Sunday Arts Magazine

27 Dec 2015

Golden Globes, Eureka (artist), Rose Godde about Youth Theatre

Arts, Government & Organisations, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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Daniel’s running solo today and as the Golden Globes are on soon (Jan 10 in USA) he gives an overview, and plays the music &/or trailer, of some films nominated for Best Film &/or Best Original Score. These include Carol, The Danish Girl, The Hateful Eight, Steve Jobs and The Revenant. A prominent film which was snubbed was Suffragette about women’s fight for the right to vote in the UK. Daniel regards it as a powerful and important film and gives it 5 stars! Later, Daniel also plays songs from Musical theatre which is running already or coming to Melbourne in 2016 including Cats, Kinky Boots & Fiddler on the Roof.

Special guests today are:

22.45 to 48:57 mins—Eureka is a visual artist, here to talk about his background and his Midsumma Art Exhibition called Decoupages d’hommes on at Fortyfivedownstairs from 19 January to 4 February 2016. In the past, Eureka was married with children, had a job as a social worker and a mortgage in the suburbs. Then he read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, wrote a journal, realised that he was infatuated with a man at work and everything unravelled. His new life began, with art as a crucial part of his reinvention. He did an arts course at the queer friendly Footscray Community Centre which helped him to understand contemporary art and he also developed a queer network. He is now a Community Development Consultant (paid work) as well as a queer activist (unpaid) and an artist. Eureka discusses his artistic journey, what drives him, the importance of spirituality in art and why the core of his art is the male nude. He gets models via ads in Craig’s List, and other model sites, and uses architectural backgrounds (mostly classical, that he found in Europe) and puts a contemporary ‘cutout’ of a male nude in. This he sees as a clash of opposites.

50:09 to 1:20:47 mins—Rose Godde is the executive producer of Platform Youth Theatre (PYT) and is also heavily involved with the #SaveYouthArts campaign. Originally from Albury she came to Melbourne and did a …Creative Facilitator course at the VCA which gave her skills to work with opera, music, theatre and dance in a community setting. She’s always had a passion for telling stories that need to be told and she has worked in an enormous number of diverse jobs and settings with this as her focus including doing short films with homeless people and directing the St Kilda Film Festival. She has been with PYT since 2007 and loves working with the mostly young, socially engaged staff there that are also committed to Youth Arts and making a difference. PYT is there to create a space for young people to tell their stories which is very important. Unfortunately, Youth Arts is at risk in Australia due to drastic funding cuts and Rose details the possible consequences. The 2 week old #Save Youth Arts campaign was formed to work with partnerships to deal with this dire situation. Rose details what they’re doing and adds that individuals can help through donating money to Theatre orgs which get a tax deduction and also tell their local MP how important Youth Arts are.

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