Arts

Caroline Mackaness was responsible for the delivery, on behalf of the Trustees, for the Centenary of Anzac legacy project to complete the original 1930s design vision for the State’s Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park - along with significant new community and education facilities. She was Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 2 October 2019, filling us in on the history of this truly beautiful memorial.

Would you love your name on a plaque, recognising your charitable contributions? Do you donate to causes and charities because helping others improves lives? Giving makes you feel good. Lucy Bloom knows a thing or two about how charities run. Lucy is a writer, speaker and consulting CEO who raised an impressive $7million for an international charity, only to have the rug pulled out from under her. Lucy Bloom chatted with Claudia Chan Shaw on Arts Friday about her new memoir “Get the Girls Out”; her charity work in Ethiopia and Cambodia; and love, loss and starting again.

In this chapter, Ed talks of the challenges of an ever-expanding Sydney and nominates the following 5 areas as critical: population, water, geography and topography, transportation and infrastructure, the harbour and waterfront. Remember to download this chapter (and the others) at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl

On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia and Ed discuss Chapter 3, which looks at Sydney from the Bicentennial in 1988 up to today. This period is marked by 3 major infrastructure events: the Olympic Games, Barangaroo and Green Square. Remember to go online at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl to download this chapter, as well as chapters 1 and 2, if you haven't already done so!

On Arts Wednesday 11 September 2019, Sylvia's guest was Rabbi Benjamin Elton, Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney talking about the liturgical music of the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement. Through 4 prayers selected by Rabbi Ben, we look at the history of the service and its specific musical traditions.

BAD Sydney 2019 is a crime writers' festival, being held this weekend. Artistic Director, Catherine du Peloux Menage, joined Sylvia in conversation on Arts Wednesday 4 September 2019.

Ed Lippmann joins Sylvia in a discussion of Chapter 2, The First 200 Years. The lack of planning, power of developers and shoddy buildings are a feature of Sydney from the earliest days and still beset us! But there's the good news: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House and the Bicentennial celebrations! Remember you can download Chapter 2 (along with Chapter 1 at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl