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Show Us Your Tips returns with a weekend preview of metropolitan racing from both Sydney & Melbourne. The Melbourne Festival of Racing is looming as we kick off with the tidy card from the Sandown Lakeside track, which includes the Blue Diamond Previews for both the colts and fillies, as well as the Manfred Stakes for the sprinters. BEST Daggy R10 N13 New York Lustre Beaver – R10 N13 New York Lustre VALUE Daggy – R9 N2 Odinson Beaver – R9 N3 Another Prophet We then look at the good summer card of racing from Randwick, where we're finally get back on a track with some good weather around. BEST Daggy – R5 N3 Don Diego De Vega Beaver – R3 N1 Clear Thinking VALUE Daggy – R2 N3 Kingston Charm Beaver – R2 N5 Aux En Province We've also got our quaddie numbers from both venues and the best bets from Sunshine Coast! As always, check out showusyourtips.net for more!

The culture wars are seeping out of the real world and infiltrating our pages and stages.  Art has always traversed unfamiliar and even dangerous territory. But with recent calls to boycott cultural institutions, donors pulling funding, and the cancellation of works and talent, are some discussions too fraught to engage with? Louise Adler is the Director of Adelaide Writers' Week. She has spent over 30 years in the culture business and continues to be committed to the dissemination of dangerous ideas. Brook Garru Andrew is an artist, curator and writer who is driven by the collisions of intertwined narratives emerging from the mess of the “Colonial Wuba (hole)”. His practice is grounded in his perspective as a Wiradjuri and Celtic person from Australia. Violette Ayad was born on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja to Palestinian and Lebanese parents. She is now based on Gadigal land where she works as an actor, writer, director, and voice artist.  Gil Beckwith has a significant career in the Arts and Not For Profit industry in senior finance and administration management roles. Her working career spans over 40 years and includes working for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Festival, the Victorian AIDS Council, and most recently CEO of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Declan Greene is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. As a director he has worked for many of Australia's major theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse, Belvoir, and Griffin Theatre Company.  Emile Sherman is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning film and television producer who co-founded See-Saw Films in 2008. Based in Sydney and London, See-Saw Films has worked with many of the world's leading filmmakers and actors.  Chaired by philosopher and Executive Director of The Ethics Centre, Simon Longstaff.

Tim Draxl is an actor and singer with a career spanning more than two decades.Most recently he was seen in the SBS anthology television series Erotic Stories, for which he has received an AACTA Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama series, and the lead role in ABC's four-part musical drama In Our Blood, for which he has received both an AACTA Nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series and TV WEEK Logie Award Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series.On stage, Tim was most recently seen in Belvoir's Into The Woods as ‘Cinderella's Prince/ Wolf' and in the role of ‘Steve Healy' for the first overseas tour of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill produced by GWB. Other theatre credits include critically acclaimed Only Heaven Knows, Catch Me If You Can and Evie May (all for Hayes Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Lip Service, Mothers and Sons (Ensemble Theatre), Freeway – The Chet Baker Journey (Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Festival, Brisbane Festival), Nailed (Griffin Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Belvoir), The Sound Of Music (GFO) and She Loves Me (The Production Company).Other television credits include anthology series Summer Love and critically acclaimed The Newsreader both for the ABC, hit series A Place to Call Home as series regular Henry Fox (FOXTEL), the Molly Meldrum telemovie Molly, the critically acclaimed series Serangoon Road, Reef Break, Mrs Biggs, Home & Away, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Crownies, Day One, Tangle, Headland, Supernova, Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure and The Shark Net.Tim's film work includes action film Blacklight alongside Liam Neeson, Guardians of the Tomb, directed by Kimble Rendall, A Few Best Men, Undocumented, Ivory, In My Sleep, Red Canyon, Right Here Right Now, Travelling Light, Swimming Upstream, and Dirty Deeds.He received his first TV WEEK Logie Award Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series in 2005 for The Shark Net and an ASTRA Award Nomination (later renamed The AACTA Awards) for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy for Supernova (2006). His one man show Tim Draxl in Concert was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Live Music Presentation in 2002 and has received several Sydney Theatre Award nominations for his cabaret and theatre shows winning the award for best cabaret production with Back For Seconds in 2006.He has released four solo albums. ‘Ordinary Miracles' and ‘Insongniac' for Sony Music Australia under the Columbia label, the independently released ‘Tim Draxl Live at the Supper Club' and ‘My Funny Valentine' released through Ambition Entertainment/EMI which reached number 1 on the iTunes jazz charts.Tim can currently be seen on Australian stages playing the role of Jodie Gillis opposite Sarah Brightman's Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. This will be the musical theatre event of the year. Don't miss this strictly limited season at Melbourne's Princess Theatre from May, and at the Sydney Opera House from August, 2024.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

The City of Melbourne is hosting a massive new festival, with events taking place in nightlife spots, historic buildings, city streets and more. Called Now or Never, the event will feature a multi-sensory dining experience by Supernormal, music festivals inside the Royal Exhibition Building, a pop-up 360-degree dome cinema and culminate in 48-hours of non-stop programming. Lord Mayor Sally Capp joins Around Town to chat about developing the festival, creating 'collisions' of ideas and experiences and why you'll find her out on the town at 3 am next weekend.  Featured on today's episode:  Now or Never Festival New episodes of Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town drop Monday, Wednesday, Friday each week. Subscribe on the LiSTNR app to make sure you don't miss an episode. And keep up-to-date on everything Broadsheet has to offer at www.Broadsheet.com.au, or at @Broadsheet_melb.  Broadsheet Melbourne Around Town is hosted by Nick Connellan and produced by Nicola Sitch.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Co-artistic director Sarah Kreigler talks everything puppets, delving into the Melbourne Festival of Puppetry and its 2023 puppet treasure hunt; Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts, Penelope Benton, on the ABC's cutting-edge online editorial and the future of arts reporting; Senior Curator Lisa Sullivan on the ‘Atmosphere' exhibition at Geelong Gallery, celebrating Clarice Beckett's contribution to the Geelong art scene.

Professor Natalie King OAM is an Australian arts leader, cultural producer and curator with more than two decades of experience in international and Australian contemporary art and visual culture.Natalie is in full swing right now curating at the 2022 Venice Biennale featuring an extraordinary artist who she has worked tirelessly with to showcase to the world Yuki Kihara.Small island ecologies, climate change, queer rights, Gauguin's gaze, intersectionality and decolonization; these are just some of the topics explored by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara.Eight years in the making, Paradise Camp is Yuki Kihara's politically urgent and creatively astute project curated by Natalie King. Kihara works across photography, video, archival research and socially engaged methods to present Paradise Camp for the New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Arte 2022).Natalie has a unique cultural footprint and networks in contemporary art, realising landmark programs across Australia, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Working across multiple domains, her highly skilled leadership spans the lifecycle of artistic production and management from new commissions, exhibitions, artistic partnerships, stakeholder relations, fundraising and programming. In 2018, she was nominated for AFR 100 Women of Influence.A huge career highlight was as a Curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017; the first solo exhibition by an Indigenous artist in the Australian Pavilion at Venice Biennale with record attendance, 338,000+ visitors and unprecedented media coverage including Tate, MoMA, Serpentine, Guggenheim Museum, and the Minister of Arts, Singapore, Prime Minister of Ireland and Governor General of New Zealand visiting.For over 120 years, the Venice Biennale has been the most prestigious cultural event in the world with more than 80 participating countries.Working closely with Commissioner (businesswoman and philanthropist), Naomi Milgrom AO on all fundraising to achieve unprecedented financial support Natalie became Commissioning editor of the first book in 10 years on renowned Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Thames & Hudson, 2017 achieving significant northern hemisphere distribution at TATE, MoMA bookstores with contributions from Professor Camille Paglia (University of Pennsylvania); Germano Celant (Prada Foundation); Djon Mundine OAM (Bundjulung activist, writer, curator); Alexis Wright (Waanyi author and winner of Miles Franklin Award 2007)She was also Chief Curator of the inaugural Melbourne Biennial Lab: What happens now? With City of Melbourne and Melbourne Festival, 2016 at Queen Victoria Market comprising 8 temporary commissions.Natalie's contribution to the Global arts community is a tribute to her tenacity, passion and sense of community and her deep love of the artist and the role they play on telling our stories.

