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Guest: art historian, Ann Galbally. Her most recent book, 'A Remarkable Friendship', tells the hitherto untold story of the unlikely friendship between two painters - the intense Dutchman, Vincent van Gogh, and the wealthy Australian, John Peter Russel.
(Ann Galbally's 'A Remarkable Friendship: Vincent Van Gogh and John Peter Russell' is now available in Australia on hardcover from Melbourne University Press for rrp$A49.99. More info: www.mup.unimelb.edu.au.)
Project Eye: Sydney-based Vibewire Inc., a youth arts and media organisation, has set up a website to provide independent media coverage of World Youth Day, but its journalists believe it has a bigger future.
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(You can find Project Eye's varied and open coverage of World Youth Day at: www.projecteye.org, or www.sbs.com.au/worldyouthday/.)
(The official World Youth Day website: www.wyd2008.org.)
The Australian Chamber Music Competition sets its sights on the Asia-Pacific region.
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(The Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition is scheduled for July next year in the new Melbourne Recital Centre. Deadline for entries is Christmas this year. Details to be released on the Chamber Music Australia website: www.chambermusicaustralia.com.au.)
The Australian War Memorial exhibition, 'Sport and War', opens at the last venue of its national tour.
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(The Melbourne season of 'Sport and War: An Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition' runs until 26 October at the State Library of Victoria. More info: www.slv.vic.gov.au.)
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All around Australian NAIDOC Week, a celebration of Indigenous culture started 50 years ago by the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee, has been held.
Express Media is calling for entries in the 4th John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers.
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(Entries are now open for this year's John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers until Friday 15 August. Details are on the Express Media website: www.expressmedia.org.au.)
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Guest: Dr Catherine de Lorenzo from the University of NSW. She has a particular interest in art and the clash of cultures. She gave a paper about this issue at a conference last January and later joined me to talk about the role of art in the reconstruction of the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, the site of a significant urban Indigenous community as well as a large, low-income, non-Indigenous community.
(Dr Catherine de Lorenzo's paper 'Reconstructing Redfern' was presented on the Thursday 17 January at 2:30pm as part of the Art and Clashing Urban Cultures session of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), held 13-18 January 2008 at the University of Melbourne. More info about the Congress: www.cihamelbourne2008.com.au.)
We All Play a Part: Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG) launches the education module of its national advocacy campaign.
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Guest: author Tony Park. A former Australian journalist and, later, a PR man, Tony fell in love with southern Africa while back packing with his wife a decade ago and now spends half of each year there, writing thrillers for a world-wide readership. His fifth novel, 'Silent Predator', has just been published.
(Tony Park's 'Silent Predator' is now available in Australia on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan for rrp$A32.95. More info: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available on paperbacks from Pan Macmillan are 'Far Horizon', 'Zambezi', 'African Sky' and 'Safari'.)
(Visit Tony Park's official website: www.tonypark.net.)
(Lisa Fitzhugh image source: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
The announcement of the nominations for the Helpmann Awards, for live entertainment and the performing arts industry, the winners of the J. C. Williamson Award for an outstanding contribution to the Australian live performance industry, and the Brian Stacey Award for emerging conductors.
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(The Helpmann Awards will be presented in Sydney on Monday 29 July in the Lyric Theatre at Star City. More info about the Helpmann Awards: www.helpmannawards.com.au.)
(More info on the JC Williamson Award: www.helpmannawards.com.au.)
(More info on the Brian Stacey Award: www.staceytrust.com.au.)
In Queensland the successful applicants in the first round of the art+place grants, the new public art support program have been announced.
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(More info on the art+place Public Art Fund: www.arts.qld.gov.au.)
A retired seaman is among the winners of Talking Docklands, a film-making contest in Melbourne's Docklands.
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Guest: Lisa Fitzhugh from the state of Washington in the USA. She is visiting Australia as a guest of the Cultural Development Network to talk about the remarkable growth of Arts Corp, a company she founded to run enrichment and after-schools programs for schools in the Seattle area. I caught up with her in that environmental masterpiece of a building, Council House 2, in Melbourne.
(Lisa Fitzhugh was one of the keynote speakers of the 'Connecting Schools and Communities' conference, held at Colac on 20 June, at Williamstown on 23 June and at Wodonga on 25 June. More info: www.culturaldevelopment.net.au.)
(The Arts Corp website: www.artscorps.org.)
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The National Association for the Visual Arts, in the wake of the Bill Henson controversy, is to publish an Arts Censorship Guide.
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(More info @ the National Association for the Visual Arts website: www.visualarts.net.au.)
(The SBS TV program 'Insights', on 24 June last, addressed the issues of censorship and allegations of pornography that arose from the police action to seize works by photographer Bill Henson in Sydney. 'Insights' with Jenny Brockey can now be viewed on-line on the SBS website: www.sbs.com.au.)
Australian composer Carl Vine is named Composer-in-residence for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville.
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(The 2008 Australian Festival of Chamber Music runs 4-12 July. Another feature of the Festival's program will be a Centenary Concert in Memoriam for the birth of Olivier Messiaen, held on Sunday, 5th July at St James' Cathedral, Townsville, which will include a performance of the Quartet for the End of Time and a play by Jessica Duchen, 'A Walk Through the End of Time'. More info on the Festival: www.afcm.com.au.)
Vol. 67, no. 2 of the long-running literary journal, Meanjin, hits the streets - the first under the new editor, Sophie Cunningham.
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