SmartArts

Interviews, news, and reviews ranging across the arts. Today's program features lead actor of Chapel Off Chapel's 'tick, tickBoom!' Luigi Lucente, Spanish Film Festival director, Genevieve Kelly, and Bell Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' director, Peter Evans and actor Alex Williams (Romeo).

Interviews, news and reviews ranging across the arts. Today's show features, Queer film festival 'He Hated Pigeons' director Ingrid veninger & musician Frankie Topaz. Also featuring playwrights, Elise Heart and Andrea James discussing their Theatre Works production, 'Bright World' and Playwright Peter Fitzpatrick chats about new 'Chapel off Chapel' musical 'CROSSxRoads'.

Interviews, news and reviews ranging across the arts. Today's program features curator Margaret Kernich, and artists Hayley Scilini and Ignacio Roja, discussing 'ART-Town 2016' at Chapel St Precinct. Poppy Stockwell, Director of SCRUM, featuring at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and Laura Davis discussing 'Marco Polo' showing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

On this podcast of Smart Arts we have The Melbourne Queer Film Festival program manager Spiro Economopoulos followed by Ingrid Wood and two students, Tom Habal and Mahalia Kluwer from the NGV's annual "Start Up: Top Arts. Finally we talk to Hannah Gadsby - Dogmatic.

Interviews, news and reviews ranging from across the arts. Today's program features performance artist Penny Arcade discussing her new show 'Longing lasts Longer', the artistic director of New Wave Festival, Georgie Meagher, and actors Rosie Lockhart and Olivia Monticciolo speakingabout Abi Morgan's play 'Splendour'

Interviews, news and reviews ranging across the arts. Today's program features the artistic director of Melbourne Festival, Jonathan Holloway. UK performerClaire Cunningham chatsabout her Festival of Live Art show 'Give Me a Reason to Live', and choreographer Jonathan Homsey speaks with Richardabout 'Sanctuary', a performance diptych openingthis week at Testing Grounds.

SmartArts with Richard Watts 3rd September 2015 Malthouse Theatre's upcoming 2016 program - Matt Lutton, the new Artistic Director http://malthousetheatre.com.au/ Art Attack segment TBC Theatre's Tender Napalm - Director Alice Darling & performer Trudi Boatwright http://www.tbctheatre.com/tender-napalm.html Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy And...

SmartArts with 27th August 2015 Drawn Out segment with Bernard Caleo ' Holding The Man' - Screenwriter Tommy Murphy & Director Neil Armfield http://miff.com.au/program/film/centrepiece-gala-holding-the-man Jo Lloyd - 'Confusion For Three' http://www.jolloyd.com/ Ben Wrigley and Amber McCaig - Ballarat International Foto Biennale http://ballaratfoto.org/ Lorne Arts Festival - Festival Director...

SmartArts with 13th August'TRANSCEND' - Jessi Lewis 'MONO - A Spectacle Of Meditations' - Director & Designer Matthew Adey Israeli Film Festival - Festival Director Richard Moore http://www.aiceisraelifilmfestival.com/ Fleur Kilpatrick - Shoot the Messenger segment 'Sky Lab: Lines Of Sight & Forces Of Attraction'at Counihan Gallery - Curator Felicity Spear and artists Daniel Armstrong and...

SmartArts with 6th August Director Brodie Higgs - MIFF 'Elixir http://miff.com.au/program/film/elixir Director Darren Vizer & cast member Kristina Benton -La Mama'Stars Of Track And Field' http://lamama.com.au/2015-winter-program/stars-of-track-and-field-29-july-9-aug Melbourne Festival director Josephine Ridge https://www.festival.melbourne/ 'Conversations With The Gods About their Deaths And...

In order of appearance: Claymation Filmmaker Adam Elliot Ernie Biscuit MIFF http://miff.com.au/program/film/ernie-biscuit Organiser Chantelle Winter West Projections 2015 http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/art/events/15188/west-projections-2015 Documentary Photographer Steve Winter National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/steve-winter/ Short Films Programmer Thomas Cal...

In order of appearance: Tim Carney The Last Five Queers The Butterfly Club - Mid Winter Festival http://www.weekendnotes.com/the-last-five-queers-midwinta-festival/ Artistic Director Matt Lutton and Actor Bert LaBonte I am a miracle Malthouse Theatre http://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/i-am-a-miracle Performer Sarah Aiken Set Dance House http://dancehouse.com.au/performance/performancedetails....

In order of appearance: Director Julian Merrick and Playwright Tom Holloway Dead Centre Sea Wall - Red Stich Actors Theatre http://redstitch.net/gallery/dead-centre-sea-wall/ Off The Curb Gallery http://www.offthekerb.com.au/ Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer and Andrew Strano The Songs of Mackenzie-Spencer Strano - Chapel off Chapel http://chapeloffchapel.com.au/melbourne-comedy-theatre-art/category/melbo...