In this episode Durell speaks with Niegel Smith. Niegel is a Bessie Award winning theater director and performance artist. He is the Artistic Director of NYC's Obie Award winning theater, The Flea; board member of A.R.T./New York; and ringleader of Willing Participant (www.willingparticipant.org) an artistic activist organization that whips up urgent poetic responses to crazy shit that happens.His theater work has been produced at The Alley Theater, The Barbican, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Flea Theater, The Goodman Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Invisible Dog, Luna Stage, The Melbourne Festival, Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood, New York Fringe Festival, New York Live Arts, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Playwrights Horizons, Pomegranate Arts, The Public Theater, St. Ann's Warehouse, Summer Play Festival, and Under the Radar, and his participatory walks and performances have been produced by Abrons Arts Center, American Realness, The Brooklyn Museum, Dartmouth College, Elastic City, The Invisible Dog, Jack, The New Museum, Prelude Festival, PS 122, the Van Alen Institute and Visual AIDS. He often collaborates with playwright/performer Taylor Mac. Smith is co-director of the critically acclaimed ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music', winner of the Kennedy Prize in Drama, Bessie Award, the Edwin Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He associate directed the Tony Award winning musical FELA! – restaging that production in London, Lagos and its world tour, assistant directed the off-broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and both the Broadway and off-Broadway productions of Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change.  He has worked on the artistic staffs of The Public Theater, Trinity Repertory Company and Providence Black Rep. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Smith has received residencies, grants and/or fellowships from Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the MAP Fund, New York Stage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, Theater Communications Group, Tucker Foundation, Van Lier Fund and VoxFest. Before surviving high school in Detroit, he grew up in the North Carolina piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers. www.niegelsmith.com

Lemony S Puppet Theatre is the whimsical invention of dynamic duo Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams. Over the course of her career, Sarah has cultivated a career as a dancer, puppeteer, writer, director, mentor, festival producer - you name it! But what strikes me most about Sarah is her passion for storytelling and her love of the world's canine companions. In this episode, we discuss the recent 2020 Melbourne Festival of Puppetry. We unpack Lemony S' new venture as a training ground for new puppetry artists with their inception of The Lemony S Puppet Lab. And I talk to Sarah about her writing theatre for all ages and how a single image can transform into the beautifully nuanced work Lemony S creates. This interview was recorded on Wednesday 8th December, 2021. Thanks for listening, to Talking Sock.Join the conversation on our socials@talkingsockcast (Twitter)@oneorangesockproductions (Instagram)Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter to help us bring more home grown creative content. Your support will help us make this podcast more accessible in creating Transcripts and will help us be able to sustain this cast!You can now also buy us a Ko-Fi!Find us at www.oneorangesock.comThanks for listening to #talkingsockcastSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/talking-sock. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Exploring unique approaches to percussive performance, artist and composer Matthias Schack-Arnott's work has been presented by Melbourne Festival, La Comete (France), Spor Festival (Denmark), Arts House, Supersense – Festival of the Ecstatic (Arts Centre Melbourne) and beyond. In conversation with Creative Director and CEO of Melbourne Fringe Simon Abrahams, Matthias discusses Groundswell—a large-scale sound installation and public sculpture that directly involved the citizens of Sydney. Ahead of the work's 2021 premiere, Matthias and Simon talk about the inspiration behind it, the process for developing an audience-led experience, and ongoing creative pursuits. Groundswell was commissioned and co-produced by Melbourne Fringe and Sydney Festival with support from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Artists in Conversation was supported by Monash University Centre for Theatre and Performance. This conversation is presented in partnership with Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Ep. 55 - The Governor of Victoria, The Honourable Linda Dessau, ACOn 1 July 2015, the Honourable Linda Dessau AC was sworn in as Victoria's 29th Governor, the first female in the role. She worked as a solicitor and barrister for a number of years before taking her first judicial appointment as a Magistrate in 1986. In 1995 she was appointed a Judge of the Family Court of Australia where she served for 18 years. But it's the Governors work outside the law that was just as fascinating to me. Social issues have always been a the heart of her work and that was heavily influenced by the fact that her father escaped the persecution of the Jews in Poland in 1929 and his gratitude to Australia in taking him in and his insistence that his family always look to give back as a result, is obvious when you listen to the Governor speak. She has been engaged in many community organisations including as President of the Melbourne Festival, a Commissioner of the Australian Football League, a Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria and was a founding Chair of the Essendon Football Club Women's Network. And yes, for those who've heard me mention it previously, we did have a few words on her choice of AFLW team to support. We'll sort that out later I think. Very down to earth, authentic and, what I found really heartening, was her response to my question about whether, given the lofty heights she's attained, she had ever had to overcome doubts in her own ability to achieve something. Her answer should be studied by everyone who's ever felt a level of anxiety or doubt - and, according to the Governor, that would include herself and every world leader she's ever met. And that's a lot of world leaders. Always curious. Always learning. Always listening. A pretty good role model I reckon.  I learnt a lot - I mean, it's not important or even worthy of bringing to everyone's attention....but who knew there was an 'r' in the middle of 'Governor'? Be curious. #Reallyinterestingwomen #RIW #GovernorofVictoria #vicgovernor #earlypathtaken #workhard #community #apolitical #curiousmind #gwsgiants #essendonbombers #preferGWSthough@richardinstagraham @vicgovernor www.governor.vic.gov.au

Have you ever heard that a creative arts career is risky mentally, financially, and even physically? You are not alone...listen to Season 5 Episode 2: Taking Calculated Risks with Circus Artist: Luke Ha from Melbourne, Australia, and host Lara.  - Luke shifted into the circus and performance industry after a 10-year competitive gymnastics career. He completed his degree at the National Institute of Circus Arts in 2007. During this time he performed in Melbourne Festival's DiVino, the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony, and created his own showcase act. After graduating he went on to perform in Osaka at Universal Studios Japan for 11 months. He reached the semi-finals in Australia's Got Talent; was part of the creation, development, and performing cast of ShangHai Lady Killer with Stalker Theatre Company at Brisbane Festival; and was the opening Straps performer in Sydney's Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 2010 on George Street. Luke ventured to Macau, China for almost 3 years and performed over one thousand performances with Dragone's The House of Dancing Water, where he was part of the house troupe as well as a character understudy. Since returning to Australia at the end of 2013, Luke performed with Griffin Theatre Company in their Sydney Festival show The Serpent's Table;  performed The Lounge: A Circus Cabaret for the Melbourne Fringe Festival; performed solo and together with his wife Anni; whom he now has had 3 children with. Since 2014 Luke has become a graded Stunt Action Performer, performed a tour with Circus Oz, featured in Australian Ninja Warrior, and become a key obstacle course tester and rigger while also starting his own family business, a Ninja Warrior family fitness and fun facility, Ninja Nation. - About Artist's House International  Lara Bianca Pilcher, the host of the Artist's-House International Podcast (AHI), is an experienced show host and international speaker. Her career in the arts industry spans over 20 years. Artist's House International is a not-for-profit that uses the tool of creativity to help transform lives, form a global community, and capture the global voice of believer artists. AHI founders, Andrew and Lara Pilcher have been married for 15 years and have two awesome kids. - -We invite you to subscribe to this Podcast and share it with others! -We invite you to support this Podcast by visiting us on Patreon -To find out more about AHI visit: artistshouseinternational.com Lara: Lara's links - ALL LINKS: LINKTREE linktr.ee/artistshouseinternational - Website: artistshouseinternational.com/

