, it’s on the Behind The Scenes Podcast Page. The festival’s in full swing now, so we’re taking a look at two events… Kikki Temple is a playwright and performer and her new play Stuck is part of a triple bill at the Meat Market Stables so we’ll chat with her and her co-performer Gabrielle Cali…
…and Jacqui Morrison is the drummer for The Lost Girls and she’ll tell us why they’re not all that lost when they’ll be easy to find at the Victoria’s Pride Street Party this weekend…
And then, Marc Gracie is back with a catch up on what we’ve seen over summer for our first Screens & Streams of the year.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Summer Special #4 – Kutcha Edwards
Welcome to the final of four Summer Special Editions of Behind the Scenes when we get to enjoy longer chats with some very special guests…
This show is a repeat of a very special chat we presented in July last year as part of Vision Australia Radio’s NAIDOC Week presentations, when I had the privilege of sitting down for a long chat with Mutti Mutti Man Kutcha Edwards to talk about his life in music and his new song Mother Tongue. In addition to that song, we’ll break up our conversation by listening to We Sing and Mrs Edwards from Kutcha’s 2021 album Circling Time as well as Judith Durham’s version of the alternative Advance Australia Fair that she and Kutcha wrote together.
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Summer Special #3 – Mim Crellin
Welcome to the third of four Summer Special Editions of Behind the Scenes when we get to enjoy longer chats with some very special guests…
On this show you’ll meet Mim Crellin whose first album All Our Little Boxes, a song cycle for voice, jazz ensemble and string quartet was written as a reflection on the chronology of her own journey through breast cancer. We start where her journey began, with the first track on the album – Early Pennsylvania…
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Summer Special #2 – Ralph McTell
Welcome to the second of four Summer Special Editions of Behind the Scenes when we get to enjoy longer chats with some very special guests…
If you were listening to Behind the Scenes at the start of December last year you might have heard a conversation with folk and blues legend Ralph McTell. He played the Isle of Wight Festival on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen. His latest album is named after a line from the film Casablanca and features a tribute to the famous photograph on the album cover for Bob Dylan’s classic Freewheelin’. His hit song Streets of London has been recorded by 212 different artists – and as homage to that his 2024 Australian tour is called Streets of Oz but what you didn’t hear is that we talked about a lot more than we could fit on that show, so here’s the complete conversation along with a selection of his songs from a career spanning more than fifty years.
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Summer Special #1 – Sally Chance & Sarah Austin
Welcome to the first of four Summer Special Editions of Behind the Scenes when we get to enjoy longer chats with some very special guests…
If you were listening to Behind the Scenes in late July last year you might have heard a conversation with Dr Sarah Austin in Melbourne and Dr Sally Chance in Adelaide – two of the leading practitioners in the relatively new field of theatre and performance making for babies and very young audiences… there was a lot more to that conversation that we didn’t have time for on our regular show… so let’s make up for that now with the complete conversation PLUS a bit of music from Sarah and Sally’s recent works – we’ll start with the hauntingly beautify Angel and then a little later we’ll hear The Dancer of Young Adulthood both written by Heather Frahn for Sally’s show The Thing That Matters. Later we’ll hear Procession and then we’ll end with Tonight the House is Humming, both written by Madeleine Flynne & Tim Humphries for Sarah’s show, An Uncertain Time…
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During 2023, on Screens and Streams we reviewed almost 70 feature films, docos and streaming series on our big and small screens. What were our favourites? What were our biggest disappointments? And what are we looking forward to in 2024? Marc Gracie is here for our annual Movie Wrap edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson.
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It's the last regular Behind the Scenes show for the year… and it also happens to be Christmas night – HoHoHo – so that’s why we’re starting with a Christmas song from Troy Cassar-Daley before we meet the new Artistic Director of Polyglot Theatre – Cat Sewell – who’ll tell us what they’ve got planned for the summer holidays…
Then a bit of the Coventry Carol sung by Maddy Prior before we make our annual visit to the Mornington Peninsular where Co-Artistic Director Ben Opie will tell us what’s planned for this year’s Peninsular Summer Music Festival which, as usual, kicks off on New Year’s Day…
And finally, after a bit of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by jazz legend James Morrison, we meet Albert Dadon, the owner of jazz venue Bird’s Basement, where James Morrison himself will be playing a gig later this week…
They’re all on the last regular edition of Behind the Scenes for 2023 with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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First up this week we’re going to check out the HUGE programme on offer at the Art Gallery of Ballarat when we welcome the gallery’s Director Louise Taggart back to the show to tease us with a few highlights.
Then, before we know it, Midsumma Festival will be here again and Artist Development Manager Harriet Devlin is back with her guest Community Ambassador Karan Nagrani to give us just a taste of what to expect in January and February.
Meanwhile, at Arts Centre Melbourne, this year’s recipient of the Frank van Straten Fellowship, Amaara Raheem, is already hard at work on her project and she invites me into the archives of the Performing Arts Museum to see what we can find.
And finally, something quite special has happened at Foodbank, the remarkable charity that feeds so many hungry families throughout out the year and especially around Christmas time – in fact, it would need to be something extra special to stand out in such a special place and Chief Communications Officer Matt Tilley is just the person to tell us what that is.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Contemporary dance performance maker and arts educator Amaara Raheem is the current recipient of the Frank van Straten Fellowship at Arts Centre Melbourne where she is delving into the Performing Arts Museum archives to investigate the birth and ongoing practice of contemporary dance company Chunky Move… but our conversation doesn’t touch there… Amaara also talks about her beginnings as an actor at St Martins Youth Arts Centre (despite her mother’s wish for her to be a layer)… issues of race in casting during the early to mid-nineties for a Sri Lankan artist being constantly offered indigenous roles… and the way older bodies can still pursue work in dance… we cover all this and more in this conversation for Behind the Scenes with me Chris Thompson.
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Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with Sally Chance and Stephanie Lake, both luminaries in the dance sector, about the importance they each place on the roles of mentor to a new generation. But that’s just one side of the story. For the other side, we catch up with Stephanie Lake’s most recent mentee, Zoe Brown.
Since 1990 the Linden New Art Postcard Show has been a much anticipated exhibition that both ends the old year and begins the new. And, yes, it’s back but not exactly the way it’s been in the past. Linden Director Vincent Alessi is here to tell us what’s changed.
Then, it may be about to be 2024 but at Arts Centre Melbourne, it’s about to be 1903 all over again and the best person to explain why is Arts Centre Programming Manager Stephen Armstrong.
Also at Arts Centre Melbourne in January is an exciting collaboration between Australia’s eclectic string quartet, FourPlay, and best-selling British author Neil Gaiman who are soon to perform their joint project Signs of Life and we’ll find out whether FourPlay’s Lara Goodridge is as excited about it as the audience will be.
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It’s our last Theatre Network Australia spot for 2023 which means it’s also our last TNA Member of the Month for the year… and whilst we’re very happy that this month it’s TNA’s very own Executive Director Nicole Beyer, we’re also a bit sad because it’s the last time we’ll chat with her in this role as she’s leaving TNA at the end of the year…
He played the Isle of Wight Festival on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen. His latest album is named after a line from the film Casablanca and features a tribute to the famous photograph on the album cover for Bob Dylan’s classic Freewheelin’ His hit song Streets of London has been recorded by 212 different artists – and as homage to that his 2024 Australian tour is called Streets of Oz – but before he gets on the plane to visit our shores in February and March, Ralph McTell is on the line for a bit of up close and personal…
And finally, it’s Screens & Streams with Marc Gracie and we’ll chat about a new John Woo, a new Ridley Scott a new Ken Loach, a doco about Nick Cave and the Birthday Party and yet another movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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And if you’d like to hear the complete version of the Ralph McTell, chatPLUS a pretty nice selection of his songs, then make sure you’re listening to the second of our Summer Specials at 9pm on Monday January 15 – and if you miss that, you can always check us out on Facebook or just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine… and if you subscribe, you’ll never have to search for an episode or our bonus material again…
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Well, we’ve got one more visit from Sophia Hall at Brown’s Mart for the year… and this month she’s flying solo… but that just means we’ll have more time to catch up with what’s been happening in Darwin…
Then we’re at St Martins Youth Arts Centre where they’ve had some pretty special work undertaken beneath the historic peppercorn tree out the back of the theatres… but that’s not all that lies beneath that tree and we catch up with Artistic Director Nadja Kostich who’ll fill us in…
Tracey Corbin-Matchett is the CEO of Bus Stop Films and she’s here to tell us about a very special project that involves 180 filmmakers each with a mild intellectual disability or autism and Tracey knows where around the country you can get to see all their films…
Meanwhile, at the State Library of Victoria, there’s a project that’s helping us understand how libraries might work for those who are blind or vision impaired and we’ll welcome back Leisa Shelton-Campbell who’s one of the drivers behind (In)visible Libraries…
And finally, Courtly Arts Performers of Victoria are presenting Echoes of Pilgrimage – an afternoon of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music and dance and Sally Ranson is one of those dancers…
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It's getting to the pointy end of the year, so that means it’s our final chat with Perth Correspondent Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum (but she’ll be back next year) and, of course, she’s got one final local guest artist – Artistic Director of Tura New Music, Tos Mahoney.
Meanwhile, wit incorporated is about to open their production of Chinese playwright Stan Lai’s I Me She Him and Director Ren Ruidi is dropping by to tell us why this Australian premiere season is performing in not one but two venues at the same time.
Then Blacktavism is back at Arts Centre Melbourne and Artistic Director of this celebration of First Nations music and culture, Deline Briscoe, is here to remind us why, now more than ever, this is an important event on our cultural calendar.
And finally, you might know her from the pop duo GL or the indie band Dorsal Fins, but Ella Thompson is back recording under her own name with a very cool new album called Domino…
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Elena Vereker is here with her last Adelaide round up for 2023 AND to introduce us to her guest local artist, multi-disciplinary theatre maker and choreographer Jacob Boehme whose Adelaide Festival show Guuranda has almost sold out already…
Then we’re off to the regions (or, at least, the Midsumma Festival is) with Victoria’s Pride, a showcase of thirteen events right across Victoria and Midsumma’s Community Engagement Manager Ashlee Hints is going to tell us what’s happening and where…
Then I’m out and about for a bit… first up with Dave Houston who’ll be examining his own mental health journey with the help of many different Daves (even though it’s a solo show) when he performs Still Here at The Butterfly Club…
…and finally, we’re at Footscray Community Arts Centre artist Thomas Miller and Producer Lucy Buxton walk and talk us through Bright the new exhibition in the Roslyn Smorgon Gallery …
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It's Theatre Network Australia time and TNA’s Program Producer, Safe & Sustainable Circus Rigging Christian Schooneveldt-Reid is here firstly to tell us about the Rigging Scholarships recipients, and secondly to introduce November’s Member of the Month - writer, performance maker, creative producer and community organiser Alysha Herrmann…
After that, Yumi Umiumare is back with yet another Butoh-Out event, this time it’s the chaotic and fabulous ButohBAR – Out of Order…
Then, before Marc Gracie returns for more Screens & Streams, we’ll sneak in a preview of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival with its new Programme Director Cerise Howard…
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It's not unusual for people to ‘dress up’ when they go to the theatre, but this invitation to dress up from the new production, WereDingo by Karul Projects at Arts House in North Melbourne isn’t about getting into your glad rags… it’s about strutting your best fur, fleece or feathers for a show about how the First Nations idea of shapeshifting differs from its interpretation in Western culture… and we’ll find out about that difference when we meet Artistic Director Thomas E S Kelly…
Meanwhile, at 45 Downstairs, another new production, this time from Antipodes Theatre who are presenting Rachel Lewindon and Willow Sizer’s electro-folk musical adaptation of Virginia Woolfe’s Orlando, a character who changes gender and lives for 300 years… we’ll drop by a rehearsal where we’ll catch up with Rachel as well as Director Margot Fenley and Dramaturg Maude Davey…
A year or so ago we met Daz Chandler from The Parallel Effect who spoke about Message from Another You, an amazing project that invites you to experience from parallel reality through a message that seemingly comes from you. Now, we’re welcoming Daz back to the show to find out about I’ve Been to a Parallel World - the panel she’s hosting at The Wheeler Centre where her guests will share experiences of their own travels to other worlds…
And finally, we’re out at The Count’s again – the fabulous live music venue at Monash Performing Arts Centres where there are still a couple of gigs to go before the end of the year… one of which is Ziimusic’s The Experience, a creative blend of art and soul with a mission to inspire and heal and we’ll meet poet, rapper, bassist and keyboard player Zii Wacho
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If it seems like it’s been a while since we’ve said hello to Sophia Hall from Brown’s Martthen that’s because we missed out on our Darwin visit last month… but Sophia will make up for it at the start of this week’s show and, as always, has a great local guest for us to chat with… this month it’s multidisciplinary artist and First Nation’s advocate Rosealee Pearson…
Meanwhile, playwright and theatre critic Kate Herbert is about to have a reading of her new radio play Lung and she’s popping by to tell us how you write a bodily organ as a main character…
Then it’s our final Focus on Fringe, even though the festival is technically over, there are some shows that linger on – first, we welcome back Tom Molyneux, who’s part of the Bloomshed ensemble for A Dodgeball named Desire at 45 Downstairs…, and then, we welcome back Thomas Gorham from Head First Acrobats who have three productions in The Vault at the Queen Victoria Market site - PreHysterical, Godz and Crème de la Creme…
And how about a bit of music theatre to take us out. It’s almost twenty years since the 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee opened on Broadway and if you’ve never had the chance to see it in all that time, then it’s time to meet Director Russell Fletcher who’ll tell you you’ve got one more week to rectify that situation…
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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here to start the show and that means we’re about to find out what’s going on in Perth… AND meet her guest local artist, writer Cezera Critti-Schnaars whose new play Salted Pretzels is about to open at The Blue Room…
If, like me, you missed the nine dancers and nine drummers who perform Stephanie Lake’s Manifesto, we’re getting a second chance when it returns to Arts Centre Melbourne and Stephanie is here to tell us what we missed…
Then, it’s our fourth Focus on Fringe segment with two more performances… Joyride’s Anna Lumb will tells us how you perform a show in the front seat of a car – and Luka Gracie from So Camp will tell us why a bunch of screenwriters decided they should make a theatre performance…
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Our Adelaide correspondent, Elena Vereker is here to kick us off this week, and so is her guest local artist, Dance Artist and Choreographer Alison Currie…
Then we catch up with acclaimed playwright Patricia Cornelius who has not one but two plays for us to chat about… My Sister Jill is already playing at Melbourne Theatre Company and In The Club opens at Theatre Works in a couple of weeks…
And then it’s week three of our Focus on Fringe and we’ll be chatting with Emotion21 Artistic Director Tristan Sinclair, who’ll tell us about 3-2-1. a new work created by three performers with Down Syndrome - Roseanne Stuart from disability movement company InsideOutside Dance about their performance of Embrace – Fayen d’Evie one of three collaborators on Chunky Move’s Derelict in Uncharted Space – and Jake Silvestro who’ll tell us about the Fringe Circus Hub at NICA and his own performance of Alienation.
