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A program exploring alternative theatre, cabaret, comedy, fringe events and festivals hosted by Valerie Farfalla.

Valerie Farfalla and Trish Posterino


    • Nov 21, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 33 EPISODES


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    Biting satire 'Strata Inc' and 'Bashka' pipes in 21st Melbourne Women's International Jazz Fest

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2018


    Actor/Writer/Directors Jessica Stanley & Phoebe Anne Taylor discuss a new satirical comedic play 'Strata Inc' about 'entitlement' with a new take on Aristophanes' work and Alisha Brooks brings a Turkish color to the 21st Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival with 'Bashka'.

    A Quiet Dance with Rubberlegs and Mockingbird's at the Butterfly Stage

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2018


    Dancer extraordinaire Rauf Yasit (aka Rubberlegs) 'bends over backwards' to move Arts Express Listeners to the International Arts Festivals performance of  "A Quiet Evening of Dance" A new work by William Forsythe performed from the 17th to 21st October. Also Val and Trish chat on the show with writer/actor and director Lisa Brickell and Ruth Dudding director of  "Mockingbird" about a black comedy at the Butterfly Club. An exploration into motherhood and mental health.

    'Creepy songs from childhood cartoons' & 'F*ckboys the Musical'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2018


    Musican comedian Ashleigh Clarke sings from Dumbo on uke in the studio from her new cabaret comedy 'Creepy Songs From My Childhood Cartoons' at Bar Ampere while 2018 Orlando Fringe award winner (USA) 'F*ckboys the Musical' written and directed by Savannah Cassidy Pedersen, looks at dating modern creeps in solidarity with the sisterhood at Melbourne Fringe Festival.

    Pawn again christian, Cardinal Sin & a couple of white chicks

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2018


     Comedian Annie Lee (Kransky Sisters) chats about her new one-woman show 'Pawn Again Christian' at the Butterfly Club, political wit and mimic Helen Child camps up the politicians for her Melbourne Fringe show 'A Comedy of Terrors' at Loop Project Space and Bar and actor Christina McLachlan discusses her role as Maude Mix on the American comedic play "A coupla white chicks sitting around talking".

    Hospitality meets the trauma of suicide

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2018


    Award winning playwright Rebecca Lister looks at the impact of suicide on '2.20am' while writer/director Gabby Pearson presents a modern  black comedy on hospitality 'Waiting on You' with associate producer Christy Fanning.

    Melbourne Jazz meets Greek Cabaret

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2018


    Notable Melbourne jazz musician Steve Sedergreen chatted about his cooperative style in readiness for MIJF and talented cabaret artist Michaela Burger sang one of her songs from her show "A Migrant's Son' devoted to her colorful Greek father.

    Jazzmo Mustafa meets Renee Palmer's comical Fitzroy walks

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2018


    Multi instrumentalist James Mustafa shows his broad jazz vision for MIJF show at Dizzy's and actor/producer Renee Palmer describes 'A Comical Walking Performance' event across the lanes and dark alleys of Fitzroy.

    Beyond the Jazzy Organ and a Back to Black Beehive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2018


    Chatting on the show with jazz organist Jake Mason where he will perform at The Stonnington Jazz Music Festival Gala Night with fellow musicians. All this on the eve of the launch of his latest Album "The Stranger in the Mirror"  We will also be speaking with Carol Whitfield beyond jazz, motown and her historical performance on Amy Winegousee "Beyond the Beehive" at the Butterfly Club 

    Arts Express - Episode 201804120930

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2018


    Nadia's Virgin Mary and Great Bloody Extra's

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2018


    Arts Express hosts Val and Trish are truly blessed with the company of Nadia Collins who chats about her own written and performed speechless MICF performance  Virgin Bloody Mary at the Butterfly Club.Assuring comedy aficionados will have a hell of a time.Also enlightening the audience with some 'good news' about some extra's in the Arts expressing themselves in and outa town-all heavenly bliss!