Zahra Newman and Donna Abela discuss theatre in a “post-COVID” world and systemic racism in the rehearsal room. A graduate of VCA, Zahra Newman has built an extensive list of theatre, television and film credits. In 2016 she was awarded an AACTA for Best New Talent, and received a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for her performance as ‘Nabulungi' in The Book of Mormon. Other industry recognitions include a Green Room Award, CGA Award and multiple Helpmann nominations. Theatre credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Love and Information for Sydney Theatre Company, Random, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, The Government Inspector, Private Lives for Belvoir, Miss Julie, The Effect, The Mountain Top, The Cherry Orchard, Menagerie, Clybourne Park, The Drowsy Chaperone and Richard III for Melbourne Theatre Company and the critically acclaimed Wake in Fright for Malthouse/Sydney Opera House, which she also co-created. Donna Abela is an award-winning playwright. Jump For Jordan won the 2015 AWGIE Award for Stage and the 2013 Griffin Playwriting Award, and is on the 2019-2022 HSC Drama Syllabus. Her body of work includes plays which have won AWGIE awards for radio (Spirit, Aurora's Lament, Mrs Macquarie's Cello), the Human Rights Award for Drama (Highest Mountain Fastest River), and were nominated for NSW Premiers Literary Awards (Tales From the Arabian Night, Jump For Jordan). For Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image, she wrote two large scale adaptations: Monkey … Journey to the West (2014 Brisbane Festival, 2015 Melbourne Festival, 2015 Sydney Opera House program) and Tales from the Arabian Nights, a widely produced play on refugee themes which was published by Currency Press in 2019.

PEG Interviews Australian Concert Violinist Courtenay Cleary Courtenay completed her scholarship at The Juilliard School in New York where she earned her Master of Music degree with violin professor Naoko Tanaka. She received her Bachelor of Music degree with first-class honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with professor Maureen Smith. In 2017 Courtenay performed as a soloist for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and other distinguished guests at Westminster Abbey for the Royal Commonwealth Service. This was broadcast live on BBC television. In 2018 Courtenay again performed for the HM the Queen at Buckingham Palace for the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. She has also performed as a soloist at prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, St James’ Piccadilly, the Regent Hall, Colston Hall and the Lincoln Centre. She recently performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in Sydney and gave the Australian premiere of David Lang’s Mystery Sonatas. She is a Tait Memorial Trust and ABRSM scholar, and was recently awarded second prize at the Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition as well as the Dame Joan Sutherland Award from the American Australian Association and the Guy Parsons Award from the Portland House and Australian Music Foundations. She was also a finalist in the 2018 Freedman Fellowship awards. She is a member of the Patronus Quartet who in 2015 progressed to the semi-final of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. She has performed at many international festivals including Tallinn Music Week and the Melbourne Festival. She has performed in many masterclasses for esteemed artists including Julian Rachlin, Daniel Hope, the St Lawrence String Quartet, and the Borodin Quartet, from whom her own quartet received a letter of recommendation for the MICMC. Courtenay is a core member of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and also plays casually with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. She studied at the Australian National Academy of Music from 2012-2014 with William Hennessy. During her time at the academy she played alongside many visiting artists including the Brodsky Quartet, Brett Dean, Michael Collins, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Aurora Orchestra, Anthony Marwood, Dale Barltrop and was concertmaster of the ANAM orchestra under the direction of Simone Young, James Judd and Nicholas Carter. In 2011 Courtenay studied under the direction of Associate Professor Patricia Pollett at the University of Queensland. During this time, she was concertmaster of the University of Queensland Chamber and Symphony Orchestras and was finalist in the university’s Bach Prize and The Howard and Gladys Sleath Prize for Strings. She was the recipient of the Sleath String Scholarship for outstanding students and was a winner of the Sid Paige & Musica Viva/4MBS Chamber Music Prize. Artist Website: https://www.courtenaycleary.com/ Watch and Listen: https://www.courtenaycleary.com/watchlisten Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtenaycleary/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CourtenayCleary --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/phantom-electric/message

It's so nice to be back, and for a brief moment, back in the studio face to face with Voodoo Puppeteer Alien with Extraordinary Abilities (as stated on his U.S green card) - Danny Miller!After finding a love of puppets from his family, Danny's passion for puppetry was reignited when he saw Ronnie Burkett perform 'Billy Twinkle' at Melbourne Festival. With the momentum brought on by The Eugene O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Danny found his network within the Melbourne puppetry scene and has been a collaborative maker and performer ever since. His passion for marionettes has driven him to the pinnacle point of any puppeteer's career - Broadway. Now, Danny is known internationally for his work in the USA national tour of Walking with Dinosaurs and as 'the face' of Melbourne and Broadway's King Kong.Join Danny and I in his Rosebud studio as we set about building me a marionette! We talk all things 'Kong' puppetry and the world of marionettes today.You can find Danny on Instagram @dannysworkshop and on the web at www.heartstrings.meJoin the conversation on our socials@talkingsockcast (Twitter)@oneorangesockproductions (Instagram)Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter to help us bring more home grown creative content. Your support will help us make this podcast more accessible in creating Transcripts and will help us be able to sustain this cast!You can now also buy us a coffee!Thanks for listening to #TalkingSockPodcastSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/talking-sock. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jonathan Holloway's storied career takes him from the National Theatre in London to Melbourne International Festival and Perth Festival, where he closed the city of Perth so 1.4 million people could watch the giants of Royal de Luxe walk the streets. Join us for Jonathan's conversation on the needs vs. wants of an audience, creating giant performance experiences and getting the moment exactly right.

