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Guest: Jon Cattapan, the subject of a revealing biography titled 'Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories', by long-time friend Chris McAuliffe.
(Chris McAuliffe's biography 'Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories' is now available in Australia from Miegunyah Press for rrp$A49.95. More info: www.mup.com.au.)
(Visit Jon Cattapan's official website: www.joncattapan.com.au.)
Country culture and art collide at the Deniliquin Ute Muster.
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(The Deniliquin sculpture workshop is on 13-14 September and the Muster itself is on the 3rd and 4th of October. The Deniliquin Ute Muster website: www.deniutemuster.com.au.)
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(The South West Arts website: www.southwestarts.com.au.)
Backyard History Hunt: You're encouraged to go foraging for cultural gold in the shed or wardrobe for Family History Week.
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(The top ten entries in the Backyard History Hunt will be posted on www.ancestry.com.au during NSW History Week, coming up 6-14 September. The project will remain open so if you miss the first deadline of 24 August, don't give up. The e-mail address for entries is: backyardhistory@ancestry.com.au.)
(The National Family History Week was on 2-10 August in 2008. The official website: www.familyhistoryweek.org.au.)
A Cultural Olympiad was held as well as a sporting one, and Australia was represented.
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(The Sydney Conservatorium of Music of Australia was invited along with 7 other conservatories from the world - The Juilliard School of the United States, the Royal Academy of Music of the United Kingdom, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music of Italy, University Mozarteum of Austria, the Korea National University of Arts, Sibelius Academy of Finland and Shanghai Conservatory of Music - to perform chamber music, give
open musical classes, and hold master classes, co-sponsored by the Central Conservatory of Music of China and Yale University School of Music, on 8-24 July in Beijing. To see a list of all the Cultural Activities during the Beijing 2008 Olympics and Paralympics, visit: en.beijing2008.cn.)
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Guest: Phillip Gwynne, author of 'Deadly, Unna?', which became the film 'Australian Rules', and 'Nucken Ya'. His new novel is set in Darwin and is a crime thriller called 'The Build Up'.
Artist Career: A new web site for people working in the arts to help improve their business and administrative practice, has been opened.
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(The Artist Career website: www.artistcareer.com.au.)
(The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) website: www.visualarts.net.au.)
Rudely Interrupted: an Aussie rock band with a difference is to perform at the United Nations for the International Day for Persons Living with a Disability.
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(Since they have to be accompanied by carers, Rudely Interrupted needs to raise about $60,000 for the tour that takes in London, Bristol, Manchester and Chicago as well as New York. Their website is: www.rudelyinterrupted.com if you can help.)
(The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is 3 December in 2008. More info: www.un.org/disabilities/.)
We hear from Chris Bendell, formerly with Theatre@Risk in Melbourne, who has just joined Deckchair Theatre in Perth as Artistic director.
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(The Deckchair Theatre website : www.deckchairtheatre.com.au.)
(The Theatre@Risk website: www.theatreatrisk.com.)
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First Fleet
Online Collection: The State Library of New South Wales launches a website that gives unparalleled access to irreplaceable documents from the First Fleet.
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Online Collection can be accessed at: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/terra_australis/.)
Jessica Machin, formerly the CEO & Artistic Director at Carclew Youth Arts in Adelaide takes up her appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Country Arts WA.
Guest: Carole Francis, winner of the John Truscott Trust Award. The Award is to encourage young Australian designers to widen their experience and vision overseas in the same way that Truscott's colleagues at St Martin's theatre in Melbourne in the 1950s funded his travels to London, an experience that lead to two Oscars in Hollywood and to his design of the interior of the Victorian Arts Centre.
(The 2008 John Truscott Design Award was announced on 24 July, as part of the Melbourne International Design Festival which run on 17-27 July. More info about the Award: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
Visiting arts philanthropy expert, Diane Ragsdale, from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the US, talks about new opportunities and challenges in marketing the arts.
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Guest: one of the best know and prolific of Australia's sculptors, Peter Corlett. His figurative work, mostly in bronze, ranges from Weary Dunlop to Phar Lap and Kylie Minogue. And his engagement with World War I memorials has a personal connection as we'll hear.
The winner of the John Truscott Design Award is announced.
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(The 2008 John Truscott Design Award was announced on 24 July, as part of the Melbourne International Design Festival which run on 17-27 July. More info about the Award: www.nationaldesigncentre.com.)
A preview of the Darwin Festival coming up in a fortnight.
The Productivity Commission is to look at Australia's publishing industry and at the copyright restriction, presently in place, on the import of overseas edition of books by Australian authors.
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(The Productivity Commission website: www.pc.gov.au.)
(The Australian Publishers Association website: www.publishers.asn.au.)
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