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We kill two birds with one stone at the start of tonight’s show… it’s the first show of October, so that means Josh Lowe from Theatre Network Australia is here… but it’s also the first week of Melbourne Fringe and our second Focus on Fringe segment, so it makes sense that TNA Member of the Month, Min Hetzel, is also presenting a Fringe event – Solace, a digital sensory experience at the State Library of Victoria…
And sticking with Fringe, we head down to the banks of the Birrarung, the Yarra, to meet Jason Tamiru who’s preparing to take us on a promenade performance from Fed Square down along the riverbank and back again. The event is Yelinguth LIVE and it might be the only time you’re asked to leave you phone on for a performance.
But not every show is part of Fringe… Petra Kalive and Xanthe Beesley are directing the Union House Theatre production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll which was first performed at Melbourne Uni in the Union Theatre in 1955… and here’s the same play almost seventy years later, but not in the same Union Theatre… there’s a brand new Union Theatre on campus and Petra and Xanthe will invite us in to have a squiz while we talk about the play…
And finally, it’s time to catch up on all the latest Screens & Streams with Marc Gracie…
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Crikey! It’s almost time for Melbourne Fringe again and, as has become a bit of a tradition, we’re getting into the swing of all things Fringe by catching up with the head honcho himself, Executive Director Simon Abrahams who’ll give us the big picture of the festival ahead of our special Focus on Fringe segments over the next month focusing on as many Fringe shows and artists as we can… but let’s face, even if we were wall-to-wall fringe we’d still only manage to cover about 2% of the humongous programme…
Then, sticking with Fringe, we’ll welcome Deadly Fringe Coordinator, Peta Duncan back to the show to give us an overview of what First Nations artists and companies are presenting as part of this year’s programme and what’s happening at the newly established Blak Lodge…
After that we’ll catch up with a regular guest on this show; Yumi Umiumare who sits down with me at the Abbotsford Convent where she’s about to present Peek-a-Butoh Kooks & Spooks!, her much loved Butoh workshops for kids and families…
And finally, we’ll meet comedian, poet and blind filmmaker Jeremy Moses who promises not to try and impress us with, as the title of his show suggests, 157 Minutes of Bad Slam Poetry… he does, however, promise to bring us a healthy dose of satire and storytelling along with his sharp insights into living with a disability…
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Jeremy Moses is a slam poet, comedian, filmmaker, a wearer of silly costumes, a social commentator and disability advocate. He’s also legally blind. This conversation with Jeremy was recorded in the lead up to Melbourne Fringe 2023 and his show 157 Minutes of Bad Slam Poetry, If you’re listening to this podcast before October 15, 2023 then you’re still in time to get tickets to his show by going to www.melbournefringe.com.au or calling the box office 03 9660 9666. If it’s after October 15, there’s still plenty to listen to about the origins of Jeremy’s show during lockdowns, his experience of living with disability, his family and his time at school, his approach to being a blind filmmaker and his efforts to make the world a more accessible place…
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Things are Awesome in Western Australia as we’ll discover when our Perth correspondent, Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip introduces her local guest artist, Jenny Simpson, CEO of Awesome Arts and Artistic Director of the Awesome Festival.
Daniel Nellor has been a guest of the show on more than one occasion but usually as a playwright… but Daniel also has a PhD in Philosophy. What’s that all about, I hear you ask and in answer to that question, Daniel has written a book – What Are They Thinking? Conversations with Ten Australian Philosophers… and we’ll be having our own conversation about that book.
Meanwhile, in Geelong, we’re sneaking in right at the tail end of a four-week celebration to mark the opening of the brand new Geelong Arts Centre and CEO and Creative Director Joel McGuiness is here to tell us what we’ve missed but, more importantly, what’s still to come.
And finally, say hello to founder and Director of the Snuff Puppets, Andy Freer who’s here to tell us about Snuffest, a festival of giant puppets, large scale theatre, film, workshops and installations happening right now in Footscray.
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Elena Vereker from Insite Arts is here for our regular South Australia catch up and she’s brought along a local guest artist for a chat – Paulo Castro from No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability.
Then we’re off to Arts Centre Melbourne for a new production of Camille Saint-Saens classic work for young people – Carnival of the Animals – but this time the animals are created by performers from the Brisbane-based, world famous acrobatic circus, Circa. We’ll meet Associate Director and Tour Director Kristen Maloney.
After that we’ll be Escaping Gravity – not literally, but through an immersive cinematic experience created by six UK artists working with City of Darebin based JOLT Arts. The experience is based on Britain’s R101 Airship disaster in 1930. We’ll meet JOLT Artistic Director James Hullick whom will walk and talk us through the whole experience.
And finally, with RUOK Day coming up, it’s time welcome back singer/songwriter and RUOK Ambassador, Aislinn Sharp who’s released Matter, a new song in collaboration with the Choir of Hard Knocks. We’ll chat with Aislinn before hearing the song – and you’ll find out how you sing along.
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September’s Theatre Network Australia visit is a bit of a special one with a return visit from Australian Performing Arts Forum Curator Sanja Simic who’ll be joined by APAF Associate Producer Emily Coleman. But if neither of them are the TNA Member of the Month, then who will it be?
After that, we’re off to Funky Town when we meet Pseudo Echo’s vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Brian Canham as the iconic 80’s band continue their Ultimate Tour…
Meanwhile, at Chapel Off Chapel, the world’s first all-female-identifying cast production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is about to premiere and Charmaine Gorman is here to tell us about it…
And then, as a prelude to this month’s Screens & Streams we’ll take a peek at the Focus on Ability Short Film Festival through the lens of Zachariah Fenn’s short doco – On The Road about artist Matt Elliot’s residency at Bundanon…
…and then Marc Gracie is here for a look at what else we’ve seen on screen this month…
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It's our week to catch up with Sophia Hall at Brown’s Mart in Darwin as well as meeting her local guest artist, Gail Evans – Creative Producer and Director of SPUN, a live, local, pop-up, podcast storytelling event…
Then we get a sneak peek at what happens before an exhibition gets hung on the gallery walls when we meet Jennifer Higgie, Curator of Thin Skin at Monash University Museum of Art…
Then, Jane Eckett is back to tell us about a significant new publication On Bunerong Country – Art and Design In Frankston an examination of the diverse artistic and cultural heritage of the Frankston region…
And finally, we’re back in Albury-Wodonga, this time for a chat with Anni Davey, Artistic Director of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus who are soon to unveil their new Borderville Theatre…
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We’re all over the place this week on Behind the Scenes… we start with our Adelaide correspondent Elena Vereker who introduces us to emerging sound installation artist, Keira Simmons whose latest work Listening to the Port is an audio tour through the past, present and speculative future of Port Adelaide as part of SALA (the South Australian Living Artists Festival)…
Meanwhile, back in Melbourne, Maude Davey is about to perform a new show called My First Bike at LaMama and we’ll chat with Maude and her long-time collaborator Jane Bayly
And finally we’re in Albury-Wodonga where we catch up with Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre, Karla Conway and playwright Campion Decent to talk about their production of Campion’s new play Unprecedented…
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The jasmine is out so it must be August and our first show of the month always starts with a visit from Theatre Network Australia… this time we meet Sanja Simic, TNA’s Coordinator of the Australian Performing Arts Forum… and TNA Member of the Month, the new Executive Director of Perth’s Blue Room Theatre, Sukhjit Khalsa…
Meanwhile, at Darebin Speakeasy we meet playwright Fleur Murphy whose new play The Fence was shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwright’s Award and tells the story of what happens between neighbours when the fence comes down…
Then it’s off to Apollo Bay for this year’s Winter Wild Festival and we’ll speak with Festival Programmer Bill Frazer…
And finally, it’s Screens & Streams with Marc Gracie and this time it’s not just Barbiheimer on our big screens… it’s also IndyMish (is that a thing?). Plus, of course, the Melbourne International Film Festival is off and running for the 71st time…
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We start with a Vision Australia story this week, when we meet Chris Edwards who’ll introduce us to Dark Memory Lane, an exhibition and simulation experience at Federation Square’s Ian Potter Centre that invites visitors to use low vision simulation glasses to better understand the blind and low vision community.
Then, it’s a visit to Werribee Mansion where What Was That?, the spooky but informative story of the mansion’s resident Chirnside family after the death of Mary Chirnside in 1908 is about to have its 1000th performance and we’ll meet its writer Alaine Beek.
Dr Sally Chance (in Adelaide) andDr Sarah Austin(in Melbourne) are both pioneers in the relatively new form of theatre for babies and we’ve got the two of them together to compare notes on this fascinating part of the performing arts…
And sticking with very young people (although, a bit older than babies) we’ll head down to Wonthaggi to catch up with Dr Andrea Lemon and Iris Gaillard to talk about the innovative and highly successful programme, Kids Thrive.
And finally, a bit of new music when we meet Composer and bassist Joseph Franklin ahead of the first performance of The Horror of the Avant Garde(s)…
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It’s Been a While Since Our Last Correspondence – is the new spoken word album by Not Drowning Waving and My Friend the Chocolate Cake founder David Bridie. It’s a collection of stories augmented by David’s music featuring a terrific line up of storytellers including self-described queer crip poet, Kit Kavanaugh Ryan. In this extended radio chat, Behind the Scenes Presenter Chris Thompson sits down with both David and Kit to talk about the album and the way in which it offers a ‘snapshot’ of Australian culture and the diversity of the Australian community… and, of course, to listen to a few tracks. In addition to Kit’s Thanks For Five Years which focuses on her experience of corneal transplants, there is Freedom by Farhad Bandesh, Low Expectations by Danny Dickson and David’s own contribution, Sympathetic Martin.
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It's our week to start in Darwin with Sophia Hall who introduces her local guest artist, singer/songwriter David Spry who’s soon to perform in Kingadon for the Darwin Festival…
Meanwhile, The Counts is Monash Performing Arts Centres’ music venue and Senior Music Producer Raleigh Williams can tell us just how much music is waiting for us during August…
Then, we say hello to Executive Director and Chief Curator of Open House Melbourne, Tania Davidge who can tell us which bits of Melbourne are open this year and what to do to get a sticky beak…
One place that’s open all the time is Linden New Art and Gallery Director Vincent Alessi is on the line to tell us about Everything That Came Before Makes the Present, an exhibition of remarkable works by Tiwi artist Jonathan World Peace Bush…
And finally, David Bridie has a beautiful new album – It’s Been a While Since Our Last Correspondence – a collection of stories and music featuring a terrific line up of storytellers and we’ll sit down with David and one of those storytellers, self-described queer crip poet, Kit Kavanaugh Ryan…
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Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum gets us going this week with a round up of what she’s seen in Perth…
Then we meet James Lynch, Curator at Deakin University Art Gallery who’ll tell us about 'I brave a whirlwind of dust, while those about me close their eyes…' a new exhibition of works by Fayen d'Evie who uses sound, touch, movement, performance and other nonvisual communications to expand the limits of the visual arts. The exhibition includes works by print specialist Trent Walter, performance maker Alex Craig, deaf dancer Anna Seymour, choreographer Benjamin Hancock, sculptor Aaron McPeake and paintings by the San Francisco-based artist and advocate Jennifer Justice.
After that, we’re off to theatre where Bloomshed is presenting a contemporary adaptation of George Orwell’s metaphorical novel Animal Farm… and we’ll talk to director James Jackson.
Designer Anna Tregloan has created a theatrical dreamscape for Chagall at the Jewish Museum of Australia through which we can explore the life and work of Marc Chagall and she’s here to walk and talk us through it.
Meanwhile, it’s time for the Scandinavian Film Festival and so we’ll chat with Elysia Zeccola who knows all there is to know about this collection of Nordic cinema…
Sticking with the Nordic theme (well, near enough), Terra Therma is an exhibition focusing on sounds and images created in response to the impacts of global warming witnessed during his exploration of ice caverns and glaciers in Iceland and artist Benjamin Knock walks and talks us through his work along with composer Coskun Dincel.
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We’re off to Adelaide for the start of this week’s show where we’ll catch up on what’s been happening in the arts with our correspondent, Elena Vereka… and then meet her guest artist, the youngest ever winner of the Don Dunstan Foundation Our Mob Art Prize, Temaana Yundu Sanderson-Bromley, who’s part of Illuminate Adelaide’s Augmented Revolutions, and also won the Teen Business Indigenous Entrepreneur of the Year Award his clothing design business Mardlaapa Designs…
Then let’s head down to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in Langwarrin where Monica Curro is curating a monthly programme of music to compliment the rest of the work on exhibition…
After that, at the Butterfly Club, we’ll chat with Ross Daniels who’s back in his many character guises with his new show Ross Daniels - Offline…
Meanwhile, Theatre Works is presenting the Michael Gow classic Away, directed by Steven Mitchell Wright and we’ll meet cast member Eleanor Howlett…
If you were listening to the show just over a year ago you’d have heard music from a lovely album called Coming Home by Beyond the Lake, aka Nick Delaney and Anita Quayle… and now they’re back to talk about a new album, Transience…
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Welcome to this Behind the Scene NAIDOC Week presentation. This week, presenter Chris Thompson speaks with indigenous Australian singer and songwriter Kutcha Edwards.
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The sky was a blanket on the land. The earth was in darkness and the people were afraid. It was a very sad state of affairs and would have stayed that way except for the courage of young Parrwang the Magpie.
In the lead up to NAIDOC Week and the world premiere of Parrwang Lifts the Sky at Arts Centre (Naarm) Melbourne, Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson sat down for a long chat with sproano. composer, librettist and co-director of the production, Yorta Yorta/Yuin woman Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO.