Annie Reid was born in Sydney, trained as a classical dancer and performed with Sydney Dance Company and Opera Australia. Until 1983 she worked as a dancer throughout Europe and on returning to Australia moved to the technical side of theatre. Annie became assistant stage manager with Victoria State Opera in 1983 and by 1985 was senior stage manager of the company, responsible for five major opera productions each year as well as regional and national tours of opera and music theatre. Opera and music theatre remain a large part of her freelance work and she is now regularly employed by Opera Australia. In 1989 she began working as a freelance production and stage manager spending 1993 as production coordinator for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and OH&S representative for the technical department. She was involved in the advisory group for the design and technical development of the Iwaki auditorium at ABC Southbank. Annie has been operations manager for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition every four years since 1995, working closely with ABC Classic as stage manager for their live radio broadcasts. She has also worked as a freelance stage manager for the Melbourne Festival since 1989. Annie is very experienced in the show calling and stage/floor management of large corporate events at most large venues in Melbourne. She was assistant director for the arena version of the opera ‘Carmen’ in 1990 and show caller for the Victorian State Schools Spectacular (directed by David Atkins) in 1999 at Rod Laver Arena. In 2001, Annie was senior stage manager and show caller for the Centenary of Federation – A Nation United at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building and in 2005, show caller for the opening ceremony of the Pacific School Games at Princes Park. Other events include: Australia Day Flag Raising Ceremony; Australian Grand Prix Ball; Amway Corporation–China at Crown; The Prime Minister’s Olympic Dinner at Plenary Hall; AFL Grand Final parade and pre-match entertainment at the MCG; The Melbourne Cup Parade; World Latin Dancesport Championships; Sports Presentation (Soccer, Rugby League , Rugby Union) at AAMI Park. In December every year she leads a team of 20 Stage managers to present the RMIT University Graduation Ceremony at Etihad Stadium. In 2005 Annie was the recipient of the ‘Green Room’ award for services to Technical Theatre. Annie has been part of the Visitor Services Department at Arts Centre Melbourne since 1991and as a freelance senior stage manager she works regularly on many events and concerts in all four of their theatre venues. In 2012 Annie was appointed lecturer in stage management, Victorian College of the Arts School of Production, Melbourne University. She returned to freelance work in 2018 as stage manager, ceremonies for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast; company manager, Australian International Opera Company touring throughout China; show caller, Laver Cup for Tennis Australia in Chicago; and show caller, Australian Open 2019 and 2020 for Tennis Australia in Melbourne.

The writers of Who's Afraid of the Working Class? reunite for Anthem, choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale back to Australia, we travel to the Komische Oper Berlin to find out how to make opera for everyone, and British comedian Sarah Millican takes control.

The writers of Who's Afraid of the Working Class? reunite for Anthem, choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale back to Australia, we travel to the Komische Oper Berlin to find out how to make opera for everyone, and British comedian Sarah Millican takes control.

Circa continue their thrilling fusion of acrobatics with classical music and opera by teaming up with Opera Queensland for a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice, arts critic Tim Byrne reviews contemporary dance at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tony Award-winning director of Come from Away Christopher Ashley shares his Best Advice, we ask voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson whether we should affect accents on stage, and Open Homes, presented by La Boite, invites the public to step into a stranger's home and learn about their life.

Circa continue their thrilling fusion of acrobatics with classical music and opera by teaming up with Opera Queensland for a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice, arts critic Tim Byrne reviews contemporary dance at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tony Award-winning director of Come from Away Christopher Ashley shares his Best Advice, we ask voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson whether we should affect accents on stage, and Open Homes, presented by La Boite, invites the public to step into a stranger's home and learn about their life.

The new Australian musical Fangirls challenges negative perceptions of female fandom and places their passion and power centre stage, Grey Rock at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival tells the story of a Palestinian TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon, and choreographers Sue Healey and Gideon Obarzanek discuss filming dance to capture and push the boundaries of an ephemeral art form.

The new Australian musical Fangirls challenges negative perceptions of female fandom and places their passion and power centre stage, Grey Rock at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival tells the story of a Palestinian TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon, and choreographers Sue Healey and Gideon Obarzanek discuss filming dance to capture and push the boundaries of an ephemeral art form.

21 years after Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela reunite for Anthem at the Melbourne Festival, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre shines a light on the shadows of prejudice, and we meet the team behind the most ambitious work at this year's Brisbane Festival: 59 Productions and Rambert's Invisible Cities, inspired by Italo Calvino's novel.

21 years after Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela reunite for Anthem at the Melbourne Festival, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre shines a light on the shadows of prejudice, and we meet the team behind the most ambitious work at this year's Brisbane Festival: 59 Productions and Rambert's Invisible Cities, inspired by Italo Calvino's novel.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.

Many individuals, groups and institutions in Australia now incorporate an acknowledgement of country into official proceedings—a recognition of the Traditional Owners of the land in which people gather, and events take place. But what does that actually mean in practice? In so many ways, architecture and urbanism are invested in ideas of land, and historical conceptions of ownership—be it through force or other means. So, to kick off MPavilion’s 2018 season, we sought to take some time out and think Critically about Country: the levels of meaning, understanding, occupation and use of land. Participants in this chat included Melbourne Festival director Jonathan Holloway, MPavilion 2018 architect Carme Pinós, architect Jefa Greenaway and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne’s Robin Penty.

Holly Norman is a freelance arts manager, event producer and musician. Some of her career achievements have included the production logistics for Melbourne Festival (2016 - 2018 - Contemporary Music), artist logistics for Darwin Festival (2016), project management of Perth International Jazz Festival (2015) and Melbourne International Jazz Festival (2019). As an independent producer and tour manager, Holly co-wrote the award-nominated Fringe World show Good Songs For Bad Lovers (2016) and coordinated the planning, execution and performances of an inaugural tour to the United States with Junkadelic Brass Band (Honk Fest West, 2015). Holly initially majored in Classical Percussion at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2006 on scholarship exchange at University of Miami. In addition to percussion and drums, Holly is a singer, songwriter and storyteller who actively seeks opportunities to collaborate with leading musicians. She most recently performed in a debut season of the devised piece 'XENIDES' with Black Swan State Theatre Company. Holly is a passionate and gregarious individual with an infectious zeal for her work, be it arts and events management or music performance. She has maintained an active portfolio of self-initiated performance and touring projects whilst making valuable contributions to the planning and execution of major Australian arts and cultural events. Holly is a registered 500 hour yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, and is passionate about the integration of health and wellness with wellbeing for arts practitioners. She has taught workshops on music and wellbeing for Katherine Regional Arts (NT), Arts Wellbeing Collective (Arts Centre Melbourne) and St Bernards College. Thanks for listening and keep thriving! Show notes: www.SpenserLiszt.com/blog/TMP21 Free list of potential tax deductions: www.SpenserLiszt.com/p/TaxDeductions Join the Thriving Musicians closed Facebook group: www.Facebook.com/groups/ThrivingMusician Email questions, comments or nominate a Thriving Musician to spenser@spenserliszt.com Follow Spenser online: Facebook: www.Facebook.com/SpenserLiszt Twitter: www.Twitter.com/SpenserLiszt Instagram: www.Instagram.com/SpenserLiszt

Transgender singer Mama Alto recounts her experiences of traveling through the USA to attend an Aretha Franklin concert. Mama Alto is a gender transcendent diva, cabaret artiste, jazz singer and community activist. Her cabaret performances and collaborations have garnered critical praise at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Malthouse Theatre Company, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Darwin Festival, and so many more. Mama Alto was the 2017 Artist of the Year at the GLOBE LGBTI Awards. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Karen and Katy catch up with their very very good friend, Kath Mainland CBE. Recording during Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 it's more of a catch up between besties than an actual interview but hey! Enjoy! -- BOSS WUMMIN’, the new, hot off the press, fresh AF podcast from the female powerhouses behind Gilded Balloon: Katy and Karen Koren. As Katy takes the reins of the comedy giant over the coming years, who better to give her advice on running a successful business than the founder of Gilded Balloon – and her mum – Karen. Featuring guests from the world of comedy and inspiring female leaders, BOSS WUMMIN’ delves into the depths of Karen’s mind, and the vision both she and Katy have for the future of Gilded Balloon. Keep up to date with new episodes, guest goss and new happenings here: @gildedballoon gildedballoon.co.uk

This week, Geraldine gets her first aid certificate; Sarah shares some of her car dramas; the team are joined by Pacharo Mzembe & Ratidzo Mambo actors in Mambo apart of Melbourne Festival; author Clare Wright writer of “You daughters of freedom: The Australian who won the vote and inspired the world; and Eddo meets Kasey Chambers.   With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

Renowned American choreographer Mark Morris on adapting the Middle Eastern love story Layla and Majnun with the Silkroad Ensemble, Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham's new work inspired by the Eumeralla Wars, we discuss Shakespeare's tragic prince with theatre historian and author of Performing Hamlet Jonathan Croall, author of Performing Hamlet, and Re-Member Me performer Dickie Beau, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through another accent lesson, and as NoFit State Circus rolls into the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, we tag along to find out just how that big top gets built.

