festivals

Arts Mitten reviewer Claire Connors checks out the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival and reviews two of the upcoming films, corporate drama Early One Morning, and light hearted Audrey Tatou comedy Delicacy.
 
Head to http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org/default.aspx for details and dates.

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Alliance Francaise Film Fest Reviews Claire 04-03-12.mp3

Florence had a chat with Izzy Roberts-Orr, slam poet Luka Lesson and hip hop musicians Mata and Must, about the diverse array of performance-driven events they have organised for Amnesty International’s ARTillery Youth Arts Festival.
 
ARTillery is running until 10 December in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.

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Artillery Youth Arts Festival Interview 4 December.mp3

Florence and Pavita talked to Harry from The Cat Empire about his side-project The Harry James Angus Band. Harry and his band will be performing at the Stonnington Jazz Festival on Thursday 26 May.

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Interview with Harry James Angus Band May.mp3

Florence caught up with Veronica Cybulski, a member of the organizing team for the Emerging Writers Festival.  Veronica shared some memorable stories about the Emerging Writers Festival from previous years and the events she is most looking forward to attending in this year’s program.

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Interview with Veronica Cybulski Emerging Writers Festival May.mp3

We chatted to Luis Gonzalez Serrano, the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival, about freedom of speech, censorship in Australia, video poems, the launch of the Melbourne Poetry Map project, the Tri-Nations Poetry Slam held on Skype and all the highlights that Luis has in store for the festival.  The Overload Festival will go from 10-19 September 2010. 

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Overload Interview with Luis Gonzalez Serrano.mp3