Art Smitten

This week Zack and Ben talk to ØFFËRINGŠ, artist and founder of UnitePlayPerform about what play means to her and how play can help bring people together. They also chat about their favourite movie soundtracks, and we hear from Thomas Caldwell, artistic director of the Children's International Film Festival.

You can listen to Art Smitten live every Saturday from 12pm on SYN 90.7. Get in touch with the show on our Instagram @artsmittensyn

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Join Zack and (eventually) Freddie for another week of arts and culture talk. Zack goes over what makes comfort media so comfortable and Freddie dives into changing Canadian regulations and what they could mean for Australia.

You can listen to Art Smitten live every Saturday from 12pm on SYN 90.7. Get in touch with the show on our Instagram @artsmittensyn

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Benjamin sat down with artistic director of the Children's International Film Festival (CHIFF), Thomas Caldwell, to chat about developments in cinema and programming for children.

To find out more about CHIFF go to https://www.chiff.com.au/.

Art Smitten airs live every Saturday from 12pm. Get in touch with the show on our Instagram, @artsmittensyn

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Join Zack and Ben as they kick off the season. Meet our hosts, find out what's happening around Naarm/Melbourne and the rest of the country, and hear our host's thoughts on legacy sequels and post-credit scenes.

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Here at Art Smitten, we chatted with local Naarm filmmaker Lucie McMahon about her documentary film, Things Will Be Different. 

The film explores community, the impact of losing one’s home and the important role that public housing plays in so many people’s lives. The film follows residents who are forced to relocate from the Walker Street estate in Northcote after it is sold for private development.

The first screening of the film which includes a walking tour will take place on Saturday the 10th of September for the Darebin FUSE Festival. 

The second screening takes place on Sunday the 18th of September at the Thornbury Picture House. 

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Ai Yamamoto and Dan West are musicians, instrumentalists, producers, composers and educators. Ai collects sounds from field recordings, sounds from our daily lives and game sounds, creating textures and flowing melodies in her work. Dan fuses sounds from both people and machines from within his custom shipping container sound lab.

For Art Smitten, we spoke with them about their upcoming performance at the Neon Parlour art gallery over in Thornbury for this year’s Spring Darebin FUSE festival.

They will be creating a great immersive experience within the space on the 10th and 11th of September at 8pm so don’t miss out!

For more information and to book your tickets, click here. 

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From the flagship youth arts organisation Western Edge comes Distortion - a genre-ending and time trippy production that will be unlike anything you have seen before. Distortion will be playing at Wyndam Cultural Centre, Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Bowery Theatre in St Albans from the 3rd to the 17th of September. 

We chatted with lead artist Clarisse Bonello and co-artistic director John Marc Desengano all about Western Edge and the upcoming Distortion. 

For more info and to book tickets click here.

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Joseph O'Farrell (JOF) is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist and the creative director of White Night. Known for his own large-scale installations focused on accessibility and inclusivity, JOF’s aim with his work is to develop art that adds value to the community.

Here at Art Smitten, we spoke with him about an event that does just that.

White Night is a celebration of arts, culture and community. It will take place in Bendigo on Saturday 3 September and over in Geelong on Saturday 8 October. Don’t miss it!

For more info check out:

https://whitenight.com.au/bendigo/ 

https://whitenight.com.au/geelong/ 

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Raphael Recht is a Naarm/Melbourne based rapper, performer, photographer, creative director, health advocate and more. Art Smitten EP Cristina spoke with him about his new album titled Lifexpectancy.

Dubbed a hip-hop musical journey, Lifexpectancy is the soundtrack to Raph’s life experiences, including growing up with cystic fibrosis and having the opportunity to meet and perform with the one and only Michael Jackson back in 1997 which helped shape his love for performing.

Lifexpectancy is out now, which you can listen to and purchase here.

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Rebecca is an Australian artist and educator, with a special focus on print-making, textiles and dyeing techniques. She has exhibited her work throughout Australia including the RMIT gallery and the Canberra Contemporary art space.

Art Smitten host Mherhean spoke with Rebecca about the art exhibition titiled Above the Canopy at Town Hall Gallery. The exhibition showcases Australia’s diverse natural environment and its relationship to climate change, which is especially relevant now. Her work, along with many other artists is now showing. The exhibition is open until Saturday the 24th of September. 

For more info click here.

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