Fremantle Arts Centre - FAC Chats Podcast

Timothy Nelson, Odette Mercy and Jon Fernandes are fixtures of Western Australian music. Between them, they’ve won multiple WAM Awards and their talents have seen them traverse the folk, pop, rock, hip hop, soul and funk worlds. All three artists will appear at Fremantle Arts Centre’s upcoming Gallery Sessions, an intimate series of shows in our Main Gallery and Pavlich Room held every Thursday in August. Here they talk about the behind the scenes grind that goes into a great live show - and even more importantly - a great song. 

Gallery Sessions at Fremantle Arts Centre take place every Thursday in August. Tickets on sale here.

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FAC Chats is also playable on the Fremantle Arts Centre website

Production Credits:

Produced and presented by Fremantle Arts Centre Events Coordinator Davey Craddock

Theme Music: Ain't Nothin by Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant

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The Revealed Exhibition, currently open at Fremantle Arts Centre, showcases over 100 of the best new and emerging Aboriginal artists from Western Australia’s remote and regional art centres, as well as independent and Noongar artists from metropolitan Perth and the South West. 

In this episode, Revealed coordinator Katherine Wilkinson speaks with jewellery maker and Revealed artist Natalie Davey from Mankaja Arts in Fitzroy Crossing and Perth jeweller Jessica Jubb. Both artists create work inspired by the natural environment they live in and were able to swap creative ideas while Jubb, a non Aboriginal artist, lived and worked in Fitzroy Crossing. 

Revealed is showing at Fremantle Arts Centre until Sunday July 26.

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FAC Chats is also playable on the Fremantle Arts Centre website

Production Credits:

Produced by Fremantle Arts Centre Events Coordinator Davey Craddock

This episode is presented by Revealed Coordinator Katherine Wilkinson

Theme Music: Ain't Nothin by Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

Revealed is an initiative of the WA State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; and the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support program.

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant

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WA creative and broadcaster Andrea Gibbs co-founded storytelling platform and event Barefaced Stories with Kerry O'Sullivan in 2010. Since then it has become a fixture of the Perth arts scene, with countless everyday people baring their souls on stage as part of an intimate Barefaced Stories show. FAC was due to host another Barefaced Stories earlier this year but the event was postponed due to COVID19. In this Episode of FAC Chats we speak to Andrea about the future of Barefaced Stories and the importance of a good yarn during these strange times.

www.barefaced.com.au

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FAC Chats is also playable on the Fremantle Arts Centre website

Production Credits:

Produced and presented by Fremantle Arts Centre Events Coordinator Davey Craddock

Theme Music: Ain't Nothin by Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant

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Tim Rogers has long been celebrated as one of Australia's finest songwriters but in recent years he's applied his wit and lyricism to radio, theater and the printed page. In this interview Tim discusses his new live radio show Liquid Nights in Bohemia Heights, a theatrical reimagining and otherworldy spin off of his Double J radio show. Tim also reflects on life in isolation and what it's meant for an artist whose life is usually spent on the road.

Liquid Nights in Bohemia Heights at Fremantle Arts Centre has been rescheduled to February 20, 2021. Tickets on sale now at www.fac.oztix.com.au

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Production Credits:

Produced and presented by Fremantle Arts Centre events coordinator Davey Craddock

Theme Music: Ain't Nothin by Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant

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Instagram-based live music festival Isol-Aid has become a must-watch, weekly event for Australian music lovers during COVID19. The initiative emerged 11 weeks ago, incredibly quickly given the uncertainty in the music industry, as a way to put music fans in front of musicians and to facilitate donations to both artists and Australian music charity Support Act. It has since grown significantly to showcase hundreds of artists. In this episode we speak with Isol-Aid co-founder and director Emily Ulman.

Check out this week's Isol-Aid here

Music Credits:

Ain't Nothin' - Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics

Production Credits: 

Produced and presented by Davey Craddock, Events Coordinator, Fremantle Arts Centre

Interviewee: Emily Ulman, director and co-founder Isol-Aid festival

FAC CHATS is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant

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Started in 1958, The City of Fremantle Art Collection includes some 1500 artworks which continue to shine a light on Fremantle's past and help us make sense of what it means to live and work in Fremantle today. In this episode the Collection's Curator Andre Lipscombe selects six significant works from City's collection as part of a virtual gallery talk. Click the link in the show notes to view the images while listening to this episode.

