(The print edition of 'Big Story Country: great arts stories from regional Australia', written from conversations with Moya Sayer-Jones, can be ordered from the Regional Arts Australia agencies. The stories are now available on-line in either high or low resolution .pdf files at: www.regionalarts.com.au.)
The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre of Perth heads off to the International Performing Arts for Youth 30th Annual International Showcase Conference in Cleveland USA and then tours Europe.
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Queensland professor, Erica McWilliam, argues the qualities that make for great arts education must be applied to all education if our children are to be equipped for a work-future in which creativity will be the defining feature of economic life.
(Erica McWilliam's book 'The Creative Workforce: How to launch young people into high-flying futures' is available from UNSW Press for rrp $A39.95. More info: www.unswpress.com.au.)
(The Daniel Pink mentioned in the interview is the author of 'A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age', published by Riverhead Books in 2005. More info: http://us.penguingroup.com.)
An exhibition of photographs drawn from some half a million images taken by photographer the late Rennie Ellis opens in Melbourne.
(The Rennie Ellis retrospective, 'No Standing Only Dancing', is currently on at the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, until 22 February 2009. More info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au.)
We meet the patriarch of the families that stands behind J. Albert and Sons, Australia's oldest music publishing and recording house. Robert Albert has just been honoured for his philanthropic work in support of Australia music in the recent Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) Awards.
Guest: activist author, Randa Abdel-Fattah, whose past novels explored issues of being young, Australian, and a Muslem. Her new novel, still aimed at young readers, 'Where the Streets Had a Name', is set in Palestine.
(Randa Abdel-Fattah's latest novel 'Where the Streets Had a Name' is now available on paperback in Australia from Pan Macmillan for rrp$19.99. Also available are 'Does My Head Look Big in This?' and 'Ten Things I Hate About Me' - More info about her books: www.panmacmillan.com.au.)
(Click here for our interview with Randa in 2005 about her first book 'Does My Head Look Big in This?'.)
(Click here for our interview with Randa in 2006 about her second book 'Ten Things I Hate About Me'.)
The winner of the Melbourne Press Club and Trawalla Foundation Arts Journalism Scholarship is announced.
('We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked', a project of Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with RMIT University, is on exhibition at the Alumni Courtyard at RMIT in Melbourne until 30 November. The Kaldor Art Projects website: www.kaldorartprojects.org.au.)
A small tribute to the James Gleeson, Australian most prominent surrealist painter who died last week.
(More info on the 'James Gleeson beyond the screen of sight' at the National Gallery of Australia, 18 March - 13 June 2005: http://nga.gov.au/Gleeson/index.cfm.)
Guest: Australian author Robert Dessaix. His most recent book, 'Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives' is a meditation on the journeys of the French writer, Andre Gide and the author, Dessaix, in North Africa and Southern Europe, separated by a century and in their lives.
Ochre: Supporting Indigenous Health through Art raises more than $250,000 at an auction of Indigenous art, with some new ideas about running charity auctions.
5 February 2005:ARTSalive has received a special mention in the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies' 2004 National awards in the Group Category for " An Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture". The winner in the Group Category was ABC TV's 'Kath & Kim', and Hugh Mackay won the Individual category for a book, 'Right and Wrong: How to Decide for Yourself'. (Click on the thumbnauil to view a detailed image of our certificate.)
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ARTS alive is a production of the Independent Media Foundation and we receive the financial support of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the assistance of Vicnet and the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University.
