How does a dancer and choreographer end up as both a doctor and a highly successful music event promoter? Best we ask The Sound Doctor, David Corbett when he drops in for a chat.

How many artworks can you see at Linden New Art’s annual Postcard Show and how can you get an audio described tour of the exhibition? Best we ask Linden New Art Curator Hamish Sawyer.

How do you capture the magic of an Alison Lester book in a live performance on stage? Best we ask the creative mind who adapted Imagine Live from her book Imagine – Jolyon James.

And who is Canada’s premiere Aboriginal Funk Rock Recording Project? Best we ask RJ Martine from Joyslam.

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Kim Marriot leads the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre at Monash Uni and has an ongoing interest in the way data visualisation can be sued by people who are blind or have low vision. That’s why there’s a chapter about it in the book he’s just written – The Golden Age of Data Visualisation: How Did We Get Here?

 

Meanwhile, in Japan, singer/songwriter Laurier Tiernan (who we met some time ago as one half of the group Nature Airliner) has just released Descending, a new album – except that it’s not really – it’s actually his very first solo album re-released after twenty years.

Back in Naarm/Melbourne it’s time for our annual visit to the Koorie Art Show with Gail Harradine at the Koorie Heritage Trust and we’re also just in time to get excited about a Very Koorie Kristmas…

And speaking of Christmas, the Victoria Chorale and the Art of Sound Orchestra are about to head into St Paul’s Cathedral for their Christmas Celebration and Conductor Dr Mario Dobernig returns to the show to tell us what he’ll be conducting…

 

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Our final Theatre Network Australia Member of the Month for 2024 is…  TNA itself – and we’ll look back over the achievements of the year with Erica McCalman, Josh Lowe, Steph Spiers, Lauren Swain, Christian Schooneveldt-Reid, Wen-Juenn Lee and, of course, Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez…

Then, Theatre Works’ final show for the year is Skating in the Clouds and its writer, Clare Mendes will tell us what kind of skating that is, and what it has to do with Juli Gillard…

After that, Stuart Maunder is back to tell us what Victorian Opera has on offer for 2025…

And finally, it’s our last Screens & Streams for the year and Marc Gracie is nowhere in sight (but he’ll be back for our annual wrap up) Sitting in for Marc, his first appearance for quite a while, is former kids’ films reviewer, Gully Thompson.

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First up tonight, Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart is here for the very last time…  she’s moving on…  so we say farewell as she tells us about the 2025 programme she’s leaving behind…

Then, I drop in on Next Wave where Jacina Leong and Frances Robinson can tell us about their exciting new strategic plan…

Meanwhile, the Bendigo Brass Band and the Bendigo Chorale are joining forces for a spectacular Christmas concert and Janice Donnelly will spill the beans about what they’re playing…

And at Melbourne Theatre Company Ilbijerri Theatre is rehearsing Blak In The Room and I catch up with Directors Rachael Maza, Amy Sole and Kamarra Bel-Wykes…

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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here for our final Perth round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – Ricky Arnold, Executive Director of Art on the Move…

Then, I’m down on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River with author Dr Judith Buckrich to talk about her new book which, of course, is all about the Birrarung/Yarra

Meanwhile, at ArtsHouse in North Melbourne, immersive theatre group Zaffe is throwing a wedding party unlike anything you’ve ever seen and Taj Aldeeb is here to invite us along…

And finally, a bit of music from our old friend Ernie Gruner who’s soon to be playing new, improvised and surprising music with Bowlines at Prana House in Thornbury…

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Elena Vereker from InsiteArts is here for our final Adelaide round up of the year… plus, of course, her final local guest artist for the year – prolific and eclectic playwright Verity Laughton…

Then, Australia’s first and only environmental festival – the Mountain Festival - is about to kick off near Mt Macedon and its founder and Director Sonia Orchard will tell us what’s in the programme…

