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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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It’s the first show for May and for our Theatre Network Australia spot, we’ll be meeting TNA Intern Georgie Bright before announcing the TNA Member of the Month for May – St Martins Youth Arts Centre and we chat with Artistic Director Nadja Kostich as well as young performers Sunday, Oscar and Frankie

 

Then it’s a bumper edition of Screens & Streams…  of course, Marc Gracie will be here to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens this month…

 

…but before he arrives, we’ll meet Lucie McMahon who’s directed the documentary Things Will Be Different which focuses on the last two residents of the Walker Street Public Housing Estate in Northcote…

 

…and then we’ll meet Christoph Mucher from the Goethe Institute to find out what we can expect from this year’s German Film Festival…

 

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Tom Guttridge is Senior Producer at Monash performing Arts Centres, so he’s bound to know what’s happening in their programme over the next month or two…

 

Then, even though Screens & Streams isn’t until next week, it’s hard to turn up the opportunity to chat with film writer turned screenwriter Nick Pinkerton about The Sweet East - his first crack at a feature film…

 

Meanwhile, Director Kevin Hopkins has been working with poet and playwright Emilie Collier on a new production of her play Once Were Pirates which will be heading off to Prague after a short season in Melbourne…

 

After that we’re back at Arts House in North Melbourne for The Bridal Lament 哭嫁歌 a genre bending art pop song cycle that reimagines an obsolete ritual of grief… if you’re wondering what that all means, then it’s a good thing that creator Rainbow Chan 陳雋然 is here to explain…

 

And finally, we say welcome back to Nilgun Guven who’s not quite here to talk about her work as an audio describer of live theatre…  instead, she’ll tell us about a series of workshop she’s running at Arts Centre Melbourne under the heading of Disrupting Sighted Ableism: Call to Action…

 

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