Your Arts Playground

By Seesaw Magazine

If you love the arts and you’re interested in Western Australia, then this is the podcast for you!

Presented by Seesaw, WA’s premiere online arts magazine https://www.seesawmag.com.au/, Your Arts Play... more

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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.

Your Arts Playground episodes:

November 18, 2022 Let's talk about the future #1: Can the arts help save the planet?
Meri Fatin hosts a compelling debate between Professor Peter Newman, Dr Renee Newman and Oron Catts about whether the arts can dream the world we need.
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November 18, 2022 Let's talk about the future #2: Better health and wellbeing
Meri Fatin is joined by specialists in the fields of the arts and mental health to discuss the mental health crisis for artists.
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54min
November 18, 2022 Let's talk about the future #3: Arts and tourism
How can the relationship between tourism and the arts be strengthened now and into the future? Meri Fatin talks with Di Bain, Mark Howett and Helen Curtis about exciting new directions unfolding for the arts and tourism sectors.
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57min
November 30, 2021Your Arts Playground in December
It’s a bumper show this month as we dive into the summer festival season!
In the final episode of Your Arts Playground for 2021, we’ve chosen a few highlights from December before plunging into our top picks from Fringe World, Summer Nights and Perth Festival!
This is the last episode of Season 1 of Your Arts Playground but stay tuned for our bonus interviews with movers and shakers from the arts world… and we’ll be back with Season 2 before you know it, ETA mid 2022.
Notes are listed in chronological order, as mentioned in the episode.

December
Carols by Candlelight with the GIovanni Consort @ St Andrew’s Subiaco, 10 December 2021
A Ceremony Carols: Britten & Gardiner @ St George’s Cathedral, 2 December 2021
‘Limen – At the Fence’ @ the State Library of WA until 31 January 2022
Fringe World 14 January – 13 February 2021
State of Play @ the State Theatre Centre of WA, 14-29 January 2022
Impro Musical Bangtown, 20-25 January 2022
Jamie Mykaela: Devil’s Advocate, 14-19 January 2022.
Review of Jamie Mykaela: Daddy (2021)
The Dirty Mother by Michelle Hall, 27-29 January 2022
Review of development of The Dirty Mother at Winter Nights (2019)

You Are, OFF-Base Dance 14-16 January 2022
HereNow22: Outside In, @ Spectrum Project Space, 2-11 February 2022
Down Rebound by Acrobatch (Simon Wood and Ben Kotovski Smith) @ The Gold Digger at Girls School, 21-27 January 2022
A Simple Space – Gravity and Other Myths @ The Aurora Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 28 January – 13 February 2022
Review of 2018 performance of A Simple Space
A Bee Story by Cluster Arts Pty Ltd @ Lotterywest De Parel Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 15-28 January 2022
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November 05, 2021 BONUS INTERVIEW: Your guide to the new Art Gallery of WA
On the eve of the reopening of the Art Gallery of WA, Director Colin Walker gives us a peek behind the scenes: what to expect, why there were delays and how the new-look gallery has put WA artists front and centre.
The transformation of the Art Gallery of WA includes over 100 new commissions plus a $10 million new rooftop bar area with an interior gallery, an outdoor sculpture walk, and a 34 metre contemporary Aboriginal art piece. Colin Walker talks us through what to expect as the Gallery reopens, and how the vision to make the building more welcoming has gone deeper than just bricks and mortar.
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37min
October 29, 2021 BONUS INTERVIEW: Arts a state of the heart for Governor
The Honourable Kim Beazley AC, Governor of Western Australia, is a relatively recent convert to the arts. He chats with Rosalind Appleby about his advocacy work, his “crazy blokes” icon collection, and why a vibrant arts culture is the heart of a healthy democracy.
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18min
October 28, 2021 Your Arts Playground in November
This month we’re excited about the re-opening the Art Gallery of WA, the Fremantle Biennale, the Perth International Jazz Festival… and more!Join Nina and Rosalind as they dive into the shows, concerts and exhibitions they’re looking forward to catching this month.
Show notes

Notes are listed in chronological order, as mentioned in the episode.

