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SmartArts

Visual art, theatre, film and literature. Segments include: - "Art Attack" - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith. - "Shoot the Messenger" - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Fleur Kilpatrick. - "Drawn Out" - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo. Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests. About the Presenter Richard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artistic

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00:30

That's A Wrap!

SmartArts ·

2025/02/06

Although the podcast format of SmartArts has now wrapped, this show continues to be broadcast on Triple R. You can now listen to new episodes on Triple R’s FM On Demand service at rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts.Thanks for listening!

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01:36:20

Smart Arts 20th Anniversary Special

SmartArts ·

2024/12/19

SmartArts takes over the Triple R Performance Space for a very special broadcast to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary!Richard Watts OAM first brought Triple R's flagship morning arts program to life in December 2004, hosting hundreds of conversations every year with local artists, established talent and international touring legends from across the visual and performing arts spectrum. Listen back to this celebration of twenty years on the airwaves, broadcast live from the Triple R

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01:28:13

Marina Prior on Follies, Midsumma Festival 2025, Red...

SmartArts ·

2024/12/12

Join Richard Watts for his penultimate episode before he closes out 2024 with his 20th anniversary next week! Details for the live event happening on Thursday 19th can be found here: https://www.rrr.org.au/events/smartarts-20th-anniversary-special Whether you’re a Midsumma Festival veteran or you’re wanting to go for the first time, Chief Executive and Creative Director, Karen Bryant, is here to give us a 2025 program overview. The theme for 2025 is Collective Identities, and the festival

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01:59:45

Stuart Braithwaite, Women's Circus annual showcase,...

SmartArts ·

2024/12/05

Malia Walsh, the guest director of Women’s Circus annual Member Cabaret, tells us all about the end of year showcase, Braver than a Bear. Music therapist Paul Byrnes joins discusses the federal government’s decision to remove Music Therapy as a recognized therapeutic support under the NDIS; according to the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA), this decision was made without consultation and will profoundly impact some of our nation’s most vulnerable individuals. Dean Bryant and

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01:25:38

ANAM's Sounds of Australia, La Mama & St Martins...

SmartArts ·

2024/11/28

Tai Snaith is back with Art Attack! She checked out the latest exhibition at the new Ordinance Gallery, Cardboards by Darcey Bella Arnold. The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Head of Percussion Peter Neville stops by to tell Richard about their festival, Sounds of Australia. It runs from the 28-30 November at the Abbotsford Convent. Tickets and info: https://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whos-here/anam/ Caitlin Dullard and Nadja Kostich, the Artistic Directors & CEOs of La Mama

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02:07:51

Final days of MQFF, Parched, Waves and Bubbles, Big...

SmartArts ·

2024/11/21

With MQFF closing on Sunday November 24th, filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay and actor Connor Pullinger join Richard to talk about the last few days of the festival. Alice’s film Carnage for Christmas screens on Sunday 24th (last day of MQFF) at 3.15pm at Cinema Nova. Connor’s film Bulldog is a contender for Australian Shorts & Awards (screening and awards are 6pm on Saturday 23rd at ACMI Fed Square). Then, from the La Trobe Art Institute, Dr. Karen Annett (director) and Amelia Wallin

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01:24:48

Asia Topa, Geelong Gallery, Benjamin Rivers, Glen...

SmartArts ·

2024/11/14

Jeff Khan previews the 2025 Asia Topa program, Katarina Paseta discusses two Geelong Gallery exhibitions (the Noel Counihan retrospective A People’s Press which is on display until March 10th 2025 and Social Studies which is on display until February 9th), actor/psychotherapist/applied theatre practitioner Benjamin Rivers chats about The Invaders’ Fear of Memories, Glen Downey discusses the Off The Kerb exhibition You Can Be… Anything!, and actors Declan Harrison and Sophie Graham and

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01:58:42

The Poltergeist at La Mama, Gertrude Studios' 2024...

SmartArts ·

2024/11/06

Richard speaks to actor Tamblyn Lord on the Australian premiere of Philip Ridley's play The Poltergeist, at La Mama Theatre. Gertrude Studios curator, Dr Amelia Winata, introduces the 2024 exhibition. Giovanni Adams joins Richard in studio to discuss his role as Ike Turner in Tina, The Tina Turner Musical. Director Anna Reece gives an overview of the Perth Festival 2025 program. Finally, the cast of Your Name Means Dream, Caroline Lee and Lucy Ansell talk about performing the show at Red

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01:25:39

MQFF, Dominic Kavanagh, Rhinoceros & Sydney Festival...

SmartArts ·

2024/10/31

Buckle in for another ride of the SmartArts-coaster! Richard Watts OAM, is here to guide you through all the twists, turns and thrills of this weeks episode… Kicking off with a Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) program overview with program director Cerise Howard and CEO David Martin Harris. MQFF is screening across Melbourne from November 14-24, tickets available now.Visual artist, Dominic Kavanagh, is in the studio to talk about his work ‘The Blooming’. It’s a Lennox award-winning

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01:56:07

An Evening with Stephen Fry! Irish Film Festival,...

SmartArts ·

2024/10/24

This week on SmartArts with Richard Watts,As we all know, Melbourne is the most Irish city in Australia, and Dr Enda Murray, the Festival Director of the 2024 Irish Film Festival is here to tell us how we can embrace our Irish-ness through cinema. Showing from 24-27 October, find something on the program for yourself here: https://irishfilmfestival.com.au/ Academy Award winning filmmaker and artist, Adam Elliot has a new exhibition showing at Beinart Gallery. Opening on October 26th, All

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01:29:24

Malthouse 2025, Amanda Haskard on ACMI, plus...