Cherished poet, broadcaster, musician and all round legend Alicia Sometimes join us in the studio as a very special guest. Alicia creates More Than A Whelan history by being the first guest to write a poem from creative prompts right there in the studio before our very eyes. Alicia also steps up to the More Than A Whelan challenge on a grand scale by writing a whole bunch of poems all inspired by our listener supplied creative prompts. Particle/Wave is an upcoming show at the Melbourne Festival that Alicia is directing. She gives us an insight in the show and its myriad of artists involved and talks about just why science and poetry make such good friends together and what precisely is it that sustains the mind and heart of Alicia Sometimes. Tickets and more info for Particle/Wave is available right here. Show runs from 6th to the 13th October. Liner Notes Live is a literary cabaret event coming up very soon at the Melbourne Writers Festival which Sean is co-producing and performing in. The event is a kind of tribute to Nirvana's Nevermind album and features incredible guests such as Matt Preston (Masterchef), Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes) Angie Hart (our previous guest on MTAW), Andy Griffiths and many more. Grab your tickets here right now or run the very real risk of missing out. Sean opens up the show with a poem called Pink and Slow and Gone. A piece originally written to the theme of 'Static.' The poem was written for a poetry/theatre show in which Sean performed with Alicia Sometimes and Nathan Curnow. The show was directed by Kieran Carroll. Alicia's poems 'Shout out to the Blood Moon' (not actual title, Alicia didn't give it one.) - Inspired by Dominic's 'Intermittent Sun' prompt. 'A Box of Bananas are Slowing Dying Outside a Fruit Shop' - titled by Sean, inspired by Cameron Semmens prompt of 'A sharp knife in an empty room. 'When You've Decided To Be Friends and You Want To Make Sure Something Sexy Won't Happen' inspired by Flick's prompt of 'social anxiety.' 'Melbourne Autumn' - Inspired by the prompt of 'Heaters on High' by Stefanie Robinson. 'Pavillion of Heavenly Idleness' - inspired by the prompt of the same name by Cameron Semmens. 'The Space Between the Leopard Spots.' Titled by Sean and inspired by prompts given to Alicia by Sean on the spot! The prompts were record player, frog and ashtray. Sean's poem 'Breasts and Swear Words, Nailed It' was titled by Alicia and inspired by the prompts 'Ben & Jerry's' by Matt, 'Unicorns' by Natalie, 'B' by Ramona, 'Bespectacled and Blasphemous - Tom Dockray, 'Intermitten Sun - Dom, 'Question' - by Jennifer Paulette, 'Boobs' - Heide, 'Pavillion of Heavenly Idleness' - by Cameron Semmens, 'Botulism' by Jenny O'Keefe, 'Borderline' by Flick. For the Whelan & Stealin' segment Alicia read 'Campaign Instructions' by Fase Wickey. and Sean read 'Star Hole' by Richard Brautigan. Make sure you check out The Outer Sanctum podcast co-hosted by Alicia Sometimes and one of the best AFL/AFLW themed podcasts you will ever hear. Recorded by Derek Myers at Castaway Studios, Collingwood, Australia. insta: @castaway_studios

Richard dives in with a Melbourne Festival program overview with Jonathan Holloway, Playwright Emilie Collyer and cast member Emily Tomlinschat about Contest, playing at Northcote Town Hall; and Director of SPRING 1883Kate Berberjoins Richard for a look into Windsor's 4 years young art fair.

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Brothers Wreck BY JADA ALBERTS Ruben is full of anger and dancing on the edge, struggling to cope with his brother’s death. As Darwin swelters, tensions in the house are high as Ruben slips further and further adrift from all those around him: his counselor, his best mate, his sister, his beloved Aunty. When the summer storm finally breaks, the family must pull together and find the strength to bring Ruben back from the brink. Jada Alberts’ breakout play is one of the most moving pieces to grace Australian stages in recent years. Starring Trevor Jamieson (The Season, Melbourne Festival), Nelson Baker (The Warriors, ABC TV), Lisa Flanagan (Australian Rules), Leonie Whyman (Black Comedy, ABC) and Dion Williams (Gallipoli, Nine) this is Jada’s directorial debut of her hit powerhouse play – heralded as a triumph in its Sydney premiere season. Transporting us to her hometown in the Top End, Jada leads us through a gripping drama about a grief-stricken family whose love for each other knows no limits. For more details, visit:https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/brothers-wreck Theatre First RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4839371.rss Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean etc. If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #brotherswreck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Hir Set & Costume Design Adrienne Chisholm Lighting Design Richard Vabre Sound Design Ian Moorhead Assistant Director Thomas Quirk Dialect Coach Jean Goodwin Stage Managers Jackie Mates & Stephanie Young Assistant Stage Manager Sophie Capern Max is a transgender teen living with mum Paige and father Arnold. When brother Isaac returns home from the marines, he finds war has broken out at home. Finally liberated from an oppressive marriage, Paige is set to dismantle the patriarchy and follow Max into a brave new post-gender world. But in this savagely funny work, annihilating the past doesn’t always free you from it. Hir is a tenderly heartfelt and highly intelligent new work from one of the ground-breaking artists of our time, Taylor Mac, whose A 24-Decade History of Popular Music was the critical smash hit of the 2017 Melbourne Festival. For more visit https://redstitch.net/gallery/hir/ Theatre First RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4839371.rss Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.fm, Podbean etc. If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #theatre #stage #reviews #Melbourne #Australia #hir #LGBTQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matthew Thomas's performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King (Peter Maxwell Davies) on the inaugural Melbourne Festival was "astoundingly effective" wrote ArtsHub in a review. The piece calls for "a realisation of [a] deranged royal... demanding a range of three octaves, a raft of extended vocal technique (some extreme), and fine acting skills."  Thomas talks with RBF Australia's co-director Jane Sheldon about the evening.