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The first show of July is not only our week for a visit from Theatre Network Australia, but it’s also NAIDOC Week, so that’s an excellent time to meet TNA’s First Nations Circle Programme Producer Lauren Swain and to welcome back actor, writer, director and founding member of Ilbijerri Theatre, Maryanne Sam as the TNA Member of the Month…
Then, it’s a visit to Arts Centre Naarm, where we catch up with Yorta Yorta/Yuin soprano, composer and artistic director of Short Black Opera, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon who is finally getting to bring her Dreamtime Opera; Parrwang Lifts the Sky to the State Theatre stage…
Meanwhile, across town on the Comedy Theatre stage, Midnight, a brand new Australian musical take on the Cinderella story, has just opened and we’ll meet co-writer and director Dean Murphy…
And finally, Marc Gracie is back again for Screens & Streams…
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First up, this week, we’ll find out what’s happening in Darwin when we catch up with Sophia Hall from Browns Mart…
…then we’re picking up on a conversation that started almost two years ago when Beng Oh, the director of Just a Boy Standing in Front of a Girl was on the show to talk about their new season… and then… lockdown! So now the show’s writer Jane Miller is here to finish that conversation…
Meanwhile, it’s school holidays and there’s a Family Fiesta going on at Monash Performing Arts Centres and we’ll meet Penny Baron from Born in a Taxi to talk about The Velveteen Rabbit, just one part of its huge programme…
Up Upwey way, at Burrinja Cultural Centre, Between Two Sites is a group exhibition where every work of art has its own audio description… we find out more about when we catch up with Co-Curators Madelynne Cornish and Sarah Lynch…
And then a bit of music to finish with… Tangled Trails is the title of a 1921 silent movie western… it’s also the title of Robbie Melville’s new album… so what has one got to do with the other… best to ask Robbie himself…
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We’re kicking off in WA this week where our Perth Correspondent Helen Simondson will add to her arts round up by introducing us to Adam Mitchell, director of Finegan Kruckemeyer’s new play The Snow being produced by Barking Gecko…
Then we meet Alison Richards who’s about to take to the stage at Chapel off Chapel in Konstantin: Grandmother’s Tongue… a storytelling performance about storytelling…
A performance of a different kind is about to happen in the Irene Mitchell Studio at St Martins and long time collaborators Peter Houghton and Louise Siversen invite us into their rehearsal room to talk about their new time travel comedy Underneath Ms Archer…
And then more stories and a bit of music to wrap us up when I sit down with Kutcha Edwards to talk about his life in song and his new release Mother Tongue…
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It's our week to chat with Elena Vereker about all things Adelaide as well as getting to meet her local guest artist, composer and founder of Sounds of Adelaide James Bannah Jr.
Then it’s a walk & talk through an amazing exhibition at Footscray Community Arts Centre. We meet Producer Urvi Majumdar who introduces us to the Sekala Niskala exhibition featuring the work of five Bali-based artists…
Lisa Maza is an actor who’s about to step into the role of Niarra in the highly acclaimed production of Hide the Dog, the first trans-Tasman theatre production for children and she’s here to tell us that the dog they’re hiding isn’t a dog at all…
It’s Spanish Film Festival time again and so we welcome Palace Films CEO Benjamin Zeccola back to the show for the rundown on what in store for us in this year’s programme.
And finally, we catch up with legally blind artist Erica Tandori and sound designer and composer Stu Favilla who are part of the Monash Sensory Science Exhibition exploring the science of autoimmunity through multi-sensory multi-modal artworks.
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Between Two Sites
Between Two Sites is an exhibition that aims to raise awareness of human-made imprints on natural environments and the impact on fragile ecosystems that support indigenous flora and fauna.
Curators, Madelynne Cornish and Sarah Lynch were passionate about embedding accessibility into the exhibition and ensuring that it is accessible to blind and low-vision communities. Descriptions of the artwork are available in audio and text formats on the exhibition website and via QR code on the didactics displayed beside the works.
Audio descriptions are by Nilgun Guven
Artists include Shannon Collis, Madelynne Cornish, Lesley Duxbury, Sarah Edwards, Amias Hanley, Sarah Lynch & Anne McCallum. All seven artists have undertaken an art residency at Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, situated in the foothills of the Alpine National Park. The curators selected the Yarra Ranges as a corresponding site where similar issues occur.
In this interview, Madelynne and Sarah chat with Chris Thompson from Behind the Scenes. The interview begins with an audio description of Madelynne’s work I Once Heard a Bird Sing and ends with an audio description of Sarah’s work Above the Snowline, Tryptich #2.
The exhibition is at Burrinja Cultural Centre
351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey, Victoria
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 10.00am - 4.00pm
The exhibition runs unto July 1
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If Josh Lowe, General Manager of Theatre Network Australia is here then it must be the first show of the month, which means he’ll be introducing our TNA Member of the Month for June… Daniel Riley whose first show as Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre is Tracker opening soon as part of Rising…
Ian Westmoreland is founder of Kintsugi Heroes, a weekly podcast focusing on individuals who’ve found beauty and positivity in adversity… and he’s about to launch an Alpine Special version with stories from the Black Saturday fires…
Then, before Marc Gracie joins us for Screens & Streams, we’ll welcome Richard Sowada back to the show to tell us what short stuff’s on the big screen for this year’s St Kilda Film Festival…
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In this exclusive to podcast 'Behind The Scenes' extended interview, presenter Chris Thompson is joined by two of the driving forces behind Monash University's Sensory Science Exhibition on Autoimmunity.
Monash University is extending an invitation to members of the blind, low vision and diverse needs communities for their free Monash Sensory Science Exhibition on Autoimmunity to be held on Friday June 30 at Monash University in Clayton. Bookings are essential for this free event, register by selecting the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monash-sensory-science-exhibition-on-autoimmunity-2023-tickets-622294087367 or for more details email: MonashSensoryScience@monash.edu
About the podcast interview:
Melbourne-based artist and researcher Dr Erica Tandori uses her love of art, her lived experience with low vision and her work at Monash University to focus on communicating science through art for people who are blind or have low vision.
Dr Stuart Favilla’s research activities have covered a diverse range of design related fields including STEM education for blind and low vision communities and is an innovator in the area of spatial sound and immersive audio.
The duo are encouraging the blind and low vision community to join them in exploring the science of autoimmunity from leading scientists through interactive multisensory artworks and displays, and to prepare for an enhanced experience with interactive multi-sensory science books and captivating sonifications where data is turned into a musical language.
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We start this week with a visit to the Deakin University Burwood Campus Art Gallery to check out their latest exhibition, Conflated, which features works commissioned around the idea of breathing in and out… Co-Curator and one of the artists, Zoe Bastin walks and talks us through some remarkable inflatables along with other works that make art from air…
Then, Bronwen Coleman, director of Anthropocene Play Company is back on the show… she’s been here before to talk about her work on contemporary plays but this time she’s reaching back to the 19th century with a production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Why, you may ask? Well. Don’t ask me, ask Bronwen. That’s why she’s here.
After that, we’re off on another walk & talk... this time as part of National Reconciliation Week, we’re off on our annual pilgrimage to see The Torch project’s Confined 14 exhibition, a collection of works by First Nations artists either in or recently released from incarceration… and once again it’s the inimitable Kent Morris who’ll be our guide through 470 artworks by 420 artists…
And finally, a bit of opera to take us out… you might know of Mark Vincent from his appearance on Australia’s Got Talent… well, now the youngest tenor in the world is taking his solo show – a tribute to Mario Lanza and the Three Tenors – on the road, but first he’s stopping by for a chat…
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In this special presentation, Behind the Scenes presenter Chris Thompson takes a walk through exhibition Confined 14 guided by Kent Morris, within the Glen Eira City Council Gallery.
Confined 14 presents more than 450 artworks by First Nations artists who are currently in prison in Victoria, or have been released in recent years.
This exhibition is a powerful reflection of the over-representation of First Nations Australians in our criminal justice system and highlights the need for change.
Learn more: https://thetorch.org.au/exhibitions/confined-14/
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It's our week to catch up with Sophia Hall at Brown’s Mart in Darwin and, not only to find out what’s happening in the north, but also to meet Sophia’s local guest artist – ARIA nominated Producer, muso and occasional cook James Mangohig… and his upcoming performance; Hymns for the Witching Hour
Back in Melbourne, the much-lauded play Moth by Declan Greene is having a revival at Theatre Works and we chat with Director Briony Dunn about whether you try to bring something new to a work like this, or just leave well enough alone…
Twenty-five years ago that tram conductor hung up their bag for good… but that wasn’t the end of the Connies… former Conductor Roberto D’Andrea and performer Carmelina Di Guglielmo are here to tell us how a desire to keep the memory of the Connies alive took on a cultural, environmental and educational role with young people…
And finally, a bit of music to round out the show… we welcome acclaimed jazz singer/songwriter Ruth Rogers-Wright who’s back at the MEMO with her celebration of the life and music of Nina Simone…
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It’s Western Australia’s turn to start the show this week and that means it’s time to say welcome back to our Perth Correspondent, Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum. Helen will bring us up to date with what’s on in the west and what she’s seen in the past month.
Then we’ll meet artist Melissa Gilbert whose interactive artwork Unite/Play/Perform is one of the first offerings from the new Cecil Place Precinct and promises to give us the opportunity to design our own universe. We’ll find out how we should go about that as well as learning something about this brand new art space when we get Melissa on the line.
In 1982, a group of performing arts practitioners got together and decided that Melbourne needed its own awards ceremony and so the Green Room Awards was born. Now, they’re getting set to take over the beautifully restored Capitol Theatre for their fortieth awards presentation… which will also be the first outing for their brand new President Anton Berezin who joins us for a preview of the big night.
And finally, some mesmerizing music to round out the show… Lamine Sonko is a multi-instrumentalist composer who draws on traditional wisdom in order to create multi-sensory arts experiences inspired by his connections to the cultural communities of Senegal. He’s just released Taamo, a beautiful work of song and music, but that’s not the only focus of his artistic practice as we’ll discover when we meet him to talk about his work…
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It's Adelaide’s week this week so Elena Vereker is here with a brief wrap up of what’s happening in her neck of the woods before she introduces her local guest artist, Sally Chance, founder of Restless Dance, formerly of Come Out Festival, and now of Sally Chance Dance.
Then we’re off to Geelong Gallery for a walk&talk through the wonderful Clarice Beckett: Atmospheres exhibition with co-curator Lisa Sullivan.
Meanwhile, in Melbourne, the much loved and sadly missed Eleventh Hour Theatre will be missed no more when it’s resurrected for the new company, Witts End, and its new production of Cavalcade. We’ll chat with Artistic Director William Henderson.
And finally, we’ll catch up with Kate Lucas from indie-folk-pop outfit Coda Chroma who have just released their third album, the appropriately titled and suitably dreamy Dream Self
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As an Easter surprise, Behind the Scenes finally introduces our new Adelaide correspondent… it’s Elena Vereker from Insite Arts and we’ll find out a bit about her before she takes up the role…
Russell Fletcher is well known for his work as an improvisor but what happens when he turns those skill towards Code Blue For Autism, a programme designed to work with people living on the autism spectrum?
Meanwhile, at the Brunswick Street Gallery, artist Eleanor James walks and talks us through her Shadow Garden, an enchanting exhibition evoking the days of the magic lantern and tales told by firelight.
And finally, Marc Gracie is back as we catch up on our screen time with the latest on our Screens & Streams…
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The first show of April is an opportunity to meet another new member of the Theatre Network Australia team – Christy Flaws who is Programme Producer for Circus and Physical Theatre Strategy… and of course she’ll be introducing the TNA Member of the Month, artist, change maker and cross cultural consultant Aseel Tayah…
Then we do some rapid-fire introductions to a handful of shows at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival… Melissa McGlensey from The Briefing, Dylan Cole from Case Numbers and Otto Rot from Otto and Astrid’s Joint Solo Project…
And it’s not part of the Comedy Festival but it is a bit comedy but it’s also a bit drama, which makes Pear Shaped a dramedy and we’ll be catching up with its writer/director Miranda Middleton…
And then we’ll wrap up the show with a visit to the City Gallery at Melbourne Town Hall to meet Sean Lynch, the curator of Desire Lines, a very eclectic exhibition of objects from the archives…
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It's Darwin week on Behind the Scenes which means a chat with Sophia Hall at Brown’s Mart who’ll be introducing us to textile and installation arts Aly De Groot to talk about her work with comedy clown Anna Thomson in the rapid fire Performance Experiments programme.
And while we’re talking about textiles, let’s find out about Pliable Planes, an exhibition of experimental textiles at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. We’ll meet Co-Curator Catherine Woolley.
Meanwhile, at Arts House in North Melbourne, we’ll catch the end of the Frame Festival and find out what’s coming up when we catch up with Co-Artistic Directors, Emily Sexton & Nithya Nagarajan.
And finally, the air will be vibrating out at Monash Performing Arts Centres with the first performance in Vibrating Air, a chamber music series that kicks off with our guest clarinettist Magdalenna Krstevska.
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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival may not be officially underway just yet, but in our continued effort to get ahead of the curve we’re catching up with two Comedy Festival favourites tonight…
First up, it’s Simon Palomares who’s been around the comedy traps both locally and internationally since the festival first began, so before we find out about his latest show, let’s go back to the beginning, almost forty years ago, and a little show called Wogs Out of Work…
Was Tania Lacy really known as the ‘enfant terrible’ of 80s Australian Television? If that’s true, then how is it that everything is now coming up roses? We’ll find out when we meet Tania and join some of the dots between her days choreographing for Kylie and hosting The Factory to this, her latest offering for the Comedy Festival…
And finally, it might be comic, but it not in the Comedy Festival. Opera Director Constantine Costi and Victorian Opera have given a contemporary spin to Dimitri Shostakovich’s mid twentieth century opera, Moscow Cheryomushki transplanting the tale of the Russian housing shortage of the fifties to the inner north of Melbourne…
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If you know anything about Garrison Keillor’s old time radio show A Prairie Home Companion, then you might have some idea of what to expect from Bring it Home, the interactive and participatory concert celebrating the diversity of older people. And if you don’t know what this all means, then Creative Producer Karen Davitt is here to set you straight.
Then, it’s time for the Darebin FUSE Festival again and we’ll catch up with two events from its extensive programme. The Molly Hadfield Social Justice Oration has been presented for more than a decade and we’ll find out who Molly Hadfield was and what to expect from this year’s line up when we meet Senior Producer Lauren Mullings before meeting the first ever Teen Orator, Zuva Goverwa.
Meanwhile at the Northern Community Church in Preston, you can get up close and personal with a whole bunch of Thingamabobs – surprising machines and quirky contraptions each of which has a story to tell… and to tell us about it is the creator of Thingamabobs, Jens Altheimer.
And finally, FUSE isn’t the only festival looming on the calendar. Pretty soon it’ll be time for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so we’re getting in early with a visit from one of our favourites. The Tuck Shop Ladies – Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess who are here to talk about In Real Life, their new show at The Butterfly Club…
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How did it get to be March. Next thing you know, the leaves will be falling from the trees. But before they do, it’s time to catch up with Josh Lowe from Theatre Network Australia and find out Us and All of This, a performance for Frame that he’s working on with the TNA member of the Month Liesel Zink.
Then we meet Joanna Robertson who’s the driving force behind the Hand in Hand – Kidogo Irish Aboriginal Festival in Fremantle, WA.
Back in Melbourne, we meet Paul Grabowsky wearing one of his many hats – this one is Executive Director of Monash Performing Arts Centres where artists Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt are about the present Cascades, an audio visual experience based on the idea of waterfalls.
And then, of course, it’s about time we did some Screens & Streams with Marc Gracie. This time we’re looking at some of the front runners for this year’s Oscars.
