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Arts ExpressBiting satire 'Strata Inc' and 'Bashka' pipes in 21st Melbourne Women's International Jazz FestActor/Writer/Directors Jessica Stanley & Phoebe Anne Taylor discuss a new satirical comedic play 'Strata Inc' about 'entitlement' with a new take on Aristophanes' work and Alisha Brooks brings a Turkish color to the 21st Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival with 'Bashka'.2018-11-2100 minArts ExpressA Quiet Dance with Rubberlegs and Mockingbird's at the Butterfly StageDancer extraordinaire Rauf Yasit (aka Rubberlegs) 'bends over backwards' to move Arts Express Listeners to the International Arts Festivals performance of "A Quiet Evening of Dance" A new work by William Forsythe performed from the 17th to 21st October. Also Val and Trish chat on the show with writer/actor and director Lisa Brickell and Ruth Dudding director of "Mockingbird" about a black comedy at the Butterfly Club. An exploration into motherhood and mental health.2018-10-1800 minArts Express'Creepy songs from childhood cartoons' & 'F*ckboys the Musical'Musican comedian Ashleigh Clarke sings from Dumbo on uke in the studio from her new cabaret comedy 'Creepy Songs From My Childhood Cartoons' at Bar Ampere while 2018 Orlando Fringe award winner (USA) 'F*ckboys the Musical' written and directed by Savannah Cassidy Pedersen, looks at dating modern creeps in solidarity with the sisterhood at Melbourne Fringe Festival.2018-09-0600 minArts ExpressPawn again christian, Cardinal Sin & a couple of white chicksComedian Annie Lee (Kransky Sisters) chats about her new one-woman show 'Pawn Again Christian' at the Butterfly Club, political wit and mimic Helen Child camps up the politicians for her Melbourne Fringe show 'A Comedy of Terrors' at Loop Project Space and Bar and actor Christina McLachlan discusses her role as Maude Mix on the American comedic play "A coupla white chicks sitting around talking".2018-08-2300 minArts ExpressHospitality meets the trauma of suicideAward winning playwright Rebecca Lister looks at the impact of suicide on '2.20am' while writer/director Gabby Pearson presents a modern black comedy on hospitality 'Waiting on You' with associate producer Christy Fanning.2018-08-1600 min
The SUWA Show - Squatters and Unwaged Workers AirwavesUnemployed Workers Fight Back (SUWA program)Presenter Valerie Farfalla interviewed Jerry Creaney (Pensioners, Seniors & Veterans Party), Owen Bennett (Australian Unemployed Workers Union), Pas Forgione (Anti-Poverty Network (S.A.) and Trish Posterino. The main focus of the program was the need to increase Newstart and a campaign to fight the LNP's new punitive demerits point system for social security recipients, administered by the private job agencies. The Newstart choir featured and Reds Under the Bed Actviist Cabaret played two of their songs 'Undies from Down Under' and "Jumping through hoops".2018-07-1300 minArts ExpressMelbourne Jazz meets Greek CabaretNotable Melbourne jazz musician Steve Sedergreen chatted about his cooperative style in readiness for MIJF and talented cabaret artist Michaela Burger sang one of her songs from her show "A Migrant's Son' devoted to her colorful Greek father.2018-05-3100 minArts ExpressJazzmo Mustafa meets Renee Palmer's comical Fitzroy walksMulti instrumentalist James Mustafa shows his broad jazz vision for MIJF show at Dizzy's and actor/producer Renee Palmer describes 'A Comical Walking Performance' event across the lanes and dark alleys of Fitzroy.2018-05-1700 minArts ExpressBeyond the Jazzy Organ and a Back to Black BeehiveChatting on the show with jazz organist Jake Mason where he will perform at The Stonnington Jazz Music Festival Gala Night with fellow musicians. All this on the eve of the launch of his latest Album "The Stranger in the Mirror" We will also be speaking with Carol Whitfield beyond jazz, motown and her historical performance on Amy Winegousee "Beyond the Beehive" at the Butterfly Club2018-05-1000 minArts ExpressArts Express - Episode 2018041209302018-04-1200 minArts ExpressNadia's Virgin Mary and Great Bloody Extra'sArts Express hosts Val and Trish are truly blessed with the company of Nadia Collins who chats about her own written and performed speechless MICF performance Virgin Bloody Mary at the Butterfly Club.Assuring comedy aficionados will have a hell of a time.Also enlightening the audience with some 'good news' about