Program #11, 2006
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Guest: GP-come-crime-novelist Kathryn Fox, who discusses the important role of forensic physicians in sexual assault in her second crime thriller 'Without Consent'.
(9 minutes 5 seconds + 6 minutes 33 seconds)
('Without Consent' is available on trade paperback from Pan Macmillan Australia for rrp A$32.95. More info about the book: www.panmacmillan.com.au. Also available from Pan Macmillan is Kathryn's first novel 'Malicious Intent' on paperback for rrp A$19.95)
Arts Law Week has just ended in Victoria and we find out all the things an artist should know about the law from Robyn Ayers, director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia.
(live recording: Rapper Joel from Melbourne's West performing at the opening of the Arts Law Week Victoria - 49 seconds)
(Robyn Ayers interview - 9 minutes 2 seconds)
(Arts Law Week is coming up in NSW from 10 to 14 July, and there will be a day devoted to the law for artists in the Northern Rivers in September. Watch the Arts Law Centre of Australia website: www.artslaw.com.au for details.)
The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is calling for your head wear.
(5 minutes 14 seconds)
(The Alice Springs Beanie Festival runs from 30 June to 3 July. If you would like to submit a beanie, or find out more about the festival you can visit: www.beaniefest.org.)
It is the Australian Library and Information Week and the theme is 'Linking People with Ideas'.
(5 minutes 28 seconds)
(Australian Library and Information Week is 22-28 May 2006. More info: www.alia.org.au/advocacy/liw/.)
Film Review: Hidden (Caché).
(3 minutes 27 seconds)
(News: 3 minutes 6 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #12, 2006
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Guest: Luisa Fazio, Australian-born designer who specialises in leather fashion accessories. She has designed for top labels like Dior and Moshino and has lived in Florence for the past eight years. An exhibition of her work opens at the Shepparton Regional Art Gallery on June 16th.
(8 minutes 56 seconds + 6 minutes 51 seconds)
(The exhibition, 'People Places References: Luisa Fazio' is on between 14 June and 16 July at the Community Gallery of the Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Eastbank Centre, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton. More info: www.shepparton.vic.gov.au/gallery.)
(Image source: www.shepparton.vic.gov.au/gallery.)
Sounds from the events of National Sorry Day in Melbourne, including Lord Mayor John So and vocalist Martin Pascoe.
(48 seconds)
(26th May is the National Sorry Day. More info: http://home.alphalink.com.au/~rez/Journey/.)
The Art Gallery of South Australia is about to celebrate its 125th anniversary.
(4 minutes 54 seconds)
(The official Art Gallery of South Australia 150th birthday party will be held on Sunday the 18th June. For more details on the gallery's birthday celebrations visit: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au.)
A new survey from Queensland is investigating occupational health and safety in the film industry.
(5 minutes 1 second)
(The survey, "Health and Safety in the Film and Television Industries: An Industry Study", has been distributed through the Pacific Film and Television Corporation in Brisbane to people in the production industry. If you would like to take part in the survey you can contact Nick Oughton at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane: N.Oughton@griffith.edu.au, or
take the survey online.)
Gert's Sunday Salon: a monthly performance night in the heart of Melbourne that won a Special Greenroom Award last year for its contribution to cabaret.
(6 minutes 50 seconds)
(The monthly Gert's Sunday Salon is at Dante's restaurant, 150-156 Gertrude Street (corner of Napier Street), Fitzroy, Melbourne. More info: www.dantesfitzroy.com.au.)
We find out what is happening at the Singapore Arts Festival 2006.
(6 minutes 39 seconds)
(The Singapore Arts Festival 2006 is held on 1-25 June. More info:
www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
Film Review: Candy.
(3 minutes 2 seconds)
(News: 4 minutes 3 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #13, 2006
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Part 1 of a two-part interview with Attorney General Phillip Ruddock about proposed changes to the Australian Copyright Legislation that will touch almost everybody.
(part 1 - 7 minutes 10 seconds)
(The interview continues on next week's program.)
(Among the issues is a proposal that will reverse the onus of proof before the law. If you have a copy of a copyright good in your possession, you may have to prove that you came by it lawfully. And in an unusual step, the press release outlining the proposed amendments is accompanied by pages of questions and answers about its effect on you. Click here to read the media release.)
Guest: Rodney Hall, a former chair of the Australia Council. He took the occasion of the recent resignation of the present chair, David Gonsky, to call for the appointment of an artist of significant standing as the next chair of the Australia Council, a call that the government has chosen to ignore.
