We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
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We Were Here – by Sarah Firth

I’m in Canberra, on Ngunnawal country, at my childhood home helping to sort through stuff accumulated over a lifetime. My parents have sold the house after 45 years to move into a smaller townhouse with room for a carer when needed. It’s the end of an era. There is so much to process. And I’m trying to get some sort of closure.

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Julie Gough: Tense Past
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Julie Gough: Tense Past

On the Queen’s Domain in the middle of a Hobart winter, people silently wander along a narrow track through a dark grove of she-oaks, eucalyptus and acacia trees. As night falls, long shadows cross the path …

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The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry
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The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry

Tasmania and Iceland sit at almost opposite ends of the world; remote islands of disparate wilderness that are as distant as the 17,000 kilometres that separate them. The premise behind our application for the publishing residency there was simple: islands, as books, have delineated boundaries – and yet, the identities of both are formed through interactions and exchanges that extend beyond the lines of a map or the borders of a page. We wrote to Skaftfell, who run the Printing Matter program, and told them that we intended to publish an island …

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Sisters Akousmatica: Herstory of Radio
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Sisters Akousmatica: Herstory of Radio

[Voix Fantôme] The act of simply being women in public space, in radio/broadcast space, in performance space, in the world, can be a radical one – but we do not wish to leave it at that.
[Transmitter 1] How? How to begin to unpick a thousand years of cultural status quo?

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Double Yolker - by Mish Meijers
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Double Yolker - by Mish Meijers

These are not things you will ever see. Meijers is constructing images and objects that merge politics with theatre (as if that needs to be consciously done). She is allowing us an audience with everything that exists behind closed doors, and she is putting a spotlight on it, and as it stands, sweaty and blinking out at the darkness and forgetting its lines, she is sticking the knife in, and playing for the dramatic finale …

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Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum
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Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum

… one might wonder exactly where the future lies. It might be too bold to imagine that it lies in the arts. However, there are many examples of arts festivals driving regional renewal, establishing new parameters of community engagement in areas that might otherwise have been written off, if not actually abandoned …

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