Arts

On Arts Wednesday 18 September 2019, Sylvia’s guests were Chrissie Kirkwood and Fergus Barker, landscape architecture students from UTS. As a student exercise, they were required to reimagine Rushcutters Creek, once a meandering stream rising in Darlinghurst and emptying into Rushcutters Bay. What is left  is a mainly concrete stormwater channel through an area that [...]Read More... from Rushcutters Creek with Sylvia Rosenblum

On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia and Ed discuss Chapter 3, which looks at Sydney from the Bicentennial in 1988 up to today. This period is marked by 3 major infrastructure events: the Olympic Games, Barangaroo and Green Square. Remember to go online at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl to download this chapter, as well as chapters 1 [...]Read More... from Sydney XXXL Chapter 3 with Sylvia Rosenblum

On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Rabbi Benjamin Elton, Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney talking about the liturgical music of the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement. Through 4 prayers selected by Rabbi Ben, we look at the history of the service and its specific musical traditions. [...]Read More... from Music of the Jewish High Holy Days with Sylvia Rosenblum

BAD Sydney 2019 is a crime writers’ festival, being held this weekend. Artistic Director, Catherine du Peloux Menage, joined Sylvia in conversation on Arts Wednesday 4 September 2019. [...]Read More... from BAD Sydney 2019 with Sylvia Rosenblum

Ed Lippmann joins Sylvia in a discussion of Chapter 2, The First 200 Years. The lack of planning, power of developers and shoddy buildings are a feature of Sydney from the earliest days and still beset us! But there’s the good news: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House and the Bicentennial celebrations! Remember you can [...]Read More... from Sydney XXXL Chapter 2 with Sylvia Rosenblum

Create NSW has streamlined its funding programs to make them more accessible and less complicated. The current funding round is open with the next round opening in February next year. Arts report Chris Virtue speaks to Grainne Brunsdon, Director of Arts Investment, Engagement & Development at Create NSW, to find out about the changes. For more information [...]Read More... from Create NSW Funding

Prominent Sydney architect, Ed Lippmann, has written a book called Sydney XXXL. For the next 6 weeks, Arts Wednesday will feature Sylvia in conversation about one of the 6 chapters in the book. Each week, that chapter will be uploaded onto the net where you can download at: Ed introduces his thesis in Chapter 1, [...]Read More... from Sydney XXXL Chapter 1 with Sylvia Rosenblum

If you were running an Arts Festival, wouldn’t you like to call it Sedition? That’s exactly what Toby Creswell has done and it looks at the 70s: music, theatre, film, art and more. Toby was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 28 August 2019. [...]Read More... from Sedition with Sylvia Rosenblum

During the course of July/August 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Jacqueline Nguyen, ornithologist and palaeontologist at the Australian Museum. In a six-part series, entitles Birds and Bones, Jacqueline took us through a unique view of birds, via fossil bones. The six episodes are: What does an ornithologist do? Australia: the birth place of song birds [...]Read More... from Birds and Bones with Sylvia Rosenblum

Our patience has been rewarded! After a long wait, acclaimed author, Diane Armstrong has published a new novel: The Collaborator. Based on an historical event in the darkest days of the Holocaust, Diane has woven a gripping story. She was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 21 August 2019. [...]Read More... from The Collaborator with Sylvia Rosenblum

Peter Hall was the young talented architect chosen to continue Jorn Utzon's wotk on the Sydney Opera House. What seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime tirned out to be a poisoned chalice. Dr Anne Watson speaks to Maisy Stapleton about her PhD research and subsequent book on Hall's work and fate. [...]Read More... from Poisoned Chalice – Peter Hall and the Opera House – Anne Watson speaks with Maisy Stapleton

Living Treasure, potter Prue Venables and fellow ceramic artist Alison Britton OBE speak to Maisy Stapleton about their craft [...]Read More... from Living Treasures – Potters Prue Venables and Alison Britton with Maisy Stapleton

Multi-awarded Australian costume designer Jennifer Irwin speaks to Maisy Stapleton about her craft. [...]Read More... from Jennifer Irwin – Costume Designer speaks to Maisy Stapleton

Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 14 August 2019 was Dr Matthew Stephens, curator of Songs of Home, the latest exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. The conversation took an idiosyncratic walk through the exhibition, via 8 of the 60 music tracks you can hear when you visit. The tracks were selected by Matthew and range [...]Read More... from Songs of Home with Sylvia Rosenblum

On Arts Wednesday 7 August 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Stephen Gapps, curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum, talking about the latest exhibition Bligh: Hero or Villain. You probably know most about the man from either primary school history or Hollywood, where Bligh is always the villain, undone by the loveable rogue, Fletcher Christian. [...]Read More... from Bligh: Hero or Villain with Sylvia Rosenblum

On Arts Wednesday, Sylvia’s guest was Elise Edmonds, Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW, talking about Dead Central. The old Devonshire Cemetery was pulled down to make way for Central Railway in 1901 and the exhibition traces the history of the cemetery, established by Governor Macquarie to the building of the new station. [...]Read More... from Dead Central with Sylvia Rosenblum

Dazza and Keif are best mates and semi-bro-fessional breakdancers from the suburbs, trying to make it big on Youtube. The problem is that their only followers are Dazza’s Mum and the account Keif set up for his cat. When an embarrassing viral video thrusts them into the spotlight for the wrong reasons, Dazza and Keif [...]Read More... from Paul Neeson from Monday Arts caught up with the Kweens of Comedy – Dazza and Keif

Have you ever experienced a performance of taiko drumming? It’s very exciting. You can feel the drumming beating in your chest. It’s energetic, theatrical and uplifting. And Australia’s own internationally acclaimed drumming ensemble, Taikoz, will be performing Japanese taiko in their production, The Beauty of 8, at The Joan in Penrith on 20 July and [...]Read More... from Taikoz Artistic Director Ian Cleworth joined Claudia Chan Shaw on Arts Friday

Over the course of June and July 2019, Shakespeare scholar, Dr Anna Kamaralli, made a welcome return to Arts Wednesday with a 6-part series entitled Shakespeare and Company. In this series, Anna explores Shakespeare’s company – The Chamberlain’s Men – which he joined as a young actor. The six episodes are as follows: Two Houses, [...]Read More... from Shakespeare and Company with Sylvia Rosenblum

On Arts Wednesday 10 July 2019, Sylvia’s guest was philosopher Dr Simon Longstaff, Director of the Ethics Centre. In the light of recent headline news – Israel Folau, John Setka, AFP raids on journalists – what is free speech in Australia and what should it be in a fair society? [...]Read More... from Free Speech with Sylvia Rosenblum