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Well, our Adelaide correspondent Elena Verker’s lost her voice, so we literally won’t hear from her this month – BUT, she did see the State Theatre Company’s new production Dear Son adapted from the book by Thomas Mayo  by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey and if she was here she’d be saying how great it is and that you should see it before it closes on August 16 AND...

It’s August already and this month we’re devoting our whole Theatre Network Australia spot to a special TNA member of the Month – it’s the new TNA CEO Amrit Gill .   Then Producer and Musical Director Ben Samuel is here for a chat about Songs for a New World and to tell us why a Producer would add in more performers than the script actually calls for… Then we&rs...

Yvette Walker from Brown’s Mart kicks of our Darwin spot for July and introduces us to Monkey , Lead Producer and Sound Designer for Crown and Country as part of the Darwin Festival … Then, we drop in on Bloomshed ’s rehearsals for their latest production – Pride and Prejudice – and talk Jane Austen, housing shortages and playdoh with James Jackson … After tha...

In this special extended version of a Behind the Scenes story from the July 21 show, join me Chris Thompson and Koorie Heritage Trust Curator Gail Harradine as we walk and talk our way through two remarkable exhibitions: Coming Home by Dr. Jenny Murray-Jones - a Yorta Yorta and Baraparapa artist whose work offers a poignant exploration of family reconnection, delving into themes of Country, Kinshi...

WA Museum Boola Bardip ’s Helen Simondson gives us her regular Perth roundup at the top of this week’s show before introducing her local guest artist, journalist and novelist Marcia van Zeller who talks about her new book is Be A Good Girl Valerie… Then, we’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for another walk and talk with Curator Gail Harradine – this time it&rsquo...

InSite ’s Elena Vereker is here for her regular Adelaide round up AND to introduce her local guest artists, Windmill Theatre’s Artistic Director Clare Watson … Then, St Martins Youth Arts Centre’s Artistic Director Nadja Kostich isn’t in Melbourne – she’s in Darwin with St Martin’s beautiful, award-winning show Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again. which h...

Given it’s NAIDOC Week , it makes sense that Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia has selected First Nations circus performer, trainer with Flipside Circus , producer and creator of the Waterways project - Lara Croydon as the TNA member of the Month for July.   Then, sticking with the NAIDOC Week theme and as a follow up to last month’s visit with Jacob, Alisha and Ti...

To mark this year’s NAIDOC Week, Behind the Scenes presents this extended conversation between Chris Thompson and Kent Morris (proud Barkindji man) Creative Director of The Torch , who worked with Heide Museum of Modern Art to curate Blak In-Justice , a powerful and eclectic exhibition of works examining the issues of deaths in custody, the over representation of First Nations people in our...

In this Behind the Scenes NAIDOC Week special, Presenter Chris Thompson chats with Allara Briggs Pattison, a Yorta Yorta, musician, composer, storyteller, language learner, soundscape designer, curator and, as of late last year, community farmer. She plays double bass and uses a loop station to create works inspired by ancient oral traditions. Her spoken word stories reflect cultural, spiritual an...

Ever heard of the Folk Architects ? Me neither. At least I hadn’t until I met Tim Wilson who’s first up on tonight’s show. Then it’s music all the way for the rest of the show… First up is Alex Watts who’s just released a very cool EP – Permission … …then it’s welcome back Allara Briggs Pattison whose gig at Monash Performing Arts Cent...

Tim Wilson is co-founder and co-director of Folk Architects, an award-winning architecture practice with a vision to create inclusive and equitable spaces that engage with the community. They activate spaces by integrating art, design, science, and technology in a collaborative user-generated way. In this conversation, Tim talks about how his practice aims to make better built world, not just for...

We’re in Darwin with Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker for the start of this week’s show and she’ll introduce us to Balla Neeba and Aunty Christine Fejo-King talking about the Aboriginal Science Fair On Country as well as Darwin Fringe Festival Director Hannah Illingsworth . Then we catch up with Sarah Hopkins who’s the CEO of Your Library – at least...

