Behind the Scenes - Vision Australia Radio

In this episode of  Behind the Scenes , host Chris Thompson chats with Christian Serrao, one of Untitled Group's managing partners, to explore the magic behind Ability Fest—Australia's fully accessible music festival. Proudly supported by Vision Australia Radio, Ability Fest is designed to ensure everyone can experience live music, regardless of ability. With tickets priced at $60 (plus booking fe...

It’s still festival time in Naarm/Melbourne, so let’s start tonight with Melbourne Fringe and week two of Fast Fringe where we’ll meet: Luke Hockley who’ll invite us to the Big Sing Your Heart Out … Sarah Kriegler from Lemony S Puppets whose been working with Deniz Aslan to create Ada Asmin and the Analytical Engine based on the life of Ada Lovelace (and if you don’t know who she is, you should) A...

For twenty years, The Other Film Festival has been a global leader in disability screen advocacy – championing Deaf and Disabled-led and authored work, uncovering untold stories and ways of being in the world, and developing a screen culture where Deaf and Disabled people are at the centre of storytelling. In a special Behind the Scenes Podcast, Presenter Chris Thompson chats with Festival Artisti...

We’re wall to wall festivals this week…  starting off with an early visit from Theatre Network Australia’ s Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez who’s giving up her usual spot so that we can have TWO TNA Members of the Month… on from AlterState and the other from Melbourne Fringe … First up is Joshua Pether , relatively new CEO of Arts Access Victoria PLUS director of Phases for the AlterState festival (and Josh is...

Transmit Futures is a new performance ensemble supported by Arts Access Victoria and made up of emerging Deaf and Disabled artists. The ensemble has worked with Andi Snelling over the past three months to devise a performance manifesto. The Manifesto is presented at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the AlterState Festival and is centred on the lived experience of the ensemble and on ideas for Deaf...

We’ll start this week’s show in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart and then meet her local guest artists Keszia Fernandez and Jules Gabor who’ll tell us about their upcoming event Generation Z…   Then it’s time for some festival mayhem…  first up will be Melbourne Fringe and we’ll make our annual visit to the office of Creative Director Simon Abrahams who’ll be joined by Deadly Fringe Progr...

Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip is here to let us know what she’s seen in Perth and to introduce her local guest artist, playwright Bruce Denny … Then we meet another playwright, who’s also a psychologist and those two experiences come together in Grazia Marin’s new play Why Can’t Women Be Like Men? After that, even though it’s not our week for Screens & Streams, we’re off to the movies… fir...

Shane Carroll is a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theatre and Sydney Dance Company. She has also been a dance teacher, lecturer for training programs, advisor for arts agencies and devotes much of her focus on programmes aimed at building capacity and inclusion in the art form that has been part of her life since a very early age. In August, she spoke with Behind the Scenes Presenter, Chris Th...

First up this week, we’ll find out what’s been happening in Adelaide with InSite Arts’ Elena Vereka who’ll also introduce us to her local guest artist, actor, writer, director Ansuya Nathan …   Then we’ll drop in on the Koorie Heritage Trust where Curatorial Manager Gail Harradine will again be our guide for a walk & talk – this time for the exhibition Let’s Shake , an installation of 200 plas...

Josh Lowe is here for out Theatre Network Australia spot this month and he’ll introduce us to the TNA member of the Month, lighting designer Lucy Birkinshaw …   Then it’s an extended Screens & Streams this month – of course Marc Gracie will be here to talk about what we’ve been watching on our big and small screens – but before he arrives, we’re off to the USA to meet author Robert E Eliot who...

It's our week to start in Darwin with Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart who gives us her highlights of the Darwin Festival before introducing her local guest artist –   Natalie Leysley , a Torres Strait Islander multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Upai Purri, Darwin’s traditional Torres Strait Island dance group. Then we catch up with a couple of new music releases…  the first is The Making of...

Boola Bardip WA Museum’s Helen Simondson is here with her Perth round up and, of course, a local guest artist… Olivia Davies – Composer in Residence with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.   Then, Daniel Keene is back to talk about the Arts Centre Melbourne production of his play Mother -  a solo performance from the always fantastic Noni Hazelhurst…   After that, we drop in on ArtPlay where...

