Nine young people were invited to Story Factory in September for the Novella Kitchen, a two-day, bite-sized, book-writing bootcamp that gave them a taste of Story Factory’s Year of the Novella program – and the challenge of writing an entire novella in a single weekend.
Should a film set in ancient times be historically accurate and politically correct? If it is politically correct then can it possibly be historically accurate? And vice versa?
Dance Clan 24 is exciting, challenging, beautiful and groundbreaking. A unique programme, Dance Clan nurtures a new generation of artists by offering young members the opportunity to create original works reflecting both their personal story and their cultural heritage.
Johannes (Johnny) Geppert is a Surry Hills-based artist. His studio-gallery on Crown Street, Collage Atelier, is open for exhibitions as well as weekly workshops in drawing, painting and collage.
Directed by Erica Lovell, the Old Fitz Theatre’s production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s delightfully wicked The Female of the Species is fast-paced and entertaining.
Since emigrating from Lebanon to Western Sydney when she was 12 years old, Noura Hijazi has always found writing to be an outlet for her thoughts and feelings, and a way of adjusting to a new environment in Australia.
When it comes to naming extinct animals, most of us would probably know the dodo and the woolly mammoth. But how many of the over 900 species classified as extinct since 1500, and the over 44,000 species threatened with extinction, could we actually name?
Sam O’Sullivan’s McGuffin Park, a new play about an idealist who enters the mayoral race in the little town of McGuffin, is a gem of the political theatre genre.
Johannes (Johnny) Geppert is a Surry Hills-based artist. His studio-gallery on Crown Street, Collage Atelier, is open for exhibitions as well as weekly workshops in drawing, painting and collage.
There is a certain poignance, laced with nostalgia, in this, the Genesian’s last production at its charming Kent Street home, before its relocation to Rozelle. Director Ali Bendall’s excellent adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s passionate novel about a young orphan’s quest to survive and find love still resonates with modern audiences (if the lists of favourite reads are to be believed), nearly two hundred years after it was written.
Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women is a musical journey through the ages that highlights women’s experiences and balances both comedy and tragedy perfectly.
WATERLOO: On September 14, entrants in the annual Blak & Blu art award gathered at the Orchard Gallery to celebrate creativity through an unconventional medium: the humble biro.
One Another contains two parallel and interrelated stories – one about Joseph Conrad, his life and writing, and the other about Helen, Tasmanian student of literature in Cambridge, who is writing a thesis about him.
As a man in his 50s featuring all the normals for someone of my age – middle-age spread, tinnitus and going grey and bald to name a few – but still fit, physical, clever and switched-on to name even more, my attraction to The Substance was admittedly driven in large part by my attraction to 61-year-old Demi Moore.
A production made possible by the collaboration of the Nautanki Theatre and KXT Bakehouse, Sonal Moore’s autobiographical and tender-hearted Ten Years to Home tells the story of the South Asian diaspora through the eyes of three generations. The play, while looking with clear eyes at the difficulties of immigrant families, also celebrates the contribution made by Indian traditions and beliefs to a culturally diverse Australia.
BONDI BEACH: Does a building have a voice? This question is the kernel of Building Song, an experimental art activation by 15 artists poised to begin its third iteration at Bondi Pavilion this month.
Johannes (Johnny) Geppert is a Surry Hills-based artist. His studio-gallery on Crown Street, Collage Atelier, is open for exhibitions as well as weekly workshops in drawing, painting and collage.
If your Pinterest boards are trending cosy Nancy Meyers interiors, a visit to Shakespeare and Company is on your Paris bucket list, and the rule in your house is lamps only (ceiling lights are for emergencies), then you need no introduction to jazz-pop artist Laufey (pronounced lay-vay).
Sensitively directed by Janine Watson, Colder Than Here is a moving and funny play about a middle-class English family dealing with terminal illness, but it is more than that. It is also about a wife and mother, whose resignation to her death is admirably up-beat but whose deep concern for her soon-to-be-bereft family is humbly heroic.
King Street Gallery on William was abuzz for the opening of Shadows, a new collection of paintings by Malabar-based artist and musician Peter O’Doherty.
Iris is the production of the Dead Fruit Theatre Company, a recently developed collective of three Wollongong artists, Mish Fry, Clementine de la Hunty and Dominic Hort and is part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, 2024. The staging of this one-hander is strikingly inventive making clever use of visual media to underline its exploration of evolving selfhood.
The short and fast-paced Augusta is very entertaining, coating a thoughtful exploration of power beneath a sparkling exterior. The theme is always topical and vexatious as power is an inevitable outcome of human social life and structure as long as influence and control are valued as enhancing individual or group importance.
Kythera is a Greek island that holds a special place in the hearts of the Greek diaspora in Australia, with 80,000 Australians proudly claiming Kytherian ancestry.
Miranda Darling has created a distinctive character who walks a fine line between agency and lunacy, filled with interesting observations and personal reflections upon her life and the lives of others.
Brooklyn, published in 2009, sees central character Eilis Lacey leave 1950s Ireland for a new life in America, propelled by the tragic and unforeseen death of her beloved sister, Rose. Long Island takes up Eilis’ story 20 years later ...
The challenging thing about a film set as a sequel between two classics is just watching and enjoying it as opposed to constantly comparing it to the classics.