(9 minutes 27 seconds + 9 minutes 44 seconds)
(This interview was recorded before the government announced the appointment of James Strong to chair the Australia Council. Mr Strong is an eminent Australian, a former CEO of Qantas and presently chair of Woolworths and IAG. His interest in arts and cultural endeavours is equally unquestioned but his appointment adds measure to the criticism that the Australia Council is for the arts, not of the arts, and that artists cannot be trusted with responsibility for public money, an attitude that is so 1950s. The Australia Council for the Arts website: www.ozco.gov.au.)
Film Review: New York Doll.
(3 minutes 22 seconds)
('New York Doll' is now available in Australia on DVD from Madman Entertainment. More info: www.madman.com.au. 'New York Dolls: All Dolled Up' is available on DVD from MRA Entertainment. More info: www.mraentertainment.com.)
The International Puppet Carnival brings Australia's most talented puppeteers from Australia and New Zealand to Melbourne.
(4 minutes 29 seconds)
(The International Puppet Carnival will be running 26 June-2 July. More info: www.internationalpuppetcarnival.com.au.)
The art behind of Tourism Souvenirs is recognised by the Memento Awards.
(4 minutes 26 seconds)
(Entries to the 2006 Memento Awards must be submitted before 30 June. For more information you can call 1300 665 086 or visit the website at: www.mementoawards.com.)
(News: 3 minutes 54 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #14, 2006
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Part 2 of a two-part interview with Attorney General Phillip Ruddock about proposed changes to the Australian Copyright Legislation that will touch almost everybody.
(part 2 - 7 minutes 12 seconds)
(Part 1 of the interview can be found on last week's program.)
(Maybe the changes in copyright legislation will be a great boon for stand-up comics and television programs like The Panel or the Chaser's War On Everything. It might also mean that the ABC will be less uptight about releasing news film footage to independent producers in case the footage is used to embarrass ministers of the crown. And details of the proposed changes and explanatory notes in the format of Frequently Asked Questions are available here.)
Guest: Karen Sparnon, former teacher of creative writing who has put her theory to the test and published a first novel, 'Madonna of the Eucalypts'. The book spans three generations of a family from the Aeolian Islands in the Mediterranean and the experience of their migration to Australia.
(8 minutes 31 seconds + 6 minutes 23 seconds)
('Madonna of the Eucalypts' is available on paperback at your local bookstores from Text Publishing for rrp $A$22.95. More info: www.textpublishing.com.au.)
Film Review: The Caterpillar Wish.
(3 minutes 39 seconds)
Sounds bits from Circus Oz.
(16 seconds + 4 minutes 13 seconds)
(The official website of Circus Oz: www.circusoz.com.)
The 53rd Sydney Film Festival is currently on.
(5 minutes 2 seconds)
(The 53rd Sydney Film Festival is on until the 25th of June. For booking details call Ticketmaster on 136 100. You can podcast their program from: www.sydneyfilmfestival.org.)
Sue Healy and her Dance Company are set to perform in Sue's home town of Melbourne after 12 years away.
(5 minutes 48 seconds)
(The Sue Healey Dance Company production, 'Inevitable Scenarios', is on 14-18 June at the Artshouse at the North Melbourne Town Hall, before it travels over seas to Europe and Japan. For more info call (03) 9639 0096, email info@easytix.com.au or visit: www.easytix.com.au.)
(News: 4 minutes 41 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #15, 2006
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Guest: painter Andrew Sibley. Over several decades, Andrew has developed a family of characters in his paintings that celebrate to fortunes and foibles of human kind. His latest offerings are on exhibition at Axis Modern Art gallery in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale this month.
(8 minutes 48 seconds + 8 minutes 8 seconds)
(Andrew Sibley's exhibition, 'Games', is now on until June 23 at Axis Modern Art gallery, 1010 High Street,
Armadale, Victoria. Some of the paintings can be viewed at: www.axiamodernart.com.au/andrewsibley/.)
(Right: Andrew Sibley, 'The Medieval Art of Making Love (page 126)', Oil on Belgium Linen, 122 x 132 cm. Image source: www.axiamodernart.com.au.)
The NSW Writers Centre is holding their first Indigenous Writers Festival.
(6 minutes 9 seconds)
(The Indigenous Writers Festival is on 24 June 2006. For more information on the program and bookings call (02) 9555 9757, or go to: www.nswwriterscentre.org.au.)
Vincent O'Donnell reports on the Singapore Arts Festival.
(6 minutes 11 seconds)
(The Singapore Arts Festival 2006 is held on 1-25 June. More info:
www.singaporeartsfest.com.)
The Melbourne International Animation Festival is on again and we speak with the Executive Director (and theatre-junkie-come-animation-guru), Malcolm Turner.
