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We’re kicking off at Footscray Community Arts this week with Gideon Wilonja for a chat about the new show I Met an Angel Named Jaques, a story set in a real world that’s completely made up…

Then we meet Damon Branacki who’s here to talk about the Thursday Group whose latest production Falling Heads will follow up its Melbourne debut with a tour to Denmark…

After that, we catch up with Nancy Black fro...

We’re up north for the start of this week’s show with Darwin correspondent Yvette Walker, Artistic Director at Brown’s Mart, who’s joined by their Honorary Elder in Residence, Dr Richard Fejo Snr better known as Uncle Richard.

Then it’s a chat with author Rhonda McCoy about her new novel Crow…

…before we launch into this year’s Fast Fringe – quick chats with as many Melbourne ...

Helen Simondson from Boola Bardip WA Museum gets us going this week with her regular Perth round up and, of course, a local guest artist… this time it’s flash fiction specialist, Gillian O’Shaughnessy who’s part of Freemantle’s Totally Lit Festival…

Then, we stick with literature for most of the rest of the show, catching up with Alison Booth whose eighth novel is Death at Booroomba, her first ...

Elena Vereker from InSite Arts gets us going this week with her Adelaide round up…

…and then introduces us to Ben Francis who’s part of the retro vocal group The 60-Four who are celebrating their tenth birthday with a gig in Shepparton…

Meanwhile, back in Melbourne at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio, playwright Daniel Keene, director Matt Sholten and actor Noni Hazelhurst have reunited after ...

Theatre Network Australia CEO Amrit Gill is here to kick us off this week AND to let us know that Western Edge Youth Arts is the TNA Member of the Month for September, and we’ll meet Artistic Director John Mark Desengano…

Then, it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams starting with director Kate Woods who, 25 years after directing Looking for Alibrandi, is back on the big screen with the captivating family ...

Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker gets the Darwin ball rolling tonight and introduces us to her local guest artist, Writer/Performer of We Keep Everything, Lisa Pellegrino…

Then it’s Spring in Darebin and that means it’s time for the FUSE Festival and we’ll meet this year’s Ganbu Gulin Curator in Residence, Ethan Savage…

Meanwhile, Bangarra Dance Theatre is back in town with a ...

Helen Simondson from WA Museum Boola Bardip is here to let us know what’s going on in the west AND to introduce us to Daniel Schoknecht who’s the Curator in charge of the visiting Terra Cotta Warriors…

Then Chamber Made is taking over the public and hidden spaces of the Melbourne Recital Centre when they present Listening Acts – a programme of three live performances and six sound installations – and ...

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 she also managed to line up a loca...

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’re off to the Royal Botanic Gard...

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 that, Peter Knight is here to talk about...

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, Kinship, and the enduring impact of colon...

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’s through two exhibitions: Coming H...

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 has headed north for the Darwin Fringe...

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 Timothy at Confined16, we’ll be t...

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 prisons and the long history of injus...

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 and environmental empowerment. In thi...

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 Centres next weekend will simultaneously ...

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 the disability community, but for t...

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 it’s your library if you live ...