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This week on Arts Mitten get you're literature and music on!
Former Voiceworks editor Tom Doig comes into the studio with advice for young writers in terms of improving their writing, we will also discuss his upcoming Express Media workshop that focusses on helping young writers to get their work published
http://www.expressmedia.org.au
Samuel Dundas from Vic Opera's opening production The Bear/ Angelique discusses the rewards and challenges of 20th century opera and gives some advice to possible first time opera goers, if that is you the latest Vic Opera season is definately the one to start on!
http://www.victorianopera.com.au
Folks from ARCappella come in to talk about the a capella group that is winning awards for contribution to the Darebin community
http://www.arc-theatre.com/arcappella/
plus Ash & I will discuss liquor licensing and its effect on Melbourne's live music scene from all angles
http://bit.ly/d8IqMc
and
Lit Happens: our new poetry segment produced by Eliza, Jorja and Mikaela from the Australian Poetry Centre
http://www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au/
Last Sunday of Summer! Theatre, poetry, Bollywood and Goodvibes
Prithvi interviews Steven Phillips and Steven Schiller, writers of 'Incompleteness' opening at LaMama Courthouse Theatre on the 3rd March
http://www.lamama.com.au/Incompleteness.html
Mimi will review the theatrical dance spectacular The Merchants of Bollywood at the Arts Centre until this Sunday eve...ning
http://www.theartscentre.com.au/whats-on/event.aspx?id=1932
We'll talk about some of the best things to come out of Goodvibes this year
Eliza, Mikaela and Jorja will present their second installment of Lit Happens this week taking poetry to the streets
Kiri will make her amazing Arts Mitten debut discussing BAFTA winning film The Hurt Locker
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/
plus lots of sweet Arts Mitten-esque Sunday afternoon tunes to celebrate the last day of summer!
This week on the show...
Poetry, Music covering lots of genres plus some very unique styles of visual art
- Stella will be talking about the Ron Mueck and Ricky Swallow exhibitions at the NGV at the moment, http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
- Earlier in the week I spoke with Amy Barklay, curator of the 2010 Experimenta Biennial about technology based art at the Arts Centre, check out www.experimenta.org
- Our new regular poetry segment will kick of produced by Eliza Hull
- Ash Bartholomew will be coming in to do the first of his new regular music segments on the show
- Plus an interview with folks from the Top Class VCE composition program including some of the students whose successful works will be playing at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Fri 26th Feb at 2pm (http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/)
- We will also be playing some much loved music from beautiful Ruby Hunter to show our appreciation for her contribution not only to Australian culture and music as whole but also to our own personal lives as a new generation of Australian artists (Do yourself a favour and check this out! http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/ruby/id125463622)