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We’ll start this week’s show in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart and then meet her local guest artists Keszia Fernandez and Jules Gabor who’ll tell us about their upcoming event Generation Z…

Then it’s time for some festival mayhem…  first up will be Melbourne Fringe and we’ll make our annual visit to the office of Creative Director Simon Abrahams who’ll be joined by Deadly Fringe Programme Coordinator Peta Duncan…

Then we’ll get a head start on the festival with Liam James from Linden New Art who’ll talk us through Design Fringe…

…before we drop into DanceHouse to meet performer David Baker and director Milly Cooper who are just one part of Weave Movement Theatre’s production, The Solos…

And finally, Fringe isn’t the only festival in town which we’ll find out when Creative Lead Jodee Mundy joins us to talk about AlterState…

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Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip is here to let us know what she’s seen in Perth and to introduce her local guest artist, playwright Bruce Denny…

Then we meet another playwright, who’s also a psychologist and those two experiences come together in Grazia Marin’s new play Why Can’t Women Be Like Men?

After that, even though it’s not our week for Screens & Streams, we’re off to the movies… first of all with the brand new Young Australian Film Festival and we’ll meet one of its founders; Alexander Dymalovski

Plus we’re about to see the return of the Italian Film Festival and Elysia Zecolla is back to tell us what she’s got lined up for us…

And finally, I catch up mutli-award winning author and now screenwriter, Craig Silvey, to talk about the adaptation of his book Runt…

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Shane Carroll is a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theatre and Sydney Dance Company. She has also been a dance teacher, lecturer for training programs, advisor for arts agencies and devotes much of her focus on programmes aimed at building capacity and inclusion in the art form that has been part of her life since a very early age. In August, she spoke with Behind the Scenes Presenter, Chris Thompson, about her current work with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Education and Accessibility and in particular about the company’s initiatives in Audio Described performances for audiences who are blind or have low vision. But there was more to talk about than could be covered on a regular episode of Behind the Scenes – including her recent Churchill Fellowship and her other work in the area of dance for people living with dementia. So, in this special Behind the Scenes Podcast, Chris catches up with Shane again after having his first experience of audio described performance with Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Horizon at Arts Centre Melbourne.

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First up this week, we’ll find out what’s been happening in Adelaide with InSite Arts’ Elena Vereka who’ll also introduce us to her local guest artist, actor, writer, director Ansuya Nathan…

Then we’ll drop in on the Koorie Heritage Trust where Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine will again be our guide for a walk & talk – this time for the exhibition Let’s Shake, an installation of 200 plaster casts of different handshakes created by the late Karen Casey…

Then we’re back out to Monash Performing Arts Centres where First Nations’ writer/performer Glenn Shea presents his work Three Magpies Perched in a Tree which includes the recorded voice of the much-missed Uncle Jack Charles…

And finally, Ganbu Gulin, means “One Mob” in Woi-Wurrung language. It’s also a family event being presented as part of the Fuse Darebin Spring Festival and we’ll chat with Curator in Residence Allara Briggs Patterson…

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Josh Lowe is here for out Theatre Network Australia spot this month and he’ll introduce us to the TNA member of the Month, lighting designer Lucy Birkinshaw…

Then it’s an extended Screens & Streams this month – of course Marc Gracie will be here to talk about what we’ve been watching on our big and small screens – but before he arrives, we’re off to the USA to meet author Robert E Eliot who’s written not one but two books about his theories for how we might view two iconic films by two iconic directors…  Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight…

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It's our week to start in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart who gives us her highlights of the Darwin Festival before introducing her local guest artist –  Natalie Leysley, a Torres Strait Islander multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Upai Purri, Darwin’s traditional Torres Strait Island dance group.

Then we catch up with a couple of new music releases…  the first is The Making of Silk from jazz-soul singer-songwriter Allysha Joy…

And the second is In The Space You Carry, the first solo album from the founder of Beloved Records, Darvid Thor…

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Boola Bardip WA Museum’s Helen Simondson is here with her Perth round up and, of course, a local guest artist… Olivia Davies – Composer in Residence with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Then, Daniel Keene is back to talk about the Arts Centre Melbourne production of his play Mother -  a solo performance from the always fantastic Noni Hazelhurst…

After that, we drop in on ArtPlay where it’s raining inside – well. sort of. Rain is an interactive installation for children and families and we chat with two of its creators – Sarah Lockwood and Zoë Barry…

And then a real treat to go out on…  a song and a chat from Mama Alto whose latest show Songs for my Father is coming to Monash Performing Arts Centres…

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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts gets us off to a start this week with a round up of what’s happening in Adelaide PLUS her local guest multi-disciplinary artist, Catherine Fitz-Gerald…

Then we meet Mitu Bhowmick Lange AM, Director of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to find out what she’s got in store for us in the festival’s fifteenth year…

Meanwhile, comedians Alex Lee and Lewis Garnham are on their couch GoggleBox style watching ads not programmes and commenting on how prevalent gender stereotypes are and how out of touch that is with contemporary society… it’s an initiative of Women’s Health Victoria called shEqual and Campaign Creative Director Jess Lilley will tell us where we can find it…

Then, Bangarra Dance Theatre is set to return to Arts Centre Melbourne with Horizon later this month and we’ll meet Shane Carroll who’s responsible for Bangarra’s Audio Described Performance Initiative…

And finally, the Victoria Welsh Choir is set for a big event in Bendigo next month and Keva Lloyd is here to tell you how you could get involved…

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It's the first show for August and we’ve got Theatre Network Australia Board member Sue Giles here to give us a TNA update and let us know what she’s been up to as President of ASSITEJ International AND to introduce James Jackson from Bloomshed as the TNA member of the Month…

Then we’ll meet Irine Vela from The Resonant Heart who are presenting The Heart Whispers and Whirls – a night of poetry, song, dance and shadow puppetry – as the first of three nights of eclectic theatre experiences at Kingston Arts…

Then, it’s time for Screens & Streams and we’ll start by meeting Tom Middleditch, the Access Coordinator for the Melbourne International Film Festival before Marc Gracie joins in to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens.

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The contribution of Queer artists to Australian performing arts history has largely gone untold – until now. Queering the Collection from Arts Centre Melbourne is an eight-episode audio series which looks at notable items from the Australian Performing Arts Collection and the Australian Queer Archives and captures conversations with nine prominent LGBTQIA+ artists. The host of those conversations is Tristan Meecham who is here to have a conversation with us…

If you imagine an event where the set is a writing desk at which you’re invited to write an obituary for Mother Earth at a venue which is a 200 metre stretch of beach with a running time that’s determined by the tides, then you’ll have a bit of an idea as what Nature Obituary is… but we’ll find out a lot more about it when we catch up with  creator Janenne Willis…

Only about 2% of almost 600m statues we find in public spaces around Melbourne represent women…  the rest are of men and animals. Well, a state government initiative is aiming to address that imbalance with the Victorian Women’s Public Art Programme and we’ll chat with McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne about how it’s going to happen…

And finally, Victorian Opera is celebrating a century since the death of Giacomo Puccini with a production of his work La Rondine and VO Artistic Director Stuart Maunder will talk to us about that old opera AND about a new opera they’ve got coming up later in the year…

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