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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…

 

Meanwhile, at Theatre Works, Francis Greenslade is showing us that in addition to being a well known and popular actor, he is also a writer and director…  and he’s here to talk about his production of The Platypus…

 

Then, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is about to pay tribute to legendary composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach with What the World Needs Now at Hamer Hall and the equally legendary Caroline O’Connor is here to tell us which selections from his amazing songbook she’ll be singing…

 

And finally, at Chapel off Chapel, Finucane and Smith are back with a new production of their not-quite-new play The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez and we’ll chat with playwright Jackie Smith, director Moira Finucane and actor Caroline Lee…

 

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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 Wise has committed Senseless Acts of Beauty – which is her new album and in between chatting with her we’ll listen to a couple of tracks…

 

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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…

After that, we hop over to Red Stitch Theatre Company to meet Director Tom Healey and actors Sarah Sutherland and Jack Twelvetree to find out about their current production of Blackout Songs…

And finally, it’s Screens & Streams; our regular movie review segment with Marc Gracie…

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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 Honeywill, curator of Lost in Palm Springs, Art Gallery of Ballarat’s latest exhibition – a multi-disciplinary response to the mid-century landscape and architecture of Palm Springs, California… and right here in Australia…

 

And finally, some music from violinist, vocalist and composer Véronique Serret who has a new album called Migrating Bird…

 

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WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Helen Simondson gets us going tonight with her round up of what’s been happening in Perth before she invites us to meet Mark Haslam who’s here to tell us about Fake an immersive, electronic visual theatre experience that promises to be different every night…

 

Then we’re off to the Butterfly Club for a bit of Cabaret with Imogen Whittaker who’s turned her love of British romcoms, Tim Minchin, Missy Higgins and having the last word into a show called, fittingly, The Last Word…

 

Meanwhile, Outer Urban Projects is about to undertake a metro-Melbourne tour of their acclaimed production – The Audition – and we’ll meet performer Evangelos Arabatzis …

 

And finally, Confined, the annual exhibition of works by First Nations artists who’ve experienced incarceration is back for its fifteenth year and that means it’s time for our annual walk and talk through the gallery with Founder and Creative Director Kent Morris…

 

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Our South Australia correspondent, Elena Vereka from InSite Arts is here for the second show of the month with her guest local artist, playwright Sarah Peters who’ll tell us about her new play, An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs…

 

Another new play – one we spoke about during its development last year – is Kate Herbert’s Lung and Kate’s back to tell us what’s changed in the lead up to its current LaMama season…

 

A play that’s not so new is Salty Theatre’s production of The Grinning Man which tells its tale with the help of an old puppeteer, his pet wolf and a blind girl who’s played by blind actor Lily Cascun who’ll tell us more about this gothic, horror, musical fairytale…

 

Meanwhile, it’s time for a Family Cultural Day at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park with a great programme of First Nations’ musicians and storytellers and we’ll chat with Project Coordinator Nikki Browne…

 

And finally, it’s St Kilda Film Festival time again and we’ll meet Fred Gesha, the First Peoples Arts Festivals and Events Officer to find out about Through the Moving Lens of Protest and Resistance,  a special event at the Espy…

 

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