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By Anders Furze
The Czech and Slovak Film Festival kicks off in Melbourne on Thursday. Anders Furze spoke with artistic director Eleanor Colla about its connection with the anniversary of a watershed moment in European history. * In the final weeks of 1989, around 500,000 people took to the streets of Prague to protest 40 years of one-party communist rule.
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The creation of co-directors Jemma Cole, Sam Whiteside and Thorsten Hertog, Soft Centre is an experimental electronic music and multidisciplinary arts festival held annually at Sydney’s Casula Powerhouse. An amalgamation of the various warehouse party communities that have marked Sydney’s underground movement in recent years, the one-day event seeks to redefine the festival experience via
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Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell talks about this year’s OzAsia line-up with Murray Bramwell. * Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival has come a long way since its inception in 2006. Initiated by Adelaide Festival Centre CEO Douglas Gautier, who brought his extensive list of contacts from the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the program remained in the capable hands
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Mid-summer, one of the searing images burnt into our collective memory was the millions of dead fish floating in the Darling River at Menindee. Extreme climate conditions, drought, low flows and irrigators pumping too much water upstream were all cited as factors in the devastation. The Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) manages the operation of
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2019 is the 50th anniversary of the three-day music festival held near Woodstock, 90 minutes outside New York City. That year, the gay patrons of the Stonewall Inn (actually a bar) in Greenwich Village in NYC stood up to cops who felt free to bash gays. It was a show-down that launched a movement. Also in 1969, new President
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What is it about our funding bodies and media that they ignore the role of theatre and playwrights? Every other culturally expressive country in the world recognises the power of writing for live performance. From the amphitheatre at Epidaurus to upstairs at the Royal Court in London. Playwrights are at the coal face. We take big ideas, social commentary,
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When Creative Victoria and Tourism Victoria say they are going to “showcase” a city or region, be afraid. Here comes another imposition, another idea backed by government funding that, like a bulldozer in a grassland, ploughs through the delicate ecology of the existing landscape. When it was announced that the huge outdoor lights how that is White
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“…when Antony and Dolabella were accused of plotting revolution, Caesar said: ‘I am not much in fear of these fat, long-haired fellows, but rather of those pale, thin ones,’ meaning Brutus and Cassius” – Plutarch, ‘The Parallel Lives‘ Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva is a fast-paced chronicle of the events that led to the ousting of
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Down our road and around the corner, people have recently built a tiny house on what was once grazing land. It’s on my drive into town, so for the past year or two, I’ve been checking out their progress. First, up went a very large shed, with solar panels on the roof. Then, in went
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Subtle notes of angst, despair and deep yearning defined a powerful union of the work of musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in several shows at Hamer Hall at the weekend. The unique pairing showcased six of Cave and Ellis’s notable film scores as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival,
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