Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here to do our Theatre Network Australia spot this moth AND to introduce the TNA Member of the Month for June – Joel Bray whose new show Monolith is about to open at Arts House in North Melbourne…

And speaking of shows opening, Belle Hansen’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information has just opened at Theatre Works and for a change of pace, we’ll chat with that show’s composer and sound designer Jack Burmeister…

Then, LOTS to talk about on Screens&Streams… first up we’ll meet Finnish/Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg who’s having their own film festival – Winter Warmers – at Henkel Street Cinema… then Richard Sowada is back to talk about this year’s St Kilda Film Festival… AND we’ll look at one of the festival’s films screens as part of the festival’s Pride Without Prejudice event – a new short film – Found – written and directed by our very own Luka Gracie… and if that’s not enough screen culture for you, Marc Gracie is here as usual to chat about a couple of new movies we’ve seen…

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We’ll be chatting with Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart in Darwin first up tonight, and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist – choreographer, dance and Brown’s Mart Associate Producer Balla Neeba…

Then we’re off to Monash Performing Arts Centres to find out about Blakout – six weeks of First Nation’s music, dance and storytelling running from Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3) to NAIDOC Week (July 6 to 13) and who better to tell us about it than MPAC’s Senior Producer First Nations, Tom Molyneux…

And while we’re at Monash University, let’s drop in on Professor Kim Marriott at MATS (the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre) to find out how his work and the work of his team is changing the lives of the blind and low vision community…

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If you’d like to hear my previous conversation with Kim Marriott about his book The Golden Age of Data Visualization, it was on the December 9 show last year and you’ll find it on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats…

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It's Boola Bardip Museum’s Helen Simondson’s turn to get the ball rolling this week with her regular Perth roundup and, of course, her local guest artist… Michelle Hovane, Co-Artistic Director of Sensorium Theatre…

Then we’re off to the Bowery Theatre in St Albans for the world premiere of The Yellow Line, a play that asks whether culture and connection can break the cycle of incarceration. We’ll meet Producer-Creator Tyson Tuala…

Meanwhile, at Darebin Arts Speakeasy, dance maker Sarah Aiken has a new work – Body Corp – and we’ll catch up with her to find out how easily the body in space merges with technology…

And finally, we’ll head up to Bendigo to catch up with Janice Donnelly to find out about the Bendigo Chorale’s latest performance – Songs of the Isles…

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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is here for our regular Adelaide catch up and to introduce us to Rachael Azzopardi – Co-Founder and Creative Director of Illuminate Adelaide…

Then, Conductor Mario Dobernig is back to tell us about the latest Victoria Chorale and Art of Sound Orchestra performance – Jospeh Hayden’s The Creation…

After that we’ll visit Theatre Works not once but twice – first to chat with Director Teresa Izzard about her production of Shadowboxing – and then to chat with Director Maude Davey and Writer/Performer Myf Hocking about the Antipodes Theatre production of Storked…

And finally, some very cool music from Wild Gloriosa from the new EP Growing Pains…

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Steph Spears is the Theatre Network Australia rep for the start of May and she’ll be introducing the TNA Member of the Month, Philip Channells from Dance Integrated Australia …

Then, it’s time for the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and Vision Australia Radio is a media partner – so let’s do some media with Festival Director, Veronica Sullivan…

After that, it’s time for Screens & Streams, and we’ll start with Elysia Zeccola from Palace Films for a chat about the German Film Festival… before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…

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This month our Darwin correspondent is Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart and she’ll be introducing us to Nicky Fearn and Gail Evans, creators of Fair Punishment…

Then it’s time for the Yirramboi Festival again and we’ll sit down with Co-Leads Sherene Stewart and J’Maine Beezley to find out all the good stuff…

And then a bit of music to finish off the show… new instrumental dance group Intermood have released their debut album – Casuarina – so, we’ll listen to a couple of tracks and chat with drummer Miles Murray…

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There’s a great new exhibition at Linden New Art – Bernhard Sachs: After History - which celebrates the life and art of artist and academic Bernhard Sachs and Curator Hamish Sawyer walks and talks us through these remarkable works…

…and speaking of Linden New Art, and exhibition we missed last year has been captured in a beautiful book – I’m A Believer by artist Michelle Hamer capturing her exploration of the invalidation and dismissive language we often encounter in healthcare systems all over the world…

And why not spend the whole show in galleries… we’ll finish up at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery where Monica Curro is rolling out a fabulous new programme of Music on Sundays…

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We start this week’s show in Adelaide with Elena Vereker from InSite Arts who’ll introduce her local guest artist, Jennifer Greer Holmes from Vital Statistix…

Then we’re off on a bit of a nostalgia trip at the Museum of Australian Photography when we check out The Basement, their exhibition devoted to celebrating the Photography Course at Prahran College from 1968 to 1981 and we’ll meet photographer Paul Lambeth who was there as a student AND there on opening night…

Meanwhile, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is still going so let’s catch up with comedian Anisa Nandaula who’ll tell us why You Can’t Say That…

…and then let’s drop in on Gasworks for a bit of Berlin Burlesque from the Lyttelton Circus Theatre Company and we’ll chat with David Ladderman… who is either a narrating juggler or a juggling narrator…

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