(9 minutes 12 seconds)
(The Melbourne International Animation Festival 2006 screens at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image on 20-25 June. For program details go to www.miaf.net.)
Film Review: The Five Obstructions.
(3 minutes 8 seconds)
('The Five Obstructions' is now available in Australia on DVD from AV Channel. More info: www.avchannel.com.au.)
Sounds bits from a programmed performance of the Federation Bell Installation in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne.
(26 seconds)
(More info about the Federation Bell Installation: www.ausbell.com/Federation%20Bells/FEDBELLS.html.)
(News: 3 minutes 48 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #16, 2006
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Guest: Joel Ma, aka Joelistics, one of Australia's foremost rappers. He is the lead singer and MC of TZU, currently on tour around Australia.
(9 minutes 31 seconds + 7 minutes 39 seconds)
(TZU's latest CD 'Smiling at Strangers' is now available from Liberation Music. For a list of TZU's touring dates and venues, log on to the official website of TZU: www.tzu.com.au.)
The Festival of Voices is coming up in Tasmania.
(5 minutes 36 seconds)
(The Festival of Voices will be running 10-16 July across Hobart, Tasmania. More info: www.festivalofvoices.com.au.)
The Yvonne Cohen Award for Creative Indigenous Australian Youth is now taking nominations.
(4 minutes 20 seconds)
(Nominations for the 2006 Yvonne Cohen Award for Creative Indigenous Australian Youth close on the 28th of July. More info:
www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/wilinnews/.)
Kit Lazaroo, whose play Asylum has won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year 2005, speaks with guest reporter Fiona Gruber.
(8 minutes 10 seconds)
(Kit Lazaroo's play 'Asylum' has enjoyed a reading at the Victorian Arts Centre, and we look forward to its production at La Mama Theatre next year.)
Film Review: Ten Canoes.
(3 minutes 23 seconds)
More sounds from a programmed performance of the Federation Bell Installation in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne.
(38 seconds)
(More info about the Federation Bell Installation: www.ausbell.com/Federation%20Bells/FEDBELLS.html.)
(News: 4 minutes 2 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Stephanie March, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles. Guest reporter: Fiona Gruber.
Program #17, 2006
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Guest: Douglas Horton, artistic director of the innovative Australian music theatre company Chamber Made Opera. Chamber Made's production 'Phobia', loosely based on Alfred Hichcock's film 'Vertigo', had its Asian premier at the recent Singapore Arts Festival.
(9 minutes 27 seconds + 7 minutes 9 seconds)
(More info about the stage play 'Phobia': www.chambermade.org.au.)
(Image source: www.chambermade.org.au.)
The MusicOz Awards are now taking entries from unsigned musicians.
(4 minutes 4 seconds)
(Entries for the 2006 MusicOz Awards must be submitted by the 31st of July. To obtain an official entry form or more information you can free call 1800 002 955 or visit: www.musicoz.org.)
Melbourne is getting ready for MUFF - the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
(5 minutes 12 seconds)
(The 7th Melbourne Underground Film Festival runs 6-16 July. More info:
www.muff.com.au.)
Out of the experience of the Asian tsunami in 2005, an organization has been formed in the Netherlands called Broadcasters Without Borders, which aims to improve communication in disaster areas.
(7 minutes 26 seconds)
(More info: www.broadcasterswithoutborders.org. Pehaps we should establish a chapter in Australia as we are a lot closer to Asia than is Europe.)
Film Review: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
(3 minutes 1 second)
Live recording at the media preview of exhibition "Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945".
(1 minute 21 seconds)
(The "Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945" exhibition opened last week and attracted 1700 visitor on its first day. It is currently on at the National Gallery of Victoria International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, until 8 October. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/picasso/.)
(News: 3 minutes 24 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint & Jess Myles.
Program #18, 2006
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Guest: Tony McNamara. He has fed the family as a full-time playwright for a decade now and one of his first plays "The Cafe Latte Kid" became the film "The Rage in Placid Lake", which he wrote and directed. His most recent work, "The Give and The Take" has opened in Melbourne after a successful season at the Sydney Opera House.
(8 minutes 5 seconds + 9 minutes 52 seconds)
("The Give and The Take", a Sydney Theatre Company production presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is now on at the Playhouse theatre of the Melbourne Arts Centre until 29 July. More info: www.mtc.com.au.)
We speak with Alice Springs artist Julie Taylor, who entered the Works on Paper show with, rather than the usual 2D works, a sculpture made entirely out of newspapers. How do you sculpt newspapers? With an angle grinder.
(8 minutes 53 seconds)
(The National Works on Paper competition was won by Gareth Sansom. The exhibition, held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in Victoria, closes on 16 July. More info: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/nwop.)
(Image source: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au.)
The Revelation Perth Film Festival is in its 7th year.
(5 minutes 31 seconds)
(Revelation Perth International Film Festival/Conference 2006 runs 13-23 July. More info: www.revelationfilmfest.org.)
Liquid Architecture 7, which has just wrapped up in Brisbane and Sydney, is heading south.
(5 minutes 30 seconds)
(The Liquid Architecture 7 festival is held in Cairns on 13 July, in Townsville on 14 July and in Melborune 13-16 July. More info:
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au.)
Film Review: Solo.
(3 minutes 20 seconds)
Victorian minister for Aboriginal affairs, Gavin Jennings, expressing his alarum over the removal of a painting titled "Sorry" from the 2006 NAIDOC Art Exhibition in Queens Hall in Victoria's Parliament House.
(1 minute 19 seconds)
(The presiding officer and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Judy Madigan, had ruled that the words "King Little Johnny" referring to the Prime Minister John Howard were offensive to the dignity of Parliament. "Sorry" is by Brian McKinnon and was to be one of 34 works on display.)
(The 2006 NAIDOC Art Exhibition is now on until 14 July, 8.30am-6pm weekdays at Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne. More info: www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au.)
(And we are sorry to report the death of prominent Indigenous photographer and broadcaster, Lisa Bellear. She died peacefully in her sleep the night the 2006 NAIDOC Art Exhibition opened. Lisa was a Noonuccal woman, from Queensland, as was poet Kath Walker.)
(News: 3 minutes 55 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
Program #19, 2006
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Guest: Tia Kratter, art director with the San Francisco-based Pixar Animation Studio. She has worked on most Pixar production of the past decade, including "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters Inc." and most recently "Cars".
(8 minutes 25 seconds + 7 minutes 40 seconds)
(Tia Kratter's profile on Pixar Animation Studio's official website: www.pixar.com/artistscorner/tia/.)
(The official Australian website of "Cars" the movie: www.everythingcars.com.au.)
The Darwin Fringe Festival is coming up.
(5 minutes 6 seconds)
(The Fringe Darwin 2006 runs 21 July - 13 August. More info: www.darwinfringe.com.au.)
Entries for Experimenta New Visions Commissions are about to close.
(5 minutes 19 seconds)
(Entries for the Experimenta New Visions Commissions 2006 close on the 21 July. For more information or to download the entry form visit: www.experimenta.org.)
FourPlay, the four piece punk rock electric string quartet, have recently launched their new album called "Now To The Future".
(9 minutes 28 seconds)
(FourPlay's new album "Now To The Future" is now in stores. The quartet is currently touring Brisbane and will be touring the regions in August. For more information about their coming dates, go to: www.fourplay.com.au.)
Film Review: Hard Candy.
(3 minutes 28 seconds)
(News: 3 minutes 53 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Nina-Marie Petrik, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
Program #20, 2006
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Guest: writer Katherine Thompson. Her most recent work is the screenplay for the intriguingly titled "Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst" a part-dramatised, feature length documentary based on the life of Florence Broadhurst, one of the most colourful characters in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s, whose murder in 1977 remains unsolved today.
(9 minutes 57 seconds + 8 minutes 17 seconds)
("Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst", directed by Gillian Armstrong and a Film Australia/Becker Entertainment production in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and SBS Independent, will be released nationally on 24 August. More info about the documentary film: www.filmaust.com.au, www.dendyfilms.com.au/unfoldingflorence/.)
The 40th Anniversary of the Wave Hill Walk Off celebrated with the 40 Years Freedom Day Festival.
(4 minutes 21 seconds)
(The 40 Years Freedom Day Festival runs 18-19 August. For more information or to purchase tickets to the Festival visit: www.freedomday.info.)
The Broadway Poetry Prize is taking entries.
(3 minutes 52 seconds)
(Entries for the Broadway Poetry Prize 2006 close on 28 July. For more information on the Prize or the Poets Union Inc, visit: www.poetsunion.com.)
Wild Creations gives New Zealand artists six weeks in which to develop art that responds to the environment.
(10 minutes 13 seconds)
(Applications are now being taken for the 2007 Wild Creations artist residency programme, and artists have until August 31 to submit their applications. More information at www.doc.govt.nz. And here in Australia, Tasmania has a similar program that has been running for ten years.)
(Naomi Lamb winning's videos will be exhibited in Karama, may tour nationally and be released on DVD as a collectors' item.)
(News: 3 minutes 41 seconds)
The team: Vincent O'Donnell, Brodie Flint, Stephanie March & Jess Myles.
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