Michael Reid Sydney presents Christian Thompson’s latest collection of artworks, Being Human Human Being. The body of work culminates in performative photography and a new video work and Toby Meagher, Gallery Director, provides us with an insight . 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art opens for the first time this year with a solo exhibition by Australian Filipino artist Marikit Santiago, For us sinners and we find out more. West End’s Broadway musical sensation, The Phantom of the Opera opens in grand-scale for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour and we hear from with Assistant Director Shaun Rennie and cast member Martin Crewes. The Powerhouse Museum launches 100 Climate Conversations, 100 conversations with 100 of the nation’s leading climate innovators delivered over 100 weeks. The program will connect audiences with the innovation and action that is being taken in Australia to address the climate crisis. Catherine Polcz is the curator of the project and she joins us to tell us more.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch

Arts Friday acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Playlist

House Shoes :: Broken The Gift Volume
Catherine Polcz, Curator of the program, Powerhouse Museum :: 100 Climate Conversations: 100 weeks 10am Fridayswww,maas.museums/event/100-conversations/
Flock :: Expand Flock [Netherlands]Album to be released in May 2022
Shane Coopers & MABUTA [South Africa] :: Where The Hear Is Finish The Sun
Immoral Onion & Jan Michal Clesieiski :: Orange Moons Screens LP [Poland]U Know Me Records
Sampology :: Ten Foot Flowers (Glass Beams Desert Flower Edition) Regrowth Rearrangedsampology.com
Christian Thompson :: Exhibition: Human Being Being Human Michael Reid Sydney Opens Wednesday at Michael Reid in Chippendale
Weval :: Minute by Minute Time GoesNetherlands
Shaun Rennie, Assistant Director and Cast member Martin Crewes :: The Phantom of the Opera Handa Opera on the Sydney Harbour and Opera Australia25 March – 24 April 2022 | opera.org.au
Solomon Fesshaye :: Star City Star City / Save Our Placeghostly.org
Soul Media :: Breeze WaJazz Series: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol.1Universe Sounds
Friday 25 March :: Destination – Toni Swain Album Launch Butchers Brew Bar Dulwich Hillhttp://www.toniswain.com/about.html

Today on the program we point you to the Diversity Arts Australia second Report: The impacts of the pandemic on creatives of colour and First Nations creatives’. Released yesterday the results of the second national survey of around 200 First Nations and CaLD people and organisations in the creative sector reveals that during the COVID-19 pandemic, most are experiencing a loss of work, increased racism, stress, anxiety and depression, and an inability to pay bills, rent and their mortgage.

We navigate our way to Australia’s seventh annual Smartfone Flick Festival Known as SF3. The film festival is host to local, national and international short films all produced using smart phone technologies and is on now at the Palace Chauvel Cinema. We explore the Powerhouse Museum’s current  exhibitions and the upcoming open weekend that is part of the Conservation Management Plan that you can have a say in. 

Sydney based artist Gareth Jenkins is a media poet who works across language, text and poetry.  He’s about to launch a solo exhibition at Disorder Gallery in Darlinghurst, Inaccessible Archive continues his fascination with text. 

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch

Arts Friday acknowledge the First Nations peoples on whose traditional lands we occupy, and in particular the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation in which we produce the program and broadcast from at Eastside Radio.

Playlist

Black Diamond :: Sea Change Music for Ukraine a benefit compilation for humanitarian aid We Jazz Records
Professor Nareen Young, Diversity Arts Australia :: Lost Work: 2.0 Report – The impacts of the pandemic on creatives of colour and First Nations creatives
DakhaBrakha :: Dostochka Alambari
Sampology :: Ten Foot Flowers (Glass Beams Desert Flower Edition) Regrowth Rearranged Middle Name Records
Lisa Havilah, CEO Powerhouse Museum :: The Powerhouse Ultimo Open Weekend 19-20 March 2022 incl. Live consultation sessions to find out what you value most about the Museum To find out more visit: www.maas.museum/event/powerhouse-ultimo-open-weekend/
Oskar Jakob Tomala :: Sub Space Aeternitatis In my dreams I see a peaceful East
The Stance Brothers :: Low Music for Ukraine a benefit compilation for humanitarian aid We Jazz Records
Bugge Wesseltoft :: Black pearl makes dream IM
Gareth Jenkins :: Exhibition: Inaccessible Archive Disorder Gallery, Darlinghurst www.disordergallery.com/ Opens Thursday 17 March – 2 April 2022
Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington and Kenny Wollesen :: Invite Your Eye Invite Your Eye
Co-founder Angela Blake :: Smartfone Flick Festival SF3 Palace Chauvel Cinema – 13 March 2022 https://sf3.com.au
Immy Owusu :: Mantra Single Hopestreet Recordings

A special 90 minute program in celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021.

On the program, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney opens to feature new work and commissions responding to water ecology and relationships with the natural world. Audiences will experience large-scale immersive installations, site specific projects and living works by international participants. Sydney based artist Clare Milledge, presents a new work that takes inspiration from an old Irish tale of the forming of a river and talks us through the installation.

Beyond Human is a group exhibition of works by Eco-arts collective and the Veneration Tree Society curated by Kassandra Bossell. Bossell’s art practice includes sculpture and installation for visual, community and performing arts. Her artwork focuses on human relationships within nature and we take a walk with her through the Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Camperdown Park.

The annual International Women’s Day Art Prize at TAP Gallery has been running for more than a decade and sponsored by Women on Boards. Lesley Dimmick, Manager of TAP Gallery tells us more.

We celebrate International Women’s Day with contemporary Australian women poets to illustrate their lives and creative expression for a 20 minute showcase. The presentation of poetry will also be presented as a separate podcast.

Playlist

Romie Singh :: Dancing To Forget Dancing To Forget
LNDFK :: Takeshi Kuni
Clare Milledge :: Biennale of Sydney FREE Opening 12 March – www.biennaleofsydney.art/
Enji :: Khorom Ursgal
Say She She :: Forget Me Not
Kassandra Bossell, artist and curator :: Beyond Human: Exhibition – 13 March An exhibition of works by Eco-arts collective and the Veneration Tree Society Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
LNDFK :: Smoke – A moon or a button Kuni Bastard Jazz
Flora Purim :: This is Me If You Will
Lesley Dimmick, Manager, TAP Gallery :: The International Women’s Day Art Prize at TAP Gallery Exhibition opens tonight, 6-8pm www.tapgallery.org.au
Teena McCarthy / Sarah Temporal / Alicia Sometimes / Belinda Aucott / Willoh / Louise Carter / Teresia Teawia &Hinemoana Baker / Regina Botris / Amy Rhodes / Candy Royall :: IWD Contemporary Australian Women Poets: #BREAKtheBIAS Full presentation details can be accessed: talkingthroughyourarts.com.au http://ttya.com.au/

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch

Arts Friday acknowledge the First Nations peoples on whose traditional lands we occupy, and in particular the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation in which we produce the program and broadcast from at Eastside Radio.