Dance, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
The wonderful Naxos Video Library continues to offer up music and dance from around the world New Year’s Concert, 2007: conducted by Valery Gergiev Well, it’s the new financial year!… Read More ›
Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include latest releases in opera, musical theatre, jazz & blues, popular & world music. The online catalogue indicates… Read More ›
Social life & customs, Such was life:
‘When an Argentinean dance called the tango arrived in Melbourne in 1913, the wowsers were shocked by dancers who danced cheek-to-cheek and whose legs and arms pressed against each other… Read More ›
A double bill featuring Kamahl and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday August 7. Louis Armstrong : live in Australia,… Read More ›
Music, Musicals, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include latest releases in opera, musical theatre, jazz & blues, popular & world music. The online catalogue indicates which… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This Wednesday, Outside-in Cinema will be showing the recent documentary entitled Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel, which chronicles the rise to fame of the late 20th century fashion… Read More ›
Family history events, Family matters:
In 2013 Family History Feast celebrates its 10th birthday. Look back over the last ten years to learn more about the history of an event now a “must do” on… Read More ›
Are you researching: women in Victoria? the lives of Victorian settlers? Aboriginal/settler interactions? women’s experiences of migration?
The Melbourne Film Festival is once again upon us, and as usual there are some terrific special programs North Korean cinema : a history by Johannes Schönherr McFarland & Co.,… Read More ›
Armida : an opera in three acts, is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday July 24. Please note that from today Arts on… Read More ›
Ailsa O’Connor (1921-1980) was a political activist, painter, sculptor, author and teacher. Throughout her art career she was a member of the Communist Party and associated with the Socialist Realist Group.
Ailsa O’Connor (1921-1980) was a political activist, painter, sculptor, author and teacher. Throughout her art career she was a member of the Communist Party and associated with the Socialist Realist Group.
