The contribution of Queer artists to Australian performing arts history has largely gone untold – until now. Queering the Collection from Arts Centre Melbourne is an eight-episode audio series which looks at notable items from the Australian Performing Arts Collection and the Australian Queer Archives and captures conversations with nine prominent LGBTQIA+ artists. The host of those conversations is Tristan Meecham who is here to have a conversation with us…

If you imagine an event where the set is a writing desk at which you’re invited to write an obituary for Mother Earth at a venue which is a 200 metre stretch of beach with a running time that’s determined by the tides, then you’ll have a bit of an idea as what Nature Obituary is… but we’ll find out a lot more about it when we catch up with  creator Janenne Willis…

Only about 2% of almost 600m statues we find in public spaces around Melbourne represent women…  the rest are of men and animals. Well, a state government initiative is aiming to address that imbalance with the Victorian Women’s Public Art Programme and we’ll chat with McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne about how it’s going to happen…

And finally, Victorian Opera is celebrating a century since the death of Giacomo Puccini with a production of his work La Rondine and VO Artistic Director Stuart Maunder will talk to us about that old opera AND about a new opera they’ve got coming up later in the year…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.