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We’re off to the NT for the first time this year where we’ll catch up with our Darwin correspondent, Brown’s Mart CEO Sophia Hall for all the latest on the local arts scene before Sophia introduces us to Tahlia Biggs who’s about to take to the stage in a production of Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s classic play The 7 Stages of Grieving.
Back in Melbourne we’re gearing up for the biggest and newest dance happening of the year. Frame is a new festival of dance, so where better to find out about it than at DanceHouse where we meet the festival’s Co-Director Josh Wright.
And finally, Matrescence is a word that describes the physical, emotional, hormonal and social transition a woman experiences as she becomes a mother. It’s also the title of indie folk singer-songwriter Claire Tonti’s first album who gives us some reflections on her own matrescence.
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Jonathan Craigis a writer, policy advisor, audio producer and accessibility consultant. From 2018 to 2021 he was Editor of the quarterly magazine from Blind Citizens Australia, where he was credited with transforming the publication. He has also been a member of the Program Advisory Committee for Emerging Writers Festival, and has been a consultant on several Arts House projects, including co-devising The Warehouse Residency program for Deaf and Disabled artists. A lifelong science fiction fan, he’s interested in exploring the consequences of post-humanism and the future of disability.
Here he speaks to Vision Australia Radio presenter Chris Thompson (Behind the Scenes) and the discussion includes a preview of the upcoming FRAME: A biennial of dance - a month of dynamic dance; Arts House will present a suite of dance offerings that will confront, evoke and uplift.
Learn more about FRAME via the following link:https://www.artshouse.com.au/frame-a-biennial-of-dance/
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This week we spend almost the whole show in St Kilda, starting off with the return of the St Kilda Festival and we’ll meet Festival Lead, Sullivan Patten top find out about this year’s focus on First Peoples First programme…
Staying in St Kilda, we’ll drop in on Theatre Works to catch up with Executive Director and Creative Producer Dianne Toulson who’ll tell us about their huge programme and why they opened a second venue during a pandemic…
Down the hill from Theatre Works at Linden New Art, we’ll meet the new Director Vincent Alessi and take a look at the annual Postcard Show…
Then, it’s enough of St Kilda, so we’re off to Bendigo to meet Keva Lloyd who in addition to being a member of the Victoria Welsh Choir, is also looking for your help in writing a history of amateur theatre in Bendigo…
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Well, the year is never properly started until we meet our first Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month but before we do, let’s meet one of the newest members of the TNA Team, Charice Rust who’ll introduce us to February’s Member of the Month Jascha Boyce, co-founder, producer, acrobat and performer with Gravity and other Myths…
After that we’re off to LaMama for another Midsumma Festival show – Kovid Kat Kabarett Goes Spiral – and we’ll meet creator Ella Filar and performers Maureen Hartley and Chris Molyneaux…
Meanwhile, it looks like Finucane and Smith have taken over the Chinese Museum in Melbourne with their production House of the Heart… we welcome Moira Finucane back to the show along with Lois Olney, Dave Johnson, Paul Cordeiro, Zitao Deng, Kate Foster and Xiao Xiao…
And finally, Daytime Music Theatre is returning to Bunjil Place in Narre Warren and the first performer in this year’s programme will be Tom Burlinson… so that would seem like a good reason to get him on the phone…
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Happy new year and welcome to our first regular show for 2023… hope you enjoyed our summer specials and, of course, if you missed them you can catch up with the podcasts here online.
So, here we go with another year… and what would the start of the year be like without the Midsumma Festival? And this year it’s HUGE! How huge? We ask the festival’s Artist Development Manager Harriet Devlin and Access Consultant, Francois Jacobs who are both hanging on the line…
After that, we’ll find out about just one of those Midsumma shows… Theatre Works Executive Director Diane Toulson is here to tell us about The Milf and the Mistress… and hiow she came to be directing that show…
Then we’re hitting the Geelong Road and checking out the final days of the current exhibition at Geelong Gallery… we’ll chat with the galley’s Director, Jason Smith about Mandy Martin – A Persistent Vision…
And finally, ahead of January 26 we’ll have a listen to This Is Australia, a new song by Marrugeku in Broome with rapper Beni Bjah that offers its own version of Childish Gambino’s 2018 global sensation, This Is America… but before we hear it, we’ll meet Rachael Swain, the Co-Director of its excellent, powerful video clip that challenges us with a view of our country that some might find a little challenging…
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Well, here we are at our final Behind the Scenes Summer Special for 2023. In April last year we met singer/songwriter Stella Farnan to talk about her very lovely album Come Stay at Mine. In that conversation, we noted that she came from a very musical family and so this week we’re going to meet a member that family, Stella’s dad Pete Farnan… we talk about his first band, Serious Young Insects, as well as Boom Crash Opera, his teaching and work in theatre and, of course, his solo work under the name Pesky Bones…
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Welcome to the second Behind the Scenes Summer Special for 2023. This week we meet the outgoing Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, Peter Knight, and get to listen to some of his music both from his time with AAO and from his new solo album, Shadow Phase as well as music from his collaborations including Closed Beginnings and 1988...
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Welcome to the first Behind the Scenes Summer Special for 2023. This week we get on board The Blues Train where we’ll meet the event’s founder and curator Hugo T Armstrong plus blues musos Bret Mosely, George Kamikawa, Miss Lou’s Blues and Oscar La Dell… and we’ll listen to their music PLUS a little bit of Midnight Jackson to take us out…
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Well, here we are at the end of the year which is the time that Marc Gracie joins us for a look back at what stood out on our Screens & Streams for 2022 – what were our favourite feature films, our favourite docos and our favourite streaming series? And what were our biggest disappointments?
Plus we’ll look ahead to what we’ll be seeing in 2023, including a chat with Kate ten Buuren, Curator of How I See It: Blak Art & Film at ACMI…
It’s all on this week’s special annual Screens & Streams Wrap Up edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas… at least it is according to the title of Vika and Linda Bull’s Christmas album… we’ll be meeting one of them later in the show because Christmas also means Carols by Candlelight… but more about that later…
First up though, let’s skip Christmas and jump straight into January with a couple of our favourite new year festivals…
New Year’s Day is when the Peninsula Summer Music Festival kicks off and we’ll catch up with Co-Artistic Director Melissa Doecke for a glimpse at this year’s line up…
Then, a week later, District Live is back at The District Docklands with free concerts every Saturday throughout January… we’ll meet one of the headline performers in this year’s programme, international superstar, Isaiah Firebrace…
But before all that, there’s Christmas and before that is Christmas Eve and what would Christmas Eve be without Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl… but just how big a job is it for the tech crew to get things ready for the big night? Well, the person who knows the answer to that is the Bowl’s Production Manager, Taylor Jones, and he walks and talks us through the process…
…and finally, as promised, we get to chat with Vika Bull, not just about their Christmas Album, not just about their new book, but about their up coming performance at Carols by Candlelight (and maybe a bit of goss about Linda while she’s not there??? 😊)…
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In its latest edition the New Platform Papers from Currency House has not one but seven authors each offering a reflection on issues around what the Voice top Parliament might mean for our country and our culture. We’ll chat with one of those author’s Rachael Maza Artistic Director of Ilbijerri Theatre.
The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne is a world class recording studio and high-tech learning lab and from now until the end of January it’s offering a fantastic range of creative workshops for young people including the chance to create hip hop, become an instant rock star, write a play perfo0rm magic and more. We’ll meet Zoe Rinkel, Senior Producer of Creative Learning, Programming to find out how it all happens.
And last time we spoke with Emilie Collyer she was a playwright, but this time she’s here as a poet whose latest collection, Do You Have Anything Less Domestic? Just won the inaugural Five Islands Press Award for poetry.
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It's December already and as has become a bit of a tradition over the past couple of years, the Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month is none other than… Theatre Network Australia itself… which is why we’ll be dropping into the TNA Office to have an end of year wrap up with TNA Executive Director Nicole Beyer…
And with the end of the year so near, it’s probably not too early to be talking about things happening at the start of 2023… Pop Choir at the Bar is an impromptu choir that learns and sings a pop song that was a hit anytime from the sixties until now… and with the help of Sharon Stokes and Daryl John Moulton, you can be part of that choir and have your hit recorded on a video for posterity…. Don’t think you sing? Well Sharon’s here to convince you otherwise…
A few weeks ago, we had a look at some of the films in the Melbourne Queer Film Festival but one film we didn’t talk about was The Dream Life of Georgie Stone, a short documentary about how Georgie Stone’s transgender journey not only changed her own life, but helped change the lives of many other young transgender teens… it won the festival’s Best Short Doco award so it seems like a good time to meet the film’s director, Maya Newell…
And finally, due to unforeseen circumstances, we didn’t get the chance to have a final chat with our Adelaide correspondent Geoff Cobham for the year… but that doesn’t mean we miss out on an Adelaide story… Glyn Lehmann and Shaun McNicholas are known as The Caretakers and for twelve months they collaborated on an album in an unusual way… one would start a piece and the other would complete it… we’ll meet Glyn and Shaun and hear a bit of the result of their project… Six Rooms.
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One last visit to our Darwin Correspondent Sophia Hall for 2022… we’ll catch up with the news of the north before Sophia introduces us to her guest singer songwriter David Garnham who’s also written the next show at Brown’s Mart, The Full Spread…
In September last year we met Zya Kane who was creating Memory Go ‘Round a fascinating sensory performance experience that, remarkably, involved a Zoom screen and a hand delivered showbag of sensory items. Well, the Zoom screen’s gone but Zya is still here to talk about the finished product…
Meanwhile, at the Butterfly Club, relatively new production company, Pansy Productions, is presenting This Moment in Time, a new work that looks at how one fleeting conversation can change the whole trajectory of your life. We’ll drop by the Butterfly Club to meet company members Alistair Ward, Mashaka Gunnulson and Ruby Vadiveloo…
And lastly, Marc Gracie is here for our final regular Screens & Streams segment for the year (but don’t fret… we’ve still got our annual Movie Wrap coming up at the end of December)
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It's our final visit to the West for 2022, so what will Perth correspondent Helen Simondson be telling us about before she introduces her guest, writer, director, designer, composer and all ‘round theatre maker Joe Paradise Lui…
Back in the East, another theatre maker, Ben Anderson, is about to present a new work as part of La Mama explorations… Wake is a dark puppetry performance which explores the idea that no-one’s in control…
Meanwhile, at Theatre Works, we check in on another new work, The Mentor by Joshua White and we speak with actor Amanda Muggleton who plays a one-time Hollywood star who’s life and career are spiralling in the wrong direction.
And finally, Kgshak Akec is an actor, poet and writer whose debut novel, Hopeless Kingdom, won the Dorothy Hewitt Award for an unpublished manuscript. We’ll find out how you write with perspective about experiences in your own life in the voices of a child and a mother when you’re only 24 years old.
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Well it’s all theatre and music this week and we start with the centenary of T S Eliot’s The Wasteland, not just as an epic poem, but as a solo performance by Ray Swann preceded by Andrew Duffield’s evocative musical response to the work and all directed by Kirsten von Bibra. And we chat with all three of them.
Then, we meet Nela Trifkovic from Saray Iluminado who’ll be bringing their unique brand of Sevdah, the traditional folk music from Boznia and Herzegovina to the Melbourne Recital Centre this month with Flight, a performance that will include dance from Assoicate Artist and renowned choreographer Israel Aloni.
Meanwhile, at the Abbotsford Convent, Yumi Umiumare is back with her annual festival, ButohOUT featuring workshops and their latest performance Blessed Chaos. We talk with Yumi and composer/sound designer Ai Yamamoto.
And finally, we get to hear the amazingly soulful, bluesy voice of Rat Child, both in conversation and in song as she introduces her new album My Morning and Afternoon’s Work.
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It's the pointy end of the year so we kick off this week’s show with Yuhui Ng Rodriguez and our penultimate Theatre Network Australia spot for 2022 which, of course, also means our penultimate TNA Member of the Month and this time it’s a return visit from HotHouse Theatre Artistic Director Karla Conway.
Then let’s scoot up the Western Highway to Ballarat to meet Louise Tegart, Director of the Art Gallery of Ballarat who also happens to have curated their latest exhibition, Beating About the Bush which asks to rethink some classic Australian impressionist works by juxtaposing them with works by contemporary Australian female identifying photographers.
Then we drop into Arts House, where 36 year old Aaron Orzech and 14 year old Sol Feldman have spent the past five years developing NeverNeverNeverNeverNeverNeverNever, a performance that’s part dance and part theatre and might have come about after an offhand comment in the theatre foyer.
Meanwhile, a stone’s throw away at the Meat Market, we’ll be fighting off the Demogorgon in the upside down when we meet Salty Theatre’s Ashley Taylor Tickell who’s directing the Australian premiere of, no it’s not Stranger Things, it’s Stranger Sings! The Musical Parody.
And finally, we haven’t heard from them for a while, but they’re on the road again and so it’s a good time to catch up with Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess better known as The Tuck Shop Ladies.
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Well, we all thought that Melbourne Fringe was done and dusted for 2022 but that doesn’t seem to be entirely true. How can that be? We’ll ask Renay Barker-Mulholland who’s just one of the designers still showing at Design Fringe at Linden New Art.
How do you bring visual art to life for those who may not be able to see it? RMIT and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art are doing just that with Touching Feeling Writing, an aural experiential approach to visual art and Programme Leader Lucinda Strahan and Composer Rebecca Bracewell are here to tell us how they do it.
Meanwhile, St Martins Youth Arts Centre is working with the Royal Botanic Gardens on Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again., a performance installation in which young voices speak about evolution, adaptation and hope. Why? Let’s ask St Martins Artistic Director Nadja Kotstich.
Meanwhile, out in the west, Footscray Community Arts Centre and The Substation have joined forces to present the Neighbourhood Contemporary Art Festival and we’ll meet Dylan Singh who is one of the artists presenting The Dreaming Project.
And finally, it’s time for Screens & Streams, but Marc Gracie has gone down with Covid so this time we’re focusing on the Melbourne Queer Film Festival with Programme Director Spiro Economopoulos.
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It's our week to visit the Northern Territory which is why we’re saying welcome back to our Darwin correspondent Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart who’ll catch us up on what’s happening in the north before introducing us to her guest artist, writer and Fresh Ink mentor Sarah Reuben…
Meanwhile, at the Footscray Community Arts Centre, there’s an exhibition called Bolder which offers the visitor an experience beyond the appearance of the works hanging on the walls. To tell us about how augmented reality enhances the work we’ll meet artist Steven Tran and Lead Producer Lucy Buxton…
Then it’s time to find out what happened to author, Jayne Tuttle after the end of her 2019 memoir Paris or Die when an antique lift in a French apartment block almost decapitated her… so it’s probably no surprise that her follow up is called My Sweet Guillotine…
And finally, as Australian Art Orchestra’s Artistic Director Peter Knight prepares to hand over the reins of that remarkable company, he’s also released Shadow Phase his first solo album in a decade…
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The last two weeks have been wall to wall Melbourne Fringe and there’s still more to come in this, the festival’s final week…
But before that. Let’s catch up with our Perth Correspondent Helen Simondson who wants to tell us about a dance performance for you and your pot plants, before introducing us to her guest Boola Bardip Museum’s Creative Producer, Ciaran McDonald.