“The View From Here”, opens 6 November @ Art Gallery of Western Australia

Fremantle Biennale 5-21 November

Outside In by Amrita Hepi, @ The Naval Store, 5-21 November (Performances: 5-7 November, 18-20 November)

Seesaw’s article about the Fremantle Biennale

Kepa Kalyakoorl – Aquiferous by Cara Teusner-Gartland, Daniel Jan Martin and Sandra Harben @ Old Customs House and various sites along the Derbarl Yerrigan, 5-21 November

Meeting Place by HIP Company, 19 November @ The Naval Store

Perth International Jazz Festival, in Perth and 13 November in Busselton, 5-7 November

Competition to win tickets to Scott Tinkler at the Perth International Jazz Festival

Folds by WAAPA second year Performance Making students, directed by WAAPA’s Associate Dean of Performance, @ WA Musuem Boola Bardip 4-6 November

Review of WAAPA Bachelor of Performing Arts students (2017)

ST. ALi Italian Film Festival @ Palace Cinemas until 14 November

British Film Festival @ Palace Cinemas, 3 November – 1 December

Competition to win tickets to the British Film Festival

WA Expose @ The Rechabite, 26 November

Seesaw’s review of Yirra Yaakin’s Ice Land: a Hip H’Opera (2019)

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16min
September 28, 2021 Your Arts Playground in October
Wondering what to SEE in WA in month? From circus to opera, craft to literary fiction, the October episode of Seesaw’s podcast, Your Arts Playground, has you covered!
This month Nina and Rosalind chat about shows and events from Circus WA, West Australian Opera, The Last Great Hunt and Link Dance Company… and we had to dive back into the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial because it’s so massive!
Plus did you know the 2021 UBUD Writers & Readers Festival is taking place right here in Perth?
And that's not all!
Don’t miss out on our top picks for October!
Show notes

Circus

“Friends of the Freo Big Top – A Fundraising Gala” by Circus WA @ the Freo Big Top, 9 October

CirQuest (circus school where Nina does tumbling!)

Music

“Darlington Quartet and Graeme Gilling” @ Perth Concert Hall, 3 October

Theatre

Bite the Hand by The Last Great Hunt @ Subiaco Arts Centre, 12-23 October

Opera

Koolbardi wer Wardong by West Australian Opera @ His Majesty’s Theatre as part of the AWESOME Festival on 2-6 October

The Marriage of Figaro by West Australian Opera @ His Majesty’s Theatre, 23-30 October

The Nightingale by West Australian Opera @ Albany Entertainment Centre, 9 October

Review of The Nightingale at the 2020 Awesome Festival

Review of Slow Burn, Together

Visual arts

Indian Ocean Craft Triennial events page
(Click on “month” to see calendar)

“York Festival: Rare and Endangered Crafts” until 10 October

“Carriers of Culture” @ Mossenson Galleries until 2 October

“Nalda Searles Finders – Keepers” @ Mundaring Arts Centre until 31 October

“Craftable” @ Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 5...
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September 04, 2021 BONUS INTERVIEW: From the conductor's chair
The excitement is palpable at the West Australian Symphony Orchestra as they announce their season for 2022.
In this podcast the orchestra’s much-loved Principal Conductor Asher Fisch takes a break from rehearsals to chat with Rosalind Appleby. Listen in as Fisch shares his personal highlights from the 2022 season, his tips on surviving quarantine and why it is important for the orchestra to have a composer-in-residence.
This interview was recorded on 25 August 2021.
Read more about WASO’s bold new plans for 2022 at www.seesawmag.com.au
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20min
August 26, 2021 Your Arts Playground in September
It’s festivals galore this month on Your Arts Playground, with the Awesome Festival plus the brand new Indian Ocean Craft Triennial and the Merredin Festival all coming up!
Hear all about those events and more with Rosalind Appleby and Nina Levy.
Show notes
Gwoonwardu Mia Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Centre
AWESOME Festival, 28 September – 2 October

Indian Ocean Craft Triennial September – November

Julius Caeser, WAAPA Acting @ Subiaco Arts Centre, 14-18 September

Tilt, WAAPA Performing Arts @ The Blue Room Theatre, 15-25 September

Pirates of Penzance, WAAPA Music @ Geoff Gibbs Theatre, WAAPA, 10-16 September

Cabaret, WAAPA Music Theatre @ Roundhouse Theatre, WAAPA, 10-16 September

WASO’s Southern Symphony Tour regional tour @ Esperance Civic Centre, 2 September; Albany Entertainment Centre, 4-5 September

Coppélia, West Australian Ballet @ His Majesty’s Theatre, 16-25 September

Hannah Gadsby: Body of Work @ Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, 3 September; Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, 4 September; Regal Theatre Perth, 9-11 September

Merredin Festival, 24-26 September

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17min

FAQs about Your Arts Playground:

How many episodes does Your Arts Playground have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.