some extra's in the Arts expressing themselves in and outa town-all heavenly bliss!2018-04-0500 minArts ExpressWomens' union stories and spaghetti westernsComedian/storyteller Rama Nicholas talks about her spaghetti western musical 'Death Rides a Horse' for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and activist/organiser Cathy Brigden chats about saving the stories of female unionists overlooked in the recorded history of the Australian union movement.2018-03-2900 minArts ExpressFrankghanistan & Melbourne International Jazz FestivalMelbourne International Jazz Festival artistic director Michael Tortoni blows in with some hot jazz talk about the exciting upcoming festival and comedian/director Janelle De Silva chats about her hilarious multi-media show 'Frankghanistan' for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.2018-03-2100 minArts ExpressInternational Day of Supanova Glitta Wild Fearless and Free WomanArts Express hosts- Val and Trish, are right on track for this year's IWD with Glitta Supernova, as she navigates us around her current Butterfly show 'Body Map' from the 4th-11th March at 8:30pm. Then there is more at the International station as musician Kathleen Hollaran intoxicates us with her guitar strings. Kathleen is part of a collaboration by Brunswick Music Festival music programmer Chelsea Wilson The group Wild Fearless and Free also includes Stella Angelico, Sophie Koh, The Black Sistaz and Jessica Hitchcock . This one off performance for International Women's Day is at the Mechanic's Hall on tonight, Thursday t...2018-03-0700 minArts ExpressSmall town transformations & the 'Wowzzeee" sweatshopGraham Coffeey, manager, Small Town Transformations talks about what funding from Regional Arts Victoria has enabled small towns to achieve through creative projects that transform their communities. Fashion artist Adele Varcoe has created the 'Wowzzeee' - a glittering 'onesie' that participants can also create for themselves in a participatory sweatshop through a unique Arts House project.2018-02-2800 minArts ExpressBeaming Northern Festivals and Illuminating Saray IlluminadoArts hosts Val and Trish will be speaking with Nela Trifkovic on her performance with Band SARAY Iluminado about new interpretations of Sevdah (traditional folk music) from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jewish Sephardic music from the Balkans on 28th February at 45 Downstairs. Also chatting with both Samantha Byrne deputy Mayor of Moonee Valley City Council on the upcoming Festival at Queens Park on Sunday, 25 February along with Music Programmer Chelsea Wilson from the Brunswick Music Festival from the 4th to 18th March2018-02-2100 minArts ExpressDuldig Studio Museum & Arts HouseWriter and arts patron Eva Dejong Duldig talks about her new book Driftwood which features her famous father sculptor Karl Duldig, her mother Slawa, an artist and inventor and herself as tennis champion and how she developed the Duldig Studio museum and sculpture garden. Acting Arts Director of Arts House, Josh Wright discusses the upcoming Festival of Live Art.2018-01-3100 minArts ExpressMidsumma Festival -Bent Bollywood dance & Rock Legend'Bent Bollywood' artistic directors Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson present 'an eclectic and libidinous dance show that combines the technical rigour of classical Indian dance with the camp theatrics of Bollywood at the 2018 Midsumma Festival. Rock Legend vocalist, song-writer and guitarist Kaliopi will also feature at the festival.2018-01-1700 minArts ExpressTinkerbell & Music Victoria's Women's Advisory PanelAustralian Shakespeare Company theatre director Glenn Elston enchanted listeners with tales about his new children's production 'Tinkerbell & the Dream Fairies' at Geelong's Botanic Gardens (29 December) and Athenaeum Theatre 2 (2-28 January 2018). Valerie & Trish discussed exciting developments for Victorian women in music with the announcement of Music Victoria's new Women's Advisory Panel.2017-12-2000 minArts ExpressSerenading AdelaJeannie Marsh, artistic director of the community street opera "Serenading Adela" featured on Arts Express to talk about the January 7, 2018 event to mark the 1917 'serenading' of antiwar activist Adela Pankhurst at Pentridge Gaol. She was interviewed by Valerie Farfalla and Trish Posterino2017-12-1300 minArts ExpressMelbourne Women's Jazz & Jewish Comedy FestivalsMelbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (Nov 24-Dec 10) convenor Sonja Horbelt discussed the brilliant festival talent and Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival (Dec. 5,6,7) creative director Justine Sless told listeners about her exciting upcoming festival.2017-11-2200 minArts ExpressTragi-comedic theme in Waiting for Godot within EarshotThemes of revolution and surveillance are common in two productions Kate Hunter's Earshot (29th Nov-3rd Dec) at 45 Downstairs and William Henderson's production at the Eleventh Hour theatre (23rd Nov-16th December) in Waiting for Godot also with John Jacobs.2017-11-1500 minArts ExpressQueer Fruit with Strange Sisters in StilettosTrish engages with Actor and vocalist Nisha Joseph as she embraces her latest role in "Romeo is not the Only Fruit" as part of the The Poppyseed Festival at the Butterfly Club from 14th to 24th November. Also Carmel Schute encourages us to kick up our heals at the Sisters in Crime killer awards night "Scarlet Stiletto" at Swinburne University on the 18th November.2017-11-0800 minArts ExpressCoffee Kangas and PoppyseedLa Mama Production 'Serving Coffee@ Simms Supermarket' created by Writer/Performer Dr Scott Welsh; Actor/Writer/Director Tom Middleditch in a Poppyseed festival production 'Alexithymia' at the Meat Market, Stables and Fleur Elise Noble, Arts/Performer and creator of 'Rooman' at Arts House, North Melbourne.2017-11-0100 minArts ExpressBipolar Karaoke & Creative Youth Backyard PerformanceWriter Spescha Barakat presents Bipolar Karaoke at La Mama and Theatre maker Sara Kriegler talks about a collaborative youth production 'Chamber Made and The Venny' involving local youth from a communal backyard and drop-in centre at Kensington.2017-10-2600 minArts ExpressKiller Clarinet and Crime"Sisters in Crime" author Emma Viskic chats about her new crime novel "And Fire Came Down" also treating Arts Express listeners to a beautiful Clarinet rendition of Summertime2017-10-1900 minArts ExpressMemphis and Balkan ExpressionActor and dancer/choreographer James Elmer leads Memphis the Musical at Chapel off Chapel, also Balkan sax player Dusan Mitrovic chats and performs ahead of his Balkan Jam and Opa Bato & Opa Seko for Darebin Music Feast2017-10-1200 min
Arts ExpressFunk & Gypsy Treats - live in 3CR studioAccordionist Sofia Chapman and violinist Alana Hunt from gypsy trio Vardos perform live in 3CR studio from new 5th album 'Palazzo Party'. Offtopics frontman Polash Larsen says his band is releasing time travel song 'Sunrise in Richmond' in 7" vinyl as part of Back To The Zine series with comic strip.2017-10-0500 minArts ExpressArts Express The BIG GAMEFringe shows:Elly D'Arcy and Cody Baldwin from Death Match & Courtney Ammenhauser and Lakia Pattinson from Quarter Life Crisis2017-09-2800 min
Arts ExpressArts Express - Multi Cultural Feast with Fringe dwellersCanadian Gillian English on Fringe show SHE WOLF at the Butterfly Club & Ez Eldin Deng with AMKA Theatre ProjectAlso Theatrical clowns Ezel Doruk & Shannan Lim in The Yonder2017-09-2100 minArts ExpressFringe PowersHad fun appropriately chatting with Louise Howlett Artistic Director of 'Appropriate Kissing For All Occasions' and Christina McLachlan Actor of the said Melbourne Fringe piece at Club Volatire that we discover will be far more than double 'lip service' performances!https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/event/appropriate-kissing-for-all-occasions/Also adding to ARTS is the delicious, delectable and daring 'Sophiedelightful' -Burlesque and Cabaret performer, flexing her entertaining muscle on her fabulous Fringe performance 'Diary of a Pussy Power' https://sophiedelightful.com/events/2017-09-1400 min
Arts ExpressArts Express - Fringe ImprovisersToday Arts Express were on board with Helen Cassidy speaking about her upcoming fringe show Erotic Intelligence For Dummies and also Jasper Foley from Completely Improvised Potter2017-08-3100 minArts ExpressMelbourne Youth Orchestra and The Book of RevelationsThis week we speak with Dorian Jones, CEO of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra and Nancy Black and Alison Richards about The Book of Revelations.2017-06-2200 minArts ExpressArts Express -Interview with drummer John PerriMelbourne Jazz and Latin drummer John Perri tells some terrific stories about life on the road as a multi-skilled drummer and teacher in Melbourne.2017-05-0400 min