Then it’s back to the Fringe for Ignis, a promenade performance at the Toorak Manor Hotel where we’ll meet playwright Daniel Nellor and director Bronwen Coleman…
The let’s say hi to Geraldine Quinn whose show Broad is part of the So Soiree Fringe Garden… before asking improvisor extraordinaire, Amanda Buckley (aka Ethyl Mermaid) what it’s like to work with a script for a change in her Butterfly Club show, Songs in the Key of Sea
And finally we meet Olly Lawrence who’s programmed a jam-packed final Fringe week at The Motley Bauhaus whilst managing to simultaneously produce shows at the Fringe Hub…
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It's week two of our special Melbourne Fringe shows and whilst we’ll miss our Adelaide correspondent Geoff Cobham who’s on tour in Saudi Arabia (more on that next month), we don’t entirely miss out on an Adelaide connection because we’re kicking off with one of the hits of this year’s Adelaide Fringe, GODZ; a blend of circus, storytelling and physical theatre from Head First Acrobats and we’ll meet performer and co-director Thomas Gorham…
Then we’re off to the Fringe Hub at the Trades Hall to meet Jess Stanley, creator of the charming and calming interactive storytelling performance JSMR and we’ll find out about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and how it applies to this show…
Meanwhile at LaMama HQ, there’s a mini-Irish-playwright’s-festival going on with Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall and Brian Friels one act, Chekhov inspired work, Afterplay… so we’ll catch up with Director and Cast of the Beckett piece, Melanie Beddie, Tom Considine, Carole Patullo and Dan O’Halloran – before we chat with the director of the Friels piece, Kirsten von Bibra…
And finally, let’s find out what Deadly Fringe has to offer in this, its sixth year when we chat with Deadly Fringe Programme Coodinator Peta Duncan…
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The start of October is, of course, time for a visit from Theatre Network Australia… but it’s also the start of Melbourne Fringe, so we’re combining the two/ First, a chat with TNA’s Manager of VIPI & Communications, Wen-Juenn Lee, and then the TNA Member of the Month is Melbourne Fringe CEO Simon Abrahams who’ll kick of a Behind the Scenes three-show special covering as many Fringe shows and events as we can… we won’t get to all 450+ events in their 40th birthday programme, but we’ll give it a good crack…
First up we’re at Theatre Works where we’ll meet Teresa Izzard, director of This Is Where We Live by Vivienne Walshe; a poetic two hander that looks at love and disconnection in a small regional Australian town…
Then we’re off to The Butterfly Club where some of the creators of the Paramount+ hit series More Than This have exchanged the screen for the stage with a new theatrical work, We All Die in the End. We’ll meet three of the creator/performers; Luka Otis Gracie, Monique Solnordal and Joel Harris…
And finally, we’ll wrap up at The Temperance Hall where Phillip Adams is turning his dance venue into a hub for experimental choreography showcasing the work of six artists with diverse practices…
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On last week’s show we spoke about HotHouse Theatre celebrating its 25th birthday but further north, Brown Mart has clocked up its half a century and so we’ll be singing Happy Birthday to our Darwin correspondent, Sophia Hall… and then meeting Tracks Dance’s Associate Artistic Director Jessica Devereaux to find out what special gift Tracks has made for Browns Mart…
Then, back in Melbourne, RMIT Culture has just opened The Children’s Sensorium, an installation that combines light, colour, sound, touch, smell and taste in an environment promoting resilience and wellbeing for young people. What’s all that mean? Let’s ask Curator and Producer Grace McQuilten who shows us around the site…
And then it’s time to catch up with Marc Gracie for our latest chat about what we’ve seen on our streams and screens…
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Our Perth correspondent Helen Simondson will be here at the start of the show with a bit of a wrap on what she’s seen lately, before introducing her guest, Co-Artistic Director of the fabulous Sensorium Theatre, Michelle Hovane…
- If you’d like to listen to Jeremy Smith from Performing Lines talking about the early development of HuTan on the May 16 edition of Behind the Scenes, go here… https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-scenes-vision-australia-radio/behind-the-scenes-16th-may-2022
Back in Melbourne, at Monash University Performing Arts Centres, it’s time again for the Indian Performing Arts Convention, described as a carnival of Carnatic music. What’s that mean? Let’s ask the Head of the Academy of Indian Music and Cultural Studies Ravi M Ravichandhira…
Meanwhile, it’s school holidays in Victoria and Theatre Works is presenting a lovely imaginative work called Whalebone and we’ll speak with its creator, performer and inventor, Jens Altheimer,
And finally, from up north in Albury Wodonga, HotHouse Theatre’s Artistic Director Karla Conway is on the line to tell us about a locally made documentary that celebrates the company’s first quarter of a century.
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It's our week to catch up with Adelaide correspondent Geoff Cobham… so what’s he doing in Brisbane? At least his guest artist, Andy Packer, Artistic Director of Slingsby Theatre, is in South Australia… but only just… we’ll catch him on tour in Mount Gambier…
Then, Imagine a world where you’re watched by Guardians and music has been censored… that’s the world created in Senser, the new play at Theatre Works and we'll the playwright, Brittanie Shipway, who is also Theatre Works’ resident dramaturge…
Interspecies and Other Others is an installation, illumination and soundscape that’s taken over the grounds of the Abbotsford Convent… it’s best experienced at night, so that’s what we’ll do as we walk and talk our way through it with Curator Kelli Alred…
And finally, we’ll drop in on vocalist/musician Ria Soemardjo and writer/director Sandra Fiona Long who have co-created Of Frogs, a combination of percussion, voice and shadow play that draws its inspiration from lost waterways and the life cycle of frogs…
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If it’s the start of Spring then it’s the start of September which is why Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for our regular catch up with Theatre Network Australia and an introduction to professional unusualist, Mitch Jones, who is the TNA Member of the Month…
Next, we’ll pop down to the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park in Langwarrin to meet Assistant Curator Suzette Wearne who’ll walk and talk us through Veiled Paradise, the remarkable exhibition of works by Fiona Foley… and this one comes with an F-word language warning for the title of one of her works…
And finally, New Zealand’s foremost composer, lyricist and music director has assembled a number of relatively recent songs in Everything and Nothing: The Songs of Luke Di Somma, a cabaret that looks at love and home and the quirkier aspects of the world we live in… and we’ll meet one of the performers, Milo Hartill…
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First up this week we’ll meet Jawad Yagoubi, co-creator of and performer in Dorr-e Dari, a bilingual performance of Persian storytelling and epic ballads drawn from the streets of Kabul, Tehran and Quetta by way of Western Sydney. But what is a Persian ‘curtain show’ and how do you fit a thousand years of Persian love poetry into a 75 minute show?
Then we’ll be talking more about poetry when we meet Eric Whitacre who’ll be on the line from the USA ahead of his Impending visit to Melbourne to perform The Sacred Veil, a work in twelve movements set to the poems of long time collaborator, Charles Anthony Silvestri.
After that we’re sneaking out of the studio for a face to face chat with Tom Healey director of Bed and Breakfast, a play that looks at what happens when a gay couple give up their city life to start a bed and breakfast in a country town.
And finally, Marc Gracie is here to talk Screens & Streams… this time it’s a new Brad Pitt comic thriller, a new Jordan Peele comic horror and a seven-part series pairing Jeff Bridges with John Lithgow that is anything but comic.
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Let’s meet Daz Chandler first up tonight to find out what happens when a Many Worlds Traveller greets us at the entrance to the theatre and directs us to an atmospheric booth where we begin our immersive journey. It’s The Parallel Effect’s Message From Another You being presented as part of this year’s Darebin Arts FUSE Spring Festival…
Then we’ll chat with Rachel Keir-Smith about Above The Canopy, a beautiful exhibition at Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery that uses installation, photography, painting, animation and textiles to explore the grandeur and diversity of our country’s natural environment as well as its vulnerability of climate change…
And finally, another chat with another Rachael… this time it’s Ilbijerri Theatre’s Artistic Director, Rachael Maza who sits down with me for a long conversation about the company’s 30th birthday, their new short film tackling the impact of Hepatitis C in the Aboriginal community and, of course, their latest theatre performance, Heart is a Wasteland at Arts Centre Melbourne…
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We’re off to Western Australia to start this week’s show and Perth Correspondent, Helen Simondson, will catch us up on what’s been happening in the West before introducing us to her guest Raewyn Hill, Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Co3…
…then we welcome Gus Berger back to the show, but this time not just as Owner of the Thornbury Picture House, but also as Producer/Director of the new doco The Lost City of Melbourne screening as part of MIFF70…
…meanwhile, at La Mama Courthouse, we catch up with Griffin Award winning playwright Rosie Johns who’s about to see her new work Birthday Book of Storms take to the stage…
…and finally, you might think you know Hugh Sheridan from his work on television and in music theatre, but in Solitary Man, he takes the stage as himself to bring us the songs of one of his musical heroes, Neil Diamond…
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Covid has scuppered our Adelaide segment again this month, so we’re at The Motley Bauhaus for the start of this week’s show with recent Geoffrey Milne Green Room Award recipient and Motley head honcho, Jason Cavanaugh who’s taken an idea that many venues have embraced since the pandemic lockdowns – the idea that you can see a show online as well as on stage – but has pushed it a little further.
Then we catch up with Pony Knox who together with Emma Krause and Simone Springer forms the trio known as The Motherhood Comedy. As the name suggests, their work stems from the experience of being mothers and their hit show Mums Gone Wild is heading to Victoria for a whirlwind tour.
After that, it’s from mothers to daughters. The Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company has been working with women in prison since 1981 and their latest show, She Swallowed That Lie is the work of both women with lived prison experience and marginalised young people from regional Victoria. The show’s director is Kharen Harper and she joins us to talk about how the company goes about making such significant work.
Then finally, we drop in to MUMA, the Monash University Museum of Art to talk with well-known choreographer Shelley Lasica about When I Am Not There, a survey of her work created over the past forty years.
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If Steph Spiers is here from Theatre Network Australia, then it must be the first show for August, and we’ll be finding out about the Victorian Theatre Forum later this month before Steph introduces us to the TNA Member of the Month… it’s Arts Centre Melbourne and representing the arts centre’s current big project Alter State is Foundation Artist Carly Findlay, a former TNA member of the Month herself.
Then we welcome Juliette Hanson from Linden New Art back to the show to catch us up on two or three exhibitions that are currently on show including Kingdom of Pleasure, a dreamlike photographic look at Luna Park by local artist Jane Burton.
Meanwhile, at Theatre Works, there’s a bit of a different take on Euripides classic play Medea. It’s called Medea: Out of the Mouths of Babes and it looks at the story from the perspective of the doomed children and uses real children as a source for this new interpretation. Why do that? We’ll ask director Steven Mitchell Wright.
And finally, we’ll meet Australian film and television veteran Sandy George who’s written the latest New Platform Paper from Currency House which asks why Nobody Talks About Australianness on our Screens.
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And if you’d like to listen to Chris Thompson talking to Carly Findlay when she was Theatre Network Australia’s Member of the Month on Behind the Scenes September 6, 2021 show then click HERE.
And if you’d like to hear Carly Findlay talking about the launch of Alter State on Behind the Scenes November 1, 2021 show, then click HERE.
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Our Darwin correspondent Sophia Hall is first up this week spilling the beans on all the local news before introducing us to Vanessa Wright, Senior Producer at the Darwin Festival which is happening very soon.
Something else that’s happening very soon is Chamber Made’s new production of Myself In That Moment. Artistic Director Tamara Saulwick will be along to tell us how you make a performance out of 49 tablets and one solo voice.
After that, it’s time for Screens & Streams but before Marc Gracie joins us for the lowdown on a new Marvel movie, a new Baz Luhrmann movie and a couple of other treats, we’ll be checking in with Marlo Sullivan to talk about the Scandinavian Film Festival.
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Well, Melbourne’s not just opening up again because of eased pandemic restrictions, it’s opening up again because it’s time for the annual Open House Melbourne Weekend and we’ll welcome its Chief Curator, Fleur Watson back to the show to tell us about the highlights of this year’s programme.
Then we’ll meet legendary costumier, Rose Chong who, along with eight other women all of whom have achieved success in areas including science, sports, graphic design, photojournalism, theatre production, took up a course in art just before the pandemic that, of course, ended up on zoom once the lockdowns hit us. But undaunted, the group shared their work, bonded and reignited their passions for making art culminating in the 9 Lives exhibition at Montsalvat.
And speaking of first passions, Janine Watson and Jayne Tuttle first met at the National Theatre Drama School over twenty years ago where they ignited a passion for theatre and performance. This week, they both have productions playing in Melbourne – Janine has directed the Bell Shakespeare production of The Comedy of Errors at Arts Centre Melbourne and Jayne has written and performs in Paris or Die at LaMama. So, we’re getting the band back together to find out how important those formative years at the Nash were to both of them.
Finally, we’ll meet composer and didgeridoo player William Barton who is joining forces with Iva Davies, Aunty Delmae Barton, Veronique Serret and John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra for the Melbourne premiere of his work Sky Songs.
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Well, it looks like we break the record for numbers of guests on one show this week starting in Adelaide with Co-Founder and Co-Creative Director of Illuminate Adelaide, Lee Cumberlidge…
Then we’re out to the fabulous Bunjil Place in Narre Warren where they’re shifting into Night Mode, the next in their quarterly evenings of arts and entertainment… and if it’s entertainment you want, then you won’t be disappointed when we meet Night Mode’s star attraction, drag performer Brenda Bressed…
Meanwhile, in Lilydale at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, we’ll find out about 1x4, a pretty fascinating exhibition that imagines four stories as told by each of 24 different objects including a Commodore computer and a Sunbeam Mixmaster… but to find out about this exhibition we’ll need to chat with Curator, David Hampton at the Newcastle Museum where the exhibition was created…
And finally, we’re off to the ballroom at the Sofitel Hotel in Melbourne to catch up with Moira Finucane, Kathryn Niesche, Mama Alto, Jazida, Iva Rosebud, Rachel Lewindon and Govind Pillai
from the cast of Future. Joy. Club, a show described as burlesque on fire…
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It’s the first show for July AND it’s NAIDOC Week so Wen Juenn Lee is here from Theatre Network Australia to tell us what’s happening with their ViPI programme AND to introduce us to the TNA member of the Month, First Nations writer and artist and producer and ViPI participant, Monique Grbec.
Then we’ll welcome Kate Sulan back to the show. After 22 years as Artistic Director of Rawcus Theatre, Kate is stepping down but not before she directs one last show. We’ll celebrate Kate’s legacy and Rawcus Theatre’s beautiful new production of Here We Are Amongst You.