Hillel Kogan is a dancer, choreographer and dramaturge based in Israel. His diverse range of works have been performed all around the world. Of particular acclaim is his piece We Love Arabs. This duet explores the dynamic relationship between an Israeli choreographer and an Arab dancer. The piece is political, funny and at times difficult to watch, as the Israeli choreographer repeatedly trips himself up on his own assumptions. This is a piece that resonates strongly with a diverse range of audiences as it continues to tour 5 years after its creation. We Love Arabs is performed in Hebrew, French and English. We Love Arabs was the winner of the Outstanding Creator of the 2013 Israeli Dance Critics Circle Awards. Other full length works include The Rite of Spring created for Tmuna Theater’s Intimadance Festival, Tel Aviv in 2011. As a dancer Kogan has performed with Batsheva Dance Company, Nomades Dance Company of Switzerland and the Gulbenkian Ballet of Portugal. Kogan has worked as Assistant Choreographer to Ohad Naharin of Batsheva Ensemble. He has created works for National Ballet of Portugal, Muza Dance Company, and the Shades of Dance Festival at the Suzanne Dellal Center. Kogan has worked as a dramaturg with Renana Raz, Dana Ruttenberg, Yossi Berg, and Oded Graf. Kogan won the prestigious Israeli ‘Landau Prize for the Arts’ in 2015. This episode was recorded at Malthouse Theatre during Melbourne Festival 2017. Stay tuned for episodes in this season that will cast an eye to the 2018 Perth Festival. If you have enjoyed this episode please consider leaving a contribution. Currently looking to raise $500 for new recording equipment. Better recording equipment means a better sounding podcast for your listening ears.

Anna Schoo is a producer who enjoys working collaboratively with artists, community and sites. Recent work includes producing The Wired Lab’s 2017 program, and co-programming the inaugural festival for The School of Life Australia. Anna has been a member of the artist collective Field Theory for the past four years. She has worked as part of many festival teams including the Melbourne Festival, Dark Mofo, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Fringe, and was the Program Manager for White Night Melbourne 2013 & 2014. In this episode: We talk about the different roles and names of producers, we delve into the importance (and often the producers' secret love) of budgets. We chat about touring, working collaboratively with artists and broadening your industry knowledge by taking on other roles.

Across the Aisle's October episode every year is devoted to Melbourne Festival. This year the gang attended a 6 hour performance by Taylor Mac and a panel of elderly people talking about their sex lives.

On this Melbourne Festival special,Richard sits down with the director of Cambodian Living Arts, Phloeun Prim to chat about the historically resonant A Requiem for Cambodia: Bangsokol; All the Sex Ive Ever Had's Co-Director Alice Flemming and cast member Bea pop in, andPhillip Adams mysteriously lifts the curtain on his musical/playEVER.

Like Running Water brings together Ella Thompson, Sui Zhen and Clio Renner in a multi-dimensional arrangement that intersects sound, sight and scent. 3RRR’s Lauren Taylor joined Ella, Clio and Sui Zhen for an In Conversation event to hear insights into the creative process behind the group’s new Melbourne Festival show, musings on their careers.

Dark Circus: A sinister ringmaster invites the inhabitants of a gloomy city to a circus tent, where they preside over catastrophic acts. The trapeze artist plummets, the animal trainer is devoured, the human cannonball is lost in space… Paper, ink, sand and silhouettes burst to life in this riotous work for children and adults. - Quand un sinistre meneur invite les habitants d'une ville sombre dans une tente de cirque, le trapèze tombe en panne, l'animateur est dévoré, la balle de canon humain est perdue dans l'espace ... Du papier, de l'encre, du sable et des silhouettes se révèlent dans ce travail pour les enfants et les adultes émerveillés .

Christian chats with hip-hop artist James Mangohig about In Between Two, the show that he and Joelistic are bringing to the Melbourne Festival at the Fairfax Studio in Arts Centre Melbourne from October 11-15.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Lucy and Will chat to:Jonathan Holloway, Artistic Director of the Melbourne Festival, about the exciting lineup as well as the Kulin nations' Tanderrum ceremony. The festival runs 4-22 OctoberJack Smit, longtime human rights watchdog with Project Safecom (Twitter @PSOffice) about the lack of outrage over the establishment of a super-portfolio in the Ministry of Home Affairs and the threat to Australians' freedoms this presents. Jack was interviewed by Jan Bartlett of Tuesday Hometime, on-air Tuesdays from 4pmJessica Clark, curator of Tell, an exhibition of Indigenous photography on at the 2017 Ballarat International Foto BiennaleMitu Bhowmick Lange, Founder and Director of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne about the festival's lineup as well as the controversy over, censorship of, and then approval of the Festival's opening night film Lipstick Under My BurkhaSongs played during the episode have been edited out for reasons of copyright. These songs were:Walkin' Around by Jade ImagineDon't Vandalise My Van by The 1st Chancers and CrewLes Tantes De La Dimanche by The Zen Circus and Brian RitchSubhumans by Society

Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly) 1984 April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. Set in a world where an invasive government keeps a malevolently watchful eye on its citizens, this radical and much-lauded staging explores surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever. Produced by UK theatrical innovators Headlong along with Nottingham Playhouse and the Almeida Theatre, George Orwell’s dystopian classic came roaring onto the stage in 2013 and since then it has become an international phenomenon. Seen by over 400,000 people worldwide, it has enjoyed three hugely success­ful West End seasons as well as an international tour including a sold out season at the Melbourne Festival. Now with a brand new Australian cast, we bring adapter-directors Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s thrilling vision back to Australia for a national tour. For more http://www.1984play.com.au/ Subscribe to the Theatre First podcast at all good podcatcher apps including Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Pocketcasts, audioBoom etc. #theatre #reviews #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Abandosam, Sam Wilson joins Muggins and Cream in throwing Kissy Long Pockets Andrew Stanley under another bus for his round dodging. It's the closing weekend of the Melbourne Festival so they recap some of their shenanigans before the horrific slaughter of some more sorry muggles. 

In this episode, writer, poet and Program Manager of the Melbourne Writers Festival Jessica Alice joins us to discuss poetry as a truthful political medium, pathways to a career in arts programming, and the intricacies of modern dating etiquette. Jessica Alice is a writer, editor and artistic programmer. She is the Program Manager of Melbourne Writers Festival, Chair of the Kat Muscat Fellowship Custodial Committee and a Shadow Board Member of Melbourne Festival. She also directed the National Young Writers' Festival in 2014–15. Jessica’s writing and reviews have been published in The Guardian Australia, Metro Magazine, Overland, Junkee, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Spook Magazine, and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. Our theme music is Rainbow Chan’s “Last”, from her latest album Spacings.

Gideon Obarzanek is best known for establishing Chunky Move in 1995 in Sydney, subsequently moving to Melbourne in 1997 after winning a tender from the Kennett State Government. Obarzanek hoped that Chunky Move would last at least a year in Melbourne, “so it wouldn’t be so embarrassing”. His desire was to create a space for dancers and choreographers to apply for funding and make work at a time when independent dance was very fringe. “I didn’t have a great interest in having a dance company or directing a dance company, it came out of necessity. […] My interest has always been about making work.” Obarzanek remained the artistic director of Chunky Move until 2012. Obarzanek’s work is diverse, with a focus on collaborations, technology, large-scale events, film and site specific works. His work has toured Europe, Asia, U.K., USA and South America. He has been presented at the Joyce Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival NY, Dance Theatre Workshop, Venice Biennale, Territoria Festival Moscow as well as all of Australia’s major performing arts festivals. Obarzanek has choreographed works for Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Dance North, Queensland Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theatre and Opera Australia. Obarzanek has a long list of awards to his name, including winning the prestigious Bessie Award with Lucy Guerin and Michael Kantor for Tense Dave (2005) and Helpmann Awards for Glow and Mortal Engine (2008), Since leaving Chunky Move Obarzanek wrote and directed his first play ‘I Want to Dance Better at Parties’ for Sydney Theatre Company, followed by the screen version in 2013. Obarzanek is currently the Chair of the Melbourne Fringe Festival and an Artistic Associate for Melbourne Festival. In this conversation we discussed dance leadership, gender, inspiration, arts funding, the future of festivals and the vision of Melbourne for being a creative hub. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes including interviews with Alexandre Hamel from Le Patin Libre.