Helen Simonson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going this week with her monthly round up of all this Perth… Then, we drop in on rehearsals for the remount of the smash hit Happy Go Wrong and find out what it’s like to revisit such a personal show after seven years when we chat with creator/performer Andi Snelling … Meanwhile, the stage adaptation of the popular novel about...

If it’s the second Monday of the month, then it must be time to drop in on Elena Vereker from InSite Arts for our regular Adelaide catch up AND to meet her local guest artist, prolific actor about to appear in Kimberly Akimbo , Nathan O’Keefe … Then, even though the Comedy Festival is well over, there’s still funny stuff happening, and to prove it, we’ll meet comedia...

Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here to do our Theatre Network Australia spot this moth AND to introduce the TNA Member of the Month for June – Joel Bray whose new show Monolith is about to open at Arts House in North Melbourne… And speaking of shows opening, Belle Hansen’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information has just opened at Theatre Works and for a change of pace...

We’ll be chatting with Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart in Darwin first up tonight, and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist – choreographer, dance and Brown’s Mart Associate Producer Balla Neeba … Then we’re off to Monash Performing Arts Centres to find out about Blakout – six weeks of First Nation’s music, dance and storytelling ru...

It's Boola Bardip Museum’s Helen Simondson’s turn to get the ball rolling this week with her regular Perth roundup and, of course, her local guest artist… Michelle Hovane , Co-Artistic Director of Sensorium Theatre … Then we’re off to the Bowery Theatre in St Albans for the world premiere of The Yellow Line , a play that asks whether culture and connection can break...

Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is here for our regular Adelaide catch up and to introduce us to Rachael Azzopardi – Co-Founder and Creative Director of Illuminate Adelaide… Then, Conductor Mario Dobernig is back to tell us about the latest Victoria Chorale and Art of Sound Orchestra performance – Jospeh Hayden’s The Creation… After that we’ll visit Theatre Wor...

Steph Spears is the Theatre Network Australia rep for the start of May and she’ll be introducing the TNA Member of the Month, Philip Channells from Dance Integrated Australia … Then, it’s time for the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and Vision Australia Radio is a media partner – so let’s do some media with Festival Director, Veronica Sullivan … After that,...

This month our Darwin correspondent is Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart and she’ll be introducing us to Nicky Fearn and Gail Evans , creators of Fair Punishment … Then it’s time for the Yirramboi Festival again and we’ll sit down with Co-Leads Sherene Stewart and J’Maine Beezley to find out all the good stuff… And then a bit of music to finish off the show&h...

There’s a great new exhibition at Linden New Art – Bernhard Sachs: After History - which celebrates the life and art of artist and academic Bernhard Sachs and Curator Hamish Sawyer walks and talks us through these remarkable works… …and speaking of Linden New Art, and exhibition we missed last year has been captured in a beautiful book – I’m A Believer by arti...

We start this week’s show in Adelaide with Elena Vereker from InSite Arts who’ll introduce her local guest artist, Jennifer Greer Holmes from Vital Statistix … Then we’re off on a bit of a nostalgia trip at the Museum of Australian Photography when we check out The Basement , their exhibition devoted to celebrating the Photography Course at Prahran College from 1968 to 198...

Welcome to Behind the Scenes… my name’s Chris Thompson and each week as we talk about the arts and culture across Melbourne, across Victoria and across the country, we acknowledge the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation…  the traditional custodians of the land on which we make this show…  we pay our respects to their ancestors and elders past...

It's almost school holidays and amongst the many things on offer for young people is a pretty terrific programme of workshops and activities at the Koorie Heritage Trust , which is why CEO Tom Mosby is here to tell us what’s what AND to remind us that the fashion and textiles exhibition - Stitchin’ Stories: Blak and Threadly is still running through until May… Then, New Zealand...

It's our week to begin in the Northern Territory, so we’re welcoming back one half of our dynamic Darwin duo – Brown’s Mart Artistic Director, Yvette Walker and she’ll be introducing us to Nadine Lee , Artistic Director of the Larakia Studio … Then, author Maryrose Cuskelly is back to talk about her new book – The Campers …  which she’s referr...