After that, we’re off to the Shrine of Remembrance where Curator Katrina Nicolson will walk and talk us through For Kin and Country, the Shrine’s tribute to the service of First Peoples in the defence forces over more than a hundred years.
And finally, Xavier Rudd is on tour again but his support band is Marlon x Rulla one of the fastest rising First Nations duos in the country, and we’ll meet one half of that duo, Marlon Motlop and listen to a bit of their hit, Black Swan.
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So, it looks like Covid strikes again, this time in the North which means we won’t be hearing from our Darwin Correspondent, Sophia Hall until next month. But never fear, there are still plenty of guest to meet on tonight’s show…
First up, we’re dropping in on Family Fiesta, presented by Monash University Performing Arts Centres. It’s a festival with plenty of school holiday action but we’re going to focus on the Sensory Concerts presenting chamber music in a relaxed setting for neurodiverse audiences and we’ll meet the Creative Director Grace Kim.
Then we’ll meet Cessalee Stoval who is Equity and Inclusion Support Officer on Passing Strange, the Tony Award winning music theatre piece being present by Antipodes Theatre. But Cessalee has more strings than this to her bow and we’ll find out what they are.
Meanwhile, at Northcote Town Hall. Bec Mathews and Sarah Ward, well know for their cabaret and burlesque work, have been making a show for a decidedly different audience. The Rainbow Tree is a show for kids that they’ve made with seven kids from rainbow families, Bec and Sarah will tell us about a disco koala, a farting unicorn and how they became Aunty Bear and ZaZa.
And finally, we’ll ask whether Buzz Lightyear really needed an origin story when Marc Gracie returns for Screens & Streams.
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We’ll find out what’s on in the West this week when we catch up with our Perth Correspondent Helen Simonson, Manager at the WA Museum Boola Bardip. Helen will also introduce us to Walkley and AACTA Award winning film and theatre maker, Victoria Midwinter Pitt whose play I’m With Her is about to have a staged reading in Subiaco.
Then it’s time for some music when we’ll meet Nick Delaney who, along with Anita Quayle form the improvisational duo Beyond the Lake who’ve just released their first album, Coming Home.
After that, we get to chat with opera director Sally Blackwood who put her time in pandemic iso to good use by completing her doctoral thesis, (Re)claim the Frame: a rethinking of opera and operatic practice in Australia.
And then it’s more music. This time we’re in Japan to meet another music duo, Nature Airliner also known as singer songwriter Laurier Tiernan and singer-guitarist Eiko who’ll introduce us to their new album Cardinal.
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Our Adelaide Correspondent, Geoff Cobham gets us going this week with his wrap up of what’s happening in the City of Churches, before introducing us to his special guest…
…this month, it’s choreographer Lewis Major. We’ll talk to him about his new show, Monolith, and find out how good a shearer he used to be?
Then were off to the City of Glen Eira’s gallery to meet Betty Sargeant, Creative Director of Unearthed, an immersive digital installation that reworks traditional Yorta Yorta shields into floor to ceiling semi translucent fabrics and includes voices from the local community.
After that, we’ll meet Ben Sheen from the National Institute of Circus Arts who’ll talk to us about Eclipse, NICA’s first public performance since 2019.
And finally, comedian Justine Sless is here to talk about her funny and insightful book, Mistress of Mirth’s C.O.M.E.D.Y. Tour and reveals how you merge post-graduate study with comedy writing.
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If Theatre Network Australia is here, it must be the first show of the month. And that’d be for June which is why it’s so cold. Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez will catch us up what the election result means for the arts before introducing us to the TNA Member of the Month, Zac James…
Then we nick out of the studio for a bit to visit Jamie Russell from Resolution X whose new work Now Breathe is part of the City of Stonnington’s Glow Winter Festival…
Back in the studio, Lillie Brown will be on the line to tell us about Creative Startup, a free online business course for those who might not know how the business side of their art works…
And then let’s finish with a bit of music… Paul Williamson is a trumpeter and composer and he’s about to take to the Hawthorn Arts Centre stage with his ensemble Northside HomeGrown for some jazz with a Latin twist…
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First up this week, we say welcome back to artist and CEO of The Torch, Kent Morris to tell us about Confined 13 which is back at the City of Glen Eira Gallery, and his own new artwork right in the middle of Federation Square to mark Reconciliation Week.
Then we’re off to Chapel off Chapel, Angus Cameron’s multi-award-winning thriller Dirt has finally beaten Covid and made it to the stage. We’ll catch up with Director, Bronwen Coleman.
Meanwhile, at LaMama, there’s a play that claims to be about life, the universe, philosophy, the Cold War, Berlin, espionage, the future, the past, revisionism, radio, consolidated power, ruthlessness, appropriation, limitless rage and the eternal murder of the moment. We’ll ask the Director of Point8Six how you fit all that into 75 minutes.
And then it’s time for Screens & Streams… first up we’ll chat with Richard Sowada, Director of this year’s St Kilda Film Festival… and then Marc Gracie will be along to talk about new films from Tom Cruise and Nic Cage.
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We’re off to the Northern Territory this week to catch up with our Darwin correspondent, Sophia Hall who’ll give us all the goss from the Top End including the lowdown on what’s happening at Brown’s Mart…
…and what’s happening at Brown’s Mart is Jarradah Gooragullui – Dance of the Brolgas. A combination of dance, moving image and spoken word that tells both a creation story and a story of two lovers and we’ll find out more when Sophia introduces us to Associate Producer and Family Liaison, Carly Bancroft Mills.
After that we make a lateral move across the country to Far North Queensland where we catch up with Simon Storey, director of The Storey Players, a company made up of the appropriately named Storey family who tour the outback performing, running storytelling workshops and making short films with local young people. We’ll meet Simon and find out what it’s like to be both a family and a theatre company.
Meanwhile, back in Melbourne we find ourselves at the City Gallery with Curator and artist Kenny Pittock who walks and talks us through From Mundane to Friday, a fascinating exhibition of ephemera, found objects and shopping lists.
And finally. We’re at Arts House in North Melbourne to chat with Daniel Schlusser about his new work, Hercules that draws on pop culture, Euripides, the contemporary experience and, of course, the twelve labour of Hercules.
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It's our week to start in WA with our Perth Correspondent, Helen Simondson who’ll catch us up on the latest before introducing Jeremy Smith, Senior Producer at Performing Lines WA.
Then we’re off to Expanded Canvas, a group show at Hawthorn’s Town Hall Gallery and one of the artists, David Harley, will walk and talk us through the exhibition. (David’s art dealer is Charles Nordrum Gallery)
Here’s a question? What musical has an umbrella as a key part of its story? No, it’s not Mary Poppins, it’s Driftwood: The Musical and director Gary Abrahams is here to tell us about it.
And another question… were you at Ormond Hall for a disco called Opus in the late 60’s. Miks Everittwants to know because he’s trying to track down people who remember a lost psychedelic mural that his dad painted in the venue.
And finally, this coming Sunday will mark the 20th anniversary of the Independence of Timor Leste and we’ll hear from one of the leading voices of activism to come out of that time - the Dili Allstars and we’ll chat with founding member (and Painter & Dockers vocalist) Paulie Stewart.
They’re all on tonight’s edition of Behind the Scenes with me Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re in South Australia for the start of this week’s show where we’ll catch up with our Adelaide correspondent, Geof Cobham who’ll introduce us to local composer and sound artist, Jason Sweeney.
After that we’ll meet Lena Cirillo, Executive Officer of Art Education Victoria who’ll tell us about Transitions, their first symposium at Monash Uni.
And speaking of Monash Uni, Back to Back Theatre, recent winners of the prestigious International Ibsen Award, is there to perform The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes and we’ll chat with Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin and performer Scott Price.
Not all art is hanging in a gallery. Some works you’ll see on the side of the road, maybe as you drive around Hastings, or Mildura or Horsham? It’s a project bringing First Nations artworks into the public space using Billboards and we’ll find out more from Curator Jenna Rain Warwick.
And finally, is it an installation, is it a performance, is it a tea ceremony? We’ll find out when we meet the creator and performer of Buried Teabowl – Okuni, Yumi Umiumare.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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If you had to pick fifty things to characterise Australia, what would you choose? Food? Historical events? Music? Julian Meyrick has chosen theatre or, more specifically, 50 plays that tell the story of the past 120 years of this country and he’s here to tell us what they are.
What is an Oceanic sonic tapestry? We’ll ask FAMILI’s Performance and Musical Co-Director Bella Waru who’ll tell us about We Take Back Our Mother Tongues which brings together fifteen artists connected to Pasifika and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities for a multidisciplinary storytelling project.
Then a bit of music when we meet young indie pop-rock singer songwriter Stella Farnan whose first EP invites us to Come Stay at Mine…
And we’ll wrap up with Marc Gracie and the latest in Screens & Streams.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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This week, our Perth Correspondent Helen Simondson gets us started with a look at what’s happening at the intersection between screens and live exhibition… before introducing us to Gemma Pepper from AudioPlay, a company that’s using mobile phone technology to provide a creative theatre experience for kids…
Then we’re at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne where the artwork is literally coming Off the Wall… and that’s the name of the exhibition that Assistant Curator Pierra Van Sparkes will walk and talk us through…
After that, a bit of music… Adam Simmons is back on the show to tell us about Jazz in the Square, a full day of free jazz in Federation Square to celebrate the UNESCO International Jazz Day…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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The first show for April gives us a chance to meet Steph Spiers, Theatre Network Australia’s new Programme Manager for Circus and Physical Theatre and Events… and, of course, Steph will be introducing us to the TNA Member of the Month for April… Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy from Triage Live Art Collective…
Then we’ll pop into Buxton Contemporary to find out about artist Rebecca Belmore’s Turbulent Water, an exhibition of her installations and multi-disciplinary work that examines the politics of representation and we’ll meet Senior Curator of Art Museums and Collections, Samantha Comte, to find out more…
After that, we’re off to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival… our first stop is Theatre Works’ new venue The Explosives Factory where Fabio Motta is presenting Spot his highly physical and very satirical look at the contemporary migrant experience…
…and then we’re at Malthouse to catch self-styled ‘faboriginal’ Steven Oliver’s autobiographical comedy, Bigger and Blacker…
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’ll start in the Northern territory this week with our Darwin correspondent, Sophia Hall, who’ll catch us up on the arts scene there before introducing us to Haneen Martin, one of the new members of the Brown’s Mart artistic team…
Then, we’ll pop back to Perth for as quick visit to the West Australian Opera who’ve reimagined Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta for a production that’s been working with the local blind and vision impaired community. We’ll find out more about the project when we meet blind actor Grace King.
After that, we’re off to the annual Toy Fair which includes award given to toy by a judging panel of kids… of course… we’ll meet Mark Holmes from Just Kidding Magazine to find out how it all works…
Then, it’s a bit of a different movies segment this fortnight… yes, Marc Gracie will be here as usual, but first we’ll meet Emma Macey-Storch who spent four and a half years in India making Geeta, a documentary about the terrible impacts of acid attacks… we’ll meet Emma and hear about this remarkable story…
…and then we’ll meet Luka Gracie (yes, the child of Marc Gracie) who is co-creator and ensemble performer in the Paramount Plus teenage hit, More Than This… and who better to chat with Luka about a teenage drama than teenager Gully Thompson… it’s a family affair on Screens & Streams this week.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Let’s start this week’s show in Western Australia with our Perth Correspondent, Helen Simondson, Manager of the WA Museum Boola Bardip who’ll let us know what she’s seen in the local arts scene recently before introducing us to this month’s guest artist, Eva Mullaley, Artistic Director of Yirra Yaakin.
Then, we’re getting’ on the beers and where better to do that than at Beechworth’s High Country Hop, a unique blend of music and craft beer – what more could you want from a music festival? Well, we’ll ask one of the organisers, owner of Bridge Road Brewery, Ben Kraus.
Music of a more classical bent will be featuring at St Patrick’s Cathedral when the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus plays Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and we’ll be chatting with Concert Master Warren Trevelyan-Jones.
Music of a different kind is the fusion of Vietnamese folk with contemporary jazz when the Australian Art Orchestra and The Substation present 1988. We’ll meet Co-Composer Dung Nguyen and hear the story of why that year is significant in his life.
They’re all on tonight’s edition of Behind the Scenes with me Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re off to South Australia for the start of this week’s show to catch up with our Adelaide Correspondent, Geof Cobham, who’ll catch us up on what’s happening during a bust Adelaide Festival time, before introducing us to local performer, director and photographer, Darcy Grant from Gravity and other Myths…
Then we’re off to the theatre again for Melbourne Theatre Company’s latest dark comedy, Admissions. We’ll meet cast member Simon Maiden who’ll tell us about the Catch 22 dilemma that lies at the heart of the play… but no spoilers, of course…
After that, what about a bit of music… Amaru Tribe exploration of the intersection between traditional Latin American music and contemporary sounds is so original that they had to come up with their own genre… Cumbia Oceanica… what’s that, I hear you ask? We’ll ask two singer-songwriters from the band, Oscar Jiminez and Katherine Gailer, when they drop by to talk about the release of their second album.
And then we’ll wrap things up with Marc Gracie and our fortnightly review of things seen on screens and streams.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Here we are in March which means we say hello to Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia who’ll catch us up on the performing arts scene before introducing us to the TNA member of the Month, writer and Sidney Myer Fellowship recipient, Michelle Lee.
Then, for the rest of the show, we’re off to theatre… first stop is Theatre Works where we can see writer, director Richard Murphett’s new work, the neo-noir thriller The Darkening Sky.
Next stop is La Mama and the restored Faraday Street venue where we’ll meet Tee O’Neil, the writer of Yellingbo, a new play inspired by her time living and working with thirty-two asylum seekers.
And finally, FUSE Festival in Darebin is back with a huge programme of events… we’ve chosen just one… Sarah Austin’s latest sensory work for babies and their carers, An Uncertain Time.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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This week on 'Behind the Scenes'. How does a major arts venue like Browns Mart approach its programming in a city which spends a big chunk of the year in a wet season? With International Women’s Day around the corner is it a good time to ask what contribution women have made to the MSO over the past 115 years? And what’s been seen on our Screens and Streams over the last fortnight? Hit that play button to find out!
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We’re in the West for the start of this week’s show as we welcome back our Perth Correspondent, Helen Simondson who’ll catch us up on what’s happening in her neck of the woods especially what’s on in this year’s Perth Festival…
Meanwhile, in Melbourne, Joel Carnegie and Tom Molyneux are presenting a double bill of family stories from the past – in Stardust, Joel performs as his grandfather, jazz trumpeter Col Brain and in The Mission, Tom performs as his great great uncle Allan McDonald one of the first Victorian Aboriginal soldiers at Gallipoli.
