Archive

Latino al fresco
03 December 2003
Summer heats up with the free outdoor Sunset @ Subi concerts.

Refuel for more marketing spark
14 October 2003
More than just a website, fuel4arts.com is a growing global arts community connecting artists, arts managers and consultants online.

Southern Fiesta
18 February 2004
The City of Churches will become the City of the Arts, when the 2004 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts is launched on Friday, 27 February.

Going Troppo
18 February 2004
Everyone's a critic at the annual Tropfest Short Film Festival.

New Zealand International Arts Festival 2004
25 February 2004
Lyle Lovett’s cancellation may have disappointed some festival goers, however the 2004 New Zealand International Arts Festival will be as vibrant as ever.

Holiday Festivals
16 December 2003
Summer is festival season in Australia, with a spate of special events cropping up in every corner of the country.

Moving House
21 October 2003
A new home for the Art Gallery of NSW’s extensive Asian art collection has opened.

Home and Away
09 October 2003
Peter Conrad proves that the beauty of Australia doesn't just lie with the beholder.

What’s new pussy cat?
09 December 2003
A unique fundraising partnership between the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Future Zoo Foundation.

What about Wataboshi?
11 November 2003
Celebrating unity through diversity in Brisbane.

Room to Move
28 October 2003
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts celebrates three weeks of contemporary dance theatre in Dancers are space eaters.

See Shells
28 October 2003
A favourite on the summer arts circuit, Sculpture by the Sea returns to Bondi.

The party’s at our House
30 September 2003
Turning 30 is a birthday to celebrate, and Sydney Opera House will mark this milestone in October with a series of unique performing arts events and a world-premiere photographic exhibition in a brand new venue.

Body Image
07 October 2003
The 2003 Melbourne International Arts Festival pays homage to the body in all of its various guises.

Viva la Carnivale
16 September 2003
A sumptuous feast of multicultural arts and events in NSW.

Paradise Found
07 October 2003
Fine wine, gourmet food and a superb Welsh tenor, all in the idyllic surrounds of some of Australia’s finest wineries.

Magical Mystery Tour
23 September 2003
Melbourne is invited to a party of magnificent proportions as Melbourne Fringe Festival turns 21, for seventeen action-packed days.

The Don
23 September 2003
Don Burrows peppers up a jazz weekend in the Southern Highlands.

Art Scene
02 September 2003
Master of the art world, Patrick McCaughey, appears in conversation with Australian Book Review editor, Peter Rose.

September limelight out now
19 August 2003
The September edition of limelight hits newsstands around Australia.

Bless You!
02 September 2003
Victorian indigenous arts festival Bless Your BlaK Arts returns for a second year.

Retro Expo
26 August 2003
The AADA Antiques and Fine Arts Fair 2003 comes to Sydney’s Wharf 8.

Smart Art
07 August 2003
Your chance to purchase a range of quality original artwork for under $5000 at the inaugural Sydney Affordable Art Show.

Write On
19 August 2003
From sex and passion to politics and Holdens, the 2003 Age Melbourne Writers’ Festival is definitely unique.

Literary Luminary
29 July 2003
Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey hosts a program of events to coincide with the release of his latest novel, My Life as a Fake.

Culture Online
16 July 2003
Culture gets wired at the annual OzeCulture conference in Brisbane in July.

Stars of the Silver Screen
21 July 2003
Brisbane and Melbourne are both superstars this week, with the Melbourne and Brisbane International Film Festivals respectively gracing each capital.

Film-time Dreaming
07 July 2003
Sydney celebrates NAIDOC Week with a tribute to Indigenous film and filmmakers.

Extra-Longweekend
23 June 2003
There’s nothing better than a long weekend. Particularly when it lasts for ten days.

Caffeine Fix
01 July 2003
Recent studies reveal that Australians consume on average 2.4 kg of coffee per person per year. With figures like that, it is no wonder a celebration of coffee is one of the biggest events on the Sydney calendar.

Viva la REVolution
16 June 2003
The REVelation Film Festival revs up its profile from humble beginnings in 1997.

The concert(s) of the millennium
22 April 2003
No, really. A whole millennium of the world’s musical history is covered in this new concert series, cunningly entitled A Millennium of Music.

Messages in a Bottle
19 May 2003
A celebration of contemporary Indigenous arts at the Sydney Opera House.

Art on the Rocks… Shaken, not Stirred
26 May 2003
Sydney’s historic Rocks precinct will be transformed into an enormous al fresco art workshop for the inaugural Art on the Rocks.

Sydney Writers’ Festival
12 May 2003
Calling all bibliophiles and budding Baudelaires: the Sydney Writers’ Festival is back in town.

Fine Craftmanship
19 May 2003
The Australian Craft Show brings the finest artists, designers and food producers to the capital.

Designs on Melbourne
05 May 2003
Melbourne opens its (architecturally-designed) doors onto the best in international design and architecture.

Out of the Chamber
23 April 2003
The 9th annual Canberra Chamber Music Festival sets the capital alight with a burning passion for all things Chamber.

Crafty Designs
31 March 2003
The very best of contemporary craft comes to Glen Eira, blending traditional and revolutionary approaches to a range of media.

A Course for Old Times’ Sake
06 March 2003
Here’s another reason for history buffs to visit the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Those Canberra folk
14 April 2003
Set sail for Canberra over the Easter long weekend for the 35th annual National Folk Festival.