SmartArts ·

2024/10/10

Richard starts off this week's show with a Malthouse Theatre 2025 season overview with Artistic Director Matt Lutton. Gunai/Kurnai woman and curator Amanda Haskard talks ACMI's major exhibition The Future and Other Fictions. And three interviews about Melbourne Fringe: performer and choreographer Alix Kuijpers tells Richard about Grim Grinning Ghosts, Mitch Jones (Oozing Future) discusses new alt-circus/theatre performance Apocrypha, and Oli Mathiesen talks about about the Aotearoa

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02:00:24

Dredge, Radiant Pavillion 2024, Rick Prackoff's...

SmartArts ·

2024/09/12

Welcome to another fabulous episode of SmartArts, where Richard Watts OAM is serving up a delightful platter of comic book chat, theatre and art.First up, it’s Bernard Caleo’s monthly Drawn Out comic books segment. To talk about the upcoming Femmural production, Dredge, is Rosa Ablett-Johnstone, Producer & cast member and Jack Brumeister, Composer & Sound Designer. Opening at Theatreworks on September 18, Dredge is an immersive and physical piece which is an adaptation of its

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01:41:07

SmartArts 9th September 2024

SmartArts ·

2024/09/05

Host Richard is joined by Director Anthea Williams and Actor Rachael Edmonds to talk about upcoming Melbourne Thearte production "The cost of Living" which won the 2018 Pulitzer prize for drama, written by Polish-Amercian Playwright Martyna Majok. Another topic on the show is political power of posters and street posters, future founations past present and future of poster print making. Simon Abrahams from Melbourne fringe pops in to talk about some of the highlights of the 2024 Melbourne

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01:54:59

Disability advocacy in the arts, MAGMA exhibitions,...

SmartArts ·

2024/08/28

Richard is joined in today's show of Smartarts by a whirlpool of talent including: artist Cindy Campbell, Sharmini Kumar & Arthur Pontonio of Around the World in 80 Days and Paul Mitchell & Theresa Borg who discuss their latest theatrical, You're the Man.From the behind the scenes we peak into an array of art organisations hosted by guests from the likes of MAGMA gallery director Jake Taylor, executive director of Arts Project Australia Liz Nowell & CEO of Arts Access Victoria

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01:56:50

And This Time the Well Is Alive, Secret Mall...

SmartArts ·

2024/08/15

Richard Watts OAM has a plentiful basket of curators, directors, artists and critics for you to choose from this week. If you’re looking for an art exhibition, and perhaps you’ve been chewed up by bureaucratic systems… look no further than Gertrude Contemporary Exhibition, And This Time the Well Is Alive. Joining Richard is Curator at Gertrude Contemporary, Amelia Winata who guides us through the works making up this thought provoking exhibit. If you’re seeking MIFF recs, Secret Mall

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01:47:33

Drawn Out Comics, Fox Galleries, the heart whispers...

SmartArts ·

2024/08/08

Richard is joined by a whole slew of guests including: Bernard Caleo to talk all things comics, Tai Snaith with the fortnightly Art Attack, Nela Trifkovic who is the vocalist behind new performance 'The Resonant Heart – The Heart Whispers and Whirls', Jeff Khan pops into the studio to chat about Asia TOPA, Rhys Graham presents a new documentary Rewards for the Tribe (2023), Andrew Gyopar, the Executive Producer and AG Theatre Founder on all things musicals!

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02:06:14

Irish rappers KNEECAP, Circus Arts, SCI-FI...

SmartArts ·

2024/08/01

Richard Kicks off this jam packed episode with Simona Jobbagy of NICA and Sam Jacob, CEO of Collarts as they talk about Australia's only Bachelor of Circus Arts finding a new home for 2025.We have Tilly Boleyn, Science Gallery Melbourne’s Curator & Gail Chin Curator from Art/Science Museum Singapore as they introduce new exhibition SCI-FI Mythologies Transformed, on-now at Science Gallery Melbourne.Curator Vipoo Srivilasa & Artist Zhu Ohmu join Richard in studio to discuss

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01:39:28

Scandinavian Film Festival, How do we remain; at the...

SmartArts ·

2024/07/25

Host Richard Watts is joined by Christof Wehmeier, head of international & festival promotion at the Icelandic Film Centre, and they discuss the 2024 Scandinavian film Festival program and highlights. We also have Artist Madeleine Flynn and Arts Centre’s Director of Programming Marshall McGuire from the Arts Centre, discussing Installation, how do we remain at Melbourne Recital centre.We also have Christopher Gurusamy, Performer/Choreographer of Ānanda: Dance of Joy discussing the

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01:47:10

Midsumma needs a new home, Tristan Meecham's Queering...

SmartArts ·

2024/07/18

Richard Watts OAM reporting for SmartArts! As always, he's here to give you an inside look into the fabulous people behind all of the brilliant goings-on of Naarm's flourishing art scene. Let's go!Amid the housing crisis, Midsumma’s CEO Karen Bryant is on the hunt for office space. The festival is Australia's premier queer arts and cultural organisation, bringing together a diverse mix of LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, communities and audiences. So, got a spare 200m sq space for a few

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01:25:01

Redeveloping the Melbourne Arts Precinct, reviving...

SmartArts ·

2024/07/11

SmartArts with Richard Watts OAM back to keep you company on these chilly winters days...Starting out with Artist Kate Wallace on her new exhibition ‘Details of a room and other places’ - on now at LON Gallery. In the coming years there will be a big redevelopment of the Melbourne Arts Precinct & the Queen Victoria Market - to tell all about it is Principal Architect at NH Architecture, Emily Von Moger. The new exhibition ‘Brand New’ at Fortyfivedownstairs gallery shows a behind the

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