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Well, our Adelaide correspondent Elena Verker’s lost her voice, so we literally won’t hear from her this month – BUT, she did see the State Theatre Company’s new production Dear Son adapted from the book by Thomas Mayo by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey and if she was here she’d be saying how great it is and that you should see it before it closes on August 16 AND she also managed to line up a local guest artist, Bridget Alfred who’s head honcho of SALA – the South Australia Living Artists Festival…

Speaking of festivals, MUDfest – Melbourne Uni’s biennial student arts festival is back and one of its Co-Directors – Riya Gupta – will tell us about how this year’s theme – Refraction – has influence the programme…

Meanwhile, at Theatre Works Briony Dunn is adapting and directing The Machine Stops from a 1909 novella by EM Forster that predicted the internet, TED Talks and video calls…

And finally, Screens & Streams may be a week late, but we make up for it with a bumper edition when Marc Gracie drops in for a look at three movie franchises that are trying their best to maintain our interest…

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It’s August already and this month we’re devoting our whole Theatre Network Australia spot to a special TNA member of the Month – it’s the new TNA CEO Amrit Gill.

Then Producer and Musical Director Ben Samuel is here for a chat about Songs for a New World and to tell us why a Producer would add in more performers than the script actually calls for…

Then we’re off to the Royal Botanic Gardens with our ear buds in for a new episode of Sonica Botanica - the free self-guided listening experience set in the new climate-adapted Australian Drylands and we’ll find out what that means when we chat with Creative Producer Sally McPhee…

After that, we head down on the Peninsular Link to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery where we’ll welcome back Music Curactor Monica Curro to find out what the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is doing there…

And finally, a very short Screens & Streams this week when Tom Middleditch swings by to let us know all the access arrangements we can take advantage of in this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. But fear not… we’ve only delayed the arrival of Marc Gracie until next week when there’ll be a bumper Screens & Streams to make up for our tardiness…

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Yvette Walker from Brown’s Mart kicks of our Darwin spot for July and introduces us to Monkey, Lead Producer and Sound Designer for Crown and Country as part of the Darwin Festival …

Then, we drop in on Bloomshed’s rehearsals for their latest production – Pride and Prejudice – and talk Jane Austen, housing shortages and playdoh with James Jackson …

After that, Peter Knight is here to talk about his new album Too Long; Didn’t Read and why all the track titles are cloud names…

And finally, Melbourne Fringe is quite a way off, but we’re sneaking in a quick catch up with Creative Director Simon Abrahams to talk about First Trimester, one of its upcoming shows where you could be involved – as a sperm donor… What’s all that about? That’s Simon’s job to explain…

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In this special extended version of a Behind the Scenes story from the July 21 show, join me Chris Thompson and Koorie Heritage Trust Curator Gail Harradine as we walk and talk our way through two remarkable exhibitions:

Coming Home by Dr. Jenny Murray-Jones - a Yorta Yorta and Baraparapa artist whose work offers a poignant exploration of family reconnection, delving into themes of Country, Kinship, and the enduring impact of colonisation and institutional life.

Connections to Home showcases fifty artworks by revered Barkindji and Ngiyampaa Elder, Uncle Colin (Col) Clark. including spears, shields, clubs, tapping sticks, digging sticks, boomerangs, didgeridoos, painted emu eggs, bowls, and paintings created over the past 20 years.

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WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Helen Simondson gives us her regular Perth roundup at the top of this week’s show before introducing her local guest artist, journalist and novelist Marcia van Zeller who talks about her new book is Be A Good Girl Valerie…

Then, we’re back at the Koorie Heritage Trust for another walk and talk with Curator Gail Harradine – this time it’s through two exhibitions: Coming Home by Jenny Murray-Jones and Connections to Home by Uncle Col Clarke…

Meanwhile, at the Wyndham Cultural Centre in Werribee, you get a second opportunity to see the fantastic theatre performance – The Yellow Line, and we’ll meet Co-Writer and Co-Director Alaine Beek and performer Wiremu Morris…

And finally, if you’re a fan of Leonard Cohen, then you’ll probably want to hear Monsieur Camembert’s performance of Cohen Noir, a 35-year retrospective of his songs as we’ll discover when we meet Yaron Hallis…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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InSite’s Elena Vereker is here for her regular Adelaide round up AND to introduce her local guest artists, Windmill Theatre’s Artistic Director Clare Watson…

Then, St Martins Youth Arts Centre’s Artistic Director Nadja Kostich isn’t in Melbourne – she’s in Darwin with St Martin’s beautiful, award-winning show Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again. which has headed north for the Darwin Fringe Festival…

Meanwhile, at Arts Centre Melbourne, they’re gearing up for the opening of Monkey Baa’s production of Yong, a tale of Chinese Australians on the Victorian Goldfields and we’ll meet writer Jenevieve Chang…

And speaking of Monkey Baa’s (a bit of a tortured segue) we’ll finish the show out at The Incinerator Gallery for a walk and talk (and a climb on the monkey bars) at the fabulous, interactive Playground Project with visiting Curator Gabriela Burkhalter and City of Moonee Valley’s Head of Visual and Public Art, Jade Niklai…

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Given it’s NAIDOC Week, it makes sense that Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia has selected First Nations circus performer, trainer with Flipside Circus, producer and creator of the Waterways project - Lara Croydon as the TNA member of the Month for July.

Then, sticking with the NAIDOC Week theme and as a follow up to last month’s visit with Jacob, Alisha and Timothy at Confined16, we’ll be talking about another powerful exhibition of works by First Nations artists who’ve experienced incarceration presented by the Torch, this time in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern Art – it’s called Blak In Justice and its curator Kent Morris is on the line to talk about it.

After that there’s more from Darebin Speakeasy – this time it’s award-winning visual artist, installation artist, spoken word poet, and storyteller wani toaishara who’s about to present his solo show Garçon.

And finally, Marc Gracie is back for a bit of a catch up on what we’ve seen on our Screens & Streams…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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