Sunday Arts Magazine

Leighton Triplow talks about all things Opera including her free performance at Trinity College Chapel within the University of Melbourne at 12.00pm on the 6 March 2020.  Leighton has already had an amazing career and shares her journey with Sunday Arts Magazine.

Elnaz Sheshgetani talks about the upcoming Refuge Festival and the Iranian Bacchaus which is commencing 9 March 2020

Janice and Naomi talk to the Sunday Arts Magazine on their amazing Exhibition at Forty Five Downstairs which is at 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000 from 3 March to 14 March 2020.

Elias talks to the Sunday Arts Show about his upcoming Photo Exhibition in Melbourne.

Ali McGregor, stunning jazz cabaret singer and performer started her career as a principal soprano with Opera Australia in 2000. After performing over 25 roles she crept into The Famous Spiegeltent one night, beginning her love affair with cabaret.

In celebration of that passion she joins the Sunday Arts Magazine Team taking them on a romp into the risqué arena of opera burlesque, jazz and iconic cabaret performance.

She begins by introducing her favourite selection of top 10 cabaret shows that will feature at the up and coming Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Artist/Photographer Pamela Reid joins the Sunday Arts Magazine team and reveals her creative journey through “Urban Eyes” an initiative supported by the City of Stonnington, Melbourne.

Pamela Reid invited people around Stonnington (Prahran/Windsor) to paint: spontaneously, unstructured, ‘no rules’ art.

Laying out canvases, paints and brushes, Pamela encouraged passers-by, shoppers, families, whoever was willing to ‘give it a go’. As they painted, Pamela captured the community photographically.

The completed works: 60 pieces of art and photography with their own representative story will be featured in the foyer gallery at Chapel off Chapel.

Maree Coote is a writer, illustrator, typographer, photographer and publisher. For this she blames the over-stimulation of a successful, award-winning career in advertising.  She chats with the Sunday Arts Magazine team on the inspiration behind the recent publication of her vividly illustrated ‘children’s picture book, Azaria: A True History.

Four years in the making and inspired by the imagery in picture books  from Asia and Russia rich in deep cultural meaning,  the story she reveals  explores what happened when the truth gets lost.

This sensitively crafted story for children delves into Australia’s most dramatic miscarriages of justice – a modern day fairy tale, cautionary and unforgettable. “We were as a nation readier to believe that a loving mother —with no motive, no means, no opportunity and no evidence —would do such an unlikely act, while ignoring that a dingo would do exactly what it would do in the wild,”

 

For one night only, Chamber Made presents the world premiere of Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep as part of The SUBSTATION Asia TOPA program at Arts Centre Melbourne. A work that’s weeps across the senses, Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep is a sonic portrait of new music icon Margaret Leng Tan and an evocative exploration of memory,time,control and loss. Led by Chamber Made’s Artistic Director Tamara Saulwick and created with Tan’s long-term collaborator ,the renowned Brisbane- based composer ErikGriswold, Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep combines spoken and recorded text, projected images and original music for prepared piano, toy piano, toys and percussion. New York-based Singaporean pianist Tan forged a path as a major force within the American avant- garde, serving as muse for such giants as John Cage and George Crumb. Showing 28 February 2020.

Dining Room Tales is the long-term performance project led by Australian artist Xan Colman, where audiences are invited to spend an evening around the dining table, hosted by an intriguing and exceptional artist. The host shares pieces of their life, interests and humanity as they prepare a communal meal for the audience to share in between moments of formal and informal performance.

Dining Room Tales have been performed in London, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Yokohama, Belo Horizonte, Osaka and across Australia with some 84 performances to date. Listen to the program for Melbourne and Sydney.

Caroline Tickner and Lisa Linton – Collectors Roadshow at Shepparton Arts Museum 23rd February 2020.

Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is inviting local residents to bring along their special treasures to the SAM Collector Roadshow on Sunday 23 February for on-the-spot appraisals by experts