A conversation with Dancer Anna Loiuse Paul.

••••• ARTHouse SPECIAL •••••The game is afoot ... and like Sir Arthur's famous investigative team, Julie Ankers and Wendy Tsai have joined RBMFM and BMCAN forces together in a collaboration that will help us learn about how art and artists work in the Blue Mountains. Julie interview’s Talking ArtZ’s founder/tour de force, Wendy Tsai about her background, art and upcoming BMCC exhibition and how her and Julie are making the monthly TalkingArtZ events something to mark on the calendar. Joined by Brad Diedrich they talk ARTHouse/Talking ArtZ/Nolan on Lovel collaboration and play some sweet tunes. How will you cope with so much creativity? Elementary dear listeners, elementary!Recorded on Thursday, 6pm RBM89.1FM on the 29th Augusthttps://rbm.org.au/

In this week’s podcast, Julie Ankers welcomes back Georgina Khoo, Principal of Shine Wentworth Falls Dance School. 

Georgina, who has been running Shine Dance School for 7 years, talks to Julie about how she came to be a dance teacher and recently take the helm as organiser and choreographer of The Most Wuthering Heights Ever in the Blue Mountains in 2019. 

A lively chat that touches on the joy and freedom found in expression through dance. 

 

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Poetry Night With ARTHouse!

A special evening with ARTHouse, with guest host Kelly Conway welcoming a bevy of talented local Blue Mountains poets into the studio to recite and read words about politics, nature, health, love, life and death. 

Guests; Steve Alton, Lowell Tarling, Wendy Varney, Brian Bell, Diana Levy, Alasdair David Carter.

 

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Justin Morrissey chats to Simon Reece about his up coming show at the Cultural Centre. 

 

 

Simon Reece: Flotsam and jetsam

29 June – 11 August

Simon Reece’s exhibition Flotsam and jetsam is about rubbish, debris, detritus and how it impacts us but also reflects us and who we are. In the universe, cosmik debris is scattered throughout. This space waste becomes the building blocks for the universe itself. Something bigger is formed from this rubbish. However, our climate malaise is brought about by waste which is also creating something bigger. In this case, large blooms of jellyfish are appearing and highlight the detrimental warming of the oceans and the collapse of ecosystems.

At the centre of Reece’s new body of work, which includes ceramic and mixed media sculptural objects, sits a large scale jellyfish bloom giving shape to the terrifying beauty that is consuming our oceans. Small pieces of natural sponge collected from the beaches are made into cosmik debris, highlighting the wonder of the universe and how we inhabit it, and how repurposing our waste can be transformative.

A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé exhibition.

Image: SIMON REECE flotsam 2018 ceramic, underglaze, glaze and polymer clay 10 x 9 x 7 cm. Photo: Silversalt

ARTHouse Podcast | March 21st | Sean O'Keeffe (Fake Shemp) talks to Gary Caganoff, director of documentary 'Give A Dam'.

If you missed ARTHouse on the 21st of March and you haven't seen the documentary Give A Dam by Gary Caganoff you now have the opportunity to do both online! Listen to the interview here on PodBean and then watch this important documentary about New South Wales government's intention to raise the Warragamba Dam wall, and flood 65 km of the river, destroying wilderness, animal habitats and flora, on the Give a Dam website using the Film link.

It showcases the spectacular landscapes under threat and the people who are devoting their lives to save it. You should also check out the issues and reports from indigenous groups and from local residents and councils brave enough to oppose the proposal.

Also there is a very interesting theatre arts segment in the second half of the podcast with Jonathan Llewellyn from Riverside Theatres.

 

 

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Sean O'Keeffe (Fake Shemp) talks to Gary Caganoff.

 

 

Julie with Jonathan Llewellyn from Riverside Theatres.

Julie Ankers talks to Margaret Davis about the new production Eating Pomegranates and they are joined by two young Blue Mountains actors from the production, Alexandra Smith and Rebecca Waters.

Eating Pomegranates is an original production developed by professional writers and performers who hail from the Blue Mountains. A combined experience of theatre and food.

 

Currently being held at the 

Wentworth Falls School Of Arts 217 Great WEstern Highway Wentworth Falls

Mar 28 7:30 PM – Mar 31 at 7:30 PM

Julie talks about her new series of works to be showcased at an upcoming exhibition, Edge to Edge, Landscapes on Cloth, at Lost Bear Gallery in the Blue Mountains. 

Like traditional tapestries, these artworks are on fabric and they tell a story. They are designed to hang on a wall without a frame. I print with water-based screen-printing inks, then the finished artwork is heat treated and Scotchgarded. It’s the same process I use for my commercial furnishing fabrics to make the works robust, which is why they don’t have to be framed in a traditional way.The canvas for these artworks is commercially screen-printed industrial-quality upholstery ClothFabric. Some are linen, some are hemp, all printed by hand in regional NSW.

 

Early Morning at The Leap

63cm x 138cm

ink on hemp – unique state stencil print

2019

Printed over Banksia on hempGenerally we gather at Govetts Leap when the full moon rises, and sometimes, for the sunset. Creating this work reminded me what a good idea it is to go down to watch the sun come up with a thermos of tea.

Julie Humphreys talks about her dance teaching work in Hazelbrook Steiner School, World Dance Alliance's Conference for the Child in Adelaide this year and her vision for Dance in Education. Join us for an insightful and educative chat.

On Dancing On Air Annalouise Paul is in converstion with Cali Prince talks with her about work as theatre maker, producer, council worker and the political landscape of working with community, council and art. Lots for your brain to chew on. Photo credit Wendy McDougall.