Alice Nash, Executive Produer of Lady Eats Apple, joins Beth and Rach in the studio to speak about the production in the Melbourne Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Beth and Rach are joined by Stephaie Lake, performer in The Dark Chorus, a production in the Melbourne Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alice Nash, Executive Produer of Lady Eats Apple, joins Beth and Rach in the studio to speak about the production in the Melbourne Festival. 

Beth and Rach are joined by Stephaie Lake, performer in The Dark Chorus, a production in the Melbourne Festival. 

Ben and Thierry are joined in the studio by Jonathan Holloway, the artistic director of the Melbourne Festival, recapping highlights and challenges of the 2016 season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben and Thierry are joined in the studio by Jonathan Holloway, the artistic director of the Melbourne Festival, recapping highlights and challenges of the 2016 season.

In this Melbourne Festival episode, Carla and Philip take in Back to Back Theatre's "Lady Eats Apple" at Hamer Hall and Gob Squad's "War and Peace" at the Malthouse. Plus intermission banter about other Festival experiences. What does the Festival feel like under its new Artistic Director?

"We talk a lot about white guilt, and it is a real phenomenon. ... That guilt is kind of like the wages of privilege. But I'm interested in reframing it through my work, not as guilt, but as shame. Which is a different thing. It is a profoundly different thing." - Sarah-Jane Norman In the fourth episode of season three, we discuss the politically explosive work of Sarah Jane Norman, Aboriginal Australian, queer, non-binary, cross-disciplinary artist. SJ's whole body of work traverses performance, installation, sculpture, text, video, and sound; it is anchored in a multitude of physical disciplines, as well as the written language. SJ has presented their work at Venice International Performance Week, Spill Festival of Live Art, Fierce Festival, In Between Time, Edinburgh Festival, as well as Performance Space, Next Wave, the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, and Brisbane International Festival. A proud Indigenous Australian of both Wiradjuri and European heritage, SJ grew up in Sydney and regional NSW, but today divides their time between Australia and Berlin. Most recently, SJ Norman was one of the artists In Residence with Marina Abramovic in Sydney, and has presented their Unsettling Suite at Melbourne Festival, as part of Dancehouse's Dance Territories program. Looking through their rich body of work, we discuss inheritance of history, continuing transgenerational trauma, and the value of dissecting the effects of the politics of colonization with the artist’s body today. "It's a huge amount of emotional labour that I have to do on a daily basis, not just as an artist, but as a person. But, you know, it's the same kind of emotional labour that every person of colour or Indigenous person has to do, living in a white-dominated society. That is invisible labour. Part of my practice is to make it visible. And to make it clear, the imbalance that exists in the cultural expectations, that we're the only ones who have to do it, and that we're the only ones who have to carry and hold back history." - Sarah-Jane Norman It is hard to speak about this episode, harder than most. Whilst we like to keep our conversations light, perhaps to demistify and disarm the inquiries we posit, it is hard to find a space of levity when we talk about the weight of history that we all carry, some more, some less. "I'm really interested in complicity," says SJ, when describing the artistic labour she performs: "I'm really interested in blurring the line between guilt and complicity." It is a conversation we are very proud of; but oh, how heavy the history can be. Discussed in this episode: is Marina Abramovic a racist?, the futility of guilt, shame as an embodied sensation, Unsettling Suite, fetishisation of oral languages, being fairer than a whitefella, the emotional labour of confronting our colonial past, when people lose it, political performance, the logocentric West, Andrew Bolt, the kids who parrot the biases that their culture teaches them, contemporary Australia, and how there is no context for racism except racism. "Witchcraft, that's how I do it." - Sarah-Jane Norman Enjoy and stay tuned: we have more exciting and stimulating conversations to come. Podcast bibliography: Sarah Jane Norman Responds to Marina Abramovic, SBS, 25 August 2016 Performance artist Marina Abramovic calls Aboriginal Australians 'dinosaurs' in unpublished memoir, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August 2016 Dance Territories at Melbourne Festival, 14-16 October 2016 Jessi Lewis: What The Water Gave Me, TAGG, 11 October 2016 For more information about Sarah Jane Norman and their work, check out their website. This series of AUDIOSTAGE has been commissioned by DANCEHOUSE as part of the 2016 Keir Choreographic Award Public Program and was generously supported by the Keir Foundation.

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth are two artists who have been collaborating since 1996 in the creation of a series of large-scale installation artworks, using sound, video, architecture and public participation. These works often utilise the human voice as a principal element along with real world situations as a starting point. These situations include the old The Age newspaper building on Melbourne's Spencer Street in pre-demolition days in We Are Printers Too, and commuters stuck at an underground station entrance in Time Mirror. Revisit this MTalk presented by Melbourne Festival and CCP, featuring Sonia Leber and David Chesworth in conversation with Naomi Cass as they sat down for a chat that explores their working methods. Naomi is from from the Centre for Contemporary Photography and curator of The Documentary Take, a new exhibition featuring Sonia and David’s works.

Theatre Director, Enrique Vargas and Artist and Filmmaker, Lynette Wallworth both create immersive works that explore bold new ways of telling and experiencing stories. In Echo of the Shadow, Vargas invites the audience to enter a sensorial labyrinth, a singular experience of looking, listening, smelling, tasting and touching. In Collisions, audiences are taken on a virtual journey to the remote Western Australian desert where Martu elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, shares the story of the impact of the 1957 atomic bomb testing on his homelands. Join Enrique and Lynette in a conversation moderated by Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway about creating immersive worlds, audience interaction and experiential storytelling and their most recent works showing at ACMI as part of Melbourne Festival. Lynette Wallworth is an acclaimed Australian artist and director whose immersive installations and films reflect connections between people and the natural world, while also exploring fragile human states of grace. Her works use mesmeric environments, interactive technologies and narrative long form to engage with viewers. They have screened at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Vienna Festival and the London Film Festival. Enrique Vargas is a Colombian dramaturge and anthropologist who is renowned for his immersive and experiential theatre works. He began inventing games in the intricate and labyrinthine coffee plantations typical of the Andes surroundings where he grew up. His productions include Ariadna’s Thread, Oraculos and The Memory of the Wine, amongst many more, which have shown at Taipei Performing Arts Center, World Theatre Festival Shizuoka, London International Festival and the Theatre Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá.

