The Drawing Room
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The Drawing Room
Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.
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Spreading Christmas cheer with The Sydney Street Choir
The Sydney Street Choir has inspired audiences around Australia and provided support and community to its members.
Pompeii: From eruption to exhibition
A new exhibition brings the city of Pompeii to life, with captivating soundscapes, and digital projections with over 90 objects from the ancient city.
A cynics guide to unbelief
Sita Walker lets go of her long-held beliefs and finds freedom in unexpected places in her essay A Cynics Guide to Unbelief.
A clone in the machine: Evan Ratliff's AI voice experiment
Do you think you could tell the difference between your loved one's real voice and an A.I.-generated voice clone? Evan Ratliff's podcast Shell Game te...
Saltwater for the soul: Australians and the sea
A new book records the connections that Australians from all walks of life have with our vast blue surroundings.
Jamie Webster hopes to be a voice for the voiceless
Jamie Webster got his start singing for Liverpool FC fans, now he's hoping to give his fellow Liverpudlians a voice.
Ready for anything: Inside the world of 'Preppers'
In the age of record temperatures, global conflict, pandemics and financial insecurity is preparing for the worst as far-fetched as it seems?
Bicce, Please: Reclaiming and rejecting a loaded word
The word 'bitch' has been around for over one thousand years, longer than any other swear word. Author Dr. Karen Stollznow talks us through the histor...
Chiseling away at capitalism: Art, disability, and productivity
In a country of workaholics, obsessed with productivity, artist Amanda Bennetts questions how those living with different bodies and disabilities defi...
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the sanctity of cinema
Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's body of work explored themes like sexuality and sanctity. So, what was Pasolini himself? was he a sai...
Jazz in Four Seasons: Hetty Kate’s new ambitious project
Musician Hetty Kate's new project is inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons but this time it will be in jazz. So what will it sound like?
How the Australian 'Op Shop' got its name
Take a look at the past, present and future of Op Shops in Australia.
'Ultras' fandom: The people and politics behind extreme football fans
A sneak peek into the lives of the football fans known as the 'Ultras'. Whose support is a form of protest against the state, the mainstream media, an...
Hat-trick: Capturing sport in classical music
Australian classical music composer Harry Sdraulig captures the movement and energy of football in his piece 'Hat-trick'
Out of the habit: What its like to join and leave a monastic life
What possesses a woman in her twenties to become a nun? And what is it like to run away and give up the monastic life? Catherine Coldstream did both.
A meditation on the impermanence of everything with Tenzin Choegyal and Matt Corby
Tibetan singer, and musician Tenzin Choegyal and Australian singer songwriter Matt Corby present their new track Snow Flower.
What do we lose, if we lose privacy?
Lowry Pressly argues that privacy is not just the key to a safe existence, but a meaningful one. He explains how the word oblivion relates to our idea...
Has the mystery of who invented Bitcoin been solved?
A new documentary explores the origins of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and the identity of its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Violet Crumbles, expressionist art and a documentary: The wonderful friendship of Pat and Ashleigh
Artist Pat Harry and filmmaker Ashleigh McArthur have been friends since Pat babysat Ashleigh as a child. Now Ashleigh is helping to document and arch...
Uncovering a long lost waltz by Chopin
Rediscover a composition signed by Chopin that lay in an archive, unheard and unplayed for 200 years.
Long live Julius Caesar, the opera!
Hear a sneak peek of Pinchgut Opera's latest offering, Handel's opera 'Julius Caesar'.
Australia's greatest gigs with Mark Lizotte
In 1983 Cold Chisel played their final show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, it would go down as one of the best concerts in history, a new series...
Tales from Tasmania's Takayna: Saving Tasmania’s wild heart
Photographer Matthew Newton on the untamed beauty and urgent conservation story of Tasmania’s takayna/Tarkine, one of the last great wildernesses on E...
Finances, Factions and Frenemies in the French Impressionist movement
A history of the group dynamics of some of the most famous artists in the French Impressionist movement.
With the band: What it means to be a working musician today
As glamorous as being in a band may look, it can be a job, just like any other. Franz Nicolay’s new book ‘Band People’ takes a look at the practicalit...
Geoffrey O'Connor on the unbridled emotion of 80s music
Pop musician Geoffrey O'Connor tells us why he'd prefer rain over sun any day and what it was like touring with 80s icon Edwin Collins
'Tremors': Sonya Voumard's life in motion
Writer Sonya Voumard's new autobiography details life with constant tremors in her hands - a movement disorder called Dystonia.
Who billionaires are voting for and why
How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and American tech billionaires have wielded their power and influence in the US election.
'An encyclopedia of communism': Artist Shen Jiawei completes his magnum opus
The incredible story of the artist Shen Jiawei who went from painting propaganda in China, to a mural depicting the negatives of communism in Australi...
From plastic coin purse to world domination, Hello Kitty turns 50
At 50, Hello Kitty is looking pretty good for her age and is still raking in billions for the company that owns her.
Elio Villafranca takes you on a trip to Cuba
Pianist and composer Elio Villafranca describes the sights, sounds and smells of his home in Cuba.
Why you should always be kind to a Greylag goose
What did the mother Superb Fairy-wren say to her egg? Prof. Sonia Kleindorfer discusses some of the new findings in communication between birds.
From Stage to Page: John Farnham's story in his own words
Co-author of John Farnham's new autobiography 'The Voice Inside'' Poppy Stockell talks about their writing process and what she's learned about the Au...
Jazzmeia Horn has a message for her audience
After being named by her grandmother, it seems only right that Jazzmeia Horn's path would eventually lead her to sing the genre of music in her name.
Main character energy: Bondi Icebergs sparkles in 'The Pool'
The new documentary 'The Pool' charts the comings-and-goings of those who swim at the famous Bondi icebergs sea pool and the community that has formed...
Fishing metaphors for life and songwriting with Van Walker
Musician Van Walker shares his songwriting method and why it's somewhat like fishing.
From Stars and Stripes to K-Pop Heights
Could Korean culture be for this generation what all the American rock and roll, coca-cola and cars were for the boomer generation?
Mock meat and plenty of pineapple: The recipes that made us
A new book looks at the cultural impact that the cooking and recipes section of the Australian Women's Weekly magazine had on our national identity.
Inside animation: How animated films 'break reality'
Mark Andrews knows animated movies are much more than child's play, he's been behind some of the biggest films from Disney and Pixar. He shares the se...
How the NF1 gene holds the key to our humanity
What does a gene, that mutates easily and can cause both physical and cognitive deficiencies have to do with the very thing that makes us human?