After that we’re back at TarraWarra Museum of Art for a follow up to our Myth Rider walk & talk with Curator Anthony Fitzpatrick… this time it’s Heather B Swann’s companion exhibition, Leda and the Swan.
And finally, last time we spoke with author Maryrose Cuskelly, she was writing true crime. Now she’s jumped the fence and joined the ranks of crime fiction writers and she’s here to tell us about her debut novel, The Cane.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
You can find the first part of our walk and talk through the Sidney Nolan exhibition on our January 31 show here.
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It's the second show of the month which means we start the show in Adelaide with our South Australian Correspondent, Geof Cobham (even if he seems to be in Perth this week). Geof catches us up on why he’s in the West, before introducing local (Adelaide) storyteller and performer Emma Beech, whose work The Photo Box is part of this year’s Adelaide Festival.
Back to Melbourne we drop into Linden New Art where Curator Juliette Hansen will catch us up on all the latest including the annual Postcards Show.
And then it’s time for Screens & Streams but before Marc Gracie joins us, let’s meet film director Catherine Hill to find out about her gem of a movie, Some Happy Day set in and around the homeless community in St Kilda.
Then hello Marc Gracie, and it’s time to clear the decks on our backlog of summer movies, before we get into some good discussion about films like King Richard, Don’t Look Up and Blacklight.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It’s the first show for February and our first Theatre Network Australia spot for 2022… we’ll meet TNA’s Manager for Sector Development and membership, Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez who’ll catch us up on all things TNA including our first TNA Member of the Month for the year… it’s Ilana Russell and we’ll find her in Geelong where she’s Artistic Director of Platform Arts.
After that, we’re going for a walk for the rest of the show… but not just any walk.
Last August we met Rebecca Robinson, the First Nations Education and Programme Coordinator at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. She spoke to us about the Indigenous Nature Trail she’s established in the gallery’s grounds but it being on the phone, it was hard to get the real feel of the experience. So, I accepted Rebecca’s offer to meet her in Langwarrin for a guided tour of trail and to hear her stories of indigenous culture.
They’re all on tonight’s edition of Behind the Scenes with me Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
- If you want to listen to Rebecca Robinson’s first visit to Behind the Scenes, you can find the August 23, 2021 Podcast of that show here…
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-scenes-vision-australia-radio/behind-the-scenes-23th-august-2021
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It's been a while since we visited Tarrawarra Museum of Art in Healesville, so why not start this week in that lovely exhibition space with Anthony Fitzpatrick, Curator of Myth Rider, a look at works by Sidney Nolan focusing on the Trojan War, its parallels with the Gallipoli campaign, and its origins in the myth of Leda and the Swan.
Then we’ll meet choreographer Phillip Adams who’ll talk about collaborating with Ryan New on Sick, a cross-generational dance performance as part of the Midsummer Festival.
After that, we’re back with Screens & Streams, our fortnightly look at what we’ve been looking at. This time we’ll be trying to catch up with the many, many films we’ve seen over the summer. Regular reviewer Marc Gracie will join us along with occasional review Gully Thompson.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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Welcome to the final of our three summer specials on Behind the Scenes for 2022. This summer we’re revisiting some of the fantastic musicians and singers and songwriters that we met during 2021. We’ll be replaying the conversations we had when they were guests on the show but because summer brings a bit more of a relaxed atmosphere, we’ll also take the time to listen to a bit more of their music than we can fit into our regular shows. Of course, replaying conversations from different shows that went to air throughout 2021 means that, inevitably, there’ll be dates and gigs and other events referred to that will no longer be relevant. We hope you’ll be happy to overlook those bits and just enjoy what these terrific artists have to say and, of course, the opportunity to listen to their music.
This week it’s singer songwriter Bruce Campbell and Nicky Bomba from Nicky Bomba’s Bustamento. They’re both on this week’s summer special edition of Behind the Scenes with me, Chris Thompson, Monday night at 9 and repeated on Saturday at 7 right here on Vision Australia Radio
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Welcome to the second of three summer specials on Behind the Scenes for 2022. This summer we’re revisiting some of the fantastic musicians and singers and songwriters that we met during 2021. We’ll be replaying the conversations we had when they were guests on the show but because summer brings a bit more of a relaxed atmosphere, we’ll also take the time to listen to a bit more of their music than we can fit into our regular shows.
Of course, replaying conversations from different shows that went to air throughout 2021 means that, inevitably, there’ll be dates and gigs and other events referred to that will no longer be relevant. We hope you’ll be happy to overlook those bits and just enjoy what these terrific artists have to say and, of course, the opportunity to listen to their music.
This week it’s singer songwriter Sophie Koh and multi-disciplinary storyteller Tariro Mavondo. They’re both on this week’s summer special edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson, Monday night at 9 and repeated on Saturday at 7 right here on Vision Australia Radio
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Happy new year to you all and welcome to the first of three summer specials on Behind the Scenes for 2022. This summer we’re revisiting some of the fantastic musicians and singers and songwriters that we met during 2021. We’ll be replaying the conversations we had when they were guests on the show but because summer brings a bit more of a relaxed atmosphere, we’ll also take the time to listen to a bit more of their music than we can fit into our regular shows.
Of course, replaying conversations from different shows that went to air throughout 2021 means that, inevitably, there’ll be dates and gigs and other events referred to that will no longer be relevant. We hope you’ll be happy to overlook those bits and just enjoy what these terrific artists have to say and, of course, the opportunity to listen to their music.
This week it’s jazz singer Lillian Albazi and composer Natasha Moszenin. They’re both on this week’s summer special edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson, Monday night at 9 and repeated on Saturday at 7 right here on Vision Australia Radio
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After a year of movie and streaming series reviews, what were our faves and disappointments for 2021? Has the Marvel Cinematic Universe had its day? Was Squid Game as good as everyone said? Are we pining for the old days of television with shows like Only Murders in the Building and Mare of Easttown making us wait each week for the next episode? Answers to these questions and more on this week’s special screen and stream edition of Behind the Scenes with Marc Gracie and Chris Thompson, Monday night at 9 and repeated on Saturday at 7 right here on Vision Australia Radio – VA Digital – and online at VARadio.org
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HoHoHo, it’s almost Christmas which means it’s almost time for Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight… so on this, our special Christmas edition of Behind the Scenes, we’ll be meeting a few people whose Christmas Eve is all about that favourite festive event.
David Campbell will be one of the hosts for the evening’s programme, Donna Dyson has written a song for it, but will she tell us what it is or who will be singing it… I don’t think so. And, of course, John Foreman will again be musical director but he’ll hardly get a break before he’s doing another gig at Arts Centre Melbourne on New Year’s Eve.
But wait, there’s more. It’s not all about Carols by Candlelight – the Daylesford Community Brass Band are having their own Carols Concert at the Hepburn Sound Shell and their Musical Director Mark Lyall is here to tell us how significant these bands are in regional communities and why he’s so thrilled that they’re all about to perform together again.
And then, just for something different, we’ll visit the Melbourne Zoo where the Zoo’s Director Michelle Bruggerman takes some time out to tell us about what the Zoo gets up to on Christmas Day – did you know you could go to the Zoo and have a picnic with the3 animals for Christmas lunch? Michelle also tells us how much she loves Carols by Candlelight, and why watching Carols this year is going to be a special one for her.
That’s all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes tonight with Chris Thompson… and don’t forget, right after the repeat of Behind the Scenes on Christmas Eve, you can join Vision Australia’s audio described simulcast of television presentation of the 2021 Vision Australia Carols by Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl made possible by sponsorship from Belong Carbon Neutral Mobile and Internet.
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Well, here we are at our last regular show for 2021. Of course, that doesn’t mean there won’t be any Behind the Scenes over the summer – we’ll have our Christmas Special as a lead in to Carols by Candlelight next week and our annual Screen & Stream Wrap Up the week after and then January will bring you three Summer Specials with a focus on some of the great musicians we’ve met during the year.
But there’s still one show to go…
This week, we start with Tom Mosby at the Koorie Heritage Trust for a walk & talk through the 2021 Koorie Art Show…
Then we catch up with Jason Cavanaugh who, undaunted by a year in lockdown, has not only re-opened his venue The Motley Bauhaus, but has moved it to much bigger and better premises.
And finally, we pop down the Princes Highway to the Geelong Gallery where Lisa Sullivan will introduce us to Archie 100… and centenary of the Archibald Prize.
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Crikey, it’s December and we’ve only got this week’s show and next week’s show before we start our Summer Specials. More about that next week...
….but this week it’s our last Theatre Network Australia segment for the year, so it seems fitting to make TNA the TNA member of the Month. We’ll catch up with Nicole Beyer, Josh Lowe and
Wen Juenn Lee to look back at the great work TNA has done for the independent arts sector this year, and then a look forward to what we’ll be talking about in our TNA spots for 2022.
Then, let’s meet prolific author of books for younger readers, Geoffrey McSkimming, creator of the legendary Poet-Archaeologist, Cairo Jim and his intrepid band of adventurers. Fourteen years ago, Geoffrey wrote what might have been the last Chronicle of the Adventures of Cairo Jim… but no… Jim’s back in a new book that reignites the series for a new generation. Geoffrey talks about what else he’s been writing in that fourteen year hiatus, and his new publishing venture, 9 Diamonds Press.
And finally,. Marc Gracie’s here to review screens and streams for the last time this year (if you don’t count our Movie Wrap up Special on December 27). This time it’s a new Australian doco, I’m Wanita, a recent entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s astoundingly good first go as a feature film director, Tick, Tick…BOOM! and Denis Villeneuve’s epic, Dune.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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It’s been such an on-again-off-again year for the arts that it’s probably no surprise that we’re catching up with Emily Sexton, Artistic Director of Arts House in North Melbourne who, for the second time this year, is inviting us to be part of their re-opening. Emily will tell us about the huge programme that she’s about to unleash, and then we’ll catch up with Back to Back Theatre’s Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin who’ll tell us how they fit into the event.
Meanwhile, a new exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art is asking us to think differently about the way we communicate, to think differently about our language. What if language wasn’t open to both interpretation and misinterpretation, but was a creative tool that we could use to write ourselves differently? What if language was a river? Well, Language is a River is what this exhibition is called and the theme is being explored by a group of Australian and international artists. Co-Curator, Melissa Ratliff is here to tell us what they came up with.
And finally, we’ll wrap up with a bit of music. Soul and Alt Country band The Meltdown is coming out of lockdown with a vengeance, playing a string of gigs in December and January in the lead up to the release of their new album. Songwriter and lead vocalist Simon Burke joins us to tell us about the recording studio he made during lockdown and what it feels like to be back on the road.
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We welcome back Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart in Darwin to kick us off this week with a wrap up of what’s on in her neck of the woods, before introducing us to local actor, theatre-maker, director, producer Tania Lieman who’s created Collide, a collaboration between Brown’s Mart Theatre and SLIDE Youth Dance.
Then comedy legend, Tim Ferguson is on the line to talk about finally getting to come to the lockdown capital of the world, Melbourne, to perform his solo show, Fast Life on Wheels. Tim, who’s been living with MS for more than half his life, follows up his smash hit, Smashing Life, with this sharply funny look at life in a wheelchair.
And, as it happens, Tim’s show is directed by our very own Marc Gracie who joins us to talk about the new James Bond, the new Ridley Scott movie and the Aretha Franklin bio-pic.
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What’s Helen Simondson, our Perth Correspondent from Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, been up to in the west this month. One thing she’s been up to is inviting Dr Frances Barbe, Associate Dean of Performance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts who’ll be our Perth guest this month. Frances has been involved with he development of a new model for training performers in a post-Covid world.
Meanwhile, at Arts Centre Melbourne, we’ll catch up with the Executive Director for Customer Experience, Beau Vigushin, who’ll talk us though the development of three quite remarkable short films under the banner of Together Experiences, each of which tells a different story of a life significantly impacted by the performing arts.
And sticking with Arts Centre Melbourne, the public outcome of this year’s Frank van Straten Fellowship winner is Rare Flowers and Golden Butterflies by artist Cathy Pryor who’ll tell us why her online exhibition focuses on three mid-twentieth century women who were prominent performers in magic.
And finally, VCA music student, Max Teakle is one of ten finalists in this year’s National Jazz Awards. Max is on the line to tell us how much of a leg up to the start of a professional career that would be.
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Back to South Australia for the start of this week’s show with our Adelaide correspondent Geoff Cobham who’ll catch us up on what’s been happening locally before introducing us to prolific and multi-award-winning writer of theatre for young people, Finnegan Kruckemeyer (whose adaptation of Alison Lester’s Magic Beach is soon to hit the stage at Arts Centre Melbourne).
Then there’s something a little bit different from Arena Theatre in Bendigo… it’s a community picnic, under the stars, and a screening of Baai, a film directed by Eliza Hull featuring four local South Sundanese performers, one of whom is Kotnyin Thon who’s here to tell us about the event.
Meanwhile, we’re back in the cinemas at last and just in time for the British Film Festival… we’ll catch up with Festival Director Kim Petalas before Marc Gracie drops by to chat about a few of the films in the festival’s extensive programme.
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It's November… Melbourne’s out of Lockdown and we’re welcoming Steph Cox from Theatre Network Australia back to the show which can only mean it’s time for her to reveal who the TNA Member of the Month is… and this month it’s…
…Dianne Toulson, General Manager of Theatre Works in St Kilda. She’ll tell us how the company’s been traveling this year, what it’s like to put your audience in a Perspex box, and what we can expect from their first post-lockdown show, WellBless.
One of the big impacts that lockdowns have is that they put a stop to performers like Ailsa Page and Phillip Campagna (AKA In The Mood) visiting aged care facilities to engage the elderly in singalongs. But where there’s a will there’s a work-around and Ailsa is here to tell us about SingSation, their DVD that lets the show go on, even if their singalongs are on the TV screen.
Meanwhile, it’s time to catch up with Sharmini Kumar from 24 Carrot Productions again to find out just how much Jane Austen she’s packing into the Abbotsford Convent for this year’s Austen Con and what happens to me if I can find my way out of their very own Jane Austen inspired Escape Room.
If seems like only a few weeks ago that we were talking with Carly Findlay, that’s because she wears so many hats that we keep finding new things to talk about. This time she’s wearing her Alter State Foundation-Artist hat ahead of the launch of a new arts and disability festival at Arts Centre Melbourne. Carly will tell us all about it and she might even have some other exciting news as well. Might even be a new hat.
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It's time to travel back to Darwin to kick off this week’s show with our Northern Territory Correspondent, Brown’s Mart CEO Sophia Hall who’ll catch us up on what’s happening in the arts and culture up north before introducing us to the Director of the Darwin Fringe Festival,
Hannah Illingworth.
Then let’s have some music. In fact, let’s have a lot of music for the whole of next year. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has launched its 2022 programme and it’s huge. To help us navigate our way through its many fabulous events and to tell us why we should be excited about their new Chief Conductor, let’s welcome the MSO’s Principal Conductor in Residence,
Benjamin Northey.
