Fremantle Arts Centre - FAC Chats Podcast
Leading Western Australian arts organisation Fremantle Arts Centre gives you a behind the scenes peek into the artmaking process of musicians, visual artists and craftspeople. FAC Chats uncovers the stories behind artworks and the people who make them.
Housed in a gothic heritage building in Fremantle’s east end, Fremantle Arts Centre is the City of Fremantle’s premier arts service and one of the leading arts organisations in Australia. FAC presents contemporary visual art exhibitions and a varied program of concerts and events from local, national and international artists. With a wide range of art courses for adults and kids, an Artist in Residence program, FOUND Shop which sells the largest range of WA-designed wares, a quaint café and beautiful leafy grounds, there are always plenty of reasons to visit.
FAC’s commitment to supporting local artists is at the heart all of the centre’s programming and activities.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2020
Episode 8 - Timothy Nelson, Odette Mercy, Jon Fernandes
Timothy Nelson, Odette Mercy and Jon Fernandes are fixtures of Western Australian music. Between them, they’ve won multiple WAM Awards and their talents have seen them traverse the folk, pop, rock, h…
Episode 7 - Revealed Exhibition 2020: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists. A Conversation with Natalie Davey and Jessica Jubb
The Revealed Exhibition, currently open at Fremantle Arts Centre, showcases over 100 of the best new and emerging Aboriginal artists from Western Australia’s remote and regional art centres, as well …
Episode 6 - Andrea Gibbs, Barefaced Stories
WA creative and broadcaster Andrea Gibbs co-founded storytelling platform and event Barefaced Stories with Kerry O'Sullivan in 2010. Since then it has become a fixture of the Perth arts scene, with c…
Episode 5 - Tim Rogers
Tim Rogers has long been celebrated as one of Australia's finest songwriters but in recent years he's applied his wit and lyricism to radio, theater and the printed page. In this interview Tim discus…
Episode 4 - Emily Ulman, Isol-Aid Festival director
Instagram-based live music festival Isol-Aid has become a must-watch, weekly event for Australian music lovers during COVID19. The initiative emerged 11 weeks ago, incredibly quickly given the uncert…
Episode 3 - Gallery Talk, City of Fremantle Art Collection Curator Andre Lipscombe
Click Here to see the artworks discussed in this episode.
Started in 1958, The City of Fremantle Art Collection includes some 1500 artworks which continue to shine a light on Fremantle's past and hel…
Episode 2 - The Lost Songs of David McComb. Interviews with 'Evil' Graham Lee and Robert McComb
The Triffids' frontman David McComb is regarded as one of Western Australia's finest and most significant songwriters. After his untimely death in 1999, a series of unreleased demo recordings were un…
Episode 1 - Sunday Music
Every Sunday at 2pm, a thousand people gather in Fremantle Arts Centre's secluded Front Garden to enjoy free concerts by leading WA and touring musicians. With COVID19 severely disrupting concerts as…
Episode 0 - Introducing FAC CHATS
Introducing Fremantle Arts Centre's new podcast FAC Chats. Leading Western Australian arts organisation Fremantle Arts Centre gives you a behind the scenes peek into the artmaking process of musician…