We’re in Darwin with Brown’s Mart Artistic Director Yvette Walker for the start of this week’s show and she’ll introduce us to Balla Neeba and Aunty Christine Fejo-King talking about the Aboriginal Science Fair On Country as well as Darwin Fringe Festival Director Hannah Illingsworth.

Then we catch up with Sarah Hopkins who’s the CEO of Your Library – at least it’s your library if you live in the Knox, Maroondah or Yarra Ranges local council areas – confused? Well, Sarah clears it up when she tells us about LIBBY the ebook and audio book app that’s had more than one million borrowings already…

After that, we’ll chat with photographer and video artist Laki Sideris who’s part of the ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain exhibition at Burrinja Gallery in Upwey.

And finally, Moira Finucane is best known for her work in burlesque, but she’s also knows a lot about Antarctica, and she’ll be sharing that knowledge with children when her kids show The Rockstar and the Krill opens at Monash Performing Arts Centres as part of Family Fiesta.

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Helen Simonson from WA Museum Boola Bardip gets us going this week with her monthly round up of all this Perth…

Then, we drop in on rehearsals for the remount of the smash hit Happy Go Wrong and find out what it’s like to revisit such a personal show after seven years when we chat with creator/performer Andi Snelling…

Meanwhile, the stage adaptation of the popular novel about the youngest soldier at Gallipoli – Soldier Boy – is about to open at Theatre Works and writer/adaptor Anthony Hill is here to talk about the difference between being the novelist and being the playwright…

And finally, yet another new play has just opened, this time at Red Stitch and poet, essayist and playwright Emilie Collyer will tell us about Super…

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If it’s the second Monday of the month, then it must be time to drop in on Elena Vereker from InSite Arts for our regular Adelaide catch up AND to meet her local guest artist, prolific actor about to appear in Kimberly Akimbo, Nathan O’Keefe…

Then, even though the Comedy Festival is well over, there’s still funny stuff happening, and to prove it, we’ll meet comedian Chris Ryan and find out why she’s an Extreme Tennant…

Meanwhile, Polyglot’s Artistic Director Cat Sewell is playing in the Cubbyhood and if you’re wondering what that means, then you’re sure to find out from Cat…

And finally, it’s our annual visit to Confined, the exhibition of remarkable work by First Nations’ artists who’ve experienced incarceration… usually, we’d be talking to curator Kent Morris but this year we’re mixing it up a bit by talking to three of the artists in the exhibition – Jacob, Alisha and Timothy…

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Yuhui Ng Rodriguez is here to do our Theatre Network Australia spot this moth AND to introduce the TNA Member of the Month for June – Joel Bray whose new show Monolith is about to open at Arts House in North Melbourne…

And speaking of shows opening, Belle Hansen’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information has just opened at Theatre Works and for a change of pace, we’ll chat with that show’s composer and sound designer Jack Burmeister…

Then, LOTS to talk about on Screens&Streams… first up we’ll meet Finnish/Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg who’s having their own film festival – Winter Warmers – at Henkel Street Cinema… then Richard Sowada is back to talk about this year’s St Kilda Film Festival… AND we’ll look at one of the festival’s films screens as part of the festival’s Pride Without Prejudice event – a new short film – Found – written and directed by our very own Luka Gracie… and if that’s not enough screen culture for you, Marc Gracie is here as usual to chat about a couple of new movies we’ve seen…

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We’ll be chatting with Liz Rogers from Brown’s Mart in Darwin first up tonight, and she’ll be introducing us to her local guest artist – choreographer, dance and Brown’s Mart Associate Producer Balla Neeba…

Then we’re off to Monash Performing Arts Centres to find out about Blakout – six weeks of First Nation’s music, dance and storytelling running from Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3) to NAIDOC Week (July 6 to 13) and who better to tell us about it than MPAC’s Senior Producer First Nations, Tom Molyneux…

And while we’re at Monash University, let’s drop in on Professor Kim Marriott at MATS (the Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre) to find out how his work and the work of his team is changing the lives of the blind and low vision community…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

If you’d like to hear my previous conversation with Kim Marriott about his book The Golden Age of Data Visualization, it was on the December 9 show last year and you’ll find it on our podcast page- just put Vision Australia Radio Behind the Scenes into your favourite podcast search engine and you’ll find this and all our other episodes and bonus chats…

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It's Boola Bardip Museum’s Helen Simondson’s turn to get the ball rolling this week with her regular Perth roundup and, of course, her local guest artist… Michelle Hovane, Co-Artistic Director of Sensorium Theatre…

Then we’re off to the Bowery Theatre in St Albans for the world premiere of The Yellow Line, a play that asks whether culture and connection can break the cycle of incarceration. We’ll meet Producer-Creator Tyson Tuala…

Meanwhile, at Darebin Arts Speakeasy, dance maker Sarah Aiken has a new work – Body Corp – and we’ll catch up with her to find out how easily the body in space merges with technology…

And finally, we’ll head up to Bendigo to catch up with Janice Donnelly to find out about the Bendigo Chorale’s latest performance – Songs of the Isles…

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Elena Vereker from InSite Arts is here for our regular Adelaide catch up and to introduce us to Rachael Azzopardi – Co-Founder and Creative Director of Illuminate Adelaide…

Then, Conductor Mario Dobernig is back to tell us about the latest Victoria Chorale and Art of Sound Orchestra performance – Jospeh Hayden’s The Creation…

After that we’ll visit Theatre Works not once but twice – first to chat with Director Teresa Izzard about her production of Shadowboxing – and then to chat with Director Maude Davey and Writer/Performer Myf Hocking about the Antipodes Theatre production of Storked…

And finally, some very cool music from Wild Gloriosa from the new EP Growing Pains…

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Steph Spears is the Theatre Network Australia rep for the start of May and she’ll be introducing the TNA Member of the Month, Philip Channells from Dance Integrated Australia …

Then, it’s time for the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and Vision Australia Radio is a media partner – so let’s do some media with Festival Director, Veronica Sullivan…

After that, it’s time for Screens & Streams, and we’ll start with Elysia Zeccola from Palace Films for a chat about the German Film Festival… before Marc Gracie drops by to talk about what we’ve seen on our big and small screens…

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