And, the fortnights roll around quickly don’t they… already we’re welcoming Marc Gracie back to the show to catch up on what we’ve seen on our screens over the past two weeks – this time it’s a documentary about Jacques Cousteau, a dramatization about a real controversy in the development of Google Earth and something that’s about as far away from real life as we can get – the phenomenon that is Squid Game.
They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.
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We’re in the west for the start of this week’s show with our Perth Correspondent
Helen Simondson from Western Australia Museum Boola Bardip. Last month Helen told us she was excited about heading off to see Bite The Hand by The Last Great Hunt… so what’s the verdict on that…
Then Helen introduces up to local writer, creative producer and curator Robyn Johnston who’ll tell us about her involvement in commemorating the 700th Anniversary of the death of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, creator of the Divine Comedy as well as Deep Light, an exhibition looking at the wrecks of the HMAS Sydney and the HSK Kormoran
Then we’ll meet a couple of Cultural Gardeners… Pippa Bailey and Deborah Hart from Climarte are part of the Australian Cultural Alliance for Climate Action and they’ll tell us how you can join them as a cultural gardener in the lead up to COP26 (that’s the Conference of the Parties) in Glasgow at the end of the month.
And finally, a bit of music to round the show out… Bruce Campbell is a singer songwriter living in Warrnambool, Victoria. His songs often have social or political messages and he’s about to release not one but two EP’s (just in time for Christmas) … we’ll catch up with Bruce and find out how he decides which songs belong on which recording.
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We’re back in Adelaide to start off this week’s show, with our South Australian Correspondent, Patch Theatre’s Artistic Director Geof Cobham who’ll let us know what our Adelaide listeners have been up to in all the unlocked-down possibilities for them to get out and about.
Geof will also introduce us to one of Adelaide’s local artists, Audio Visualist, Tim Gruchy who’ll tell us about his career in multimedia, photography, video, music and performance and how he came to live and work in China.
It’s three years since Melbourne based composer and songwriter Natasha Moszenin was on the show. Back then, she was talking about Nightsongs, her cabaret style song cycle for three voices and a piano. Now, she’s spent her lockdown expanding that collection into a whole album called Sleepless Daughters. So, it’s obviously time to welcome Natasha back to the show and to listen to a track or two.
And, of course, every fortnight we talk about what’s on our screens with Marc Gracie. This time we’ll check out Ryan Reynolds in Free Guy, Jake Gyllenhaal in The Guilty and a curious limited series called Midnight Mass.
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It's our first show for October and Josh Lowe is here from Theatre Network Australia to give us a TNA update and to introduce us to the TNA member of the Month – arts maker and manager Jonathan Homsey who’s managed to bring a show to the online version of this year’s rejigged Melbourne Fringe.
Another Fringe show that’s made the leap from horizontal to vertical (from stage to screen) in What Rhymes With Orange and writer/performer Isabella Perversi will join us to talk about how they’ve made the switch and whether they found something to rhyme with orange and whether that matters.
And speaking of Melbourne Fringe, the festival’s Access Advisor, Carly Findlay is back to tell us a bit more about what to expect in this slightly different that anticipated 2021 festival.
Finally, a bit of text and music to take us out. Tariro Mavondo, Reuben Lewis and Peter Knight have collaborated on a terrific piece that brings together their talents with words and music to create Closed Beginnings, a new work that so impressed the judges of the 2021 Art Music Awards that it received a gong for Work of the Year: Electroacoustic/Sound Art. We welcome Tariro back to the show to describe the unique process they used to make this piece.
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We’re off to the Northern Territory for the start of this week’s show, where we’ll catch up with our Darwin Correspondent Sophia Hall, CEO of Brown’s Mart who’ll bring us up to date on what’s happening up north and maybe even a chat about what’s already happened – namely the Darwin Festival.
Then we’re off to the circus to catch up with Penny Miles, Executive Director of Circus Oz who’ll tell us about the five circus artists who are this year’s recipients of the Circus Arts Incubator Fellowship programme, a great initiative that support the fellows in the development of both their creative and administrative skills… Penny also tells us how we can get an exclusive sneak peek at their work-in-progress… and then we’ll meet one of those five fellows, Harley Mann, to find out what’s he’s got planned for his time with Circus Oz.
And finally, its screen time again with Marc Gracie… this time it’s a new Netflix thriller, a doco about Julia Gillard, Mad Mikkelsen’s latest movie and the second season of War of the Worlds.
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We start this week’s show in WA where our Perth- Based Correspondent, Helen Simondson, Manager of the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, will let us know what’s happening in the west before introducing us to her special guest, Artistic Director of the Awesome Festival, Jenny Simpson.
Then it’s off to Healesville in Victoria and the TarraWarra Museum of Art where their latest First Nations Curator Stacie Piper, will introduce us to their latest exhibition, Wilam Biik (even if we can’t quite get into the gallery yet) which she describes as an exhibition arising from the unsevered connection between First Peoples of South East Australia, their Country, and their Ancestors. After chatting with Stacie we’ll meet one of the exhibition’s artists (who is no stranger to Behind the Scenes), Kent Morris.
Further afield, near Nowra in NSW, Accessible Arts Australia and the beautiful Bundanon Estate has just announced the recipients of its Artists in Residence programme, meant for 2021 but (like all things affected by Covid19) now taking place in 2022. We’ll meet support worker Zac Fenn who’ll tell us about one of the recipients, Sydney based blind and non-verbal artist Luke Abdallah.
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Well, as we announced a couple of weeks ago, Behind the Scenes is going to be taking the occasional virtual road trip to visit some of the places outside of Melbourne and Victoria that get to listen to the show. This week, we’re off to Adelaide to catch up again with our South Australian correspondent, Geof Cobham, Artistic Director of Patch Theatre. Geof will be letting us know what’s happening in the arts scene in his neck of the woods before introducing us to
Anne Wiberg, Artistic Director of The Light. What is The Light I hear you ask? Well, we’ll have to ask Anne when she drops in for a chat.
Then, from Darebin’s multi-arts FUSE Festival, an event you can still participate in whilst we’re in lockdown, as long as you’re no further than five kilometres from the Preston Market. Co-creator of The Market record, Dan Koop, will join us to talk about how the weekly shop can become an arts event.
And finally, it’s time for a fortnightly screen reviews and with so many cinemas still in lockdown we’re exclusively on the small screen – this time Marc Gracie and I talk about a new Netflix film that offers a different perspective on the September 11 World Trade Centre attacks and an Australian film about to be on home streaming that takes a look behind the facades of two families when their well-maintained veneers are threatened by the accusation of a four year old girl.
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Here we are with the first show for September, so it’s no surprise that we’re starting the show with our regular Theatre Network Australia spot. This month. We meet a new member of the TNA team, Communications Coordinator Wen-Juen who’ll update us on TNA’s latest before introducing us to the TNA Member of the Month – Melbourne Fringe’s Access Advisor, writer, speaker and appearance activist, Carly Findlay.
Then a little bit of music wouldn’t go astray, especially when it’s the beautiful voice of Lillian Albazi who’s just released her debut jazz album. We’ll find out where you might be able to catch her performing After Image in those places that aren’t still in lockdown.
One thing that lockdown does encourage is creative experimentation in the ways performance can be developed and presented in both the real and the virtual worlds. One such project is Memory Go Round which has been investigating the way memories can become stories presented in an immersive, sensory environment. Artistic Director of the project Zya Kane is here to explain how this project is engaging with both disabled and non-disabled artists.
And finally, if ever there was a time to ask RUOK, this seems to be it and with RUOK Day coming up later in the week, what better time to welcome RUOK Day Ambassador and singer-songwriter Aislinn Sharp back to the show. Plus. We’ll get to hear a bit of her most recent recording, Phone.
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Something a bit new is about to happen on Behind the Scenes… you may or may not know that this show is not just heard be audiences in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria… but also plays in Adelaide, Perth and Darwin… so, we thought it was about time we acknowledged that by devoting a segment a month to each of those cities and their respective state or territory.
Regular listeners to Behind the Scenes would know that we already start the first show of each month with a Theatre Network Australia segment. From September, we’ll expand that idea to introduce an Adelaide segment on the second show of each month… a Perth segment on the third show of each month and on the fourth show of each month… you guessed it… a Darwin segment…
So this week, let’s meet our three state and territory correspondents… from Adelaide, we’ll meet Geof Cobham, Artistic Director of Patch Theatre – from Perth, Helen Simondson, Manager of the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip and from Darwin, Sophia Hall, CEO of Brown’s Mart.
After that. It’s our other regular segment… our fortnightly screen reviews with Marc Gracie and this time it’s two thrillers and a new Amazon Prime series with Nicole Kidman.
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If you were born between 1946 and 1964 then you’re what’s known as a Baby Boomer… you’re also probably a person of a certain age and the idea of how we deal with aging is at the heart of the award winning podcast The Baby Boomers Guide to Life in the 21st Century. First up tonight we’ll meet that show’s hosts Lex Marinos and Patricia Amphlett and find out why the baby boomers need their own special podcast?
Ciara Thorburn is a circus artist in lockdown who, in her own words, has spent her whole life studying and yet has no career. That lifetime of study is at the heart of the show she’s made in lockdown, The Thesis, and she’s on the line to tell us how you make circus work in your living room.
Then let’s get outside for a bit. Of course, at the moment, the outside is defined by a 5km radius but for some that includes the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. We’ll meet McClelland’s First Nations Education and Programme Coordinator Rebecca Robinson to find out what healing we can get from walking the Indigenous Plant Trail which even has a café open on the weekends.
And finally, tonight, we’ll stick with the great outdoors… this time at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne where the gardens’ first Director Baron Ferdinand von Mueller has returned to walk us around the gardens while he tells us his story. We’ll meet Dave Joseph from Bowerbird Theatre to find out how the outdoor experience of Flora and the baron brings von Mueller back to life.
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Oh dear… lockdown’s back… and once again our thoughts are with all those artists who’ve had to cancel shows at the last minute… hopefully it’ll only be for a week and that then we get a long enough stretch for theatres and galleries and concert halls and cinemas to be able to get back into the swing of things…
One show that was going to open this week is Archimedes War… it’s the third time they’ve had their season delayed but this time, with a bit of luck, they’ll still be able to perform at least some of their season at the Northcote Town Hall… multi-award-winning playwright Melissa Reeves joins us to tell us why a dark comedy about warfare is important to us now and how the company is coping with the uncertainty of these times…
Of course, everyone’s doing it tough at the moment, but one group of inner-city bookshops has got together to come up with a plan to encourage Melbourne’s readers back into their stores… Melbourne City Reads will be happening over the next four months and Managing Director of readings Bookstores, Mark Rubbo, is here to tell us how the plan works,
And then let’s wrap up the show with a bit of music… Nicky Bomba’s Bustamento kicked off 2021 with a New Year’s Eve gig at the MEMO Music Hall and they’re back with a new show that Nicky absolutely demands will include dancing… we’ll chat to Nicky and listen to a couple of their songs.
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It's the first show for August which means it’s time to say welcome back to Steph Cox, Programme Manager from Theatre Network Australia. Each month we get the chance to find out what the performing arts industry’s leading development organisation has been up to but we also get to find out which one of TNA’s many members will be the TNA Member of the Month…
…and this month, it’s the Women’s Circus Creative Producer, Devon Taylor who’ll tell us what an innovative interactive performance called Momentum has to do with the Melbourne Metro Tunnel.
Then we’ll catch up with Sim Luttin from Arts Project Australia to find out just what they mean when they say that visiting their Material World exhibition will be a tactile, multi-dimensional experience involving curiosity, sexual politics, home, possessions, consumerism and the imaginary world. Plus, it’ll be an opportunity to see their fabulous new space at Collingwood Yards.
And finally, it’s time for our fortnightly screen reviews with Marc Gracie and Gully Thompson… this time it’s the prequel to 101 Dalmatians named after its arch villain – a time travel alien invasion family drama starring Chris Pratt – an eight-part Netflix series that you should definitely NOT see before going into surgery – and a trilogy of films based on a popular set of R L Stine books that is not Goosebumps.
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Well, here we are back in lockdown again and our thoughts are with all those shows and exhibitions and concerts and festivals that have been impacted by the latest restrictions… here’s hoping that you’ve been able to postpone rather than cancel and that we might be welcoming you on to Behind the Scenes for a chat in the not too distant future…
In the meantime, though, there’s still plenty of work to talk about… Finucane & Smith lead the way with not one but five events being presented over our winter of discontent… of course, they’re mostly online but not all of them… we’ll ask the woman who’s described as the gothic glamazon, Moira Finucane, how they’ve managed this and why she’s performing in the bath.
At St Martins Youth Arts Centre they obviously saw the writing on the wall so they made a digital show for an exclusively online season… Us is described as a wild, meandering tale that gives us a glimpse into the micro-interactions between parents and children that we mostly don’t get to see… Director Katrina Cornwall is with us to explain how all this works and young performer, Noray Hosny will tell us what it’s like to make a show from home.
Meanwhile, Director, Beng Oh and Writer, Jane Miller are biting the bullet and sticking with their plan for a live performance of Just a Boy Standing in Front of a Girl at Fortyfive Downstairs. We welcome Beng back to the show to tell us about developing this work in Hothouse Theatre’s A Month in the Country and how the classic Greek play Medea became a tragicomic story that moves from teenage romance to domestic nightmare.
And finally, a work that was always intended for the screen is Banjo Morton – The Untold Story… we’ll catch up with award winning documentary filmmaker Lara Damiani to find out who Banjo was and why she persevered for eleven years in order to bring his story to the interactive screen.
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Arena Theatre is one of the longest running theatre for young people companies in the country with more than fifty years of outstanding works to their name… one of those most recent works is Robot Song described as a musical, an art show and a YouTube channel that pairs a giant singing robot with an eleven year old girl. We’ll start this week’s show by catching up with Writer, Director and Designer Jolyon James to find out more about the return of this multi-award winning show.
But fifty years or more is nothing compared to the longevity of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Perhaps it’s a piece of music most appropriate to Melbourne which is known for its four seasons in one day but audiences all over Victoria will have the chance to hear this popular work performed by the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra when they play at Bunjil Place in Narre Warren, the Melbourne Recital Centre and other venues in Kyneton, Bairnsdale, Warragul and Moonee Ponds. We’ll meet the MCO Executive Director Richard Jackson to find out how you keep such an old piece of music feeling fresh.
And then, even though we’re in a snap lockdown, there are still movies to talk about. Marvel is back on the big screen after a long break with the prequel story of Black Widow, Bo Burnham is giving us his own take on a year in lockdown with Inside and Irish filmmaker leaves the horror genre behind to tell us a sweet, poignant adolescent story in Dating Amber. Marc Gracie and Gully Thompson will share their responses to three very different films.
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