On Arts Wednesday 18 September 2019, Sylvia's guests were Chrissie Kirkwood and Fergus Barker, landscape architecture students from UTS. As a student exercise, they were required to reimagine Rushcutters Creek, once a meandering stream rising in Darlinghurst and emptying into Rushcutters Bay. What is left  is a mainly concrete stormwater channel through an area that was once a popular picnic and recreation site in the early nineteenth century. Their proposals are imaginative and exciting and are being considered by the 2 councils, through whose land the creek flows.

On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia and Ed discuss Chapter 3, which looks at Sydney from the Bicentennial in 1988 up to today. This period is marked by 3 major infrastructure events: the Olympic Games, Barangaroo and Green Square. Remember to go online at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl to download this chapter, as well as chapters 1 [...]

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On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Rabbi Benjamin Elton, Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney talking about the liturgical music of the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement. Through 4 prayers selected by Rabbi Ben, we look at the history of the service and its specific musical traditions. [...]

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BAD Sydney 2019 is a crime writers’ festival, being held this weekend. Artistic Director, Catherine du Peloux Menage, joined Sylvia in conversation on Arts Wednesday 4 September 2019. [...]

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Ed Lippmann joins Sylvia in a discussion of Chapter 2, The First 200 Years. The lack of planning, power of developers and shoddy buildings are a feature of Sydney from the earliest days and still beset us! But there’s the good news: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House and the Bicentennial celebrations! Remember you can [...]

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BAD Sydney 2019 is a crime writers' festival, being held this weekend. Artistic Director, Catherine du Peloux Menage, joined Sylvia in conversation on Arts Wednesday 4 September 2019.

Prominent Sydney architect, Ed Lippmann, has written a book called Sydney XXXL. For the next 6 weeks, Arts Wednesday will feature Sylvia in conversation about one of the 6 chapters in the book. Each week, that chapter will be uploaded onto the net where you can download at: Ed introduces his thesis in Chapter 1, [...]

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If you were running an Arts Festival, wouldn't you like to call it Sedition? That's exactly what Toby Creswell has done and it looks at the 70s: music, theatre, film, art and more.

Toby was Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 28 August 2019.

Our patience has been rewarded! After a long wait, acclaimed author, Diane Armstrong has published a new novel: The Collaborator. Based on an historical event in the darkest days of the Holocaust, Diane has woven a gripping story. She was Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 21 August 2019.

Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 14 August 2019 was Dr Matthew Stephens, curator of Songs of Home, the latest exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.

The conversation took an idiosyncratic walk through the exhibition, via 8 of the 60 music tracks you can hear when you visit. The tracks were selected by Matthew and range from the song Bennelong and Yammerawanne sang in London in1793 to a contemporary approach to the theme of Songs of Home by an Anglo-Australian folk group.