Elena Vereker from InSite Arts gets us off to a start this week with a round up of what’s happening in Adelaide PLUS her local guest multi-disciplinary artist, Catherine Fitz-Gerald …   Then we meet Mitu Bhowmick Lange AM , Director of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to find out what she’s got in store for us in the festival’s fifteenth year…   Meanwhile, comedians Alex Lee and Lewis Garnham...

It's the first show for August and we’ve got Theatre Network Australia Board member Sue Giles here to give us a TNA update and let us know what she’s been up to as President of ASSITEJ International AND to introduce James Jackson from Bloomshed as the TNA member of the Month…   Then we’ll meet Irine Vela from The Resonant Heart who are presenting The Heart Whispers and Whirls – a night of poetry,...

The contribution of Queer artists to Australian performing arts history has largely gone untold – until now. Queering the Collection from Arts Centre Melbourne is an eight-episode audio series which looks at notable items from the Australian Performing Arts Collection and the Australian Queer Archives and captures conversations with nine prominent LGBTQIA+ artists. The host of those conversations...

Last month, our Darwin correspondent Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart promised to update us on the Darwin Festival in her July spot…  and not only is she doing that, but she’s also welcoming back Director and Choreographer Rosealee Pearson who spoke with us last year about the development of Song Spirals …  and now here she is talking about the production of that work…   Meanwhile, in other parts of...

It's 55 years since the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, so it makes sense that Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum is here to talk about their current To The Moon exhibition which not only features a scale replica of the moon, but an actual piece of the Moon itself…   Arts Access Victoria might not have been around for the Moon landing, but it got its start pretty soon after and Sabina Knox and Ge...

This year, Arts Access Victoria turn 50 and to celebrate they’re presenting ‘The Collective’ – an exhibition highlighting half a century of disability justice through art. This July, Disability Pride month, AAV highlights art from their extensive archives, alongside new works by artists working with AAV today. The exhibition is at the Meat Market Stables, North Melbourne, and includes panels and w...

It's NAIDOC Week and on this week’s show we’ll chat with First Nations artists from Naarm/Melbourne, Tarndanya/Adelaide and Boorloo/Perth…   We kick off with InSite Arts’ Elena Vereka who’ll catch us up on the latest in her neck of the woods before introducing her local guest artist… muralist Scott Rathman …   Then, we’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust but this time we’re with Curator Gail Harr...

Liv Satchell is a writer, dramaturg, theatre maker and Co-Artistic Director of Voice in my Hands …  AND as Yuhui Ng Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia will tell us, she’s also the TNA member of the Month for July.   Then, it’s school holiday time which is why the Young Australian Broadway Chorus is presenting Shrek The Musical (jr) and we’ll catch up with Musical Director Chelsea Plumley …  ...

It's Darwin’s week for the spotlight which means we welcome back Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist Melanie Mununggurr who, amongst other things, is guest Curator for the NT Writers Festival …   Then we’ll check out an opportunity for you to get up close and personal with some puppet making when Golden Scissor Puppets continue their workshop reside...

We start this week by saying welcome back to Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip for our regular Perth wrap which will include the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts presentation of When I Am Not Here which, you might recall we spoke about when it was in Melbourne, so we’ll catch up again with choreographer Shelley Lasica to find what her 40 year retrospective is doing in Perth…   Meanwh...

Elena Vereka from Insite Arts gets us going this week with her Adelaide wrap-up and a guest local multi-media and video artist - Juha Vanhakartano   Meanwhile, at LaMama, there’s about to be Blood in the Water and to find out why, we’ll drop in on rehearsals for a chat with playwright Jorja Bentley and director Tansy Gorman …   And finally, a bit of music to take us out… singer/songwriter Rowena W...

Steph Speirs from Theatre Network Australia is here to kick off June with a bit of circus news AND to introduce us to the TNA Member of the Month – Efren Pamilican , Artistic Director of the community focused street dance initiative Cypher Culture … Then we’re off to Theatre Works for a chat with playwright Jodi Gallagher who’s written Ghosts , a new adaptation of the 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen… Af...

Sophia Hall from Brown’s Mart is back for a round up of all things Darwin and to introduce her local guest artist… Creative Director of the Garrmalang Festival and Event Producer for the Sugarbag Festival , Ben Graetz …   Then Back to Back is back with a new show called Multiple Bad Things and we’ll meet Co-Director Tamara Searle …   After that we’re up the Western Highway to meet Dr Greer Honeywi...