The artworks discussed in this episode are:

George Forsyth (1843-1894), (Arthur head Fremantle and mouth of the Swan River Estuary with storm clouds), 1893, oil paint on mill board, 33.4 x 53 cm, no.1471, Courtesy City of Fremantle Art Collection

Kathleen O’Connor (1876-1968), Still Life with Flowers, c1935-9, oil paint on canvas, 90 x 72.5 cm, no. 218, Courtesy Kathleen O’Connor Advisory Committee

Sharyn Egan (1957-), Walyalup Dreaming (triptych), 2002, acrylic paint and photography on plywood, 90 x 181cm, no. 1092.1-3, Courtesy the Artist

Kevin Ballantine (1950-), Cup City (Rad Series)1983 /4/01, B&W photograph, 2/3, 60 x 60 cm, no. 1507, Courtesy the Artist

Kevin Ballantine (1950-), Cup City 09/01/1987/02/09, B&W photograph, 1/5, 60 x 60 cm, no. 1508, Courtesy the Artist

Kevin Ballantine (1950-), Cup City 02/01/1987/05/01, B&W photograph, 1/5, 60 x 60 cm, no. 1509, Courtesy the Artist

Kevin Ballantine (1950-), Cup City 17/01/1987/11/03, B&W photograph, 2/3, 60 x 60 cm, no. 1510, Courtesy the Artist

Kevin Ballantine (1950-), Cup City 16/04/1987/27/18, B&W photograph, 2/3, 60 x 60 cm, no. 1511, Courtesy the Artist

Tania Ferrier (1958-) & James Kerr, If these walls could speak (series), digital photographs, 80 x 54 cm each,

Jan Davis (1952-), Solomon, 1995, 7 volume artist book in casement digital print, 14.7 x 9.7 x 14, no. 936.1-7, Courtesy the Artists

Music Credits:

Ain't Nothin' - Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics

Production Credits: 

Produced and presented by Davey Craddock, Events Coordinator, Fremantle Arts Centre

Interviewee: Andre Lipscombe, Curator, City of Fremantle Art Collection 

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The Triffids' frontman David McComb is regarded as one of Western Australia's finest and most significant songwriters. After his untimely death in 1999, a series of unreleased demo recordings were uncovered. This is the story of how these songs were brought to life by his dear friends as part of the brand new album and live show 'Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb'. This episode features Triffids members 'Evil' Graham Lee and David's brother Robert McComb.

Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb is on at Fremantle Arts Centre January 30, 2020. Tickets at www.fac.org.au

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant.

Credits:

Aint' Nothin', Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

So Good To Be Home, The Friends of David McComb - Truckload of Sky, The Lost Songs of David McComb

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Every Sunday at 2pm, a thousand people gather in Fremantle Arts Centre's secluded Front Garden to enjoy free concerts by leading WA and touring musicians. With COVID19 severely disrupting concerts as we know them, how are these musicians dealing with the downtime? This episode features Tom Fisher, Grace Newton-Wordsworth (Joan and the Giants) , Justin Fermino (Cope Street Parade) and Brian Kruger (Kruger James and Colab). 

This podcast is kindly supported by an Alby Made Community Arts Grant.

Credits and links to bands' Bandcamp pages for album and merch sales:

Tinned Spaghetti Rag, Cope Street Parade

Bloodstream, Joan and the Giants

Spend a Little Time, Tom Fisher & The Layabouts

It's Alright, Kruger James

Theme Music:

Aint' Nothin', Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics

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Introducing Fremantle Arts Centre's new podcast FAC Chats. Leading Western Australian arts organisation Fremantle Arts Centre gives you a behind the scenes peek into the artmaking process of musicians, visual artists and craftspeople. FAC Chats uncovers the stories behind artworks and the people who make them. 

Credits:

Theme music Aint' Nothin' by Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics. 

Interview Grabs from Upcoming Episodes:

'Evil' Graham Lee

Tim Rogers

Grace Newton-Wordsworth

Tom Fisher

David McComb

Andre Lipscombe

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