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Life Lines - studies of the nude - art exhibition Nov.12th - 21st

Posted 05/11/2010 - 09:46 by Marie-France

 

 

“Life Lines”

An art Exhibition in Oneroa

 

“Life Lines” – Studies by the Catherine Mitchell Life Drawing Group

November 12th- 21st

143 Ocean View Road (downstairs), Oneroa, Waiheke Island

 

The Catherine Mitchell Life Drawing group presents an exhibition showcasing works in pencil, charcoal, pastel and paint.

All work will be available to purchase on a cash and carry basis.

 

This show is a rare opportunity for the public to discover the traditional discipline of figurative life drawing where artists study anatomy, lines, shading, volumes, proportion and perspective and interpret the human form in wonderful ways.

Aside from their featured works, exhibiting artists will also present folders of their selected sketches and studies for the public to leaf through. There will also be on display some spectacularly large reproductions.

 

The participating artists include Catherine Boyle, Shonagh Byrne, Olivier Duhamel, David Mason, Jamie Morton, Lyndsay Meager, Michael Evans, Mary Ferguson, Peter Howard, Raymond Ramsey, Gwen Sherman, and Vern Tupper.

 

Foreign Accents - 31 jan 10

Posted 31/01/2010 - 11:11 by Marie-France

Renzo works in disaster management and humanitarian aid for Oxfam NZ. He's just left for Haiti.

I interviewed him for Waiheke Radio soon after he returned from Samoa where he was involved in the tsunami recovery, in October 2009.

The show is repeated this week on Foreign Accents.


You can also access the podcast (in 2 parts) here:part1 part2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign accents - a 4 minutes retrospective

Posted 24/10/2009 - 15:02 by Marie-France

 

The show is essentially about giving a voice to migrants newly arrived in New Zealand, but also to overseas visitors and travelers. I also love to play the music they listen to.
 
Over the last year I've had about twenty guests, all of them Waiheke locals, most of them from a non-English speaking background.
 
This podcast is a tiny retrospective of the shows. Many of the shows are available on the radio website as podcast.

Happy birthday Waiheke Radio.

 

Marie-France.

 

 

 

Special Serge Gainsbourg - Saturday 26th Sept., 8pm

Posted 21/09/2009 - 22:10 by Marie-France

Serge Gainsbourg by Jerzovskaja

Gainsbourg /ganzbur /
Gainsbourg, Serge (1928-91), born Lucien Ginzburg, French painter. He was known for having destroyed all his paintings. A classically trained pianist, he made a name for himself in the minor arts of pop music and cinema. He is remembered for his outstanding ability at composing avant-garde songs (550, and still counting), and mastering all musical genres. His lyrics are chockablock with puns and double-entendre, irreverent but also deeply poetical. His music and his singing sound unexpectedly modern and distinctive. Chain-smoking, unshaven, barefoot and sometimes drunk, in the 70s and 80s Gainsbourg would make frequent and memorable apparitions on French prime TV, often in company of Jane Birkin, his free-spirited lover. In turn subversive and conventional, the self-called cabbage-head man oozed charm. Obsessed with sex he didn’t feel he needed to go on rehab. He preferred to put his obsessions to music. Brigitte Bardot was a lover, Catherine Deneuve possibly too. Singing ‘lemon incest’ for TV, on a bed with pre-teen daughter Charlotte, he pushed all boundaries. His generation loathed him for that. We love him for the same reason – and much more.
 
Genre: pop, jazz, classical, reggae, house, funk, cabaret.
 
Cover albums (in English):
 - ‘Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited’, 2005  - Brian Molko, Portishead, Kid Loco, Franz Ferdinand, Cat Power, The Rakes, etc, cover 14 of Gainsbourg’s tracks.
 - ‘Intoxicated man’, 1995,  Mick Harvey’s tribute album to Gainsbourg. Texts are a translation of the originals and musical arrangements are Gainsbourg’s own.
 
 

Listen to the show:

Download this show (right click, save as) 159MB 

Playlist:

Ecce homo - 1981
Intro to Melody - 1971
Je t’aime, moi non plus - 1969
Kiss me Hardy - 1984
Les sucettes à l’anis d’Annie - 1966
Ford Mustang - 1968
69 année érotique - 1969
Le poinçonneur des Lilas - 1959
Just a man with a job – (cover of Le poinçonneur des Lilas by The Rakes - 2005 )
Rock around the bunker - 1975
Lola Rastaquouère - 1979
Requiem pour un con - 1968
Requiem for a jerk – (cover of Requiem pour un con by Faultline & B. Molko – 2005)
L’anamour - 1969
La Javanaise - 1963
L’homme à tête de chou - 1976
Ma Lou Marilou - 1976
Marilou - 1976
Lemon Incest – 1984
You’re under arrest - 1984
Aux armes, etc - 1979
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais - 1973
No comment - 1984
Eau et Gaz à tous les étages - 1979
Hotel particulier - 1971
Cargo Culte - 1971
Manon - 1968
La chanson de Prévert - 1961
 

 

 

 

Foreign Accents from Vanuatu with Jean-Christophe

Posted 12/04/2009 - 17:50 by Marie-France


Sunday 12 April , repeated Tuesday 14 – Jean-Christophe from Vanuatu.
JC is French-born but has been living  in Vanuatu, on  Efate island,   for the last 20 years.  Like many Vanuatu  people, JC is multilingual. He can speak English, French and Bislama, the common language of Vanuatu people. We talked about the  linguistic situation in Vanuatu  - there are over 100 languages for 200,000 people - , kava bar, women condition, the real estate speculation  of foreigners  and what it means  for ni-Vanuatu, and  Vanuatu music. String band music  is very popular in Vanuatu  - and recordings are not easy to find.  The ones played in the program are from a compilation: 'Vanuatu  String Band volume 2' – Vanuatu production - special thanks to Antoine from New Caledonia for sourcing  this CD for me.
Playlist :
Stringband:
Saratokowia (from  Emau island) – Awo simix
Saratokowia – Oh my Vanuatu
Fatuana Mahtua (from Futuna Island) – Mentuafoki ta nopogi
Fatuana Mahtua – Bon week end
 
Reggae band:
The sunshiners – Smalltown boy 

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