The kids review and discuss Blowin’ Up created and performed by Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden, William McBride and are joined by Jonathan Holloway director of the Melbourne Festival and Matthew Lutton artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. Kids Vs Art A podcast series by Field Theory Directed by Jackson Castiglione and Jason Maling Composition and Sound Design by Robert Jordan Listening post at Arts House/Fringe Hub Designed by Eugyeene Teh Producers for Arts House Naomi Velaphi and Jackie Johnston Producers for the Fringe Dan Koop and Vanessa Wright Technical support and recording by Bart Mangan, Blair Hart and Richard Chandler Performer assistance by Claire Flynn and Tish Brennan - Steers. Presented by Melbourne Fringe and Arts House

On this weeks show, Chris talks to Jenica Brooke from Melbourne Commuter about last weeks recommendments from the Victorian governments Economic and Infrastructure Committee about the Road Safety Road Rules 2009 (Overtaking Bicycles) Bill 2015. We discuss problematic implications of flawed recommendations for intersections, riding two abreast and other proposed "solutions" to apparently perceived issues by committee members that could undermine the whole point of minimum passing distance legislation. Bicycle news includes local council elections in October, Australian Cyclist Party fielding a candidate in Yarra Council, supporting the Lightening Furies pozible campaign and The Triplets of Belleville soundtrack live at next months Melbourne Festival by Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville with Benoît Charest.

The Single Speed Worlds Carnivelo coming to town! Chris chats to Damian Auton about next months 2016 Single Speed Championships, with a packed week in Melbourne and Woodend, chockers full of bicycle festivities, including My Mechanic Rules at Commuter Cycles, Melburn pub ride, socials rides, early bird drinks, Carnivelo market at Hanging Rock, leading up to the main event on Sunday 23 October. News includes update over Merri Creek to CERES proposed bridge, with Darebin Council approving detailed design funding, in the UK, West Midlands Police to use a cycling officer to target close-passing motorists, Melbourne Bicycle Users Group petition aimed at upcoming Melbourne council elections for additional community feedback and design improvement on proposed Southbank Boulevard protected bike lanes. Also be quick to get tickets to Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville, with Benoît Charest recreating The Triplets of Belleville score live at the Melbourne Festival as the film itself is beamed onto the big screen. 

Richard explores the upcoming Melbourne Festival program with the festivals programmer Jonothan Holloway. Documentary film-maker Rohan Spong goes over his latest project entitled 'Winter at Westbeth', and the recently appointed director at ACCA, Max Delaney, stops by the studio for a chat.

Bryan Kearney - LIVE @ Kearnage Melbourne Festival Hall July 2016 by BryanKearney

Interviews, news and reviews ranging across the arts. Today's program features the artistic director of Melbourne Festival, Jonathan Holloway. UK performerClaire Cunningham chatsabout her Festival of Live Art show 'Give Me a Reason to Live', and choreographer Jonathan Homsey speaks with Richardabout 'Sanctuary', a performance diptych openingthis week at Testing Grounds.

Six culturally and linguistically diverse spoken-word poets drop in to MPavilion in October for two Spoken Word Sessions—and this is the second. The lunchtime slams are highlights of Igniting Imagination—a collaboration between Melbourne Festival and Multicultural Arts Victoria that brings exceptional talent from Australia’s emerging, Indigenous and refugee communities to the stage. Featured in this second session: writer and storyteller Ebony MonCrief, Lebanese artist Abdul Hammoud, and MC and author Abe Nouk.

Pack a picnic, round up the kids and join us for a lunchtime reading of John Marsden and Shaun Tan’s popular picture book The Rabbits—a partly allegorical fable about colonisation told through the eyes of the colonised, but with an unseen narrator. The fable describes the coming of ‘rabbits’—an encounter that is at first friendly and curious, but later darkens as it becomes apparent that the visitors are not who they once appeared to be.

In this Melbourne Festival episode, Carla and Philip overview the festival with a special focus on two productions: Desdemona at Southbank Theatre and The Bacchae at Theatre Works.

The arts are littered with examples of censorship of one kind or another - Chloe, Rabelais, Salo, Piss Christ, Baise Moi, the list goes on. Which production will be the Ballet Frankfurt of this year's Melbourne Festival and whose moral sensibilities will be outraged? Will a new, more conservative world tolerate increased freedom of artistic expression? How do we strike a fair balance? What's the role of the media? Speakers: Associate Professor Louise Adler (MC), Adrian Martin , Kate MacNeill, Dr David Bennett, Terry Lane Date recorded: 21/10/2002

Sean Godsell, architect of the inaugural MPavilion, in conversation with Melbourne Festival creative director Josephine Ridge. Hear how Sean’s pavilion was inspired by pragmatic design responses to the Australian landscape—as well as outback sheds and verandas—and how his versatile and welcoming design echoes the way plants respond to the sun. This flair for flexibility and sustainability is a hallmark of Sean’s architectural practice, visible in previous works such as the ‘breathable’ photovoltaic skin of his RMIT Design Hub, and his award-winning Future Shack. http://www.mpavilion.org/program/mtalks-melbourne-festival-sean-godsell-with-josephine-ridge

Professor Rob Adams explores ‘design and the city’ in this special Melbourne Festival edition of MTalks. What role does design play in urban revitalisation? What challenges persist for Melbourne’s CBD? What’s next for the inner suburbs and our commuter corridors? Prof. Adams presides over an evening of talking about thinking about cities, with contributions from Bernard Salt (KPMG), Patrick Ness (Cox Architects), Eli Giannini (MGS Architects) and Simon Spain (Artplay). http://www.mpavilion.org/program/mtalks-melbourne-festival-melbourne-as-a-design-city-with-rob-adams-am

Who was John Truscott? The multi-talented theatre designer, festival director and Academy Award-winning film designer was instrumental in creating the vibrant, celebratory public art culture Melburnians enjoy today. He was also responsible for the much-loved Botanica event in the Queen Victoria Gardens—the site of MPavilion. Truscott's skills, achievements and legacy are fuel for lively discussion in this Q&A panel discussion that features contributions from those who knew him well—designer Ken Cato, landscape designer Paul Bangay, Australian Galleries' Stuart Purves, artistic director of White Night Melbourne, Andrew Walsh, and Martin Carlson, Chair of the John Truscott Design Foundation. http://www.mpavilion.org/program/melbourne-festival-john-truscott-a-creative-melburnian-talk

The culture team are back from Melbourne to talk about the most intriguing shows of the festival and pick November's must-sees

Join passionate Melburnian culture makers as they interrogate the meaning, purpose and relevance of an international arts festival in Melbourne. With Michael Williams, Jason Marriner, Susan Provan, Richard Evans and Jonathan Holloway.

Sometimes, the best part of seeing a show is the conversation it sparks. Our series of ‘morning after’ breakfast events invites you to join a selection of writers, critics and arts lovers to dissect selected Melbourne Festival shows, sharing views on what worked, what didn’t – and why. Each Morning After session will pair one or more of our creative writers with established critics to talk about what they’ve seen. Come and debrief in a relaxed, informal atmosphere – the perfect way to share ideas and inspiration about art. This morning, we’ll be talking about the Quartets at Sunset concert series. Reviving Melbourne Festival’s tradition of sunset chamber music, this series sees acclaimed local and international quartets performing in the acoustically delightful surrounds of the Collins Street Baptist Church. Read our writers' reviews and join the discussion around Quartets at Sunset on this website.

Peter speaks with Iris Turcott, Dramturg for BILLY TWINKLE, Requiem for a Golden Boy and for Ronnie Burkett's internationally acclaimed Theatre of Marionettes.. Iris has been the company dramaturge at the Canadian Stage Company, and she has been a freelance dramaturge, director and actor, working with playwrights from coast to coast including Adam Pettle, Joan MacLeod, Michel Marc Bouchard, Brad Fraser, Judith Thompson, Sunil Kuruvilla and Tomson Highway. She has been involved in a number of international co-commissions including the Royal Exchange in Manchester, the Melbourne Festival and the Abbey Theatre.