Audition Call – Lismore Theatre Company
Director Daniel Sassi is calling for actors to audition for roles in the upcoming production of Neighbourhood Watch by Lally Katz to be staged from May 28-June 6 at Rochdale Goonellabah. Auditions are on...
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Puss in Thongs – Lismore Theatre Company
PUSS IN THONGS- Lismore Theatre Company – Rochdale Theatre, Goonellabah, April 15-17, 2021 Panto for the Holidays Puss in Thongs, an Aussie take on a traditional pantomime is coming to Rochdale Theatre, Goonellabah in...
Of circuses, sideshows and high-wire feats
A Dickensian Sideshow – exhibition by Karla Dickens, Lismore Regional Gallery (Nov 2020 – Feb 2021, touring to Orange Regional Gallery in Nov 2021). Aboriginal people were familiar faces in the circuses and carnival...
Are Australia’s art schools endangered?
Friday essay: amid a war on culture, are Australia’s art schools an endangered species? shutterstock Sasha Grishin, Australian National University The plight of art schools in Australia in recent decades is hardly breaking news....
Why weren’t there any great women artists?
Why weren’t there any great women artists? In gratitude to Linda Nochlin Judith Beheading Holofernes, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1614-20. Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli/Wikimedia Commons Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne In January 1971,...
Book Review – American Dirt
Author: Jeanine Cummins Book Review: Jenny Dowell I am in two minds about reviewing this book. It is not without controversy but all those I know who’ve read it agree that it’s a riveting...