Art Smitten - The Podcast

Christian chats to Stephanie Lake, the choreographer of Pile of Bones, running from August 15-19 at Arts House (521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne). Image by Jodi HutchinsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silvi and Rebi chat to Reg Ramsden about the Right 2 The Heart campaign that's now raising funds for high school facilities in remote Indigenous communities: https://www.chuffed.org/project/right2theheartSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silvi and Rebi chat to Dayna Boase and Luci Klendo from the cast of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, playing until Sunday this week, 7pm at The Butterfly Club (Carson Place, off Little Collins St).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reem chats to Izzy Summers and Caitie Ross, the director and one of the cast members of the curent production of Kiki Zapata's 25 and F*cked, running until August 5 at the Owl and Cat Theatre (34 Swan Street, Cremorne).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria and Reem chat to Shannan Lim and Tye Norman from Normal Children’s production of Salty, on at the Butterfly Club (5 Carson Place, off Little Collins St) until Sunday July 30.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria and Reem interview Thando Sikwila from the cast of Bowie and Mercury Rising, playing until Sunday July 30 at Chapel off Chapel (12 Little Chapel St, Prahran).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicolas Zoumboulis interviews Ryan Shelton, one of four core members of Radio Karate, the team that produce Hamish & Andy's Gap Year specials and most recently True Story.   The interviews covers Ryan's early personal and career life, from his time at Channel 31 to Rove to now producing and writing television for major commercial networks. We talk about the challenge in getting original content like True Story on a free-to-air television prime-time slot in amongst sea of reality television shows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to actor Jennifer Vuletic from the ensemble cast of Merciless Gods, a Little Ones Theatre production based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, now playing at Northcote Town Hall, Main Hall, 189 High St until August 18.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Todd Beavis, Associate Director of Nite Art 2017, Martina Copley, Manager of the artist-run initiative Blindside, who are participating once again in this event, happening Thursday July 27 from 6pm til late.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you’re going to go to a magic show, you really need to let yourself try and enjoy it. It sounds weird, but if you’re skeptical and you go into a magic show, don’t expect much. Honestly you shouldn’t even really be there. So, going to a magic festival is definitely not something for the complete unbelievers. I took my partner along to this show, as I felt it would be an experience that needs to be shared. In the foyer, other magicians showed off their skills, but we were more enthralled by the friendly rabbits making their way through people's legs on the floor. Soon after we headed into a much smaller, more intimate room for the actual show we were there for, White Lies by Pierre Ulric. Ulric is a likeable, eccentric man with a well-trimmed beard and glint behind his eyes. The main basis behind the show is time, which I liked. Every time he finished with a segment he turned over an hourglass, the room would go dark, then light again, and he would address us as though we were in a di

Do you like music? Do you like action? Do you like fast cars speeding around and crashing which isn’t Fast and the Furious? Well this is the film for you! Baby Driver is the new love child of Edgar Wright, known for his smash hit Cornetto Trilogy, including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the other one we don’t really talk about, World’s End. Baby Driver sheds Wright’s former acting duo, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, replacing them with rookie actor Ansel Elgort in the lead role of Baby, a getaway driver. Alongside Elgort is an all-star cast which beefs up an already tantalizing film, including Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx and Jon Bernthal. Next to Elgort is also love interest Debora, played by Lily James. It might not seem like a big deal, but honestly one of my favourite things about this film is that the love story is actually good. It doesn’t feel forced, and is projected in a totally realistic and understandable way; if realistic is driving cars and robbing banks of cour

Christian chats to Samara Hersch about We All Know What’s Happening, a work featuring the perpsectives of seven young on offshore detention in Nauru, at Arts House (521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne) from 19 – 22 July.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to cartoonist and writer Judy Horacek about her newly published ninth cartoon collection, Random Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lady Macbeth is the debut film by William Oldroyd, written by Alice Birch and based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It's set in the mid-19th century, though it transposes the original narrative from Russia to the Northern English moors. The film stars Florence Pugh as Katherine, a young woman who enters into a loveless marriage with an older industrialist. He gives her no attention, and when he leaves for a business trip she looks to one of her husband's workers, Sebastian, played by Cosmo Jarvis, for the affection she so desperately needs. Soon after, however, things turn harsh and murderous, putting into motion events that earn Katherine the unspoken fitting nickname of Lady Macbeth. Shot by Melbourne cinematographer Ari Wegner, the camerawork, which alternates between still and handheld, has an effective but obvious role of mirroring characters' emotional states. The colour palette is also suitably cold except in the more tender moments between Katherine and Sebastian

Christian chats to Creative Producer Kate McDonald, Director Ian Pidd and dance teacher Anton Cleaver-Wilkinson about the Inaugural Annual Dance Affair, on at the Hawthorn Arts Centre on July 20 and 21, 7.30pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jack reviews the Melbourne Youth Orchestras' New Worlds concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday July 2, 2017.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Smithers chats to Karen Therese, director of the Victorian Premiere season of TRIBUNAL, running from July 20-23 at Arts House, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne. CONTENT WARNING: Suicide - Lifeline 13 11 14See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria and Smithers chat to actor Sorcha Breen about I Am Katherine, a theatrical adaptation and response to William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, playing at Hares and Hyenas (63 Johnston St, Fitzroy) from July 19-29.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Smithers and Maria chat to actor/director Lee McClenaghan and lead actor Kelley Kerr Young about The Association, an immersive theatre experience presented by Girls Act Good that's playing at Number 64 (64 Pentland Parade, Yarraville) from July 18-30.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Gareth Liddiard of the Drones took to the stage as the headline act of NGV’s Friday Night series, he took a moment to remind the audience of an unpopular Vincent Van Gogh fact. “He stinks” he said, with a wry grin. He was referring not to Van Gogh’s paintings, but to Vincent himself. Reminding everyone that one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and the star of the most successful NGV international exhibition to ever go on display, actually stank. “In fact if he walked in here now,” Liddiard continued, “You’d probably have him arrested.”  The mythology around Van Gogh is so pervasive now that it is difficult to imagine a time where he was not lauded as an artistic, if troubled, genius. Perhaps it is remembered, but in a self congratulatory way - “I would have known, I would have been different and seen him as the genius that he was.” And to this Liddiard calls bullshit. Liddiard is a loveable rogue who sings like someone havi