My Island Home
24 March 2003
Festival fun reaches the arts end of Australia.

Designing minds
19 March 2003
The cream of Australia's young designers show their weird and wonderful designs at Sydney's Customs House.

Style Masters
10 March 2003
Any fashionista worth their Manolo Blahniks knows that Melbourne is the place to be this week.

Up, up, and away!
12 March 2003
Imagine a giant coffee cup rising into the sky over Old Parliament House. Surrealist art event? Bizarre ad campaign? Even better: it's the 18th Canberra Balloon Fiesta.

New Zealand throbs with all things festive
24 February 2003
Counting down: The Taranaki Festival and The World of Music Arts and Dance

WOMADelicious
03 March 2003
An unprecedented number of World Music’s finest gather for the tenth anniversary of WOMADelaide.

Some like it Tasty
05 March 2003
There’ll be plenty of arts events at this year’s Taste 03, including an artists’ colony with over 40 of the region’s best arts organisations and individual artists present. Not to mention some slightly less high-brow fun, including the intriguingly named Great Grape Stomp.

Grande Dame
18 February 2003
Kiri Te Kanawa takes to the wine. Well, to the wineries anyway.

Jocks and frocks
10 February 2003
Pensive, probing, and always provocative – the Mardi Gras Film Festival is hitting Sydney. BYO leather.

Around the world in 10 days
03 February 2003
Travel the world without crossing a single dateline. Unless you're travelling from Perth.

Go west. Life is lively there.
14 January 2003
The Perth Festival is turning 50 this year, and they’ve invited the world around for a bit of a cultural knees-up.

Magic, myth and meaning under the stars
19 November 2002
Elizabeth Greig went to Sydney Dreaming at Sydney Olympic Park last week and found it a moving, timely and significant event. "As culturally important", even, "as Puccini's Madame Butterfly."

Everything Sparkles: In Conversation With Helen Garner
08 July 2002
Helen Garner on fencing, The First Stone and the perfect sandals.

Hong Kong Shopping
03 June 2002
It's no secret that Hong Kong is a shopper's paradise. Paula Nagel uncovers some of her own personal Hong Kong discoveries.

Holiday Festivals
18 December 2002
This holiday season promises festivals big and small, far and wide, gay and straight. And there are plenty of foreign performers flying south for the summer, so opportunities abound to see and hear something you can’t otherwise.

Kung hei fat choy!
20 January 2003
The City of Sydney celebrates the Year of the Goat, minus the cheese.

The word on the street
07 January 2003
The Sydney Festival is now in full swing and you’re probably back at work. We’ve got our ear to the ground to help Sydneysiders make the most of any time and money they have left on their hands.

Breaking the Drought
12 November 2002
Aboriginal culture is reborn for the 21st century in its traditional heartland.

A New(town) kind of Festival
04 November 2002
The Newtown Festival is an institution on the Sydney festival scene, yet it's far from institutional.

It's not just sport, sport
22 October 2002
From cabaret and choirs to comedy and choreography, the Gay Games Cultural Festival 2002 is queer culture at its most fabulous, darling.

Singapore’s all arted up
15 October 2002
The show goes on in Singapore. As the Esplanade Opening Festival continues, the broad umbrella of the for Art’s sake! festival has tentacles stretching to a total of 131 events.

The Death of the Text
15 October 2002
TEXT is the overarching theme for this year’s Melbourne Festival, but it could just as easily have been NOT TEXT. The program is a form-stretching, genre-bending, text-twisting kaleidoscope of performances.

Artrageous
29 October 2002
The ARTRAGE festival has only a weekend to go in Perth and they're winding it up with - what else? - a big party in the park. There are still a few performances to see first, though.

Singapore’s new arts hub
02 October 2002
At last, the new heart of Singapore’s arts scene is ready to officially fling open its doors. The occasion calls for something memorable, so they’re staging a month-long arts festival.

Fringe Benefits
30 September 2002
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is turning 20, but doesn't look a day over 19.

Dance, Act, Paint and Singapore
27 September 2002
On Marina Bay, Singapore’s locals are preparing for the opening of their impressive new arts centre: Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

Spoilt for choice
02 September 2002
The arrival of Spring in Brisbane usually means two things: the Broncos and Lions are playing in the footy finals and the annual arts festival is in town. This year’s no different.

Writers block Melbourne streets, coffee machines
21 August 2002
After a month of film festival saturation, and with a massive arts festival looming, Melbourne’s literary circles will have a week to get their fix.

More wine than you can poke a vine at
30 July 2002
The whole of Australia’s wine industry descends upon Sydney for the nation’s big biennial booze-up, Wine Australia.

Alice in Arnhem Land
23 July 2002
Darwin might already feel on the fringe to the rest of the country, but over the next month it's embracing the margins with a packed program of alternative arts with a loose Alice in Wonderland theme. We bring you the highlights of the Darwin Fringe Festival, leaving you time to pack your kombi and head for the Top End.

Stamps gallop off to a year of good luck
23 January 2002
Australia Post is celebrating Chinese Lunar Year 2002, the Year of the Horse, with a special stamp issue released on 8 January.

New Zealand’s Wine-Cup Runneth Over
15 July 2002
We trawl through the bar graphs, tables and detailed analysis from the 2002 vintage. What might the trends mean to the average drinker and how can you use them to put your self-professed wine-expert friends in their place?