Meanwhile, La Mama Theatre is about to launch its Festival of Mother Tongues – a celebration of the diversity of languages spoken in our communities and we’ll drop in to LaMama HQ to chat about it with Dora Abraham and Deakin Uni Interns Dustin Waters and Jonas Saw…

And finally, two great Australian singer-songwriters have new singles out ahead of new albums in the not too distant future. Both Ella Haber and Cinta create compelling songs delivered in soulful mesmerising voices so how exciting to find out they’re touring together… so that’s a good excuse to meet them both and hear their new music,,,

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Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here for our November Theatre Network Australia segment. She’ll catch us up on the This Is How We Do It report into the working trends of the independent performing arts sector – before introducing us to the TNA member of the Month – dancer, choreographer and founder of Bonnie Curtis Projects – Bonnie Curtis.

Then a bit of music from Oscar nominated, BAFTA Award winning composer David Hirschfelder who’s collaborating with renowned Chinese Harp artist, Mindy Meng Wang, to performing compositions inspired by ancient Chinese poems at Darebin Arts Centre.

Then it’s time for Screens & Streams…

…and first up, we’ll meet Luke Rynderman who, with Adam Kamien has co-written and co-directed the fascinating true crime documentary The Speedway Murders…

…after which, Marc Gracie will be along for our regular look at what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…

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We’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for the start of this week’s show, walking and talking once again with Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine, this time through the Spirit of the Animals exhibition…

After that, we’ll meet Communications Manager and Performer Madeleine Magee-Carr from WIT Theatre who are soon to open their new play First Love is the Revolution…

Meanwhile, it’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival time again and we’ll meet David Cook - writer, director and performer from Heart of the Man which is one of the 42 feature films in this year’s line up…

Then, the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival is back with a terrific line up of artists and we catch up with just one of them - the fabulous Hetty Kate and her band Bass to the Power of Two…

And finally, it’s that time of the year when everyone’s telling us what they got planned for next year. Last week it was the MSO and this week it’s MPAC and Executive Director of Monash Performing Arts Centres, Paul Grabowsky will tell us what to expect…

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Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going tonight with her wrap up of what’s been happening in Perth before she introduces her local guest artist… writer, director, designer, producer and actor Sreekanth Gopalakrishnan from the Great Indian Theatre Company who are soon to open his new play Crimson Gully…

Then, if you were listening to Melbourne Fringe Creative Director Simon Abrahams a few weeks ago you’d know that even though the Naarm/Melbourne programme is done and dusted, there still a bit to go in Djilang/Geelong, so here are two more artists for our final week of Fast Fringe…

First up we meet Tash York from Tash York’s Happy Hour…  and then Kyle Page from Wayfinder…

After that, we’ll meet the relatively new Director of Programming for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Moore to talk about the 2025 Programme AND the imminent Beethoven Festival…

And finally, composer Edwin Montgomery will introduce us to his live score for the 1922 version of Nosferatu to be played for Hallowe’en along with a screening of the classic film…

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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is back this week with her round up of what’s been happening in Adelaide…  and, of course, a local guest artist for us to meet – this month it’s record producer, musician, installation artist and DJ, Moutaiz Al-Obaidi better known to his fans as Motez…

Then, another four Melbourne Fringe artists are here for our third week of Fast Fringe… this week we meet…

Acclaimed writer, Van Badham whose political thriller Werewolf is at Arts Centre Melbourne…

Dominic Weintraub from PonyCam who promise to both feed and entertain us with Feast…

Fringe Living Legend Moira Finucane who’s celebrating 20 years since The Burlesque Hour with Global Smash Club…

And Harley Mann from Na Djinang Circus and Circa Cairns who are ‘In Place’ at the Footscray Community Arts Amphitheatre…

And finally…  ANOTHER festival is about to kick off and Christian Serrao from Untitled Group is here to tell us about the line up for this year’s AbilityFest…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

 

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