The Arts (Australia) Be excellent: how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisistheconversation.com - Roger Crisp As world chiefs and youth leaders gather in New York at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, many of us as individuals are feeling powerless and …
Friendship Friday essay: on the ending of a friendshiptheconversation.com - Kevin John Brophy Friendship is an incomparable, immeasurable boon to me, and a source of life — not metaphorically but literally. About eight years ago, I went to …
Goth It's hot in here: the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbanetheconversation.com - Sebastien Darchen and John Willsteed The crashing chords of punk echoed through the end of the 70s, heralding the arrival of a diverse bunch of subcultures. In Brisbane, none was more …
The Arts (Australia) From Darkness review: family loss and sorry business that invokes laughter and tearstheconversation.com - Angelina Hurley From Darkness is the story about the aftermath of sorry business – Aboriginal rituals that are observed during a period of mourning. It looks at how, …
The Arts (Australia) More than a kick: sporting statues can enshrine players and also capture pivotal cultural momentstheconversation.com - Michelle O'Shea In March this year, photographer Michael Willson captured an image of AFL footballer Tayla Harris kicking for a goal. The image shows Harris in …
The Arts (Australia) Could managers BE any more authentic? 3 ways you can improve your leadership skills by watching Friendstheconversation.com - Nathalie Collins and Jeff Volkheimer The hit sitcom Friends aired for the first time 25 years ago this week. Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey have not aged on our small …
The Arts (Australia) XXX Neon Sign review: embodied performance about working in a Brisbane porno shoptheconversation.com - Melanie Walters Review: XXX Neon Sign, composed by Dan Thorpe, Rumpus Theatre More than perhaps any other instrument, the grand piano symbolises the classical music …
The Arts (Australia) Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain futuretheconversation.com - Sasha Grishin In 1955, an enormous photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, challenged the world as to what it meant to be human. The curator, Edward Steichen, …
The Arts (Australia) Why it's time for New Zealanders to learn more about their own country's historytheconversation.com - Michael Belgrave From 2022, New Zealand history will be taught at all schools as part of the compulsory national curriculum. The announcement is an astonishing …
The Arts (Australia) Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping - watching Content, a TV show made for smart phonestheconversation.com - Emma Maguire Lucy (Charlotte Nicado) is a pink-haired millennial having a quarter-life crisis. Her school friends have drifted away, she has a useless law degree, …
The Arts (Australia) New musical has enough warmth, witty lines and catchy tunes to win its own fangirlstheconversation.com - Alastair Blanshard Comedy often succeeds where tragedy fails. Fangirls, the pop musical which premiered on Thursday night in Brisbane, is not the first drama to explore …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Arts (Australia) Fangirls review: new musical has enough warmth, witty lines and catchy tunes to win its own fangirlstheconversation.com - Alastair Blanshard Comedy often succeeds where tragedy fails. Fangirls, the pop musical which premiered on Thursday night in Brisbane, is not the first drama to explore …
Persian Culture Friday essay: why traditional Persian music should be known to the worldtheconversation.com - Darius Sepehri Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an Iranian tenor singing …
YouTube Kids In an age of Elsa/Spider-Man romantic mash ups, how to monitor YouTube's children's content?theconversation.com - Jessica Balanzategui Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission imposed a historic fine of US$170 million (A$247 million) on YouTube for allegedly tracking children’s …
The Arts (Australia) Hidden women of history: Marau Ta'aroa, the Sydney-schooled 'last Queen of Tahiti'theconversation.com - Nicholas Hoare In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. From Tongan Princes to the daughters of Sāmoan political leaders, elite …
Lego Batman Movie The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our timestheconversation.com - Ari Mattes The joker, the trickster, the jester, the provocateur - there is a rich cultural history of these roles going back at least as far as Greek …
The Arts (Australia) Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in ittheconversation.com - Sandra Gattenhof There has been renewed scrutiny in recent weeks about spending on private school capital works. Alongside science labs, sporting fields, and …
The Arts (Australia) In Ride Like a Girl, Rachel Griffiths feminises the traditionally male hero's journey - and warms heartstheconversation.com - Lisa Dethridge Award-winning actor Rachel Griffiths takes the reins on a large cast and crew to direct and co-produce this timely biopic. We focus on a …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) The new Seachange is a sad case of Zombie TV: when your favourite programs come back from the deadtheconversation.com - Daryl Sparkes In Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, caretaker Jud Crandall warns against burying bodies in the old Indian burial ground. “They don’t come back the same”, …
Play buttonThe Arts (Australia) Where 'woke' came from and why marketers should think twice before jumping on the social activism bandwagontheconversation.com - Abas Mirzaei First used in the 1940s, the term “woke” has resurfaced in recent years as a concept that symbolises awareness of social issues and movement against …
The Arts (Australia) Cut throat competition, 'corporate-speak' and dark ironies: two new five-year arts planstheconversation.com - Jo Caust A new five-year South Australian Arts Plan was launched this week. But there was a strange disconnect between an acknowledgement by the consultants …
Art The heady sense of being at the heart of public art: 50 years of the Kaldor Foundationtheconversation.com - Joanna Mendelssohn In October 1969, Sydney became the focus for dedicated followers of international avant garde art. It is hard to imagine how unusual it was at that …
Indigenous Peoples Friday essay: lessons from stone – Indigenous thinking and the Lawtheconversation.com - Tyson Yunkaporta In Dreaming stories, Emu is often a narcissist who damages social relationships. These stories teach us about the protocols for living sustainably, …
Play buttonConcerts Explainer: what exactly do musical conductors do?theconversation.com - Warwick Potter Conductors are a relatively new breed of musician. Only as compositions became more complex circa 1810 (blame Beethoven!) did the actual need for a …
Play buttonMusical Theatre Hollywood onstage: why are so many musicals adapted from movies?theconversation.com - Trevor Jones In a 2004 original musical about creating an original musical – cheekily titled [title of show] – one writer asks, “So movies make good musicals?” …
The Arts (Australia) Framing the fearful symmetry of nature: the year's best photos of landscapes and living thingstheconversation.com - Cris Brack Nature. Some see it as beautiful and some as red “in tooth and claw”. Of course nature is dynamic, it changes between both the beautiful and the …
The Arts (Australia) Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failuretheconversation.com - Camilla Nelson Review: Avalanche: A Love Story, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, Sydney Theatre Company Maxine Peake’s character needs to find “another way to be …
Concrete Brutalism: how to love a concrete beasttheconversation.com - DJ Huppatz No other architectural style elicits emotional reactions like Brutalism. Think monolithic concrete buildings composed of blunt rectangular forms, …
University of Technology Sydney Time to make fast fashion a problem for its makers, not charitiestheconversation.com - Mark Liu Returning our old clothes to big fashion chains - rather than taking them to charity stores - could make fast fashion companies pay for their waste …
