SmartArts Podcast
1) Smart Arts 20th Anniversary Special
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 ...Show More
2) Marina Prior on Follies, Midsumma Festival 2025, Red Stitch 2025, TarraWarra's Intimate Imaginaries & ACCA’s new CEO and Artistic Director Myles Russell Cook
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.o...Show More
3) Stuart Braithwaite, Women's Circus annual showcase, art & music therapy and the NDIS, My Brilliant Career, Skating in the Clouds
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 gove...Show More
4) ANAM's Sounds of Australia, La Mama & St Martins Youth Theatre fundraising, Adelaide Festival 2025 & PIECES
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 Pe...Show More
5) Final days of MQFF, Parched, Waves and Bubbles, Big Music, and a Dancehouse double feature
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 scree...Show More
Final days of MQFF, Parched, Waves and Bubbles, Big Music, and a Dancehouse double feature
2:07:51 | Nov 21st, 2024
6) Asia Topa, Geelong Gallery, Benjamin Rivers, Glen Downey and Close Company
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...Show More
Asia Topa, Geelong Gallery, Benjamin Rivers, Glen Downey and Close Company
1:24:48 | Nov 14th, 2024
7) The Poltergeist at La Mama, Gertrude Studios' 2024 exhibition, The Tina Turner Musical, Perth Festival 2025 & Your Name Means Dream at Red Stitch
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 exhibitio...Show More
8) MQFF, Dominic Kavanagh, Rhinoceros & Sydney Festival 2025
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 ...Show More
9) An Evening with Stephen Fry! Irish Film Festival, Adam Elliot, Victorian Opera 2025, The Rabble’s Wake AND Golden Blood
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 ...Show More
10) Malthouse 2025, Amanda Haskard on ACMI, plus MELBOURNE FRINGE MINI SPECIAL: Alix Kuijpers' Grim Grinning Ghosts, Mitch Jones' Apocrypha and choreographer Oli Mathiesen
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 ...Show More