In order of appearance: Comedians Linda Haggar and Fahey Younger Miss Itchys Larvae Lounge The Butterfly Club https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/miss-itchy-s-larvae-lounge Artistic Director Ken McKenzie-Forbes West Side Story - The Production Company http://www.theproductioncompany.com.au/west-side-story/ Playwright Jane Miller and Director Alice Bishop Cuckoo FortyFive Downstairs http://www.fortyf...

In order of appearance: Artistic Director and Festival Director David Burton - Brisbane Festival http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/ Performer Lachlan Macleod Polyglot Theatre Boats http://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-in-indonesia/ Norman Houghton - Feral Arts Free the Arts Campaign https://visualarts.net.au/artist-files/2015/artists-heart/ Myles Tankle and Damien Harrison TBC Theatre Made in Chin...

In order of appearance: Comedian and Performer Lynn Ruth Miller Not Dead Yet - Cabaret Festival http://www.melbournecabaret.com/the-shows/2015/6/24/get-a-grip Artistic Director Andrew Ross - Darwin Festival 2015 http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/ Assistant Curator Eugenia Flynn Both Sides of The Street - Counihan Gallery https://www.facebook.com/counihangalleryinbrunswick Performer Natasha York The...

In oder of appearance: Composer Tom Henry 'Kakadu Man' www.auschoir.org Caroline Burns and Matt Hetherington 'North by North West' www.mtc.com.au Curator Cecilia Heffer and Artist Ilka White 'Group Exchange: The 2nd Tamworth Textile Trennial' www.townhallgallery.com.au Director/Producer Renee Palmer and Actor Adrienne Sloan 'I Am Katherine' www.owlandcat.com.au

Dirty Pretty Theatre Director Garry Abrahams and Actor Simon Caulfield - The Lonely Wolf - MTC Neon Festival of Independent Theatre http://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/neon-2015/ In order of appearance: Dancer Luke Marchant The Australian Ballet The Dream https://www.australianballet.com.au/thedream Festival Director David Reed - Melbourne Cabaret Festival http://www.melbournecabaret.com/ Asto...

In order of appearance: Melbourne International Jazz Festival Artistic Director Michael Tortoni http://melbournejazz.com/ La Mama Theatre Home Invasion Writer/Director Christopher Bryant http://lamama.com.au/Home-Invasion-program-online.pdf ACCA Read Only Artist Ryan Gander https://www.accaonline.org.au/exhibition/ryan-gander-read-only Shepparton Art Museum The Desktop Drawings - Artist Greg Creek...

In order of appearance: Febie Tromarama 'Open House: Tromarama for Kids' www.ngv.vic.gov.au Artistic Director and CEO of Dancehouse Angela Conquet 'Dancehouse 2015 Program' www.dancehouse.com.au Sol III Company Artistic Director Andrei Schiller-Chan 'The Exonderated' www.chapeloffchapel.com.au Artistic Director Tony Bonney 'Festival of Voices' www.festivalofvoices.com

In order of appearance: Bek Berger and Dan Koop 'Convergence' - indie artists' one-day summit www.independentconverge.ce.wordpress.com Martin Foley, Minister for Creative Industries and Louise Adler, Chair of the Creative Victoria Taskforce www.creative.vic.gov.au JD Ness, Director of Lou Ramsden's 'Breed' www.owlandcat.com.au Lesley Harding, Co-Creator '21st Century: The Collection since 2000' ww...

In order of appearance: Tasdance - Artistic Director Annie Greig Luminous Flux http://www.tasdance.com.au/artistic-director/ Phunktional Dance Theatre Company and ACMI - Artist Director - Gerard Veltre Calling The Shots https://www.acmi.net.au/film/australian-perspectives/calling-the-shots/ Poppy Seed Festival - Festival Director Philip Hayden http://poppyseed.net.au/ Bright, Shiny and Green Night...

In order of appearance: Rafael Bonachela - Artistic Director - Sydney Dance Company http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/ MKA Theatre of New Writing Neon Festival http://www.mka.org.au/ Aaaron Walker and Meredith Kitchen PESCADO' - NICA http://www.nica.com.au/ David Blumenstein - Comic Book Artist #takedown www.nakedfella.com Comedian Claire Sullivan and Director of The Butterfly Club Simone Pulga He...

On todays show, in order of appearance: Felix Preval Producer of Festival and Artist Services- Melbourne Fringe Festival http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/ Kieran Boland Artist Conflicted: Adversaries in Art www.townhallgallery.com.au Hallie Shellam Creator and Performer Is This Somewhere Youve Been Before? www.metanoiatheatre.com Peter Evans Co-Artistic Director Bell Shakespeare www.bellshakespea...

In order of appearance: Festival Program Dark Mofo Creative Director Leigh Carmichael http://www.darkmofo.net.au/ Meme Girls Malthouse Theatre - Director and Co- Creator Stephen Nicolazzo and Co-Creator and Performer Ash Flanders http://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/meme-girls Frisk - True North Arts Festival Producer and VCA Graduate Anna Kennedy http://truenorthfestival.com.au/ Perverts Berna...