Music
Finding her voice: Lisa Simone honours her famous mother’s ‘beautiful legacy’

Lisa Simone had a troubled relationship with her famous mother, but now the talented singer is ready to share Nina Simone’s extraordinary musical and cultural legacies with Australian audiences in July.

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Film & TV
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Film & TV

‘Christ, you know it ain’t easy’… the revelatory cinematic ballad of John and Yoko

A new documentary film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono reveals how central the Japanese artist was to Lennon’s development as an artist and man.

Books & Poetry
The twists and plot turns of the enduring Freud legacy

British author Esther Freud has a complex lineage and she is returning Down Under to talk about that and her latest novel.

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Visual Art
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The good earth: Jun Chen’s painterly landscape odyssey is a wondrous labour of love

Chinese-born artist Jun Chen fell in love with the Australian landscape when he migrated here in 1990 and since then he has been on an odyssey to record that love.

Books & Poetry
Getting to know you: The life of a French princess revealed

Tracy Ryan’s latest novel is the second volume of a series that is drawing favourable comparison’s with Hilary Mantel’s lauded historical fiction.

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Books & Poetry
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Books & Poetry

The twists and plot turns of the enduring Freud legacy

British author Esther Freud has a complex lineage and she is returning Down Under to talk about that and her latest novel.

Review
The good earth: Jun Chen’s painterly landscape odyssey is a wondrous labour of love

Chinese-born artist Jun Chen fell in love with the Australian landscape when he migrated here in 1990 and since then he has been on an odyssey to record that love.

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Theatre
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A chunk of Cadbury chocolate fuels this psychic on his way to the great beyond …

Psychic medium John Edward is heading back Down Under where the audiences are welcoming and the chocolate is delicious.

Music
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Music

Finding her voice: Lisa Simone honours her famous mother’s ‘beautiful legacy’

Lisa Simone had a troubled relationship with her famous mother, but now the talented singer is ready to share Nina Simone’s extraordinary musical and cultural legacies with Australian audiences in July.