    Womens' union stories and spaghetti westerns

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2018


    Comedian/storyteller Rama Nicholas talks about her spaghetti western musical 'Death Rides a Horse' for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and activist/organiser Cathy Brigden chats about saving the stories of female unionists overlooked in the recorded history of the Australian union movement.

    Frankghanistan & Melbourne International Jazz Festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2018


    Melbourne International Jazz Festival artistic director Michael Tortoni blows in with some hot jazz talk about the exciting upcoming festival and comedian/director Janelle De Silva chats about her  hilarious  multi-media show 'Frankghanistan' for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

    International Day of Supanova Glitta Wild Fearless and Free Woman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2018


    Arts Express hosts- Val and Trish, are right on track for this year's IWD with Glitta Supernova, as she navigates us around her current Butterfly show 'Body Map'  from the 4th-11th March at 8:30pm. Then there is more at the International station as musician Kathleen Hollaran intoxicates us with her guitar strings. Kathleen is part  of a collaboration by Brunswick Music Festival music programmer Chelsea Wilson The group  Wild Fearless and Free  also includes Stella Angelico, Sophie Koh, The Black Sistaz and Jessica Hitchcock . This one off performance for International Women's Day is at the Mechanic's Hall on tonight, Thursday the 8th March at 7:30pm. 

    Small town transformations & the 'Wowzzeee" sweatshop

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2018


    Graham Coffeey, manager, Small Town Transformations talks about what funding from Regional Arts Victoria has enabled small towns to achieve through creative projects that transform their communities. Fashion artist Adele Varcoe has created the 'Wowzzeee'  - a glittering 'onesie' that participants can also create for themselves in a participatory sweatshop through a unique Arts House project.

    Beaming Northern Festivals and Illuminating Saray Illuminado

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2018


    Arts hosts Val and Trish will be speaking with Nela Trifkovic on her performance with Band SARAY Iluminado  about new interpretations of Sevdah (traditional folk music) from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jewish Sephardic music from the Balkans on 28th February at 45 Downstairs. Also chatting with both Samantha Byrne deputy Mayor of Moonee Valley City Council on the upcoming Festival at Queens Park on Sunday, 25 February along with  Music Programmer Chelsea Wilson from the Brunswick Music Festival from the 4th to 18th March 

    Duldig Studio Museum & Arts House

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2018


    Writer and arts patron Eva Dejong Duldig talks about her new book Driftwood which features her famous father sculptor Karl Duldig, her mother Slawa, an artist and inventor and herself as tennis champion and how she developed the Duldig Studio museum and sculpture garden. Acting Arts Director of Arts House, Josh Wright discusses the upcoming Festival of Live Art.

    Midsumma Festival -Bent Bollywood dance & Rock Legend

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2018


    'Bent Bollywood' artistic directors Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson present 'an eclectic and libidinous dance show that combines the technical rigour of classical Indian dance with the camp theatrics of Bollywood at the 2018 Midsumma Festival. Rock Legend vocalist, song-writer and guitarist Kaliopi will also feature at the festival.

    Tinkerbell & Music Victoria's Women's Advisory Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2017


    Australian Shakespeare Company theatre director Glenn Elston enchanted listeners with tales about his new children's production 'Tinkerbell & the Dream Fairies' at Geelong's Botanic Gardens (29 December) and Athenaeum Theatre 2 (2-28 January 2018). Valerie & Trish discussed exciting developments for Victorian women in music with the announcement of Music Victoria's new Women's Advisory Panel.

    Serenading Adela

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2017


    Jeannie Marsh, artistic director of the community street opera "Serenading Adela" featured on Arts Express to talk about the January 7, 2018 event to mark the 1917 'serenading' of antiwar activist Adela Pankhurst at Pentridge Gaol. She was interviewed by Valerie Farfalla and Trish Posterino

    Melbourne Women's Jazz & Jewish Comedy Festivals

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2017


    Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (Nov 24-Dec 10) convenor Sonja Horbelt discussed the brilliant festival talent and Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival (Dec. 5,6,7) creative director Justine Sless told listeners about her exciting upcoming festival.

    Tragi-comedic theme in Waiting for Godot within Earshot

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2017


    Themes of revolution and surveillance are common in two productions Kate Hunter's Earshot (29th Nov-3rd Dec) at 45 Downstairs and William Henderson's production at the Eleventh Hour theatre (23rd Nov-16th December) in  Waiting for Godot also with John Jacobs.    

    Queer Fruit with Strange Sisters in Stilettos

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2017


    Trish engages with Actor and vocalist Nisha Joseph as she embraces her latest role in  "Romeo is not the Only Fruit" as part of the The Poppyseed Festival at the Butterfly Club from 14th to 24th November. Also Carmel Schute encourages us to kick up our heals at the Sisters in Crime killer awards night "Scarlet Stiletto" at Swinburne University on the 18th November.

    Coffee Kangas and Poppyseed

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017


    La Mama Production 'Serving Coffee@ Simms Supermarket' created by Writer/Performer Dr Scott Welsh; Actor/Writer/Director Tom Middleditch in a Poppyseed festival production 'Alexithymia' at the Meat Market, Stables and Fleur Elise Noble, Arts/Performer and creator of 'Rooman' at Arts House, North Melbourne.

    Bipolar Karaoke & Creative Youth Backyard Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2017


    Writer Spescha Barakat presents Bipolar Karaoke at La Mama and Theatre maker Sara Kriegler talks about a collaborative youth production    'Chamber Made and The Venny' involving local youth from a communal backyard and drop-in centre at Kensington. 

    Killer Clarinet and Crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017


    "Sisters in Crime"  author Emma Viskic chats about her new crime novel "And Fire Came Down"  also treating Arts Express listeners to a beautiful Clarinet rendition of Summertime 

    Memphis and Balkan Expression

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2017


    Actor and dancer/choreographer James Elmer leads Memphis  the Musical at Chapel off Chapel, also Balkan sax player Dusan Mitrovic chats and performs ahead of his Balkan Jam and Opa Bato & Opa Seko for Darebin Music Feast   

    Funk & Gypsy Treats - live in 3CR studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017


    Accordionist Sofia Chapman and violinist Alana Hunt from gypsy trio Vardos perform live in 3CR studio from new 5th album 'Palazzo Party'. Offtopics frontman Polash Larsen says his band is releasing time travel song 'Sunrise in Richmond' in 7" vinyl as part of Back To The Zine series with comic strip.   

    Arts Express The BIG GAME

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017


    Fringe shows:Elly D'Arcy and Cody Baldwin from Death Match & Courtney Ammenhauser and Lakia Pattinson  from Quarter Life Crisis 

    Arts Express - Multi Cultural Feast with Fringe dwellers

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017


    Canadian Gillian English on Fringe show SHE WOLF  at the Butterfly Club & Ez Eldin Deng with AMKA Theatre ProjectAlso Theatrical clowns Ezel Doruk & Shannan Lim in The Yonder 

    Fringe Powers

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2017


    Had fun appropriately chatting with Louise Howlett Artistic Director of 'Appropriate Kissing For All Occasions'  and Christina McLachlan Actor of the said Melbourne Fringe piece at Club Volatire that we discover will be far more than double 'lip service' performances!https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/event/appropriate-kissing-for-all-occasions/Also adding to ARTS is the delicious, delectable and daring 'Sophiedelightful' -Burlesque and Cabaret performer, flexing her entertaining muscle on her fabulous Fringe performance  'Diary of a Pussy Power' https://sophiedelightful.com/events/       

    Arts Express - Fringe Improvisers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2017


    Today Arts Express were on board with Helen Cassidy speaking about her upcoming fringe show Erotic Intelligence For Dummies and also Jasper Foley from Completely Improvised Potter

    Melbourne Youth Orchestra and The Book of Revelations

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2017


    This week we speak with Dorian Jones, CEO of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra and Nancy Black and Alison Richards about The Book of Revelations.

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    Arts Express -Interview with drummer John Perri

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2017


    Melbourne Jazz and Latin drummer John Perri tells some terrific stories about life on the road as a multi-skilled drummer and teacher in Melbourne.

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